Struggle in the Steam Age

Because of these principles, the people who gave up everything in their hometown and went to colonies similar to Green Island were all nobles, and at the same time brought a lot of manpower and materials, and did not use too many resources belonging to Briton. .

Therefore, under such circumstances, Briton's local side naturally needs to give them a certain amount of respect to show their support for these people's colonial behavior.

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

For example, unlike ordinary colonies, the managers of Green Island are the lord council elected by the lords on the island, not the governor sent by the mainland like other territories.

For another example, apart from a symbolic battalion of soldiers and a small fleet of three ships at the southern port, there is no army directly under the Briton Ministry of Defense on the entire Green Island.

If you want to describe it specifically, it is that, except for the diplomatic and national defense rights of the 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 Viscount of Surrey, the coal was directly shipped to the White Eagle Federation for sale, and at the same time, the money was directly bought from the White Commonwealth to make various things needed on the island and brought back to the island.

The same is true for the trade with the Star Sea Islands headed by New Sauer Island this time. After the discussion and approval of the island's lord council, the entire plan began to run smoothly.

Of course, this is not a bad thing, at least compared to the extremely slow response ability caused by Briton's complex bureaucratic system, the lord council composed of local lords can deal with such problems much faster .

Compared with those traditional colonies, if they want to do something, they have to waste weeks or even months in repeated communication with the native land. It took only three days for the lord council to make the final decision and instructions.

In the foreseeable near future, the trade ties between Green Island and even the entire northern archipelago and those islands in the southeast of the Sea of ​​Stars headed by New Sauer Island will become closer and closer, and at the same time, the transaction volume between the two parties will gradually increase .

Therefore, in addition to considering short-term trade, the trade between the two sides must also consider whether these trades can be done for a long time. Like some one-shot transactions, even if they can only do this when they start, they need to control the scale and gradually replace them.

Among this type of transactions, the most obvious ones are those related to fur. Although it is said that there are not many large wild animals on the land in this area because it is too barren, the opposite is true at the seaside.

There are also a lot of marine life activities under the areas with a lot of ice floes because they are close to the continental shelf, and the activities of these marine life also attract a large number of creatures to come here.

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

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

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

It is naturally acceptable to ask for materials from nature in order to survive, even druids do not reject hunting or gathering methods to obtain the materials they need for their daily necessities.

However, when fur is listed as a trade material in the current trade, Lawrence is a little worried that this may induce some kind of overfishing behavior, and completely destroy the ecological environment balance of the region and lead to the extinction of some species.

Fortunately, after Lawrence raised his own doubts. These lords of the island reached some kind of agreement through discussion. Make sure that the number of hunting for various fur animals on the entire island is controlled within a suitable range every year.

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

When the new industry can provide enough wealth and jobs, they naturally don't need to resort to some extreme methods such as exhausting water for fishing and burning forests for hunting to accumulate wealth for themselves and their subordinates.

On the other hand, for these lords who lived in this area all year round. They also deeply understood how harsh the natural environment of this territory near the polar circle is.

When they first came to this island, they didn't know about these situations, so they did a lot of things that damaged the environment unconsciously.

For example, when raising too many livestock on a piece of land or when building, the damage to the vegetation on the ground is almost permanent. Many lands may not recover to the original level of vegetation cover for more than ten years.

After a part of the vegetation is missing, the entire ecological chain will be seriously affected.

To give the simplest example, according to the observation of the nobles on the island who thought they had some research on natural history. At least two species of bird species and many species of insects lost more than half their habitat and lost two-thirds of their populations as a result of the damage.

And this survey report also made the people on the island aware of the fragility of the environment in the cold area, so no one dared to ignore the surrounding environment in the production and life of the island.

After all, for these nobles, this land is not only their own, but also their descendants. If they turn their fiefdom into a dead place in their own hands, then they will become sinners of their own family.

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

Because although the number of these people on the island is stipulated, after all, it is only a place supported by a few non-professionals. Therefore, for the sake of conservatism, the enemy is expected to be lenient in this regard, and the numbers that can be hunted are obviously too small.

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

As for the handling of this matter, the members of the Agricultural Church are naturally the most professional among multiple organizations with similar capabilities, and they are also impeccable in terms of credibility.

Although the Goddess of Agriculture is the parents of the Mother Earth and the Father of Nature, because agriculture itself is a way for humans to transform nature, the Goddess of Agriculture is different from his parents in many ways.

To give the simplest example, the Goddess of Agriculture is obviously more tolerant than his parents to the practice of human beings actively obtaining various resources from nature.

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

It's just that, as one of the most popular churches in civilized society, the members of the Agricultural Church are basically busy. Basically can't do it on call.

But this does not mean that this matter cannot be negotiated, at least based on Lawrence's reputation in the Agricultural Church and the series of cooperation projects on New Shaw Island. Lawrence invited one or two staff members to make such a trip, and the other party would definitely save face.

With the departure of the ship loaded with goods, Green Island has returned to its original state of life.

And after the new batch of grassroots doctors came from various places and entered the school, the nobles who had stayed here before also left Fort Surrey and returned to their respective fiefs.