Struggle in the Steam Age

Early the next morning, a four-masted fast sailing ship from the New Island Republic docked at the temporary pier built by the pontoon bridge. Then hundreds of wooden boxes were unloaded. Along with the arrival of the ship was a young Cathay leader. If Lawrence remembered correctly, he should have seen this young man at Zhu's house before.

"Thank you for your hard work." After the handover, Lawrence shook hands with the person in charge and thanked him, and then asked with some doubts: "I should have only ordered about 300 boxes of ammunition from Zhu Yan, but why is this?" brought me more than 600 boxes of ammunition for the first time?"

"Because after reporting this business to our family elders, the family elders decided to export these weapons to you at the cost price." The person in charge said, "Considering the reason why weapons are difficult to buy in your place, we simply give you Prepare more weapons."

"Thank you so much." Lawrence shook hands with the person in charge again, and then invited him to have lunch with him. As for why the Zhu family was willing to sell these weapons and ammunition at a cost price, Lawrence knew very well that he wanted to establish a good relationship with himself, an upstart who owned a territory.

For a big family that has been passed down for a long time, establishing enough interpersonal relationships is a very important reason why they can exist in this world for so many years. Similarly, they also knew that icing on the cake was far worse than giving charcoal in the snow, so they gave such a big gift after Lawrence had just arrived on the island.

Naturally, Lawrence will remember this friendship, and with enough weapons, he can arm as many people as possible so that he can cause more casualties to the goblins in the process of hunting down the goblins.

And in the afternoon of this day, just when Lawrence started to feel a little worried. Safir finally took the others to the bay in a sailboat. Unexpectedly, in addition to the three sailboats mentioned earlier, dozens of tattered boats followed behind. At the same time, each boat seemed to be crowded with people, and even the decks could be seen densely packed with people's heads.

"You're finally here." After the boat docked, Lawrence excitedly hugged Safiel who was the first to jump off the boat. "You're finally here. Didn't you say you'd come at noon before? Why are you here now? I've been worried about you since noon."

"Don't worry, it's all right." Safir stepped back and said, kissing Lawrence on the cheek. "It's just that I encountered some accidents, so I came late."

"Accident?" After hearing this sentence, Lawrence immediately took a step back and looked at Safiel up and down, and said on his lips at the same time. "You didn't hurt anything, did you?"

"Where are you thinking?" Seeing Lawrence's nervous expression, Safiel burst out laughing. "The accident I'm talking about is actually the task you asked me to recruit people before. I completed it a little too successfully. As for it took more time to get here after setting sail this morning."

The establishment of a territory is not enough simply relying on strong labor, so various professionals are needed to help plan or do something else. Therefore, after receiving Lawrence's telegram, Safir began to recruit those professionals that a territory must need in Eagle Fort.

In fact, if Lawrence's uncle hadn't given up his territory after being controlled by the second prince's men with evil magic, he could have brought all those professionals directly from Sauer. But now that he has given up the territory for two years, he can only ask for some foreign aid.

Fortunately, because of Lawrence's great academic achievements and the factory he founded in Eagle Fort, Safir easily hired professionals from Eagle Fort that are lacking now. There are even some professionals who are willing to immigrate directly with their families.

For example, Dr. Liszt, who participated in his first adventure since time travel with Lawrence, and then co-authored the crucial paper on infection and prevention methods, took his parents and fiancee directly to follow Safir. Up to the island of Nova Sauer.

For another example, Jimmy, the skilled worker in the Lawrence factory, also came to this island with his wife and a pair of children.

The reason why these people were willing to immigrate here was because Lawrence got along well with them before and had seen his powerful side. So I think that Lawrence's promise to them will definitely be fulfilled, and this development will also be successful. They get here early to reap the lion's share of the benefits as entrepreneurs.

On the other hand, because Lawrence is kind to them, they are willing to rush over to help him at this time. Then help him complete control of the island.

"Then what's going on with those small boats behind your boat?" After discovering that most of the people on the big boat had disembarked and headed to the camp, Lawrence pointed to the long line of boats behind the big boat that were about to directly grab the beach. The boat asked Safiel. "You probably didn't bring these ships over from Eagle Fort. I don't think it's possible for these ships to be too far from the coastline."

"It's not true. All the people on these boats came here voluntarily after we arrived in Tanas Town." Saifeier said, looking at the boat that approached the stall and began to unload people. "Now the reclamation of the land over there has reached its limit, but the population is still growing. So after hearing that you are going to open up wasteland, they voluntarily rushed here."

Following Seifel's introduction, Lawrence also figured out what happened to the group of more than 1,500 people who were now lined up on the beach for disinfection according to the orders of the guard soldiers.

Although they did not occupy the good place of Niujiao Bay in the previous several developments, they still succeeded in establishing a series of small and medium-sized colonies in other places, and at the same time they also attracted many people from their own territory to colonize the territory. .

But as the wave of pioneering receded and the lord gave up, the island never developed. However, the serfs and poor citizens who migrated here earlier could only carry on in this place. After all, although the conditions here are a bit difficult, at least I can have land here that I don’t have in my hometown and still have enough food.

But as the population continued to grow, the previously seemingly sufficient territory gradually became cramped. And it is difficult for these people living in the territory to unite because they are distributed in multiple territories and have different origins. And gather enough ability to open up new territories.

Therefore, after Safir rushed to Tanas Town and announced that a new lord of the island was preparing to open up a new territory, more than 1,000 households followed her to take risks in less than a week.

After all, according to the thinking of these people, if they stay in the original place, they may not even have enough to eat for another generation or two. So they simply came over to make a splash.

If we can win the largest seaside plain on the entire island, at least several generations of people will not have to worry about not having enough to eat. Even if this piece of land cannot be taken, according to the previous practice, those pioneers will open up a smaller piece of land in other places to try to gain a foothold here, and they can also obtain new land.

So these people first let their families stay where they are, and at the same time drew out almost all young and middle-aged men to come here on those small broken boats, trying to participate in the construction of this territory from the beginning.

"That is to say, they are willing to become my direct subjects?" Lawrence asked a little surprised. According to the rules, everyone on the island can be counted as his own subjects since he became the new Earl Sauer, but It's completely different for the direct citizens.

According to tradition, a direct subject is equivalent to a lord's tenant, and the degree of freedom is much worse than that of an ordinary subject. Therefore, Lawrence is very curious about why some people are willing to become his direct subject voluntarily.