Struggle in the Steam Age

After discussing whether Lawrence, as a stakeholder, is suitable to purchase in this store, they began to talk about whether Lawrence, as a complete outsider, is suitable to intervene in the affairs of the region.

"As for you, you are neither from the island nor Briton. As an ancient country, the nobles of the Holy Visby Empire actually had a lot of foreign marriages, and Earl Sauer was no exception. .”

After hearing Lawrence ask this question, Viscount Surrey thought for a while before explaining to Lawrence.

"Several of the nobles present here have actually been married to your family in history, so in this economic alliance, you can join this alliance as a relative and become the core representative of the alliance. "

"So it can be like this." Lawrence and Safir looked at each other with surprised expressions. As standard nobles who became monks halfway, the two of them were not familiar with this type of operation at all.

"Of course, this can be said to be a traditional rule among the nobles." Viscount Surrey, who knew the specific situation of Lawrence Hesselfield, said with an expression that should have been on his face.

"For nobles, except for a few situations like wars, nationality will not be an obstacle in most things between everyone."

Then the Viscount Surrey began to tell Lawrence and the others how to do this. At least in the west of the old continent, there used to be independent or semi-independent noble territories, and the so-called royal family was just the leader of these nobles.

Therefore, self-government within the aristocracy has naturally become a tradition in this land, and it is even considered an important right that the aristocracy should have by birth.

Although it is said that modernized countries began to appear over time, and then the central governments of the empires and kingdoms that were much stronger than before relied on their strength to take away part of the power from these nobles.

For example, these countries basically limit the nationality of nobles and prohibit them from jumping repeatedly in wars like in the past, but apart from these extreme situations, other rights of nobles still exist.

For example, no matter which country the nobles' private property is in, they will be regarded as legal private property and protected. Even if a war breaks out between two countries, it will not be forcibly confiscated as the enemy's property.

Even if the wealth is requisitioned during the war, those countries need to return these things to the original owner of the wealth after the war, and at the same time pay for the newly generated wealth when the property was requisitioned during the war.

Of course, the status of nobles is not completely invulnerable and invulnerable. For example, there are some exceptions to this type of immunity rules for nobles.

To give the simplest example, if someone takes refuge in the existence of those lower planes, believes in some evil gods that are expressly forbidden to believe in, or does something that is obviously anti-human, then no matter what their previous identities are, their previous All wealth will be confiscated.

However, except for those extreme cases, nobles still have greater freedom in various cooperation or similar things, at least a wider range of freedom than ordinary businessmen.

For example, if the nobles on Green Island want to set up an economic organization, they can recruit some people from other countries.

Although the central government of Briton Kingdom might not be too happy in this situation, they will not create any obstacles in this regard.

So now Lawrence can naturally join this alliance through the somewhat remote status of in-laws between himself and several nobles on Green Island.

After realizing the benefits of this alliance, Lawrence immediately thought that this type of organization could be reproduced on the island of Sauer.

So after the end of the dinner, Lawrence and Safir immediately returned to their room and used the radio to contact the officials who stayed on New Shaw Island. During the contact process, he also stated that he hoped to establish an economic cooperation organization with himself and Shaw Island as the core, and able to carry out economic coordination internally as a whole.

For Lawrence's plan, the current director of Shaw Island, Bayer Butler, is very supportive. In his view, with the gradual development of the island territory, Earl Sauer, who has a long heritage, should also expand his vision outside the island.

Of course, in this era, it is not a good idea to win territory through war with civilized races, so expanding one's own strength through means similar to building alliances is the most common choice.

As for the idea of ​​establishing an economic alliance proposed by Lawrence, it is naturally a very good idea, at least equivalent to a political or military alliance. Economic alliances are easier to combine and less sensitive.

The even better news is that Lawrence's previous actions have established a relatively close economic relationship between Shaw Island and the surrounding islands, so it is equivalent to laying the foundation for the establishment of such an organization.

So Lawrence immediately entrusted Butler Bayer to help contact the lords of the surrounding islands that have economic ties with him, and then see if anyone is willing to join this trade with the Northern Islands colony belonging to Briton.

. As for the specifics of the establishment of the organization, there is no need to rush to talk about it, because Lawrence feels that it is more appropriate to talk about the alliance after the trade has benefited everyone and there are actual examples as evidence.

After talking about the economic union, Lawrence began to ask about Nora's current situation.

Lawrence learned from Butler Bayer that since Nora was sent back by a group of priests in a fast airship a while ago, she flew to the Blue Mountain alone and said that she wanted to retreat, and there has been a strange light in the direction of the Blue Mountain for the past few days. flashing.

But now no one knows what is the result of Nora's retreat, and no one even knows where Nora's exact location is.

But according to Butler Bayer, the clerics who sent Nora over and the clerics on the island met up and went to the meadow at the foot of the Blue Mountain together, giving the impression that they were providing some kind of cover for Nora.

"Everything is fine in my hometown now, and our plan should be carried out smoothly." After finishing the contact, Lawrence stood up from the chair in front of the radio station, and then briefly introduced Safir beside him.

"It's just that Nora made a lot of noise after she went back. What's even more frustrating is that no one knows what's going on with her now."

"You seem to have said before that she is going to make an important breakthrough in the direction of the extraordinary. Didn't she make a breakthrough in our temporary residence?" Safir said to Lawrence after thinking for a while.

"I remember that our house has a lot of defensive facilities around it, so it should be better in terms of security. I think it should be better to choose a safer place when breaking through this relatively fragile place."

"In theory, that's the case, but the problem is that Nora's extraordinary level is very high now, and the defenses around our house are basically meaningless to her." Lawrence shrugged helplessly.

His family knew his own family affairs, and Lawrence knew that the magic defenses around his house were at best to provide a certain obstacle and alarm when the silver-level or below Transcendents came to attack.

If you rely solely on those traps and defense systems, you may be able to stop some black iron-level transcendents who are not familiar with this type of traps and defense systems, and who lack various preparations, and even some with relatively strong defenses. Higher black iron level transcendents can break in directly.