In preparation for the inland development, in addition to preparing two fortress-like advance territories, the number of manpower is also limited to about 100, and as many young adults as possible are selected. This can ensure that when encountering plague or goblins, the number of people in these territories can be guaranteed.
People can buy enough time for support to arrive.
For the sake of territorial expansion, the two territories Lawrence chose were all some distance away from the hills where the tauren lived. However, each territory was within the reach of the tauren in half a day. This way, if the police were there, they would be able to get there.
Can quickly obtain the support of the Tauren tribe.
In addition, during this period, Lawrence also used Aunt Mia's relationship to sell a batch of jewelry seized in previous adventures in Ilysia, the capital of Elysia. Then he transferred the money to the Golden Horn in Ilysia.
Bay Shipyard ordered eight unarmed Class 75 pure steam inland river and port patrol boats. With these patrol boats, Lawrence and the others can support the two pioneering territories located on the upper reaches of the river from the New Sauer Port at any time.
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Of course, Lawrence cannot just use these 75-ton boats as troop carriers. According to the plan, these ships will undergo simple modifications after arriving at Sauer Island, and a hand-operated multi-barreled machine gun will be installed in the front and rear of the ship.
.In addition, two parallel 82mm mortars will be installed on a small platform in the middle of the hull that can turn 360 degrees.
In this way, the entire ship can not only transport a fully armed squadron to various fortresses on the river at a time. It can also be used as a firepower point that utilizes river activities. Considering that all subsequent settlements are along the river
distribution, so these ships should work well.
Although it is basically impossible for such ships to be used in water battles, according to the records of various churches, goblins can only use canoes to fight on water in rare cases. Most of their only means of water warfare is to swim over.
Then he used all the tools at hand, even his claws and teeth, to try to destroy the ship, so it wasn't too difficult to deal with it.
The boats are particularly quick to build at Elysium's Golden Horn shipyard because the vessel Lawrence needs can be seen as a variant of the 75-ton multipurpose berthing barges commonly used in ports.
Small shipyards have mass-produced many of them, and it only takes more than a week to make targeted modifications and leave weapon access points before they are ready for use.
It's just that Lawrence didn't receive the goods until nearly a month later. Compared with the rapid construction speed, how to get these ships to New Saul Island is an important issue. Considering that the ships need to move in shallow waters offshore and inland rivers
, and will not go to the distant sea, so the ability of these ships to withstand wind and waves can be said to be extremely flawed. In this case, they can only try their best to find better routes along the coastline.
These ships came together with the ships that Viscount Doropia had agreed to transport cotton textiles to the island. This was part of the agreement when Lawrence solved the insect infestation in their cotton fields. As for why it took so long to arrive, it was mainly because although Lawrence and the others
The divine contamination has been removed, but the real insect plague still keeps them busy, so now they have solved the problem and freed up manpower to deliver goods to New Saul Island.
Moreover, Viscount Doropia, as an old-school nobleman, has his own moral bottom line. For example, he is rarely willing to promise something, but once he commits to it, he will definitely do it well instead of doing it half-heartedly. Under such circumstances,
In order to ensure that this textile market could continue to operate for a long time and not be a flash in the pan, he had previously sent people to visit the island and some surrounding settlements to investigate the market situation.
During the investigation, they unexpectedly discovered that selling textiles to New Saul and surrounding islands is actually a profitable business. Because there is neither a textile industry nor cotton cultivation in this area. The only plant that can be used for textiles is palm.
, but what is made of it is a coir raincoat that can be worn on the body, so all local textiles can only be purchased from those irregular liners, so not only are the prices high, but the styles are also very few.
On the other hand, from the perspective of market demand, the survey team sent found that at least on New Shore Island, because of Lawrence's profit-sharing policy, those under his rule accumulated part of the wealth and were interested in textiles.
All have extremely strong desire to buy.
Therefore, during this period, they also need to deploy various goods based on the results of the investigation so that they can open the market as soon as they arrive on the island and give this business activity a good start. So naturally they
It took a lot of time to carefully prepare the goods according to the contents of the previous investigation.
When they prepared all the goods and prepared to go to New Sauer, they happened to encounter a batch of small steam that was about to be shipped, so they came over together. At this time, Lawrence had just completed the next step of planning for the island and
Regarding the material preparation work for part of the pioneering operation, I simply took Saifei and Nora to the dock to greet them.
As a result, when he arrived at the dock, he discovered that their ships did not arrive alone. Perhaps due to good luck, another arms ship docked at the same time as their ship, which he had been waiting for for a long time.
On board the ship was a series of weapons and engineers that Lawrence ordered from his own Bofors arms factory.
Although there are some engineers on the island now, those professional military engineers and ordinary mechanical engineers are completely different concepts. To take the simplest example, installing weapons on a ship still requires some relatively professional personnel, otherwise it is just a focus.
The problem is difficult to solve.
Because the weapons and the ship arrived on the island at the same time, they immediately started the modification work after holding a welcome banquet with simple greetings. Fortunately, after a while of hard work, Lawrence and the others built a simple ship repair yard by the river.
Although it is still impossible to repair steam sailing ships like the Enterprise or those previously captured, those slipways can already provide simple repair services for three ships under 100 tons at the same time.
So after a simple reception, Lawrence and the others pulled half of the new ships onto the slipway in the afternoon and began to renovate them. Fortunately, these ships sailed very well for the first time. Although the journey was difficult
It completely exceeds the design upper limit of these offshore vessels, but due to the driver's caution and correct choice of route, these small boats are in good condition and only need a simple routine maintenance.
It only took three days for all eight ships to be armed as planned. This was mainly because there was room for various upgrades on the ship during construction, so they only needed to equip the weapons as previously designed.
Just install it in the various empty slots left.
At the same time, another engineer belonging to the Bofors factory guided the workers to build a mine slide and a mine warehouse in the fortress at the entrance of the port. According to what he relayed to his partner, the dwarf Eugene, Huguang City
A batch of light mines have been ordered to defend against murloc invasion, but because there are not many actual combat records yet, not many people have ordered large mines aimed at ships and large extraordinary creatures.
Therefore, he is now sending all the large mines he produced to Lawrence. He hopes that his island can find practical combat opportunities as soon as possible.
Sure enough, even dwarf arms dealers are also arms dealers. In this regard, they are not as loyal and honest as dwarves at all. But this is a good thing for Lawrence, because only in this way can he make better profits from his investment in arms factories.