"These new immigrants have indeed greatly promoted the development of Sauer Island." As the future hostess of the island, Saifei took the lead in participating in many charity activities for the new immigrants after they arrived on the island. Naturally,
We also learned a lot about the specific circumstances of these new immigrants.
This promotion is not just a simple increase in human resources, but also a series of other unique abilities they have mastered. For example, after investigation, Saifeier discovered that this group of people came to the island from various countries in the North Visby region.
The biggest characteristic of immigrants is that almost all of their adult males have served in the military.
This is determined by the size of those countries. Because the countries are too small and there are often small-scale conflicts, these countries basically all have the habit of compulsory conscription for all people. After immigrating to the island, those who joined the army
The experience soon came in handy.
After all, New Sol Island can now be regarded as a frontline in the battle between civilization and barbarism, so in addition to the large-scale battles that often break out, small-scale conflicts never stop almost every day. Under such circumstances, mastering certain military skills becomes
Something very necessary.
For example, Lawrence prepared enough weapons and ammunition in each settlement, and also organized various military-related competitions in his spare time. Fortunately, there were enough supplies on the island, especially food, so these competitions went very smoothly.
The implementation continued and effectively improved the military quality of every island resident.
Therefore, with the passage of time, both the military quality and the inner courage of the island residents have become much stronger than before. At least now, after discovering a small group of invading goblins, they will not have to retreat behind the wall to shoot guns and light beacons as in the past.
Ask for military support, but dare to organize directly to fight the goblins in the field.
To be honest, the individual combat capabilities of goblins are really poor. An ordinary farmer can easily kill one or two goblins as long as he musters up the courage and is equipped with a weapon such as a pitchfork and a stick. And in these pioneering times,
On the plains of the farm, farmers equipped with gunpowder weapons were able to kill five times their number of goblins after simple training.
At least in recent times, the number of calls for reinforcements from various settlements has shown a clear downward trend. Even in the plain of Niujiao Bay, armed villagers from various estates and the rat people teamed up to completely clean up the plain.
Go up to the scattered goblins that were scattered before.
In this way, the plain surrounded by mountains and rivers has now become a safe development area. The productivity of the entire plain has naturally been released in this way. For example, when the next harvest season comes,
The newly developed farms plus the old farms can collectively harvest about three times as much food as the last harvest season.
However, as the number of pioneering sites increased, the island became increasingly short of manpower. The arrival of these military-educated immigrants from North Visby provided the island with much-needed labor, especially in areas such as the Blue Mountains.
meadows and a series of new coastal settlements, these new settlers were obviously better at establishing a series of settlements in dangerous locations.
For these new immigrants, this arrangement on the island is very good. Although the newly developed areas are not considered safe, the only ones who come to harass are some goblins, so there are strong fortifications.
And with enough weapons, don't they feel any danger?
And compared with those areas that have been reclaimed on the plains, the new territories located on the seaside or on the alpine meadows are obviously drier and cooler than those that have been reclaimed deep into the islands. This is especially true for people from relatively low latitudes.
Those who immigrated from the high-rise North Visby area are naturally more adaptable.
Compared with the people of the Holy Visby Empire in the south, although the Visby people in the north are the same nation as them, have the same language and almost the same customs, due to the different environment, the northerners are obviously
Southerners were more intolerant of heat, so Lawrence simply moved them to cooler parts of the island.
"Actually, one of the strangest things I think now is the fertility of the soil on the island." After completing a series of currency-related designs and discussions on immigration arrangements, Lawrence and the others went to a beach to have a picnic and relax.
Get up. But even during the relaxation time, Saifei still talked about many things related to the development of the island.
"Is there anything unusual about the fertility of the island's soil?" Lawrence asked after taking a sip of coconut water from a coconut with a silver straw. "Although it rains frequently here, I see
Because of the vegetation coverage on the island, soil erosion is not serious, and theoretically the soil will not be too poor."
"Especially since we came to this island, we have followed the practices of the Agricultural Church and adopted various methods to replenish the soil with organic matter and various deficient elements, especially using biogas digesters to process the various organic matter collected.
Fermentation. So theoretically, the land on the island now should be one of the best among the surrounding islands."
In any case, New Saul is a tropical island with very high precipitation, and the loss of nutrients in the soil is basically an inevitable problem. Therefore, many water conservancy projects and agricultural projects on the island are now centered on improving the soil.
Even ordinary people have realized the importance of this through repeated propaganda.
Even after the large-scale popularization of biogas digesters, people all consciously collected all organic matter for composting in biogas digesters. For example, after the end of the last war, each farm specially sent a group of personnel to pull carts to the battlefield to collect goblins.
The body is then taken back, chopped into pieces and put into compost in a biogas digester.
Of course, goblins are not a common compost material. The more common compost materials are feces, dead branches and leaves, and various mechanical garbage produced in people's lives and agricultural production. Of course, a large amount of garbage produced in fishery production is also
One of the top sources of these composts.
In addition, because the island is rich in coconuts, Lawrence and the others also produced some coconut bran to improve farmland. With this concerted effort by the people, the land used for planting on the island soon became
Be fertile and suitable for agricultural production.
According to the results of a recent new survey by the Agricultural Church, the soil is now suitable for agricultural production to the same extent as those farms that have been developed for decades in the southern part of the continent.
"Yes, the current soil level on the island is indeed suitable for the development of planting industry." After listening to Lawrence's words, Seifer tapped his forehead lightly with his finger and said.
"But the problem is that theoretically, it takes several years for raw land to become mature. Don't you think the speed of soil improvement on our island is a bit too fast?"
"What's wrong with improving it too quickly?" Lawrence said with a smile, "To be honest, I can't wait to start improving the soil today, and tomorrow morning the soil will become as rich as the black soil in the central plains of the White Eagle Federation -"
"Lawrence, I'm not kidding." Saphire was not very satisfied with Lawrence's answer. "You are right, it is not a bad thing for us that the soil becomes fertile. But the fact is that we have now
The reason for this benign change is not understood.”
"Don't you understand?" After hearing Saifei's words, Lawrence suddenly changed from a very leisurely lying posture to a sitting posture, with a thoughtful look on his face.
In this world where extraordinary powers can be seen everywhere, there are many places that have unique abilities because of these extraordinary powers. For example, certain hot springs can cure various diseases, or planting certain crops can make those crops grow at a high speed.
special farmland. But if you can’t find a reason, it might not be a good thing.