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678 Situation and environment

Because of these principles, those who gave up everything in their hometown and went to colonize a colony similar to Green Island were all nobles, and they also brought a lot of manpower and materials with them, and did not use too many resources belonging to the British mainland.

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Therefore, under such circumstances, the British natives naturally needed to show their support for these people's colonial behavior by giving them a certain amount of respect.

Therefore, this colony has many different rules from most British colonies, which are mainly reflected in various policies towards Green Island.

For example, unlike ordinary colonies, the manager of Green Island is the lords' council elected by the lords on the island, rather than the governor sent by the mainland like other territories.

For another example, except for a symbolic battalion of soldiers and a small fleet of three ships at the southern port, there are no troops directly under the British Ministry of Defense on the entire Green Island.

If we want to describe it in detail, it is that except for the diplomatic and defense rights of this island, which belong to Briton, most of the rights belong to the noble lords on the island.

Therefore, in this case, these people on Green Island can naturally decide who to cooperate with economically without having to consider too many local ideas.

For example, after coal mines were discovered in the Viscounty of Surrey, the coal was transported directly to the White Eagle Commonwealth for sale. At the same time, the money was paid directly to the White Eagle Commonwealth to buy various things needed on the island and brought them back to the island.

And now the same is true for the trade with the Star Sea Islands headed by New Saul Island. After the discussion and approval by the Lords Council on the island, the entire plan started running smoothly.

Of course, this is not a bad thing. At least compared to the extremely slow response ability caused by Britton's complex bureaucracy, the lords' council composed of local lords can handle such problems much faster.

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Compared with those traditional colonies that want to do something, they have to waste weeks or even months on repeated communication with the mainland. It only took the Lords Council three days to make the final decision and instructions.

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It is foreseeable that in the near future, the trade links between Green Island and even the entire Northern Islands and the islands in the southeastern part of the Sea of ​​Stars, including New Saul Island, will become closer and closer, and the transaction volume between the two parties will gradually increase.

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Therefore, in addition to considering short-term trade, both parties must also consider whether these trades can last long-term. Even if some one-time transactions can only be like this when they are started, they need to control the scale and gradually replace them.

Among this type of trade, the most obvious ones are fur-related trades. Although the land in this area is too barren and there are not many large beasts living there, the opposite is true at the seaside.

Areas with a large amount of ice floes also have a lot of marine life activities underneath them because they are close to the continental shelf, and these marine life activities also attract a large number of creatures here.

For example, some aquatic mammals such as sea lions, walruses or seals live here.

Although it is said that due to the chaotic underwater turbulence and the existence of various ice floes in that area, it is impossible to fish on a large scale even if there are fish here, but this terrain is obviously conducive to approaching from the coastline.

Under such circumstances, the lords on the island would naturally choose to develop hunting to obtain furs and meat that were vital to the survival of the island.

It is naturally acceptable to obtain materials from nature in order to survive. Even druids, except for some extreme sects, do not reject hunting or gathering to obtain the materials needed for their own clothing, food, housing and transportation.

However, when the current trade classifies furs as trade goods, Lawrence is somewhat worried that this may induce some kind of indiscriminate fishing, completely destroy the ecological environment balance of the region, and lead to the extinction of certain species.

Fortunately, after Lawrence raised his doubts, the lords on the island reached some kind of agreement through discussion, and determined that the number of hunting of various fur beasts on the entire island every year would be controlled within a certain appropriate range.

The reason why these lords were able to make such a decision is very simple. On the one hand, through these cooperations, Lawrence brought many new industries to the island.

When new industries can provide enough wealth and jobs, they naturally do not need to adopt extreme methods of fishing from the lake and hunting from the forest to accumulate wealth for themselves and their subordinates.

On the other hand, for these lords who have lived in this area all year round, they also have a deep understanding of how harsh the natural environment of this territory located near the polar circle is.

When they first came to the island, they did not understand these conditions, so they unconsciously did a lot of things that damaged the environment.

For example, if too many livestock are raised on a piece of land or during construction, the damage to the vegetation on the ground is almost permanent. Many lands may not be able to return to their original vegetation coverage for more than ten years.

When part of the vegetation is missing, the entire ecological chain will be severely affected.

To give the simplest example, according to the observations of the nobles on the island who thought they had some knowledge of natural history, at least two kinds of birds and a variety of insects lost more than half of their habitats due to these damages, and at the same time their populations were reduced by 2/3.

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This survey report also made the people on the island aware of the fragility of the environment in cold areas, so no one dared to ignore the surrounding environmental issues in the subsequent production and life on the island.

After all, for these nobles, this land is not only their own, but also their children and grandchildren. If their fiefdom is turned into a dead land in their own hands, then they will become the sinners of their own family.

So after Lawrence raised this point, Viscount Surrey immediately made a request to Lawrence, hoping that he could connect the island with the Agricultural Church and invite some professionals to determine the specific value.

Although the number of these people on the island is stipulated, after all, it is just a place supported by a few non-professionals. Therefore, for the sake of conservatism, we should be lenient in this regard, and the number of huntables given is obviously too low.

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For the nobles on Green Island, this will obviously reduce their income. Therefore, they naturally hope to introduce a group of professionals to re-evaluate a more reasonable number of hunting licenses.

When it comes to handling matters in this area, members of the Agricultural Church are naturally the most professional among multiple organizations with similar capabilities, and are also the organization with impeccable credibility.

Although the Goddess of Agriculture is the parent of Mother Earth and Father Nature, because agriculture itself is a way for humans to transform nature, the Goddess of Agriculture is not the same as her parents in many places.

To give the simplest example, the goddess of agriculture is obviously much more tolerant than her parents when it comes to human beings actively obtaining various resources from nature.

Hunting is obviously a part of agriculture in the broad sense. Therefore, although members of the Agricultural Church are opposed to all kinds of indiscriminate hunting and killing, they are not opposed to hunting.

However, as one of the most popular churches in civilized society, the people in the Agricultural Church are basically busy. It is basically impossible to be available at all times.

But this does not mean that this matter cannot be discussed, at least given Lawrence's reputation in the agricultural church and the other party's series of cooperation projects on New Saul Island. Lawrence would definitely ask one or two staff members to make such a trip to the other party.

It will give you face.

As the ship carrying the goods left, Green Island returned to its original state of life.

After the new batch of grassroots doctors arrived from various places and entered the school, the nobles who had stayed here before also left Surrey Castle and returned to their respective fiefdoms.


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