After welcoming back the statue of their god, the members of the Church of Trade and Wealth quickly returned to their church on the shining golden magic sailboat they came on. However, before leaving, they also stayed in accordance with their previous agreement.
Three clergymen began building a church locally.
After sending away this group of clergy who were like nouveau riche, life on Lawrence Island returned to the previous days of handling official duties every day and then guiding work in various places in the territory.
As time goes by, the construction of water conservancy projects on the island is progressing very smoothly. After all, this place can be called humid even in the dry season, so although the reservoir is needed, there is no need to design an extremely high reservoir during the design.
The amount of water. Therefore, in more than a month after the pirates were eliminated, Lawrence and the others also successively repaired the first batch of planned water conservancy projects to ensure water supply during the dry season.
Of course, the reason why the project is advancing so fast is that in addition to the tauren on the island who sent more than 300 workers at one time to greatly enrich the labor force, the previously captured pirates also put in a lot of effort.
After trials on the island, these pirates who committed misdemeanors were sentenced to one and a half to seven years of labor reform on the island. However, unlike slaves, these pirates who needed to undergo labor reform would only receive normal levels of corporal punishment.
At the same time, they can also receive necessary labor items, food, medical care and 1/5 of the remuneration of normal workers at work.
More importantly, all pirates who have completed their labor reform can choose to leave the island or naturalize locally after gaining freedom. And those naturalized former pirates can obtain the same status as ordinary local people.
According to the investigation by Lawrence and the church on the island, this group of pirates suddenly became more motivated to work after learning how the island would deal with them. For them, many people went to sea just to make a living.
After arriving at sea, as the bottom of the pirate group, they did not enjoy many benefits of being a pirate. Instead, they suffered a lot and did not gain much money. Therefore, they did not miss the life at sea.
Therefore, after learning that Lawrence was willing to give them a chance to change their minds and start a new life, most of them burst out with great enthusiasm for work, and were even able to often exceed the labor plan established on the island to obtain the previously agreed prizes from Lawrence.
, such as tobacco, meat, various daily necessities and even work points.
As for being whipped more often than normal due to bad habits developed on the pirate ship, they did not resent it. This was because the punishment was carried out in full accordance with the regulations and was fair. In this era,
From schools to the military, from factories to farms, all kinds of corporal punishment can be said to be commonplace, and being whipped here is definitely an acceptable form of punishment for them.
According to the plan, no more water conservancy projects will be built after the construction of this batch of water conservancy projects is completed until the first batch of rice is harvested. The vacated manpower will be invested in the construction of grain warehouses.
Lawrence also knew that granaries made of stones, cement and steel were definitely the strongest and most useful. But considering the current economic situation on the island and the manpower and material resources that could be mobilized, he gave up this theory immediately.
The most effective grain depot construction plan.
Replaced by a group of dry-stall granaries built with wood. Although these wooden buildings that will be built in a sheltered and relatively high place in the town may not last ten years in this area, this period
It has been enough time for this territory to fully develop.
During the design process of the building, Lawrence subconsciously designed these buildings based on the stilted buildings he had seen when traveling to the Southwest in his previous life. The result quickly gained the approval of others.
"It feels a bit like the buildings built by the local indigenous people, but yours is much better than those simple houses, but the basic architectural style and principles are the same." Saifei surrounded the building Lawrence had made before.
After looking at the sand table and models, she said that she had seen a lot of the surrounding customs during her last trip, so her first reaction after seeing these architectural models was that they looked very similar to the traditional houses around them.
"There is indeed a certain correlation." Lawrence nodded, because the styles of stilted buildings in his mind were invented by people who lived in this humid climate all year round, and Lawrence also discovered that in the same humid and rainy climate
Under certain conditions, intelligent creatures with similar productivity will show convergence in some aspects even if they are separated in different planes.
Therefore, when designing these grain depots, Lawrence definitely did not copy the designs of his previous life. Instead, he integrated some reasonable designs of local traditional architecture after thorough consideration. Because he knew the importance of adapting to the location, and any dogmatism
will hinder the implementation of correct practices.
And the fact is that this kind of building, which can be said to combine the design advantages of the two worlds, successfully passed the review of the review team composed of priests and architects from several churches and became the construction standard for the first batch of granaries in the territory.
.If nothing else happens, this standard will be implemented throughout the island in the future.
In this month, in addition to construction, the island has also made many achievements in other directions. For example, through this period of maintenance, the two steam sailing ships whose superstructures were almost destroyed were finally repaired.
During this period, with the development of Niujiao Bay, the port area became busier and busier. Of course, this busyness not only came from the connections between the surrounding islands, but also included the connections between various areas on New Saul Island.
.After all, most of the residential areas on the island are on the seaside or rivers leading to the sea, so water transportation has naturally become the most convenient mode of transportation between this island and the surrounding islands.
However, as a result, the only few boats on the island seem to be insufficient for use. Even the fishermen who defected can use the small fishing boats they brought as a supplement. But this part of the transportation capacity is rapidly growing for the entire island.
In terms of transportation demand, there is still an obvious gap in transportation capacity. Therefore, the two repaired pirate ships can be regarded as a timely help for the islands that are short of transportation capacity.
In fact, Lawrence initially tried to integrate these two ships into the island's coast guard. However, during the repairs, Lawrence discovered through inspection that these two ships were not professional warships, but had only been strengthened.
It was nothing more than a constructed and forcibly armed commercial clipper.
Not to mention that after the superstructure was injured, the strength of these ships made them prone to various problems once they faced fierce battles again. Therefore, out of various considerations, Lawrence finally reluctantly gave up and allocated the ships to
Used by the shipping sector.
Of course, before allocating these ships to the shipping department, they removed most of the cannons on the ships and installed them on the port forts and urban fortifications, leaving only a very small number of cannons for self-defense.
Since the previous pirate group was eliminated, there are no organized pirates around, so removing some of the artillery will not be too dangerous, but can free up more carrying tonnage for transportation.
So after the design of the barn was finalized, Lawrence rushed to the seaside to attend the ceremony of putting the two ships into operation. According to the plan, these two ships would be sent to carry out the material operation routes between the islands. The original ones that operated this route
Those short-distance sailing ships will be redeployed to run intra-island routes.
After giving a simple speech that took less than a minute, Lawrence and the others watched the two newly repaired ships sailing out of the port carrying the goods produced on the island. He knew that this would be a very good event.