Mountain and Forest Kingdom

The maids were continuing to place food on the table.

Lawrence couldn't eat anymore and was sitting there quietly drinking tea and waiting for the food to digest.

The old wizard also couldn't eat anymore, but he still wanted to taste the food here.

"Dear Prophet, you may need the fasting potion from Suman Island."

"No, I don't need to." Lawrence refused softly. "Food to me is to fill the stomach. I also agree to enjoy delicious food, but I will not repeatedly turn food into garbage."

"Delicious food should be digested in the belly and stay in the body. I also allow some food that cannot be digested to return to this land."

"There is nothing wrong with enjoying, but there is nothing wrong with wasting. I want to cherish the blessing God has given me, and I also ask my people and guests to cherish the treatment I provide."

"In my place, most people can have enough to eat. This is not something that can be obtained casually, but is my will."

"I don't like those who don't respect my will and regard my gifts as cheap offerings."

Lawrence did not like the attitude of the Eastern Suman people towards food. The food of these people was only enough for a very small number of nobles, and most slaves and ordinary people lived a miserable life without enough to eat.

Among the goods ordered from the East, Lawrence only purchased some fasting potions as detoxification and vomiting, and prohibited nobles and businessmen from using them to eat and vomit here.

When the old wizard saw this, he kept silent and stopped talking about this matter.

Because Lawrence stopped eating, the food on the table was quickly dwindling.

Except for the old wizard and Lawrence and several human wizards who accompanied him to dinner, the only ones still eating were the fish treasure and the fish monster.

The fish monster was already full. Seeing that the fish monster wanted to continue eating, he refused to give it anything to eat.

"Wow!" Yu Bao stood in front of the fish monster and said that he would not give it anything to eat.

At this time, the fish monster looked around and then up and down at the fish treasure, feeling a little curious and unfamiliar.

The appearance of the fish treasure looks very strange to the fish monster. It has red fish skin, a head like a jellyfish, and its words are also strange and powerful.

Yubao also feels that the fish monster is strange, but it has no normal concept and often sees strange things, so it has a strong ability to accept it.

Soon Yu Bao raised his hand and asked the maid to bring him milk tea. After giving himself a cup, he pointed at his new friend.

"Wow~"

Yu Bao's meaning was easy to understand, and the maid quickly put down a cup of milk tea for the fish monster.

The fish monster smelled the smell of sugar and milk, and quickly climbed up to the milk tea cup using both hands and feet, opened its mouth and swallowed the milk tea cup in one gulp.

Upon seeing this, Yubao quickly shouted anxiously, causing the fish monster to spit out the cup.

However, the fish monster has no habit of spitting out the food it eats, and keeps its mouth closed all the time.

Yu Bao quickly pushed the fish monster to the ground and tried to take out the cup, but although the fish monster was not as strong as it, its mouth and head were so hard that it refused to spit it out.

Lawrence was not worried. First of all, this fish monster was not an ordinary creature and would not be stuck so easily.

"Yubao, take your friend to play in the pool. It will open its mouth in the water."

"Woo!" Yu Bao could only agree, taking the fish monster's hand and dragging it out from the floor.

The fish monster only knew to shut up and did not resist the dragging behavior of the fish monster.

After the two troublesome little guys left, Lawrence looked at the old wizard.

"What's your purpose here?"

The old wizard said respectfully: "We, the white wizards of the Sixth Ring Tower, hope to establish contact with this side."

"There are two types of wizards on Suman Island. One is the white wizard who gathers together to study and live, and the other is the black wizard who breaks away from the city and rules to carry out destruction and revenge."

"We understand that you have gathered a large number of wizards here, and the wizards all live in the same city as the mortals. We think it is worthwhile to establish trade with the Kingdom of the Stars."

"This time I was entrusted by the Sixth Ring Tower to learn about the power and kindness of the Kingdom of Stars."

Lawrence nodded and said nothing more on this topic.

If there was another group of wizards on the other side of the sea, domestic technological and industrial research and development would be able to continue.

Some moderate external threats can have an motivating effect on the Kingdom of the Stars.

