Struggle in the Steam Age

You were sweet with him for a while, and bitter for a while, what were you talking about? Lawrence watched the Earl of Santo Domingo leaving him with milk tea, and Nora's voice suddenly sounded in his mind. Obviously, when Nora was eating just now, he had been linked to his soul through the connection between the two souls, so after listening to the exchange between Lawrence and the Earl of Santo Domingo just now, she found something that interested her and then spoke out. inquiring.

We were talking about business just now. Lawrence was more than happy to explain to Nora what happened just now, so while eating the pile of Yingzhou-style fried food in front of him, he told the little doll through the connection of soul explained. I have to say that as a nobleman who has been passed down for hundreds of years, they have a lot of merits in their inheritance. At least this generation of the Earl of Santo Domingo has an unprecedented sense of business.

Sense of business, what do you say? Since the soul connection is two-way, Nora will not set up soul defenses against Lawrence. So after concentrating. He saw Nora struggling to swallow a fresh cream cake that was about the size of her face, wiped her mouth, and then sat there with a serious face, ready to listen to what Lawrence said just now.

Because when he drank milk tea for the first time, he realized that this new type of beverage has a rigid demand for sugar. Lawrence said that although he drank various milk teas with salt in the northwest and north when traveling in his previous life And I think the taste is not bad, but it is undeniable that the most popular is sweet milk tea.

After all, intelligent creatures actually prefer sweet foods to other flavors. It's a pity that traditional tea is not suitable for adding sugar, so everyone can only drink clear tea like that. However, this changed soon after the new black tea was invented by Lawrence.

Because of the memory of two worlds, Lawrence himself is naturally aware of this trend. However, considering that sugar making is a labor-intensive industry and the most scarce thing on his island is manpower, he gave up the idea of ​​growing sugarcane by himself. Of course, this just makes him feel a little regretful, and he also knows that people can't be greedy and want to keep all the profits of the entire industrial chain in their hands.

Therefore, the Earl of Santo Domingo's proposal is actually quite in line with his current needs. Because none of his neighbors grow sugar cane to produce sugar, as long as the earl has good quality sugar and is willing to pay enough, Lawrence naturally doesn't mind letting the sugar from his island and his own black tea Bundle promotion.

Just like those industrial chains in the Caribbean island countries in the previous life, not only some top-quality coffee is produced there, but also the most luxurious sugar is also produced on the island of Jamaica. And this kind of industrial chain not only makes the various islands earn a lot of extra wealth through mutual cooperation, but also makes the relationship between the various islands closer.

And Lawrence, as a newcomer in this sea area, naturally doesn't mind using himself as the core to connect with the surrounding islands and various forces. So if the earl is willing to tie up the economy of his island with New Shaw Island, for example, using the work-point coupons issued by Lawrence as settlement, Lawrence is even willing to give up part of the benefits to the earl.

Ah, this kind of thing sounds a little annoying. Lawrence began to explain to Nora one by one through the soul connection what he had just communicated with the earl and the things behind it, but the little puppet only listened for a few minutes I got a little bored. I just need to know that you can benefit from this matter.

Obviously, the little puppet is not very interested in these tedious mundane matters, and even more scoffs at the way the nobles communicate. The reason why I asked Lawrence about this matter was purely out of concern for him. So when she learned that Lawrence could benefit from this matter, she immediately turned her attention back to the pile of delicious food in front of her. After seeing her end the call, Lawrence raised a full glass of eggnog the size of her thigh and drank it down.

Actually, Lawrence has been curious about one thing. That's how on earth the puppet managed to eat so much food. At least today, the things he saw the little dolls eat were about the size of three or four little dolls, but in this case, Nora's appearance didn't change at all. Lawrence thought it might be because of the power of magic.

In the next period of time, Lawrence and Safir mainly communicated with the clergy of various churches about the next step of the island in addition to enjoying the food. Now there are three permanent churches on the island, they are the Church of Agriculture, the Church of Knowledge and the Church of Wealth, and these churches have gradually merged with New Sauer Island after a period of running-in.

For example, members of the Church of Knowledge have been busy holding mobile literacy classes in various farms and settlements, and at the same time bringing children together for basic education. Even Lawrence's adoptive father was busy putting down his usual career and spending most of his time every day in the only elementary school in Port New Sauer. After all, for them, the importance of spreading civilization and educating all living beings is more important than their own research.

The people in the Church of Agriculture are busier than those in the Church of Knowledge, because a lot of experiments are needed to verify the kind of circular agriculture proposed by Lawrence. So now they usually keep only the most basic personnel in the church in the port of New Sauer, and the rest of the personnel all ran to the fields, and even went to the fishing ground by boat to conduct various observations.

At the beginning, the farm workers and fishermen did not understand why these big men would put on coarse clothes and work with them in the farmland and fishery. But later, after discovering that these important figures in their eyes are not only amiable, but also able to point out some deficiencies in their work, these fishermen and farm workers naturally accepted them.

For the clergy of the Agricultural Church, this practice is also one of their traditional missionary methods. And they also know that these front-line farmers and fishermen are actually people who have a full understanding of that piece of land, so only by going deep into these ordinary people can they obtain those precious first-hand information.

But a direct reflection of this is that every clergyman of the Church of Agriculture is actually very busy at ordinary times, especially when there are important topics to study. We are able to gather here today because these two days are the Harvest Festival and everyone is resting. So when Lawrence told them that Elysion's Agricultural Church would also send people to help with the research, they all smiled happily.

As for the Fortune Church, it was originally the most leisurely of the three existing churches on the island, because there was not much economic circulation on the island at the beginning. In order to prevent them from making any troubles due to their boredom, Lawrence simply asked them to help issue the island's currency.

As a result, the Fortune Church immediately became busy. Since there are only five or six members of the Fortune Church on the island, each of them has a lot of work on their hands. However, because Lawrence had previously considered that in order to let the horse run, he had to let the horse graze, he specially wrote a part of the financial knowledge related to currency issuance in his mind into a paper and gave them as a reward. So now they are actively working overtime and busy with these things.

In addition to planning the next step of the island's development together, Lawrence and the others also discussed some matters related to the coming of the Church of the Passion to the island, such as trivia such as the location of the church's future construction. And while they were discussing, those nobles also filled their stomachs with delicious food and started all kinds of communication.