Struggle in the Steam Age

The reason why Lawrence made the rescue was that, on the one hand, although the contact time was only a few days before, the two sides had forged a good relationship, and they have been in contact with each other since then. And think that the other party is your friend in the contact. And if a friend is in trouble, having the ability to help is an inevitable choice.

From another somewhat utilitarian point of view, the suffering church is the same as the knowledge church and the agricultural church. They all belong to the kind of church that is rooted in the middle and lower classes to promote the development of the entire society, and at the same time the main targets are ordinary people. Therefore, regardless of whether the rescue is successful or not, the goodwill and favor of the suffering church can be obtained, and this is of great benefit to the construction of the territory.

So whether it is selfish or righteous, Lawrence will definitely participate in this rescue operation this time. Not to mention that he had planned to go out for an expedition before. The ship and all the materials and personnel have been prepared, and the things on the island have been arranged. Just make a decision and you can start within a few hours.

But before we set off, some things have to be resolved. The most important thing is to figure out where the team disappeared. If it is on an island, the possibility of successful rescue will be greater, and if the ship crashes far away from the coast, it is likely that the rescue is just to make the last effort for peace of mind.

"The location of that team's disappearance cannot even be determined by the church. Because they disappeared suddenly at the time, there was no warning before, and there was no sign at all. The church did not receive any signal until the specified contact time the next day. I realized that the situation was not right." A bitter expression appeared on Reso's face. "The map they gave was only an approximate sea area based on the location reported during the last contact and the ship they boarded."

"Is there a map?" Lawrence asked. Reso immediately took out a rough map from his arms and handed it over at the same time. "This is the map sent by the Church of the Crucifixion to those of us who are willing to organize to rescue people at the entrance of the church. Inside the red circle is the possible missing range of the team guessed based on a series of data."

After taking a look at the map, Lawrence realized that the search would be a huge project. Because the area of ​​the sea area drawn by the red circle on the map is about 20,000 square kilometers, it must take a lot of time and energy to search all of this land.

However, after a closer look, she found that the situation may not be so bad, because according to the list of things that the squad brought when Resso got private, they did not carry any magic props or tools for underwater activities. In other words, this time their goal is on land rather than underwater.

In this way, the scope of the search is greatly reduced. Just focus on the surroundings of those islands and the navigation route to those islands. After all, judging by their action goals, the probability of them going directly to the open sea is too small, and there is no need to spend too much energy.

Four hours later, Lawrence and Nora boarded the Enterprise with their bags. Also on board with them were Resso who had come here to report before, as well as a human armed squad and another tauren squad of the same number. And Syfiel was standing at the dock to see them off, his face looked a little unhappy.

Think about it, Saifei's character itself belongs to the kind of lively and outgoing. I can't get enough of the work of sitting at the desk and dealing with various documents. It is a pity that she is the only one on the island who can sign the series of documents on behalf of Lawrence, so she still has to do the case work for a while.

Especially when Lawrence went to the tauren tribe before, she let Syfiel take the class for a while. She thought that after Lawrence Huai'an, she could take a good rest and go to the plains to take the team to clean up the goblins. In the end, I didn't expect that Lawrence would be evasive again less than a week after returning from the Tauren tribe.

But this time should be better than last time. After listening to Syfiel's confession after coming back last time, Lawrence also realized that there was a problem with the management system on the island. So in this week, in addition to the construction of black tea production, he also reformed the management system on the island.

After reforms, Lawrence established a supervisory department of his own. At the same time, a large part of the approval authority for trivial matters was delegated to various farms and institutions. In this way, it can be ensured that Lawrence himself can reduce the workload by more than half while under the overall leadership, while also improving the work efficiency on the current site.

Of course, the implementation and supervision system of this power is very simple. Not to mention that compared with those countries with a long history, there are various problems in comparison with the emerging countries of the New World. But for the power under Lawrence, who now has only tens of thousands of people, this is enough.

After all, everything is not as advanced as possible. This is true for factories and so are governance plans. Eat as much food as you have, and wear shoes as big as you have. Just thinking about eating a big fat man, regardless of the actual situation, will not achieve any good results, but can only create disasters.

Even so, Safir needs to work four or five hours a day to sign these documents. Fortunately, Lawrence promised that she would consider taking her out next time when she encountered such a thing, and finally convinced her that she could now voluntarily help herself with government affairs here for a while.

"I'll be back soon after going out this time." Lawrence, standing on the side of the ship, waved his arm and shouted to Syfiel, "Don't worry, I will be back early this time. It won't be like the last Things won't come back for a long time."

The reason Lawrence dared to guarantee this was enough confidence, because according to his analysis, based on the surrounding sea conditions and the various resources carried by the team at that time. They only need one week at most to search the key areas. As for other places, Lawrence believes that even if they survived at first, the chance of surviving Paladin John is not high.

When the boiler pressure reached a predetermined level, with a whistle sound, the propeller slowly stirred the seawater and pushed the Enterprise out of the port. After driving out of the harbor, Lawrence returned to the room and took out a map to study with Reso. I hope to find out where the team is most likely to be if it survives.

"You mean that the ship they took when they set off was an ordinary 120-ton sloop, so they didn’t have too many sailing options. After all, if it’s too far from the island~www.ltnovel.com~ This small-tonnage ship will be very risky when it comes to sailing. It is obviously impossible for that team."

"But the problem is that there is a team of nearly ten extraordinary people on the ship. If these extraordinary people take action, there is no problem with the small tonnage ships going to those places." Resso scratched his head and said, and found Lawrence and Nora. They all looked at themselves with a strange look.

"Why do they use small-tonnage ships? Especially when there are obviously big ships." Nora asked unceremoniously.

"For concealment--sorry, I was wrong." Just halfway through talking, Resso realized that this kind of public action of the church team is completely different from their usual solo gangs. There is no need to consider the problem of concealment, and there is no need to choose that kind of boat.

That is to say, the navigation and transportation part of this mission should be very simple in the church's envisioned, and there will be no trouble. At the same time, it is very close to the New Netherlands Islands where the church is located. That's why I chose a small boat to perform the task.

"It would be great if they knew their final destination." Lawrence tapped his index finger on the table and said, but Reso next to him shook his head regretfully. "There may be some secret elements in this operation of their church, so they didn't tell me the destination of this operation."