Struggle in the Steam Age

After completing the basic agreement, Lawrence immediately took out a bottle of Frans sparkling wine presented by the people on the island when he left Vieques Island last time, filled a glass for everyone present, and then everyone raised He raised his wine glass and cheered for the birth of the new industry.

Because now everyone knows that in the current situation, the loka fish people are responsible for the cultivation of the most important raw materials, while humans master the other key production technology. . In this way, the entire industry can be maintained for a long time.

"By the way, I have a suggestion." Lawrence said after everyone cheered together, "We can give this thing a new name. A name like alginate is too common, at least it is not suitable as a product name. And I I feel that the discovery of this new material is just the beginning, and I believe we will discover countless similar materials in the future."

"To be precise, this should be the first non-supernatural material discovered by us humans." Nora, who was floating in midair, said seriously.

"Actually, there are quite a few similar supernatural materials, but due to cost issues, there is no way to use them on a large scale. And our new material just fills the gap, so it is very necessary to have a famous name."

"That's right, a famous name does help the sale of these products." Miller nodded approvingly. Everyone knows the importance of advertising in this commercial society, even scholars like Miller don't exception. "But what would be a better name for such a thing?"

"I think we can call all of this category plastic, which means materials with strong plasticity." Lawrence thought for a while and used the two words plasticity and material among the existing words to piece together a part of the roots this time. New words are then explained to. "As for the plastic, I think it could be called Miller Plastic."

"This is really—" After hearing what Lawrence said, Miller immediately showed an excited expression, and even lost his mind for a moment. Because he didn't expect Lawrence, the actual controller of the island, to be willing to grant himself this supreme honor in his opinion, but he quickly realized and declined such a naming.

As for the reason for the refusal, it is also very simple. Miller thinks that he was able to make such a research result. It is just good luck. Such an achievement should be attributed to the complete set of scientific research system on the island, and he has also obtained a patent for plastics. The profit generated is enough as compensation. So in the end, he proposed to name this new material New Sauer Plastics.

The plastic industry, an emerging industry, obviously has a bright future, so under the organization of Lawrence, the now idle loca fish people quickly planted these plants that can extract new Sauer plastics on some coasts that humans cannot use. Seaweed, for murlocs, this is a very good job.

After all, after arriving on the island, all the work of the murlocs revolves around rebuilding the habitat. Fortunately, for the Loka fish people, it is not difficult to build a suitable area for living, especially after obtaining a large number of materials and tools provided by the island, the labor efficiency has increased significantly. Therefore, it only took a short time for the Loca murlocs to complete the construction of the settlement.

But in this way, the Loka fish people are now in a kind of confusion. Because although there are many places where humans need to hire them, at most they will only hire 1/5 of the idle population. It will take some time to start the work on planting various plants and breeding aquatic animals.

You should know that the Loka fish people used to live by hunting and gathering. Although there were some attempts on planting and breeding before, they were only small-scale behaviors of various tribes and did not expand on a large scale. It's just that they concealed this when they reported this to Lawrence before, and they didn't tell Lawrence about it until they arrived on the island for a while.

Greenface later told Lawrence that they did this because they didn't know what kind of person Lawrence was in the first place, so they chose to lie about this to prevent Lawrence from driving them away or refusing to accept them.

But later they discovered that Lawrence was not the kind of cruel human lord, and the overall atmosphere on the island was also very harmonious. That's why Lawrence was told the truth about them.

However, this also brought some troubles to Lawrence. The biggest problem is that it is still difficult to convert small-scale planting and breeding into large-scale intensive operations. So they need a certain amount of time to complete the conversion work on completing this aspect. During this period of time, the materials they lacked were naturally made up on the island.

This also means that in one or two seasons, this group of loca fish may have been able to maintain the support of humans, because out of the idea of ​​maintaining the sustainable development of the surrounding environment, they cannot be unrestrained. Hunting or gathering on the same scale as before.

In addition, the large-scale massacre of the sahuayu people also led to a very small proportion of young and middle-aged males among the surviving locayu people. Therefore, they naturally do not have enough people to complete risky businesses such as accompanying those fishing boats to go fishing in distant seas or offshore seabed exploration.

Because according to tradition, only male locathons will go out to hunt and carry out dangerous exploration work, while female locathons are mainly responsible for the equally important collection work and the production of important items such as weapons, clothing, and potions . As a result, those female locatha who lack experience in field activities are naturally not suitable for being put into important exploration work.

As a result, a large number of female locathians will naturally become unemployed, consuming the island's resources in vain, but failing to make corresponding contributions is a very bad thing for both the recipients and the sponsors. Therefore, the green face communicated with Lawrence many times because of such things, hoping to help them find enough jobs.

This is why Miller was able to hire a large number of locathons to help him collect specimens in the sea before. In addition, locathons have also taken over various underwater jobs, similar to inspecting kelp and seaweed Planting and fish in cages, or inspecting underwater parts of piers, dams and other projects.

However, these jobs obviously do not require too many people, and they lack permanence. That's why the Lokafish people responded very positively when the Lawrence protocol was planted with this seaweed capable of making Neosauer plastic. After all, the work of growing this kind of seaweed is not very heavy, and those female loka fish people can also complete such work.

And unlike the edible seaweed they've hoped to grow, it's much simpler to grow. According to the research of the priests of the Church of Agriculture, when planting, it is enough to choose the right place and pay attention to controlling the number of some crustaceans that like to eat this kind of seaweed, and it does not require too much field management.

These seaweeds will mature in two or three months after planting, and then people can pick from these giant seaweeds that look like small trees two or three meters high under the water every month 1/10 of the offshoots.

The lifespan of each giant seaweed is generally five or six years, but after three years these early yields will decrease. At that time, the whole seaweed needs to be removed and a new one should be planted.

According to the priests of the Agricultural Church, this large seaweed can not only provide raw materials for New Sauer plastic, but also improve the surrounding seabed that seems somewhat desolate.

When these seaweeds settle in, more plankton and smaller aquatic plants and algae will grow with the help of these giant seaweeds, which will further attract various animals.

In other words, planting this kind of giant algae can not only obtain the raw materials needed on the island, but also make the entire sea area more vibrant, which can be regarded as a manifestation of circular agriculture.