After Lawrence arranged all the issues related to the construction of the defense line, he returned to the pier in the motor boat, and then went straight to the other direction of the island. Because according to the plan, he also needed to check new facilities in another place. And the motor boat
Start loading supplies for those technicians.
"It seems that the things you built before have begun to bear fruit." When Lawrence summoned the Phantom Pony and came to a small port not far from the New Shore Port, he saw a group of fishermen gathering with people from the Agricultural Church.
Let's organize a lot of ropes and cages on the beach. In the small bay facing the port, there are a large number of bamboo rafts floating there.
"Yes, we have sorted out this bay before." The priest of the Agricultural Church who came to greet Lawrence happily said to Lawrence, "The entire underwater ecology has been rearranged as you said, making this place very special.
The desolate beach is now full of life. In fact, we had successfully planted a batch of edible seaweed and kelp before, and we just harvested it and found that the situation is very good."
"Sounds like very good news." Lawrence said with a serious face. "After all, with the development of intelligent creatures, human beings will have an increasing impact on the natural world, so much so that it has now exposed a certain degree of harm to the natural world. However,
I think this trend can be reversed, and the development of intelligent organisms does not necessarily have to come at the expense of environmental destruction."
This idea may have been difficult to achieve in the world of Lawrence's previous life, but it is not impossible in this world. For example, the existence of extraordinary power in pollution can obviously limit those serious pollution situations.
In addition, because of the existence of extraordinary power, it has become much easier to purify pollution. At least many plants developed by the druids can easily absorb and purify the waste gas, waste water and waste residue emitted during industrial production.
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Compared with those wastes contaminated by magic, these industrial production wastes without any magic are much simpler for the druids to handle. In addition to being able to purify pollutants, they can also be sorted, recycled and reused. Therefore
Industrial pollution in this world is not particularly serious.
Therefore, the most important problem in the world that needs to be solved is the geometric increase in the consumption of all materials and the demand for living space caused by the further development of civilization. This kind of circular agriculture can play a big role in this regard.
Because an important core of circular agriculture is to reduce the demand for external resources as much as possible to achieve the goal of sustainable development.
For example, this is the case with the cage culture currently prepared by Lawrence and others. Planting a large number of organisms on the seabed before is actually constructing an ecosystem located in the bay. In this way, in the subsequent breeding process, they only need to strictly abide by the breeding manual.
The content can avoid eutrophication of water bodies in the bay and reduce the occurrence of various diseases and pests.
"We mainly breed seabass, several types of shellfish and shrimp." The priest of the Agricultural Church introduced Lawrence as he led Lawrence to the water tank truck containing various seedlings of marine life.
"Because these types of marine life are the ones we found after analysis and screening that are most suitable for raising in this area, and in addition to bass, both shellfish and shrimp can be made into dry goods for easy long-distance transportation."
"In addition to this sea farm, we will also build freshwater farms in several riverside wetlands and several saline-alkali lands on the plains." Looking at the busy fishermen, the priest of the Agricultural Church said.
"Because we found that raising fish is the most cost-effective from a cost perspective. If nothing unexpected happens, we will double the meat intake of people on the island within a year."
"You're right." Lawrence nodded and said. "At least fish can provide everyone with affordable meat, instead of having to rely on various dairy products to supplement nutritional deficiencies. Because
I found that the physical quality of the new immigrants who came from all over the country has dropped significantly compared to the group of new immigrants who came with me. After investigation, I felt that it was because their previous lives were so bad that they even had
Many people never had enough to eat before coming to the island."
In fact, the health problems of the new immigrants are much more serious than previously imagined. To be precise, many of them are in a state of severe malnutrition.
The overall situation of immigrants from the White Eagle Federation, the Republic of New Continent, the Elysian Empire and some big countries in the Old World seems to be pretty good. The main problem comes from unbalanced nutritional intake. As long as the diet structure is adjusted, they can be compared.
Easily solve their problems.
But the physical quality of immigrants from other countries, especially those from worse countries, is much worse. For example, the recent group of farmers and fishermen from the Algarve Empire in the south of the New World are like this. Everyone looks short.
They were dry, their bodies were infected to varying degrees, and almost all of them were night blind.
And this situation is not unique. Among the fishermen that Lawrence and the others accepted before, some of them escaped from the Algarve Empire. As a result, it took them nearly three months to recover after arriving on the island. By asking this
After a group of exiles, Lawrence and the others learned that the situation in the southern continent had become tense again recently, and some small-scale frictions were becoming more and more frequent.
Unlike the three powerful countries in the northern part of the New World, the Algarve Empire in the south and several surrounding countries have always been regarded by the mother country as a place for simple raw material production and industrial product dumping. Therefore, the focus of development here back then was basically similar.
For industries such as mining or planting, the industrial base is infinitely close to zero.
Even though they have been independent for more than half a century, the current industrial level of these countries is limited to simple agricultural product processing and the manufacturing of some daily items. At the same time, they rely on the export of various agricultural products and minerals as the country's main economic source.
Not much different from colonial times.
And the biggest problem with this development model is that the entire country's finances are completely pinned on an unstable international market. Once the international market fluctuates slightly, it will immediately lead to various domestic instability. For example, this civil war is likely to be related to the old
The end of the civilization expedition on the mainland has led to a drop in the prices of various raw materials on the market.
In fact, this civilizational expedition did not end in a hurry, but the greed of capitalists is the same in every era. They always feel that they can make money until the end. And this greed has only one result, and that is
The excess of products led to shrinking exports and eventually turned into a serious economic crisis.
Such a chain reaction led to a series of problems in plantations and mines, which then led to the unemployment of a large number of miners and farm workers. And the extremely weak industrial and service industries within the country were unable to absorb these unemployed people. This resulted in a large number of unemployed people.
Riots and rebellions are inevitable.
What's worse is that, unlike the three great powers in the north, although the Algarve Empire has an emperor in name and is an empire, it is actually more like a loose confederation, with real power in the hands of warlords in various places. The so-called imperial emperor and
There is not much difference between Lawrence's previous life and the Emperor Zhou in the history of his motherland. He is just the product of everyone's compromise, and the strength of his direct lineage is not even as good as that of several major warlords in the country.
The first thing those warlords did in this chaotic situation was to purchase weapons and prepare for war, hoping to use this opportunity to gain a lot of benefits for themselves and expand their territory and power. And these organized forces joined
Afterwards, it further aggravated the chaos in the Algarve Empire, putting the empire on the brink of all-out war.