Struggle in the Steam Age

Lawrence used the teleportation technique for the first time, and the effect was not bad. He successfully teleported to a pier in the port area of ​​New Sauer Harbor once. Although there was a little distance from the expected stone-built rear warehouse area, at least he was not so unlucky as to directly Teleport to the sea. After leaving the pier, Lawrence planned to go out with Safir and relax at the same time.

What they didn't expect was that when they returned to the temporary residence, they saw Safir presiding over a meeting, in which Lawrence's adoptive father, Mr. Lambert, and a group of priests who stayed at the port were sitting on one side of the long table, and On the other side sat the administrative officials of the island, who seemed to be discussing something.

"Have you finished your research today?" Safiel said happily after seeing Lawrence and the others enter the living room used as a conference room. "If you are free, I think you should chair the next meeting. After all, this meeting involves an important issue on the island for a while."

"Important question?" Hearing what Safir said, Lawrence also temporarily gave up the idea of ​​fishing, then pulled a chair from the side and Nora each sat down at the edge of the desk, and then asked. "I remember that I have already arranged all the jobs for the next period of time, and I have seen those job recommendations before, and they are all good."

"Yes, of course you are right." Safir shrugged, "What we encountered was a new emergency. We received the telegram after you and Nora went out this morning. The telegram said Well, the hospital ship planned by the Church of the Passion has now been fully repaired and will leave in three days. So I think we should make a good plan for the reception work."

"Was that boat repaired so quickly?" Lawrence raised his eyebrows in surprise after hearing what Safir said. Does he know that the speed of shipbuilding in this era is like a tortoise compared to the world he came to. It is very normal for a large ship to be built for several years, let alone those members of the Church of the Passion at that time specifically said that their ship would It is a 6,000-ton ship. According to common sense, it is normal to build it for a year or two.

"Under normal circumstances, it shouldn't be. After all, after the ship as a sacred object is built, it needs to carry out various transformations related to extraordinary power. It is very normal for these times to add up to two or three years." Phil explained, "But several churches thought this matter was very important, so they simply used a ready-made ship and worked together through the astral planes belonging to each church, and finally managed to achieve it in a few months. Transformed this ship."

After Safir explained, Lawrence immediately understood what was going on. After all, as long as the ship is built in advance, it is very easy to speed up the transformation related to extraordinary power, as long as you are willing to pay enough costs. However, the average person will basically not do this, and only those large organizations with sufficient resources will take this approach at some critical moments. Lawrence just didn't expect that those churches would actually do this on such a matter that he didn't seem urgent.

"It's nothing strange." After sensing what Lawrence was thinking through the soul connection, Nora said to him through the soul connection. "You know, although the population density of Xingchenhai is not large because the people in the settlements are all distributed on various islands, as the first batch of colonies from the old continent to the new continent, the population here will increase in number if all of them are added up. There are not many."

"For the church, it is important to gain more faith while preaching. Whether it is accumulating wealth, accumulating resources, or cultivating extraordinary people, it is actually for this goal. So they are naturally willing to spend a lot of money on this matter Resources. In their eyes, these resources are absolutely impossible to compare with being able to preach one or two years in advance."

Hearing Nora's explanation, Lawrence immediately understood the reason why the boat was built so quickly. But in this way, some constructions on the island that were originally placed very late in the sequence will be temporarily brought to the front. This batch of construction includes the expansion of the hospital and the construction of temporary reception places.

According to the previous agreement, the ship will stop at Nova Sauer Island for one month every year. Provide medical services to people on the island and surrounding islands and accept pilgrimage from believers as a mobile religious shrine. Either of these two projects would lead to a large concentration of people on New Shaw.

But now the island is not ready to accept these guests at all. For example, although the hospital on the island has finally gathered the departments that a normal hospital should have with Lawrence's full efforts, compared with a regular large hospital It can only be regarded as a grass-roots team with many shortcomings.

Take the most important beds as an example. There is a small three-story building behind this hospital with 120 beds. In Lawrence's previous life, it was equivalent to the level of some relatively large town hospitals, but now, these beds can be said to be all the beds in so many islands within a few hundred nautical miles around.

Obviously, it is definitely not enough for a hospital of this level to receive the patients who came with the ship. Not to mention the problem of receiving pilgrims is a real problem for them compared to the problem of medical resources. Because in addition to mobile medical services, that ship also has the identity of a mobile religious holy place.

In this world with real gods, such an artifact representing the power of the gods will definitely come and attract a large number of pilgrims, but it is barely comparable to the one built on the island under the promotion of Lawrence at all costs in this era. Compared with the good medical system in the world. There are almost zero facilities on the island for guest reception.

After all, after formulating a plan to use agriculture and medical care as the core of the island's future development, Lawrence and the others naturally put all their focus on these two core industries. In addition, the remaining resources were invested in similar industries. As a result, there are naturally not many resources on the island that can be used to invest in the construction of various facilities for receiving guests.

Therefore, there are only some rudimentary collective dormitories that can be used to receive guests on the island. These dormitories were created after the people who lived here moved out after the first batch of apartments were built. Because it is just some temporary facilities, whether it is ventilation, lighting or other things, it is not very ideal. At least in Lawrence's opinion, it is not very suitable for accommodating travelers from afar.

Although Lawrence did not intend to use the island as a tourist destination before, after suddenly having this travel resource, it is impossible for New Sauer Island, which has insufficient money due to large-scale construction in the economy, to push this opportunity to make money. So everyone gathered together to discuss today, hoping to find a way to make a reasonable reception plan.

"When will that ship arrive?" Lawrence asked after thinking for a while, this is related to how long the reaction time left for the island is. If it comes at full speed like the Enterprise, it will arrive next week. Lawrence estimated that he could only find a way to level a piece of land and build a bunch of grass sheds, but if they had more time, they would naturally be able to make better preparations in this regard.

"They need to visit several islands along the way, and there are certain stops on those islands." Lawrence's adoptive father, Mr. August, said, "So the time left for us is still enough, according to what the other party sent us According to the itinerary, the ship will arrive here in the late spring of next year, that is, three months later."

"Then how many outside guests do you think that boat will bring?" Lawrence nodded to his adoptive father, then turned to look at the clergy sitting on the side of the table and asked, because everyone present Among them, only they can have a rough estimate of the number of pilgrims brought by this sacred object.

"We made a calculation on this." The new priest of the Church of Suffering thought for a while and said. "Considering that this sacred object appears for the first time, and it is in a place like Xingchenhai where the transportation is not convenient. Therefore, according to our calculations, there will be at most seven or eight thousand to eight thousand in the one month that the ship docks here. Ten thousand pilgrims arrive."