Struggle in the Steam Age

"Struggle in the Age of Steam(

"Of course, I know this kind of invitation is very rude." Seeing Lawrence staring at herself with a polite smile on her face, Aunt Mia didn't put on a posture of an elder, but put her own The posture was very low and said, "But now the problems we are encountering have threatened the survival of the family, and you are probably our last hope."

"Please don't say that. Although I have achieved some achievements on agricultural issues, there are still great shortcomings compared to those masters." Sure enough, every nobleman is not a fuel-efficient lamp. But Lawrence wouldn't be fooled by these simple flatteries to take over those tasks for himself. "So if you have something to say first, I can only say that I will try my best to help you."

Lawrence would not be moved by this kind of words. He felt that the reason for the other party to find him was definitely not only the one that was said, but also the good relationship between him and those churches. But now, he thought he could listen to what the other party wanted to do with him.

"Well, the specific situation is like this." Seeing that Lawrence was not stunned by the ecstasy, Mr. Viscount as the family quickly sat upright on the seat and explained seriously to Lawrence. He also realized that Lawrence could not be regarded as an ordinary young man, so he simply put away his previous thoughts and settled the matter.

In fact, if Lawrence was a mage, the viscount would probably not dare to test like this. After all, as long as an accomplished wizard can basically crush ordinary people and even other professional transcendents in terms of intelligence, it is a pity that Lawrence is a warlock who looks at his face and eats food, so the Viscount Doropia subconsciously regards him as a normal person. Those dudes who talk boastfully but have no real talents.

But just when Lawrence was walking around with them just now and was silent, Viscount Doropia realized that although the man before him was younger than his son, he was able to serve as a lord several times before. The island that I had to give up succeeded in gaining a foothold, and at the same time, he brought the island with the better and better lord. The young man in front of him is definitely not as innocent as he looks.

Therefore, Mr. Viscount quickly changed the original plan. Yiwuyishi honestly stated the reason why they invited Lawrence to come to visit this time. As he talked, Lawrence's brows became more and more frowning, because the problem he talked about was really tricky.

According to the narrative of Mr. Viscount, they were one of the first nobles who sought after Emperor Constantine XI to come to this new world, so they also obtained a lot of land. With this advantage, they slowly started their own farm. He even became one of the richest nobles in this country more than two hundred years ago.

But later, it was very unfortunate that the patriarch of the family did not know why the inexplicable extinction of successive generations led to multiple branches competing for the position of the head of the family. At the same time, the climate during that period was not very good. Farms that are the backbone of the economy have experienced a large-scale reduction in production or even no harvest.

Under internal and external troubles, the entire family quickly fell into disrepair, and the original farms began to sell to other people. Until now, the grandfather of Mr. Viscount had settled the problems within the family decades ago and became the head of the family. Only with the help of the remaining manor and the remaining relationship, he slowly cleaned up the mess and restored the family a little bit.

It is a pity that it is very difficult to find a lot of things back after they have been lost. Those forces that have become powerful by devouring the power of the Viscount Doropia family will never allow them to come back. So after some struggles, they wisely chose to abandon the original food planting, which allowed their development to successfully return to the right track.

You know, the Viscount Doropia family was the top three food suppliers in the empire. Those who want to make this decision can also be regarded as outstanding people. However, considering that the family is only good at agricultural planting, they finally chose to plant cotton as the way out for the family, because according to their previous analysis, it is a rigid need for people to wear clothes in addition to food. So in order to be safe, I chose to plant cotton.

After all, in this era, if you want to engage in the traditional business of raising sheep and shearing wool, there are already many families in the entire empire, including the royal family and several powerful dukes. They certainly do not welcome newcomers to enter this field to get a share. The Viscount Doropia back then was quite self-aware, knowing he couldn't mix these things.

Not to mention that although the estates regained by the Viscount Doropia family after the disaster were not small, the problem is that most of them are no longer the fertile land in the past, but just some on the riverside. It's just sandy land with plenty of water. This kind of land is not suitable for raising sheep at all.

As for the other batch of land is hilly, it is indeed possible to plant mulberry trees to raise silkworms. But the problem is that things like silk are a bit more luxurious and are not the material used in ordinary people's daily clothing. And because of various objective reasons, the New World is not as good as Aurora in the production of silk, and even the next-class Yingzhou products are not comparable. And things like luxury goods belong to the standard. If they can't be top-notch, it will be meaningless.

For example, the New World can also produce some silk, but because of quality problems, there is no way to sell it as a luxury item. On the other hand, the manufacturing cost of local silk cannot be lowered at all, making it impossible for the merchants who produce silk to spread this fabric as an ordinary textile material to ordinary people.

Fortunately, with the development of gunpowder weapons, people have discovered that the best textile in the outermost layer of various propellant bags and explosive bags that can be used for wrapping is actually silk. This has successfully found a very good market for New World silk. But this correspondingly turned silk into a military product.

Although the Viscount Doropia family has the habit of joining the army as a traditional nobleman, it has always paid attention to the operation of the family farm, which has led to the maintenance of the military connections at the minimum that a traditional Viscount family should have. It is naturally impossible to intervene in this military-specific business.

So after repeated weighing, they can only choose cotton as the type of plant they grow. The result may be because of the favor of the goddess of fate, or it may be because of bad luck before bottoming out and rebounding. The industrial revolution began when they began to grow cotton steadily, and cotton became an extremely important industrial raw material.

So taking advantage of this craze ~www.ltnovel.com~, several generations of Viscount Doropia renovated the wasteland a little bit, and expanded the irrigation area to increase cotton cultivation through the construction of water conservancy projects. In addition, they have also opened several textile factories for deep processing of raw materials in order to obtain more wealth.

But this process of wealth accumulation was suddenly interrupted since last year, because a large number of pests appeared in their cotton fields. To make matters worse, even though they have adopted that series of measures, even extreme methods such as burning cotton fields to try to stop the pests, they still failed to stop the spread of the pests.

"This large-scale pests and diseases is likely to have extraordinary powers." Aunt Mia said, "Because we have adopted various pest control methods, even the pesticides you invented not long ago have been used. Although various methods can quickly kill the pests on the cotton, the problem is that every time they are completely wiped out, there will always be new pests that will come out of nowhere."

"Let’s not talk about extraordinary powers, I want to ask if those pests and diseases were really wiped out?" Lawrence asked. Because of the cognitive reasons of this era, there are some diseases and pests that everyone does not understand very well, so it is probably just them I feel that cleaning up the pests and diseases on this piece of land does not mean that it is really cleaned up.

"It should be-really wiped out." Aunt Mia said uncertainly. "At least that's what the agricultural workers said, and some of our experts came to this conclusion after inspection."

"But what is strange is that pests broke out again in many places later. This was completely out of our expectation. That's why we sent someone over to invite you, because you are a professional in this field and have more knowledge. Maybe Can give us some unique suggestions."