"I agree to engage in commercial trade with the Eastern Islands. This is something that has been going on for the past few years. Now there is a lack of formal cooperation."

Lawrence suggested: "It would be best if a noble from the Suman Kingdom could come and talk to me. I don't want the things we just discussed to change within two years, and I hope to maintain long-term cooperation."

"Yes, I will convey your message back." The old wizard accepted Lawrence's proposal.

Lawrence: "Then we'll discuss business matters later. Regarding wizard cooperation, I hope that wizards from the two places can have normal exchanges and have normal and equal exchanges in terms of cultural exchanges, research, and reproduction."

Lawrence and the Wizards of the East highlight some of the differences in custom.

The Oriental Islands did not want war.

When Luofen III broke the trade cooperation contract with the Eastern Islands, they didn't care about this kind of thing.

If you don't want to do business, you won't do it. I'm too lazy to call.

The cost of calling is too high and there is no profit at all.

Now, although attacking the Kingdom of Stars can bring huge profits, the risks are as high as the profits.

No wizard in his right mind would provoke a kingdom with hundreds of pure-blood wizards.

No need for steel warships and cannons, just a few hundred wizards under Lawrence can turn the invaders from outside into fertilizer mixed with flesh and mud.

Lawrence is very clear about the problems of the Star Country.

It is not the Southern Church or the Eastern wizards that can threaten the Star Country, but some small tribes of humans who can't survive.

Only those who can't survive will attack the caravans and villages of the Star Country.

Normal robbers with a little bit of brains will not risk losing their heads to be enemies with the Star Country.

The livestock, food and clothes robbed are not as much as finding a job in the Star Country.

Ordinary people don't make much money from farming, but Lawrence has been recruiting capable people to join his system. The various exploration and adventure tasks posted in the tavern and some task bars are all to screen out capable people.

The main purpose of absorbing this part into the Star Country is not to let them take the lead in causing trouble outside.

Capable people are often more likely to become leaders.

So how to discover talents and how to make more people have enough food and a stable life have always been what Lawrence has been doing.

With the growth and maturity of the new generation of young people, Lawrence has a lot more problems to solve.

The friendship tree branches in the East gave Lawrence a good excuse to arrange some people.

"I can arrange fifty wizards to go to the East to study."

There are too many wizards who eat idle meals under Lawrence. Migrating fifty wizards is equivalent to solving the pressure of wasting space and resources for five thousand people.

"If it's not enough, one hundred will do."

Lawrence added.

The old wizard was shocked when he heard that Lawrence was going to send one hundred wizards to the Eastern Islands.

"One hundred wizards? That... too dangerous..."

One hundred wizards are indeed very dangerous. As long as male and female wizards gather together, there will be constant trouble.

Especially ordinary people who are close to them, several or dozens of them die every day.

Most wizards are very unfriendly to ordinary people. Lawrence is not considering ordinary people, but his ship may not be able to withstand the tossing of these wizards.

"My ship can't accommodate a hundred wizards, at most three... no, two will do."

The old wizard quickly revealed his bottom line. He was only willing to let two wizards on board at most.

Even so, it was still for Lawrence's sake.

Lawrence still planned to let some wizards leave and make room for ordinary people.

These wizards are mainly lethal, especially mental destruction and range attacks.

Lawrence was reluctant to let go of most auxiliary and industrial wizards.

There were too many attacking wizards, even if a hundred were let go, the ones left would be enough.

But these wizards and witches consumed too many resources in Dum Port and Pumice Town, and each of them had the same personality as their ancestors. Lawrence had always been annoyed by these wizards.

"It's okay. I will send two ships to send them to the Suman Islands. I will prepare food and water myself. I hope you can get along well with them when we arrive in Suman."

The old wizard did not dare to agree to such a dangerous thing. "No, kind prophet, one hundred wizards are too many. This is a powerful force that can decide a war. I have never seen a hundred wizards standing together, and I can't imagine that they would be willing to stay on the same ship."

Lawrence understood the panic of the old wizard very well.

Wizards are actually the kind of things he thinks they are.

If there is no high-pressure physical deterrence against this group of wizards, and there is also a backup of a good day to persuade these wizards to cooperate honestly and not cause trouble, this group of wizards will really cause trouble when they gather together.

