Struggle in the Steam Age

The life of the Lorca murloc has always been based on hunting and gathering, and this life is naturally not very stable. It can be said that many times depend on the sky for food. Once some small changes in temperature or ocean currents may lead to changes in the trajectory of fish migration and the growth of various marine plants, then terrible famines occur.

On the other hand, because they depend on gathering and hunting for their livelihood, the largest organization they can have is a tribe of hundreds of people. Once more people gather, the number of people will exceed the carrying capacity of the local environment. Then the surrounding environment will irreversibly deteriorate and lead to a series of disasters.

And this is why they are vulnerable when facing the Sahua Murloc attack, because compared to the Sahua Murloc Kingdom's tightly organized command system and well-trained regular army. The hunters with an average of less than 100 people in the hundreds of Loka murloc tribes distributed in a very wide space are simply not their opponents.

In fact, before the catastrophe caused by the Sahua murloc, there were wise men among the Loka murlocs who had discovered this. Unfortunately, because the size of each tribe is too small to bear the risk of reform.

And there is no great king like Qin Shihuang among the Lorca murlocs to unify them, so the defects of one's own side are limited to separate discussions, and no practical operations have been made to solve these problems.

So after they are now under Lawrence's command, the social structure of this group of Roka murlocs has been artificially accelerated in an instant.

Under the leadership of Lawrence, their only leader, the remaining power of the Loka people who originally belonged to hundreds of tribes was quickly reintegrated and deployed where needed.

When the sahua people settled down temporarily, large-scale construction soon began. Except for some Sahua murlocs who rebuilt a collective incubator of their fish eggs in another shallow bay a few kilometers away from the city, most of the remaining murlocs have invested in an unprecedented construction. .

Since they are now the leaders of Lawrence, Lawrence, as the lord, naturally has certain responsibilities to them. Therefore, before the full-scale start, Lawrence asked the machine shop to produce a series of various metal tools suitable for people to use by Roca and distribute them to them.

These metal tools were manufactured by a small hardware processing plant on the island. In fact, at the beginning, Lawrence did not plan such a heavy industry enterprise on the island.

Because he feels that the island not only lacks the various minerals and fuels needed for the development of this type of industry, but also has certain contradictions with the island's core industries.

But later, with the passage of time and the increasing number of people under Lawrence's command, he slowly discovered that some industrial products could not all be imported from the outside world.

In other words, it was OK for tens of thousands of people to do so at the beginning, but when the population of the subordinates exceeds 500,000, the pure import model becomes out of date.

So he immediately adjusted the allocation of resources, and began to establish a series of light and heavy industries on the island that were of average technical level and small in scale but were closely related to the lives of ordinary people.

Fortunately, because there are many industrial workers on the island who have immigrated from Eagle Fort of the White Eagle Federation, he has enough manpower in this respect.

Of course, the types of industries built on the island have also been carefully selected, and there is only one core selected, and that is to make up for the defects in the island’s industrial production.

Therefore, large-scale machine manufacturing and metal smelting require a lot of resources and manpower, and industries engaged in the manufacture of production tools or raw materials will naturally be abandoned.

At least for Lawrence. It is not difficult to purchase large amounts of textiles or certain steam engines, and at the same time these things are basically not very time-sensitive. Therefore, he can import such things from neighboring countries without the need for his own time-consuming and laborious production.

At the same time, because of the remote location of the island where Lawrence is located, different items are naturally very different in terms of freight. For example, after purchasing things like steam engines or a large batch of cotton cloth, the seller can send a ship specifically for this purpose, so the freight is naturally very normal.

However, some daily consumer products are not. A pot, a set of tableware, a shovel, and a piece of clothing, although it can be said that basically everyone needs it, but it does not need a lot of them at once. If you hoard too much in one breath, you can't sell it in your hands, resulting in a double backlog of funds and commodities.

But if a large number of commodities are not transported at once, those merchant ships will inevitably have a large amount of tonnage vacant when transporting goods. After all, the New Sauer Island where Lawrence and the others are now and the surrounding islands are not only remote, but also not very populated.

So those ships either have to consume a lot of fuel and supplies to go around a corner, or they have a lot of empty tonnage wasted. In this case, the shipping cost evenly spread to each product will naturally become a lot higher.

And unlike bulk raw materials or heavy machinery, these small consumer goods account for a large part of the freight. At the same time, most consumers of these products are also price-sensitive. So relying on imports for all these things is obviously not a very good idea.

In addition, with the development of agriculture and medicine. Lawrence also realized that he needed some factories to further process those agricultural products and lay a certain foundation for the future pharmaceutical industry. Otherwise, it is not a good idea whether you only export raw materials for agricultural products or produce pharmaceuticals in small batches in the laboratory.

Therefore, after they gradually established a firm foothold on the island, Lawrence soon discovered these problems with some mistakes in the previous planning. Therefore, after a series of discussions and investigations, they established an industrial zone in a series of small coastal harbors more than ten kilometers away from the city.

This port is almost the same as the New Sauer Port where Lawrence and the others are now, and it can at least berth 1,000-ton ships, but the area is obviously much smaller than the New Sauer Port where Lawrence and the others are located. At the same time, it is divided by some rivers and hills, and the space for future development is very limited.

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This is why Lawrence abandoned these seemingly okay bays at the beginning, because the largest land behind these bays can only support a small farm of one hundred people, and develop these when there is a larger area of ​​land. The place is obviously a bit uneconomical, not to mention that the local soil is not only saline but also thin~www.ltnovel.com~ It is difficult to develop agriculture.

But if these lands are to develop industry is another matter, whether it is the water source provided by the tributary of the river that flows by the port of Neusauer, the scattered small islands outside the port area that can shelter from wind and rain or the local The stony ground in the area is very conducive to the development of industry.

For example, in transportation, they could rely on some flat barges for sea transportation in the early days. However, after development, the small hills and dense rivers that block these small seaside flatlands and the Port of Neusauer cannot become obstacles to the construction of railways, but can facilitate water and land transportation.

Therefore, after selecting this area as an industrial zone, the first batch of factories were immediately erected. Taking into account the needs of the island and the various capabilities, there are only four factories in this first batch, and they are not large in scale. Of course, there is enough land behind these factories for the second or third phase of the plan in the future.

The three factories are a fish processing factory, a rice processing factory, a wood factory and a small hardware factory. They are arranged on the flat ground behind the two bays.

Moreover, before the construction of these factories, people from the Agricultural Church and the Church of Knowledge made a comprehensive plan for the entire industrial area to ensure that the locations of these factories are scientific and reasonable.