Chapter 121 Balanced Literature
In August, the afternoon sun shone on the comfortable velvet sofa in the fortress. Christina was lying on it in a lovely white cotton dress decorated with lace and ruffles. Beside her lay Nicole, a gentle long-haired kitten.
A little master and a little ancestor, both are fair and soft, lying together, the scene is particularly harmonious, and the motherly love of the people watching is like a flood.
The servants who were serving her couldn't help but smile.
The painter who came from the south to the north to find work during the turmoil is carefully painting the portrait of the future lord here. After all, the current lords are watching him.
Christina will be one year old in a month and a half. Olivia and Caesar have asked the artist to paint five or six oil portraits of her in the past eleven months.
"Children grow up so fast. When they grow up this big, it passes by so quickly. It's not enough to paint one for each season. I have to hang one in my room too," said Theresa.
It is now afternoon snack time, and the six adults in the family are sitting at the round table next to each other to have snacks. This is a regular family meeting time, and they can talk about and discuss any topic.
Caesar was reading official documents while sipping a cup of herbal tea from the southern continent.
He looked up, agreeing with his mother-in-law that a few portraits were too few.
Caesar looked at Christina, his fatherly love overflowing as if he could produce milk right here.
However, he still had important matters to attend to. The official documents were sent back from the front line. The night before, the fleet arrived within twenty nautical miles of Vero Island and encountered resistance from the southern tribes.
Yesterday morning, the fleet successfully landed on the island and dispersed the soldiers as planned. Yesterday evening, the entire southern tribe had fallen into their hands under the powerful ships and guns.
The document took one night and half a day to deliver and was finally delivered to the fortress half an hour ago.
Olivia was very surprised. This was three or four times faster than she expected.
At this rate, if the fighting continues for a year, Christina will have no wars to fight when she grows up.
She was more concerned about the performance of the new weapons and equipment and asked casually.
Caesar reported in a serious and solemn manner. He specifically asked the soldiers to record various usage problems and damage accident rates when using weapons in actual combat, just so that he could answer them when she asked, and provide feedback to the designer at the same time.
The designers obtained the data and made improvements.
Although Olivia knew that using enemies for weapons testing was too cruel, there were no innocent people on Vero Island, and this island was too tempting.
At the same time, while the pirates of Vero Island were being severely attacked, cotton picking began on the plantations in the South.
After making arrangements for the provision of food and the reclamation of wasteland in the north, Jagbu sailed out to the site in person and came here to check the yield of the experimental crops.
The 600 acres of cotton on the island have a yield of 180 pounds per acre, and the total yield after the entire harvest reaches 110,000 pounds.
This is incomparably more than wool production.
This cotton can probably be used to make 16,000 long cotton-padded jackets weighing six pounds, which is not only enough to supply the troops in the entire region, but also enough to spare.
Jagabu realized the importance of this thing and immediately reached an agreement with Letilen and Moni.
Moni promised to plant 2,000 acres of cotton on his land this year and sell it all to the North.
Jagbu also expanded the cotton plantation area to one thousand acres.
By next year, that would be 540,000 pounds of cotton, enough to make cotton clothes for people in several counties.
In mid-September, the merchandise returned to the North when Jagbu brought several ships of cotton and various southern crops.
The war on Vero Island was long over.
In two days, the army captured the tribes in the southern part of Vero Island. On the fifth day, they defeated the tribes in the middle. On the ninth day, they wiped out all the tribes in the north.
After all the pirates were wiped out, local soldiers were carrying out large-scale island reclamation work.
It takes a thousand days to train an army and only a moment to deploy it. Thousands of soldiers landed on Vero Island, cleared all the remaining islands, and then began to select strategically located areas on the island to build vast flat areas with cement and bricks.
Harbors and wasteland construction to make room for shipyards, military factories, and smelters to be relocated.
In their strategic planning, Olivia and Caesar really didn't intend to put all their eggs in one basket.
According to the exploration team, there are large amounts of iron and coal mines in the mountains of Vero Island. This news made Olivia happier than getting a treasure.
She immediately decided to disperse the military industry and place it in the central part of Vero Island, the manufacturing industry in Einweiden, and other important industrial products in Fantnich.
The entire Vero Island covers an area of about 10,000 hectares. The three main islands cover about 8,000 hectares, the largest island covers 3,500 hectares, the southern island covers 2,000 hectares, the northern island covers 2,500 hectares, and there are about 16 other small islands, totaling 2,000 hectares.
Olivia named these small islands after seafood. The largest island was named Conch Island, the small island to the north was named Scallop Island, and the island to the south was named Lobster Island.
All the armed pirates on these islands have been cleared out, and the women and children from the lower-class fishermen's families in the tribes who did not follow the pirates are still alive.
There are only 2,000 of them on the three islands, and they are tribal serfs who have always been oppressed by the upper class of the tribe.
Olivia's instructions were to make these people serfs and give them food, but to suppress them with caution, since they were descendants of pirates after all.
No matter what, these people are an ethnic group that has been at odds with the mainland for generations. More churches should be built and soldiers should be forced to escort these islanders to learn Protestantism.
Everyone is forced to study the teachings in the church, and then do some labor reform in the army for a few years. After their favorability is improved, the restrictions can be gradually relaxed.
Two thousand soldiers from the direct territory were working on the island, and two to three thousand soldiers were deployed on the Hobbes border to develop military settlements and build roads.
Caesar and Lao Zhangren are preparing for the next expansion plan all day long. However, they still have to wait for the second improvement of military weapons, which will not be completed until next year at the latest.
September was approaching the time for the autumn harvest in the north. Olivia was worried about organizing a birthday party for Christina while also worrying about various land reclamation matters in the territory.
After the territory had a large atmosphere, according to Jagbu's statistics, the total amount of mature arable land in the territories of several towns, including the one on Conch Island, was 20,000 acres.
Jagabu sent staff to record the different environmental data of each area and formulate different farming plans.
The conditions on the island are really harsh and nothing can be grown, otherwise they would not make a living as pirates.
Therefore, Jagabu chose the most cold-resistant potatoes and arranged to plant thousands of acres on these small islands to serve as food for local soldiers and serfs.
The directly controlled arable land of Einweiton and the three surrounding towns totals 10,000 acres, of which 5,000 acres are used for grain cultivation, with 1,000 acres of each of the main grains and 5,000 acres of other crops. Most of the southern plantations are cotton.
As the amount of land under his management increased, Jagabu's status rose. Even barons from other places began to arrange blind dates for him with noble ladies. However, Jagabu was not familiar with those ladies, and he had no time to hide from them, so he spent the whole day in the fields and the office.
The news reached the fortress, and Olivia and Caesar laughed at it for a long time.
These drivers are all adults. The youngest ones, Adam and Ethan, have grown up, and the others are in their twenties. It's time to pair them up.
Olivia planned to use Christina's birthday party to hold a dance for her subordinates, and then invite merchants and nobles from outside to bring some young talents and ladies over. If they found someone they liked, it would be a good thing.
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