After Saifei finished a brief report on the recent overall economic development of New Saul Island, the carriage also left New Saul Port along a newly built gravel road. After driving for seven or eight minutes, it came to a
After reaching the intersection, they turned west and drove to the edge of a small slope not far from the city. According to the plan, this place will be the location of the new Earl's Mansion. So now this place is full of people who run away because of the leisure time.
Citizens who come to work.
"A modern permanent fortress with fortifications will be built at this location." After getting off the car, Seifer pointed to the busy construction site and said to Lawrence. "According to the views of the guard commander, Uncle Joseph, and the butler, Grandpa Bayer.
, locating the Earl's Palace in this place can, on the one hand, gain some advantages in future urban development. On the other hand, it can also form a mutual protection state with the existing city, which is more conducive to the security of the territory."
Lawrence naturally understands the reason why the retainers are building large-scale construction here, because according to the traditional point of view, as a noble territory, the location of the nobles is naturally the top priority, and it is also the core of the stability of a territory. Therefore, everything in the current territory
After everything stabilized, the first thing they did was to build the Earl's Palace.
Of course, Lawrence's retainers are all a group of traditional nobles from the Holy Visby Empire. Therefore, the most traditional habits were naturally adopted when building this kind of Earl's Palace to expand territory. According to this habit, in addition to space, the Earl's Palace
Besides being large, the most important thing is that it can be used as a military fortress.
In fact, with the passage of time, there are not many such noble mansions even in the newly recovered territories of the empire. Even the people who build such mansions are considered to be old hats. Compared with building this kind of seemingly different
Compared with the rustic and ugly military fortress, the local nobles have more modern mansions.
As for the issue of safety, it is not something that the nobles need to consider, because Lawrence is the only noble who is willing to go directly to the wilderness to open up fiefdoms in the past 10 years. And now the popular operation among the nobles is for the nobles to order their subordinates.
His retainers are responsible for all this, but he himself will never go to such a place.
"The overall layout looks good." Lawrence commented while standing at a high place and looking at the busy construction site. At this time, the foundation of the Earl's Mansion had been dug and the underground stone walls had begun to be built. The most important thing is,
Considering that Lawrence himself was a spellcaster, there was still room for the construction of a possible arcane tower near the Earl's Palace in the future.
Since reinforced concrete is not particularly durable, the entire castle is still built according to the traditional stone construction method. Therefore, even if extraordinary powers are provided to help during the construction process, it will still take 6-8 months for the entire building to be repaired.
time. If we also consider that most of the people on this mainly agricultural island can only work during slack periods, then this time will be greatly extended to one to one and a half years.
"It must be good. Your father, Mr. Lambert, specially wrote to the headquarters of the Church of Knowledge in the New World to ask them to help design it." Saifei said with pride. After all, although there were many mansions built by nobles, knowledge could be found there.
There are absolutely very few mansions specially designed by the church. For the nobles, this matter is even worth recording in their genealogy.
"So that's it!" Lawrence also had a look of surprise on his face. As far as he knew, when it comes to building design, the top people in the world are naturally the dragons, followed by the elves and dwarves. After all, this is
The age of immortal species is placed there, and their accumulation in this aspect is naturally much stronger than that of short-lived creatures like humans.
However, under normal circumstances, humans generally do not invite these extraordinary races to help them design buildings. Not to mention their fees, they are not cheap. At the same time, during construction, they need to import a large amount of special materials produced by them. The most important problem is that
The buildings designed by these creatures are all for their own race and may not be suitable for humans.
When it comes to architectural design within the human realm, the Knowledge Church, which has a lot of experience and knowledge, is naturally better at this. However, due to the nature of the Knowledge Church, most people can only look for design institutes that have close ties with the Knowledge Church.
, only a very small number of people can let the church itself take action. And because they take action too few times, it is often regarded as an honor in the circle of nobles to be able to obtain the knowledge of the church's design.
"But the Earl's Mansion won't be repaired for a while." After the excitement passed, Lawrence looked at the busy construction site and asked Saifei beside him. "So, what's next?
That big party will definitely not be held here, so where did you arrange the venue?"
"We have arranged the venue in a more distinctive place. Come with me, I will take you to see it." Nora said and motioned for Lawrence to follow her back to the avenue where she came just now? Then she returned to just now.
When you come here, get on the intersection and walk straight towards the interior of the island to the west.
This road looks like it has been used for a while? So Lawrence saw a lot of signs of use on the gravel-paved road. And as they were walking, they often passed one or two cars full of things or
A man's freight carriage drove past the road? If he remembered correctly? This road should lead to a farm in the interior of this plain.
"Did you place the banquet venue on the farm?" After walking on the road for five or six minutes, Lawrence asked Saifei beside him. "Although I can proudly say that our farm is located on the surrounding islands.
Even the entire New World is a top-notch farm, but if you want to entertain that group of nobles and wealthy people, it may still be a bit inferior."
"Are you right? So I just borrowed the places on those farms." Saphire said with a smile. In her eyes, Lawrence has always been very smart and sure of everything, so he is very confident about everything.
Lawrence was a little surprised that he guessed wrong in this regard. "After all, the place in the city is too small, and it would be very cramped to entertain those guests."
"So I simply chose to use the dried rice fields as the venue for this banquet." At this point, Sephiel rolled his eyes at Lawrence and continued. "Compared to our simple? It can even be said to be simple houses and houses.
Compared with the office, I think the tents and furniture we brought may be the only things that suit your status as an earl."
"Well, to be honest, I didn't expect that I would need to start socializing after only such a short time on the island." Lawrence said helplessly. "I even consulted specifically when I was in the empire. Generally speaking, people like me
The pioneering nobles often only have people visiting their territory after one year of establishment, and it takes two or three years before people come to visit in large numbers. God knows why we have so many people coming to visit us only about five months after we have been here."
"Is what you are talking about just an unwritten tradition? If you really want to talk about tradition, why don't you say that there were basically no nobles visiting this island before you came here." Saifei said angrily. "Think about those things.
The virtues of aristocrats, right? For them, understanding and tradition are just embellishments used to show their status. These things are worthless when facing interests."
"Uh - okay? What you said makes sense." Lawrence shrugged helplessly. He also heard Saphire's tone about whether he had been letting her go before? Let her be fully responsible for this matter.
Dissatisfied? So in order to avoid embarrassment? He quickly changed the subject and praised. "Actually, it's great that you decided to hold this party in a rice field, because the theme of this party is about food harvest, and it is held in a rice field.
This party is very appropriate.”
Of course, this compliment is not nonsense. For the nobles, although the magnificent living room and exquisite tableware can cause fluctuations in their hearts, it is only limited to their hearts. After all, that is how they usually live. Naturally
It is impossible to have too many emotions.
Therefore, although Saphiel's arrangement was the result of desperation, from a certain perspective, it was also a very fresh way of entertaining the nobles. In addition, they could obtain
Benefits, so Lawrence felt that there would be no problem with this reception.