Struggle in the Steam Age - Chapter 655

For the development of the economy, adapting measures to local conditions is a very important thing. To give the simplest example, it is best to go to the water if you want to raise fish.

Of course, it’s not impossible to dig pits in the mountains to raise fish if you have a lever, but in that case, it will be twice the result in terms of cost and various angles.

And now wanting to develop industry in the territory of the Viscount Surrey is similar to a similar silly approach. Considering the number of local population, it is basically not suitable for the development of any industry. At most, it is the limit to be able to develop some simple handicrafts.

Moreover, unlike Lawrence and the others, the islands in this frigid zone are actually worse in terms of development potential.

Although the primitive tropical rainforest islands are often referred to as green hells, the difficulty of development is far more dangerous than the islands located in the northern polar circle.

But once it is developed, the carrying capacity for people is much better than these cold islands that can’t even grow large trees.

“If it’s convenient, I want to visit your territory.” After listening to the introduction, Lawrence said after thinking about it.

“You know, some things can only be judged by going to the scene. Just listening to what you say here may cause some unexpected errors.”

After speaking, Lawrence looked at the Viscount couple opposite and prepared to explain it. After all, this sentence was prone to ambiguity, so he was a little worried that they might misunderstand the reason for this sentence.

“I understand what you mean.” Obviously, these two are not those nobles who have always been aloof. It is also an existence with rich social experience. So understand what Lawrence wants to express.

“If you just listen to my narrative here, it is really difficult to work out a suitable plan.”

“Yes, on-site investigation is indispensable.” Isabella also said on the other side.

“Let’s not say that my husband is not a professional, and this type of narrative may not be very accurate. Even if there is a comprehensive investigation report, it is necessary to go to the corresponding site to take a serious look.”

After speaking, Isabella turned her head to look at Lawrence and said with a little embarrassment. “But as a person with your own territory, I think you should be very busy, you shouldn’t have much time–”

“It’s usually quite busy, but this period of time is an exception.” Lawrence waved his hand and said. “Some things are being done on my island recently, so I can’t go back for the time being. So there is time to go to your side to see, but I don’t know if you are welcome—”

“Of course, of course welcome.” Viscount Surrey deliberately opened his arms and said with a smile, and then turned to look at Lawrence with a solemn expression.

“That’s more boring than here. Maybe the only fun is to go fishing. If you want to go hunting, basically only a handful of rats can be used as shooting targets.”

“But in my opinion, there is not much worse than here, and even more interesting.” Lawrence shrugged and said, his words are not a courtesy, but from the heart. .

The reason why Lawrence chose Baojian Bay as his travel destination is also very simple, because the introductions of the few travel brochures he saw have stated that this place is suitable for young couples or couples with certain identities to travel.

But after arriving here, Lawrence discovered that the various entertainment methods of this world and this era are completely different from his previous life.

For example, a city like Baojian Bay is like this. The city is filled with various grades of dance halls and banquet halls, as well as some interesting salons. For people of this era, it is indeed a good place to socialize and relax.

But neither Lawrence nor Seifer is cold on such occasions. In their opinion, all this type of communication except for the necessary communication is something very boring.

So when they were on New Sauer Island, apart from the communication needed by some nobles, they basically did not take the initiative to do any communication work.

This also led to their lack of interest after learning about the specific situation in the area. Although there are some hunting activities here, for Lawrence and Syfiel, riding a horse to drive a hunting dog to chase a rabbit is not in the dense forest. It’s interesting to eliminate those **** goblins in the game.

So under this circumstance, Lawrence and the others are naturally willing to take a look at the remote northern islands. At least relative to the boring urban scenery here, Lawrence finds the harsher but more wild northern islands obviously more interesting.

But going to that place is not so easy, especially when the Viscountess Isabella is still pregnant with children, it is not so easy to go to the north.

At the beginning, Lawrence also suggested that Isabella and his wife should rest here. But Viscount Surrey naturally declined Lawrence’s suggestion.

After all, Lawrence, as a guest, is willing to travel all the way to the north to help them. The lords of islands like them are naturally not suitable to stay here at Baojian Bay.

Of course, there is another reason the Viscount Surrey and his wife want to go back, and that is that they have had lingering fears after being ambushed in this place before. I hope I can quickly return to my safe territory to feel relieved.

This is why Isabella is still willing to leave, even if she is a pregnant woman, because compared to various material conditions, the sense of security in her heart is obviously more important to him.

So after having a lunch, they said goodbye to each other and agreed to decide when to leave in the afternoon and figure out a way to inform each other.

At two o’clock in the afternoon, Lawrence and the others received an invitation letter from Viscount Surrey.

It may be because he wanted to find a future development direction for his island as quickly as possible, so he decided to take the first Clipper Northwind to his territory tomorrow afternoon.

“Your Excellency the Viscount seems to be a little too excited.” After receiving the invitation letter and the two first-class tickets for the Northwind, Syfiel raised his eyebrows and said.

“At least I think that under normal circumstances, his invitation should be better after a day or two.”

“If you want to stay here for two days, I can accompany you.” Lawrence smiled and shook the envelope in his hand.

“After all, the viscount has something to ask us, not we ask him. So as long as we have something to say, I think I should be able to delay the time a few days later.”

“No, no, no, he is Isabella’s husband~www.mtlnovel.com~ It is not very suitable for us to delay time like this.” Hearing what Lawrence said, Syfiel put his hand and said.

“And this place is really boring. I don’t want to stay in this city for too long. So it would be a good thing to be able to leave one day earlier.”

Early the next morning, Lawrence and the others took a carriage to the pier with Viscount Surrey’s family. Then climbed onto a steam sailing boat painted with snow white paint and inlaid with golden metal decorative bands.

As one of the top ocean-going sailing ships of the Federal Shipping Company, this steam sailing vessel called the Northwind can have a displacement of 3,700 tons. The internal skeleton structure is made of magically strengthened steel. At the same time, the mast of the ship is also made of traditional The wood was changed to steel.

“This is the first batch of civil ships in the Confederation with steel frame and steel mast structure.” After putting the luggage away, Viscount Surrey said to Lawrence who walked onto the deck.

“This boat can run to 15 knots, but if it weren’t for a circle of armor, then this boat might be able to run to 17 knots.”

“Iron armor?” Lawrence asked curiously. “Why does a civilian ship have such a thing?”