One month after submitting his report on the status of the Jackal race on the west coast of central Yanzhou, Lawrence finally received a reply to his report.
In this report, the other party divided a large territory to Nora's church based on the distribution of various jackal tribes that Lawrence obtained from Nora, and announced that this territory was recognized by civilized races and belonged to the church's development.
territory.
This kind of territory belonging to the church was relatively common in those dark ages, but with the passage of time and the outbreak of the Industrial Revolution, the number of such territories in the main plane has naturally been greatly reduced.
In order to minimize internal strife, each church has also reduced its power in the main plane. Except for some civilized expeditions or some hard fights, it will basically not develop new power in the main plane. Instead, it will use the star realm to
Plane serves as the main direction of attack.
This is why Lawrence was so shocked when he saw this document now, because the area designated for Nora's church on the document is even much larger than that of New Saul Island.
"Could this be a mistake?" Holding this document, Lawrence asked the envoy with a confused look. "This territory is obviously much larger than the normal church territory."
"I can confirm that we are not mistaken in this regard, Your Excellency." The messenger who came to deliver the message said with a sure face. "Because the territory you serve is deep in the wilderness, so we will give you the territory according to the rules of opening up the territory.
of."
"I understand." Lawrence nodded and said. After being reminded by the messenger, Lawrence suddenly recalled some of the information he had seen in the church.
In fact, the main force for human expansion was not the state, but the churches. Because in the early years, each human force had very little power, and only the church could organize the force for expansion.
And now that we are facing a wilderness that no intelligent race has ever set foot in, turning the new territory into this kind of church territory naturally meets the requirements of all parties.
"240,000 square kilometers, are they crazy?" After seeing the documents Lawrence brought, Nora showed the same expression as Lawrence before.
"You know, I haven't officially become a god yet. But this direct territory exceeds the direct territories of many gods with weak divine power. I think that possessing something that does not match my own strength may not be a good thing."
"You don't need to worry about this." Lawrence pointed to a paragraph in the document and said, "They have made it clear on this document that this area is only the largest territory area allocated to you, and the specific amount you can get depends on it.
Look at you."
"According to the document, they will explore this territory in 70 years, and then use 150% of the area under our actual control as the final size of the territory."
"Then what if we really take over this territory completely?" Nora waved the document in her hand and said, "You know, we are different from normal gods or lords."
"Then they will still recognize the territory we gained." Lawrence shrugged and said. "After all, these rules are to better open up the wilderness areas. If you have the ability, no one will say anything if you occupy more."
"You are right, this kind of development work is not easy." Nora thought for a moment and nodded. "Judging from the comparison of the number of people and the area, it will be a long time to develop this territory."
A long process.”
Because according to the information Lawrence and the others had received before, the number of jackals in this territory barely reached 300,000. Counting those who were willing to be with the jackals, the total number of allies who would convert to Nora would not exceed 500,000.
Obviously, it is not enough to rely on such a small number of people to open up this territory. It is necessary to introduce foreign populations. This is why Lawrence collected various supplies during this period.
According to Lawrence's plan, during this period, Nora will mobilize the jackals to investigate the surrounding situation and select some places suitable for human immigrants to set up camp.
Lawrence, on the other hand, collected various supplies for shipment and found ways to contact manpower to make various preparations for building the first immigration settlement on that land.
Finally, a month and a half after receiving the message, Lawrence and his crew finally set off for the west coast of Yanzhou. This fleet consisted of 15 ships, carrying 350 ordinary volunteers and people from various churches.
Because of the tradition of polytheistic beliefs, even the territories directly under certain churches can actually allow foreign religions to preach, but in such areas other churches must be dominated by local bishops.
Of course, the dominant church in such an area can naturally refuse the entry of other churches. For example, the Church of the Lord of the Morning or the Church of the God of War does this, but for most churches, they often adopt an access system.
In other words, the churches that own that area will make a list, and then choose which churches are allowed to enter here, and which other churches are prohibited from entering. Under normal circumstances, those churches will allow church institutions that are friendly with them to enter.
Nora naturally follows the trend in this regard. For other established churches, they are also familiar with handling this kind of problem.
.So just a brief mention, the churches on the islands sent professional personnel with various supplies to follow Lawrence on the eastward sea ship, preparing to open up a new territory with them.
The whole journey can be said to be uneventful, but some problems occurred when everyone arrived at the destination. Because the coastline in that area is not only flat, but the sea water near the coastline is also very shallow, so it is difficult for these ocean-going ships to dock.
"Sorry, I made some mistakes during my previous investigation." Seeing this scene, Nora also looked helpless. "At that time, I asked them if there was a place where the big ship could dock, but I didn't tell them how big the big ship was."
"Actually, you can't do anything even if you tell them how big the big ship is." Lawrence comforted the little doll after watching the sailors put down the small boats they carried on the ship and started the transfer work.
"After all, we were too far apart before, so many things couldn't be communicated at all. But I think as we take further actions here, the overall situation here should change."
Just as Lawrence expected, there were a lot of problems with the running-in at the beginning.
Fortunately, the personnel selected this time can be said to be the best of the best. They also conducted advance rehearsals and formulated sufficient plans for the current situation. Therefore, when facing these problems, they overcame and solved them one by one.
And here we have to talk about the importance of gods. Thanks to the existence of Nala, the jackal tribes that have gradually lost contact over thousands of years can be organized like their ancestors.
With the participation of these indigenous people who have mastered the local situation, Lawrence and the others were able to choose the place they wanted in a short period of time, and then successfully completed their main goal of coming here this time: building an immigration settlement.
During this construction period, Lawrence and Seifer, together with several scholars, conducted a comprehensive survey around the first batch of selected immigration sites under the leadership of local guides, and the results of the survey confirmed that
The belief to continue to develop.
"The products of this place are obviously much richer than those of us in New Sauer." After the first round of simple inspection, Saifei said to Lawrence with a notebook, "This area has a lot of resources suitable for planting various industries.
Crop land.”
"You are right, but it is not an easy task to carve out plantations from these completely barbaric areas." Lawrence said, looking at the dense tropical rain forest in front of him. "There are too many harmful organisms here.