Struggle in the Steam Age

It took twice as long as it took Lawrence and the others to return to the port town. This was because the destroyed places on the two captured ships were only temporary repairs, and some big loopholes were only plugged. But even if they stopped there, the sea water would leak into the cabin through the gaps filled, so they didn't dare to drive the boat fast.

"We have already contacted the port." When they saw the peninsula protruding into the sea outside the port, the Enterprise used the telegraph on board to contact the port area and announced the news of victory. Because the fortress on the only way to enter the port area is at the highest state of combat readiness, Lawrence will naturally notify the fortress in advance to avoid being mistakenly attacked by pirates.

Half an hour later, when Lawrence and his boat passed through that exit, they saw the flagpole in the fortress being erected, with a flag representing welcome hanging on it. At the same time, he found that the fortress buildings were covered with plants, which seemed to be temporarily spawned by the priests of the Agricultural Church.

The concealment effect of these plants is very good. If Lawrence didn't know it in advance, he felt that he would probably regard this small fortress, which itself was not tall, as a small mound. Of course, if someone wants to attack the port under such circumstances, the artillery deployed on this fortress can teach the invaders an absolutely painful lesson.

When they approached the pier trestle, they found that apart from some members of the guards and the people who rushed over spontaneously to greet them, there was a group of tall and dark figures at the end of the line.

After speaking a few words with the people on the pier and explaining the upcoming work, Lawrence, Safir and Nora returned to the residence together. They also went to the residence together with the Tauren Orchid Iron Hoof.

"Why did you come here so quickly?" Lawrence asked curiously. "I remember you said that you said that tauren are generally conservative, so it will take a long time to convince them?"

"I thought so before." Lanhua Iron Hoof showed a strange smile. "But everyone heard that after being able to trade with humans, every tribe became unexpectedly active, especially after learning that they could export labor services, they wanted to let these people set off immediately and blame these big eaters to you."

"It really sounds like—" Lawrence didn't know what to do to make a better expression at this time, so he changed the subject a little awkwardly. "By the way, I just saw that the tauren seem to be all holding weapons."

"Yes, we arrived here along the river less than a day after you set off." Lan Hua explained the current situation. "After we came here, we heard that pirates were likely to invade here, so we told those who received us that we could join the garrison as a militia."

"That's why you saw us at the port before, and your leader agreed to us temporarily becoming a militia, but you couldn't find a suitable weapon for our tauren for a while. So just temporarily use some tools and simple weapons to arm us."

Lawrence finally figured out why the group of tauren just now looked like they were holding maces filled with various scraps of iron and a row of ordinary tools such as handaxes pinned to their waists. Lawrence also appreciated the favor from the group of tauren who took the initiative to participate in the war.

Killing the pirates this time is very good news for Lawrence, the others and Shaw Island. Let's not talk about how much material can be purchased with the wealth seized after killing these pirates to speed up the construction of the island. These two boats alone are of great help to this island whose settlements are basically all connected by water transportation.

Not to mention that after defeating these pirates, Lawrence found that the surrounding islands treated him much better. If the people on those islands were only polite to him when he visited those islands before, then what the envoys who came to congratulate him after defeating the pirate group this time made him feel that he finally It is integrated into the circle of the surrounding archipelago.

After all, when the pirates came to this place a few years ago, they didn't show mercy to the surrounding areas. Almost every island has been plundered by those pirates. And every time they plundered, the owners of the islands would be the primary targets, causing heavy losses to the owners of those islands.

However, this does not mean that the poor people on the island were not damaged during the plundering. For the group of pirates, they would never let them go just because they had no money.

Not to mention that the rich people on the island and even the island owner have enough warning time to escape when encountering pirates, but other people on the island do not have such good luck. They often become victims of pirate robbery. In this kind of atrocities created by pirates, he lost his own little wealth, and even had to pay his own life. So after Lawrence defeated and completely wiped out those pirates, everyone on the surrounding islands, regardless of wealth or status. All are grateful to Lawrence.

And this situation is very conducive to the next step of the development of New Sauer Island, because with the further development of the territory, the economy of the island will sooner or later go out of the island and develop to the surrounding areas. And if you can get more goodwill around you, it will be of great help in the future.

After successfully eliminating external threats, with the seized wealth as a lubricant, and a group of tauren labor joined in, the construction speed on the island has increased a lot. Not to mention the obvious acceleration of the new field development speed, just from Lawrence's office, you can see the lighthouse built near the fort visible to the naked eye.

In fact, Lawrence has always felt that the construction of the lighthouse does not need to be too urgent, because he believes that the main work in the first few years of the development of this land is to allow this place to establish an industry that can develop independently, and this stage of infrastructure construction is theoretically There is not much need to communicate with the outside world.

But after eliminating the pirates, Lawrence discovered from the data that the lighthouse has become more and more important to the port of Oxhorn Bay, so that he had to allocate part of the manpower and half of the original land reclamation manpower after repeated trade-offs. The tauren go together to complete the construction.

According to the content in the data, with the construction of the hospital, the production of medicines plus the output of dried fish. Now there are more and more ships of various kinds coming to the island for trade, so the port that used to operate only during the day has gradually become unsatisfactory for use. In this case, night flight becomes an inevitable thing.

But in this way, the shoal at the entrance of the port area that shelters the port area from wind and waves and can provide a certain amount of cover tactically becomes a huge trouble. The active fishing boat accidentally bumped into the shoal and ran aground when returning to the port at night. Fortunately, there were not many storms and waves on the sea at that time, so no casualties were caused.

However, this incident sounded a wake-up call for Lawrence and the others. After all, it was just luck that no casualties were caused this time, but the next time may not be as lucky as this time.

So after repeatedly checking the entry records of recent ships, Lawrence finally chose to deploy a group of manpower for construction. After all, according to the current rate of increase in the number of ships docking at the port, it will definitely be too late to repair the lighthouse when the normal night navigation really starts.

In this way, more than a whole week passed in the busy construction. On this day, when Lawrence went to the edge of the fort to inspect the lighthouse that had already laid the foundation and built a part of the frame, a small sampan sailed from the direction of the port area. After landing, Priest Peter jumped down from the top and shouted to Lawrence: "Uncle Lambert told me to call you back immediately, people from Fortune Church are here."