Struggle in the Steam Age

"These new immigrants have indeed greatly promoted the development of Shaw Island." As the future hostess of the island, Sai Feier took the lead in participating in many charity activities for the new immigrants after they arrived on the island. I also learned a lot about the specific situation of these new immigrants.

This facilitation is not just a simple increase in human resources, but also a series of other unique capabilities they have mastered. For example, after investigation, Safir found that the biggest feature of this group of immigrants from various states in the North Visby area who came to the island is that almost all of the adult males have served in the military.

This is determined by the size of those countries, because the countries are too small and there are often some small-scale conflicts, so basically all of these countries have the habit of compulsory conscription by the whole people. After immigrating to the island, their experience in the army quickly came in handy enough.

After all, New Sauer Island can now be regarded as the front line of the confrontation between civilization and barbarism, so in addition to frequent large-scale battles, small-scale conflicts have not stopped almost every day. Under such circumstances, mastering certain military skills has become a very necessary thing.

For example, Lawrence has prepared enough weapons and ammunition in each settlement, and also organizes various military-related competitions in his spare time. Fortunately, there are enough supplies on the island, especially for food. Therefore, these competitions have been carried out smoothly and have effectively improved the military quality of every island resident.

Therefore, with the passage of time, the residents of the island have become much stronger than before in terms of military quality and inner courage. At least now, after discovering a small group of invading goblins, instead of retreating behind the wall and firing guns and lighting beacons to ask for army support, as in the past, they dare to organize and fight the goblins directly.

To be honest, the goblin's individual combat ability is really broken. An average farmer can easily hammer a goblin or two if he has the courage and is armed with something like a pitchfork. And on these plains where farms have been developed, farmers equipped with gunpowder weapons can kill five times as many goblin swarms after simple training.

At least in the recent period, the number of reinforcements called for by various colonial points has shown a clear downward trend. Even in the plain of Niujiaowan, the armed villagers from various manors joined forces with the Ratmen to thoroughly clean up the scattered goblins who had been scattered on the plain.

As a result, this plain surrounded by mountains and rivers is now a safe pioneering area. Naturally, the productivity of the entire plain was released in this way. For example, when the next harvest season comes, those newly developed farms plus the old farms can generally harvest more than three times the food of the previous harvest season.

However, with the increase of development points, the shortage of manpower on the island is also increasing. The arrival of these military-educated North Visby immigrants just provided the island with a much-needed workforce. Especially when developing a series of new coastal settlements like the Blue Mountain Meadow, these new immigrants are obviously better at establishing a series of settlements in those dangerous locations.

For these new immigrants, this arrangement on the island is very good. Although those newly opened areas are not considered safe, there are only some goblins who come to harass them, so don't they feel any danger when they have strong fortifications and sufficient weapons?

Moreover, compared with those places that have been reclaimed on the plains, some new territories located on the seaside or alpine meadows are obviously drier and cooler than those that have been reclaimed deep into the interior of the island. This is naturally more suitable for them who immigrated from the North Visby area with a higher latitude.

Compared with the people of the Holy Visby Empire in the south, although the Visby people in the north are a nation with them, they have the same language and almost the same customs, but because of the different environment, the northerners are obviously more The southerners were more heat intolerant, so Lawrence simply moved them to the cooler parts of those islands.

"Actually, one of the strangest things I find now is the fertility of the island's soil." After completing a series of designs related to currency and discussions on immigration arrangements, Lawrence and the others came to a beach to have a picnic and relax stand up. But even in relaxing time, Safir still babbled a lot about the development of the island.

"Is there anything unusual about the fertility of the island's soil?" Lawrence asked after taking a swig of coconut water from a coconut with a silver straw. "Although it often rains in this place, I don't think soil erosion is serious because of the vegetation coverage on the island. In theory, the soil is not too barren."

"Especially since we came to this island, we have adopted various methods to supplement the soil with organic matter and various elements that are lacking according to the practice of the Agricultural Church, especially the use of biogas digesters to treat various organic matter collected. Fermentation. So in theory, the land on the island should be one of the best among the surrounding islands."

Anyway, as Nova Sauer is a tropical island with very high precipitation, the loss of nutrients in the soil is basically an inevitable problem. Therefore, many water conservancy projects and agricultural projects on the island are now carried out around improving the soil, and even ordinary people have realized the importance of this point after repeated publicity.

Even after the large-scale popularization of biogas digesters, the public consciously collected all organic matter for composting in biogas digesters. For example, after the end of the last war, various farms specially sent some personnel to pull carts to collect goblin corpses on the battlefield, then pull them back, chop them up and put them in the biogas digester for composting.

Of course, goblins are not a common compost material. The more common composting materials are feces, dead branches and rotten leaves, and various organic garbage produced in people's life and agricultural production. Of course, a large amount of garbage generated in fishery production is also one of the most important sources of these composts.

In addition, because the island is rich in coconuts, Lawrence and the others also produced some coconut bran to improve some farmland. With the concerted efforts of the whole people, the land used for cultivation in the island quickly became fertile and suitable for agricultural production.

According to the results of a new round of surveys by the Church of Agriculture, these soils are now suitable for agricultural production to the same extent as those farms that have been developed for decades in the southern part of the mainland.

"Yes, the current level of soil on the island is indeed suitable for the development of planting." After listening to Lawrence's words, Safir tapped his forehead with his fingers and said.

"But the problem is that theoretically speaking, it takes several years for the habitat to become mature. Don't you think the improvement of the soil on our island is a bit too fast?"

"What's wrong with improving too quickly?" Lawrence said with a smile, "seriously, I can't wait to start improving the soil today, and tomorrow morning the soil will become as rich as the black soil in the central plains of the White Eagle Federation—"

"Lawrence, I'm not joking." Safir was not very satisfied with Lawrence's answer. "You're right, it's not a bad thing for us that the soil becomes fertile. But the fact is that we haven't figured out the reason for this benign change so far."

"Don't you understand?" Hearing Safir's words, Lawrence suddenly changed from the extremely leisurely lying position to a sitting position, with a thoughtful look on his face.

In this world where extraordinary power can be seen everywhere, there are many places that have unique abilities because of these extraordinary powers. For example, certain hot springs that can cure various diseases, and special farmlands that can grow certain crops at a high speed after planting certain crops. But if you can't find a reason, it may not be a good thing.