Struggle in the Steam Age

As the families of the strong men who came to help before and the immigrants from other places on the island or even nearby islands slowly came to this place, Lawrence and their pioneering work also got on track. For example, after the manpower became sufficient, they built a total of eight collective farms in this plain.

These eight farms were all established under the guidance of the agricultural church. They all chose places with very good water and soil conditions, and they were built with a set of operating rules. For example, the current collective canteen is like this.

After all, the current conditions are too simple. If you start a business, you will not mention the waste of manpower and fuel. The two issues of food safety and fire safety are enough to make people heady, so under Lawrence’s suggestion, every farm will be built. A collective canteen was set up to provide catering services to everyone.

In this way, the biggest advantage is to ensure that safe food and drinking water are provided to those pioneers and avoid large-scale outbreaks of infectious diseases. In addition, large pot rice also saves a lot of fuel than scattered cooking, which can save enough fuel to provide everyone with boiled cold water.

Although the taste of big pot rice is very ordinary, it is good enough for these immigrants. After all, it was difficult for them to eat such a plentiful food before, whether they were workers or reclaiming small pieces of wasteland outside the human settlements on the island.

Those who work as workers are a little better, and can always eat after hard work. But those original islanders were not like that. They had hardly been able to fill their stomachs with their exhausted work last year. What did they get? Things are only able to make them and their families survive.

So on the premise of having enough food, everyone's work efficiency can basically be twice that of the original work. After all, even if you want to work hard, you can't have much energy when you don't have enough food. As the saying goes, if you want a horse to run, you must feed the horse.

Of course, this collective farm is not a big pot of rice. Because of the temporary shortage of cash on the island, Lawrence produced a series of records for everyone's work, and issued a different number of cent cards according to the workload. And these things can be exchanged for different foods according to the number, but also for daily necessities, poultry and livestock, labor tools and even intangible positions, honors and other rewards.

Anyway, he combined all the useful things in the management books that he had read intentionally or unintentionally in the previous life, and then chose the methods that are suitable for the current use and put them into actual operation. It now appears that these methods produce good results.

Here, Lawrence would like to thank those guys who have poured chicken soup on various public accounts in the past. If they had not posted this knowledge everywhere, he would not have seen these very useful things now.

"Carlos, the area of ​​your group's reclaimed arable land exceeds 20% of the predetermined quota. According to the regulations, your group can get an extra 150 work points, and your own work points can be doubled." Everyone has finished eating. , Lawrence began to conduct a weekly work summary activity, the first summary is now the most important agricultural production team.

When this middle-aged farmer named Carlos and his team of ten came to the temporarily erected table, they were always rubbing their hands nervously. When he took the small iron piece representing work points from Lawrence's hand, he worked hard towards it. Lawrence bowed and said, "Thank you, thank you Lord Lord."

After the team went down, Lawrence called another person's name. "Kruger, your mechanical team successfully installed the six scheduled steam engines within this week, and at the same time kept the four overloaded steam tractors in good condition, exceeding the quota, so you get 200 work points—"

After Lawrence made the announcement, a worker in blue work clothes and his fellow workers took over the iron plate representing the work points from Lawrence with a smile. After listening to their discussion, they were going to buy it from the service agency in a while. Some previously limited products.

After all, the overall task of this area now is construction, so the tonnage of the only transport ships is basically used by Lawrence to transport all kinds of materials related to production, construction and maintenance of basic life, so many things can only be supplied in limited quantities. For example, butter, or some alcoholic beverages.

While the summary work was held on Lawrence's side, similar activities were also taking place on several other farms. According to the regulations, everyone has to do summary work every week. In addition to summarizing the work of the previous week and rewarding and punishing some of the prominent ones, the most important task is to summarize some of the problems that occurred during the work of the previous week and consider solutions.

In this way, although Lawrence and the others do not have much experience in establishing settlements in the tropics. But on the basis of this kind of teamwork, the overall reclamation work can still be carried out smoothly. It also solved a lot of troublesome problems that were not thought of before coming to this island.

After the conclusion meeting in the port area was over, Lawrence returned to his room to prepare to study with the external brain Nora the batch of magic knowledge he had acquired before.

Since coming to this island, Lawrence can be said to be busy and has no time for research. Fortunately, after this period of running-in, the entire system was finally able to stumble and operate, and he was also able to get part of his own research time at night.

However, just a few minutes after he returned to the room, there was a knock on the door. After opening the door, he found that it was his housekeeper Mr. Bayer who was standing at the door and knocking.

"Is there anything wrong with you coming to me now?" Lawrence asked after bringing Bayer's butler into the house. "Is there something wrong again?"

"No, everything is normal here, Lord. It's just that we need to purchase something based on the recent overall survey, and this purchase requires your approval." The butler by Bayer smiled and shook his head and said, since Lawrence inherited the title~www .wuxiahere.com~ He insisted on calling Lawrence with this honorific name only.

"Okay, let me see." Lawrence knew that this is what the rules require. Small spending items can be decided by these retainers, but large-scale purchases must be approved by Lawrence himself.

So he took the note book in the hands of the butler and checked it, and the butler sat upright on the stool at the side of the room. A few minutes later, Lawrence read the purchase list on the notebook, closed the notebook, and then leaned against I thought about it on the stool.

"I can understand the cows and mules here. After all, there is no way to complete such a large piece of land reclamation with only four steam tractors." A few minutes later, Lawrence opened his eyes and asked. "But what happened to the 1,000 capybaras you marked at the end?"

"This is a way to solve the meat problem." The butler explained, "Because our situation is not suitable for breeding pigs or sheep, which are common animals that can provide meat, and cows need to be treated at this stage. Animal power is basically impossible to kill and eat meat, so we must find some substitutes."

"After our observation, the most suitable animal for us to breed in this area is this capybara. Because we have enough rivers here, and there are also a lot of aquatic plants that can feed this animal. The overall environment is suitable for this animal. survive--"

"Well, you're right." Lawrence nodded and said. "I think that besides capybara, there are several local animals on your list. But where can we buy them?"

"Lord, then we have to involve another job: socializing." The Butler by Bayer said with a serious face. "Now that we have basically settled down, then we should also visit our neighbors."