Struggle in the Steam Age

"I have to say that the former Turkish warlord had a good eye." After the carriage was parked at the entrance of the road, Bach led the way and briefly introduced Lawrence and the others.

"The overall design of this villa came from a very famous half-elf designer in the Great Lakes region, and it is also located in a noble community rather than a nearby nouveau riche."

"For example, on the left side of the villa lives a famous scholar from the White Eagle Federation, and on the right is the property of Viscount Briton. So you can visit these neighbors if you have time."

"Ah, this sounds good. Maybe we can still have a party with them." Lawrence said. After all, he is a more famous scholar, so I think I should be able to have a lot of common language with two neighbors.

Soon, Bach led them through a small garden to the door of the villa. Then they handed the keys to Lawrence and they said.

"Mr. August, this is your key, and we have replaced everything in it with new ones. If you need anything else, go to the street entrance, where you can call for the services of various service staff. "

"Very good, trouble you." Lawrence took the key and watched Bach leave, then turned his gaze to the small villa in front of him.

This villa is divided into upper and lower floors, and it looks like it is more than 200 to 300 square meters. The style of the whole building is the traditional Bulitun red brick building, except that the bottom and corners of the house are partially reinforced with a kind of local white, rough-surfaced rock.

However, in this way, the corners of the house inlaid with white stones and the borders of doors and windows have a special aesthetic.

After opening the door with the key, Lawrence found that the interior decoration of the entire room looked very consistent with the style of the exterior of the house. It is also the standard Briton style interior. The wallpaper, mahogany panelling, and gilded bronze lamp are not bad. Even the floor is covered with some very well-maintained wooden floors.

"It seems that this place is cleaned by professional servants every day, otherwise the room can't be so clean." After gently extending a hand with silk gloves and touching the cabinet, Saifeier Turned his head and said to Lawrence. "But why are there no servants here since we came."

"Ah-I think it may be decided by the people who live here." After being mentioned by Syfel, Lawrence realized what was wrong with this house.

In this world where there are basically no time-saving household appliances, considering the heavy housework and low labor costs, anyone with a certain status will choose to hire one or several servants to complete part of the housework for their home.

At least according to Lawrence's previous life experience, even some white-collar workers would invite a servant at home, so the situation of a double-storey villa like this one without servants is indeed a bit weird.

But after a brief thought, Lawrence quickly found the answer: because this area is filled with people like wealthy businessmen, scholars, or little nobles, and these people often have that kind of permanent servants.

But here as a place for those people to use for leisure, the industry here is not like the big nobles or wealthy merchants who can hire a servant to take care of the empty room.

In this way, that kind of public servant naturally appeared in the entire community. Just pay a fee to help you maintain the building at ordinary times, or hire them to supplement the shortage of manpower when there are more guests.

The reason why the current villa of Lawrence is cleaned up is naturally the credit of the servants who come to clean the room regularly.

"Then what do we do now? Are you going out to hire a few servants temporarily?" After listening to Lawrence's account, Syfiel asked him in a daze.

After all, neither she nor Lawrence used servants much, so thinking of strangers in the house always felt a little uncomfortable.

In the earliest days, Lawrence and Seifer were ordinary people living in the country. Although it is said that they are not worried about eating and drinking because of their identities, naturally there will be no servants waiting on them.

Among them, Lawrence had always lived in the church with his adoptive father, so he had to work with his adoptive father no matter what, but occasionally asked an aunt from the town to help with some sewing work.

Because of the fact that the Saifier family has a farm, they hired a few women from the town to help the family members and workers in the family cook, sew clothes, or clean up the house and dormitory. But this is not a concept at all with the servants hired by the rich.

After Lawrence himself became a nobleman, there were servants, but because of the lack of personnel on New Sauer Island, Lawrence directly sent those servants to various posts on the island.

After all, these servants were educated anyway, knew how to write and count, and were loyal to the August family. Instead of letting them do something about serving tea and water, it's better to let them become grassroots civil servants.

At the beginning, several housekeepers in the family did persuade Lawrence, after all, for a real power earl, a servant around him was really inappropriate.

Fortunately, these housekeepers were later convinced by Lawrence that the interests of the August family were more important than all kinds of face.

So unlike most parts of the world, Lawrence and the others basically don't have many servants on the upper level of Sauer Island. Just considering that everyone is busy, Lawrence has set up a service organization on the island to handle daily chores for everyone.

After coming to the island, Syfiel naturally enjoyed this kind of service that was quite similar to that of a later-generation housekeeping company. Therefore, when everyone didn’t have time, he naturally thought of hiring those public servants during this time. Finished various housework ideas, and put forward his own opinions to Lawrence.

"No, we'd better not let outsiders come in during this time." Lawrence waved his hand and said, "After all, during this time we have to deal with a lot of information about those industries~www.ltnovel.com~ Many of these are classified information. The introduction of some outsiders is likely to have some security risks."

"As for the housework--" Lawrence said with a flick of his finger, and for an instant, five or six goblins appeared around him. "These goblin phantoms have enough flexibility under my control, at least the housework is no worse than those trained servants."

"If that's the case, it looks like a good idea." Nora looked at the milky white translucent shadows around her and said Daao. The dirty goblins you see in peacetime are different. The ghosts of these goblins look very neat and tidy, and they wear a beautiful tuxedo.

This is a small ability that Lawrence has learned to control Bai Zetu after he has increased his transcendent level. It can simply change some of the characteristics of the monsters summoned, such as the appearance of the monsters, or some of the monsters. These organs are more strengthened.

The goblins that Lawrence summoned now were the modified ones, after they were cleaned up and put on a beautiful suit. The ghosts of these goblins looked a lot like the house elves that Lawrence had seen in the movies in his last life.

Soon, these monster phantoms became busy under the command of Lawrence. But Lawrence himself and Seifer opened a small box that Bach had given them in the study, and then checked the files in the box.

According to the plan, they will stay here for a day or two to read all the information, and then go to the farms and factories in the next few days to conduct site surveys.

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