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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 no right to waste. 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 inducing vomiting, and prohibited nobles and businessmen from using these to continuously eat and vomit.

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.

Yu Bao 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, Yu Bao 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.

Yubao 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!" Yubao 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 our Suman Island. One is the white wizards who gather together to study and live, and the other is the black wizards who break 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 were 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 conduct 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 cooperation between wizards, 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.

There is no need for steel battleships and giant cannons, just a few hundred wizards under Lawrence can turn the outside invaders into fertilizer mixed with flesh and mud.

Lawrence is well aware of the problems in the Kingdom of the Stars.

Those who can threaten the Kingdom of Stars are not the Southern Church, nor the wizards from the East, but some small tribes of humans who cannot survive.

Only those who cannot survive will attack the caravans and villages of the Kingdom of Stars.

Normally any robber with a little bit of brain would not risk losing his head to become an enemy of the Kingdom of Stars.

The small amount of livestock, food and clothing obtained by robbery is not as much as earning a job in the Kingdom of the Stars.

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

The main purpose of absorbing these people into the Kingdom of Stars is to prevent them from taking the lead in causing trouble outside.

Competent people are often more likely to take the lead.

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

As the new generation of young people grows and matures, Lawrence has many more problems to solve.

The Eastern Friendship Branch gave Lawrence a good excuse to arrange for some people to go out.

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

There are too many wizards under Lawrence who are just freeing up. Moving out fifty wizards is equivalent to solving the space and resource waste pressure of five thousand people.

"If that's not enough, a hundred will do," Lawrence added.

When the old wizard heard that Lawrence was going to send a hundred wizards to the Eastern Islands, he showed a shocked expression.

"A hundred wizards? That... is too dangerous..."

One hundred wizards are indeed very dangerous. As long as wizards and witches get together, trouble will continue.

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

Most wizards are very unfriendly to ordinary people. Lawrence is not thinking about ordinary people, but that his ship may not be able to withstand the torment of this group of wizards.

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

The old wizard quickly revealed his bottom line. At most, he would only allow two wizards to board the ship.

Just for Lawrence's sake.

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

This group of wizards mainly focuses on lethality, especially mental destruction and range attacks.

Lawrence couldn't bear to let go of most of the auxiliary and industrial wizards.

There are too many attacking wizards. Even if a hundred are let go, the remaining ones will be enough.

But these wizards and witches consume too many resources in Dumu Port and Pumexiu Town, and they all have the same personality as their ancestors. Lawrence has always been annoyed by these wizards.

"It doesn't matter. 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 get to 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 stand together. It’s even more unimaginable that they would want to stay on the same boat.”

Lawrence understood the old wizard's panic.

Wizards are actually who they think they are.

If it weren't for the high-pressure physical force that deterred this group of wizards, and the backup of a good life to persuade these wizards to cooperate honestly and not cause trouble, this group of wizards would really cause trouble if they got together.

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

As long as there are too many people in this group, they will lose their minds when they go crazy.

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

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

"I will ask them to stay on the ship honestly, and I will ask them not to attack people casually. I will also have my law enforcement forces to supervise them when they wear them."

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

Lawrence didn't 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.

Among these groups of wizards, who are generally over several decades old, Eastern wizards have always been synonymous with power and mystery, so if they were asked to go out for a visit, most people would agree.

Once you go out, don't think about coming back within a year or two. Lawrence will need several years to solve the population and resource problems.

Just like tidying up a house, take out the things that are in the way first, clean them up, and then move them back.

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

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

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

Lawrence: "It looks a little different."

"One is an island murloc, and the other is an abyss murloc." The old wizard officially revealed the fish treasure's identity.

Lawrence was more interested in the affairs of the Sea Tribe, "How is the relationship between the Sea Tribe and humans?"

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

Lawrence asked: "Isn't it okay if I don't give them? For example, get rid of them."

The old wizard explained: "We did this at the beginning, killing a few of the weak sea tribes. But soon after these sea tribes died, new sea tribes occupied the place, and wizards were sent to clean it up."

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

"After this continued for many years, the wizard and the Sea Tribe gradually maintained a fixed relationship. We don't want to re-establish a stable cooperative relationship with a new Sea Tribe every ten years."

"There are very few sea people who can talk to us, so we will support this kind of smart sea people to control the other sea people. Otherwise, we will always encounter the kind of robber sea people who can't talk to us."

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

Once the violence that hits you everywhere finally gets tired and doesn't want to move, the problems that were once covered up by the violence will quickly erupt.

Historically, the policy towards foreigners was not always to kill them all. In all dynasties, the policy was to win over some and beat them up.

Lawrence roughly figured out how to get along with the Sea Clan.

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

In this world, the sea people are more troublesome natural pirates than nomads and bandits.

Their existence has greatly hindered the development of navigation, and they are naturally marine landowners who collect protection fees.

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

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

Judging from the research on how old wizards would capture fish monsters, most wizards in this era didn't care about the relationship between sea people and humans.

Even if humans and sea people might fight because of his capture of sea people's children, the old wizard and the humans on the ship didn't care.

After the conversation, Lawrence sat on the balcony and thought about things.

The Sea Clan's matter must be resolved, but they are too lazy to do so.

"If we want to solve the Hai Clan's issues, we have to let Yu Bao go outside."

"That's it."

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

Human affairs cannot overwhelm Lawrence, nor can they overwhelm Yu Bao.

Lawrence has always been the kind of person who talks about being upright but actually has little ambition or drive.

Lawrence lay in his lounge chair thinking about happy things.

"Autumn is coming to an end, and it's time to party again in winter." (End of this chapter)