Lawrence's new plan won the support of everyone present, because this fort is more than 80 kilometers away from the New Shore Port in a straight line, and the water transportation route is close to 100 kilometers. It takes five people to even go down the river by boat.
It takes about an hour to arrive. Therefore, from the perspective of economic layout, a densely populated city is indeed needed here.
But it is not that easy for a city to develop. For example, the development of New Sauer Port relied entirely on agriculture and water transportation at the beginning. Later, as the number of people continued to increase, simple service industries, commerce, and later industry gradually appeared.
.In this process, Lawrence and others invested a large amount of money and resources.
Fortunately, because various industries are developing smoothly, the future of this city is obviously bright. But even so, it will take a long time to recover the previous investments. At least within three to five years, the city's investment alone will
At best, various incomes can be equal to the city's daily expenditure or have a slight surplus.
Although Lawrence is now running his own territory and is not afraid of spending money, he also hopes that every penny he spends is valuable. Therefore, he naturally has relatively high requirements for this future new city, such as hoping to start from the construction
Make plans from the beginning to ensure as much waste as possible is reduced.
So after dawn the next day, human scholars, tauren shamans and rat people elders began to explore the surrounding environment under the protection of the army. They hoped to find some resources that could be used for urban development in the future.
.And after the afternoon, a group of Loka fishmen also came here on boats and searched the nearby water system.
Lawrence thought that it would take a while to find anything valuable, so he simply took Saphire to the river to fish. But what he didn't expect was that just as the sky had just darkened, the two of them were about to close up and go back.
After dinner and fishing, an attendant came over and told them that members of the previous expedition team had come back to report.
After communicating with the team members who came back one by one, Lawrence learned that a lot of information could not be obtained through aerial reconnaissance alone, not to mention that neither Lawrence nor Nora was very proficient in these matters, so sometimes
Even if those things are there, it is impossible to find those resources from the background environment.
Not to mention that Nora's previous reconnaissance of this generation was just a casual reconnaissance when she went to the meadows of the Blue Mountains to detect the movements of goblins. So let alone the ground reconnaissance, even the aerial reconnaissance was extremely rough.
. Therefore, the results of the investigation revealed almost nothing except confirming the distribution and movement of the goblin groups in the area.
Of course, the little puppet also mentioned that the rapid rivers produced by this gradually rising terrain, the blue mountain lakes and the surrounding lush jungle water systems form a very beautiful scene, which would be very good if tourism is developed. But
Considering the current level of development on the island, Lawrence does not think that it will attract enough travelers in a short time.
Because the development of tourism requires a series of infrastructure construction, but Lawrence had previously established agriculture and medicine as the core of development for the island. Therefore, it is impossible to have enough resources to invest in tourism in a short period of time. But if you want to wait until the island naturally
It will probably take a long time to develop to the required level.
And one problem can also be seen from this matter, that is, the issue of overall planning during development. At least when Lawrence checked the information, he found that many areas were developed without planning, which led to the initial development.
Things are fine at times, but as development progresses various problems will be exposed.
For example, industrial zones and agricultural zones were built without planning, which made it extremely difficult for industrial zones to expand as they grew. However, those agricultural zones lost their fertile soil due to industrial wastewater, exhaust gas, and noise.
It has become barren, and farmland has also experienced significant reductions in production or even no harvests.
When things develop to this point, the trouble will be big, because at that time, if you want to change that tangled situation, you need to consume a lot of various resources, but even so, the process of change will still produce a lot of things.
Trouble that is difficult to reverse, such as the newly created unemployed population and land and water that are extremely difficult to restore.
This is one of the reasons why Lawrence attaches great importance to the armed reconnaissance teams sent around. These teams' detailed investigation of the environment around the fortress and statistics of various resources will determine the future development direction and level of the city and even the entire island.
.
In the next few hours, Lawrence took out the map and summoned the book charm to start synthesizing the investigation reports of the members of the reconnaissance team and starting to mark them on the map. This kind of investigation reports not only came from the professionals in the team
They also come from those ordinary members.
After summarizing the investigation results of these teams, Lawrence realized that the surrounding land was much richer than he had imagined before. This is why everyone was able to find enough resources on the first day of exploration. And there were many types of these resources.
, not only common animal and plant resources, but also some mineral resources that have never been explored before.
Among them, the most valuable plant resource is a large area of Aina incense two to three kilometers away from here. According to the natural history classification, this is a perennial herbaceous plant of the Asteraceae family. The Tauren used to use this kind of thing before.
It is mainly used as raw material for smoking after being picked and bundled into bundles to repel those disgusting mosquitoes.
The last time Lawrence and the others went to the Tauren tribe, the Tauren had burned these things to repel insects. However, when they burned these grasses, they were broken and mixed with other grasses and burned together. Therefore, Lawrence could not do it at all at that time.
Recognize this herb for what it is exactly.
The expert who recognized this herbal medicine this time came from the Republic of Xinzhou and was a medical student introduced by Zhu Yan. In the past, his family once opened a herbal medicine shop, but later due to a wrong purchase of medicinal materials, that happened.
The drug store went bankrupt, and Zhu Yan paid off the bank loan for him and then let him come to Lawrence.
Because of his previous profession, the doctor named Li Ming immediately carefully examined every plant and tree in the forest after entering the forest. At the same time, he asked the indigenous tauren warriors who accompanied him on the trip about the herbs they had used before.
.As a result, I quickly recognized this herb called Ainaxiang.
According to Li Ming, this herb is a very important herbal medicine in the key points of Shenyang. On the one hand, the whole plant can be used as medicine to treat colds, colds, headaches, diarrhea and dampness. And if you have a toothache
Applying it on the teeth from time to time can also treat toothache caused by red and swollen gums.
More importantly, this herbal medicine can be further processed through distillation and refining to give it higher added value. After refining, a very important product is mugwort oil, which can be used in a variety of cosmetics and fragrance industries. At the same time, in
This distillation and refining process can also produce a popular medicinal material in China: borneol.
These products continue to be very popular in the world of ordinary people, and can also be used in many extraordinary potions and rituals. Therefore, as long as they are manufactured, sales will definitely not be a problem.
Obviously, being able to find a large amount of wild Aina in this area means that this area is very suitable for the growth of this herb. And the cultivation of this herb can just be integrated into the overall agricultural development of New Saul Island. Therefore,
Lawrence quickly marked this industry and included it among the industries that the city would focus on in the future.
In addition to Aina incense, there are more than a dozen similar spices and medicinal plants. However, unlike Aina incense, these spice plants are not large-scale, and their value is not higher than Aina incense. Therefore, they are not cultivated for the time being.