Struggle in the Steam Age

After a brief inspection of the grain warehouse, Lawrence walked out of the warehouse area in the mountainside and began to inspect the surrounding ancillary facilities. In addition to the stone hill of the warehouse itself, this granary has a series of ancillary facilities, such as piers, walls, and fortifications.

However, because the planning of the entire warehouse is a long-term plan, many construction projects are just the beginning. For example, the imaginary river-sea port now only has two small core trestles that are unloaded by animal-powered machinery. As for the most important fortifications, only half of the core river defense fort located in an independent cave on the mountain has been fully constructed and the artillery has been installed, while the other series of defense facilities are just some simple field fortifications. .

However, the construction progress of these buildings is still completely under control. After all, according to Lawrence's long-term plan, this area will not only be a granary in the future, but will also become the most important satellite port of New Sauer Port. It is known that it is used to defend the inland area, a comprehensive fortress group at the mouth of the river to prevent possible foreign enemies from going up the river.

Clearly, such an ambitious project could not have been fixed in just a few months. At the same time, because it is now the busy farming period, a large number of migrant workers organized by various manors to work during the slack season have returned to the farms. So Lawrence also saw that many construction sites are now in an extremely slow construction state, and have even stopped work.

"It's okay, there's no rush anyway." Lawrence comforted after seeing the embarrassment on the faces of the accompanying staff. "To be honest, many of the projects in the plan are long-term plans. They are plans for the future development of the island. So it is enough for those facilities to slowly advance the construction progress according to the plan, unless the situation changes and you receive We issued a direct order, otherwise it is best not to change the construction progress here in private."

Lawrence said that this is not aimless. In his previous life, he has seen many kinds of overweight from top to bottom and various political projects to please the superiors. Even if the bureaucracy is changed to another world, it will not change. very big. Therefore, he felt that at this time, he needed to tap the following, so as not to think about it in order to please him, and finally came up with a lot of head-slapping policies.

As Lawrence said before, this overall plan is for the future development of the island. In his previous life, he was fed up with the practice of demolishing, repairing and repairing due to the poor level of urban planning in the early days, so he made a long-term plan in urban planning.

Therefore, Lawrence's planning for these facilities is also carried out in stages. If the construction is too fast, in addition to the additional consumption of precious resources, the various facilities built are also easy to be idle after they are built because there are no supporting facilities. For example, the current two ports are enough for transshipment of grain. If they expand blindly, it will be meaningless except to make more berths vacant.

After all, there is no civilized world territory in the upper reaches of the river except those tauren tribes, and the only human settlements are only under planning. Meanwhile, the port of Neue Sauer is just beginning to develop. Therefore, there are not many goods and personnel to communicate in this place for the time being, and naturally there are not so many facilities related to shipping.

After inspecting the granary, Lawrence and the others boarded a boat that transported supplies and food to the tauren tribe in the hilly area and went upstream along the river. A few hours later, they successfully arrived at the small inland port belonging to the tauren tribe and got off the boat.

Unlike the last time Lawrence came, the tauren rebuilt the port under the guidance of the engineers sent by Lawrence. It's just because the pier built by the elves is a cultural relic, so the engineers sent by Lawrence chose to rebuild a new pier in another place.

It's just that unlike the port of Nova Sauer or even the dock at the mouth of the river, there are basically no auxiliary tools on this dock. This is because the frequency of use of this pier is not high, and the tauren's physical strength is far superior to that of humans, but Lawrence can see that the foundation has begun to be built next to it to prepare for the construction of the warehouse.

"How's the situation here?" Lawrence and the others shook hands with Orchid Iron Hoof who came to greet them, and Safiel asked eagerly. "I saw that the letter you sent me specifically said that the tea picking workers who were sent to you before had problems of one kind or another. I would like to know the specific situation of this group of people sent here."

"They were a little uncomfortable at the beginning, because the forest is indeed more sultry than the seaside." Lan Hua said while leading them to the place where the tribe is, "but fortunately, the rewards you give are enough plus this The first batch of people are basically all volunteers, and our shaman prepared some refreshing herbal soup for them. So they persevered. Now they seem to have basically adapted to the climate here. "

"It's good if you can get used to it." Hearing what Lan Hua said, Lawrence smiled and nodded. Because the tea picking and frying here are related to an important source of income for the island in the future, whether the tea picking here can run smoothly can be said to be the top priority of the island's work, so he can't help but care about it.

Of course, this group of people did not come here to pick tea leaves. The peak season for tea picking on the island is from March to September every year, and now the time has passed. In this off-season, except for top extraordinary people like Nora who can pick some tea through the sea of ​​​​extraordinary power, ordinary people simply cannot Can't get much tea.

They came here for only one purpose, that is to adapt to the environment here as soon as possible and learn to cooperate with the tauren, so that nothing will happen when they officially pick in the future. At least judging from the series of problems they had raised before, it seems that this method of spending more money for advance rehearsals seems to be very worthwhile.

At the beginning, Lawrence and the others originally planned to let the tauren take full charge of the picking of black tea and the subsequent two processes of withering and rolling. But as a result, after the tauren tried it, it was very unfortunate that their stubby fingers were not suitable for picking the leaves of the tea tree, so this process could only be completed by human labor from the outside world.

The method of asking Nora to pick and process tea leaves is for emergency use now, not to mention the number of labor positions involved. Under normal circumstances, a golden tier Transcendent like a puppet shouldn't spend his energy on this kind of work. Therefore, it is very important to cultivate a group of people who are concerned with tea picking and processing.

As a result, various problems arose after doing this, even though Lawrence specifically selected some of the new immigrants who had previous experience living in tropical islands. However, the differences in climate and environment between different islands have created a series of problems. Fortunately the shamans here have some traditional herbal remedies to treat these problems.

On the other hand, the tauren had also repeatedly lost the chain before this. Withering, which is a job of spreading tea leaves to dry, is not a big problem, but kneading, a job that requires some skills, is a bit more difficult for tauren. They often knead those leaves so pulverized that they can't be used at all.

Fortunately, after repeated practice, most of the tauren women learned how to complete this process, and finally solved a troublesome problem. As for the tauren men, it seems that they do not have much talent in this direction, which is fine. There are still many dangerous creatures and goblins wandering around this area, so they can just be responsible for the safety of the surrounding area.