"Miss Nora, how did you come up with this good idea?" A sweating attendant watched a group of people crowding into the open space in front of the stage, and then obediently followed the instructions of the staff to reveal the people standing under the stage.
A look of admiration, because the little doll achieved much more results as soon as it was released than a group of them had been busy working for a long time.
As soon as they received the task, these personnel immediately got busy setting up the podium and preparing for their own publicity tasks.
Unfortunately, the mission did not go very smoothly at the beginning. Basically, no one was willing to come and listen. Only a few people took advantage of this open space to sit there and rest.
But the little puppet quickly took out a large amount of snacks and placed them on the stand, and then asked everyone to announce that as long as everyone could listen to the promotion for ten minutes, each of them would receive two snacks.
As a result, after the new publicity method was adopted, the circled open space was filled with people in just five minutes.
"The principle of this method is very simple, that is, all the people in the dock area are waiting for the departure ship, but there are not enough ships now." Because time is not tight now, Nora is also willing to spare time.
Take some time to tell these elder brother’s subordinates some life experiences.
"In other words, these people may need to stay at the port for a long time, so they actually have a lot of free time to listen to what we are saying. As long as we find the right way, we can naturally gather them
Come here, for example, it would be enough to give out some free snacks."
The reason Nora was able to think of this aspect was because she found a lot of memories from Lawrence's previous life about how those scammers tricked the elderly into attending their lectures by giving away eggs or snacks.
I took the opportunity to sell fake content, so I slightly modified this method and used it now.
Judging from the results, this kind of method summed up by scammers based on human weaknesses is indeed very good. At least now most of the people who were bored and waiting on the dock to leave were attracted, and then listened to the staff's comments on the new arrivals.
Promotion of various situations on Sauer Island.
When a group of people leave after listening, the staff from Sauer Island will distribute the snacks to them one by one. At the same time, they also hint that they can use the promotional documents they just got to wrap these snacks. In this way
If so, these promotional documents can be kept in their hands for a longer period of time.
The island was busy with the transportation of departing personnel for more than a week before it was basically over. At this time, there were only less than 7,000 people left on the island out of the original 40,000 and nearly 50,000 people.
And after excluding the 4,000 to 5,000 people who planned to stay on the island and not go anywhere from this group of people, there were only about 2,200 people who were willing to follow Lawrence to a new place.
"There are really too few people." Lawrence frowned after looking at the final list. He originally thought that at worst, he would be able to recruit 1/10 of the people, but what he didn't expect was that in the end he was willing to
The person who follows him is only half of the worst-case scenario he imagined.
Shortly after Lawrence arrived on the island on a speedboat, New Saul Island sent a fleet headed by the Enterprise to prepare to pick up people. However, what they did not expect was that the number of people who needed to be transported would take a long time.
It was far less than what was planned before, so that the supplies that had been prepared based on imagination were basically useless.
"In fact, this is understandable. After all, these people on the island are neither indigenous nor formally employed workers. So naturally they hope to leave here quickly and return to their hometown under the current circumstances."
Naturally, Nora had seen this list before, so she flew to Lawrence, patted him on the shoulder and comforted him. "This is not our problem."
To be honest, if Lawrence and the others hadn't tried so hard to stay here, and if the farm slaves who had been freed during this period also found out that Lawrence's reputation was indeed good, even these two thousand people might not have been able to stay at all.
.It can also be seen from this that a good reputation can still play a role in many places.
"Well, we should think about better things. For example, now we can use our ship to transport these people back at once. There is no need to transport them two or three times as planned." After discovering that this was the case,
Lawrence quickly adjusted his mood and found some good news.
"By the way, how should we transport people back? Should we transport them directly to the newly acquired Cruz Islands?" Nora asked Lawrence after standing on the bow of the ship and looking at the rows of people lined up on the pier.
Asked. "At least the news we received before said that there are only about 1,000 people willing to stay on the island."
"It's definitely not suitable to go to the Cruz Islands, because it takes more than a month to wait for the sugar cane harvest there, so they shouldn't have enough space and resources to entertain these newcomers." Lawrence said, looking at a bird in the distance.
The team fleet is slowly approaching the port, and the sides of the fleet are crowded with people.
This fleet is a fleet sent by the tribunal, and the people on it are temporarily hired workers to harvest sugar cane. According to common sense, during this kind of territory exchange, each should collect the last crops. But because the island originally
The workers were slave labor, so Lawrence could not prevent them from leaving.
You know, sugarcane planting may not require many manpower during this period, but the beginning of planting, harvesting and processing require a lot of manpower.
Therefore, those who are willing to stay in this situation can barely maintain the field management of sugar cane. It is almost impossible to complete the harvesting and processing of sugar cane in the traditional way.
In particular, sugarcane is different from other cash crops. Once harvested and not processed in time, those plant roots rich in sugar will rot at an unusual speed in the local hot climate. So you want perfect
It is basically impossible to handle these things without enough manpower.
The manpower Lawrence currently has is simply not enough. Naturally, it is impossible to obtain such a sum of money at the expense of slowing down the development of New Saul Island. Not to mention that both the harvesting and processing of sugar cane require specialized personnel, but New Saul Island
The labor force on the island simply does not have the skills in this area.
In order to prevent the sugar cane from being wasted, Lawrence simply donated all the harvest this season to the Inquisition. With their personal connections, it was much easier to find enough labor than Lawrence himself. It had only been a few days.
Ships full of laborers came to this place from all over the sea area.
In response to Lawrence's friendly approach, the tribunal also organized a group of prestigious people in the area to begin valuing various industries on the two islands.
After all, the island exchange is just a territory exchange, and the infrastructure construction on the island needs to be recalculated, and the price difference needs to be made up.
However, this kind of statistical summary takes a long time, so Lawrence does not plan to wait for the calculation results on the island, but prepares to return directly to New Saul Island.
"Then we will go back to New Saul Island directly. It's been a few days since we came out." Nora looked a little regretful when she said this.
A season's sugar cane harvest is always a big sum, so it would be a pity to just give up like this. However, it is always a good thing to exchange these benefits that are destined to be unobtainable for a favor from the tribunal.
"Yes, it's time for us to go back now. If we don't go back quickly, we won't be able to catch up with the completion ceremony of the construction of the Niujiaowan Plain Irrigation Main Canal." Lawrence said while looking at the packages of supplies being transported to the ship. "This time the irrigation main canal will be built."
After the canal is completed, Niujiaowan will be fully developed step by step in a short period of time, freeing up more energy to do other things."