The first time Lawrence used the teleportation technique, the effect was pretty good. He successfully teleported to a pier in the port area of New Sauer Port. Although it was a little distance from the expected stone rear warehouse area, at least it was not unlucky enough to directly
Teleported into the sea. After leaving the dock, Lawrence planned to go out with Sephiel for a walk and relax at the same time.
What they didn't expect was that when they just returned to their temporary residence, they saw Saphire presiding over a meeting, in which Lawrence's adoptive father, Mr. Lambert, and a group of priests staying at the port were sitting on one side of the long table, and
On the other side were the administrative officials on the island, looking like they were discussing something.
"Have you finished your research today?" After seeing Lawrence and the others walking into the living room that was used as a conference room, Seifer said happily. "If you are free, I think you should preside over the next meeting. After all,
This meeting involves an important issue on the island in the coming period."
"Important question?" After hearing Saifei's words, Lawrence also gave up the idea of fishing for the time being, and then he and Nora each pulled a chair from the side and sat down at the edge of the desk, and then asked. "I
I remember that I have already arranged all the work for the next period of time, and I have seen those job recommendations before and they are pretty good."
"Yes, of course you are right." Saifei shrugged, "We encountered a new emergency. We only received the telegram after you and Nora went out this morning. The telegram said
, the hospital ship planned by the Passion Church has now been fully renovated and will set off in three days. So I think we should plan the reception carefully."
"Has that ship been repaired so quickly?" Hearing Saifei say this, Lawrence raised his eyebrows in surprise. Did he know that the speed of shipbuilding in this era was simply slow compared to the world he came from?
, it is very normal for a large ship to be built for several years, not to mention that the members of the Passion Church specifically said that their ship would be a 6,000-ton ship. According to common sense, it is normal for it to be built for one or two years.
of.
"Normally, it shouldn't be the case. After all, as a ship carrying sacred objects, after it is built, it needs to undergo various modifications related to extraordinary power. It is very normal for these two or three years to be added up." Sai.
Phil explained, “But several churches thought this matter was very important, so they simply used an existing ship and worked together through the astral planes belonging to each church, and finally achieved it within a few months.
The one who transformed this ship."
After Saifei explained, Lawrence immediately understood what was going on. After all, as long as the ship is built in advance, it is very easy to speed up the transformation related to extraordinary power, as long as you are willing to pay enough costs.
That's it. However, most people will basically not do this. Only large organizations with sufficient resources will take this approach at some critical times. Lawrence just didn't expect that those churches would actually do something like this that he didn't seem to be urgent about.
This is what happened.
"There is nothing surprising about this." After sensing what Lawrence was thinking through the soul connection, Nora said to him through the soul connection. "You know, although the people in the Star Sea are all distributed on various islands because of the settlement,
Because of this, the population density is not very high, but as one of the earliest colonies from the Old World to the New World, the population here is quite large if all are added up."
"For the church, it is important to gain more faith while preaching. Whether it is accumulating wealth, accumulating resources or cultivating extraordinary people, it is actually for this goal. So they are naturally willing to spend a lot of money on this matter
Resources. In their eyes, these resources are absolutely impossible to compare with being able to preach one or two years in advance."
Hearing Nora's explanation, Lawrence immediately understood the reason why the ship was built so quickly. But what happened? Some of the constructions on the island that were originally placed very far back in sequence will be temporarily moved to the front.
Here it comes. This batch of construction includes the expansion of the hospital and the construction of temporary reception spaces.
According to the previous agreement, this ship will dock at New Saul Island for one month every year. It will provide medical services to people on the island and surrounding islands and serve as a mobile religious shrine to accept pilgrims from believers. Regardless of which of these two projects
This will cause a large number of people to gather on New Saul Island.
But now the island is not ready to accept these guests at all? For example, although the hospital on the island has finally put together a department that a normal hospital should have with Lawrence’s full efforts, compared with a regular large hospital
It can only be regarded as a grassroots team? It has many shortcomings.
Take the most important beds, for example? There is a three-story building behind this hospital with 120 beds. In Lawrence's previous life, it was equivalent to the level of some larger town hospitals, but now, these beds
It can be said that there are all the hospital beds in so many islands within a few hundred nautical miles around.
Obviously? It is definitely not enough for a hospital of this level to accept patients coming from ships. Not to mention the problem with medical resources? Receiving pilgrims is a real trouble for them. Because that
In addition to mobile medical services, the boat also serves as a mobile religious shrine.
In this world with real gods, such an artifact that represents the power of gods will definitely arrive and attract a large number of pilgrims. However, it can barely be compared with what was built on the island under Lawrence's promotion at all costs in this era.
Compared with the good medical system on the island, there are almost zero facilities for guest reception on the island.
After all, after formulating a plan to make agriculture and medical care the core of the island's future development, Lawrence and the others naturally put all their focus on these two core industries? In addition, the remaining resources were invested in various projects similar to
kind of infrastructure construction and people's livelihood projects? As a result, the island naturally does not have many resources to invest in the construction of various facilities for receiving guests.
Therefore? There are only some slightly crude dormitories that can be used to receive guests on the island. These dormitories were vacated after the people who originally lived here moved away after the first batch of apartments were built. Because they are just some
Because of the temporary facilities, whether it is ventilation, lighting or something else, it is not very ideal. At least in Lawrence's opinion, it is not very suitable for accommodating travelers who come from afar.
Although Lawrence had not planned to make the island a tourist destination before, but after suddenly having this travel resource, it is impossible for New Saul Island, which has insufficient money to spend due to large-scale construction in the economy, to push this money-making opportunity to other countries.
So everyone gathered together to discuss today in the hope that we can find a way to make a reasonable reception plan.
"When will that ship arrive?" Lawrence thought for a moment and asked. This is related to how long the island has to respond. If it comes at full speed like the Enterprise and arrives next week, Lawrence estimates that he will
They can only find a way to clear a piece of land and build a bunch of straw sheds, but if they have more time, they can naturally make better preparations in this regard.
"They need to visit several islands along the way, and there will be certain stops on those islands." Lawrence's adoptive father, Mr. August, said, "So the time left for us is quite sufficient now. According to the time given to us by the other party,
According to the itinerary, the ship will arrive here at the end of spring next year, that is, three months later."
"Then how many outside guests do you think that ship will bring?" Lawrence nodded to his adoptive father, then turned to look at the clergy sitting on the side of the table and asked, because everyone present
Among them, only they can have a rough estimate of the number of pilgrims brought by this holy object.
"We made a calculation about this." The newly arrived priest of the Passion Church thought for a while and said. "Considering that this holy object appears for the first time, and it is in a place like the Sea of Stars where transportation is not convenient, so
According to our calculations, during a month when the ship docks here, at most seven to eight thousand to ten thousand pilgrims will arrive."