Struggle in the Steam Age

And just as Lawrence was chatting with the old shaman, it was lunch time. Lawrence stayed in this big tent at the greet of several shaman apprentices and enjoyed a meal including dairy products, mushrooms, chicken, and some fresh vegetables and grains. Obviously with the old shaman's habits, this should also be a common diet in this area.

Unlike the eating habits of people engaged in animal husbandry as you might imagine, the population of a piece of land used for animal husbandry is far less than that of planting. At least for those who breed cattle and sheep, the food they usually get from cattle and sheep is mainly the dairy products they produce rather than meat.

More importantly, because of the fragility of the environmental structure of this mountainous region, the ground soil in this area is not very thick. If you want to grow something, it is prone to irreversible soil erosion. In this case, if you want to develop planting here, it is easy to cause rocky desertification in the area, which is obviously not a good idea.

Fortunately, this meadow is part of the entire island economy, so all kinds of materials that cannot be produced locally, such as those grain and meat, can be transported to these high mountain meadows in time by river transportation and cableway transportation. In this way, the devastating development of local resources can be avoided.

In addition, the rat people and tauren people have found a lot of land that can be used for small-scale planting in the surrounding mountains. In addition to being able to grow medicinal fungi and herbs, there is also a lot of open space for growing some edible vegetables and fungi to supplement the lack of food in this grassland.

After lunch, Lawrence and the others said goodbye to the old shaman and started walking around the town. This small town is very rudimentary because it has just been completed. For example, in terms of defense, there is only a circle of civil walls and bastions, and a circle of water-filled moats further outside.

The various buildings in the town are also similarly rudimentary. Except for the church and a few core buildings like warehouses or small town governments that are built with rammed earth and wood, most of the buildings are temporarily used for some purposes. It is a temporary tent, but the wells and sewage ditch used for urban water supply have been almost repaired at this time.

Of course, this situation is only temporary. According to the plan, with the development of the region, a series of buildings such as water plants and biological sewage treatment plants will be built at once, and the current buildings in the city will gradually be replaced by permanent buildings. It is estimated that it will take several years to develop to such a degree.

After confirming that the development of this meadow has been on the right track, Lawrence and Syfiel left the meadow and returned to the Port of New Sauer.

What he didn't expect was that when he had just returned to the city, he received a telegram from the special agents stationed in the Holy Visby Empire.

This group of special agents was Lawrence and the others who were sent to the Holy Visby Empire to **** that batch of trophies collateral. When they entered the port of the empire with the collateral, they soon received an invitation from the royal butler. After talking with the butler, they felt that they must inform Lawrence of the content of the previous conversation with the butler.

"The royal housekeeper suggested that instead of spending a long time thinking about using that batch of interest-free loans to purchase something, it is better to use this money as a currency issuance reserve to issue the island's own currency." After the telegram, Lawrence spoke to Nora and Syfiel.

"What do you think of this suggestion? After all, according to our previous plan, the issuance of the currency on the island is to be carried out when the grain is harvested several times and the medicine is also entered into mass production from the laboratory. Only in this way can we guarantee the issuance of the currency. The currency has sufficient economic backing. Would it be a bit too hasty if it were issued now?"

"I don't think there is any rush." ​​As soon as Lawrence's voice fell, Nora immediately expressed her attitude.

"We made such a decision before because most of our wealth was converted into various fixed assets, and there was not enough hard currency to be used as a reserve for currency issuance, but now this problem has been solved."

"Yes, I think Nora is right." Saifier, who had been in charge of various trivial matters on the island before, also said at this time.

"And one more thing is that the things we purchased when we came to this island before were enough for us to use in a short time. Now if we use all the newly acquired large sum for investment, it will easily lead to unnecessary parts. The backlog and waste."

Putting the money there won't give birth to babies. Therefore, according to the original plan, Lawrence intends to invest the money in his own industry. However, considering the current development of various industries, they analyzed that only half of this wealth could be immediately invested in development, while the other half could not be effectively used.

But for Lawrence, this is already the best investment direction, at least much higher than the income in the bank. After all, in this era, the National Bank not only has no interest on such large savings, but also charges a certain amount of storage fees. And those investments by commercial banks are not insured.

But now listening to what the two ladies said, Lawrence suddenly realized that he had indeed made a very good development plan before.

But now the specific situation has changed, and holding on to the original development plan is obviously a bit out of date. So he quickly changed his mind.

"You are right. Since we now have such a large amount of unexpected wealth, our current plan should indeed be changed." Lawrence nodded to the two ladies and said, then looked at the corner of the room. In the clock, "Today is a bit late, we can hold a meeting tomorrow morning to discuss this situation in detail."

Early the next morning, Lawrence summoned all of his staff to discuss the matter. The bread here contains the members of the cooperative who are now issuing work-point coupons on the island, the priests of the Church of Fortune, a group of administrators led by Syfir, and the Bayer butler who has been responsible for this before.

During the meeting, Lawrence and the others prepared sufficient and detailed data to thoroughly count the current development of the island. It turns out that the economy on the island is not very large, but the overall economic structure is very healthy. At the same time, it can be seen that it is on the eve of rapid development.

"Your Excellency~www.ltnovel.com~ I think this time is the best time to issue currency." After reading the summarized data, the Bayer butler stood up and said first. "On the one hand, because the current development trend on the island is very good, the absence of its own currency has hindered our economic development."

"On the other hand, the scale of the island’s economy is still small, so it is a good time to issue currency. If the scale of the economy is large, it may not be that simple to issue currency. Especially the work points issued by us have already been obtained. Recognized by most people on the island, the issuance of currency now can be said to be a very smooth matter."

At this time, the Bayer steward was actually suggesting that Lawrence was using the island’s development speed. Soon there will be major powers and even the empire’s local currency on the island. At that time, it will be difficult to maintain a certain degree of economic independence. Much bigger than it is now. Therefore, it is very necessary to quickly issue one's own currency to take advantage of the small scale of the economy.

"Yes, we now also think that we can issue our own currency on the island now." As another important person in currency issuance, the priest of the goddess of wealth also said at this time.

"In fact, the island has already met all the requirements for currency issuance before, and the only thing that does not meet is the reserve for the currency issuance, and now that this requirement is also met, I think my lord will approve the issuance of currency on the island. "