Struggle in the Steam Age

"I have to say that the previous Turkish warlord was very discerning." After the carriage was parked at the entrance of the road, Bach briefly introduced Lawrence and the others while leading the way.

"The overall design of this villa was done by a half-elf designer who is very famous in the Great Lakes District, and it is also located in a noble neighborhood rather than a neighborhood of upstarts nearby."

"For example, a famous scholar from the White Eagle Federation lives on the left side of the villa, while on the right side is the property of a Viscount Britton. So if you have time, you can also visit these neighbors."

"Ah, this sounds really good. Maybe we can have a party with them." Lawrence said, after all, he is a relatively famous scholar, so he should be able to have a lot of common language with the two neighbors.

Soon, Bach led them through a small garden to the door of the villa. Then handed the key to Lawrence and they said.

"Mr. August, here is your key, and we have replaced everything in it with new ones. If you need anything else, go to the intersection of the street, where you can call the services of various service department personnel. "

"Very well, sorry to trouble you." Lawrence took the key and watched Bach leave, then turned his gaze to the not-so-big villa in front of him.

This villa is divided into upper and lower floors, and it looks like about two hundred or nearly three hundred square meters. The style of the whole building is a traditional Briton red brick building, except that a local white rock with a rough surface is partially reinforced at the bottom and corners of the house.

But in this way, the edges and corners of the house inlaid with white stones and the frames of doors and windows have a special aesthetic feeling.

After opening the door with the key, Lawrence found that the interior decoration of the entire room looked very consistent with the exterior style of the house. It's the standard Britton-esque interior, too. The wallpaper, the mahogany paneling, the lamps in gilt bronze were all right. Even the floors have some really nicely-kept wooden floors.

"It seems that there are professional servants who clean this place every day, otherwise the room would not be so clean." After lightly stretching out his hand with silk gloves to touch the cabinet, Safiel He turned his head and said to Lawrence. "But why haven't there been servants here since we came here?"

"Ah——I think it might be determined by the people who live here." After being mentioned by Safir, Lawrence realized that there was something wrong with this house.

In this world where there are basically no time-saving and labor-saving home appliances, considering the heavy housework and low labor costs, anyone with a certain status will choose to hire one or several servants to complete part of the housework for their home.

At least according to Lawrence's previous life experience, even some white-collar workers would have a servant at home, so it is indeed strange that there is no servant in a double-storey villa like the present one.

But after thinking about it for a while, Lawrence quickly found the answer: because the people living in this area are rich businessmen, scholars, or minor nobles, and these people often have that kind of long-term servants.

But here is a place for those people to relax, and the industry here is not like the big nobles or richer businessmen who can hire a servant to take care of the empty room.

In this way, the public servants naturally appeared in the whole community. As long as you pay a fee, you can help you maintain the building at ordinary times, or hire them to supplement the shortage of manpower when there are more customers.

The reason why Lawrence's current villa is well-organized is naturally the credit of the servants who come to clean the room regularly.

"Then what should we do now? Are we going out to hire a few servants temporarily?" After listening to Lawrence's story, Safir asked him a little confused.

After all, neither she nor Lawrence usually used servants very much, so the thought of strangers in the house always felt a little uncomfortable.

In the earliest days, Lawrence and Safir were ordinary people living in the countryside. Although it is said that because of their identities, they do not have to worry about eating and drinking, but naturally there will be no servants to serve them.

Among them, Lawrence has been living in the church with his adoptive father, so no matter what work he has to do with his adoptive father, he only occasionally asks an aunt from the town to help with some sewing work.

However, because of the farm, Safir's family hired a few women from the town to help the family and workers in the family with cooking, mending clothes or cleaning the house and dormitory. But this is completely different from the servants hired by the rich.

After Lawrence himself became a nobleman, he had servants, but because of the lack of personnel on New Sauer Island, Lawrence directly sent those servants to various positions on the island.

After all, these servants are educated anyway, know how to write and count, and are loyal to the August family. Instead of asking them to serve tea and water, it is better to let them be grassroots civil servants.

At the beginning, several housekeepers in the family did persuade Lawrence. After all, for a powerful earl, it is really inappropriate not to have a servant by his side.

Fortunately, these butlers were later persuaded by Lawrence that the interests of the August family were more important than all kinds of face.

So unlike most areas in the world, Lawrence basically didn't have many servants in the upper floors of Shaw Island. However, considering that everyone is very busy, Lawrence set up a service organization on the island to handle daily chores for everyone.

After coming to the island, Safir enjoyed the service that is quite similar to the service of the later generations of domestic companies, so in this situation where everyone has no time, it is natural to think of hiring those public servants during this period of time. Ideas for various household chores to be done and presented to Lawrence.

"No, we'd better not let outsiders in during this period." Lawrence waved his hand and said, "After all, we have to deal with a lot of information about those industries during this period, many of which are classified Information. If some outsiders are brought in, there may be some security risks.”

"As for the housework—" Lawrence said, flicking his fingers lightly, and in an instant, five or six phantoms of goblins appeared beside him. "These goblin phantoms are flexible enough under my control, at least doing housework is no worse than those well-trained servants."

"If that's the case, it seems like a good idea." Nora looked carefully at the milky white translucent shadows around her and said Da'ao. Different from the dirty goblins we usually see, the phantoms of these goblins look very neatly dressed, and they are wearing a beautiful tuxedo.

This is a small ability that Lawrence has learned after his extraordinary level has improved and he has a higher degree of control over Bai Zetu. It can easily change some characteristics of the summoned monster phantom, such as the shape of the monster, or make some of the monsters appear. Some organs are strengthened even more.

Now the goblins that Lawrence summoned were the improved ones, cleaned up and put on a nice suit. These phantoms of goblins looked a lot like the house-elves Lawrence had seen in movies about his previous life.

Soon, these monster phantoms became busy under Lawrence's command. On the other hand, Lawrence himself and Safir opened a small box that Bach gave them before in the study, and then checked the documents contained in the box.

According to the plan, they will stay here for a day or two to go through all the materials, and then visit those farms and factories in the next few days.