Struggle in the Steam Age

Chapter 565: supply

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For Lawrence, he does have a very important thing now. That is about the future industry of the Cruz Islands and the planning of the entire economy.

The biggest difficulty is that because of the serious shortage of population, Lawrence and the others have no way to maintain the original habit of planting sugarcane in these islands.

"We can plant some spice crops in the core area, and plant corn, cassava or coconut plants that can be used as food in the rest."

On the boat, Nora studied the information carefully for a long time after getting the information given by the Agricultural Church. Then he took the map and talked to Lawrence.

"After all, a lot of water conservancy projects have been built on the island to grow sugarcane, so it is not difficult for us to change the use of those land. We only need to simply replace the crops planted on it." With the maps marked in various colors, the little doll said happily.

"This is indeed good news." Looking at the land for different purposes marked by the dolls in different colors on the map, Lawrence felt that his mood suddenly became much better.

At least compared with the blue wisps of roads on New Sauer Island before, in the form of a mountain forest. The foundation of the new territory is obviously much better, which also means that there will be fewer resources to be invested in the future.

And this saving is very important to Lawrence. After all, the territory near New Sauer Island alone will not be able to be developed for him for a while, let alone everything needed for the development of the new territory. Therefore, he believes that the Cruise Islands can be self-sufficient at least for a short period of time.

However, based on the conclusions drawn by the current puppet analysis, Lawrence feels that his goal can be moved forward on the original basis. After omitting most of the investment required for infrastructure construction, Lawrence felt that this new territory should be profitable in the first year.

After returning to New Sauer Island, the first thing Lawrence did was to relocate the following workers to the temporary settlement area.

After all, these people are relatively weak because of the previous warlord's crush on them, and even if they had not brought enough doctors on board, Lawrence felt that a dozen patients might not be able to reach their destination.

After arranging these new immigrants, Lawrence went to his current office as quickly as possible. Because he received a letter on the road, saying that the church had some important things to discuss with him.

So after landing, he immediately asked Nora to notify the church members to have a meeting in his office.

"The situation is actually like this. A new round of civilized expedition is about to begin, so there may be some expedition troops passing by our islands. I think we can provide them with some supplies." After everyone arrived, Lan Mr. Burt said directly to Lawrence.

"Of course, it should be, and with our abilities we may be able to do more for this war, not just to provide supplies." Lawrence nodded and said.

Civilization expeditions are large-scale joint wars in which various intelligent races launch offensive or defensive wars against wild races in order to defend civilization. It's just that in the early years, civilized races were mainly defensive, and in the past 30 to 40 years, they became mainly offensive.

This kind of war must at least mobilize the civilized and ethnic forces of a continent, and at the highest limit, can mobilize most of the civilized races in the world at the same time, and at the same time communicate with the various countries and gods in the range before the war. Therefore, the civilized expedition is also the largest and highest-level war carried out by civilized races in the world.

Considering that a war is not just about soldiers on the front lines, it also requires a lot of logistics and transportation. Therefore, such mandatory mobilization orders are all based on the state.

Only considering the issue of colonies and overseas territories, territories that are not on the same continent as the home country will be linked to surrounding countries in the war.

In this kind of war, every civilized country will send its own army to participate, because this is a war belonging to the entire civilized race. So no one can be an exception in such a war. The reason why Lawrence does not need to participate in this war is also very simple, that is, he is a pioneering lord.

Originally, in accordance with the decree of the White Eagle Federation, in addition to the core defense forces, each state also needed to send its own National Guard to join the war.

For example, the territory of Lawrence is now linked to the White Eagle Federation, so according to the mobilization decree of the White Eagle Federation, territories like them should also send their own troops.

But pioneering territories like Lawrence are different from ordinary lands. The pioneering lords are all located at the junction of civilization and barbarism, so they need to fight against wild races or dangerous beasts every day.

Therefore, unless it is a defensive war fought around one's own territory, otherwise, even in such a civilized expedition, these troops from the pioneering territory will not be forcibly recruited.

In other words, neither the former Governorate of Vieques nor the New Sauer Island where Lawrence is located need to provide its own army for this war. This is because it is inferred from common sense that these armies need to guard against those wild races all the time, so they are not suitable to leave the territory to participate in the expedition.

Of course, the development of territory is not permanent. With the development of the intelligent race, a large number of exploited territories were slowly wrapped up by the newly opened territories. In this case, those old pioneering territories would naturally lose their original pioneering status and become ordinary territories.

However, unlike most territories on land, territories located on islands are all counted as pioneer territories except those that are close to the coastline or are surrounded by some intelligent underwater race nations. Because these territories are constantly facing the attack of various dangerous marine creatures.

However, to open up territory in this war does not need to send an army does not mean that they have no obligation in the war, they need to participate in this war in other ways. For example, according to the conditions of each territory, a part of wealth or materials is provided, or even a part of labor for non-combat positions.

In theory, Lawrence can now also exempt this part of the obligation. Because New Sauer Island is a newly developed territory, in the first ten years of the development of new territories in accordance with the regulations between intelligent races, most of the obligations of those territories can be exempted, including the provision of materials for defense operations in non-local areas. obligation.

But sometimes things are not just doing things in accordance with the rules and regulations. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com For example, for Lawrence, it is very meaningful to pay a little extra at this time and try to brush up on the goodwill of the people around him. Because only by doing more homework in this way and encountering some troublesome problems will more people be willing to help themselves.

"By the way, which country is the army passing by?" After simply agreeing to the priests' request, Lawrence asked what came to mind.

After all, during the civilized expedition, the civilized races will be mobilized in a unified manner, so the troops on the island may not be assigned to the White Eagle Federation side, so some things are best to be asked clearly.

"What we passed by was mainly a group of companies from the Erythion Empire and several islands attached to the Erythion Empire." A priestess of the Fortune Church took out a small notebook and said after taking a look. "These people add up to about two thousand people, and they will travel to the Erythian Empire on ten transport ships, escorted by three warships."

There are not many large islands like Neusauer in this area. Therefore, the elite troops that can be drawn out in the war on each island are two to three hundred.

Therefore, when it is necessary to join the civilization expedition, the owners of these islands naturally chose to march forward in groups to ensure safety when mobilizing their forces.