While Lawrence was chatting with the old shaman, lunch time came. Under the greetings of several shaman apprentices, Lawrence and the others stayed in the big tent and enjoyed a meal including dairy products, mushrooms, chicken and some fresh vegetables and
Grain diet. Obviously based on the habits of the old shamans, this should also be a common diet in this area.
Contrary to what everyone imagines, the eating habits of people engaged in animal husbandry are different. A piece of land used for animal husbandry can support far fewer people than planting. At least for those who raise cattle and sheep, the food they usually obtain from cattle and sheep
Mainly they produce dairy products rather than meat.
More importantly, because of the fragility of this mountainous environmental structure, the ground soil in this area is not very thick. If you want to plant something, it is easy to suffer irreversible soil erosion. In this case, you want to plant something in the area.
If the planting industry is developed here, it will easily cause rocky desertification in the area, which is obviously not a good idea.
Fortunately, this meadow is part of the entire island economy, so various materials that cannot be produced locally, such as grain and meat, can be transported to these high mountain meadows in a timely manner through river transportation and cableway transportation. In this way
This way we can avoid the destructive exploitation of local resources.
In addition, the rat people and tauren have found a lot of land that can be used for small-scale planting in the surrounding mountainous areas. In addition to growing medicinal fungi and herbs, there is also a lot of open space for growing some
Edible vegetables and fungi supplement the food deficiencies of this grassland.
After finishing lunch, Lawrence and the others said goodbye to the old shaman and began to wander around the town. The town was very simple because it was just completed. For example, in terms of defense, there was only a circle of civil structures around the perimeter.
walls and bastions, as well as a water-filled moat further outside.
The various buildings in the town are equally crude. Except for churches and a few core buildings such as warehouses or town governments, which are built with rammed earth and wood, most of the buildings are temporarily used.
It was a tent for temporary living, but the wells and sewage ditches used for city water supply had been almost repaired by this time.
Of course, this situation is only temporary. According to the plan, with the development of the area, a series of buildings such as water plants and biological sewage treatment plants will be built at once, and the current buildings in the city will slowly
It will be slowly replaced by permanent buildings. But it is estimated that it will take several years to develop to that extent.
After confirming that the development of this meadow was on track, Lawrence and Seifer left the meadow and returned to New Sauer Port.
But what he didn't expect was that just when he returned to the city, he received a telegram from the commissioners stationed in the Holy Visby Empire.
This group of special commissioners was Lawrence and the others who had been sent to the Holy Visby Empire to escort a batch of loot as collateral. When they entered the port of the empire with the collateral, they quickly received an invitation from the royal steward. And with the steward
After the conversation, they felt that they must promptly inform Lawrence of the content of their previous conversation with the housekeeper.
"The royal steward suggested that instead of spending a long time thinking about purchasing something with that batch of interest-free loans, we should use this money as currency issuance reserves to issue the island's own currency." Read it carefully.
After the telegram, Lawrence said to Nora and Saphire.
"What do you think of this suggestion? After all, according to our previous plan, the issuance of the island's currency will be carried out after several stable harvests of food and drugs have moved from the laboratory to mass production. Only in this way can we ensure that we issue
The currency has sufficient economic backing. Would it be too hasty if it were issued now?"
"I don't think there's anything hasty about it." As soon as Lawrence finished speaking, Nora immediately made her attitude clear.
"We made that decision before because at that time most of our wealth was converted into various fixed assets and there was not enough hard currency to serve as reserves for currency issuance, but now this problem has been solved."
"Yes, I think Nora is right." Saphiel, who had been responsible for handling various trivial affairs on the island, also said at this time.
"And another point is that the things we purchased when we came to this island were enough for us in a short period of time. Now if all the newly obtained large sums are used for investment, it will easily lead to unnecessary parts.
The backlog and waste.”
The money would not produce babies if left there, so according to the original plan, Lawrence planned to invest the money in his own industry. However, considering the current development of various industries, they analyzed at the time that only half of this wealth could be invested immediately
to development, while the other half cannot be effectively applied.
But for Lawrence, this is already the best investment direction, at least the income is much higher than the income in the bank. After all, in this era, the national bank not only has no interest on such large savings, but also charges a certain amount for safekeeping.
Fees. And those investments made by commercial banks are not insured.
But now after hearing what the two ladies said, Lawrence suddenly realized that he had indeed made a very good development plan before.
But now that the specific situation has changed, it was obviously inappropriate to hold on to the original development plan. Therefore, he quickly changed his thinking.
"You are right. Now that we have such a large amount of unexpected wealth, our current plan should indeed be changed." Lawrence nodded to the two ladies and then looked at the corner of the room.
"It's a bit late today, we can have a meeting tomorrow morning to discuss the situation in detail."
Early the next morning, Lawrence summoned all his subordinates to discuss the matter. This included the members of the cooperative who currently issue work-point coupons on the island, the priests of the Church of Fortune, a group of administrative staff led by Saifei, and the previous
Butler Beyer who has been in charge of this aspect.
During the meeting, Lawrence and the others prepared sufficient and detailed data to conduct a thorough analysis of the current development of the island. It was found that the current economic size of the island is not very large, but the overall economic structure is very healthy, and at the same time it can
It can be seen that we are on the eve of a rapid development.
"Your Excellency, I think this is the best time to issue currency." After reading the summarized data, Butler Bayer was the first to stand up and said. "On the one hand, because the current development trend of the island is very good, so
Not having our own currency has hindered the development of our economy."
"On the other hand, the island's economy is not large yet, so it is a good time to issue currency. If the economy is large, it may not be that simple to issue currency. Especially since the work-point coupons we issued previously have already been obtained.
Most of the people on the island recognize it, so issuing currency now can be said to be a very smooth thing."
Butler Bayer was actually hinting to Lawrence at this time that with the island's development speed, big powers and even the empire would soon be eyeing the island's currency issues. By then, it would be difficult to maintain a certain degree of economic independence.
It is much bigger than it is now. So it is very necessary to quickly issue your own currency to take advantage of the current small economic scale.
"Yes, we now also believe that we can now issue the island's own currency." As another important person in the currency issuance, the priest of the goddess of wealth also said at this time.
"In fact, the island has met all the requirements for the issuance of currency before. The only thing that does not meet the requirements is the reserve for the issuance of currency. Now that this requirement has been met, I think our Lord will approve the issuance of currency on the island.