Struggle in the Steam Age

Lawrence has always been interested in various documentaries in his previous life, and those documentaries naturally have some content about how to survive in cold regions.

Perhaps because of the difference in the world, Lawrence has some ways to keep out the cold that this world does not have in his impression. Of course, these methods naturally do not require the help of any extraordinary power, so from the perspective of promotion, it is not too difficult.

Therefore, in the next period of time, apart from using telegrams to deal with some problems in his own territory, Lawrence just wrote out some things in his impression and gave them to Viscount Surrey, and then asked him to see which of these plans can be used.

The Viscount Surrey obviously also attached great importance to these things. In addition to sending a special staff member on the first day, the Viscount Surrey himself came to Lawrence every day in the next few days to record his various suggestions. And personally accompanied Lawrence to direct some of his workers to carry out practical operations on some of the ideas.

"I didn't expect you to be able to do these jobs yourself." Looking at the Viscount Surrey who was wielding an ax to chop some wood into the required size, Lawrence asked slightly jokingly.

Because the two sides have become a lot more familiar during this period of time, the communication between Lawrence and Viscount Surrey has naturally become a lot easier, and they can also joke with each other.

"You can do these things as an earl or a spellcaster. Then why can't I do these things as a viscount?"

Viscount Surrey cut the piece of wood to the size he needed with two axes, and then leaned on the handle of the ax and said to Lawrence.

"For me, it's very easy to process these woods with an axe. It's not even that difficult."

"More importantly, when I do these jobs, I only pay some strength, but what I get is much more than what I give."

What Viscount Surrey said now was not a simple perfunctory or polite answer to Lawrence, but a kind of heartfelt thanks to Lawrence.

Because in the past few days, many nobles who are also located on this island have come here to visit Lawrence and learn all kinds of knowledge that are helpful for survival on this island. Viscount Surrey, owner of the land.

That's right, because this place is too difficult and the number of residents is not too large. Therefore, the number of members of various churches here is not large.

Among the churches that sent personnel to station here, the members of the suffering church who are willing to endure hardships, and even take pleasure in suffering, are obviously more widely distributed.

So after Lawrence made a decision in this regard, he found a priest of the Church of Suffering in Fort Surrey, and told him that he had a skill that would help everyone survive in this desolate and cold land, and he was willing to Share it with everyone unconditionally.

After receiving the good news, the priest quickly contacted other priests on the island through channels within the church, and then passed on the news.

After hearing such news, the local nobles naturally flocked to it, because for them, it was something that could significantly enhance their own strength.

Therefore, from the second day after the news came out, some personnel sent by the nobles and even the nobles themselves came to this territory by various means of transportation, hoping to learn those important and precious knowledge.

After discovering that these guests from afar had entered his territory, Viscount Surrey, as a hereditary nobleman, immediately realized the importance of this event to himself.

So in addition to arranging the food, clothing, housing and transportation of those other nobles or sent personnel, they also personally ran to Lawrence's side to help.

It has to be said that after the Viscount Surrey took the lead, the enthusiasm for learning of the others suddenly increased.

Because in the eyes of those people, nobles like the Viscount Surrey who have lived here for generations are willing to learn these things, which means that these are really very meaningful things for everyone present.

In addition to making and using briquettes and briquette stoves, Lawrence also taught them a series of knowledge similar to how to find various resources in the wild and build non-permanent shelters.

Especially the knowledge about how to make various semi-underground shacks, Lawrence repeatedly told these people who came to this place to study several times.

Although there is a lot of knowledge about how to survive in cold regions in this world, Lawrence was very surprised to find that this world does not have the shacks used by the early pioneers in his previous life documentary.

After asking, he found out that because goblins in this world like to build buildings similar to shacks, all intelligent races subconsciously make the buildings they build as messy as possible with those bugs that can't kill them all. form a clear distinction.

These ground shacks do have various shortcomings, but they can indeed build buildings that can withstand the local harsh low temperature and cold wind at low cost.

Therefore, after overcoming the inner discomfort caused by the tradition at the beginning, everyone took this simple but very effective architectural technique very seriously.

And now there is only one reason why Lawrence and the Viscount Surrey are working outside Surrey Castle in person, and that is to be able to fight this temporary building construction method for those guests who come from afar, and at the same time sell briquettes and Honeycomb stove.

Indeed, Lawrence and the others can completely let the citizens under their command do these things. But considering that besides some high-ranking servants, there are many nobles who came in person. Therefore, after discussing with Lawrence and the others, they felt that it would be more sincere to show off in person.

Lawrence could clearly feel that the nobles in the stands suddenly became serious after discovering that he and Viscount Surrey had left to carry out this work in person.

Even after discovering that ordinary people were working too slowly, several nobles with extraordinary professional levels entered the site neatly and began to carry out the construction work according to Lawrence's orders.

Soon, a hut that looked a little messy but very strong was built.

Five or six minutes after putting the lit briquette stove into the shack, Lawrence took those who came to study into the shack to feel the temperature, space and a series of key data of this simple building.

"The temperature feels okay." A baron in the northern region said after walking around the room twice, and then looked at the 1m deep pit under the building that provided the main living space and was used to shelter from the wind.

"And the workload of construction should not be heavy, at least it can be quickly built in a short time with explosives in hand."

"And the materials used for construction can be said to be almost everywhere on the island." Another knight sent by a certain earl said.

"Whether it's stone, brick or formed wood, it's not easy to find in the wild on this island, but the branches of these shrubs, moss clumped together and dirt can be said to be everywhere on the island."

After staying in it for more than an hour, everyone was full of praise for the combination of the ground shack and the briquette stove. Although the temperature inside is indeed not as good as those stone buildings, it is also obviously a bit suffocating.

However, as a temporary building, the advantages of this combination are cheap and can be constructed quickly and widely, which cannot be replaced by other solutions.

So in the next negotiation on trade, everyone signed a batch of purchase orders on briquettes with Surrey.

In addition, they also agreed to let the people in their territory come here to work, in order to be able to produce the fuel that everyone needs as soon as possible.