Struggle in the Steam Age

After returning to the port of New Sauer, special personnel soon took the tauren to the hospital. They will study and work here for a long time. Lawrence himself returned to his office with Nora. According to Saifeier in the telegram a few days ago, there are a lot of things that he needs to deal with now.

"You are finally back." Hearing the sound of someone pushing the door open, Safiel, who was sitting behind the desk processing a large pile of documents, immediately raised his head. After realizing that it was Lawrence and Nora who came in, she immediately put the pen aside and stood up and said. "There are too many documents in the past two days, many of which I can't handle."

"It's really hard work for you." After gently hugging Safir who came up and lowering his head to kiss her cheek, Lawrence walked to the edge of the desk with her. "No way, these things need to be dealt with in time. And no one here except you is qualified to sign these things."

"Actually, I want to ask Uncle Lambert for help these few days." Seeing Lawrence sitting on the table and then cooperating with the little doll Nora to process one document after another, sitting next to him also took out a document Safir, who was checking, told Lawrence what happened in the past few days. "But he said that these things are not convenient for him to intervene."

"My father is right." Lawrence said after placing the corrected documents on top of a thick stack of documents. "This is actually one of the contracts between humans and the gods. According to the contract, each church has the right to self-government in non-emergency situations, and the secular government cannot intervene. But correspondingly, church members cannot participate in the handling of secular affairs. In particular, non-emergency situations must not intervene in secular power."

This is why the church did not intervene in the civil strife that broke out in the capital of the Holy Visby Empire, because at first everyone thought it was just a coup within the regime, and the church could only be armed and neutral. Later, they intervened because Lawrence and the others destroyed the jammer and sent out the information that the second prince had colluded with the lower planes. After that, those churches could participate in the battle according to the "Convention of Civilization" signed by all civilized races.

Fortunately, Lawrence still maintained radio contact with the port when he was in the tauren tribe, so he had learned about most of the more important documents left today through the radio in the inland tribal area. So when they need to be signed now it can be done very efficiently.

After just over an hour, Lawrence successfully resolved the documents that had accumulated for more than a week. A large part of it is the application report for the construction of various places that need to allocate funds and materials, while a small part is all kinds of news about the new immigrants. One of the most important ones is that a group of about 2,000 immigrants will arrive on New Sauer Island recently.

These people were forced immigrants, or, as they used to say, a group of exiles. After the second prince's rebellion ended last time, some of the second prince's followers were liquidated in the following time. Of course, during this process, only those who are confirmed to have colluded with the lower planes will be executed, while some personnel and family members who are extremely close to the second prince but do not know about these incidents related to the lower planes will be sentenced to exile .

"Let me see that the South Tyrol is docking on the afternoon of the 7th." Lawrence said after Safir picked up the document and looked at the date on the document and silently calculated it. "The first batch of exiles was about 600 people. This is a little troublesome, because the immigrant reception facilities we prepared are for scattered immigrants with no more than 100 people per day. The 600 people in one breath has greatly exceeded the upper limit we can afford. "

"It's not a big problem." Lawrence said after thinking for a while. "The large pile of tents we used at the beginning when we came here are still there. Using these tents to temporarily build a simple isolation area should be able to cope with this period of time. As for the latter, two weeks of isolation is enough for us to The living quarters they need are built."

"Why do we accept this group of exiles?" After watching Lawrence sign the document, Safir asked a little puzzled, "As an earl with autonomy, according to the previous agreement when you were canonized, except for the need There is no need to accept any mandatory orders from the empire other than responding to the most basic civilized war call. Therefore, it is completely possible to refuse this group of exiles to come to our island."

"Yes, you are right. It seems that you have read those documents seriously before." Lawrence looked at Safiel and nodded with satisfaction, because it can be seen that she really put her heart into this aspect up. Then Lawrence changed the subject. "However, why should we reject these future settlers of our island?"

"Because they are exiles—" Safir pointed to the word "exiles" on the document, "and they are also a group of exiles related to collusion with the lower plane. I am worried that not only will they not become colonists or Our help, but will become a huge trouble on the island."

"Don't forget that when we visited our neighbors last time, we heard about the exile rebellion that broke out on a certain island around a few years ago. It took them a long time to suppress it. But although it was suppressed, The people on the island also lost more than 1/3 of the population due to the casualties in the war and the immigrant departure. Think about this case, that island was just ordinary criminal exiles, but this time the people who are coming to our island But a group of exiles related to the lower planes."

"Of course I know how dangerous those guys who communicate with the lower planes are." Lawrence said with a shrug. "But these people are not those who communicate with the lower planes, but those who are too closely connected with those people. They have been screened by various Orthodox churches to ensure that there are no such dangerous elements."

"Don't forget, now we have money, raw materials, and tools, but the problem is the lack of labor. Because of this problem, at least 1/4 of our projects cannot be started." Lawrence clicked on the exile behind the document said the list. "More importantly, I found that most of these exiles have received some basic education, and some even have the highest education level in this place that can be regarded as the edge of civilization."

"Well, there are actually more than a dozen high school students." After hearing Lawrence's words, Safiel also took the list that he ignored before. "Basically, they are technical workers, clerks or other similar occupations. It's not like our current group where only about 1/7 of the people can read."

"That's why I insisted on keeping them," Lawrence said. "Human resources are absolutely indispensable for a region to develop. Human resources here do not only refer to the number of workers, but also the quality of workers. And this group of people can greatly improve the personnel in our territory. quality level."

"Have you noticed something?" Nora asked after flipping through the entire list at the side. "All the people on the list are basically technicians or small employees. There are no rich people at all. There are no nobles."

"Isn't this a very normal thing?" Lawrence didn't think there was anything wrong with this situation. "Those nobles and rich people will be punished unless they really have too much relationship with the lower planes. Otherwise, their network and money are enough to make them exonerate in various situations."

"But this is a good thing for us." Safiel also said after checking the list in detail. "At least these ordinary people are relatively simple to manage now, unlike those nobles or rich people who don't listen to greetings at all, and are not considered labor force."