"Thanks to your help, we are now doing a very good job and should be able to complete all the preparations for the wintering before winter comes, if there are no accidents."

At the end of the introduction, the officers who greeted Liang En summed it up succinctly, and at the same time, their tones were full of gratitude to Liang En, it was because of Liang En's previous preparation that they could be so relaxed now.

According to statistics, only seven people have been killed due to illness or accidents on this entire voyage, which can be regarded as a slight loss, and only a dozen people have been injured.

After arriving there, they had already received help from more than 30 tribes, but because of the local climate, these tribes combined were only more than 1,000 people, and they could not provide much manpower.

"I remember how many steam engines were on the ship's list, why weren't they put into service?" After listening to the explanations of several officers, Liang En asked with some curiosity, when he came, he only saw many people busy, and did not see the machine.

"Because these steam engines come in the form of parts, we won't install them." A hundred households said to Liang En with some embarrassment, "The manual is very detailed, but it is true that I can't learn it." ”

"What about the Engineer?" Liang En was slightly dissatisfied after hearing this answer, theoretically there should be supporting service personnel if there is a machine, but now the machine is not complicated, a professional with a group of ordinary workers is enough.

"Not in the first place." One of the captains complained at this time, "This place is too far away for ordinary people to come here, so we invited a Momen engineer who was willing to take the risk before our team set off." ”

"As a result, the day before departure, the engineer was hit by a carriage in order to save the children on the road, and both legs were broken, and our fleet had to set off at the agreed time, so there were no engineers."

"So we're now working on human power." Another deputy Baihu said to Liang En, "Then wait for the next time to send the engineer over to operate the machine." ”

"You a-alas!" Liang En felt speechless about the problems encountered by this group of people, and could only say that sometimes luck can decide many important things, but often it is not in the same direction as people hope.

Fortunately, this group of people is also lucky, and now Liang En has arranged a temperature conversion circle around the island where they are camped, so the requirements for local buildings will be lower, and the amount of work will naturally be lower.

In addition to the fact that the perimeter defense system cannot be reduced, the building standards of housing, ports, and warehouses can be lowered across the board, and the construction man-hours can also be reduced, so that all buildings can be repaired before winter falls.

"In this way, I'll help you install these six machines, and by the way, I'll help you train them." After a pause of a few seconds, Liang En said to the officers in front of him.

After all, the development of the New World was organized by Liang En, and now the location of the exploration is assigned to Liang En's development site, so he should contribute in this regard.

With the steam engine, the construction efficiency will be improved, so it will naturally invest more labor in the local area and improve the quality of local construction, and it is difficult for Liang En to refuse this harvest.

So in the next week, Liang En fully carried out the installation and training of the steam engine, so that a team of ten people mastered the use and simple maintenance of the steam engine.

With the installation of steam engines one by one, many jobs that would have required a large number of workers were quickly replaced by steam power, freeing up a large number of people to divert to other jobs.

For example, with the installation and commissioning of the steam sawmill, many people can devote themselves to something similar to furniture making, which in turn improves everyone's well-being from the side – tables, chairs and beds are significantly more comfortable to use than stones and mounds of earth.

What's more, with the introduction of large steam engines, some previously inconvenient work can be carried out, the most important of which is the overhaul of some of the smaller vessels.

Unlike the main large ships, small ships tend to take on the role of pioneers in expedition work, so they are prone to all kinds of risks, and naturally there is a lot of damage along the way.

Although the fleet has also tried some ways to repair these ships before, the effect of underwater maintenance is very average, and it can only be said that the ships are barely usable, which is much worse than the intact state.

With the advent of the steam engine, it was only natural that the refurbishment of the small boats was put on the agenda, and the steam engines were used to pull the boats in the water to the shore, and then the damaged bottoms of the ships were repaired.

When a large number of people were relieved from simple labor, several teams were organized to explore the surrounding area and count the resources available in the surrounding area.

Unlike the settlement in the north, this settlement became the second largest port on the west coast of Canada in its previous life simply because of its location and the fact that it was surrounded by oil fields that made it easy for oil exports.

So for the group of people who went out to investigate, they didn't find much valuable discovery except that the surrounding environment was warmer because of Liang En's rectification-

No minerals worth mining have been found around the island, neither high-value gold, silver, gem mines, nor low-value copper-iron mines. At the same time, animal and plant resources are very scarce.

However, this did not affect the determination of the group to explore, especially since the expedition began to go further and further in the hope of exploring as large an area as possible before the first heavy snow fell.

But this place is still in the middle of the wilderness of the New World, so when the search range of those teams grows larger and larger, some accidents inevitably happen.

Fortunately, due to the low local temperature, there are not too many snakes, insects, rats, ants, and plants in the whole area, and the density of plants is not high, and the probability of everyone being attacked is naturally much smaller.

Even if someone encounters some beasts or dangerous barbarians, they can make various preparations in advance to avoid inexplicable attacks.

"So you found Xiongyi around?" Looking at a very embarrassed team, Liang En, who was explaining steam engine maintenance to a group of students before, wiped his hands and looked at them and asked.

"It's Xiongyi City-State, not just Xiongyi." The regular army officer in the lead shook his head and said, "I can judge that the total number of the other party will not be less than 8,000." ”

"Xiongyi City-State!" Hearing what the other party said, Liang En also became nervous. Because an important feature of Xiongyi barbarians is that as their numbers increase, their civilization level also increases.

For example, if there are only a few dozen bears, then they are not much different from wild beasts, at most they will use some low-level equipment such as stones or sticks, and they will not even use fire.

But as their numbers increase, some warlocks or shamans will emerge from among them, leading the entire tribe to begin to evolve rapidly.

If they gather nearly 10,000 people, then they will form a strict slave city-state and establish their own towns until one day they are completely wiped out in the event of war or natural disasters.

In ancient times, there were many such slave states, but with the progress of the times, these barbarian tribes gradually lost the wars against civilized countries, and now there are almost no such barbarian city-states in the Old World.

So Liang En and the others didn't expect to be able to encounter such a barbarian city-state on this new continent.