Struggle in the Steam Age

After joining Safir, Lawrence and the others finally gathered a standard team. After all, as an extraordinary creature, it is difficult for the book charm to understand some more abstract knowledge. And Lawrence himself and Nora, who seems to be a copy of him in terms of three views and knowledge reserves, are used to thinking about problems and substituting ideas from another world.

Therefore, a reliable and well-educated native of this world like Safir is very important to Lawrence and the others, because she can help them find the shortcomings in the plan from the perspective of a native, so as to further improve the information about this planet. A plan for interface development.

In fact, Lawrence still wanted the real native jackals of this astral plane to participate in the discussion at the beginning, but after asking at the banquet just now, those jackals all thought that this kind of thing should be ordered by the gods. Just finish. After mobilizing the jackals several times and still insisting on their attitude, the burden of formulating the entire plan finally fell on Lawrence and his group of outsiders.

For the next week, the four of them were extremely busy. Apart from the fact that Safir and Lawrence took turns returning to the main plane for half an hour every day, pretending that they were still playing and camping at many scenic spots by the lake. At other times, everyone is in this house designing the future development direction of this astral plane.

But there is a very important problem here, that is, none of the four people present had the experience of leading so many people, let alone guiding a civilization, even if there were only hundreds of thousands of pocket-sized civilizations. So in desperation, they can only find what they want from the history of the two worlds, and then piece together a plan that seems feasible.

What followed was a lot of quarrels. For example, Lawrence repeatedly reminded Safir in the process of guiding the development of an astral plane with its own civilization. The most important thing is to retain the autonomy of the civilization in this plane. sex and creativity. Because Safir always thought about purchasing a lot of things from the outside and directly letting these jackals enter the industrial age.

"Their lives are really terrible, and they are too backward. For example, according to these data, only ten of every 100 jackals have metal tools, while others only have some stone, bone or even tools. Wooden tools." Whenever he said this, Safiel would give his reasons.

Of course, this reason is also very reasonable. Because everyone knows that the jackals in the astral plane where they are now live an extremely primitive life, and the production capacity of the entire plane is too low. And one of the important goals of Lawrence and the others in formulating these plans is to promote the development of this jackal civilization, which is like a living fossil.

"You're right, we do want to promote the development of these jackals." Lawrence nodded, "But if we forcibly impose our civilization on them, it will only completely destroy their future. Let alone this person There is no such thing as fossil fuel like coal mines, so we can’t just keep importing this kind of necessities from the outside world, can we?”

A whole week had passed amid such debates, and Lawrence and the others finally came up with a more feasible plan. Of course, this is not the final plan, and they will continue to adjust these plans according to changes in the situation.

Because this astral plane is a long strip with a width of 100 kilometers and a length of 2,600 kilometers, and it has complex terrain ranging from oceans, plains to mountains. So Lawrence and the others naturally designed different development directions for different locations.

After checking several times without finding any major loopholes, Lawrence and the others came to the leaders of the jackals in the temple. Fortunately, the jackals all lived along the river, and Lawrence and the others were right where the river was close to the mouth of the sea. So after receiving the news of the return of the gods a week ago, all the jackal leaders took boats down the river and came here.

Came to the hall of the temple again, Safir was still floating in the air, Lawrence and the others stood beside her. And behind them stood more than a dozen staff members. It's just that the people standing below are not the pious believers before, but the leaders from various settlements and the managers of the temple.

Being called by God is naturally extremely honorable for believers. It's just that what these leaders didn't expect was that what Lawrence and the others discussed this time had nothing to do with their beliefs, but something very common in their eyes.

"Everyone, according to the arrangement of the past few days, His Majesty Emerald Heart and us have formulated a development plan." Lawrence stood up as the right hand of God, and then pointed the short stick in his hand at a huge sand table on the stone platform in front of him. Speaking of.

This is a large-scale sand table. Since the entire plane is long, Lawrence and the others had to ask the jackals at the door to put more stone platforms in this room to support the sand table when they were making preparations. .

From the sand table, it can be seen that the terrain of this astral plane is very complicated. The river running through the entire plane originates from the mountainous area at one end of the plane, and then there are hills and forests that cannot be reclaimed with the tools in the hands of the jackal. . Such terrain covers 1,200 kilometers, and only a few jackal logging sites and small hunting tribes exist.

Next is the 1,100-kilometer giant plain, but there are still some hills containing minerals, hills, and inflowing saltwater lakes. Because of the previous adjustment of the God of Habi, the climate here is a slightly arid grassland climate. It is not the same as the real desert on both sides of the Nile River in Yanzhou. On this dry grassland, some jackals who make a living by grazing, mining and salt mining live here.

The places on both sides of the river that can be moistened by the river are densely covered with lush vegetation, growing tropical trees like palms and dates. It is also interspersed with some large settlements and agricultural facilities of jackals, and naturally the number of jackals living here is also the largest.

And the 100-kilometer river delta near the sea also has a large number of jackals, engaged in a series of jobs such as hunting, fishing, and planting. The number of jackals here is not the largest, but the population density is the largest.

At the same time, apart from the largest city under the pyramid, the second largest city in the entire plane, mainly fishery and some handicrafts, the Hekou City with 6,000 people is also located in this delta.

The 200 kilometers from the mouth of the river is the sea area of ​​this plane, and there are some small islands in it. Based on Hekou City and the small island, the jackals have established a marine fishery system.

After pointing out that this is the entire plane sand table and allowing those sitting to watch it, the wise men and leaders among the jackals all gathered around the sand table to find their hometowns. Fortunately, Lawrence took this into consideration when making the sand table. There are ancient Neroic hieroglyphs engraved on small bronze plates beside each important terrain for explanation.

Sadly, at least half of the settlement chiefs are illiterate. So much so that the staff in the temple had to help them point out the location. After everyone roughly figured out the location of their settlements, Lawrence stood on the edge of the sand table and started his own explanation.

"I think you've already seen this sand table, so let's talk about His Majesty Jade Heart's arrangement. According to the plan, we will build a bronze smelter at the bend of this tributary of the great river on the edge of Black Claw Mountain.

Using the river channel, we can transport the copper ore and tin ore from the upstream, and then use the local fast-growing palm as fuel to smelt bronze. "Speaking, Lawrence tapped a bend in the downstream of the river in the sand table of the plane with a stick.

"This place not only facilitates the transportation of raw materials and products, but also if a dam is built in the upper reaches of the river, it can use water conservancy to save manpower and increase productivity..."

While explaining, Lawrence asked the temple staff to take out the model of the forging hammer in the water. After pouring a pot of water to imitate the flow of water, the jackals present immediately understood the principle of the hydraulic forging hammer.

"This plan requires the construction of the Black Claw Copper Mine, Blackfish Village, and the downstream Hewan Town. Are the leaders of these places here?" After the explanation, Lawrence asked, looking at the furry jackals in front of him.

"Here we come." An elderly jackal with a cane, a female jackal with three copper earrings on her ears, and a muscular jackal with multiple burn scars walked out of the crowd at the same time. Walked out, then bowed to Lawrence with his hands folded on his chest.