Struggle in the Steam Age

Although Owen's deputy butler only said it lightly, without any emotional color. But Lawrence also understood from his narrations the labor and painstaking efforts that everyone put in during the preparation process. At least for Lawrence, if he had to deal with these clutter, he would rather fight that horde of bugs again.

In addition to the Earl of Barbados, there were more than one or two nobles who came to participate temporarily, and there were naturally several kinds of such magical mounts. So in the past two days, Owen's deputy housekeeper was also busy with these messy feeds. Fortunately, with everyone's joint efforts, everyone finally prepared what they needed.

"Actually, it seems a bit abrupt for the group of nobles to come this time." After finishing the preparations, Owen's deputy butler said to Lawrence, "Under normal circumstances, if nobles want to attend such a party, they have to attend at least half an hour in advance. Monthly to notify. But this time I don’t know why, a group of nobles only notified us to come over a week ago.”

"I think I probably know why." Lawrence said after roughly calculating the time. "It may be related to my aunt, she is now the Viscountess of Doropia, and it is likely that she recommended me in the noble circle of Elysion. So he will temporarily join the surrounding nobles Come to this party."

Obviously, if Lawrence's timing is correct. The time when these nobles sent out their responses should have been shortly after their departure. It seems that after knowing that Lawrence and the others were going to the Gobi Desert because of their cotton fields, Viscount Doropia began to fulfill the obligations agreed between the two parties.

This approach made Lawrence feel very comfortable. After all, compared with the approach of fulfilling obligations after seeing the results, such an approach is obviously more humane. At least after Viscount Doropia did this, even though Lawrence knew that they contacted him for their own interests, he still recognized this relative in his heart.

And there is a reason for these nobles to sell their face and suddenly come to the banquet of a pure newcomer, Lawrence, because the power of the nobles in the New World, a place regarded as a barren land by the saved humans, is extremely weak. Two of the powerful countries are republics without nobles, and only Elysium is regarded as the light of nobility in the New World.

Therefore, in the land of the New World, the nobles of Elysion can be regarded as the top class of nobles in this land. And the Viscount Doropia belongs to one of the oldest nobles in the Elysion Empire. Because of this reason, the nobles on the edge of the Sea of ​​Stars, as the marginalized group, would naturally sell him to save face and come to New Sauer Island to attend this gathering.

In the midst of this busy schedule, the Harvest Festival banquet was held as scheduled. Because considering that they really can't spare enough manpower to serve as waiters, adding the theme of this banquet itself is not a serious topic. So the whole banquet was simply organized as a buffet.

After all, he had been living in the White Eagle Federation before, and in that emerging country, this form of banquet that required few waiters and had an extremely relaxed atmosphere was very popular, whether it was ordinary people or those with relatively high status. I'm used to this kind of dinner party. Even state-level formal banquets are held in this form.

A banquet of this type would be unthinkable in the Old World. According to tradition, nobles tend to choose that very formal banquet form. Then everyone who participates has to wear a gorgeous but inconvenient dress and follow that complicated set of etiquette. Even the content of the speech has to be carefully considered.

To be honest, the nobles are also very contradictory on this issue. On the one hand, they hope to risk their aristocratic status through these external things, and on the other hand, they are also uncomfortable with this obviously time-consuming and labor-intensive approach. Fortunately, here is not only a new continent, but also a pioneering territory. So Lawrence thinks that everyone can relax a little while taking care of their identities at the party this time.

Obviously, everyone present seemed quite satisfied with the banquet prepared by Lawrence. As nobles in the New World, they have naturally heard of this way of gathering, but for most people, they have not experienced it personally. So when I experienced it this time, I naturally felt quite novel.

Because of Lawrence's previous preparations, coupled with the abundance of the island. So there will be no shortage of various ingredients. Not to mention that the alcoholic drinks Lawrence brought back this time made up for the last possible problematic link in the banquet. What's more, Lawrence felt quite lucky that among the group of immigrants last month, several chefs with good skills came to the island.

These chefs came from Yingzhou, which is different from Zhendan who has entered the modern society. Yingzhou still retains the ancient feudal system. Although they have been claiming to learn from Cathay and embrace civilization. But in fact, everything in this island country is the same as before except for the introduction of some factories to start industrial production.

For example, the country is divided even now. A so-called shogun is the largest feudal lord as the supreme ruler of the country, and below him there is a large group of enfeoffed nobles called daimyo who control the rest of the territory, and the previous owner of these chefs is a Daimyo service businessman.

Unfortunately, that daimyo has a stomach problem and has been dissuaded from eating all kinds of fried foods. As a low-level transcendent, he can indeed heal through some extraordinary methods. However, the treatment that his body allows him to withstand in this area is limited, and it is impossible to continue the treatment like this forever.

So after the businessman offered breaded and deep-fried snapper, the daimyo bleeds profusely because the deep-fried food triggered a disease in the stomach itself. Although the spellcasters present barely managed to hang his life, the daimyo's body was also greatly damaged as a result, and he probably wouldn't be able to survive the next winter.

In this case, although everyone knows that it is not the businessman's fault. But the businessman was still beheaded for public display and his property was confiscated. These chefs were not executed because they were just small people, but they were confiscated of all their wealth and expelled from the territory, and were asked not to stay in the three islands of Yingzhou.

Under such circumstances, they had no choice but to take a colonial ship departing from Cathay to resupply along the coast of Yingzhou with the little money left to leave their hometown. Of course, they chose this way because they knew what the New World had, so after arriving in the New World, they found Okita Sakura according to the address of the previous letter and begged for her help.

It's a pity that although Okita Sakura is an extraordinary person with a lot of income, as a sword idiot, her money is based on things related to extraordinary power. Therefore, it is impossible to provide much financial help to these distant relatives of his. In addition, she and Zhu Yan also received a letter from Lawrence before and knew that his territory needed to recruit all kinds of talents. So she simply sent these relatives of her to Shaw Island.

The arrival of these people just helped Lawrence and the others a great favor. After all, the chefs who came with Lawrence and the others were all standard Holy Visby people, so they were not very good at cooking with local ingredients.

So Lawrence appointed them to host the banquet after briefly inspecting their cooking skills. For the people of Yingzhou, they are good at cooking with rice and seafood, which just fits the current specific situation of this island. Not to mention that they themselves are high-end chefs served by nobles and rich people, and they are more suitable for this kind of banquet for nobles.

Now it seems that there is nothing wrong with his arrangement. Everyone present is very fond of those exotic foods. Quite satisfied.