Struggle in the Steam Age

"The people from Fortune Church? That's great. I've been waiting for them for the past few days." Lawrence spoke to the others and then boarded the sampan with Peter and returned to the port.

"We should give the port a name." Because they were acquaintances, Lawrence and Peter chatted on the sampan. Soon, they talked about something Peter encountered this morning. "Today, members of the Church of the Goddess of Trade and Wealth have been asking us what this place is called, but we can only use the port on Niujiao Bay to describe this place. This makes me feel a little inappropriate."

"It's really inappropriate, because now the port and nearby towns have been established, but it seems a bit too informal to use the word port." After Peter said this, Lawrence also realized that the port alone was crying Not very appropriate. "What do you think is a better name for this place?"

As a naming waste, Lawrence really doesn't have much talent in naming. So when he encounters this kind of problem, his first reaction is to ask other people for help.

"Port of New Sauer. Anyway, I think there are many places in this area named after this. You are the Earl of Sauer, and the fief is also called New Sauer Island, so I personally think this name is just right." Peter The level of naming is also very average, so after thinking for more than ten seconds, he thought of a very popular place name.

This is also a common feature of place names in the New World. Those colonists often used their hometown or ancestral home to name the land under their feet after they came to the New World to take root. Therefore, if you open a map of the New World, you will see many place names that overlap with those of the Old World, or add a new word before the old place name.

Although things like following the crowd may not seem distinctive enough, it is better than a word of stability. So after a brief thought, Lawrence agreed in his heart to Peter's suggestion of naming the port.

"The name you chose is very good, at least I can't think of a better name." Lawrence said to Peter, and decided to use this name to name the new town.

Because it took more than ten minutes to cross the bay, the two people on the boat naturally took this opportunity to chat. In addition to the problem of naming the new town, there are also problems of new immigrants and construction in the recent period. As a grassroots clergyman of the Church of Knowledge, Peter can observe this territory from another angle.

It can be said that everything is going well in the construction. The old farmland and water conservancy facilities have been refurbished, and some of the facilities that were not scientifically planned when they were designed were also refurbished with the help of the agricultural church working group. again.

But now that the busy farming season is over, in addition to the people who take care of the farmland and farms in the few farms on the plain that are close to the inland, except for a small number of people who have been transferred to work in the urban area near the newly built port. Most of them were organized by people from all over the country to build various new water conservancy facilities.

Although there is not a lot of precipitation in this area, the weather is divided into two distinct seasons: rainy season and dry season. Therefore, if you want to take advantage of the special local climate and plant three times a year, then building sufficient water conservancy facilities to adjust the amount of water in different seasons has become a must for the development of planting on this island.

As for the new immigrants, in addition to the followers in the old territory, the fishermen from the surrounding islands, and the tauren who were persuaded to come out of the hills to work. Recently, there have also been scattered spontaneous immigrants on the island.

The immigration from the New World to the Old World has never stopped. When these immigrants choose their place of residence, apart from considering the situation of the place of residence, a very important selection factor is the mainstream culture of the colony. For people who come to a new place, if they are surrounded by familiar people or things, they will integrate into the local life faster.

For example, people from the east of the Old Continent will immigrate to the New Island Republic, while people from the west will immigrate to the White Eagle Federation, the Algarve Empire, and the Elysion Empire, which are located in the east of the Old Continent.

But the mainstream ethnic groups of the White Eagle Federation are the Britons and Frans, and the mainstream ethnic groups of the Algarve Empire and the Elysion Empire are the main ethnic groups of those countries in the western part of the Old Continent and the southern part of the Earth Sea. In this way, it is a little uncomfortable for the Visby people who do not have their own population as the mainstream country in the New World. They can only choose those foreign countries that are not familiar to them as their settlements. .

And after Lawrence came to New Shaw Island and started the big construction, the North and South Visby people also had a choice of footholds for them. Although the island is still wild now, since he successfully expelled the group of The goblins occupied Niujiao Bay, and recently defeated the group of pirates who were quite famous in the Sea of ​​Stars. This island has gradually become a new target for some Visby people who immigrated to the New World.

According to Peter, there have been two migrant boats docking at the port for at least the last week. After publicity and field inspections, 33 people from 17 households chose to stay on the island.

"Ah, this is a good start." Lawrence nodded in satisfaction after hearing this. It seems that since the elimination of the pirates made others realize the power of the island and the degree of security of the island, the island finally took the initiative to come to the island. immigrants. Even now the number of these immigrants is only a handful.

As the two chatted, the sampan they were on slowly approached the port. Just as the boat passed the Enterprise, Lawrence noticed that someone was installing something on the bow. Then a green figure jumped down from the mast of the ship like Lawrence flew over.

"Nara, what are you doing on the boat?" Lawrence lowered his head and asked after hugging the little doll flying towards him. In his impression, although Nora was a doll, she was always busy every day. If it is not herself or a few friends of the doll who need help, she will often go to that astral plane to be busy all day, and will not appear in front of everyone until dinner. So Lawrence wondered why she was on the boat today.

"I'm asking the workers to install a figurehead on our ship." Nora said, "As a warship that has built meritorious service, it should have some special devices of its own."

Nora is right, in this world with extraordinary power, some meritorious warships will have their own special decorations, and this decoration will greatly improve the morale of everyone on board. But now the figurehead that Nora asked the workers to install on the ship is obviously inconsistent with the painting style of this world in Lawrence's opinion.

"Having a figurehead is indeed a good idea, especially when our Enterprise sank an enemy ship in a one-on-three battle in the first battle, and captured two." Lawrence first affirmed Nora's approach. , and then said: "But why did you choose this."

Because the wooden statue being installed on the bow by the workers is obviously the bust of the corporate ship girl in a certain ship girl game wearing a modern military uniform and holding a bow and arrow in her hand.

"My lord brother, you need to think about metaphysics." Nora said while sitting on the side of the boat. "Luck is very important when dealing with the sea in this world, and the figurehead is an effective means to enhance luck."

"And the power represented by this sculpture is a legend on the sea. I believe that with the protection of this figurehead, our ship will also become a legend on the sea in the future."

"Well, I think what you said should be right." Lawrence was finally persuaded by Nora and agreed to use this wooden statue with a strong two-dimensional taste as the head of the ship of the Enterprise. Just like Nora said, no matter how wrong the painting style of this statue is, it is still a legend on the sea.