Struggle in the Steam Age

After completing the census, Lawrence began to pull Safir and Nora to plan the island's long-term development plan. After Lawrence and Nora synthesized the memories in their minds, they began to slowly imitate the five-year plans in their minds to formulate an overall three-year plan for the entire island.

This approach is actually quite original in this world, because the economic development of the entire world is completely laissez-faire, and it can be said that this kind of planned approach is the first time. Fortunately, this is Lawrence's territory, so he is fully able to formulate some island-specific policies.

"It's actually a good thing to formulate a development plan." After understanding the specific content of the plan proposed by Lawrence, Safir nodded very seriously to express his approval. "After all, if you want to develop this island, you must reduce the waste of resources as much as possible. If you can have a comprehensive plan, you should be able to improve the efficiency of the use of various resources."

"There are more benefits to having a plan." Nora said at this time. "I think you should know that many industries have upstream and downstream industries that are closely related to them, and if there is a plan, we can leave a variety of future space in the industrial construction to ensure the long-term and stable development of the entire island. "

Of course, making a plan is a long-term job, and all aspects must be considered. In this case, they naturally encountered many problems. For example, it hasn't been long since Lawrence took over the island, and the entire island has been in chaos before. So we don't have enough data to make a plan.

So shortly after we started working, we had to spare some of our staff to start asking the old people on the island about the situation on the island and around the island. Then, from these scattered records, some valuable information about the island will be summarized as the basis for the next step of making plans.

In this way, Lawrence's current temporary office building suddenly became full of people. People who went to the surrounding area to inquire about news kept coming in and out, converting the news they brought into documents. Then Shumei quickly summarized these documents.

"I'm an artist, artist. How can I deal with such boring work all day long?" As a special spirit creature, Shumei is very good at summarizing various contents into detailed tables, Therefore, if there is a chance, many government agencies will raise two of them to help them work.

But ability belongs to ability, and willingness belongs to willingness. Not every book charm likes to immerse itself in a lot of data or content processing work. For example, this book charm of Lawrence is like this. It always thinks that it is an artist and should not do this Much chore work.

So although this book charm is now engaged in the work of summarizing these data under Lawrence's order, Yan is not 100% willing in his heart. Therefore, as soon as he finds an opportunity, he will complain to Lawrence through the pet contract, and use this method to show how hard he has worked hard in this regard.

"Okay, okay, I know you have paid a lot, but we really can't do without you now." After listening to Shumei's complaints for a while, Lawrence quickly comforted. "I promise you, if you help me finish this matter, I will let you go to the treasure room to pick three works of art."

The treasures in this treasure room were not bought by Lawrence. As a pragmatist, not only did he not like to buy various works of art to decorate his room like other nobles, but he wanted to put All these things are converted into funds for island construction.

If it weren't for those retainers who repeatedly persuaded and firmly believed that some things were noble and decent, and they were absolutely unsalable. He may have already cashed in most of what he inherited. But even so, he still rented out a lot of things to others in exchange for part of the rent.

Of course, the rent that can be obtained by renting out these things is not much. But one advantage is that it can reduce the more expensive maintenance costs. After all, in the current situation, he doesn't need those things, and it's better to rent them out if they pile up in the warehouse all day and get moldy.

Therefore, in the beginning, only a few small caves were opened up on the island to store things that were really not suitable for renting out, and these caves became the treasure rooms on the island in everyone's legend. Lawrence thought that this situation would remain until the construction of his fortress-style Earl's Mansion was completed, but the last war changed the situation.

Unlike the Lokayu who have always been in the tribal stage, the Sahuagin have successfully built a kingdom of their own underwater. Under such circumstances, they naturally have higher-level desires after satisfying basic needs such as food and shelter, such as the pursuit of art and beauty.

Therefore, the sahuagin, especially the sahuagin nobles naturally have a need for various artworks. In addition to robbing, they will also use various channels to get the kind of art they want that is not afraid of water. For example, they found evidence of smuggling handicrafts when they cleaned up Pine Tree Island.

So in the latter part of the war, Lawrence and the others successfully seized a large amount of wealth in their last raid on the settlements of the Sahuagin. In addition to various jewelry, this wealth also has a series of high-grade works of art. . As the only nobleman among the commanders, they subconsciously distributed a lot of artwork to Lawrence when dividing the spoils.

This also forced Lawrence to expand his treasure warehouses to store the loot that could not be sold in a while. Of course, considering minimizing maintenance costs, Lawrence will completely block a warehouse after it is filled. Store until later when needed.

Book Charm has always felt sorry for Lawrence's approach, because it really wanted to take a look at those trophies that sounded very good. It's a pity that when it got the news and rushed over, those items had already been put into the cave and undergone final processing. So that it is impossible to let the book charm into the room.

So when I heard Lawrence promised that after completing these tasks, he could put it into those warehouses to visit all the treasures, and even choose three works of art for himself. Shumei's enthusiasm for work was immediately aroused, and the previous nagging naturally disappeared.

"Finally, I can be clean for a while." Lawrence thought helplessly. After all, it was working hours, and he had to maintain those contacts in order to deal with various things in a timely manner. So for the time being, I can only endure the nagging of my pets. Fortunately, things are finally resolved now.

Just as he quietly picked up a few documents and began to compare them one by one, there was another knock on the window outside the window. Then the window was opened with a click, and a green figure flew in from outside. Then it flew to Lawrence's table with a smell of the sun and the sea.

"Nara, why don't you go to the beach to see the sea again." Lawrence didn't need to look up to know who was coming in now. After all, Nora was the only one on the island who was used to opening the window. "Anything out of the ordinary at the beach today?"

"Of course, I saw a big ship of the White Eagle Federation coming from the north, and our flag was still hanging on it." Standing on the desk and tidying up his clothes, the little puppet knelt down obediently on the desk and said to Lawrence arrive. "If you read it correctly, our previous negotiating team should have come back on this boat."