Struggle in the Steam Age

Because these principles gave up everything about their hometown, all those who went to the colony similar to Green Island to open up had noble identities, and at the same time brought a lot of manpower and materials, and did not use too much resource input belonging to Briton. .

Therefore, under such circumstances, the natives of Briton also naturally need to give them a certain amount of respect to show their support for these people's colonial behavior.

Therefore, this colony has many different rules from most of the Briton colonies, which are mainly reflected in various policies on the Green Island.

For example, unlike ordinary colonies, the governor of Green Island is a council of lords elected by the lords on the island, rather than a local governor sent from other territories.

For another example, apart from the symbolic battalion of soldiers and a small fleet of three ships at the southern port, there is no army directly under the Ministry of Defense of Briton on the entire Green Island.

If you want to describe it in detail, it means that apart from the diplomatic and defense rights of this island belong to Briton, most of the rights belong to these noble lords on the island.

Therefore, in this case, these people on Green Island can naturally decide who to cooperate with economically, without considering too many local ideas.

For example, after coal mines were discovered in the Viscount of Surrey, the coal was directly transported to the White Eagle Federation for sale. At the same time, the money was purchased directly from the White Commonwealth to make things needed on various islands and brought back to the island.

And now this trade with the Star Sea Islands headed by New Sauer Island is the same. After the discussion and approval of the Lords Council on the island, the whole plan is running smoothly.

Of course, this is not a terrible thing, at least compared to the extremely slow response ability caused by the complex bureaucratic system of Bledton, the lord council composed of the local lords can deal with such problems much faster. .

In contrast to those traditional colonies, if they want to do something, they must waste weeks or even months on repeated communication with the mainland. The Lords Council took only three days to make the final decision and instructions.

In the foreseeable near future, the trade links between Green Island and the entire northern archipelago and the islands in the southeastern part of the Star Sea, headed by New Sauer Island, will become closer and closer, and the transaction volume between the two parties will gradually increase. .

Therefore, in addition to short-term trade, the trade between Israel and Israel must also consider whether these trades can be done for a long time. For example, even if it can only be done when it is started, some one-shot deals need to be controlled in scale and gradually replaced.

Among this type of transactions, the most obvious ones are those related to fur. Although there are not too many large beasts on the land in this area because it is too barren, the opposite is true at the seaside.

There are also a lot of marine life activities under those areas with a lot of ice floes because they are close to the continental shelf, and the activities of these marine life also attract a large number of organisms to come here.

For example, some aquatic mammals like sea lions, walruses or seals live here.

Although the chaotic underwater turbulence and the existence of various ice floes in that area make it impossible to fish on a large scale even if you know that there are fish in this area, the terrain is obviously also conducive to approaching from the coastline.

In this case, the lords on the island will naturally choose to develop hunting to obtain fur and meat that are vital to the survival of the island.

In order to survive, it is naturally acceptable to obtain materials from nature. Even the druids, except for some extremes, do not exclude hunting or gathering to obtain the materials they need for food, clothing, housing and transportation.

However, when the current trade lists fur as a trade material, Lawrence is somewhat worried that this may induce some kind of overfishing, and completely destroy the ecological environment of the region and lead to the extinction of certain organisms.

Fortunately, after Lawrence raised his own question. These lords on the island reached a certain agreement through discussion. Make sure that the hunting number of various fur beasts on the entire island every year is controlled within an appropriate range.

The reason why these lords made such a decision is also very simple. On the one hand, through these cooperation, Lawrence has brought a lot of new industries to the island.

When the new industry can provide enough wealth and jobs, they naturally don't need to adopt some extreme methods of fishing and burning forests to accumulate wealth for themselves and their subordinates.

On the other hand, for these lords who live in this area all year round. They also deeply understood how terrible the natural environment possessed by this territory near the polar circle.

They didn't understand these conditions when they first came to this island, so they did a lot of environmental damage unconsciously.

For example, if too many livestock are raised on a piece of land or during construction, the damage to the vegetation on the ground is almost permanent. Many land may not be restored to the original level of vegetation coverage for more than ten years.

After a part of the vegetation is missing, the entire ecological chain will also be severely affected.

To give the simplest example, follow the observations of aristocrats on the island who thought they had some research on natural history. At least two kinds of birds and a variety of insects have lost more than half of their habitats due to these damages, and their populations have been reduced by two-thirds.

And this survey report also made the people on the island aware of the fragility of the environment in the cold regions, so no one would dare to ignore the surrounding environmental issues in the production and life on the island.

After all, for these nobles, this land is not just their own, but also their children and grandchildren. If you turn your fief into a dead place in your own hands, then they will become sinners of your family.

So after Lawrence made this point, Viscount Surrey immediately made a request to Lawrence, hoping that he could help the island and the agricultural church to match up with some professionals to set the specific value.

Because although the number of these people on the island is regulated, after all, they are just a place supported by a few non-professionals. Therefore, for the sake of conservativeness, the enemy is still lenient in this regard, and the number of huntables given is obviously on the low side.

For these nobles on Green Island now, this will obviously reduce their income. Therefore, they naturally hope to bring in a group of professionals to re-approve a more reasonable number of hunting permits.

As for the handling of this matter, the members of the Agricultural Church are naturally the most professional among multiple organizations with similar capabilities, and at the same time the organization that is impeccable in terms of credibility.

Although the goddess of agriculture is the parent of the mother goddess of the earth and the father of nature, but because agriculture itself is a way of transforming nature by humans, the goddess of agriculture is different from his parents in many places.

To give the simplest example, the goddess of agriculture is obviously much more tolerant than his parents for mankind's initiative to obtain various resources from the natural world.

And hunting is obviously part of agriculture in the broad sense, so although members of the Agricultural Church oppose all kinds of indiscriminate hunting, they do not oppose hunting.

It's just that as one of the most popular churches in civilized society, the people in the agricultural church are basically busy. Basically it is impossible to be on call.

But this does not mean that this matter cannot be discussed, at least because of Lawrence's reputation in the agricultural church and the series of cooperation projects on the island of New Sauer. Lawrence asked one or two staff members to go on such a trip, it would definitely save face.

With the departure of the ship carrying the cargo, the Green Island returned to its original state of life.

After the new batch of grassroots doctors came from everywhere and entered the school, the nobles who had stayed here before also left Fort Surrey and returned to their fiefs.