Struggle in the Steam Age

"Are you sure everyone hasn't been able to find the reason for the rapid fertile land on the island?" Lawrence asked seriously after Safir finished talking about the island's specific situation, "For example, the special kind similar to other places The magical environment or the soil contains some extraordinary factors."

"No, people from the Church of Agriculture and the Church of Knowledge have seriously confirmed this." Safiel shook his head and said to Lawrence. "And under normal circumstances, that kind of extraordinary power tends to affect all existences on the entire land, instead of just accelerating the improvement of the land like it is now."

"Could it be some kind of special divine power?" Lawrence asked after thinking for a while, "If it's only aimed at the speed of land improvement, then I think this kind of directional extraordinary power is likely to be related to the power of some gods." Power-related, even some artifacts in this regard or the remains of fallen gods."

"Probably not." Safir shook his head and said. "On the one hand, I think members of the Church of Agriculture should be able to discover things related to divine power, so that these professional clergymen can't check them out. On the other hand, if someone wants to use this change to do something, they should It is not possible to completely hide their existence like they are doing now."

"What you said makes sense." Lawrence nodded extremely seriously, because if it was some kind of dead thing, the priests would not be able to find it at all, but if it was really a god or something similar to a god If there are actions, then this kind of benign change can be used by them to attract believers, instead of doing nothing like now.

"So have you checked other places?" Nora said to Lawrence at this time, "For example, water sources for irrigation or other things, don't forget that when we went there to deal with the cotton field crisis last time What happened, that guy polluted the entire soil through precipitation."

"This—we really haven't checked it." After being reminded by Nora, Safiel also reacted. "You are right. There are indeed many external factors other than the soil itself that can affect the condition of the soil, and we have not been able to investigate those factors one by one before."

"Then, in the next stage, you can check all the factors related to the soil." Nora smiled and waved her hands to make a few ice cubes and put them in the half filled with milky white coconut milk. After taking a sip from the wooden bowl, he lifted it up and said to Safiel and Lawrence beside him.

"And as far as I know, once a being with supernatural power reaches a certain level, the supernatural power they release has a certain will in itself, and we can analyze these powers to know when the other party releases these powers. What kind of attitude is it towards us and the island?"

"I believe that after discovering the source of the power, those priests should be able to roughly judge the information carried in these extraordinary powers. But I need to remind you that if the information found from these powers is not malicious, I Think you'd better pretend you never found out about it."

"I understand." Lawrence nodded to the little doll, and then explained to Safiel, who had a puzzled look on his face, "From a certain point of view, the existence that can help us secretly without being discovered by us It should be very powerful, so there is naturally a reason why the other party wants to help us in the dark."

"Under such a premise, we really don't need to figure out who the existence that helps us is. Especially when the other party expresses kindness to us." Lawrence stared into Safir's eyes and said seriously, "We don't have to Some extra actions on this matter caused that powerful existence to feel bad for us."

"Okay, I understand." Safir nodded, and then said while looking at the sapphire-like sea in the distance. "I will put away my curiosity in this regard, and I will also instruct those clerks not to do those extra things—by the way, have the rewards for our reinforcements to Vieques Island been sent out last time?"

"Don't mention it, they are still arguing." Lawrence shook his head helplessly, because he had discovered the ironclad evidence that the Viscount of Pine Island was anti-civilization before, so recently various churches, the White Eagle Federation and the Republic of New Island are all in Do your best to put pressure on the Algarve Empire.

Although it is said that all civilized countries rarely engage in full-scale wars because of the series of disastrous consequences that large-scale wars may lead to, various small-scale frictions and various non-violent struggles have never stopped. Therefore, after grasping the mistakes of the Algarve Empire this time, everyone immediately wanted to use this as an excuse to try to weaken the empire.

However, because of the contracts signed by the gods and various civilized race forces back then, this weakening cannot be too severe. Judging from the current negotiation situation, the Algarve Empire should be ordered to hand over all the islands in the Sea of ​​Stars that it obtained when it became independent from the Kingdom of Castile.

As the first country to reach the New World from the west of the Old Continent, the Kingdom of Castile acquired a large number of islands in the Sea of ​​Stars as colonies. After all, compared to the mainland of the New World with powerful and wild races, these islands surrounded by the sea are obviously safer and more suitable for colonists who came from afar.

After the development of these islands, everyone realized that the natural conditions of these islands are very suitable for growing various spices and similar tropical cash crops. Therefore, in the early days of colonizing the New World, these islands were all carefully managed as important bridgeheads and material transfer camps.

After all, even if the world has powerful magic ships or other extraordinary powers that can transport massive amounts of supplies at one time, such ships or extraordinary powers are often the treasure of a country, and it is impossible to leave the mainland for a long time. Therefore, it is very necessary to develop these islands into material production centers.

Therefore, for these islands, those early colonizing countries have invested a lot of resources in the development of the islands. At the same time, more favorable policies are also given to those on the island. Thanks to these practices, the earliest immigrants from those countries in the western part of the New World were able to have enough resources to continuously join the pioneering army.

Compared with this, the early immigrants of the Republic of New State were obviously in a lot of trouble, because there was basically no island-dotted area like the Sea of ​​Stars in the west of the New World, so they could only directly open up territories in the coastal areas with more difficult conditions. . Fortunately, the surrounding aborigines are very friendly and helped them gain a firm foothold in that place.

Because of the situation in the New World, the colonies of the countries in the western part of the Old World in the Sea of ​​Stars are obviously more loyal than the colonies on the main road. Therefore, when the farmers of the Kingdom of Castile in the southern part of the New World set off a wave of independence, these islands were resolutely loyal to the Kingdom of Castile.

And this kind of allegiance has naturally been recognized by the local people. For example, San Jose Island, the largest island in the Sea of ​​Stars, is still directly under the Kingdom of Castile, and it also has its own members in the Imperial Council of the Kingdom of Castile. .

In this case, the islands that finally belonged to the Algarve Empire naturally only have some scattered and marginalized islands, and these islands are scattered throughout the Sea of ​​Stars. Pine Island is already the largest of these islands. one of.

Back then, the Kingdom of Castile allowed these islands to be independent only because they were not very rich and generally of little value. So instead of making a mess and leaving long-term hidden dangers, it is better to let these islands be independent.

Now, it is this type of island that various countries hope to obtain from the Algarve Empire.