After dealing with matters related to his life-long affairs, Lawrence began to truly examine the plain that was already under his control. Although the entire island belonged to Lawrence in terms of ownership, the colonies that had been opened up before
You may not be willing to accept his rule like that.
After all, those people have been here for tens or hundreds of years and have established a series of interests of their own. Naturally, they will not welcome outsiders like Lawrence to take away their rights and wealth.
So for Lawrence, if he doesn't want to start a civil war first, then the most important thing now is to manage this piece of land that is his foundation. Then he will gradually find ways to unite other settlements on the island under his command.
.If you want to manage the land well, good planning in advance is essential.
After checking the information and on-site inspection, Lawrence spent three days to figure out the current situation of Niujiao Bay where he is now, and also made some predictions and judgments about the future development direction.
Looking at the entire Niujiao Bay area, if you include some small flatlands in the mountains, it is about 2,100 square kilometers. Although it is close to the sea, the land is not considered barren because the river brings a lot of organic matter from the upper reaches. Especially
The land one or two kilometers away from the coastline can be considered fertile land.
However, according to the recommendations of the agricultural church working group that arrived not long ago, only 700 square kilometers of these lands are suitable to be reclaimed as cultivated land. Even if agricultural facilities such as orchards or economic forests that do not need to be constructed on flat land are included in the overall reclamation
It is not recommended that the area exceed half of the entire plain.
But this is enough for Lawrence, because even the most optimistic estimate is that the number of people who can be recruited now will not exceed 20,000 people, which also includes a large number of old, weak, sick and disabled people who are unable to do heavy physical work and those who need to do other things.
On average, each of the craftsmen and soldiers owned more than 50 acres of land, which was more than 20 times the average land of Lawrence's family in his previous life.
In addition, after setting up camp in the cave, the rat people also helped explore the minerals in the mountains. As a result, in addition to finding a small shallow coal mine and a marble mine with average texture, there were only a few valuable things in the mountain.
Only massive amounts of limestone remain.
In short, this land, like the island, is generally a pretty good land. It can at least develop traditional agriculture and planting. But now the most fashionable industries are basically unable to develop.
Of course, these grand plans must be discussed in detail in the future. The most important thing now is to use the remaining power of defeating the goblin army to clean up all the unsafe factors on this plain, and then remove all the unsafe factors that were once occupied by humans.
The land that had been reclaimed was reclaimed.
This type of work actually started when Lawrence led the team to the north to block the entrance to the plain. For example, Knight Joseph led a part of the guards and volunteers from the militia to attack the goblin tribe on the plain.
This was an eradication-style strike. Because of Nora's aerial reconnaissance, the process went very smoothly.
At the end of Lawrence's inspection, Knight Joseph had completed the attack on all the tribes on this plain. According to the telegram he sent, there are no organized goblins in the entire Niujiao Bay Plain. Next, as long as they maintain
It's enough to be vigilant and avoid sneak attacks by those sporadic goblins.
In addition, Fatina also sent a message telling Lawrence that a goblin tribe of more than 300 people tried to enter the plains from the other side of the mountains through the cave group where they are now, but they were wiped out with zero casualties.
In other words, the security issues here have been basically solved. The passages that penetrated here from the outside world have also been blocked. Then everyone can focus on building this land.
In fact, when Lawrence returned from the Rat People, he found that the previous settlement had completely turned into a large construction site. When he returned here after completing his inspection of the territory, according to the plan, the first batch of buildings should be completed.
The object has been successfully completed.
Of course, these first buildings will definitely not be Lawrence's mansion. As a lord who is eager to build his territory, efficiency is paramount, so he will not spend manpower and material resources on such a project that is not urgently needed now.
Therefore, at this time, the buildings standing in the center of the circle of wooden walls were except for a double-story wooden building built at the beginning as an office. The only newly constructed buildings were warehouses, kitchens, public toilets and public bathrooms.
After all, as the first scholar in the world who proposed the theory of microbial pathogenicity and made great contributions to epidemic prevention, Lawrence naturally would not forget such issues when establishing his own territory. Especially this New Sauer
The overall climate of the island is a tropical maritime climate, which is more convenient for the spread of certain infectious diseases.
Therefore, various sanitation facilities and food hygiene-related facilities will naturally be listed at the forefront of his construction sequence, because the history of both worlds told him a cruel fact, that is, if left unchecked, these
The mortality rate for immigrants to tropical areas is often as high as over 50%.
Of course, even so, these buildings are just temporary buildings. All houses are built with a frame of steel components previously purchased in the empire, and then the trees cut down during the restoration of farmland are transported ashore by steam.
The planks were sawn into pieces to build the walls and roof, and finally the gaps between the planks were filled with asphalt mixed with sawdust.
This asphalt came from a swamp not far from the sea on a beach not far away. It was discovered by the crew of the USS Enterprise while cruising. Later, the port sent some people there to collect natural asphalt for use.
construction work.
The supporting facilities inside are even more rudimentary. The only bricks and cement were used in the construction of septic tanks, water reservoirs and kitchen stoves, so that most of the rooms only have rammed earth floors.
.As for the furniture, there were only some tables made of scrap wood boards that had not even been peeled off, and tree stumps and stones that served as temporary stools.
Even Lawrence's own room was no exception. The only pieces of furniture in his office that could be called furniture were five or six safes that he temporarily used as desks and cabinets, and chairs made of broken boards.
In fact, when he set out, many people suggested that Lawrence bring a set of furniture and decorations suitable for his status, but he rejected it. Compared with supplies that show his status, he would rather use those tonnage to carry goods.
Something useful for colonizing the island.
As for identity, Lawrence believes that what can reveal his identity should be the things he does without relying on external things. And his appearance is already recognizable enough, and he does not need to rely on other things to make people remember him.
In addition to large-scale construction, in order to block diseases that may be transmitted by mosquitoes, Lawrence installed a large number of insect repellents and mosquito nets on the first batch of ships and a series of items against various mosquitoes. To prevent malaria-like or
Large-scale outbreaks of diseases such as meningitis.
However, material preparation alone is definitely not perfect, so Lawrence also formulated a simple rule for everyone to abide by. For example, no raw food is allowed, no rotten food is allowed, and you must go to designated places for defecation and defecation.
There are a series of hygiene rules such as urinating and urinating everywhere. Washing hands before eating and drinking, taking a shower after working, etc.
Fortunately, Lawrence's previous victory gave him enough prestige, so everyone accepted these rules. However, after more than ten days of running the rules, the fact that compared with other new colonies, there were at least 90% fewer such patients.
Everyone accepted this set of even somewhat cumbersome rules from the bottom of their hearts.