Struggle in the Steam Age

As the family members of the strong men who came to help before and immigrants from other parts of the island and even nearby islands slowly came to this place, Lawrence's pioneering work has also entered the right track. For example, after the manpower became sufficient, they built a total of eight collective farms in this plain.

These eight farms were all established under the guidance of the Agricultural Church, and all of them chose places with very good water and soil conditions, and there was a whole set of operating rules for the subsequent construction. For example, the current collective canteen is like this.

After all, the current conditions are too simple. If you start a business, let’s not mention the waste of manpower and fuel. The two problems of food safety and fire safety are enough to make people feel dizzy. Therefore, under Lawrence’s suggestion, every farm should be built. A communal canteen was erected to serve meals to all.

In this way, the biggest benefit is to ensure the provision of safe food and drinking water to those pioneers and avoid large-scale outbreaks of infectious diseases. In addition, the big pot of rice also saves a lot of fuel compared to decentralized cooking, which can save enough fuel to provide everyone with boiled cold water.

Although the taste of the big pot rice is very average, it is good enough for these immigrants. After all, whether they were workers or reclaiming small wastelands outside the human settlements on the island, it was difficult for them to eat such a rich food.

Among them, those who are workers are a little better, and they always have a full stomach after hard work. But those original islanders were not like this. They had worked so hard for a year that it was difficult to fill their stomachs. What did they get? Things can only make them and their families barely survive.

Therefore, under the premise of having enough food, everyone's work efficiency can basically be twice the original work efficiency. After all, it is impossible to have much strength even if you want to work hard when you can't eat enough. As the saying goes, if you want a horse to run, you have to feed it.

Of course, this kind of collective farm is not a big pot. Because of the temporary lack of cash on the island, Lawrence made a series of cards to record everyone's work, and issued different numbers of centimeter cards according to the workload. In addition to being exchanged for different food according to the quantity, these items can also be exchanged for daily necessities, poultry and livestock, labor tools, and even intangible positions, honors and other rewards.

Anyway, he combined all the useful things in the management books that he saw intentionally or unintentionally in the previous life, and then selected those methods that are suitable for the current use and put them into actual operation. So far, it seems that these methods have produced good results.

Here, Lawrence would like to thank those guys who poured chicken soup on various official accounts in their previous lives. If they hadn't posted this knowledge everywhere, he wouldn't have seen these very useful things now.

"Carlos, your team has reclaimed more than 20% of the predetermined amount of cultivated land. According to regulations, your team can get an additional 150 work points, and your work points can be doubled." After everyone finished eating , Lawrence started a weekly work summary activity, and the first summary was the most important agricultural production group.

The middle-aged farmer named Carlos was rubbing his hands nervously when he came to the temporary platform with his ten-member team. Lawrence bowed and said at the same time, "Thank you, thank you Lord."

After the team went down, Lawrence called another person's name. "Kruger, your mechanical team successfully placed the scheduled six steam engines within this week, and at the same time kept the four overloaded steam tractors in good condition, exceeding the quota, so you get 200 work points—”

After Lawrence finished his announcement, a worker in blue overalls and his fellow workers took the iron plate representing work points from Lawrence with a smile on their faces. After listening to their discussion, they planned to go to the service agency to buy it in a while. Some previously limited products.

After all, the overall task in this area is construction, so the only tonnage of transport ships is basically used by Lawrence to transport various materials related to production, construction and maintenance of basic life, so many things can only be supplied in limited quantities. For example, butter, or certain alcoholic beverages.

While Lawrence was holding the summing-up work, similar activities were also going on in several other farms. According to the regulations, everyone has to summarize the work every week. In addition to summarizing the work of the previous week and rewarding and punishing some of the outstanding ones, the most important task is to summarize some problems that occurred during the work of the previous week and consider solutions.

In this way, although Lawrence and the others did not have much experience in establishing settlements in tropical areas. But on the basis of this kind of brainstorming and teamwork, the overall reclamation work can still be carried out smoothly. It also solved a lot of troublesome problems that I didn't think of before coming to this island.

After the summary meeting in the port area was over, Lawrence returned to his room to study the batch of magical knowledge he had acquired with the external brain Nora.

Since coming to this island, Lawrence can be said to be too busy to study. Fortunately, after this period of running-in, the whole system was finally able to function smoothly, and he was able to get part of his own research time at night.

But just a few minutes after he returned to the room, there was a knock on the door. After opening the door, he found that standing at the door and knocking was his butler, Mr. Bayer.

"Is there anything you want to come to me now?" Lawrence asked after inviting Butler Bayer into the house, "Is there something wrong again?"

"No, everything is normal here, my lord. It's just that according to the recent overall investigation, we need to purchase some things, and this purchase requires your approval." Butler Baier shook his head and said with a smile. Since Lawrence inherited the title, he Just insist on calling Lawrence only that honorific title.

"Okay, let me see." Lawrence knew that this was what the rules required. Small spending items could be decided by these retainers, but large-scale purchases had to be approved by Lawrence himself.

So he took the notepad from the housekeeper and checked it, while the housekeeper sat upright on the stool at the side of the room. A few minutes later, Lawrence finished reading the purchase list on the book, closed the book, and then leaned on the He sat on the stool and thought.

"I can understand the cows and mules here. After all, it is impossible to complete such a large piece of land reclamation with only four steam tractors." A few minutes later, Lawrence opened his eyes and asked. "But what happened to the 1,000 capybaras you marked at the end?"

"This is a way to solve the meat problem." The housekeeper explained, "Because the situation here is not suitable for breeding pigs or sheep, which are common animals that can provide meat, and cattle need to be used as meat at this stage. It is basically impossible to use animal power to kill and eat meat, so we have to find some substitutes."

"After our observation, the most suitable animal for us to raise in this area is this capybara. Because we have enough rivers here, and there are also a lot of aquatic plants that can be eaten by this animal. The overall environment is suitable for this animal. Survive--"

"Well, you're right." Lawrence nodded and said. "I see that there are several endemic animals on your list besides capybara. But where can we buy them?"

"My lord, that will involve our other job: socializing." Butler Baier said with a serious face. "Now that we're basically settled, it's time for us to visit our neighbours, too."