For Lawrence, he does have a very important thing now. That is the planning of the future industry of the Cruz Islands and the entire economy.
The biggest difficulty is that due to the serious lack of population, Lawrence and his colleagues simply have no way to maintain the original habit of growing sugar cane in these islands.
"We can plant part of the spice crops in the core area, and the rest of the area can be planted with plants that can be used as food, such as corn, cassava or coconut."
On the ship, Nora got the information given by the Agricultural Church and studied it carefully for a long time. Then she took the map and talked to Lawrence.
"After all, many water conservancy projects have been built on the island to grow sugar cane, so it is not difficult for us to change the use of those lands. We only need to simply change the crops grown on them." Pointing to the portion that was used by himself.
On the map marked with various colors, the little doll looked very happy and said.
"This is indeed good news." Looking at the land for different uses divided by the little puppets in different colors on the map, Lawrence felt that his mood suddenly became much better.
At least compared to the previous situation on New Shaoer Island, where there was a rough road and a forest in the mountains. The foundation of the new territory is obviously much better, which also means that much less resources will need to be invested in the future.
And this kind of saving is very important to Lawrence. After all, he can't finish developing the territory near New Saul Island in a while, let alone everything needed to develop the new territory.
Therefore, he believes that the Cruz Islands, at least in the short term, can only maintain self-sufficiency and develop slowly.
However, based on the conclusions drawn by the current analysis of the little doll, Lawrence feels that his goal can be further forward on the original basis. After all, after omitting most of the investment required for infrastructure construction, Lawrence feels that in the first year of this new territory
It should be profitable.
After returning to New Saul Island, the first thing Lawrence did was to place the following workers into a temporary settlement area.
After all, these people were relatively weak due to the previous warlord's oppression of them. If there were not enough doctors on board, Lawrence felt that there would probably be more than a dozen patients who would not be able to reach their destination.
After making arrangements for the new immigrants, Lawrence headed to his current office as quickly as possible because he received a letter on the way, saying that the church had some important matters to discuss with him.
So after docking, he immediately asked Nora to notify the church members to hold a meeting in his office.
"The situation is actually like this. A new round of civilization expedition is about to begin, so there may be some expedition troops passing by our island. I think we can provide them with some supplies." After everyone arrived, Lan
Mr. Burt said directly to Lawrence.
"Of course, this is what it should be, and with our capabilities, we may be able to do more for this war, not just provide supplies." Lawrence nodded and said.
Civilization expeditions are large-scale joint wars in which various intelligent races launch attacks or defenses against those wilderness races in order to defend civilization. However, in the early years, civilized races mainly focused on defense, and in the past thirty or forty years, they have become mainly offensive.
At a minimum, this kind of war requires mobilizing the forces of civilized races on a continent, and at a maximum, it can mobilize most of the civilized races in the world at the same time. At the same time, it is necessary to communicate with various countries and gods within the range before the war. Therefore, the civilized expedition
It is also the largest and highest-level war fought by the world's civilized races.
Considering that a war does not only involve soldiers on the front line, it also requires a lot of logistics and transportation. Therefore, such forced mobilization orders are based on the country.
Just considering the issue of colonies and overseas territories, those territories that are not on the same continent as the mother country will be affiliated to surrounding countries in the war.
In this kind of war, every civilized country will send its own troops to participate, because this is a war that belongs to the entire civilized race. Therefore, no one can be an exception in such a war. As for Lawrence’s reasons why he does not need to participate in this war now
It's also very simple, that is, he is a pioneer lord.
Originally, according to the laws of the White Eagle Federation, in addition to the core National Defense Force, each state also needed to send its own National Guard to join this war.
For example, Lawrence's territory is now affiliated with the White Eagle Federation, so according to the White Eagle Federation's mobilization decree, affiliated territories like them should also send their own troops.
However, pioneering territories like Lawrence are different from ordinary lands. Because the pioneering lords' territories are all located at the junction of civilization and barbarism, they need to fight against wild races or dangerous beasts on a daily basis.
Therefore, traditionally, unless it is a defensive war fought around one's own territory, even in a civilized expedition like this, these armies from developing territories will not be compulsorily recruited.
In other words, neither the former Viceroyalty of Vieques nor the New Saul Island where Lawrence is currently located need to provide their own troops for this war. This is because, according to common sense, these troops need to guard those wilderness areas at all times.
Because of their race, they are not suitable for leaving their territory to participate in expeditions.
Of course, developing territories is not permanent. With the development of intelligent races, a large number of developed territories are gradually wrapped up by newly developed territories. In this case, those old developed territories will naturally lose their original developed territories.
The status has become an ordinary territory.
But unlike most territories on land, except for those territories located on islands that are very close to the coastline or are surrounded by certain intelligent underwater race countries, the rest of the island territories are all considered developed territories. Because of these
The territory is constantly under attack by all kinds of dangerous marine creatures.
However, the fact that they do not need to send troops to expand territories in this war does not mean that they have no obligations in the war. They need to participate in this war in other ways. For example, they need to provide a part of the wealth according to the situation of each territory or
supplies, and even provide part of the labor force in non-combat positions.
Theoretically speaking, Lawrence can now be exempted from this part of the obligation. Because New Saul Island is a newly developed territory, according to the regulations between intelligent races, most of the obligations of the new territory can be exempted within the first ten years of the development of the new territory. Among them
This includes the obligation to provide supplies for defense operations in non-local areas.
But sometimes things are not just about doing things in accordance with the rules and regulations. For Lawrence, for example, at this time, it is very meaningful to pay a little extra to try to win the favor of the people around you. Because you can only do more of this in normal times.
When you encounter some troublesome problems, more people will be willing to help you.
"By the way, which country does the army passing by us belong to?" After simply agreeing to the priests' request, Lawrence suddenly thought of something and asked.
After all, during the civilized expedition, those civilized races will be mobilized together, so the troops coming to the island may not be the troops assigned to the White Eagle Federation, so it is best to ask about some things clearly.
"The ones passing us are mainly a group of armies from the Elysion Empire and several islands attached to the Elysion Empire." A priestess of the Church of Fortune took out a small book and took a look at it and said.
"This group of people totals about two thousand people, and they will board ten transport ships and head to the Erysion Empire together under the escort of three warships."
There are not many large islands like New Sauer Island in this sea area. Therefore, the number of elite troops that can be drawn from each small island in the war is only two to three hundred.
Therefore, when it was time to join the civilized expedition, the owners of these islands naturally chose to move forward in groups to ensure safety when mobilizing their troops.