Struggle in the Steam Age

Chapter 451: Patrol

As someone who has seen countless shows in his previous life, Lawrence naturally knows how to do certain things. To give the simplest example, the original purpose of their trip this time was to relax, but when they publicized it, they advertised that this was an overall tour of the territory.

Of course, this statement is not a lie. Because Lawrence and they did plan to take a good tour of the territory. After the major construction a while ago, both Lawrence and Seyfir also hope to see with their own eyes what the achievements of the construction are, instead of understanding these things from the side only through the pile of documents.

According to the plan, they will first check the grain storage warehouse in the northern part of the Port of Neusauer. After the inspection, they will board the boat from the small wharf attached to the warehouse and go downstream to the hilly area where the tauren tribe is located. Finally, follow the land passage that has just been opened to return to the territory of Niujiaowan and visit the settlements inside the mountain where the family now lives.

Lawrence and the others set off in the early hours of the morning, except for Lawrence and Syfiel, only Nora. Because they think everyone is very busy at this time, there is really no need to work so many people to engage in pomp. Not to mention that from a security point of view, Nora can already be regarded as the top combat power on the island. It is actually much safer to go out with her than with a few hundred guards.

The most important thing is that Lawrence is not the traditional hereditary aristocracy. Their previous life makes them very comfortable with this kind of travel, and they can handle various situations along the way. There is no need to bring hundreds of servants like some nobles go out.

Moreover, according to family traditions, Earl Sauer’s line has not always been the kind of person who likes to be ostentatious. Even if the previous old earls go out, they will only bring along the equivalent of 110 noble attachés. Therefore, when Lawrence announced that he was going to leave with Veneto and Nora, the retainers did not express any objections. They just informed the various areas that they were going to inspect and prepared them for reception.

When riding a horse through the streets of the city in the early morning, Lawrence and the others found that even though the sun hadn’t come out yet, many people on the streets had already begun to hurriedly walk across the streets under the shining of the street lights. Go to their respective jobs and start working. At the same time, the food stalls on the roadside have already started operations at this time.

With the development of the island’s economy, the original collective canteens have begun to fail to meet the needs of some people, and the supply of food has gradually become normalized with the development of the island’s agriculture. Therefore, in addition to the public canteens of various enterprises and collective farms, various catering businesses have begun to appear.

Lawrence naturally welcomes such development, because the emergence of these small commercial economies represents that the economic level of the island is in a development. Moreover, he has always believed that for the development of the island’s economy, it is enough to grasp the core industries, and there is no need to be comprehensive.

"Why don't the gas lamps or biogas lamps be used on the island?" Nora suddenly became interested in the street lamps on both sides of the road, but after she flew over the street lamps and looked around, she flew back and asked Lawrence. "I feel that the fish oil lamp used nowadays is not bright, and the taste is not very good."

"But this is the only option we have now." Lawrence explained after finding that Syfiel also showed a puzzled expression. Unlike most of the surrounding islands, after solving the basic survival problem, he quickly put the construction of public facilities in an important position, because he believed that these public facilities are conducive to the establishment of order, rather than waiting for the natural development of the town to a certain extent. To establish order, it is better to establish rules from the beginning.

Under the guidance of this kind of thinking, he established a series of public service systems including the most basic medical care, public security, and public water sources when he entered the first stage on the island. For example, the establishment of hospitals, the planning of reservoirs and corresponding wells in many areas of the city, and the establishment of a police force by using those immigrants who have experience as military police as the backbone.

The construction of street lights is also one of the first batch of basic public service projects, because in Lawrence's memory, if there is lighting at night, the overall public order will obviously rise a step up. At the beginning, he planned to use the most fashionable gas lamp or similar biogas lamp for lighting, but later discovered that the island is now short of everything. At least these fuels have a more important role than lighting, such as baking. Dried fish floss or used to boil water.

This aspect of drinking water sanitation has always been one of the most critical issues on the island, because a large number of diseases are spread through unsanitary drinking water. So since landing on the island, Lawrence and the others have mandated that all drinking water must be boiled and disinfected. Drinking raw water is absolutely not allowed.

Because of this problem, there are only a few biogas lamps and gas lamps distributed in factories and farms on the island. Fortunately, with the step-by-step upgrade of the fishing industry on the island, a large amount of inedible fish oil produced by this industry can finally provide enough fuel for those street lights.

And because there are professional sanitation and cleaning staff in the urban area, the streets are also very clean, without the dirty feeling that is common in colonies. The cleaning of the city and the boiling water also form part of the epidemic prevention work on the island. After listening to Lawrence and the others, Nora nodded. Then a few people drove along the clean and tidy streets to a small stone mountain in the north of the city, riding a horse and riding a horse.

This stone mountain is located by the river in the city, two to three hundred meters away from the river. At the beginning, Lawrence and the others planned to build some navigation facilities on this mountain. But after inviting a group of rat people to come and explore, they discovered that this hill is actually an extinct volcano~lightnovelpub.net~ There are a lot of cavities and magma channels connecting these cavities.

I found that this place is very strong, it is close to the river and convenient for transportation, but also because it is not the riverside and the mountain is hard basalt inside is very dry. Lawrence and the others decided to transform the interior of the hill into a grain storage warehouse. After all, such a permanent grain warehouse that can be obtained with only a small amount of engineering is much better than the warehouse that was temporarily built with wooden planks in the original plan.

The first stop of this trip is here, except that it is the mouth of the river for easy boating. The most important point is to show everyone on the island that they value the food issue through this behavior. Because they had been notified in advance, Lawrence and the others were greeted soon after they came here to verify their identity.

After a simple inspection, Lawrence and the others can confirm that the grain is stored here very safely. And because the grain harvested in the first season was relatively small, only a small part of the granary was occupied by the grain. The more parts are all vacant.

"Someone once suggested that these empty spaces should be used, such as renting out, but this plan was rejected by us," said a rat-man supernatural who accompanied Lawrence and the others. Considering that an important enemy of the granary is the rat, and the guard of the granary needs to be on duty in the cave for a long time. So Lawrence specially invited the Ratman to strengthen the defense of the granary. The one who is now talking to Lawrence about this is a ratman official who is resident in the granary.

"Good job." Lawrence nodded in satisfaction. After all, a place such as a grain warehouse is really important, so from all angles, it is very important to reduce the number of people entering the house.