Struggle in the Steam Age

Since having a holy spirit like Hans, Nora has also made many breakthroughs in the civil research of various microorganisms. For example, several special fungi have been cultivated.

"We have newly cultivated four kinds of fungi, one of which has a strong water absorption effect and can be used as a medical bandage or some daily necessities."

"The other three are all edible varieties, one tastes like meat, one is rich in starch, and the last one has a lot of water and vitamins."

"The biggest advantage of these things is that they can breed quickly, and they taste good. So the rat people ordered a large batch from me for planting." At this point, Nara shrugged.

"Unfortunately, it is very difficult to preserve these things, and it also requires a lot of processing fees. Otherwise, I want to use this thing as a reserve."

"However, these shortcomings are no longer a shortcoming in a traffic hub with a lot of people, because the flow of people is enough to consume the food. So it happens to be able to use those underground spaces to control these special fungi."

"You're right." Lawrence nodded with satisfaction, and then asked as if recalling something. "You just said the word vitamin. Is this your new discovery?"

"Yes, it is obviously easier to do these researches after having extraordinary power blessings than purely relying on technology." Nora shook her head helplessly.

"However, the difficulty of extracting vitamins on a large scale and industrially cannot be broken through now."

"So for us now, the discovery of vitamins has only allowed us to publish a few more papers, so that the island's medical research institute has a stronger voice in medicine. It may take a long time to find economic benefits in this regard. Time."

"Well--" Lawrence shrugged helplessly, at least this technical gap is not a problem that can be solved in a short time. Fortunately, he found something valuable to him from this matter after a brief thought.

"But the spread of this theory is not completely unprofitable for us. At least in this way, everyone's demand for all kinds of fresh food will naturally rise, and it will naturally be beneficial to the sale of goods on the island."

After a few days of planning, everyone soon became busy. Because it takes a lot of time and energy to complete both the training of manpower and the deployment of materials.

Fortunately, because this territory was a wild land before, Lawrence was able to build a more modern management system than other regions.

Therefore, in this case, although everyone is a bit busy, it does not appear to be confused. On the whole, it seems to be in order, and there is no such thing as a situation that often occurs in many territories, and various losses increase linearly when busy.

In addition to these main things, there are other things to be dealt with on the island. For example, the tens of thousands of people who were originally uncontrolled in the northwest of the island were included in the management system, and the land was planned after clearing the goblins.

In addition to these internal affairs, because now the island of New Sauer has gradually become prosperous and rich. Therefore, many facilities related to the outside world have been slowly planned after application.

For example, on the Trans-Star Sea route, several shipping companies are willing to take a half-day journey to the island for mid-section supply or shelter, so Lawrence needs to further expand the dock area to accommodate these needs.

The current wharf is a standard mixed passenger and freight wharf, but with the expansion of the port's throughput, the various defects of this mixed wharf have also been highlighted.

Whether it is from a safety point of view or an efficiency point of view, this kind of mixed terminal has many problems. So take the opportunity of more shipping companies to come to the island. Lawrence began to rebuild the wharf.

According to the plan, the current terminal will be transformed into a passenger terminal as a whole due to its proximity to the urban area, while the freight terminal will be moved several kilometers along the coastline as a whole. Build a new building at a deeper water level and closer to the industrial zone.

In addition to various loading and unloading facilities, Lawrence and the others also need to build a series of transportation and storage facilities to integrate the new terminal into the local economic circle.

As for the construction of the airship field, it is much simpler than this. At least, the basic facilities required by the airship field can be said to be very few without considering the complicated maintenance.

Therefore, after simple consideration, they chose a gravel site about 7km away from the city as the location of the future airship take-off and landing site.

This wasteland originally belonged to a collective farm, but the gravel-filled land basically cannot be used as agricultural land. So now it can just be contributed to the construction of take-off and landing grounds.

The manpower and financial resources required to open several large projects at the same time are not a small amount. Fortunately, because of the previous operations and a series of trivial matters, the island can still allocate enough wealth and manpower to complete these projects.

From the perspective of wealth, a variety of new inventions and operations made Lawrence’s income several times higher than before. In addition, the construction of these places was paid in stages rather than in a lump sum at the beginning. There is no need to spend a lot of wealth in a short time.

More importantly, in addition to the construction along the railway line that requires sufficient cash to hire workers, most of the construction on the island can completely settle the workers with materials, which further reduces the expenditure on various wealth.

But even so, Lawrence found that the cash on hand is still a little short of paying all the start-up capital. After all, the wealth I went to when I started three projects at the same time was not a small figure, and Lawrence was already able to pay more than 80% of them.

Fortunately, the industries that Lawrence currently controls are all high-quality industries, plus there is a legal church behind them. So it is not difficult to get some low-interest loans from the bank.

In fact, since Lawrence reported that it was going to be built on a large scale, but was not able to make money. Several major banks in the three major powers of the New World all sent elite personnel to Lawrence to pull business.

They do know that the result of this kind of competition is that the profit in this single business will not be too high, but considering that this business is not only large in total, but it is almost guaranteed to make a profit. Therefore, it can be said that it is a rare good business.

More importantly, as a place, anyone with eyes can see a territory with great prospects for development. Obviously this deal cannot be the only one.

So ~www.ltnovel.com~ for these bankers. If we can establish a long-term cooperative relationship with Lawrence, we will bring a top-notch customer to our bank.

With sufficient funds, the human problem is much simpler to solve. For example, as long as the rest stations along the railway line have money, they can hire enough people from the White Eagle Federation and the Republic of New China.

As for New Sauer Island, although it is said that it is difficult to hire foreign personnel, the arrival of a new wave of immigration perfectly compensates for this.

As Nora successfully ignited the sacred fire and formed her own church, the reputation of New Sauer Island was instantly blown out. These reputations not only attracted many new believers to Nora, but also made a good publicity for this sea area.

So unlike in the past when only a few desperate refugees and a small number of immigrants defected, many immigrants have taken this place as their first immigration destination during the recent period and drove over with their families.

According to simple statistics from the Immigration Bureau on the island, since Nora lit the sacred fire. The number of applicants to immigrate to the island has tripled. And there are many skilled immigrants from the three countries of the New World and the countries of the Old World.