As a hereditary nobleman, it is not a strange thing for Lawrence to join the labor force. At least according to the cultural tradition of the Holy Visby Empire, it has always been regarded as a pioneering nobleman to build his own territory with the people.
This is a very honorable act, which is one of the important reasons why the relationship between the nobles and the people of the Holy Visby Empire is relatively harmonious.
However, with the development of society and the increasingly close exchanges between nobles from various places, many traditions of the Frans Empire have also flowed into the Holy Visby Empire. For example, their slightly artificial and far away from various practices. After all, they are not the same as the traditions of the Empire.
In comparison, the new fashion of the Frans Empire is obviously much more relaxed and comfortable.
But Lawrence, who has been a commoner for the past two lives, obviously cannot accept this kind of culture. In his view, you have to pay a corresponding price for the benefits you enjoy. If you don’t want to pay any price but want to obtain various benefits, then
You may be able to do it in the beginning, but over time these benefits will slowly turn into poison that kills you.
This is why Lawrence is always at the forefront during various wars and construction on the island, because he feels that only after he participates in a series of work related to development and construction can he enjoy the island with peace of mind.
Various benefits to yourself.
For example, when building a steel cable system now, an important process is to build locations for fixing steel cables in many dangerous places. The biggest difficulty in such work is how to transport people and materials to mountainous areas.
The ones are located at points on the cliffs.
After a simple discussion, Lawrence and Nora took over this crucial transportation job. At least from their point of view, they could easily complete those tasks by using their ability to transport across terrain. And this
It's obviously better than letting those workers risk their lives.
During the construction period, the inspection teams that inspected the surrounding minerals also came back one after another. At the same time, they brought their inspection records. However, compared with the previous inspection results of animals and plants, the inspections of this group of mineral experts
The conclusions are basically some content that makes people feel depressed.
For example, they can confirm that not only does this island not have any extraordinary minerals, it does not even have high-value gemstones or precious metal deposits. Although there are one or two iron ores, if you take into account the topography of the buried location and the
After analyzing the grade and reserves of those minerals, we will find that mining those mineral deposits is not only unprofitable, but also a loss.
As for the coal mines that are crucial to the development of industry, there are some coal mines here, and they are more convenient to mine. The problem is that the coal reserves here are really small. So this coal mine can only provide an extra coal mine for the ships that transport supplies upstream.
The supply point only needs to transport more goods, and the coal needed on the island mainly has to be imported from the outside world.
The only piece of information that makes people feel happy is that they found a large amount of high-quality granite and limestone that can be used for construction at a nearby lake, and even some marble. If there are no accidents, a quarry will be built in this area.
The farm provides raw materials for construction on the island.
At present, most of the buildings on the island are temporary buildings with mixed structures of bamboo, wood and earth. Only a few areas have used imported raw materials to build some permanent buildings of stone or reinforced concrete. Therefore, in terms of construction, the island definitely needs a large amount of building materials.
A quarry can be regarded as an urgent need on the island.
After completing the investigation and helping to build the steel cable transportation line, the military also completed the cleanup of the goblin territories around the fortress. So Lawrence led the army through the mountainous area mixed with the first group of armed immigrants who had just arrived by ship.
The passages lead to the meadow.
They have only one job now, which is to clear out all the goblin tribes in the predetermined area and lay down a strong line of defense in the area. Fortunately, because the previous war almost drained the human resources of the goblins, so next
The job can be said to be very easy.
With the help of Nora, the goblin tribes hidden in the hillsides and forests were marked on the map one by one. Then the military members and armed immigrants easily cleared out the goblin dens one by one under the command of the little dolls.
.After losing all the young and mature goblins, cleaning up these goblin tribes is no more difficult than cleaning out a rabbit nest.
So after a period of not-so-fierce fighting, most of the goblins within the planned range were successfully eradicated. Only a handful of goblin tribes near the edge of the planned range smelled the danger first because they were placed at the end of the cleanup.
Leave this area with their treasures and head to other parts of the meadow.
"Okay, this is the last tribe." Nora said as she watched Saphiel walk out of a goblin tribe while wiping the blood on his sword, "I think we have successfully eliminated it completely according to the original plan.
Lost this precious piece of grassland and those damn goblins around it."
"Huh - that's good." Saphiel said and threw the piece of paper used to wipe the goblin's blood on the ground, then looked at the blade and put the sword back into the scabbard. "This period of time is better than
I felt much better after squatting in the office all day, especially since the recent attack on the goblins allowed me to finally move my hands and feet."
For Saphire, proper fighting is a very good pastime for the body and mind. This is especially true in sadistic battles such as exterminating goblins. After all, the previous battle to support Vieques was really frustrating.
People are too nervous, so she is quite satisfied with these recent low-intensity wars.
After ending the clearing battle, Lawrence and the others led the main force and advanced nearly 10 kilometers along the planned first-phase construction border line. They completely pulled out a two thousand
The remaining goblin tribes and several small tribes were forced to temporarily stay away from the construction area where Lawrence and the others were located.
In this way, there will not be many large-scale goblins coming to harass during the subsequent construction of the defensive circle. This will help the construction of those fortifications to be completed on time. And as long as the fortifications are built, even if the main force withdraws, those
It is impossible for the returning goblins to go to the fertile meadow occupied by Lawrence and the others as before.
Taking into account the requirements of the construction period and the intensity of the war, the first batch of fortifications were all built with thick timber felled from the surrounding mountain forests and rammed earth mixed with gravel. Although such fortifications may be slightly insufficient in modern warfare
.But when facing those goblins, a building of this strength is enough.
At the same time, the biggest advantage of this kind of field fortification-like building is that it is easy to construct and can be completed relatively quickly. Therefore, when Lawrence and the others completed a week of deterrence operations to expel the goblins in the distance and returned, they discovered that by the river
Several basically completed fortifications have been erected, and some of the fortifications have even been stationed with guards.
After entering a randomly selected fortification, Lawrence found that the main part of the entire building had been constructed and the engineering team had withdrawn. There were several tents set up in the yard of the fortification, with guards from three races.
They were coming in and out of the tent, looking at the tools in their hands as if they were doing the final touches on the fortifications.
"Yes, my Earl, the situation here is very good." The person in charge of the fortification said after seeing Lawrence arrive, "The reason why everyone is living in tents now is very simple, because the rooms have just been painted
, so we don’t want to go in for the time being. Fortunately, the weather has been good recently, so it’s not uncomfortable to live in a tent.”