Struggle in the Steam Age

The members of the Church of Trade and Wealth returned to their church in the golden magic sailboat that they had taken when they came back soon after welcoming back the statues of their gods. However, before leaving, they also left three clergymen in accordance with the previous agreement and started building a church in the local area.

After sending away these upstart clergy, life on Lawrence Island has resumed the days of dealing with official duties every day and then guiding work in various places on the territory.

With the passage of time, the construction of water conservancy projects on the island progressed very smoothly. After all, this place can be called humid even in the dry season, so although the reservoir is needed, it is not necessary to design a very high water storage capacity when designing it. Therefore, in the more than one month after the elimination of the pirates, Lawrence and others have successively repaired the first batch of water conservancy projects planned to ensure water use in the dry season.

Of course, the project is advancing so fast because in addition to the tauren on the island sending more than 300 migrant workers to enrich the labor force, the group of pirates who were captured before also made great efforts.

After trial on the island, these pirates who had committed misdemeanors were sentenced to undergo labor reforms on the island from one and a half to seven years. However, unlike slaves, these pirates who need to undergo reform through labor will only receive a normal level of corporal punishment. At the same time, they can also obtain necessary labor items, food, medical care, and one-fifth of normal workers' compensation at work.

More importantly, all pirates who have ended labor reforms can choose to leave the island or become naturalized locally after gaining their freedom. And those former pirates who are naturalized can get the same status as the ordinary people in the local area.

According to investigations by Lawrence and the church on the island, the pirates' enthusiasm for labor suddenly increased after learning how the island would deal with them. For them, many people who went to sea in those days were just for food. After arriving at sea, the benefits of being a pirate at the bottom of a pirate group did not enjoy much, but suffered a lot and did not get much money. So they do not miss life at sea.

So after learning that Lawrence was willing to give them a chance to change their minds and re-behave. Most of them burst out with great labor enthusiasm, and they can often exceed the labor plan formulated on the island to obtain the previously agreed prizes from Lawrence, such as tobacco, meat, various daily necessities and even work points.

As for the fact that people were whipped more frequently than normal people because of the bad habits they developed on the pirate ship before, it did not arouse their disgust, because the punishment was carried out in full accordance with the regulations and was fair. And in this era, from school to army, from factory to farm, all kinds of corporal punishment can be said to be commonplace, and being whiped here is definitely an acceptable way of punishment for them.

According to the plan, after the completion of the construction of these water conservancy projects, there will be no new water conservancy projects until the first batch of rice is harvested. The vacated manpower is invested in the construction of grain warehouses.

Lawrence also knew that a granary made of stone, cement, and steel was definitely the strongest and the best. But considering the current economic situation on the island and the human and material resources that can be mobilized. He immediately gave up this kind of grain depot construction plan that theoretically worked best.

Instead, there are a batch of dry barn silos built of wood. Although these wooden buildings that will be built in a sheltered and high place in the town may not last more than ten years in this area, but this section Time is enough for this territory to fully develop.

During the design process of the building, Lawrence subconsciously designed these buildings based on the stilts that he had seen when traveling to the Southwest in his previous life. The result soon won the approval of others.

"It feels a bit like the buildings built by the local indigenous people, but yours is much better than those simple houses, but the basic architectural style and principles are the same." Saifeier surrounded Lawrence before. After looking at the sand table and the model, she said that she had seen a lot of the surrounding customs during her last visit, so the first reaction after seeing these building models was that they were very similar to the traditional houses around them.

"There is indeed a certain connection." Lawrence nodded, because the style of the stilts in his mind was invented and created by the people who lived in this humid climate all the year round, and Lawrence also found that in the same humid and rainy climate Under the conditions, intelligent creatures with similar productivity will show a kind of convergence in some respects even if they are separated on different planes.

Therefore, when designing these grain depots, Lawrence definitely did not copy the designs of the previous life, but integrated a part of the reasonable design of the local traditional buildings after full consideration. Because he knows the importance of adapting to the place, any dogmatism will hinder the implementation of correct practices.

The fact is also true. This kind of building, which can be said to be a combination of the design advantages of the two worlds, successfully passed the review by a review team composed of priests and architects of several churches and became the first batch of granary construction standards in the territory. . If nothing else, this standard will be implemented throughout the island in the future.

In this month, a lot of achievements have been made on the island in other directions besides construction. For example, through this period of overhaul, the two steam sailing boats whose superstructures were almost destroyed before were finally repaired.

During this period, with the development of Niujiaowan, the port area has become more and more busy. Of course, this rush does not only come from the contacts between the surrounding islands, but also from the contacts of various regions on the island of Neuschau. After all, most of the settlements on the island are on the seashore or by the river leading to the sea, so water transportation has naturally become the most convenient way of transportation between this island and the surrounding islands.

But in this way, the few boats on the island seemed a bit insufficient. Even the fishermen who rushed over can use the small fishing boats they brought as a supplement. However, this part of the capacity still has a significant capacity gap for the rapid growth of the transportation demand of the entire island. Therefore, the two repaired pirate ships can be regarded as timely rain for the islands with insufficient capacity.

In fact, Lawrence tried to merge the two ships into the island’s coast guard at the beginning. However, it was discovered through inspection of Lawrence during the repair that these two ships were not professional warships~www.wuxiahere.com~, but only commercial fast sailing boats with reinforced structures and forcibly armed.

Not to mention that after the superstructure was injured, the strength of these ships made them prone to various problems once they faced fierce battles again. So out of various considerations, Lawrence finally reluctantly gave up his love and allocated the boat to the shipping department.

Of course, before assigning these ships to the shipping department, they unloaded most of the ship’s artillery and installed them on the port fortifications and urban fortifications, leaving only a handful of artillery for self-defense.

Since the previous pirate group was eliminated, there have been no organized pirates around, so removing some of the artillery will not be too dangerous, but can free up more tonnage for transportation.

So after the design of the barn was finalized, Lawrence rushed to the beach to participate in the ceremony of putting the two ships into operation. According to the plan, the two ships will be sent to carry out the material operation routes between the islands. The short-distance sailing boats that originally operated this route will be transferred back to the island's routes.

After a brief speech of less than a minute, Lawrence and the others watched the two newly repaired ships sail out of the port with the cargo produced on the island. He knew it would be a very good start.