"As I said, Earl, you are really good at managing people in your own territory." On the way back to the city, Viscount Surrey said to Lawrence with an admiring look on his face.
"I really didn't expect that you could actually deliver a new industry to our island in such a short period of time according to the appropriate location, and this industry can actually be connected to another industry that can be said to be the lifeblood of the entire island.
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"It's not actually a lifeblood. After all, you can solve the fatal vitamin deficiency problem by eating those mosses or lichens." Lawrence said seriously.
"Of course, we are humans after all, not reindeer. So when we can eat more delicious vegetables, it is better to eat as little ground or moss as possible that contains too much oxalic acid."
After returning to the city, the Viscount of Surrey immediately started the workshops and factories under his command to produce various equipment and matching coal stoves for making briquettes.
In just three days, more than 500 coal stoves and a large number of briquette making tools were distributed to various areas of the territory for trial use.
For example, the newly built greenhouses around this core city have eliminated the complex geothermal pipes in the original design and replaced them with several briquette stoves.
"In some large greenhouses, the effect of this kind of briquette stove is not very obvious." After inspecting several greenhouses of different sizes and locations, Lawrence and the others quickly saw how effective these new products are.
"But for those small greenhouses, briquette stoves are indeed much better than fire pits and complicated heating pipes."
"Yes, when it comes to heating a small space, the new product performs better than the traditional heating method. But when faced with a larger space, the effect is not very good."
Lawrence also nodded at this time and said, "So when we promote this kind of briquette, it is better to target those small spaces more appropriately."
"This is already very good." Compared with Lawrence who felt that this place was somewhat lacking, Viscount Surrey was very satisfied with the current situation.
At least for him, the only two large cities in this territory, Surrey Castle and Northern Port, have warm currents and geothermal heat to help heat them up respectively. Overall, they do not need too many artificial warming methods. Therefore, he is not interested in those large-scale cities.
The demand for heating facilities is not very high.
On the contrary, there is a greater need for some stable, efficient and cheap heating methods for small settlements to strengthen the actual control of the territory.
To control a territory, it is not enough just to draw the boundaries on the map; you also need to have enough people to live on it.
For example, in the Viscounty of Surrey, which now covers tens of thousands of square kilometers, two towns and a coal mine have concentrated more than 90% of the people in the area, which has naturally led to serious abandonment in other places in the territory.
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This situation also occurs in various territories on Green Island. Whether it is the direct territory of the kingdom, the royal territory or the territories of other nobles, the entire island has this kind of population distribution pattern where most of the population is concentrated in towns.
If the Nobility Law and the Development Law had not specified that the territory would be confiscated after a certain number of years if it was not developed to a certain extent, then the population of this island would be estimated to be less than 1/10 of the existing population.
This kind of distribution of people has seriously affected the development progress of the entire region. On the one hand, the scale of cities that rely on some heat for construction is limited after all, so the number of people they can accommodate is also limited.
On the other hand, large areas of wilderness had to be abandoned due to lack of manpower. This naturally affected the development of this territory.
For example, this is the case with the coal mine discovered this time in the Viscounty of Surrey. According to the prospecting team, this kind of shallow coal mine that can be mined on a large scale is actually very easy to discover.
However, because the population in this area is too sparse, even though the Viscount Surrey family has been operating here for three generations, they were not aware that there were minerals here.
And here is the most critical advantage of the briquettes and briquette stoves invented by Lawrence.
With these flexible and cheap heating tools, the Viscount of Surrey, or the lords of the entire island, were able to greatly expand the scope of activities of the people under their command, and then develop areas that had never been developed before.
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This is why the Viscount of Surrey was so excited after seeing this inconspicuous little invention. After all, for people in this area, temperature is the most important reason that prevents everyone from developing their territory.
And if this problem can be solved, even if it is only partially solved, then this region should be able to usher in a new development climax in a very short period of time.
As for the problem of wilderness races or beasts that is very troublesome for most territories, it is not that serious here, because this area is so barren that it is difficult for those wildernesses to exist on a large scale in the wild.
For example, the biggest threat on Green Island right now is the white dragons and vassal kobolds that are entrenched on the island, but they are basically all entrenched in the north, making a living by fishing, and have little interaction with the colonial points in the south.
White dragons would occasionally leave their lairs and come to the south to attack the settlements of intelligent creatures, but with the advent of gunpowder weapons that can fire continuously and special anti-aircraft gun mounts, such attacks have become significantly less frequent.
As for those kobolds, the nearly 100 kilometers of uninhabited frigid wasteland between their den and the northernmost human settlement has blocked all possibilities for them to go south.
As for the Viscount of Surrey himself, let's not talk about how much money he can make as the only large-scale coal mine owner on the two islands, and how much profit he can make by exploring undeveloped areas.
The favor shared through this incident and Lawrence's relationship alone was enough to keep him going for a long time to come.
After realizing the significance of these items in the world that he thought were not very important, in the next few days, Lawrence began to search for knowledge about life in cold areas that he thought was relevant.
As beings who are not good at living in cold areas, humans in this world have also invented many ways to assist themselves in living in this area.
For example, there are various sleds and snowshoes used for traveling in snowy areas, and buildings with thick walls and narrow doors and windows are used to avoid wind and cold in the wild.
In addition to this, there are several very special areas in this region that are kept internally functioning by even rarer supernatural powers.
For example, there is a dwarf tribe under a kingdom in the east of the island that relies on a magic circle unique to the dwarves inside, because there is no geothermal heat available where they discovered the minerals.
For another example, several caster organizations further north have also built some bases for cultivating some animals and plants that grow in the cold zone. In those bases belonging to the casters, the casters directly use
The entire facility is powered by underground magma and even elemental power.
With sufficient energy, these outposts can be defended or insulated by a series of magic barriers.
Compared with other methods, this method can be said to be the most environmentally friendly and the most effective. However, the corresponding initial investment is surprisingly large.
According to the Viscount of Surrey, it is estimated that even if he sells his Surrey Castle completely, he will only be able to afford a set of pocket barriers that can sustain the lives of two to three hundred people at most.
Obviously, this kind of warmth and life support system with unique characteristics in this world is basically impossible to promote on a large scale due to cost reasons.
In this case, the series of methods in Lawrence's mind to prevent coldness that do not require extraordinary strength will naturally come in handy.