Struggle in the Steam Age

It had been a month since he submitted his report on the racial status of the jackals located on the west coast of central Yanzhou, and Lawrence finally received a reply to his report.

In this report, the other party divided a large area of ​​territory to Nora's church according to the distribution of the various jackal tribes that Lawrence obtained from Nora, and announced that this territory was recognized by civilized races and belonged to the development of the church. territory.

This kind of territory belonging to the church was relatively common in that dark age, but with the decommissioning of time and the outbreak of the industrial revolution, the number of such territories on the main plane naturally decreased greatly.

In order to minimize internal strife, each church has also shrunk its power on the main plane. Except for some civilization expeditions or some hard stubble, basically they will not develop new power on the main plane, but use the astral Plane as the main direction of attack.

That's why Lawrence was so shocked when he saw this document, because the area designated for Nora's church in the document is even much higher than New Sauer Island.

"Could it be a mistake?" Holding the document, Lawrence asked the special envoy in a daze. "This territory is obviously much larger than the normal church territory."

"I can confirm that we are not mistaken in this regard, Your Excellency." The messenger who came to deliver the letter said with certainty. "Because the territory chosen by the existence you serve is deep into the wilderness, it is given according to the development of the territory."

"I understand." Lawrence nodded and said. After being reminded by the messenger, Lawrence immediately recalled some materials he saw in the church back then.

In fact, the main force of mankind's outward expansion was not the country, but the churches. Because in the early years, the power held by various human forces was very small, and only the church could organize the power to expand outward.

Now, when faced with a barren land that no intelligent race has ever set foot in, turning the new territory into this kind of church territory is naturally in line with the requirements of all parties.

"240,000 square kilometers, are they crazy?" After seeing the documents brought by Lawrence, Nora showed the same expression as Lawrence before.

"You know, I haven't officially become a god yet. But this direct territory has exceeded the direct territory of many weak gods. I think it may not be a good thing to possess something that doesn't match your own power."

"You don't need to worry about this." Lawrence pointed to a paragraph in the document and said, "They have already made it clear in this document that this area is only the largest territorial area allocated to you, and how much you can get depends on look at you."

"According to the document, they will explore this territory after 70 years, and then use 150% of the area of ​​our actual controlled territory as the final size of the territory."

"Then what if we really take down this territory completely?" Nora waved the document in her hand and said, "You know, we are different from normal gods or lords."

"Then they will still recognize the territory we have obtained." Lawrence said with a shrug. "After all, this rule is to better open up wild areas. If you have the ability to occupy more, no one will say anything."

"You're right, this kind of pioneering work is not too difficult." Nora nodded after thinking for a while. "From the comparison of the number of people and the area, it will be a long process to develop this territory."

Because according to the information obtained by Lawrence and the others, there are barely 300,000 jackals in this territory. Counting the willingness to be with the jackals, the total number of allies who have transferred to Nora will not exceed 500,000.

Obviously, it is not enough to rely on people with such a few pictures to open up this territory, and it is necessary to introduce foreign population. This is why Lawrence collected various materials during this time.

According to Lawrence's plan, during this period of time, Nora will mobilize those jackals to investigate the surrounding situation and choose some places suitable for human immigrants to set up camp.

Lawrence, on the other hand, collected all kinds of materials to ship and tried to contact people to make various preparations for the construction of the first settlement on that land.

Finally, one and a half months after receiving the information, Lawrence and his fleet headed for the west coast of Yanzhou finally set off. The fleet consists of 15 boats, carrying 350 ordinary volunteers and people from various churches.

Because of the tradition of polytheism, even the territories directly under certain churches can actually allow foreign religions to preach, but other churches in such areas must be dominated by local local churches.

Of course, such regional dominant churches can naturally reject the entry of other churches. For example, the Church of the Lord of Dawn or the Church of God of War did this, but for most churches, they often adopted the admission system.

That is to say, the church that owns that area will make a list, and then choose which churches are allowed to enter here, and prohibit other churches from entering. Under normal circumstances, those churches would allow church institutions that they have good relations with to enter.

And Nora is naturally following the trend in this regard, and for other established churches, they are also familiar with handling this kind of problem

. So just to mention it briefly, the churches on those islands sent professional people with various supplies to follow Lawrence on a ship heading east, preparing to open up a new territory with them.

The whole journey can be said to be uneventful, but there were some problems when everyone arrived at the destination. Because the coastline in that area is not only flat, but the sea water near the coastline is also very shallow, so it is difficult for these large ocean-going ships to dock.

"Sorry, I made a mistake in my previous investigation." Seeing this scene, Nora also looked helpless. "At that time I asked them if there was a place where the big ship could dock, but I didn't tell them how big the big ship was."

"Actually, you can't help it even if you tell them how big the big ship is." Lawrence comforted the little doll after watching the sailors put down the small boats they carried on board and start the transshipment work.

"After all, everyone was too far away before, so many things couldn't be communicated at all. But I think with our further actions here, the overall situation here should be able to change."

As Lawrence expected, there were a lot of problems in the beginning.

Fortunately, the personnel selected this time can be said to be the best among the best, and they have also conducted a preview in advance and formulated sufficient plans for the current situation. So when facing these problems, they have overcome and solved them one by one.

And here I have to talk about the importance of the gods. Thanks to the existence of Nora, those jackal tribes that have gradually lost contact for thousands of years can be organized like their ancestors.

With the participation of these natives who have mastered the local conditions, Lawrence and the others were able to choose the place they wanted in a short period of time, and then successfully completed their main goal of coming here this time: building a settlement.

During this period of construction, Lawrence, Safir, and several scholars conducted a comprehensive investigation around the selected first batch of settlements under the leadership of local guides, and the results of the investigation are confirmed here The faith to continue to develop.

"The products in this place are obviously much richer than ours in New Sauer." After the first round of simple inspections, Safir held a notebook and said to Lawrence, "There are a lot of economical resources suitable for planting in this area." crop land."

"You are right, but it is not an easy task to develop plantations from these completely barren areas." Lawrence said, looking at the dense tropical rainforest in front of him. "There are just too many kinds of pests here."