Struggle in the Steam Age

Since having a holy spirit like Hans, Nora has also made many breakthroughs in the civilian research of various microorganisms. For example, several special fungi have been cultivated.

"We have newly bred four kinds of fungi, one of which has a strong water absorption effect and can be used as a medical bandage or some daily necessities."

"And the other three are all edible varieties, one tastes like meat, one is rich in starch, and the last one has a lot of water and vitamins."

"The biggest advantage of these things is that they can be bred and bred very quickly, and they taste good. That's why the Ratmen ordered a large batch from me for planting." Nora shrugged at this point.

"Unfortunately, it is very difficult to preserve these things, and it also requires a lot of processing fees. Otherwise, I would like to use this thing as a grain reserve."

"However, these disadvantages are no longer disadvantages if they are placed in a transportation hub with a large flow of people, because the flow of people is enough to consume the food. So it is just possible to use those underground spaces to control these special fungi."

"You're right." Lawrence nodded in satisfaction, then asked as if recalling something. "You just said the word vitamin. Is this a new discovery for you?"

"Yes, it is obviously much easier to do these researches with the blessing of extraordinary power than relying solely on technology." Nora shook her head helplessly.

"However, the difficulty of large-scale and industrial extraction of vitamins is not something that can be broken through now."

"So for us now, the discovery of vitamins only allows us to publish a few more papers, allowing the medical research institute on the island to have a stronger voice in medicine. It may take a long time to find economic benefits in this regard." It's time."

"Okay—" Lawrence shrugged helplessly, at least this technical gap is not something that can be resolved in a short time. Fortunately, after thinking about it briefly, he still found something valuable to him from this matter.

"But spreading this theory is not completely bad for us. At least in this way, people's demand for all kinds of fresh food will naturally increase, which will naturally help the sale of items on the island."

After a few days of planning, everyone quickly became busy. Because both the training of manpower and the deployment of materials require a lot of time and energy to complete.

Fortunately, because this territory was a barren land before, Lawrence was able to re-establish a more modern management system compared to other regions.

Therefore, in this case, although everyone is a little busy, it does not appear to be chaotic. On the whole, it still looks in order, and there is no such thing as a situation that often occurs in many territories, and various losses will rise in a straight line when things are busy.

Besides these main things, there are some other things to deal with on the island. For example, bringing the tens of thousands of people who were originally out of control in the northwest of the island into the management system, or planning the land after cleaning up the goblins.

In addition to these internal affairs, because now New Sauer Island is gradually becoming prosperous and rich. Therefore, many facilities related to the outside world began to be planned slowly after the application.

For example, there are several shipping companies on the Trans-Star Sea route who are willing to take a half-day journey to the island for resupply or shelter in the middle, so Lawrence needs to further expand the dock area to accommodate these needs.

The current wharf is a standard passenger and cargo mixed wharf, but with the expansion of port throughput, the various defects of this mixed wharf are also highlighted.

Whether it is from the perspective of safety or efficiency, this kind of wharf with mixed people and cargo has many problems. So take advantage of more shipping companies coming to the island. Lawrence began work on remodeling the pier.

According to the plan, the current terminal will be transformed into a passenger terminal as a whole because it is close to the urban area, and the cargo terminal will be moved several kilometers along the coastline as a whole. Build new where the water level is deeper and closer to the industrial area.

In addition to various loading and unloading facilities, Lawrence and the others also need to build a series of transportation and storage facilities to integrate the new terminal into the local economic circle.

As for the construction of the airship field, it is much simpler than this. At least without considering the complicated maintenance, the basic facilities required by the airship field can be said to be very few.

Therefore, after simple consideration, they selected a piece of gravel land about 7km away from the urban area as the location of the future airship take-off and landing site.

This piece of wasteland originally belonged to a certain collective farm, but the land full of gravel was basically useless as agricultural land. So now it is just time to contribute to the construction of the takeoff and landing field.

The manpower and financial resources needed to open several large projects at the same time are not a small amount. Fortunately, because of the previous operation and a series of trivial matters, the island can still mobilize enough wealth and manpower to complete these projects.

From the perspective of wealth, Lawrence’s income has been doubled by various new inventions and operations before. In addition, the construction of these places is paid in stages instead of a lump sum at the beginning, so it is not a problem. There is no need to spend a lot of wealth in a short period of time.

More importantly, except for the construction along the railway line that needs enough cash to hire workers, most of the construction on the island can be settled with materials for workers, which further reduces the expenditure on various wealth.

But even so, Lawrence found that the cash on hand was still a little short of paying the full start-up capital. After all, the wealth I have to start three projects at the same time is not a small number, and Lawrence can pay more than 80% of them, which is already very powerful.

Fortunately, the industries currently controlled by Lawrence are all high-quality industries, and there is a legal church behind them as the backing. So it is not difficult to get some low-interest loans from banks.

In fact, since Lawrence reported that large-scale construction was planned, but the money was not very close. The major banks of the three major powers in the New World all sent elite personnel to Lawrence to solicit business.

They do know that the result of this kind of competition is that the profit in this business will not be too high, but considering that the total amount of this business is not only large, but also almost stable. So naturally it can be said to be a rare good business.

More importantly, as a territory that anyone with eyes can see has great development prospects. This deal obviously couldn't be the only deal.

So for these bankers. If he can establish a long-term cooperative relationship with Lawrence, he will bring a top-notch excellent customer to his bank.

With sufficient funds, it is much easier to solve human problems. For example, as long as there is money at the rest station along the railway line, enough people can be hired from the White Eagle Federation and the Republic of New Island.

As for New Sauer Island, although it is difficult to hire foreign personnel, the arrival of a new wave of immigrants perfectly makes up for this.

As Nora successfully ignited the divine fire and formed her own church, the reputation of Nova Sauer Island was instantly spread. These reputations not only attracted many new believers to Nora, but also made a good publicity for this sea area.

So different from the situation in the past when there were only some desperate refugees and a small number of immigrants, many immigrants have taken this place as the first immigration destination in the recent period and drove here with their families.

According to the simple statistics of the immigration bureau on the island, since Nora ignited the divine fire. The number of people applying to immigrate to the island tripled in an instant. And there are many skilled immigrants from the three countries of the New World and the countries of the Old World.