After a brief inspection of the grain warehouse, Lawrence walked out of the warehouse area inside the mountain and began to inspect the surrounding ancillary facilities. In addition to the stone hill itself, this grain warehouse also has a series of ancillary facilities, such as docks,
walls, and fortifications.
However, because the planning of the entire warehouse is a long-term plan, many construction projects have only just begun. For example, the imaginary river-sea port now only has two small core trestles for unloading cargo through animal-powered machinery.
As for the most important defense fortifications, only half of the core river defense fort, which is located in an independent cave in the mountain, has been fully constructed and has artillery installed, while the other series of defense facilities are only simple field fortifications.
However, the construction progress of these buildings is still completely under control. After all, according to Lawrence's long-term plan, this area will not only be a granary in the future, but will also become the most important satellite port of the New Sauer Port, known to be used to defend the inland.
area, a comprehensive fortress group at the mouth of the river to prevent possible external enemies from moving up the river.
Obviously, such a grand project cannot be repaired in just a few months. At the same time, because it has entered the busy farming season, a large number of migrant workers who took advantage of the slack farming opportunities and were organized to work in various manors have returned to the farms.
Lawrence also saw that many construction sites are now in an extremely slow construction state, or have even stopped work.
"It's okay, there's no rush now anyway." Lawrence comforted after seeing the embarrassed look on the face of the escort. "To be honest, many of the projects in the plan are long-term plans. They are based on the future development of the island.
Planning. So it is enough for those facilities to slowly advance the construction progress according to the plan. Unless the situation changes and you receive direct orders from us, it is best not to change the construction progress here in private."
Lawrence said this was not without purpose. In his previous life, he had seen many kinds of top-down layer-by-layer additions and various political projects to please the superiors, and bureaucracy would not be the same thing even if the world changed.
It was very big. Therefore, he felt that it was necessary to crack down on the bottom at this time, so as to prevent them from thinking about it in order to please him and finally coming up with a lot of slap-on-the-head policies.
As Lawrence said before, this overall plan is to prepare for the future development of the island. In his previous life, he was fed up with the practice of demolition, repair, and demolition due to the poor level of early urban planning, so in urban planning
What we are doing is a long-term plan.
Therefore, Lawrence's planning for these facilities is also carried out in stages. If the construction is too fast, in addition to additional consumption of precious resources, the various facilities built will also easily become idle after they are built because there are no supporting facilities. For example,
It is said that the current two ports are sufficient for transshipment of grain. If they are expanded blindly, it will have no meaning except leaving more berths vacant.
After all, there is no territory in the civilized world except for the Tauren tribe in the upper reaches of the river, and the only human settlements are only under planning. At the same time, the New Sauer Port has just begun to develop. Therefore, there is not much cargo in this place for the time being.
We need to communicate with people, so we naturally don’t need so many shipping-related facilities.
After completing their inspection of the granary, Lawrence and the others boarded a boat that transported supplies and food to the Minotaur tribe in the hilly area and sailed up the river. A few hours later, they successfully arrived at the small farm belonging to the Minotaur tribe.
Disembarked the ship at the inland port.
Different from the last time Lawrence came, the Tauren rebuilt the port under the guidance of the engineers sent by Lawrence. However, because the wharf originally built by the elves was a cultural relic, the engineers sent by Lawrence and the others chose to build another port.
A new pier was rebuilt in one place.
It's just that unlike the docks in New Sauer Port or even the river estuary, there are basically no auxiliary tools on this dock. This is because the frequency of use of this dock is not high now, and the tauren's physical strength is far beyond
For human reasons, but Lawrence could see that foundations had begun to be built nearby to prepare for the construction of a warehouse.
"How is the situation here?" Lawrence and the others shook hands with Lanhua and Tiedho who came to greet them, and Sephiel asked eagerly. "I saw that the letter you sent me specifically said that I was sent to you before.
The tea picking workers have encountered various problems, and I want to know the specific situation of this group of people sent here."
"They were a little uncomfortable at first, because it is indeed hotter and muggier in the forest than at the seaside." Lanhua said while leading them to where the tribe was, "But fortunately, the reward you gave is enough and this
Basically all the people were volunteers, and our shaman prepared some refreshing herbal soup for them. So they persisted. Now they seem to have basically adapted to the climate here.
"
"It'll be good if you can adapt." After hearing what Lanhua said, Lawrence smiled and nodded. Because the tea picking and frying work here is related to the island's important future financial resources, it can be said that whether the tea picking work here can run smoothly can be said to be
The top priority of the island's work cannot be ignored by him.
Of course, this group of people did not come here to pick tea leaves. The peak season for tea picking on the island is from March to September every year. Now the time has passed. In such an off-season, except for top extraordinary beings like Nora,
In addition to being able to pick some tea leaves through the sea of extraordinary power, ordinary people can't get much tea leaves at all.
Their only purpose here is to adapt to the environment here as soon as possible and learn to cooperate with the tauren, so that nothing will happen when they officially pick in the future. At least judging from the series of problems they caused before,
This method of spending a little extra money to conduct rehearsals in advance seems to be very worthwhile.
At the beginning, Lawrence and the others originally planned to let the tauren take full responsibility for the picking of black tea and the subsequent withering and rolling processes. However, after the tauren tried it, they unfortunately found that their short and stubby fingers were really not suitable for them.
It is suitable for picking the leaves of tea trees, so this process can only be completed by hiring human labor from the outside.
Methods like asking Nora to pick and process tea leaves are only for emergency use now, not to mention how many labor positions are involved. Under normal circumstances, gold-level extraordinary beings like Little Doll should not spend their energy on
For this kind of work, it is very important to train a group of people who are responsible for tea picking and processing.
As a result, various problems arose after this. Even though Lawrence specially selected some new immigrants who had previous experience of living in tropical islands, the differences in climate and environment between different islands still created a problem.
A series of problems. Fortunately, the shamans here have some traditional herbal remedies that can treat these problems.
On the other hand, the Minotaurs had also fallen out of control many times before. The work of withering, spreading the tea leaves to dry was not a big problem, but the work of rolling, which required some skills, was a bit more difficult for the Minotaurs.
They often knead the leaves so much that they can't be used at all.
Fortunately, after repeated practice, most of the tauren women learned how to complete this process, and finally solved a troublesome problem. As for the tauren men, it seems that they really have no talent in this direction, but okay. This
There are still many dangerous creatures and goblins wandering around the area, so they can be responsible for the surrounding safety work.