After returning to the hotel, Lawrence found that all the crew members were staying in the hotel waiting for the news they brought back. Unlike ordinary merchant ships, the crew of the Enterprise, as a warship, were all from Sauer Island, and could be regarded as Lawrence's territorial citizens.
.So they are very interested in what kind of honor Lawrence can get this time.
After announcing that I had co-built a hospital ship and that the Passion Church had stationed on the island, the crew members cheered happily. Although they did not understand how important it was that Lawrence was a partner of the hospital ship, the hospital ship
They can understand the significance of anchoring at New Saul Island for a month every year and the establishment of the Passion Church on the island.
After all, after meeting the most basic needs of food, clothing, housing and transportation, everyone's needs will go further. For example, more comfortable housing, more delicious food, stable work and development space. There are even medical and educational services. But now we are suffering.
What we can provide is good medical services. More importantly, unlike other islands, this kind of service is obviously for everyone on the island. This is why the crew is so happy.
After everyone's excitement subsided, Lawrence began to assign tasks. Because he decided to stay here for a while to deal with the pests and diseases in the cotton fields of Viscount Doropia's family, he just had time to purchase some in this city for other places.
Items that are difficult to purchase are then transported back via the Enterprise.
These things include several specially customized machines and a lot of special mechanical parts, as well as some special materials needed by the extraordinary people on the island. The common feature of these things is that they are not large in size, but they are relatively difficult to buy.
Fortunately, as the capital of Elysium and one of the largest cities in the New World, Ilysia can relatively easily purchase these goods, but they need to be customized in advance and wait a few days for delivery.
So at the beginning, Lawrence had no intention of buying these supplies here and taking them back. After all, he was not expected to stay in this city for too long at that time. To buy them here, he might as well send the list to the White Eagle Federation and then
Shipped over from White Eagle Federation.
But after the matter of Viscount Doropia was confirmed, as soon as he returned, Lawrence sent a telegram to Saphire via the ship's telegram to inform him of the matter, saying that he would probably need to stay for a few more days before returning, hoping that she would
You can compile a list of required supplies and send it to yourself.
Since warships of this era had a lot of space for loading supplies, after learning that he might have to stay here for a while, Lawrence decided to simply order those things and then use the Enterprise to bring them back to Xinshao
Erdao. In this way, the efficiency will be faster than ordering from Silver Federation, and it will also save shipping money.
After receiving Lawrence's telegram, Seifer seemed a little angry, because during this period a large part of the work on the island fell on her shoulders, so she had been looking forward to Lawrence coming back as soon as possible to take over this burden and handle government affairs.
But now, after she had endured it for so many days, Lawrence actually told her that her return time would be postponed.
A reasonable person, so Lawrence still succeeded in appeasing the somewhat unhappy Saphire, and then obtained the cargo list from her.
After Sephiel sent a detailed list the next morning, Lawrence handed the list to the captain and asked him to purchase it. Then he and Nora went to the previously agreed place, Dolopia in the city.
Viscount's Mansion, preparing to go to those manors to inspect possible problems in the cotton fields.
When the two of them arrived at the Viscount's mansion, the steward there told them that the Viscount and his family had left yesterday with the members of the Agricultural Church. But before leaving, they bought airship tickets for Lawrence and the others and paid their respects to Mr. Steward.
Give these two tickets to Lawrence. Seeing that the departure time of the airship is just one hour later, Lawrence immediately takes Nora and rushes to the airship parking lot.
An hour later, Lawrence and Nora sat on the airship and watched the buildings on the ground getting smaller and smaller outside the window. After the airship left the city, they began to look at the interior decoration of this airship. It was different from the one they had taken before.
Different from the previous super airship, the interior decoration of this small airship used for short-distance passenger transportation is closer to the first-class cabin of Lawrence's airplane in his previous life.
"We are very lucky, otherwise we would have to wait until tomorrow." Looking at the airship driving smoothly in the sky, Lawrence said to Nora, "Although there are more airships in the capital, they are quite luxurious anyway.
The mode of travel and the number of flights are not that many."
"And this kind of airship obviously reduces the resistance and increases the speed by reducing the size. However, the number and size of the entire airship will naturally not be too large." Nora carefully observed the airship and said.
"And in order to reduce weight as much as possible, the various facilities on this airship are not complete at all. It can even be said to be a bit rudimentary."
For example, the current height of this airship is only two or three thousand meters above the ground. It is easily attacked by extraordinary creatures or affected by various weather conditions. But the advantage is that at such a height, the airship does not need to be sealed.
By yourself, you can reduce the life support system by more than half, and at the same time reduce the difficulty of airship production.
Fortunately, airships are still a relatively luxurious means of transportation in this era, so even though they are a bit crude compared to the top-notch airships, the overall decoration is very good and the sound insulation effect is good. So after taking a nap, Lawrence and the others
We have successfully arrived at our destination, Heraklion, which is located in the valley plain.
Because they had sent a telegram before departure, they were ready to receive them. As soon as Lawrence and Nora left the airship field, they saw the person sent by Viscount Doropia to pick them up holding up a letter
The wooden sign with their names stood beside a carriage and looked at the entrance of the airship field.
After a brief negotiation, the two of them got on a carriage and rushed to the cotton plantation outside the city. Along the way, they discovered that Heraklion, a city in the interior of the empire, had a completely different style from the capital.
.There are not so many high-rise buildings and factories, but it looks like a large rural area.
The roads in the city are gravel and cinder roads, and they may not be smooth because there are too many users. Fortunately, there is not much rain in this place, so there is not much water on the road. It is not like the roads in some areas.
The crushing of heavy-duty vehicles and corrosion from rainwater have resulted in a large number of pits.
Both sides of the road are all two- and three-story classical-style buildings, and there are large gaps between the buildings. They are not as dense as many big cities. What is special is that every other block, Lawrence has
You can see a small fountain formed by conveying water through an underground pipe network in the center of the block to provide water to the surrounding area.
In short, the style of this city does not look like a modern city, but like an ancient city thousands of years ago. The only modern building in the whole city is the telegraph office with a huge iron tower on the top of the five-story building.
Several processing factories located on the edge of the city, a large comprehensive trading center and trains emitting black smoke.
But this corresponds to the fact that the air in this city is very good. For example, when Lawrence was sitting in the carriage, he could see the blue-gray mountains in the distance outside the city through the gaps between the buildings, as well as the snow on some mountaintops.
Although this city looks a bit unprepossessing, it is an important cotton and cattle producing area and is only about 30 kilometers away from the town of Caracalla, the best spa resort in the empire. Therefore, the entire city can be regarded as a relatively popular place in this area.
It is a wealthy city, and because of this, such a city has an airship route that is now rare.
Because the city is not large, the carriage quickly left the city. Everything that appeared on both sides of the car window slowly changed from two- and three-story buildings to large expanses of fields, with buildings interspersed in the fields.
It looked like a very exquisite manor. Just when Lawrence began to get bored with the scenery on both sides of the carriage, the carriage stopped and their destination was reached.