Struggle in the Steam Age

"These new immigrants really have a great role in promoting the development of Sauer Island." As the future hostess of the island, Safir took the lead in participating in many charitable activities for new immigrants after the new immigrants arrived on the island. I also have a lot of specific information about these new immigrants.

This promotion is not just a simple increase in human resources, but also a series of unique capabilities they have mastered. For example, after investigation, Safir found that the biggest feature of this group of immigrants from various states in the North Visby region to the island is that almost all of the adult men have served in the military.

This is determined by the size of those countries, because the countries are too small and there are often some small-scale conflicts, so basically all these countries have the habit of compulsory military conscription. After immigrating to the island, their military experience quickly came in handy.

After all, New Sauer Island can be regarded as a frontline between civilization and barbarism, so in addition to the frequent large-scale battles, small-scale conflicts have never stopped almost every day. Under such circumstances, mastering certain military skills has become a very necessary thing.

For example, Lawrence prepared enough weapons and ammunition in each settlement, and also organized various military-related competitions in his leisure time. Fortunately, there are enough supplies on the island, especially food. Therefore, these competitions have been smoothly implemented and have effectively improved the military quality of every islander.

Therefore, as time goes by, the residents on the island have become much stronger than before in terms of military quality and inner courage. At least now, after discovering a small group of invading goblins, I will not have to go back to the wall and fire the guns and light the beacon to request military support, but dare to directly organize field battles with the goblins.

To tell the truth, the goblin's individual combat ability really broke down. An ordinary farmer can easily kill one or two goblins by plucking up courage and equipped with weapons like pitchforks and sticks. On these plains that opened up farms, farmers equipped with gunpowder weapons can kill five times as many goblin clusters after simple training.

At least in the recent period, the number of reinforcements summoned by various colonies has shown a clear downward trend. Even in the plain of Niujiaowan, armed villagers from various manors and rat people have joined hands to thoroughly clean up the scattered goblins on this plain that were previously scattered.

In this way, this plain surrounded by mountains and rivers has now become a safe pioneering area. The productivity of the entire plain was naturally released in this way. For example, when the next harvest season comes, those newly opened farms plus the old farms will generally be able to harvest three times more food than the previous harvest.

However, with the increase of development points, the shortage of manpower on the island is also increasing. The arrival of these military-educated immigrants from North Visby just provided the much-needed labor force on the island. Especially when developing a series of new coastal development sites similar to the Blue Mountain Meadows, these new immigrants are obviously better at establishing a series of settlements in those dangerous locations.

For these new immigrants, the arrangement on the island is very good. Although the newly opened areas are not considered safe, only some goblins came to attack, so when there are strong fortifications and sufficient weapons, they don't think it is dangerous?

And compared with the areas that have been reclaimed on the plains, the new territories located on the seashore or on the alpine meadows are obviously drier and cooler than those that have been reclaimed deep into the island. This is naturally more suitable for those who have immigrated from the North Visby region, which has a higher latitude.

Compared with the people of the Holy Visby Empire in the south, although the Visby people in the north are the same people, have the same language and almost the same customs, because of the different environment, the northerners are obviously better than them. Southerners are more intolerant of heat, so Lawrence simply placed them in cooler places on the island.

"Actually, the strangest thing I think now is the fertility of the soil on the island." After completing a series of currency-related designs and discussions on immigration arrangements, Lawrence and the others went to a beach to relax and have a picnic. stand up. But even if it’s time for relaxation, Syfiel still nags a lot about island development.

"Is there anything abnormal about the fertility of the soil on the island?" Lawrence asked after taking a big mouthful of coconut juice from the coconut with a silver straw. "Although it rains frequently in this place, I think the soil erosion is not serious because of the vegetation coverage on the island. In theory, the soil should not be too barren."

"Especially since we came to this island, we have adopted various methods to supplement the soil with organic matter and various elements that are lacking in accordance with the practices of the agricultural church, especially the use of biogas digesters to collect various organic matter. Fermentation. So theoretically, the land on the island should be one of the best among the surrounding islands."

In any case, as a tropical island with very high precipitation, the loss of nutrients in the soil is basically an inevitable problem. Therefore, many water conservancy projects and agricultural projects on the island nowadays all focus on improving soil. Even ordinary people have realized the importance of this under repeated publicity.

Even after the large-scale popularization of biogas digesters, the people all consciously collected all organic matter for composting in the biogas digesters. For example, after the last war, various farms sent some personnel to pull carts to collect the corpses of goblins on the battlefield, and then pulled them back to chop them and put them in the biogas digester for composting.

Of course, goblins are not a common compost material. The more common composting materials are manure, dead branches and leaves, and various mechanism garbage produced in people's life and agricultural production. Of course, the large amount of waste generated in fishery production is also one of the most important sources of these composts.

In addition, because of the abundance of coconuts on the island, Lawrence and the others also produced some coconut chaff to improve which farmland. With this concerted effort of the whole people, the land used for planting in the island quickly became fertile and suitable for agricultural production.

According to the results of the recent new round of investigations by the Agricultural Church, the soil is now suitable for agricultural production to the extent that the farms in the southern part of the mainland have been developed for decades.

"Yes, the current soil levels on the island are indeed suitable for the development of planting industry." After listening to Lawrence's words, Syfiel tapped his forehead with his fingers and said.

"But the problem is ~www.ltnovel.com~ In theory, it takes several years for the habitat to become mature. Don't you think that the speed of soil improvement on our island is a bit too fast?"

"What's wrong with improving too quickly?" Lawrence said with a smile, "Seriously, I can't wait to start improving the soil today, and tomorrow morning the soil will become as rich as the black land in the central plains of the White Eagle Federation—"

"Lawrence, I'm not joking." Syfiel was not very satisfied with Lawrence's answer. "You are right, it is not a bad thing for us to become fertile. But the fact is that we have not yet understood the reason for this benign change."

"Didn't you understand?" Hearing what Syfiel said, Lawrence suddenly changed from the extremely leisurely lying position to the sitting position, with a thoughtful look on his face.

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In this world where extraordinary powers can be seen everywhere, many places have unique abilities because of these extraordinary powers. For example, certain hot springs that can cure various diseases, or special farmland where certain crops can grow at a high speed. But if there is no reason, it may not be a good thing.