Struggle in the Steam Age

After entering the tauren tribe, Lawrence and the others discovered that there were several new buildings in the tauren tribe during this time. In addition to the dormitories of the human tea pickers, there are also warehouses built with human technology, a school, and a small hospital, or to be more precise, a small clinic.

This school was built by the Church of Knowledge, and the past tribal elders, shamans, and several human teachers were gathered in the school. Used to pass on the knowledge of tauren and humans. The same is true of the health center on the other side. There are not only doctors who come here on regular shifts, but also some local witch doctors, shamans and elders who have mastered medical knowledge.

Before, the tauren's knowledge was all scattered among the various tribes, and there had never been such a large-scale knowledge exchange. Therefore, after Lawrence and the others built this school, the tauren in the hilly area had a large-scale knowledge exchange with their compatriots for the first time, and under such circumstances, a large amount of knowledge was summarized.

In order to express their gratitude to humans for providing all kinds of knowledge and help, the tauren also shared the summed up knowledge with humans. According to the report of the Medical Research Institute under Lawrence, there are many very effective local medicines in this batch of materials, which can greatly enhance the island's resistance to those tropical epidemics.

After condolences to these human workers sent here, doctors and some technicians who have invested in the construction of various facilities related to the future tea garden. They held a symposium with the tauren and humans present to plan the next stage of development in this area, and discussed a series of issues related to everyone's life and work on the spot.

The human side has actually prepared for the relatively poor production and living environment in this area, but there are still many things that are only found to be in demand after arriving here. After listening to everyone's complaints, Lawrence wrote down all these needs and promised everyone to solve these problems as soon as possible.

In fact, most of the problems here are caused by insufficient transportation capacity. Among them, the shortage of various daily necessities is still a trivial matter, and the shortage of some medical supplies and anti-mosquito items is fatal. Fortunately, with the recent introduction of a new batch of inland steamships, Lawrence believes that these problems will be resolved in a short time.

The tauren side told Lawrence that after he sent a veterinarian to the tribal area and brought a lot of knowledge about fodder silage and livestock disinfection during production. The breeding speed of the tribe's specialty four-horned cattle began to increase. At the same time, their accidental death, especially the probability of calf death, was greatly reduced. Under such circumstances, the tauren feel that these four-horned cattle herds are likely to expand rapidly within a few years.

Of course, the possibility of this kind of development can be seen by tauren with a little bit of wisdom and experience, because these technologies cover all aspects of the development of the breeding industry, such as feed. The silage technology that Lawrence and those agricultural churches restored from his memory through a series of experiments after cooperation showed a great effect.

There's more to this stuff than just green, succulent fodder for livestock in colder climates. Moreover, it can preserve the nutrition in the feed, improve the palatability of the feed, expand the source of the feed, eliminate pests, germs and weeds in the feed and can save the feed very economically for a long time.

To give the simplest example, livestock generally don't like hard feed such as straw. However, after silage storage, the pre-crushed straw will be softened to facilitate the absorption of nutrients, and at the same time, it will have a sour taste to attract those livestock to eat these feeds.

In this way, the problem of insufficient feed in the original breeding was solved. At least after this season's rice harvest, Lawrence and the others used straw to ferment and store a large amount of feed, preparing enough food for the four-horned cattle and other animals raised on the island.

In the same way, whether it is the application of disinfection theory to veterinary medicine or the new feeding method, it is the same as the silage technology, which is perfected from all aspects to address the shortcomings of the four-horned cattle in the previous breeding process. After all these deficiencies are made up, this kind of livestock will naturally multiply quickly.

The increase of four-horned cattle is naturally a good thing, but after everyone was excited, they discovered that this kind of cattle, like most cattle, is not suitable for intensive breeding and is suitable for grazing.

But now that they are in the hilly area, there is really not much area around them that can be used for cattle grazing. So after facing the situation that the four-horned cattle herd will expand in a short period of time, these tauren people began to worry about the problem of raising them in the future.

"Let me think about it." After listening to the questions raised by the tauren, Lawrence fell into deep thought. This kind of four-horned ox suitable for the climate of the island is actually of great significance to the entire island. On the one hand, they can provide a series of products such as meat, skin, horns, bones, and dairy products, and there is a small probability that they can produce the four-horned cow bezoar that is widely used in the extraordinary world.

It can be said that the whole body is full of treasures and has a high breeding value.

On the other hand, although Lawrence has introduced a large number of machinery as much as possible for the industry and agriculture on the island. But considering the unit power and expensive cost of machinery in this period. Pack animals like the four-horned ox are still indispensable power providers on the island.

You know, the size of a four-horned ox is about twice the size of an ordinary ox, and its whole body is full of muscles. In terms of power, it is no worse than some small diesel engines in the previous life.

Because of these two reasons, Lawrence naturally hoped that there would be as many four-horned oxen as possible. However, considering that there is already a complete plan on the plain, it is basically impossible to convert those farmlands into pastures.

At the same time, if this kind of animal is raised separately, the cost will be much higher than that of group breeding, which is a very worthless thing. Therefore, it is impossible for some of these cattle to be raised in human settlements.

"I might have a way." Just when Lawrence was frowning at a loss, Nora suddenly whispered. When everyone's attention was on her, she turned her head and asked a white-haired tauren witch doctor sitting next to her. "Elder Qiuye, may I ask if this four-horned ox must survive in a hot and humid place?"

"Of course not, actually it would be better to have a slightly drier and cooler place. But the prerequisite is that the climate is not too dry and the temperature does not drop to freezing temperatures."

The tauren elder named Qiuye said that since he took over the mantle of his teacher and became a witch doctor, he has been dealing with the animals raised by the tauren, so it can be said that he is the one who knows the four-horned cow best on the island.

"It's fine if this is the case." Nora nodded, and then released a large amount of silver thread to weave a sand table of Saul Island in front of her, pointing to a place on the sand table and saying, "I think we can start a battle." A small-scale war to snatch this piece of meadow at the foot of the island's central mountain range from the goblins."

"Are you talking about the alpine meadow under the blue mountain?" When the little doll mentioned this, the oldest shaman among the participants, that is, Lanhua's teacher, stood up and looked at Nora excitedly. Speaking of. "Actually we almost forgot about that place, thank you for reminding us of this place."

When the old shaman said this, the tauren present also showed various expressions. Some of the older tauren also became excited, while some other young tauren showed their expressions together with the humans present. Confused expression. So after the room became quiet, Lawrence stood up and asked the shaman.

"Your Excellency, can you tell us what is going on in this alpine meadow?"