Struggle in the Steam Age

Joining this small customs union means more than just letting his territory enter the trading circle, but more importantly, it means that he can integrate into the surrounding environment. After all, people are social animals, and so are countries. It's better to be able to communicate with the outside world than to close the country.

In addition to these normal harvests, the lords who participated in the meeting agreed to purchase the grain sold in New Sauer at a premium of 20% based on the average grain export price of the top 15 trading ports along the coast of the Star Sea in the future. And all of them are mentioned in New Saul Island.

In other words, as long as Lawrence grows grain, someone will come to buy it. No need to worry about product sales. This is very good news for Lawrence, who has just established a foothold in this area.

After completing the mission, Lawrence's ship returned directly to his territory. In just half a month, New Sauer Island has undergone tremendous changes. For example, the original temporary trestle bridge has been replaced by a semi-permanent wooden pier at this time. And not far away, a group of people are preparing to build a real permanent wharf using cement and stones.

In addition to the pier, Lawrence also saw five or six huge windmills appearing on the coastline. I think this is because the steam engine on the shore temporarily needs to be used in more important places, so the craftsmen who came to the island with the boat simply used the almost never-ending sea breeze on the beach to build a few windmills as a supplement to the steam engine.

"Lord August, you are finally back." As soon as he got off the boat, Lawrence was stopped by several priests in brown priest robes. "You told us to repair the biogas digester. We have repaired it. What should we do next?"

This group of agricultural priests weren't the one who called them by Lawrence's favor alone. It would be nice to be able to call one or two technicians if they were only favored. And they sent a small team because Lawrence wrote a conjecture about circular agriculture in the letter, and said that he would use his own territory to test this conjecture.

As the daughter of the mother goddess of the earth and the father of nature, the goddess of agriculture has been in a state of entanglement and contradiction. On the one hand, the inheritance it got from her parents told her to protect the natural world. On the other hand, her priesthood required her to develop agriculture as much as possible on the side of intelligent creatures and produce more agricultural products.

But in this way, the development of agriculture will inevitably need to destroy the natural world. Especially after the Industrial Revolution, the destruction of nature by intelligent creatures, especially humans and dwarves, has become very serious, and a large part of it has to be attributed to the development of agriculture. For example, large-scale land reclamation can severely damage natural vegetation, and the abuse of chemical fertilizers is more likely to damage the soil.

The circular agriculture mentioned in Lawrence's letter to the church gave the goddess of agriculture hope, a hope for human development and nature to coexist as harmoniously as possible. This is why she will issue an oracle to send such a capable team to this island from the headquarters of the Agricultural Church in the New World and to reach the level of silver.

But because Lawrence learned this knowledge from the Internet, there is only a general framework. In addition, considering that even though different worlds look alike, they are likely to be different in some microscopic places. So he simply announced what he should do next after finishing the previous step, except for the knowledge framework. In order to be able to adjust the wrong place in time to avoid problems due to dogmatism.

But as a result, the members of the agricultural church who were enthusiastic about working overtime and working overtime suddenly realized that they had no idea what to do after they had completed the construction of the biogas digester arranged before Lawrence left. So they waited for two days in boredom, which is why they looked so excited after seeing Lawrence come back.

The construction of a biogas digester is a very important thing for Lawrence, after all, sufficient fertilizer is an essential thing as an area dominated by agriculture. In addition, the unified fermentation of manure and various perishable organic matter is an effective means for Lawrence in tropical regions to block infectious diseases.

More importantly, the hot and humid climate in this area throughout the year is actually very suitable for biogas fermentation. The biogas digester can be used all year round instead of only a few months like Lawrence's hometown in the north. However, although he was very dissatisfied with the biogas digester in his hometown that could only be used for a few months, if it weren't for that incident, Lawrence would not have these materials on the construction of biogas digesters in his mind.

When thinking about these things, Lawrence and the clergy of the agricultural church came to the edge of a round concrete building, and in a small house beside the building, a few cauldrons filled with water were there. The biogas stove is already boiling. And two farm workers are cooperating to pour the boiling water into each kettle.

"After the first batch of feed, all the biogas digesters have been running smoothly." The priest of the agricultural church in the lead said to Lawrence with a satisfied smile. "At the beginning, there were still one or two biogas digesters running. It's normal, but your Companion Life Companion checked them all back to normal."

"Because I have told my companion about this matter before, she is more clear about these details." Lawrence explained after listening to the priest. But in fact, he was still more puzzled, because he didn't remember Nora ever sharing this kind of knowledge with himself.

Of course, everyone has their own secrets. Although the birth of Nora has a lot to do with Lawrence, it is not inconsistent with having her own secret. Lawrence respects the puppet as an independent individual, and feels that the reason why she does not say it must be justified by her. Do not intend to explore further.

These fuels are actually very important for the island, because Lawrence discovered that most people in this era are drinking raw water not because they want to drink raw water, but because boiling water requires enough raw materials, but ordinary people don’t usually have much fuel. It’s good to cook the rice.

After the industrial revolution, people in the city finally got cheap enough coal or even gas as fuel. But in the vast countryside, the firewood obtained by woodcutters is still their only fuel.

Therefore, an important reason for Lawrence to establish a collective canteen was to reduce fuel consumption and then squeeze out precious firewood to boil water. Boiling water provides people with clean water sources to avoid the outbreak of tropical diseases. The biogas digester, which can provide fuel for 24 hours, further reduces fuel consumption.

"In addition to producing combustible gas, those things in the biogas digester will heat up during fermentation and eliminate the pathogenic bacteria that may be carried in it. At the same time, the biogas slurry and biogas residue that are finally fermented can be improved. Soil ~www.wuxiahere.com~ promotes crop income. Adding to feed can also promote the growth of livestock." After walking out of the hot water house, Lawrence told the agricultural priests.

There were also early fertilizers in this era, such as mineral fertilizers like superphosphate. However, due to the limitation of the chemical industry in this era, the free acid content in the fertilizer is often too high, and the problem is that it is doped with a lot of impurities. Lead to serious soil pollution, soil compaction, and finally affect the growth of crops.

For agricultural churches, fertilizer that can greatly increase food production is naturally very good, but it would be very, very bad if the increase in crop yield is to be obtained by damaged soil. This is why they came over in such a hurry after receiving Lawrence's solution.

"This biogas digester is an important part of what I call circular agriculture. In the process of creating circular agriculture, we must promote the reciprocating and efficient flow of various agricultural resources in the farming system to achieve The purpose of energy saving, emission reduction and income increase is to promote the sustainable development of modern agriculture and rural areas."

Since calling others from the New World for so long, it also helped so much. Then Lawrence should also take out some dry goods to deliver to these agricultural priests. After all, everything pays attention to an equivalent exchange, and it's definitely not enough to just draw cakes for others.