Struggle in the Steam Age

"It turns out that's the case, then it all makes sense now." Lawrence nodded thoughtfully. After all, for those plantation workers who were deceived and left home, the personnel in the court searched out this small After the wealth of the warlords has been distributed to them, all most people want to do is go home.

"However, in this way, it is estimated that it will be difficult for us to recruit a few people as citizens." Nora realized this problem at this time. "Because most of the people on the island were conned, they should have some kind of innate distaste for emigrating elsewhere, and a tendency to distrust other people."

"If you don't have it, you don't have it. After all, if the other party wants to leave, it's not a good thing to force them to stay." Lawrence said after thinking for a while.

"But according to the news we got before, the Algarve Empire is now on the eve of a large-scale civil war, so it may not be a good idea for them to return to their hometown."

"That's right, so we can make some preparations for the future." Nora said at this time, "If I remember correctly, there is a wax printing machine invented by your father and several cans of wax printing machines on our ship. Specialty inks. With these things, I think we can now spread the word about them."

"Yes, we should print some flyers and send them to them." Lawrence also came to his senses after being reminded by the little puppet. "We should simply print the policies of our island on the leaflets, so that if they return to their hometown and want to emigrate again, they should consider us in advance."

So when everyone was still thinking about using these refreshments, Nora flew out of the window and went straight to the boat she was on when she came here, and was about to start the printing of those promotional documents.

In addition, she also got some more detailed ideas from the people who were about to leave from the members of the guard who were sent to inquire about the specific situation just now.

"Honestly, ordinary people have very simple ideas. They just want to be able to have a secure life."

After Nora summed up the information she got from the members of the guards, while supervising the book charm she had just captured from the astral plane to write a manuscript, she reported to Lawrence through the soul connection.

"So I think it should not be difficult for our island to recruit them. After all, compared to their hometown that has been caught in war and chaos, our island should be a settlement that meets their requirements. More importantly Now our island also needs these farm workers with certain agricultural skills and discipline."

"You are right, but we must not be impatient at this time." Lawrence, who was tasting some kind of praline, seriously instructed the little doll through soul connection.

For example, the content of our leaflet must be simple, highlighting the safety and order of our island, and emphasizing that everyone can find their own opportunities on the island. "

"That is to say, we now try to use an objective tone from a third party to describe our island." Nora showed a thoughtful expression after receiving Lawrence's proposal, but soon she roughly guessed why Lawrence The main reason to do this. "You want to make these people less wary."

"Yes, that's it." Lawrence said helplessly. "After all, these people were tricked into coming to this place by those damn liars, so they naturally reject those propaganda that look colorful. So if we want to promote to them, we'd better choose the more simple one."

"Okay, I understand, leave the next work to me, I promise to do it properly." After speaking, the little puppet ended the call with Lawrence, and then turned its head to the book charm next to it. Said, "Okay, I think you already know the requirements, this article must be written enough plain."

"No problem, Miss Nora." After hearing the puppet's request, Shumei waved her tentacles excitedly, "This is the task that really suits a cultured person like me. Ah, I get excited just thinking about it. It's a challenging task to write the most evocative essay out of the most straightforward sentences—"

It's no wonder Shumei is so excited now, after all, it has always felt that it is very cultured. But Lawrence always used it as a copier, typewriter or printing press. Therefore, after receiving such a task that can highlight my cultural accomplishment, I naturally become very motivated.

"Yes, this task is indeed a bit complicated." Nora said in a sweet tone. The little puppet naturally knows that the grade of a literary work is closely related to the mood of the creator when creating it, so at this time, it is not stingy to pass Tout to achieve one's own purpose. "But you'd better go faster, because our time is a little tight."

"Understood, I will be able to finish these things soon, because I have already thought of an article that is very suitable for the current situation." Shumei said, stretched out six tentacles, each grabbed a pen and quickly held it in front of her. I started writing on a piece of paper, and after only five or six minutes, an article appeared on this piece of paper.

"Let me take a look—it's really good." After the book charm handed over what she wrote to Nora, the little puppet briefly glanced at it and nodded in satisfaction.

Obviously, the book charm that is Lawrence's pet is a cultural person as it introduced itself, so it was able to finish such an article in such a short time.

In the following time, all the people on the ship that belonged to Sauer Island were mobilized. While using the paper they found on the island, they quickly printed out rough-looking leaflets and distributed them to the people on the pier, and set up a platform in the pier area to start preaching.

Of course, for these ordinary people, basically no one wants to listen to such empty-mouthed propaganda. Everyone will only regard this thing as a background sound while waiting in line, similar to the sound of waves in the sea or the friction sound when moving objects.

As a puppet with the same soul as Lawrence, Nora naturally knew this. So in addition to giving people materials and preaching, she also prepared a secret weapon: ten large baskets of snacks of various colors, and planned to distribute snacks to attract those people to listen to her speech.

These snacks were used by the jackals on the astral plane to sacrifice to Nala in the largest temple in the entire plane. Every morning, the staff of those temples will make snacks that can fill ten large baskets, and offer them together with a small jar of wine that tastes similar to fermented glutinous rice.

Nora would drink the small jug of wine not much larger than a Coke can every day, and then eat a few pieces of small snacks baked with flour, butter, cheese, milk, salt and sucrose. The other snacks will be removed after sunset, and will be distributed to pregnant women and winners of various public labors until the next day.

For Nora, besides being able to condense the power of faith of the jackals, the most important thing about such a ceremony is that she can intuitively understand the development of the astral plane.

Also for this purpose, she requires that the raw materials of these snacks, such as butter, cheese, salt or flour, which are easy to store and carry, must come from various origins.

But it was a bit of a pain for Nora to eat these snacks at the beginning, because the productivity of the entire astral plane was in a very backward state at the beginning, so even if it is the most important sacrifice for the jackals, the production There is still no sugar in the dessert, the salt is a bit bitter because it is not pure enough, and the butter even has a little rancid taste that is hard to detect.

But after Lawrence and her gave these jackals a lot of knowledge and provided them with a lot of tools, these snacks immediately became refined. At least after tasting Laurence's tea last time, he felt that the taste was close to the similar products sold in ordinary stores.