Struggle in the Steam Age

Fortunately, with the disclosure of the astral plane, the jackals in those planes can also be mobilized and put into various tasks.

Although the group of jackals are temporarily unable to enter due to the differences in different environments in different planes, various documents can still be transmitted.

So after Nora managed to open several space doors where items could be delivered at fixed times, Lawrence used this two-world linkage tactic to gather enough people who could complete these tasks at the same time.

Among these tasks, the most complicated one is the distribution of land in Yanzhou.

Because the west coast of Yanzhou, where the group of jackals are now, is almost entirely the land of the wilderness race, a reasonable status needs to be given to the jackals.

No one has any objection to the fact that these jackals are a civilized race in the wilderness, because their beliefs can fully prove the existence of this point, but there are some minor problems in the identification of their status.

Since Lawrence and Nora uploaded information about these jackals to the Alliance of Civilized Races, many people firmly believe that these jackals are just scattered tribes, not a political entity.

The reason for this understanding is also very simple. For many countries, it is difficult for them to obtain territory from their neighbors because of the gods, so the only way to open up territories is to find the astral plane. I want land.

Opening up the astral plane is a very risky thing, because this process not only needs to consume huge resources, but also contains some kind of unpredictability.

To give the simplest example, for those forces engaged in the development of the astral plane, they spent a lot of money to find a plane, only to find that it is a barren plane that is not suitable for any normal creature to live in. It is everywhere, and often loses everything.

Therefore, compared to this kind of expansion of territory similar to rolling dice, various forces are more willing to choose to grab territory from the hands of wild races.

For example, in the territories of the old countries in the Old Continent, the area of ​​wild land may be less than 1/3 of the land area after development.

However, most countries will not take the initiative to touch the wild lands inside this territory, because these wild lands can be preserved to this day because they have their own strengths. So they often choose to develop outward.

These developments mainly target Yanzhou and the New World. However, compared to the New World, where civilization existed before and various savage forces were not very strong, the difficulty of opening up Yanzhou is naturally more than an order of magnitude higher.

Although this land is one of the important birthplaces of human civilization, after the previous natural and man-made disasters. This place is no longer a cradle, but a barren and dangerous hell on earth.

Of course, such a large continent cannot be full of such regions. It's just that the development of the new continent and the expansion of Yanzhou were carried out at the same time.

Therefore, after realizing that it is easier to open up the New World, all the focus was immediately placed there.

After doing so, one of the most direct manifestations is that although the population density of the New World is now small, it already has its own country and civilization, while the civilized land of Yanzhou is only the coast of the sea on the back and a few small islands around it. .

In fact, at the beginning, various forces in the Old Continent hoped to develop Yanzhou first. Because going to the new continent requires crossing the dangerous sea in the west, and Yanzhou is located in the south of the old continent, and it only takes a short voyage to reach it.

But after dispatching reconnaissance teams many times, they found that Yanzhou not only possessed all kinds of powerful and evil creatures, but also the local terrain was extremely unfriendly. Whether it was tropical rainforest or desert, many people were killed.

So in desperation, the group of pioneers could only choose the small islands around the continent as their foothold, and use these small islands as bases for small-scale, irregular exploration.

And now the group of jackals are located at the edge of the great forest in the middle of Yanzhou, an area that everyone thought was absolutely wild before.

So when they knew that there was actually a civilization stronghold in the western region of the great forest, almost all the civilization races became interested in it. So it is natural to have some ideas about where this area belongs.

For example, if these jackals were considered to be scattered tribes rather than a whole, then they would have a chance to acquire this geographically important territory located in the middle of Yanzhou.

After obtaining this territory, those people can use this territory and the jackals who are very familiar with the surrounding area to continue to expand their territory around.

But on the other hand, besides Lawrence and Nora, there are quite a few people who firmly believe that these jackals belong to a civilization and should be treated equally.

In addition to the three countries of the Holy Visby Empire and the New World, those who hold this view also have a series of countries from the east of the Holy Visby Empire.

Because in their view, Lawrence and the others now have the highest control over these territories, so if it is determined that this group of jackals come from a political entity, then Lawrence and the others will naturally be able to gain actual control over the territories.

Lawrence's current territory is in a semi-independent state, especially after Nora lit the fire. The emperor of the Holy Visby Empire is also well aware of this.

However, for the emperor of the empire, on the one hand, he insisted on the idea that I am the country, constantly strengthening the centralization of power and transforming the entire country into a modern country.

On the other hand, from the perspective of the emperor himself, it is necessary to maintain the traditional aristocratic system of the empire. To ensure that the entire family can maintain its dominance over the entire country from generation to generation.

This kind of contradictory thought made the other party confiscate Earl Sauer's original territory in the empire in the last incident, but it also gave Lawrence nearly independent rights and territories.

Because of this approach, Lawrence has a good impression of the empire and the royal family, so in the subsequent construction, Lawrence may hand over those orders to those companies from the Holy Visby Empire to strengthen the relationship with the empire. .

And those deliberately maintained relationships played an important role at this time. From the perspective of the Holy Visby Empire, if the land that was bitten to death belonged to Lawrence, then they would also get a share of their own in this land. Benefit.

The result is that in this important debate, the two sides insisted on their own opinions and quickly quarreled, so that a final conclusion was not reached for a week.

As a result, in this case, the two parties decided to find an impartial third party, that is, the church, to make the ruling in accordance with the tradition. Because the church is usually absolutely neutral in this regard, everyone is more willing to believe them.

On this matter, the church is obviously more inclined to Nora's idea, because the main cause of this matter comes from the group of jackals who believe in Nora. On the issue of belief, the church is naturally more inclined to church.

However, the proposal to directly assign this territory to Lawrence was directly rejected, because for those countries, if it cannot prevent this land from becoming the inherent territory of the Holy Visby Empire, then it is naturally good to set up some obstacles.

Therefore, they objected to making these jackals a secular territory directly on the grounds that those jackals were believers rather than citizens, but directly made those territories an independent religious territory.

Apparently, the group was trying to drive a nail between New Saulland and Nora's church. Because even if there are gods, there will be various contradictions between the church and the secular government.

But what they don't know is that the relationship between Lawrence and Nora is unique in the whole world, and it will not have the kind of contradiction they imagined, nor will it affect the control and development of this territory .