Struggle in the Steam Age

Lawrence's new plan won the support of everyone present, because the fortress is more than 80 kilometers away from the port of New Shore, and the water transport route is close to 100 kilometers. Even if it goes down the river, it takes about five hours to arrive. Therefore, from the perspective of economic layout, there is indeed a need for a densely populated city here.

But it is not so easy for a city to develop. For example, the development of the Port of Neussauer relied entirely on agriculture and water transportation at the beginning. Later, with the continuous increase of personnel, the simple service industry, commerce and later industry gradually appeared. In this process, Lawrence invested a lot of money and resources.

Fortunately, because of the smooth development of various industries, the future of this city is obviously bright. But even so, it takes a long time to recoup those previous investments. At least in three to five years, the various incomes of the city alone can at most be the same as the city’s daily expenditure or slightly surplus.

Although Lawrence is now operating his own territory, he is not afraid to spend money. But he also hopes that every penny he spends is valuable. Therefore, naturally there are relatively high requirements for this new city in the future. For example, we hope to make various plans from the beginning of construction to ensure as much waste as possible.

So after daybreak the next day, human scholars, tauren shamans, and scavenger elders began to explore the surrounding environment under the protection of the army. I hope to find some resources that can be used for urban development in the future. In the afternoon, a group of Lorca murlocs also came here by boat to search for nearby water systems.

Lawrence thought it would take a while to find something of value, so he simply took Seifer to go fishing in the river. But what I didn't expect was that just as the sky was just getting dark, the two men were about to wrap up and go back to dinner and night fishing. An attendant ran over and told them that there were members of the expedition team who had come back to report.

After communicating with the team members who came back to report one by one, Lawrence learned that a lot of information is simply impossible to know by air reconnaissance, not to mention that neither Lawrence nor Nora are very proficient in these things, so sometimes Even if those things are there, it is impossible to find those resources from the background environment.

Not to mention that Nora's previous investigations of this generation were only when they went to the Blue Mountain Meadows to investigate the goblin movements. It’s just incidental investigations at the time, so let’s not even go to the ground for investigations, even aerial reconnaissance is extremely rough. Therefore, the results of the investigation have not detected anything other than the distribution and trends of the goblin population in the area.

Of course, the little doll also mentioned the turbulent rivers created by this gradually rising terrain, the azure blue mountain lakes and the surrounding lush jungle water system forming a very beautiful scene. It should be very good if tourism is developed. But considering the current level of development on the island, Lawrence doesn't think it can attract enough travelers in a short time.

Because the development of tourism requires a series of infrastructure construction, Lawrence previously formulated agriculture and medicine for the island as the core of development. Therefore, it is impossible to have enough resources to invest in tourism in a short period of time. And if you want to wait until the island naturally develops to those required levels, it is estimated that you will have to wait a long time.

And one problem can also be seen from this matter, and that is the overall planning for development. At least when Lawrence inquired about the information, he found that many areas had no plans for development, which led to the situation at the beginning of the development was okay, but various problems will be exposed as the development deepens.

For example, when the industrial zone and the agricultural zone were constructed without planning, it was extremely difficult to expand when the industrial zone developed. In those agricultural areas, the fertile soil has become barren due to industrial waste water, exhaust gas, and noise, and the farmland has also experienced a significant reduction in production or even no harvest.

When things get to this point, the trouble will be big, because at that time, if you want to change the tangled situation, you need to consume a lot of resources, but even so, the process of change will still produce a lot of The trouble is difficult to reverse. For example, those newly created unemployed population and extremely difficult to restore land and water.

This is one reason why Lawrence attaches great importance to the armed reconnaissance teams dispatched around them. These teams' detailed investigation of the surrounding environment of the fortress and statistics of various resources will determine the future development direction and degree of development of the city and the entire island. .

In the next few hours, Lawrence took out the map and summoned Shumei, began to synthesize the investigation reports of the members of the reconnaissance team and began to mark the map. This kind of investigation report comes not only from the professionals in the team, but also from the ordinary members.

After combining the investigations of these teams, Lawrence realized that the surrounding land was much richer than he had previously imagined, which is why everyone was able to find enough resources on the first day of investigation. There are also many types of these resources, not only common animal and plant resources, but even some mineral resources that have never been detected before.

Among them, the most valuable plant resource is a large piece of Aina odora, two to three kilometers away from here, which is a perennial herb of the Compositae family according to natural classification. Tauren people have used this kind of thing before, mainly used for picking and tied into a bundle as a raw material for smoking, repelling those disgusting mosquitoes.

The last time Lawrence and the others went to the Tauren tribe, the Tauren burned these things to repel insects, but when they were burned, these grasses and other grasses were broken and mixed together and burned. Therefore, Lawrence was not able to. Recognize the specific circumstances of this herb.

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The expert who recognized this herbal medicine this time came from the Republic of Xinzhou, a medical student introduced by Zhu Yan. There used to be a herbal medicine shop in my family, but later it went bankrupt due to a wrong purchase of medicinal materials. Then Zhu Yan repaid the bank loan for him and let him come to Lawrence.

Because of his previous occupation, this doctor named Li Ming immediately checked the plants and trees in the forest immediately after entering the forest. At the same time, he asked the native tauren warriors who accompanied him about the herbs they had used before. . As a result, he quickly recognized this herb called Aina Xiang.

According to Li Ming~www.wuxiahere.com~ this herb is a very important herb in the main points of Aurora. On the one hand, the whole plant can be used as medicine to treat wind-cold cold, head wind and headache, relieve diarrhea and dispel dampness. And if the toothache is applied to the tooth, it can also treat the toothache caused by the red and swollen gums.

More importantly, this herbal medicine can be further processed through distillation and refining to make it have higher added value. After refining, a very important product is moxa oil, which can be used in a variety of cosmetics and fragrance industries. At the same time, a kind of medicinal material that is very popular in Aurora: Borneol can be produced in this distillation process.

These products continue to be popular in the ordinary people's world, and they can also be used in many extraordinary potions and rituals. So as long as it is manufactured, sales will certainly not be a problem.

Obviously, a large amount of wild Ainaxiang can be found in this area, which shows that this area is very suitable for the growth of this herb. And the cultivation of this kind of herbal medicine can just be integrated into the overall agricultural development of New Saul Island. So Lawrence quickly marked this industry and included it in the city's future key industries.

In addition to Aina, there are more than a dozen similar spices and medicinal plants. However, the difference with Aina incense is that these spice plants are not large-scale, and the value is not higher than Aina incense. Therefore, there are no plans to plant them for the time being.