Lawrence only planned to hold a small gathering, but now so many people have come. One of the important reasons is that the close cooperation and connections between Lawrence and various churches have attracted some influential nobles nearby. This way
Come, the fringe nobles around you will naturally follow.
So now at this banquet, Lawrence saw almost 60% to 70% of the nobles in the southeast of the Star Sea. Obviously, these nobles regarded the banquet held by Lawrence as a rare social opportunity for the surrounding nobles. Lawrence even saw many nobles.
Taking this opportunity to go on a blind date with their unmarried young children.
Lawrence naturally knew these things. He was not the kind of arrogant person, nor did he think that so many people came because of his own face. So after a brief exchange with these priests and church staff, he
After finishing the discussion on these issues, let everyone start their own communication.
"It's very good that the banquet was held so well for the first time." After other church members left, Lawrence's adoptive father, Mr. Lambert, praised him with a glass of champagne. "At least in my opinion, this is
A very successful large-scale official banquet. Most of the banquets carefully prepared by my father back then were not as good as today."
"Official banquet?" After hearing this combination of words, Lawrence was stunned for a moment, and then asked curiously. "What is the official banquet you are talking about? I remember that my banquet this time was clearly in accordance with the traditional aristocratic banquet.
It was held in the style of a party, so it should be a standard noble banquet."
"Hahaha -" Mr. Lambert laughed directly after hearing what Lawrence said. Then he took a sip of the wine in the glass in his hand and said, "Actually, most of the banquets of nobles are for official business.
Banquet. If you are just entertaining guests based on the relationships between various nobles, I don’t think you will mention your large banquet tent. Even the guests invited by a duke to hold a banquet will not be able to use the one outside your banquet tent.
The small dressing room was packed.”
"After all, in those formal meetings, everyone always wastes a lot of time talking sanctimoniously about some relatively big topics, such as regional economic integration or peace between multiple territories, which sounds completely fine but is actually
It is basically impossible to reach any effective agreement on this topic.”
"So everyone is more willing to use informal occasions like this kind of banquet to talk privately about some issues that really need to be solved, such as some business cooperation, cross-fertilization between various territories, and secret and semi-secret alliances.
." Mr. Lambert finally concluded. "Especially like today when most of the lords and nobles in this sea area gathered together in one go, I guess it might be possible to reach three figures here in a few hours.
A hierarchical agreement."
"This sounds really -" Although Lawrence knew that there were few true and pure friendships between nobles before, he did not expect that it sounded worse than imagined. But after thinking about it, Mr. Lambert should be right.
For a half-hearted aristocrat like Lawrence, his adoptive father was at least born into a noble family when he was young. So he must have a much better understanding of this kind of thing than he does.
"Don't be depressed, my child." Seeing the depressed look in Lawrence's eyes, Mr. Lambert patted Lawrence on the shoulder and encouraged him with a smile, "As a noble, you always have to sacrifice something. For example, waste
A lot of time is spent on these banquets, which in my opinion have little purpose. Of course, you can also have banquet time that truly belongs to yourself and your friends, but at that time you will definitely not adopt this extremely boring banquet format."
No matter what Lawrence thought of the banquet, the banquet ended in a peaceful atmosphere. Looking at the happy eyes of most people, even though Lawrence, who was a little unhappy after knowing the truth about this type of banquet, felt an inexplicable feeling.
A sense of accomplishment emerges.
But after the banquet, the follow-up work took a whole week. Because some people used this place in Lawrence to hold a series of small-scale meetings. Of course, they would not say it was a meeting, but an excuse to hunt.
, the excuses for traveling to sea and even visiting tropical rainforests remained. You know, from the fact that these lords’ own islands are all such tropical islands, you can see how lame their excuses were.
After sending this group of people away, the staff of the Passion Church and the people from the branch of the Erysion Agricultural Church also arrived in a boat, and then quickly went into their respective work. In addition to receiving these churches
In addition to personnel, another important thing for Lawrence and his team is the start of the second season of rice planting.
As a small island in the tropics, the island can grow three crops of rice a year. In fact, the rice yield of the last season was not very large due to the limited time for land development. In addition to leaving enough for ourselves to eat, we can give it to those who cooperate.
The amount exported by the islands is only a few dozen tons to a hundred tons per island. It is simply not enough to provide enough food to those islands. The symbolic significance of their purchase from Lawrence this time is far greater than the actual effect.
But when the next season's rice matures, the food Lawrence and his team can export is not just symbolic. Because during this period, they opened up twice the original rice field area and introduced a series of agricultural machinery.
and various tools, and also attracted more than 3,000 immigrants. Therefore, it was able to produce more food.
Considering the recent increase in the population of the island, especially after the completion of a series of infrastructure construction and the decision of four churches to settle permanently, many new immigrants to this area have begun to consider New Saul Island as their first choice.
point. So Lawrence believed that in addition to developing Niujiao Bay, some new settlements should also be opened.
Under this circumstance, after Lawrence finished presiding over the rice transplanting work in various plantations, he began to select the next batch of territories for expansion with his retainers. After a brief discussion, they chose five or six small plains by the sea as
The main direction of the strategy was to open up living space for the possible increase in population in the future. In addition, they found two small-scale forest clearings near the hills where the tauren live as a bridgehead to march deeper into the island.
Of course, considering that fighting a long guerrilla war with goblins in a tropical jungle would definitely be very difficult. Therefore, the two clearings chosen by Lawrence are all close to the river, so that these territories can have a stable
The rear and the most stable communication line are more convenient for the defense of the territory.
Regarding some people at the meeting who did not understand why everyone who had just successfully established a foothold on the island was now paying such a high price for such a development plan, Lawrence said that according to the current development momentum of the island, the area of the territory to be developed must be larger.
Expanded. And the interior of the tropical rainforest is an unfamiliar place.
Instead of having to pay a lot of money in a hurry, it is better to send a small number of elite personnel into the tropical rainforest now to collect various information. This way, when the people behind need more living space, they can minimize their losses.
Lawrence knew that the expansion of every inch of the other islands and the ancient colonies in the north of New Saul Island was almost piled up with human lives. To him, every intelligent creature on the island now is precious, and it must not be so.
It's a waste. Since there is a way to avoid this loss, it is natural to avoid it.
According to the plan, these two territories will be paramilitary territories. All people who reclaim the land must undergo militia training. In addition, fortresses will be built in each territory and equipped with doctors and priests of the Passion Church. In order to prevent losses
Try to put together a plan to expand territory in the tropical rain forest as much as possible under the smallest circumstances.