Lawrence has used modernization as the criterion from the first day of building his own territory, so for him, the traditional feudal people are not what the island needs.
Although the traditional and uneducated citizens are more ignorant and more likely to blindly obey their lords, it is definitely not possible to rely on these people to develop the island well.
Therefore, Lawrence actually hopes that workers with various skills or agricultural workers will immigrate to the island, which can improve the level of the entire territory and provide qualified manpower for the industrial upgrading of the island.
But in the past, because Lawrence's territory was remote and inconspicuous, the immigrants who came to the island were mainly ordinary workers and farmers, and even some desperate refugees, and the quality of these people was obviously not satisfactory.
Fortunately, Lawrence had enough contacts before, so he was able to recruit enough people to carry out research on various knowledge on this island, which can be called a wasteland of knowledge.
In addition, Lawrence invested a lot of resources in education as soon as he came to the island. He hopes to lay a solid foundation for the future development of the island.
But even with this two-pronged approach, compared to the industries on New Sauer Island, the number of such technical personnel is still insufficient relative to the required positions.
However, after Nora successfully ignited the divine fire, the composition of immigrants on the island was finally close to the professional proportion of normal immigration destinations. At least after understanding the situation on the island, many technicians took the initiative to choose to come to the island.
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When passing through customs, technical personnel will be directly screened out and then assigned to urgently needed positions after some quick tests.
The reason why we do special things is because these technicians basically come from industrialized society, so they understand what the modern world should be like, so they do not need any additional training.
However, except for a small number of technical personnel, most of these new immigrants were traditional farmers rather than agricultural workers in the past, and were not adapted to the overall situation on the island.
.Therefore, for most new immigrants, after arriving on the island, they need a certain degree of training and changing their thinking before they can integrate into the environment of the island.
Obviously, boring classes are not very effective for these illiterate and semi-literate people. Instead, semi-mandatory collective labor with food, food, housing, and a little money can make these new immigrants realize the situation on the island.
and accept the management of the island.
Therefore, these new immigrants can now provide sufficient labor force for the construction of these large-scale projects on the island, and at the same time, these new immigrants can be trained to integrate into the island's environment as much as possible.
Therefore, the collective construction sites on New Saul Island are also different from ordinary construction sites. In addition to normal labor, some simple skills training and literacy work will also be arranged to ensure that they can integrate smoothly after the completion of the big project.
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It was obviously not an easy task to complete this large amount of work, so in the next month or so, all the staff on the island were busy working overtime.
Until that day, after Lawrence signed a batch of orders regarding the allocation of supplies, he was about to have dinner with Saphire. However, before he could go out, Lawrence saw his adoptive father, Mr. Lambert, coming to see him.
"Father, what's the matter?" Lawrence looked surprised when he saw Lambert coming to his office specifically to look for him.
Because he only knew that his father was a standard clergyman, and he usually only stayed in his church to complete religious affairs or do his favorite experiments or inventions, and rarely came to see him.
"I think you have been busy with everything recently. When are you going to get married?" After closing the door and entering the room and sitting down, Mr. Lambert asked Lawrence a question that sounded very familiar.
"Uh - haven't I already been engaged to Saphire? Theoretically speaking, as long as we get engaged, all the relationships between the two families can be completely settled." Lawrence asked with some confusion.
This is not because he is afraid of marriage and is making excuses, but according to tradition, nobles attach much greater importance to engagement than the marriage itself. Because the engagement involves the two families forming a special alliance.
Therefore, this kind of ceremony is often more lively, and the entire ceremony is also very formal. Even many wealthy nobles may hold various grand ceremonies.
However, compared to the lively engagement ceremony, the formal wedding is generally very low-key, and sometimes only close relatives of the family and a few friends of the couple may participate.
Of course, not all aristocratic engagement ceremonies are very lively. At least Lawrence and Phil's engagement ceremony was relatively simple.
This was mainly because the entire territory had just begun to be developed at that time, and the entire area was in its infancy, so it was impossible to hold any luxurious ceremonies. At the same time, the overall atmosphere at that time was indeed not suitable for such extravagant things.
Therefore, Lawrence has always hoped to give Saphire a more status-worthy wedding to make up for various shortcomings in the previous engagement ceremony.
"Do you have any objections to Miss Coburg?" After listening to Lawrence's words, Mr. Lambert shook his head gently, then looked at Lawrence and asked very seriously.
"I know that for most nobles, the marriage may take several years or even ten years after the engagement ends, but that often only happens to those nobles who were engaged in childhood."
After realizing that his son did not want to get married, Mr. Lambert explained the situation.
"Regardless of the fact that your situation with Saphiel is different from the marriage of most nobles, because you are not a traditional noble, so you did not get married until you reached adulthood."
"So from various perspectives, your current marriage is closer to the marriage of ordinary people. Therefore, from various perspectives, it is more appropriate to get married within a year after the engagement."
"At least in my opinion, you'd better get married to Saphiel as soon as possible. This will be a good thing for Saphiel and the entire territory."
"For Miss Coburg, getting married within a short period of time after being engaged is actually fulfilling your promise. As for the external things you are worried about, I believe he will not care about this."
"Because for those outstanding people, they prefer to see the sincerity of their partners and not pay too much attention to external objects. And Miss Coburg is such an outstanding person."
Having said this, Mr. Lambert paused for a moment. From his momentarily absent-minded gaze, Lawrence understood that his adoptive father must have once again thought of his mother, whom he had never met.
Fortunately, that incident could pass for a long time, so Mr. Lambert quickly returned to normal. Then he said to Lawrence.
"In addition to considering personal issues, as a noble, you also have to consider territorial issues. For the people in the territory, the marriage of the lord is a very helpful thing to improve the cohesion of the people."
"Because for most people who are not well educated, the life of the lord is closely related to theirs. And for a good lord like you, everyone naturally hopes that you can get married as soon as possible."
"Because in most people's minds, the sign of a person's maturity is entering into a marriage relationship, and it is very important for a lord to give people a sense of maturity, which can make the people feel more at ease."