Struggle in the Steam Age

Lawrence has used modernization as the yardstick from the first day of building his own territory, so for him, the traditional feudal lords are not what the island needs to exist.

Although those traditional, uneducated leaders are more ignorant and more likely to form blind obedience to their lord. But if you want to develop the island well, you can't rely on these people.

Therefore, Lawrence actually hopes that workers with various skills or agricultural workers will immigrate to the island, so as to improve the level of the entire territory and provide qualified manpower for the upgrading of the island's industries.

But because of the remote and unremarkable location of Lawrence's territory, the immigrants who came to the island were mainly ordinary workers and farmers, and even some desperate refugees, and the quality of these people was obviously not satisfactory.

Fortunately, Lawrence had sufficient contacts before, so he was able to gather enough people to carry out various knowledge researches on this island called the knowledge wasteland.

In addition, Lawrence invested a lot of resources in education the first time he came to the island. Hope to lay a solid foundation for the future development of the island.

But even with this two-pronged approach, the number of such technicians is still stretched relative to the jobs required relative to those industries on the island of New Sauer.

However, after Nora successfully ignited the sacred fire, the composition of the immigrants on the island was finally close to the occupation ratio of the normal immigration destination. At least after understanding the situation of the island, many technicians took the initiative to choose to come to the island.

When passing the customs, technicians will be directly screened out, and then after some quick tests, they will be assigned to urgently needed positions.

The reason for special affairs is that these technicians have basically come out of the industrialized society, so they understand what a modern world should be like, so there is no need for some additional training.

But except for a small number of technicians, most of these new immigrants used to be traditional farmers rather than agricultural workers, and they did not adapt to the overall situation on the island.

. Therefore, for most new immigrants, they need a certain degree of training and change their minds before they can integrate into the environment of the island.

Obviously, the boring class is not very effective for these illiterate and semi-illiterate, but the semi-compulsory collective labor of taking care of food and housing, and paying a little more money will make these new immigrants realize the situation on the island. And accept the management of the island.

Therefore, these new immigrants can just provide sufficient labor for these large-scale construction projects on the island, and at the same time, they can also train these new immigrants to integrate into the island environment as much as possible.

Therefore, this kind of collective construction site on New Sauer Island is also different from ordinary construction sites. In addition to normal labor, some simple skills training and literacy work will also be arranged. To ensure that they can smoothly integrate into society after the completion of the major project.

Obviously, it is not a simple task to get this large amount of work done. Therefore, in the next month or so, all the staff on the entire island have been busy working overtime.

Until this day, after Lawrence signed a batch of orders on the allocation of supplies, he just wanted to go to have dinner with Syfiel, but before he went out, Lawrence saw his adoptive father, Mr. Lambert, come to find him.

"Father, what's the matter?" Seeing Lambert but ran to his office to find him, Lawrence showed a look of surprise on his face.

Because he only saw that his father was a standard clergyman, he usually only stayed in his church to complete religious affairs or do experiments or inventions he liked, and he rarely came to him.

"I think you should have been busy with everything recently. When are you going to get married?" After closing the door and entering the room and sitting down, Mr. Lambert asked Lawrence a very familiar question.

"Uh-I'm already engaged to Syfiel. In theory, as long as I get engaged, the various relationships between the two families can be completely settled." Lawrence asked with some doubts.

This is not because he is making excuses for fear of marriage, but according to tradition, the nobles pay much more attention to engagement than marriage itself. Because of the engagement relationship, the two families formed a special alliance relationship.

Therefore, this kind of ceremony tends to be more lively, and the whole ceremony process is also very formal. Even for many wealthy nobles, various grand ceremonies may be held.

However, compared to the lively engagement ceremony, when the formal wedding comes, the overall appearance is very low-key, and sometimes there may only be a few friends of both the close relatives of the family and the couple.

Of course, not all the nobles’ engagement ceremonies are very lively. At least the engagement ceremony between Lawrence and Phil was simpler.

This was mainly because the entire territory had just begun to be developed at that time, and the entire area was in the initial stage, and no luxurious ceremonies could be held at all. At the same time, the overall atmosphere at the time was indeed not suitable for such extravagant things.

Therefore, Lawrence has always hoped to give Syfiel a more suitable wedding to make up for the various deficiencies in the previous engagement ceremony.

"Do you have an opinion on Miss Coburg?" After listening to Lawrence, Mr. Lambert shook his head gently, and then looked at Lawrence and asked very seriously.

"No, of course not." Lawrence immediately shook his head and said that he did not have any dissatisfaction with his fiancée. "It's just that I have been too busy lately, so I want to put this time later--"

"I know that for most nobles, it may be years or even more than ten years after the engagement ends, but that often only happens to those nobles who got engaged in their childhood."

Realizing that his son didn't want to get married, Mr. Lambert explained the situation.

"It doesn't matter if your situation with Syfiel is different from that of most aristocrats, because you are not traditional aristocrats, so you didn't form a marriage relationship until you became an adult."

"So from various angles, your current marriage is closer to that of ordinary people. Therefore, from various angles, it is better to get married within one year after getting engaged."

"At least in my opinion, you'd better marry Syfiel as soon as possible. This is a good thing both from the perspective of Syfiel and the entire territory."

"For Miss Coburg. Getting married for a short time after getting engaged is actually fulfilling your promise. As for some foreign objects that you worry about~www.ltnovel.com~ I believe he will not care about this."

"Because for those excellent people, they want to see their partner's sincerity, and not pay too much attention to those foreign objects. And Miss Coburg is such an excellent person."

At this point, Mr. Lambert paused. From his momentary gaze, Lawrence understood that his adoptive father should now be thinking of his mother who he had never met before.

Fortunately, it took a long time for that incident, so Mr. Lambert quickly returned to normal. Then talked to Lawrence.

"In addition to considering personal issues, as a nobleman, we also have to consider the issue of territory. For the people of the territory, the marriage of the lord is very conducive to improving the cohesion of the people."

"Because for most people who are not well educated, the life of the lord is closely related. And a good lord like you does this, everyone naturally hopes that you can get married soon."

"Because in most people's minds, the sign of a person's maturity is to enter into a marriage relationship, and being a lord can give people a sense of maturity is very important, which can make the citizens more at ease.