It took Lawrence and the others twice as long as it took them to return to the port town. This was because the destroyed areas on the two captured ships were only temporarily repaired, and some big holes were only plugged. But
Even if it stopped there, sea water would leak into the cabin through the gaps that had been repaired, so they didn't dare to drive the boat faster at all.
"We have contacted the port." When they saw the peninsula extending into the sea outside the port, the Enterprise used the telegraph on the ship to contact the port area and report the news of victory. Because now it is the only way to enter the port area.
The fortress on the road was in the highest state of combat readiness, so Lawrence would naturally notify the fortress in advance to avoid being accidentally attacked by pirates.
Half an hour later, when Lawrence and his ship passed the exit, they saw the flagpole in the fortress was erected with a welcome flag hanging on it. At the same time, he found that the fortress building was covered with plants on and around it, and it looked like it should be
It was temporarily created by the priests of the Agricultural Church.
The concealment effect of these plants is very good. If Lawrence had not known it in advance, he felt that he might have regarded this small fortress as a small mound. Of course, in this case, if someone wanted to sneak attack the port, this fortress
The artillery deployed above will teach the invaders an absolutely painful lesson.
After they docked on the pier, they found that in addition to some members of the guard and the people who came spontaneously to greet them, there was a group of tall, dark figures at the end of the team.
After talking to the people on the dock and explaining the next work, Lawrence returned to his residence with Sephiel and Nora. Also going to the residence with them was the tauren Orchid and Ironhoof.
"How did you come here so quickly?" Lawrence asked curiously. "I remember you said before that tauren are generally conservative, so it takes a long time to convince them?"
"I thought so before." Orchid Iron Shoe showed a strange smile. "But after everyone heard that they could trade with humans, every tribe became unexpectedly active, especially after they learned that they could export labor services.
I wish I could let these people go out right away and blame these big eaters on you."
"It sounds like -" Lawrence didn't know what expression to make better at this time, so he changed the subject with a slight embarrassment. "By the way, I just saw that all the minotaurs seemed to be holding weapons."
"Yes, we arrived here along the river less than a day after you set off." Lanhua explained the current situation. "After we came here, we heard that there might be pirates invading here, so we told those who received us
The people said we could join the garrison as militiamen."
"This is the reason why you saw us at the port before, and your person in charge agreed that we temporarily become a militia, but for a while we couldn't find weapons suitable for our tauren. So we just temporarily used some tools and simple
arms to arm us.”
Lawrence finally figured out why those minotaurs were holding maces filled with various iron fragments in their hands and a row of ordinary tools and hatchets in their waists. But this time
Lawrence also accepted the favor from the group of tauren who took the initiative to join the war.
Killing the pirates this time is very good news for Lawrence and the others as well as Sauer Island. Not to mention how much material the wealth seized after killing this group of pirates can be purchased to speed up the construction of the island. These two items alone
Boats are of great help to this island where almost all settlements rely on water transportation for communication.
Not to mention that after defeating this group of pirates, Lawrence found that the attitude of the surrounding islands towards him seemed much better. If the people on those islands were only polite to him when he visited those islands before, then
This time, after defeating the pirate group, the words of the envoy who came to congratulate their victory made him feel that he had finally integrated into the circle of the surrounding islands.
After all, when the pirate group came to this place a few years ago, they did not show mercy to the surrounding places. Almost every island was robbed by that group of pirates. And every time they plundered, the owners of the islands were the first priority.
Target, causing heavy losses to the owners of those islands.
However, this does not mean that the poor people on the island were not harmed during the robbery. For that group of pirates, they could rob whatever they could, and they would never let them go just because they had no money.
Not to mention that the wealthy people and even the island owners on the island have enough warning time to escape when encountering pirates, but other people on the island do not have such good luck, and they often become victims of pirate robbery.
This kind of atrocities caused by pirates resulted in the loss of their own little wealth, and even their own lives. So after Lawrence defeated and completely eliminated those pirates, everyone on the surrounding islands, no matter rich or poor, regardless of status. All
Everyone is grateful to Lawrence.
This situation is very conducive to the next development of New Sauer Island, because with the further development of the territory, the island's economy will sooner or later move out of the island and develop into the surrounding areas. And if more favorable impressions can be gained in the surrounding areas, it will have a great impact on the future.
Big help.
After successfully eliminating external threats, with the captured wealth as a lubricant, and a group of strong tauren laborers joining in, the construction speed on the island suddenly increased a lot. Let's not talk about the development of new fields.
The speed has accelerated significantly. Just from Lawrence's office, you can see the lighthouse built near the fortress rising from the ground visibly.
In fact, Lawrence had always felt that there was no need to rush into the construction of the lighthouse, because he believed that the main work in the first few years of development of this land was to establish an industry that could develop independently. In theory, this infrastructure construction stage
It doesn't require much communication with the outside world.
But after wiping out the pirates, Lawrence discovered from the data that the lighthouse was becoming more and more important to the port of Niujiao Bay, so much so that he had to allocate part of the manpower and half of the people who originally cultivated the land after repeated weighings.
The tauren went together to complete the construction.
According to the content in the information, with the construction of hospitals, the production of medicines and the production of dried fish and meat. Now more and more ships come to the island for trade, so the port that originally only operated during the day has gradually changed.
There is no way to satisfy the use. In this case, night flight becomes an inevitable thing.
But in this way, the shoal at the entrance of the port area that shielded the port area from the wind and waves and provided some tactical cover became a huge trouble. In the past few days when Lawrence was destroying the pirates, a shoal that was not in this area originally
The active fishing boat accidentally hit the shoal and ran aground when it was returning to the port at night. Fortunately, there were not many waves on the sea at that time, so no casualties were caused.
However, this incident sounded a wake-up call for Lawrence and others. After all, it was just lucky that no casualties were caused this time, but the next time they may not be as lucky as this time.
So after repeatedly checking the recent arrival records of ships, Lawrence finally painfully chose to allocate a group of manpower for construction. After all, according to the current rate of increase in the number of ships docking at the port, we will wait until normalized night sailings begin.
It's definitely too late to build the lighthouse.
In this way, more than a week passed in the busy construction. On this day, when Lawrence went to the edge of the fort to inspect the lighthouse that had laid the foundation and built part of the frame, a small sampan sailed from the direction of the port area.
Come over. After docking, Priest Peter jumped down from above and shouted to Lawrence: "Uncle Lambert asked me to call you back quickly. People from the Church of Fortune are here."