Early the next morning, a four-masted fast sailing ship from the Republic of New Zealand docked at the temporary dock built with a pontoon. Then hundreds of wooden boxes were unloaded. Along with the arrival of the ship was a young person in charge of Sinian. If
If Lawrence remembered correctly, he should have seen this young man at Zhu's house before.
"Thank you for your hard work." After the handover, Lawrence shook hands with the person in charge and thanked him. Then he asked with some confusion: "I should have only ordered about 300 boxes of arms from Zhu Yan, but why is this
You brought me more than 600 boxes of arms this time?"
"Because after this business was reported to our Family Presbyterian Council, the Family Presbyterian Council decided to export these weapons to you at cost price." The person in charge said, "Considering that it is difficult to buy weapons in your place, we will simply give them to you.
Prepare some more weapons."
"Thank you very much." Lawrence shook hands with the person in charge again, and then invited him to have lunch with him. As for why the Zhu family was willing to sell this batch of weapons and ammunition at cost price, Lawrence also knew very well, that is, he hoped to
Build a good relationship with yourself, an upstart who owns a territory.
For a large family that has been passed down for a long time, establishing enough interpersonal relationships is a very important reason why they can exist in this world for so many years. Similarly, they also understand that adding icing on the cake is far inferior to providing help in times of need, so in Lawrence
I was given such a great gift just after arriving on this island.
Naturally, Lawrence will remember this friendship, and with enough weapons, he can arm as many people as possible so that he can cause greater casualties to the goblins in the process of hunting down the goblins.
And in the afternoon of this day, just when Lawrence started to worry a little, Saifei finally took the others to the bay on a sailboat. But what was unexpected, in addition to the three sailboats mentioned before,
, followed by dozens of shabby boats. At the same time, each boat looked like it was packed with people, and dense crowds of people could even be seen on the deck.
"You're finally here." After the ship docked, Lawrence excitedly hugged Sephiel, who was the first to jump off the boat. "You're finally here. Didn't you say you would come at noon? Why did you arrive now? I
I have been worried about you since noon."
"Don't worry, it's okay." Saphire stepped up and kissed Lawrence on the cheek, then took a step back and said. "It's just that I encountered some accidents, so I came late."
"Accident?" After hearing this, Lawrence immediately took a step back and looked at Saphire up and down, and said at the same time, "You are not injured or anything, are you?"
"Where did you think you were going?" Looking at Lawrence's nervous expression, Sephiel burst into laughter. "The surprise I mentioned was actually the task you asked me to recruit people before. I completed it a little too much.
It was successful. As for setting sail this morning, it took more time to get here."
To establish a territory, it is not enough to just rely on strong labor, so a variety of professionals are needed to help with planning or other things. Therefore, after receiving the telegram from Lawrence, Saifei
Start recruiting the professionals that a territory must need in Eagle Fort.
In fact, if Lawrence's uncle hadn't given up his territory after being controlled by the second prince's men using evil magic, then he could have brought those professionals directly from Shaoer. But now after two princes have given up their territory, Years later, he could only request some foreign aid.
Fortunately, because of Lawrence's great academic achievements and the factory he founded in Eagle Fort, Saifei could easily hire professionals from Eagle Fort that are currently lacking. There are even some professionals who are willing to bring him with him. The family immigrated directly.
For example, Lister, the doctor who had participated in his first adventure since time travel with Lawrence and then co-authored the crucial paper on infection and prevention methods, took his parents and fiancée to follow Seifer directly. We got up and arrived at New Saul Island.
For another example, Jimmy, the skilled worker from the Lawrence factory, also came to the island with his wife and a pair of children.
The reason why these people were willing to immigrate here was because Lawrence had gotten along well with them before and had seen his powerful side. Therefore, they believed that Lawrence's promise to them would be fulfilled and this development would be successful. They had early Coming here can get the lion's share of benefits as an entrepreneur.
On the other hand, because Lawrence was kind to them all, they were willing to rush over to help him at this time. They helped him complete control of the island.
"So what's going on with those small boats behind your ship?" After discovering that most of the people on the big ship had disembarked and headed to the camp, Lawrence pointed to the long line of people following the big ship who were preparing to directly grab the beach. The boat asked Saifei. "You probably didn't bring these boats from Eagle Castle. I feel like these boats can't be too far from the coastline."
"Indeed not, all the people on these boats came with us voluntarily after we arrived in Tanas Town." Saifei said as he looked at the boat that started to get people off after approaching the stall. "Now the land reclamation over there is It has reached its limit, but the population is still growing. So after hearing that you were going to open up wasteland, they came here voluntarily."
With Saifei's introduction, Lawrence also figured out what was going on with the group of more than 1,500 people who were now lining up on the beach to be disinfected according to the orders of the Guard soldiers.
Although the previous expansions did not occupy the good area of Niujiao Bay, they still successfully established a series of small and medium-sized colonies in other places. At the same time, they also attracted many people from their own territory to colonize the territory. .
But as the enthusiasm for development receded and the lords gave up, the island has never developed. The serfs and poor people who were the first to move here could only carry on in this place. After all, although the conditions here are difficult A little bit, but at least I can have land here that I don’t have in my hometown and still have enough to eat.
But as the population continues to grow, the territory that seemed to be sufficient before has slowly become cramped. And the people living in the territory have difficulty living in it because they are distributed in multiple territories and have different origins. Unite together and gather enough ability to open up new territories.
Therefore, after Seifer rushed to Tanas Town and announced that the island had a new lord who was preparing to open up a new territory, in less than a week, more than 1,000 families followed her to adventure.
After all, according to these people's thinking, if they stayed in the original place, they would probably not even have enough to eat in another generation or two. So they simply came over to make a living.
If we can capture the largest seaside plain on the entire island, then we won’t have to worry about not having enough to eat for at least several generations. Even if we can’t capture this land, according to previous practice, the pioneers will go elsewhere.
By developing a smaller piece of land and trying to establish themselves here, they can also acquire new land.
So these people first let their families stay where they were, and at the same time, they took out almost all the young and middle-aged men to come here on those small broken boats, trying to participate in the construction of this territory from the beginning.
"In other words, they are willing to become my direct subjects?" Lawrence asked slightly surprised. According to the rules, since he became the new Earl of Sauer, everyone on the island
They can all be counted as their own subjects, but it is completely different as a direct subject.
According to tradition, direct subjects are equivalent to the tenants of the lord, and their freedom is much worse than ordinary subjects, so Lawrence is curious about why someone is willing to voluntarily become his direct subjects.