Struggle in the Steam Age

"According to the habits of those nobles, if they explored in such a safe place not far from the city, they would set off directly after a day of preparation." Soon, Bach began to test how to deal with the current situation. .

"However, those with identities often venture into such places for show off, so the whole adventure process often becomes like traveling. In this case, the other party must go out at least after 12 noon."

Speaking of this, Bach shook his head with contempt, even though the August family that their family had been serving was also a nobleman. However, the whole family's atmosphere is more like a soldier, and tends to be pragmatic rather than retreat.

Therefore, when he grew up in this family, he really doesn't think much of the so-called upper-class people who seem to be pretentious.

"After all, you can't ask everyone to be like us. Seriously, the atmosphere of our family looks more like a tight military camp. I think it should be better if you can relax a little bit." Lawrence smiled and said.

As a hereditary nobleman, he has always been unfamiliar with some ancient family traditions. Unfortunately, with the presence of those retainers, Lawrence could not change the atmosphere within the family according to his own ideas in a short time.

Fortunately, because the entire family has now come to a new territory, those complicated rules will not be used for a while.

With the spread of the entire island construction, Lawrence's prestige is also accumulating step by step. He believed that when those rules were needed for the entire pioneering work to get on the right track, he would have enough prestige to change those rules and change the whole family in the direction he hoped.

"Well, you are right." After hearing Lawrence's complaint about the family rules, Bach took a courteous sentence and then abruptly turned the topic back to what everyone was talking about.

"These things are things that need to be considered for a long time, and what we need to face now is the problem of manpower in the next possible conflict."

"Yes." Lawrence nodded. "Do you have any good ideas? I think you, as the head of the Great Lakes region, should know who in this generation can be transferred by us."

"There are indeed some manpower, but they will not exceed 20 in total." Bach said helplessly. "After all, we are here to do business, and the whole area is considered a very orderly area. Therefore, we don't have many armed personnel here."

"Especially, in the future, you may need to face some powerful armed forces in the wild. I don't think the security personnel recruited temporarily can play a big role in the field battle, and may even have a counterproductive effect."

Bach said to Lawrence with a serious face. "So there are very few people who can use it."

"Even if there are 20 gunmen, this person is too few." Lawrence shook his head and said, "To be able to make this round, the opponent has at least two or three hundred people, and it is likely that a large number of unrelated personnel will come in."

"Under this complicated situation, I think our armed personnel should be at least three to five hundred people. Just 20 gunmen, even if everyone is extraordinary, shouldn't have much effect."

"But I really can't find anyone here." Bach shook his head and said. "After all, the time for us to start buying properties here is too short. Almost everything just has a beginning."

"In this case, the establishment of armed militias in accordance with the original habits on the Old World and New Sauer Island is only in the preparatory stage, so the only people we can spare are those future backbones who have just completed basic training."

"The backbone?" Lawrence made a decision immediately after hearing what Bach said. "If it's a backbone, it's fine. After all, they are the core personnel of the future factory and the farm maintenance team. There is no need to spend on this kind of thing."

After hearing Lawrence say that he was opposed to mobilizing these people, Bach also nodded at the beginning. But soon he reacted and asked an important question. "So where do we recruit people?"

"I have some summoning spells. If we hire some adventurers at this time plus the manpower that the team contacted before, we should be able to complete the next plan."

Lawrence said bitterly after thinking for a while. "After all, the adventurers I saw here were more active, so I should be able to hire enough people."

"I do not recommend hiring, Lord Lord." After hearing what Lawrence said, he immediately expressed his opposition.

"The other party's ability to sell those maps with great fanfare in this city clearly shows that they have their own eyeliner in this city, and even certain adventure teams are used by conspirators to cover their identity."

"What you said is indeed a problem." Lawrence said helplessly after closing his eyes and thinking. "But we really need people now."

As soon as the voice fell, the whole scene fell into silence. After all, the situation in the underground market has shown that the person preparing to carry out the conspiracy has an internal response among adventurers.

And if you want to publicly recruit people from those occasions, you need to bear the risk of a sudden back stabbing at a critical moment after being mixed by an agent.

As for hiring people directly from other places, let alone the nearest concentration of personnel here is Huguang City, but it will take at least three or four days to recruit people from Huguang City, and by that time there will be no time for anything.

At least it is not very difficult for this world to recruit armed forces, especially in the Great Lakes region where civilization and wilderness meet, where a large number of so-called adventurer teams are active.

It's just that it's not easy to find a reliable manpower in it, especially when this kind of need and people are desperate.

A team like the Tauren Hammer and Lawrence can achieve mutual trust for a simple reason, because the identity of both parties, whether the priest of the goddess of wealth or the hereditary Earl of Sauer, is destined to be impossible for them to participate in this conspiracy.

Therefore, in the face of possible crisis, the dual release can naturally form a simple alliance at the fastest speed.

However, if even one of them changes their status and is not bound by the noble standards or the status of gods, then it is basically impossible for the two parties to establish mutual trust in such a short period of time.

However, this situation has a certain chance. After all, there are only a few nobles or clergy in the so-called adventure teams.

For most adventurers, it takes a period of contact or investigation to truly understand their situation, but what Lawrence lacks most now is time.

"Lawrence~www.ltnovel.com~ I know that there should be someone who can mobilize." When the carriage fell into silence, Saifeier, who had been beside him, suddenly said.

"If I remember correctly, you only allowed a part of the temporarily anchored Huguang City to evacuate with the first batch of evacuated people—"

"Yes, there are still two transport ships and a warship in Huguang City now moored on the dock." After being reminded by Seifer, Lawrence suddenly remembered that the navy of Sauer Island had not all left before.

According to his previous orders, these three ships will undertake some important transportation tasks.

After all, Sauer Island, which is in the construction stage, needs a variety of materials, and Lawrence and the others happen to have money now. In this case, they will naturally take this opportunity to purchase a batch of materials and then use the boat to pull it back.

Obviously, the procurement of materials for an island cannot be completed in a short time. So the three boats still docked on the dock in Huguang City.

Considering that the sea is not that safe in this era, most of the sailors and seafarers have received various military trainings, especially the people on one of the warships.