Struggle in the Steam Age

"There are so many nobles willing to attend your banquet." Safiel looked a little surprised at the nobles who came from various residences in the city to attend the banquet and said in surprise.

"I remember you told me that you held a similar banquet in the Holy Visby Empire, but basically few nobles were willing to participate."

"This is obviously caused by different countries." Lawrence said with a shrug.

"You know, the nobles of the Holy Visby Empire have pure blood, orderly inheritance of titles and a long history, so they have a high regard for some of the internal rules of those nobles."

"For example, they are very pursuing the purity of noble blood and the orderly transmission of titles within the family. They collectively despise those existences that do not conform to their feelings in this regard."

"They naturally look down on me as a side income from the family and as an adopted person like me. In their eyes, I am at best insignificant compared to those nouveau riche who spend money to buy titles in certain countries. a little bit."

"So I think it would be quite difficult for His Majesty the Emperor to reform." After hearing what Lawrence said, Safiel shrugged.

"It is undeniable that the quality of nobles and descendants of nobles in this era is obviously higher than that of ordinary people, but it is obviously not enough for a country to rely solely on nobles."

"Actually, only the nobles can do it. Otherwise, those old empires or kingdoms would not be as powerful as they are now." Lawrence, who has done some research on this aspect, explained to his fiancée beside him.

"It's just that the ethos of the Holy Visby Empire where nobles can only be monopolized by the descendants of nobles is obviously not good, because it will seriously affect the ethos of the entire society."

"Obviously, the emperor of the Holy Visby Empire is also aware of this, so he launched reforms. Whether it is the last rebellion or the extraordinary canonization of me afterwards, it is clear that His Majesty the Emperor's determination to reform."

"So I like Britons better in this regard." Safiel said, looking at the Briton nobles who came to this banquet.

"Although some old nobles always feel that Briton's new nobles lack inheritance, and even regard the practice of those nobles directly using the country's extraordinary inheritance as their own inheritance as a laughing stock."

"But this method of promoting the best of ordinary people to nobles is obviously more beneficial to the development of the country, because it can ensure the flow of classes within the country and bring vitality to the entire country."

As Safir said, unlike those old nobles from the Holy Visby Empire, these nobles from Lithon will not look down on Lawrence because he is only an adopted son and not a direct descendant.

At least during the period of welcoming the guests now, Lawrence could feel that these pioneering nobles belonging to Briton basically came here with kindness towards him in their hearts.

Of course, a large part of these goodwill is because the trade proposed by Lawrence before is something that can bring benefits to everyone present, and no one wants to have trouble with money.

But in addition to this, there is a very important reason, that is, the Britton nobles themselves pay more attention to those matters related to reality, rather than just focusing on a person's origin and blood.

In the eyes of the group of Briton nobles who came here today, one of the important features that Lawrence attracts them is that he has secured his current position as a non-directed descendant and adopted son.

. More importantly, after obtaining this title, he was able to develop a barren territory to its current level in a very short period of time.

Although it is said that Briton's special aristocratic policy has indeed produced some outstanding people from ordinary people among their nobles, these nobles have never seen such young and capable nobles even in their own country.

To be honest, if Lawrence hadn't brought Safir and said she was his fiancée, maybe this group of people would have started to test Lawrence for marriage.

"I'm very glad that everyone can visit this party." When the scheduled opening time came, Lawrence, who was wearing a formal dress, stood on the stage of the auditorium and said to the guests below.

"This gathering is mainly because I think everyone is a lord on this island, but they have rarely met before. So I think that since everyone is here now, we should take this opportunity to get together."

"That's right." "That's right." "My neighbor's territory is only 50 kilometers away, but we haven't seen each other for three years..." After hearing what Lawrence said, the nobles immediately exchanged words. spoke up.

Regardless of the fact that everyone is a Briton noble and lives on the same island. But because of the extremely poor traffic level and the rare number of monsters in the local area, the communication between everyone and the local area is much more than the communication with the neighbors around them.

"That's right, so today's gathering is for everyone to have a good communication together." Lawrence said loudly with a smile.

"In addition to sharing some special products from the tropics with you, I also hope to share with you some information about this island that I collected here before——"

After hearing what Lawrence said, everyone cheered up immediately, and then everyone stared seriously at Lawrence himself standing in the center of the stage, and some even took out their notebooks and pens to record what Lawrence was going to say later thing.

After all, they also learned through their respective channels that Lawrence was not only a nobleman and lord, but also a scholar. So they all wanted to hear what Lawrence had discovered in this place that he could call important.

"Okay, okay, there's no need for you to be so nervous." Looking at the serious expressions of the nobles below, Lawrence lowered his hands and made a gesture to let everyone relax.

"In today's gathering, I just want to chat with you and talk about some interesting things I saw on the island as a foreigner, so there is really no need for you to be so formal."

"Of course, as I said, I'm just a foreigner, so my understanding of many things may not be correct. Therefore, please bear with me if there are any mistakes in the conclusions drawn in a while."

After talking about these contents, Lawrence took out a table about the production in various fields that he obtained after counting the various territories a few days ago, and read it.

At the beginning, many nobles below thought that these things were all public and trivial data, so they looked disapproving, but as time went by, expressions of surprise gradually appeared on the faces of the people present.

Because Lawrence's table does not simply record the products of each territory on the island, but also makes a simple summary of these data in addition to these simple records of data.

And through these summaries, those lords suddenly realized a fact that they might have had a little feeling before, but they hadn't paid attention to it for one reason or another.

After hundreds of years of development, although this island located in the cold polar region still looks as desolate as it did hundreds of years ago, it has actually become much richer than before.

To give the simplest example, the catch of a simple fishery is now more than 30 times that of a hundred years ago. Not to mention that the total population has also doubled dozens of times compared to the past.

That is to say, the important reason why the output is so low now is that there is a large number of new populations on the island, and these new populations consume those new items.

Therefore, what each lord perceives is the seemingly insignificant growth every year. This range is so small that everyone subconsciously ignores them.