Struggle in the Steam Age

Chapter 375: New immigrants

After returning to the Port of Neussauer, a dedicated staff soon took these tauren people to the hospital. They will study and work for a long time here. Lawrence himself returned to his office with Nora. According to Seifer in the telegram a few days ago, there are now a lot of things that need to be handled by him.

"You finally came back." Hearing the movement of someone pushing the door open, Syfiel, who was sitting behind the desk working with a large number of documents, immediately raised his head. After discovering that Lawrence and Nora were coming in, she immediately put the pen to the side and stood up and said. "There are too many documents in these two days, and I can't handle many of them."

"It's really hard work for you." After gently hugging Syfiel who was approaching and lowered his head and kissed her on the cheek, Lawrence walked to the edge of the desk with her. "No way, these things need to be processed in time. And no one else here except you is qualified to sign these things."

"Actually, I want to go to Uncle Lambert for help these days." Watching Lawrence sitting on the table and then working with the little doll Nara to deal with a document, sitting next to him also took out a document Syfiel, who was checking, told Lawrence about what he had encountered these days. "But he said these things are not convenient for him to intervene."

"My father is right." Lawrence said after putting the corrected documents on top of a thick stack of documents. "This is actually one of the contracts between mankind and the gods. According to the contract, each church has the right to autonomy in non-emergency situations, and secular governments cannot intervene. Correspondingly, church members cannot participate in the handling of secular affairs. Especially in non-emergency situations, no intervention in the secular regime is allowed."

This is why the civil unrest that broke out in the capital of the Holy Visby Empire was not intervened by the church at the beginning, because at first everyone thought this was just a coup within the regime, and the church could only be armed and neutral. Later, they intervened because Lawrence and the others destroyed the jammer and sent the information about the collusion between the second princes and the lower planes. Only then can the churches participate in the battle according to the "Civilization Pact" signed by each civilization.

Fortunately, when Lawrence was in the Tauren tribe before, he still maintained radio contact with the port, so most of the more important documents left today have been known by radio in the inland tribal areas before. Therefore, they can be completed with high efficiency when they need to be signed now.

After just over an hour, Lawrence successfully resolved the files that had accumulated for more than a week. A large part of them are application reports of materials that need to be allocated for construction in various places, and a small part are various news about new immigrants. One of the most important is that a group of 2,000 or so immigrants will arrive on Neusauer Island recently.

These people are forced immigration, or according to the past, they are a group of exiles. After the rebellion of the second prince ended last time, some of the followers of the second prince were liquidated in the following time. Of course, during this process, only those who were confirmed to have colluded with the lower planes were executed, and some people and their family members who were extremely closely connected with the second prince but did not know these events related to the lower planes were sentenced to exile. .

"Let me see, South Tyrol, calling at port in the afternoon on the 7th." Said Lawrence after he picked up the document and checked the date on the document and calculated it silently. "The first batch of exiles was about 600 people. This is a little troublesome, because the immigration reception facilities we prepared are for scattered immigrants with no more than 100 people per day. The 600 people in one breath have greatly exceeded the upper limit we can afford. "

"It's not a big problem," Lawrence said after thinking about it. "The large number of tents we just used when we came before are still there. Using these tents to temporarily build a simple isolation area should be able to cope with this time. As for the back, two weeks of isolation is enough for us to The living area they need is built."

"Why should we accept this group of exiles?" After Lawrence had signed the document, Syfiel asked in a puzzled manner, "You, as an earl with autonomy, follow the previous agreement when you were canonized, except for the need There is no need to accept any mandatory order from the empire to respond to the most basic civilized war call-up. Therefore, it is completely possible to refuse this group of exiles to come to our island."

"Yes, you are right. It seems that you have read those documents seriously before." Lawrence nodded with satisfaction looking at Saifei, because it can be seen that she is really paying attention to this aspect. Up. Lawrence then changed the subject. "But why should we reject these future settlers on our island?"

"Because they are exiles——" Saifei said, pointing to the word exile on the file, "and they are still a group of exiles related to collusion with the lower planes. I am worried that they will not only become colonizers or Our help will turn into a huge trouble on the island."

"Don’t forget that when we visited our neighbors last time, we heard from them that a rebellion of exiles broke out on a surrounding island a few years ago. That time they took a long time to suppress it. But although the suppression continued, The people on the island also lost nearly one-third of the population due to casualties in the war and subsequent immigration. Think about this case. The island is still just ordinary criminal exiles, and this time they are going to our island. But a group of exiles related to the lower planes."

"Of course I know how dangerous the guys who communicate with the lower planes are." Lawrence said with a shrug. "But this group of people are not those who communicate with the lower planes, but only those who are too closely connected with those people. They have been screened by various Orthodox churches to ensure that there are no such dangerous elements."

"Don't forget, now we have money, raw materials, and tools, but the problem is insufficient labor. Because of this problem, we have at least 1/4 of the projects that we can't start." Lawrence clicked on the exile behind the document. The list said. "More importantly, I found that most of these exiled prisoners have some basic education, and even some of them have an education level that can be regarded as the top group in this area that can be regarded as the edge of civilization."

"Well, there are more than a dozen high school students." After hearing Lawrence's words, Syfiel also took the list that he had overlooked before. It looks like ~lightnovelpub.net~ are basically some skilled workers, clerks. Or other people with similar occupations. Unlike our current group of people, only about 1/7 of the people can read. "

"That's why I insist on keeping them." Lawrence said. "It is absolutely indispensable for a region to develop human resources. The human resources in it do not only refer to the number of workers, but also the quality of the workers. And this group of people can greatly enhance the personnel in our territory. Quality level."

"Have you found one thing?" Nora said after going through the entire list next to her at this time. "All the people on the list are basically technicians or small clerks. There are no rich people at all. There are no nobles."

"Isn't this a normal thing?" Lawrence didn't feel anything wrong with this situation. "Those nobles and wealthy people will only be punished unless they really have too much relationship with the lower planes. Otherwise, their network of connections and the money they hold are enough to get them out of crime in various situations."

"But this is a good thing for us." Saifeier also checked the list in detail and said. "At least these ordinary people are relatively simple to manage now, unlike those nobles or rich people who don't listen to greetings at all, and they are not considered labor."