Roland was thinking about it when he suddenly felt a chill on his face, and the girl's crisp and hearty laughter came from his ears. Looking back, Lyudmila was fishing on the shore of the lake, the tall peaks on her chest and the slender and round legs held the flexible and light white dragon leather armor tight, and the suddenly raised fishing rod brought a large splash, and a few drops of water splashed on his face.

"How's the harvest?" Roland walked up behind Lyudmila and stroked his girlfriend's jet-black and supple ponytail.

"Big harvest, please eat grilled fish at noon." Lyudmila skillfully plucked a plump rainbow trout from her own fishing hook, shook it at her boyfriend with a smile, and threw it into the basket she had made with wicker.

"It's amazing, I didn't know you had this trick before." Roland squinted at the wicker basket, where four or five trout were snapping their tails.

Lyudmila glanced at him coquettishly, "You're not old yet, why has your memory deteriorated, I often took you to the river to fish when I was a child!" ”

All of Roland's memories of Lyudmila's childhood come from another soul, but what impresses him more is his own childhood on earth, and the result of the conflict and confusion between the two memories is that he forgets many old things, and only after Lyudmila's reminder does he evoke some vague memory images. The female ranger's clear and agile eyes made him feel panicked, and he quickly changed the subject: "I mean, I haven't tasted the trout you roasted with your own hands." ”

Lyudmila smiled with relief and glanced a little embarrassed to the side, "I'm only in charge of fishing, and the grilled fish is in charge of a professional chef." ”

Roland turned his head to see that Jack had already lit a campfire by the lake, opening his storage bag and digging out the barbecue grill and bottles and cans of various colors...... This guy claims to be a "gourmand whose future has been delayed by alchemy", and Roland is a little worried that he is sloppy and mistakes dangerous drugs for seasonings.

Yodel deliberately created a space for young couples to enjoy the waterfall, pretending to be a god behind their backs. Lyudmila was a little embarrassed, pushed Roland, and whispered, "Don't you still have business to talk to Mr. Yodel?" Busy with your go, don't bother me fishing! ”

"I've got something to tell you."

"What?"

The female ranger approached curiously, but he sneered and kissed him, and picked up the fishing rod in shame and anger to drive the stinky and shameless guy away.

Roland had already taken on a deep face when he returned to Yodel's side, and he looked up at the spectacular scene with Mr. Mayor side by side.

The "White Deer River" is the largest branch of the middle and lower reaches of the Veres River, which is more turbulent than the main stream due to the topography, with lakes and fisheries, and a well-known "Garon Waterfall", which is said to be the largest waterfall in the Far East and among the top three in the entire Atlas continent.

"'Garon' means 'heavenly river' in our local dialect, the ancients always attributed the natural wonders to the power of ghosts and gods, legend has it that this waterfall was originally part of the heavenly Milky Way, the thunder god Perron broke the Milky Way with lightning, and the river water fell from the sky to form this large waterfall." Yodel looked up at the waterfall with admiration in his eyes.

Roland was also struck by the majestic natural landscape in front of him, but he made a special detour to Grand Rapids not to find a Range Rover, but to investigate whether the local environment, especially the water resources, was suitable for building an industrial base.

The development of industry is inseparable from energy in the first place. In this era when the steam engine was just emerging, the large number of magic crystal steam engines used as industrial power seemed to be high-end and high-grade, but in fact, the cost was very high, and compared with the factories that used free natural power, they lacked a competitive advantage. Given the abundant water resources available in the Far East, Roland naturally preferred this relatively cheap power, and the area where Karon Falls was located was the most suitable industrial area for his ideals.

Of course, in the long run, there will be too many limitations compared to steam power, and it will gradually be replaced by the latter as the times develop. But only at the current state of technology, hydraulics will still have a significant cost advantage over steam power for at least a decade.

It is short-sighted to only consider the immediate interests of doing things, but only looking at the so-called long-term blueprint, vainly trying to "do it in one step", and taking shortcuts to engage in "transcendent development" is like wanting to race with adults before learning to walk.

Roland chose to establish an industrial center in Great Rapids in order to use water resources to seize five to ten years of development opportunities, and gradually carry out technological innovation while developing.

The idea of developing industry on the premise of resource endowment and comparative advantage and adapting measures to local conditions in late-developing countries is not an idea that Roland came up with with a pat on the head, which has a precedent on the earth. At the end of the eighteenth century, soon after the independence of North America, it ushered in the opportunity of great industrial development, and later overtook the former suzerain, Great Britain, to become the world's first industrial country. As we all know, the first industrial revolution originated in Britain, and it was also the first Britain to use steam engines to replace natural power, so did American industry catch up with Britain by relying on more, larger, and more advanced steam engines?

Of course not.

In the early days of North America, most of the factories were concentrated in the Great Lakes region and the Connecticut Valley valley in the northeast, and it was the abundant and free water resources in the region, rather than the expensive and faulty steam engines, that cultivated the largest industrial region in North America, and enabled this emerging country to emerge from colonial rule and surpass its former suzerain, the empire on which the sun never sets, to become the world's largest industrial power. The steam engine was not the first choice for industrial power on the North American continent during this history, and it was a far cry from the milestone role it played in Britain's industrialization. In the final analysis, it is the difference in resource endowment that determines different development paths, after all, the UK does not have the unique water resources like North America.

As a time-traveler, one of Roland's great advantages is that he has more experience than others, and understands a more mature civilization system that is completely different from the wizarding world, and the comparison between the two allows him to live more clearly, and avoid making those mistakes that are too high-minded and eager to achieve results as much as possible.

Roland stood in front of Caron Falls with his hands on his hips, opened the "Pupil of Destiny" to look at the top of the waterfall through the mist of water, and visually measured the drop of 80 yards of waterfall, the drop of Niagara Falls on the earth is only about 60 yards, just look at the drop is not big, but the drop of the waterfall is not equal to the flow of water, the width of Caron Falls is more than five miles, and the momentum is not visible at a glance, which shows how abundant the local water resources are, if you don't make good use of it, it is really humiliating to the name of the traverser.

Mr. Kafta from Port White Gull has a common occupational disease in the industry of "mechanics" – an almost paranoid obsession with data. Not content with just visually measuring the flow of the waterfall, he poured a bottle of "water walking" potion and took his test tools to try to wade close to the waterfall to measure the exact flow rate and flow. Yodel hurriedly shouted and warned him not to go near the waters into which the waterfall was infused.

Startled by him, Kafta quickly stopped and looked back at yodel with a puzzled face.