Lawrence did not personally participate in the expansion of the island's power. After all, it would be too cheap for him to personally take action against those guys who were at most like ruffians. And unlike when he first came to the island, he also cultivated them during this period.
A team was created that was reliable enough to handle a variety of situations in my absence.
And now it seems that the group of people trained by Lawrence did a very good job. They succeeded in quelling the scattered riots in the small settlements in the northwest of the island that had surrendered to themselves in a short period of time, and
The grassroots management organization was re-established there.
From a certain point of view, it is a good thing for these people to jump up and express their opposition. Because after killing them, the local powerful will be cleared away, and this power vacuum will naturally be very conducive to Lawrence and his team's re-establishment in the local area.
Build your own new order.
However, the new order mentioned by Lawrence does not copy everything in the area currently under his control. To give the simplest example, the industries in Lawrence's control area now basically follow the path of collective industry and large-scale production, and those in the north
In addition to the land handed over or confiscated by the chiefs, there are also many small pieces of private land in the territory.
At the beginning, after receiving a description of the local situation from the dispatched office team, Lawrence tried to ask his subordinates to directly redeem the land. Unfortunately, due to the traditional habits of these people, they were not willing to give up their lands. Therefore, they spent
It took a long time to acquire less than 1/10 of the land.
Under this circumstance, someone naturally proposed to Lawrence that he could directly use the lord's right of compulsory redemption to redeem those people's land, but this was rejected by Lawrence because he knew that this right of compulsory redemption must be limited to emergency situations.
, otherwise it will affect the credibility of Lawrence and the island’s regulations.
However, considering that such small producers cannot compete with organized industrial mass production that has received a lot of support, in order to avoid some bad situations in the future, Lawrence came up with some of the plans he formulated before coming to the island.
One of the abandoned plans was the mutual aid cooperative plan.
After replacing the previous redemption plan with this cooperative plan, the new plan was quickly promoted. On the one hand, this new plan sounded indeed very good, and the group of church priests sent afterwards were convinced by these plans.
People believed Lawrence in the promises they made in this regard.
On the other hand, when they were clearing out the gangsters in these settlements, everyone had seen the combat effectiveness of Lawrence's armed forces. Therefore, they also realized that it was not a good idea to go against Lawrence and the others, so they naturally agreed with Lawrence.
of this cooperative scheme.
In this step-by-step advancement, the scattered settlements were also brought under Lawrence's rule in just half a month. Although it was temporarily impossible to carry out unified planning and planting of crops because crops were already planted in the fields,
But some basic work can basically be done now.
For example, we can focus on building roads and walls around various settlements this time. Another example is to sell a batch of front-loading rifled flash cap rifles here at a low price and provide certain training so that these people can
It can have stronger defense when faced with the invasion of small groups of goblins or beasts.
The most important thing is that they need to build several docks that can accommodate ships and load and unload cargo. After all, almost all of these settlements are settlements not far from the sea, so after they are included in the control of Lawrence and the others, they naturally need to open up transportation lines.
Ensure the circulation of various items.
This set of work is very familiar to the group of staff sent by Lawrence, because Lawrence and the others have built this way from New Saul Port and Niujiao Bay before, so when faced with the current situation,
Naturally, you have a lot of experience and don’t need much guidance.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Lawrence deployed his manpower and began to count the population that was now under his rule. As a result, he found that the human population under his direct control now exceeded 800,000, which was equivalent to the number of people he had before coming here.
Information about the total human population on this island.
But in addition, there are about 40,000 to 50,000 people on the island who are not under Lawrence's control. Except for about 20,000 people living very scattered and temporarily unable to contact them, the remaining 30,000 people are not under Lawrence's control.
The people on the left and right are the people in Tanas Town and the surrounding areas controlled by those guys who have a sense of luck.
Naturally, these people are the ones Lawrence needs to win over next. He believes that with his strong strength and sufficient resources as a backing, he should be able to gradually win over these people. After the preparations are completed,
With their strength, it would be easy to deal with those evil villains.
In addition to humans, the island and the scattered tauren who came from the surrounding area finally made the tauren population exceed 4,000. After all, the tauren themselves are a kind of powerful but not very fertile intelligent creatures.
So it's actually pretty good to have so many tauren on the island.
The Rat People are just the opposite. There were no Rat People on Sauer Island before. The current Rat People community on the island was only formed after Fatina obtained Lawrence's permission and gathered compatriots who were willing to immigrate to the island. But
Even so, there are now more than 8,000 ratmen on the island.
Among them, 6,500 rat men are concentrated in caves in the mountains and in the surrounding plantations assigned to them, while the remaining 1,500 rat men live in various human settlements and work together with humans.
.From a certain perspective, they are already the most familiar alien race to humans on the island.
In fact, there were about 12,000 rat people who were willing to immigrate to the island at the beginning. However, Fatina and their horned rat priests took the initiative to take on the task of screening after considering the carrying capacity of the island.
Optimize the introduction of rat immigrants bit by bit, while also giving priority to those rat people who are useful to the island as much as possible.
The latest immigrants are the group of Loka fishmen, which probably number close to 30,000 people. And after this period of hard work, they successfully established new settlements in many areas of the shallow sea, and at the same time planted some
Fast-growing seaweed and ocean fishing with human ocean fleets make up for 1/3 of the food needed.
In addition, most of the remaining Loka fish people are employed by humans to do various jobs and grow seaweed that can make plastic. Therefore, they have been able to support themselves in less than a month after arriving here.
, there is no need for Lawrence to continue to distribute relief to them. And from this point of view, they have successfully established a foothold in this territory.
In addition to these permanent residents, there are now 10,000 to 20,000 people temporarily living on the island, including foreign sailors, temporary laborers, and fishermen who carry out fishing on the island. These people naturally
It is also an important part of the island, and Lawrence also believes that the situation on the island can quickly attract some people to settle on the island.
Because Lawrence had trained a group of clerks before, the census was carried out very smoothly. It only took a week to complete while conquering the scattered settlements. After completing the census, Lawrence could be regarded as having a good relationship with his current subordinates.
Have a general understanding of the situation.
The biggest role of this census is to allow Lawrence to determine how much manpower he can use over a long period of time, because as the settlements on the island are brought under his command one by one, a large number of people like this are brought under his command in a short period of time.
The possibility will naturally be greatly reduced.