As the family members of those who came to help and immigrants from other parts of the island and even nearby islands slowly came to this place, Lawrence and his team's pioneering work also got on the right track. For example, after the manpower became sufficient,
, they built eight collective farms in this plain.
These eight farms were all built under the guidance of the Agricultural Church. They were all selected in places with very good soil and water conditions, and they were built with a set of operating rules. For example, this is the case with the current collective canteen.
After all, the current conditions are too simple. If an individual starts a business, let alone the waste of manpower and fuel. The two issues of food safety and fire safety are enough to cause headaches. Therefore, under Lawrence's suggestion, every farm is built
A collective canteen was set up to provide catering services to everyone.
In this way, the biggest advantage is to ensure that safe food and drinking water are provided to the pioneers and avoid large-scale infectious disease outbreaks. In addition, large-pot meals also save a lot of fuel than decentralized cooking, and can save enough
The fuel provides boiled cold water to everyone.
Although the taste of the big pot rice is very average, it is good enough for these immigrants. After all, whether they were working as workers or cultivating small pieces of wasteland on the periphery of the human settlements on the island, it was difficult for them to eat such rich food.
Among them, those who are workers are slightly better off, and they can always have enough to eat after working hard. However, this is not the case for the original islanders. They have been working hard for a year and it is difficult to have enough to eat.
, the things they obtained were only enough to allow them and their families to barely survive.
Therefore, as long as there is enough food, everyone's work efficiency can basically be twice that of the original work efficiency. After all, when people don't have enough to eat, even if they want to work hard, they won't have much energy.
As the saying goes, if you want a horse to run, you must feed it.
Of course, this kind of collective farm is not a big pot. Due to the temporary shortage of cash on the island, Lawrence made a series of centimeter boards to record everyone's work, and distributed different numbers of centimeter boards according to the workload. And these things
In addition to being able to exchange for different foods according to the quantity, they can also be exchanged for daily necessities, poultry and livestock, working tools, and even invisible positions, honors and other rewards.
Anyway, he combined all the useful things in the management books that he had read intentionally or unintentionally in his previous life, and then selected those methods that were suitable for use now and put them into practical operations. Now it seems that these methods have produced
The effect is really good.
Here, Lawrence would like to thank those guys who spent their entire lives pouring chicken soup on various public accounts. If they hadn't posted this knowledge everywhere, he wouldn't have seen these very useful things now.
"Carlos, the area of cultivated land reclaimed by your group exceeds the predetermined quota by 20%. According to the regulations, your group can receive an additional 150 work points, and the work points you receive can be doubled." After everyone finished eating,
, Lawrence began to conduct a weekly work summary activity, and the first one to summarize was the most important agricultural production team.
The middle-aged farmer named Carlos was rubbing his hands nervously when he came to the temporary platform with his team of ten people. When he took the small iron piece representing the work points from Lawrence's hand, he vigorously moved towards it.
Lawrence bowed and said at the same time: "Thank you, thank you, Lord."
After the team went down, Lawrence called another person's name. "Kruger, your mechanical team successfully installed the scheduled six steam engines within this week, and at the same time allowed the four overloaded engines to operate.
The steam tractor has been maintained in good condition and exceeded the quota, so you received 200 work points——"
After Lawrence made the announcement, a worker wearing blue work clothes and his fellow workers took the iron plate representing the work points from Lawrence with a smile on their faces. After listening to their discussion, they planned to go to the service agency to buy some after a while.
Some previously limited edition products.
After all, the overall task of this area now is construction, so the only tonnage of transport ships is basically used by Lawrence to transport various materials related to production and construction and the maintenance of basic life. Therefore, many things can only be supplied in limited quantities. For example, butter
, another example is certain alcoholic beverages.
While the summary work was being held here in Lawrence, similar activities were also being held in several other farms. According to regulations, everyone must conduct summary work every week. In addition to summarizing the work of the previous week and reviewing some of the outstanding ones,
Besides rewards and punishments, the most important task is to summarize some problems that occurred during the previous week's work and consider solutions.
In this way, although Lawrence and the others did not have much experience in establishing settlements in the tropics, based on this kind of teamwork, the overall reclamation work was able to proceed smoothly. It also solved a lot of problems in coming to this island.
Troublesome issues that I didn't think of before.
After the summary meeting in the port area ended, Lawrence returned to his room to prepare to study the batch of magical knowledge he had acquired with his external brain Nora.
Since arriving on this island, it can be said that Lawrence has been so busy that he has no time for research. Fortunately, after this period of time, the whole system was finally able to run smoothly, and he was able to obtain part of his own research at night.
time.
However, just a few minutes after he returned to the room, there was a knock on the door. After opening the door, he found that the person standing at the door knocking was his butler Mr. Bayer.
"What's the matter with you coming to see me now?" Lawrence asked after inviting Butler Bayer into the house, "Is there something wrong again?"
"No, everything is normal here, Lord. It's just that based on the recent overall survey, we need to purchase some things, and this purchase requires your approval." Butler Bayer smiled and shook his head and said that since Lawrence inherited the title, he
I insisted on calling Lawrence only by this honorific.
"Okay, let me see." Lawrence knew that this was what the rules required. Small spending projects could be decided by these retainers, but large-scale purchases must be approved by Lawrence himself.
So he took the notepad from the butler's hand and started to look at it, while the butler sat upright on the stool on the side of the room. A few minutes later, Lawrence finished reading the purchase list in the notebook, closed the notebook, and then leaned on
He sat on the stool and started thinking.
"I can understand the cattle and mules here. After all, there is no way to complete such a large piece of land reclamation work with just four steam tractors." A few minutes later, Lawrence opened his eyes and asked. "But you marked it at the end.
What’s going on with these 1,000 capybaras?”
"This is a way to solve the meat problem." The steward explained, "Because the situation here is not suitable for raising pigs or sheep, which are common animals that can provide meat, and cattle need to be used as animals at this stage.
Animal power is basically impossible to kill for meat, so we must find some substitutes."
"After our observation, the most suitable animal for us to breed in this area is this capybara. Because we have enough rivers here and a large number of aquatic plants that can be eaten by this animal. The overall environment is suitable for this animal.
Survive--"
"Okay, you're right." Lawrence nodded and said. "I see that in addition to capybaras, there are several unique local animals on your list. But where can we buy them?
ah?"
"Lord, that involves another of our tasks: socializing." Butler Bayer said with a serious face. "Now that we have basically settled down, we should also visit our neighbors.