Struggle in the Steam Age

It took twice as long as Lawrence and the others to return to the port town. This was because the destroyed places on the two captured ships were only temporarily repaired, but some big loopholes were plugged. But even if they stopped there, the sea would leak into the cabin through the gaps, so they didn't dare to drive the boat fast.

"We have already contacted the port." When they saw the outskirts of the port protruding into the peninsula in the sea, the Enterprise used the ship's telegraph to contact the port area and notified the victory. Because the fort on the only way to enter the port area is in the highest state of readiness, Lawrence will naturally notify the fort in advance to avoid being hit by a pirate.

Half an hour later, when Lawrence and his ship passed the exit, they saw that the flagpole in the fortress was erected, with a semaphore of welcome hung on it. At the same time, he found that the fortress building and surroundings were covered with plants, which seemed to have been temporarily spawned by the priests of the agricultural church.

The concealment effect of these plants is very good, if not know in advance, Lawrence feels that he would probably regard this small fortress as a small mound. Of course, in this case, if someone wants to attack the port, the artillery on this fortress can teach the intruders an absolutely painful lesson.

After they got on the pier, they found that besides some members of the guards and the people who came over spontaneously, there was a group of tall and dark figures at the end of the line.

After speaking a few words with the people on the dock and explaining the next work, Lawrence returned to the residence with Syfiel and Nora. They also went to the residence with Tauren Orchid. Ironhoof.

"Why did you come here so quickly?" Lawrence asked curiously. "I remember you said that you didn't say that tauren people are generally conservative, so it takes a long time to convince them?"

"I thought so too." Lanhua Tiehu gave a strange smile. "But everyone has heard that every tribe has become unexpectedly active after being able to do business with humans, especially after knowing that it can export labor services, I can't wait to let these people set out to throw these big stomach kings to you."

"It sounds like—" Lawrence didn't know what to do at this time and his expression was better, so he changed the subject with a little embarrassment. "By the way, I just saw the tauren all seem to be holding weapons."

"Yes, we rushed here along the river less than a day after you set off." Lanhua explained the current situation. "After coming over, we heard that pirates might invade here, so we told those who received us that we could join the garrison as a militia."

"This is why you saw us in the port before, and your person in charge agreed to temporarily become a militia, but for a while, we couldn't find a weapon suitable for our tauren. So just temporarily use some tools and simple The weapons arm us."

Lawrence finally figured out why the tauren was holding maces full of broken iron pieces in their hands, and a row of ordinary tools and axes were worn in their waists, but this Lawrence, who took the initiative to participate in the war by the group of tauren people, also received it from his heart.

The killing of the pirates this time is very good news for Lawrence and Sauer Island. Let’s not talk about how many materials can be purchased for the wealth seized after the group of pirates were killed to accelerate the construction of the island. These two boats alone are a great help to this island where the settlements are basically all connected by water transportation.

Not to mention that after defeating this group of pirates, Lawrence found that the surrounding islands had a better attitude towards him. If the people on the islands were just polite to him when he visited the islands before, then after defeating the pirates, what the messenger said to congratulate him on the victory made him feel that he was finally It is integrated into the circle of the surrounding islands.

After all, when the pirate group came to this place a few years ago, they did not show mercy to the surrounding places. Almost every island was looted by the group of pirates. Moreover, the owners of the islands are the primary target every time they looted, causing heavy losses to the owners of those islands.

However, this does not mean that the poor people on the island were not damaged in the looting. For those pirates, what they can grab will definitely not let them go because they have no money.

Not to mention that the wealthy people on the island and even the island owner have enough early warning time to escape when they encounter pirates, but other people on the island do not have this kind of good luck. They often become the victims of pirate robbery. In such atrocities committed by pirates, you lose your own small wealth and even pay your own lives. So after Lawrence defeated and completely eliminated those pirates, everyone on the surrounding islands, regardless of rich or poor, regardless of status. All are grateful to Lawrence.

And this situation is very conducive to the next development of New Sauer Island, because with the further development of the territory, the economy on the island will sooner or later move out of the island and develop towards the periphery. And if you can brush up your good feelings around you, it will be of great help in the future.

After successfully eliminating external threats, the seized wealth was used as a lubricant, and a group of tauren laborers joined in, and the construction speed on the island increased a lot. Not to mention the obvious acceleration of the development of new fields. From Lawrence's office alone, the lighthouse built near the fortress can be seen rising from the ground.

In fact, Lawrence has always felt that the construction of the lighthouse does not need to be too anxious, because he believes that the main task in the first few years of the development of this land is to allow this place to establish an independent development industry, and this kind of infrastructure construction stage theoretically There is no need to communicate with the outside world too much.

But after eliminating the pirates, Lawrence discovered from the data that the lighthouse became more and more important for this port in Niujiao Bay, so that he had to mobilize part of the original land reclamation manpower and half after repeated weighings. The tauren people went to complete this construction together.

According to the contents of the data, with the construction of the hospital, the production of medicines plus the production of dried fish meat. Nowadays, there are more and more ships coming to trade on the island. Therefore, the port that only operates during the day is slowly changing and there is no way to satisfy the use~www.ltnovel.com~ In this case, night sailing becomes An inevitable thing.

But in this way, the shoal at the entrance of the port area that shields the port area from wind and waves and can provide a certain tactical cover has become a huge trouble. In the past few days when Lawrence eliminated the pirates, one was originally not in this area. The active fishing boat accidentally ran into the shallow beach when it returned to the port at night and ran aground. Fortunately, there were not many winds and waves at the time, so no casualties were caused.

However, this incident sounded a wake-up call for Lawrence and the others. After all, it was lucky that no casualties were caused this time, but the next time may not be as lucky as this time.

Therefore, after repeatedly checking the arrival records of the nearest ships, Lawrence finally chose to allocate a batch of manpower construction. After all, according to the increasing speed of those docking ships in the port, it is definitely too late to repair the lighthouse when the normal night sailing really begins.

In this way, a whole week passed in the busy construction. On this day, when Lawrence went to the side of the fort to inspect the lighthouse that had already been laid and partially framed, a small sampan drove over from the port area. After landing, Priest Peter jumped down from above and shouted to Lawrence: "Uncle Lambert asked me to call you back quickly. People from the Fortune Church are here."