Struggle in the Steam Age

"A good word of mouth is actually a valuable intangible wealth, and in this regard, our situation is much better than most of the farmers or ranchers in this area." The person in charge who accompanied Lawrence and the others to visit the ranch Said, and then pointed to a brand-new stone building in the distance.

"Especially this time we have also prepared priests from the Church of Agriculture and several agricultural experts. With their help, we have made a lot of big moves recently."

The so-called big movement is not just the popularization of disinfection, but more importantly, a large number of infrastructure construction.

I have to say that the previous group of people basically only wanted to get a ticket and leave in their hearts, so although the overall environmental level in these areas is good, no one is carrying out construction work, resulting in a mess of infrastructure construction. It can even be said that these agricultural areas depend on the sky for food.

"You don't know how bad the situation was when we came here a while ago." As everyone kept chatting, the person in charge also found that Lawrence was not the traditional old nobleman, but a lively young man. So they quickly started talking about what happened when they first came here.

"When we first arrived here, we found that these agricultural areas were a mess. Taking the pastures as an example, the area next to the river was a low-lying waterlogged land, while the area far away from the water source was seriously degraded, with only a few Part of it can be used for grazing."

"The same is true for farms. Only the narrow land on both sides of the river can be used to grow wheat. In other areas, because the soil moisture content is too low, the ground temperature is too low, and because of the lack of irrigation, only those that do not require high water and land temperature can be planted. potatoes, rye and barley."

"It sounds really bad, but I think the situation here should be good." Lawrence said, pointing to several construction sites in the distance.

In those areas, workers sweated the ground and moved the excavated soil to other places, and it seemed that an irrigation canal was being built.

"This is the first batch of irrigation canals built under the planning of the priests of the Agricultural Church and some staff. In addition, we are also planning to build a medium-sized reservoir and six large-scale reservoirs."

Another manager sent said, "For this matter, we also applied for a fee to buy the wasteland for the construction of the reservoir."

"Ah, I know about this." Before Lawrence realized when the money was approved, Safiel said suddenly from the side.

"I remember that a sum of federal dollars equivalent to 300,000 crowns was approved for the purchase of land. By the way, is that money enough? I heard that the land purchased this time is quite large."

"In fact, we only spent more than half of the money for buying wasteland." The manager in charge of the construction of those water conservancy facilities said.

"The land in this area that can be used for agricultural and animal husbandry production is indeed not cheap, but the wasteland is much cheaper. At least the wasteland we chose in the upper reaches of the river is so cheap that even the budget has not been paid."

"Then I asked them to buy some more wasteland." Safir turned to Lawrence at this time and said.

"This is a decision I made after asking several priests of the Agricultural Church. According to them, the water temperature and water quality in this area are very good, so we can buy more land and build the reservoir a little bigger, so that those reservoirs can not only provide In addition to irrigation capacity, some freshwater aquaculture work can also be carried out.”

"That's really good." Seeing Safiel and several managers staring at him, Lawrence immediately expressed his support.

Because according to the results of the previous communication with the group of priests and researchers of the Agricultural Church, raising fish is the most cost-effective thing in terms of farming.

Therefore, with the support of Lawrence, the group of priests and agricultural scientists of the Agricultural Church invested a lot of energy in fish farming research.

Some of them have started a seafood farming business in several bays on New Shaw Island, and the overall progress of this plan is not bad.

Especially after a large group of loca murlocs joined, the speed of the entire plan has been upgraded several times, and it has even entered the era of commercial production recently.

According to statistics in recent months, these farmed seafood have already supplied one-fifth of the demand on the island, and this proportion can continue to rise.

However, the progress of the overall plan for freshwater aquaculture is much worse, because the island is really short of manpower, so all such manpower has been concentrated in the more important seawater aquaculture experiments.

Those experts and scholars in charge of freshwater aquaculture technology and the priests of the Agricultural Church can only do some theoretical research by observing seawater aquaculture data.

So when Safir asked them about whether to buy wasteland, the group of agricultural professionals naturally suggested to her to buy a large area of ​​wasteland.

At least in their opinion, since several reservoirs are already planned to be built and stored, why not spend a little more money to make the reservoir bigger.

At least as long as less than 25% of the budget is added, the reservoir can change from a reservoir that was purely used for water storage and irrigation to a breeding ground that can provide a large amount of aquatic products for everyone in addition to irrigation and water storage.

"To be honest, although the overall national strength of the White Eagle Federation is relatively strong, ordinary people's intake of protein and fat is still a bit low." Another young woman wearing a burlap robe from the Church of Suffering said.

"According to my statistics, the protein intake of an ordinary person in the Federation is not much different from that of the New Island Republic in the west, but the intake of fat can be more than the other side."

"This doesn't sound too bad." Safiel asked a little puzzled, "If I remember correctly, the living standards of the people of the top three in the north of the New World have always been at a good level. So we and The New State Republic on the west side of the Great Mountain Range should not be considered a bad thing in terms of statistics—”

"The federal government claims the same way," said the young priestess of the Church of the Passion, "but they ignore the dietary gap between the two sides. Those Easterners who are mainly Cathays don't eat too much dairy products, So purely from the perspective of eating meat, they may eat more than us."

"But then again, whether it is the Great Lakes area or the areas we passed by by boat when we came here, they are all relatively affluent areas in the Federation. But even so, there are still many people who have to suffer poorly in terms of food due to various problems. themselves, so that their health is affected."

As a clergyman of the Church of Suffering, the priest naturally investigated the situation in the entire area after coming here, and the results of the investigation were obviously different from the official announcement.

"So I think raising fish here is a good choice." Lawrence said, looking at the busy construction site in the distance. "At least fish meat is a little cheaper than other meats, so if fish meat can be produced here, then we can help some people from some angles."

After talking about water conservancy facilities, Lawrence continued his inspection trip to farms and ranches.

And when he was eating dinner, he was surprised to find that the temporarily built canteen houses were crowded with workers who came to eat. "Where are these people recruited from? Is it the local engineering team?"

"No, of course not." A manager said to Lawrence, "There are a lot of people here, some of them come from urban areas to do odd jobs, and some of them are farmers and herdsmen or agricultural workers who came here to make money during the off-season. .The last part is the workers recruited by our factories."

"Factory workers." Hearing what the manager said, Lawrence immediately observed the group of people, and found that many of them were wearing uniforms, with a simple white rabbit drawn on their backs.