Normally, if more than ten wizards are on the same ship, then they are basically in the same boat.

As long as the number of people in this group is large, they will be crazy and have no brains.

Lawrence has been controlling this group of people for several years, and he doesn't want to waste money and manpower on them all the time.

It is necessary to keep some elites, but it is also necessary to evacuate some.

"I will ask them to stay on the boat and not attack anyone casually. My law enforcement forces will supervise them."

"In short, I have made a decision on this matter. I hope the Suman Islands can understand my strength and sincerity here, which will help our future cooperation."

Lawrence did not give the old wizard a chance to refute.

This time is a very good opportunity. It happens that some wizards are very interested in the East.

In these wizards who are generally over 10 years old, Eastern wizards have always been synonymous with powerful and mysterious, so if they are asked to go out for a visit, most people will agree.

After going out, don't think about coming back within one or two years. Lawrence needs a few years to solve the population and resource problems.

It's like tidying up the house. First, take out the troublesome things, clean them up, and then move them back.

After dealing with the diplomatic issues with the East, Lawrence had time to ask about the fish monster.

"Is the one with a fish head also from the sea tribe?"

"Both have fish heads." The old wizard wondered which one Lawrence was talking about, "Both are from the sea tribe."

Lawrence: "They look slightly different."

"One is an island fishman, and the other is an abyss fishman." The old wizard formally revealed the owner of the fish treasure.

Lawrence was more interested in the affairs of the sea tribe, "What is the relationship between the sea tribe and humans?"

"It's OK. There are several sea tribes patrolling the route we pass through. We need to give them some food every time to pass through, otherwise the bottom of the ship will be destroyed by them."

Lawrence asked: "Is it not possible without giving them? For example, get rid of them."

The old wizard explained: "That's what we did at the beginning. We killed a few weak sea tribes, but soon after these sea tribes died, new sea tribes occupied this place, and wizards had to be sent to clean up again."

"Those sea tribes hide very deep in the sea and can find the wizard's ship in advance. Sometimes wizards will be killed by them."

"After many years of this, wizards and sea tribes gradually maintained a fixed relationship. We don't want to establish a stable cooperative relationship with new sea tribes every ten years."

"There are very few sea tribes that can talk to us, so we will support these smart sea tribes to control the rest of the sea tribes, otherwise we will always encounter those robber sea tribes that cannot talk."

Violence can solve most problems, but most problems cannot be completely solved by violence.

Once the violence of pointing and hitting is finally tired and doesn't want to move, the problems that were once covered up by violence will quickly erupt.

Historically, the policy towards foreign races was not to kill them all. All dynasties had been about winning over some and fighting some.

Lawrence had roughly figured out how to get along with the sea people.

If you want to get a stable and safe route, you must have a sea tribe to speak and manage in this sea area.

In this world, the sea people are natural pirates that are more difficult to deal with than nomads and bandits.

Their existence has greatly hindered the development of the maritime industry. They are born to be marine landlords who collect protection fees.

Unless they are killed, once these marine intelligent creatures enter the civilized era, they will be celestial dragons in a sense.

But in this era, the situation of most sea people is actually very bad.

Judging from the research on the old wizard's ability to capture fish monsters, most wizards of this era do not care about the relationship between sea people and humans.

Even if it may be because of the capture of sea children by themselves that humans and sea people fight, the old wizard and the humans on the ship do not care.

After the conversation, Lawrence sat on the balcony thinking about things.

The sea people's problems must be solved, but they are too lazy to solve them.

"If we want to solve the sea tribe's problems, we have to let Yubao go outside."

"That's fine."

Lawrence is very confident in Yubao's strength and wisdom, but like other wizards, he doesn't care about things that are too far away, and doesn't want Yubao to take on so many troublesome things.

Human affairs can't overwhelm Lawrence, nor can they overwhelm Yubao.

Lawrence has always been the kind of person who talks about being glorious and upright, but actually has no ambition and motivation.

Lawrence lay on the recliner thinking about happy things.

"Autumn is almost over, and we can have parties again in winter." (End of this chapter)