The life of the Loka fish people has always been based on hunting and gathering. This kind of life is naturally not very stable. It can be said that they often rely on the weather for food. Once there are some slight changes in the temperature or ocean currents, fish migration may occur.
The trajectory and growth of various marine plants changed, which then led to terrible famines.
On the other hand, because they make a living by gathering and hunting, the largest organization they can have is a tribe of several hundred people. Once more people gather, the number of people will exceed the carrying capacity of the local environment.
.Then the surrounding environment will deteriorate irreversibly and lead to a series of catastrophic events.
And this is why they are vulnerable when faced with a sahuagin attack, because compared to the well-organized command system and well-trained regular army of the sahuagin kingdom, they are distributed over a very wide space.
Among the hundreds of Loka fishmen tribes, each with an average of less than a hundred hunters, they were no match for them.
In fact, before the catastrophe caused by the sahuagin, some wise men among the Loka fish had discovered this. Unfortunately, each tribe was too small to bear the risk of reform.
There was no great king like Qin Shihuang among the Loka fish people to unify them, so they could only discuss their own shortcomings separately, and no practical operations could be made to solve these problems.
So now that they have come under Lawrence's command, the social structure of this group of Loka fishmen has been artificially accelerated and evolved in an instant.
Under the leadership of Lawrence, their current sole leader, the remaining forces of the Loka fish people, who originally belonged to hundreds of tribes, were quickly reintegrated and put to where they were needed.
After the sahuagin temporarily settled down, large-scale construction quickly began. Except for some sahuagin, they rebuilt a collective of their eggs in another shallow bay a few kilometers away from the city.
Outside the hatching pond, most of the remaining murlocs have devoted themselves to a construction project that they have never seen before.
Since they are now Lawrence's subjects, Lawrence, as the lord, naturally has certain responsibilities for them. Therefore, before the full start of work, Lawrence asked the machine processing factory to produce a series of Lorca suitable for people to use.
Various metal tools and distributed to them.
These metal tools were manufactured in a small hardware processing factory on the island. In fact, at the beginning, Lawrence did not plan such a heavy industrial enterprise on the island.
Because he felt that the island not only lacked various minerals and fuels needed to develop this type of industry, but also created certain conflicts with the core industries of the island.
But as time went by and the population under Lawrence's command increased, he gradually discovered that some industrial products could not all be imported from the outside world.
In other words, it was okay to do this with tens of thousands of people at the beginning, but when the population under his command exceeded 500,000, the pure import model became inappropriate.
So he immediately adjusted the allocation of resources and began to establish a series of light and heavy industries on the island that were of average technical level and small scale but closely related to the lives of ordinary people.
Fortunately, because there are many industrial workers on the island who immigrated from Eagle Fort in the White Eagle Federation, he has enough manpower in this regard.
Of course, the types of industries built on the island are also carefully selected, and the core of the selection is only one, which is to make up for the shortcomings of industrial production on the island.
Therefore, industries such as large-scale machine manufacturing and metal smelting that require a large amount of resources and manpower and are engaged in the manufacturing of production tools or raw materials were naturally abandoned.
At least for Lawrence, it is not difficult to purchase a large amount of textiles or some steam engines. At the same time, these things are basically not very time-sensitive. Therefore, he can import such things from surrounding countries.
There is no need for time-consuming and laborious production by yourself.
At the same time, because the island where Lawrence is located is remote, the shipping costs for different items are naturally very different. For example, after purchasing something like a steam engine or a large amount of cotton, the seller can send a special trip for it.
ship, so the freight is naturally very normal.
But this is not the case for some daily consumer goods. Although it can be said that basically everyone needs such things as a pot, a set of tableware, a shovel, and a piece of clothing, you do not need to need a lot at one time. If you hoard too much at once,
If you smash it into your hands, you won't be able to sell it, resulting in a double backlog of funds and goods.
But if a large number of commodities are not transported at one time, those merchant ships must have a large amount of vacant tonnage when transporting goods. After all, the New Saul Island and the surrounding islands where Lawrence and the others are now are not only remote, but also have a small population.
Therefore, those ships either have to consume a lot of fuel and supplies to make a detour, or they have a lot of wasted empty tonnage. In this case, the freight cost shared by each item will naturally become much higher.
And unlike bulk raw materials or heavy machinery, shipping costs account for a large part of these small consumer goods. At the same time, most consumers of these goods are also price-sensitive. So it is obviously not necessary to import all these things.
A very good idea.
In addition, with the development of agriculture and medicine, Lawrence also realized that he needed some factories to deeply process those agricultural products and lay a certain foundation for the future pharmaceutical industry. Otherwise, whether it is only exporting agricultural raw materials or only experimenting
Producing potions in small batches is not a good idea.
Therefore, after they gradually established a foothold on the island, Lawrence quickly discovered some mistakes in the previous planning. So after a series of discussions and investigations, they established a series of projects more than ten kilometers away from the city.
An industrial zone has been established in a small harbor along the coast.
This harbor is almost as good a port as the New Sauer Port where Lawrence and the others are currently located. It can accommodate at least 1,000-ton ships, but the area is obviously much smaller than the New Sauer Port where Lawrence and the others are located.
At the same time, it is divided by some rivers and hills, and the space for future development is very limited.
This is why Lawrence gave up on these seemingly okay bays at the beginning, because the land behind these bays can only support a small farm of a hundred people at most. When there is a larger area of land, these bays can be developed.
The place obviously seems a bit uneconomical, not to mention that the local soil is not only salinized but also thin, making it difficult to develop agriculture.
But if these lands are to be developed for industry, it is another matter. Whether it is the water source provided by the tributary of the river flowing through the New Sauer Port, the few scattered small islands outside the port area that can provide shelter from wind and rain, or the local
Areas with stone floors are very conducive to industrial development.
For example, for transportation, they could rely on some flat barges for sea transportation in the early days. But after development, the small hills and dense rivers that blocked the connection between these small seaside flatlands and the port of New Sauer did not become an obstacle to the construction of the railway. On the contrary,
It can facilitate water and land transportation.
Therefore, after this area was selected as an industrial zone, the first batch of factories were immediately built. Considering the needs and various capabilities of the island, the number of these first batch of factories was only four, and their scale
They are not big. Of course, there is enough land behind these factories for future second or third phase plans.
These three factories are a fish processing factory, a rice processing factory, a woodwork factory and a small hardware factory. They are respectively arranged on the flat land behind the two bays.
Moreover, before the construction of these factories, people from the Agricultural Church and the Knowledge Church made an overall plan for the entire industrial area to ensure that the locations of these factories were scientific and reasonable enough.