Struggle in the Steam Age

"According to the habits of those nobles, if they explore in such a relatively safe place not far from the city, they will set off directly after a day of preparation." Soon, Bach began to think about how to deal with the current situation. .

"However, those who have status often go to this kind of place to take risks to show off, so the whole adventure process often becomes the same as traveling. In this case, the other party has to go out at least after 12 noon."

Speaking of this, Bach shook his head with contempt, although the August family that their family has been serving is also a nobleman. But the ethos of the whole family is like a soldier on the whole, more inclined to be pragmatic than retreat.

Therefore, growing up in this family, he really didn't think much of those so-called high-society people who seemed pretentious.

"After all, you can't ask everyone to be like us. To be honest, the atmosphere of our family looks more like a tight military camp. I think it would be better if we could relax a little bit." Lawrence said with a smile.

As a hereditary nobleman, he has never been very interested in some ancient family traditions. It's a pity that with the existence of those retainers, Lawrence couldn't change the atmosphere within the family according to his own ideas in a short period of time.

Fortunately, now that the whole family has come to a new territory, those complicated rules will not be used for a while.

And as the construction of the entire island unfolded, Lawrence's prestige was also accumulating step by step. He believed that when the entire pioneering work was completely on the right track and needed those rules, he would have enough prestige to change those rules and make the family as a whole change in the direction he wanted.

"Okay, you're right." After hearing Lawrence's complaints about the family rules, Bach answered politely and abruptly changed the topic back to what everyone was talking about just now.

"These things are things that need long-term considerations, and what we need to face now is the issue of manpower in the possible conflicts that follow."

"That's right." Lawrence nodded. "Do you have any good ideas? I think you, as the head of the Great Lakes District, should know who can be mobilized by us in this generation."

"It is true that there are some people, but the total number will not exceed 20." Bach said helplessly. "After all, we are here to do business, and the whole area is considered a very orderly area. Therefore, we don't have many armed personnel here."

"Especially in the future, it may be necessary to head-on some powerful armed forces in the wild. I don't think the temporarily recruited security guards can play a big role in wild battles, and may even have a counterproductive effect."

Bach said to Lawrence with a serious face. "So there are really very few people who can use it."

"Even if there are 20 gunmen, there are too few of them." Lawrence shook his head and said, "To be able to make this round, the opponent has at least two or three hundred people, and it is very likely that a large number of irrelevant people will come in."

"In this complicated situation, I think we need at least three to five hundred armed personnel on our side. Just 20 gunmen, even if everyone is a superhuman, it shouldn't be of much use."

"But I really can't get anyone out here." Bach shook his head and said. "After all, it's been too short a time since we started buying properties here, and almost everything is just a beginning."

"In this case, we are only in the preliminary stage of establishing armed militias according to the original habit on the Old Continent and New Sauer Island, so the only manpower we can draw out is those future backbones who have just completed basic training."

"Backbone?" Hearing what Bach said, Lawrence immediately made a decision. "If it's the backbone, it's okay. After all, they are the core personnel of the future factory and the farm factory protection team. There is no need to spend on such things."

After hearing Lawrence say that he objected to the mobilization of this group of people, Bach nodded initially. But soon he reacted and asked an important question. "So where do we recruit our people?"

"I have some summoning spells. If we hire some adventurers at this time, plus the people contacted by the previous team, we should be able to complete the next plan."

Lawrence said after thinking for a while with a bitter face. "After all, I saw that the adventurers here are more active, so we should be able to hire enough people."

"I don't recommend recruiting, Your Excellency." After hearing what Lawrence said, he and he immediately expressed their objection.

"The other party can sell those maps with great fanfare in this city, which obviously shows that they have their own informants in this city, and even some adventure teams are used by those conspirators to cover their identities."

"What you said is indeed a problem." Lawrence closed his eyes and said helplessly after thinking for a while. "But we really need people right now."

As soon as the voice fell, the whole scene fell into silence. After all, the situation in the underground market has shown that the person who is going to carry out the conspiracy has an internal response among the adventurers.

And if you want to publicly recruit people from those places, you need to bear the risk of being suddenly backstabbed at a critical moment after being mixed in by spies.

As for directly recruiting people from other places, Huguang City is the closest place to gather people. However, it would take at least three or four days to recruit people from Huguang City and bring them over. By then, it would be too late for anything.

At least it is not very difficult to recruit armed forces in this world, especially in the Great Lakes region where civilization and wilderness meet, there are a large number of so-called adventurer teams active.

It's just that it's not easy to find reliable people among them, especially when you need to work hard with people.

The reason why the team like Tauren Hammer and Lawrence can achieve mutual trust is also very simple, because the identities of both parties, whether they are priests of the goddess of wealth or the hereditary Earl Sauer, are destined to be impossible for them to participate in this kind of conspiracy.

Therefore, in the face of a possible crisis, Shuangfang can naturally form a simple alliance as quickly as possible.

However, if even one of them changes their identities, and they are not bound by the noble norms or the identity of the gods, then it is basically impossible for the two parties to establish mutual trust in such a short period of time.

However, such a situation has a certain degree of contingency. After all, only a small number of those so-called adventure teams have nobles or clergymen participating.

For the vast majority of adventurers, it takes a period of contact or investigation to truly understand their situation, but what Lawrence lacks most now is time.

"Lawrence, I do know that there is a place where someone should be able to mobilize." Just when the carriage fell into silence, Safir who had been beside him suddenly said.

"If I remember correctly, you only let some of the temporarily parked Huguang City ships take the first batch of evacuated people away—"

"Yes, there are still two transport ships and a warship moored at the pier in Huguang City." After being reminded by Safir, Lawrence suddenly remembered that not all the navy on Shaw Island left before.

According to his previous order, these three ships will undertake part of the important transportation tasks.

After all, Sauer Island, which is in the construction stage, needs all kinds of materials, and Lawrence and the others happen to have money now. In this case, they will naturally take this opportunity to purchase a batch of supplies and then use the boat to pull them back.

Obviously, the procurement of materials needed for an island cannot be completed in a short period of time. So the three boats were naturally docked at the wharf in Huguang City.

Considering that the sea is not so safe in this era, most of the sailors and sailors have received various military training, especially the people on one of the warships.