Looking at the upright Duke Jackson, I didn't expect that he was also a greasy uncle with a lewd belly, and I was confused and unwillingly saddled with an inexplicable huge debt.

When I got back to the camp, I told everyone about it, and Big Bear said to me disappreciatively: "You are really worrying, you can't afford more than 10,000 pounds, and you can pay back 1,000 pounds?" So anyway, they can't afford to pay it back, whether it's 10,000, 1,000, even if it's 100 million, it's just the same meaningless mathematical symbol, and he didn't say when he would pay off all the debts, so you just dragged it slowly. ”

I looked at the bear in disbelief, I didn't expect this unlearned grandson to be able to analyze this problem so thoroughly, and the face of borrowing money and not paying it back seemed so reasonable.

In addition to this debt, Duke Jackson also told me another thing, his large army will leave the island in a few days, and the nominal supreme commander of the entire island will be Governor James, but he will leave a hundred island guards to be responsible for the defense of the island, and the island guards will have a new officer command, theoretically speaking, the escort will not accept the leadership of the island cabinet, and will only provide necessary help if the island cabinet applies for it. The Duke told me that he could see that James did not like me very much, and that he would embarrass me from time to time, and that if my life was threatened on the island, then I could go to the commander of the convoy and he would keep me safe. But I can't talk about it to a third person, and once I seek refuge with the convoys, I'm going to accept the arrangements to leave the island at once.

I didn't talk about this special agreement to everyone, not because I was afraid of leaking the news, but because I didn't want to add unnecessary troubles and worries to everyone, what is the relationship between James and Grace, and what is the relationship between Grace and Duke Jackson, it seems a little confusing now, but I uphold the principle that it is a blessing or a curse, and a disaster cannot be avoided, and I will take a step at a time.

Although the supply brought by the Duke has greatly improved our production labor, after all, science and technology are relatively backward, and the island is really primitive and can no longer be primitive, so the progress of the entire reclamation construction becomes more and more slow in the later stage.

James has been busy directing the construction of the Governor's Mansion during this time, so he probably doesn't have time to trouble me. Speaking of the construction of this house, it is really a challenge.

Although there is wood on the island, the problem is that we can't all use wood to build all the buildings, because of the humid climate of the island, if the wood building is not well treated, it is easy to decay, although we have previously found tropical tung oil on the island, the oil it secretes can play a role in the protective film, but the number of tung oil is limited after all, and the amount of oil secreted by each tung oil tree in a period of time is also limited, so it can not meet the needs of large-scale house construction. Secondly, the climate of the island is changeable, often windy and rainy, our boulder camp is relatively deep on the island, and there are boulders as a backing, and the volume is not large, so it is still strong, but if you change to other large buildings, the difficulty of wind resistance will increase sharply.

Masonry building is naturally the best choice, but the mining and transportation of stones are extremely costly, after all, the mountains of the island are mainly concentrated in the northern part of the island, far away from James's site, although there are still some small residual veins in the closer places that can be mined for stone, but in general, transportation and mining are more troublesome. As for bricks, there are a lot of natural clay on the island that can be used to burn bricks, and through the efforts of scientists in the British Empire, the brick-burning process has been greatly improved, and the cycle of brick-making has been shortened a lot, but it takes time to dig and mine clay and build brick kilns.

But fortunately, there is now a group of free labor on the island, and those hard jobs can only fall on their heads. Although slavery is a brutal atrocity, the dirtiest and most unbearable stain in the history of human development, we are also very upset to see those slaves tired and semi-prostrate every day, but we can't do anything, what they need is a vigorous revolution.

I already have a lot of debts, so my main task at the moment is to find out the distribution and production of wine grapes throughout the island, and when the follow-up support team arrives, I will have to start a long journey to repay the debt.

Now that I have become the nominal owner of the winery, in the words of Da Xiong, I will be an island tycoon after a good development, so I feel that at least there must be an island tycoon, and I have not discussed with anyone to appoint Su Yuliu as my plenipotentiary secretary to assist me in the preliminary site selection of the distillery.

Of course, there will definitely be some different voices in this decision, but Zhou An'an was sent by Grace to help with the construction of the clinic and the exploration and collection of island herbs, and Lin Ruyi was arranged by me to further study special seeds, so although the second daughter was a little unhappy, they finally obeyed the organizational arrangement.

Although we have been living on the island for a long time, in fact, this island is very large, and the place we have actually set foot in may not be a third of the entire island, especially the extinct volcano area in the north, we have not set foot in it at all, let alone other small islands nearby, and most of the general understanding of the entire island is based on the notes and maps of Japanese military doctors found in underground secret rooms.

From what we have known before, as well as the information gathered by the exploration team sent by James later, in addition to the abundant forest resources and fresh water reserves on this island, there are many strange creatures, especially those such as the spotted tiger, which are thought to be extinct, and there may be more than one species on the island. In addition, the mineral resources on the island are also relatively rich, although they have not been scientifically rigorously explored, but from the rough collection results, at least the coal resources are amazing.

After I took Su Yuliu to make full preparations, I decided to set off to the north of the island, and Da Xiong and the others would also follow with me, but I thought that if these people went, they would be living light bulbs, so I told them that you should stay in the camp, and then have a good talk with James, and divide the private land that belongs to us clearly, and if we have the land, we must also reclaim it, and we must learn all kinds of farming and sowing skills, after all, the arrears of twenty pounds a year are there, so staying in the base camp is also to contribute to the revolution.

On the way to the extinct volcano in the north, the freshwater lake is a must, and on the way to the lake, Su Yuliu asked me, "Will we encounter the spotted tiger again?" ”

I said, "The spotted tiger that attacked us before has been killed, and it is very likely that this species will be extinct on the earth, so it is unlikely that we will encounter it again, and if we do meet a second one, then we will be developed, and if we are captured alive, my debt will be paid off directly." ”

We were chatting, suddenly my head was hit by something like a nut, I touched my head around to see that there was nothing, I asked Su Yuliu a little puzzled: "What hit me just now?" ”

Su Yuliu shook her head, then picked up a pine cone on the ground and said, "It should have been this thing that hit you, did it fall from the tree and just fell on your head?" ”

I said, "No way, Newton dropped an apple on his head and smashed a world-famous scientific genius, what is the matter with a pine cone on my head?" And there are no pine trees in the vicinity, even if there is the angle and force of the fruit just now, it is not right. ”

When I said this, Su Yuliu was a little nervous, she involuntarily approached my body, and then asked in a low voice, "You won't see the hell, right?"

I don't know where I got the courage to hold her directly in my arms and say, "Don't be afraid, where did the ghost come from in broad daylight?" If there's a ghost, I'll catch it and sell it for money. ”

Su Yuliu was hugged by me and didn't resist, I was happy in my heart, could it be that the little angel named Cupid deliberately added fuel to the fire?