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- The Fantasy Sea Continent is surrounded by an endless sea, floating alone on the salty water.
But this rich and barren land is too vast, and many children of Mother Earth have never seen the edge of the world in their entire lives.
It¡¯s not quite right to say it¡¯s the edge of the world, right? To be precise, the dividing line between the earth and the sea should be the buffer zone between the civilization of the human world and the mysterious and unknown foreign lands.
From time to time, there are some travelers from the outer sea, driving strange ships, carrying rare goods, arriving at the ports on the edge of the continent all the way, and setting sail again carrying local specialties.
But these are just decorations that embellish the golden route. What supports the primitive and developed handicraft system of the Fantasy Sea Continent is never the occasional visitors from other continents, but the materials within the continent, the south and the north, the east and the west. circulation.
In this era, the most developed regions have begun to popularize magical power facilities. Magic vehicles are widely used to transport people and materials, and magic items have penetrated into public life. In contrast, in places far away from civilized areas, intelligent races are still using manpower, animal power and water power to drive primitive production facilities and transport goods.
And this land is not peaceful. Wars often break out between various countries, thieves entrenched in the wilderness, monsters living on the roadside, monsters wandering in the suburbs of cities late at night, raging natural disasters, plagues spreading among people and cemeteries, Difficult road conditions make land transportation extremely expensive.
In contrast, sea transportation is much more convenient. Although there are storms on the sea, as well as notorious pirates and privateers, compared with those dangerous trade routes on land, the cost and loss rate are more reassuring. Moreover, the ship can carry more goods than the ox-cart, and the money paid to the sailors is much less than the cost of the ox-cart.
The most important thing is that the gift of the gods - the trade winds that rotate through the four seasons, create a miraculous golden route.
Golden routes generally refer to those ocean routes that are far away but have huge profits. If you are loaded with specialties from the place of departure, sail along this route, arrive in a distant foreign country a few months later, exchange them for local treasures, and then exchange them for local treasures. If you bring it back to your homeland, this journey will bring unimaginable benefits to you and your shipowner.
There is a proverb on the West Coast - before weighing anchor, prepare a weighing scale for gold coins.
It means to prepare before doing something, and the original meaning of this proverb refers to the huge profits of the golden route.
Of course, the Golden Route is not a one-size-fits-all. Danger and business opportunities coexist. Every captain who dares to set foot on the Golden Route is either a rookie who is not afraid of tigers, or a seasoned veteran who has played games with Poseidon countless times.
And every businessman who dares to inject capital into the ship, haul it, or even sail with the ship is either poor and wants to make a desperate move, or he has taken a fancy to an unsinkable ship that is sure to reach the other side.
There is another version of that proverb.
With the money to set sail, you can still get off the boat.
It means that there is still a chance to save things until the last minute. The original meaning of this sentence is to allude to the high mortality rate on the golden route, and to advise those young people not to just make money and put their lives on the road.
Pirates cruised back and forth between the golden routes, searching for prey with a keen sense of smell that even hunting dogs could not match, tracking their targets with a patience that even hungry wolves could not match, pouncing on meat with a speed that even vultures would be ashamed of, and using a dragon that would make them jealous. His shameful appetite swallowed all the treasures into his belly.
On this route, there have been legends of incredibly wealthy merchants, but the most legendary legends will always belong to the pirate kings who drove giant ships made of pure gold!
Storms will also visit the golden route from time to time. The route of the route only considers how to transport the goods to the destination before they deteriorate or are damaged. Whether it is in a storm zone is not considered by crazy gold diggers at all. Even if they know that there is a relatively safe route, they will not detour, because it means more time, more damage to the goods, and if they are close to land, they may have to pay a large amount of passing fees to the indigenous people.
So they would rather sail their ship in the huge waves, let the icy waves rush onto the deck, break into white waves, and occasionally sweep away a few sailors as sacrifices to appease the anger of the sea god.
They would rather the gods in the clouds stretch out their little fingers and turn them into strong winds shaking the masts, tearing apart the clean and dirty sails that are intact and patched and full of holes, and making a sound louder than the devil wolf in the bedtime story. With shrill screams, the sailors trembled and manipulated the cables, fighting with the gods for their own lives.
The sanitary conditions on the ship have always been very poor. Plague and diseases can easily spread on the ship. Plague, Black Death, scurvy, smallpox, and cholera. Once a crew member is sick, he can only sail alone.The raft left, praying that it would float to land or an island. If the sick people are not isolated before the outbreak, the whole ship will capsize in the hands of n-father no, in the hands of the plague.
There are also famine, water shortage, crew mutiny, running aground on rocks, and getting lost
Those single-masted, two-masted, three-masted ships with square sails and gaff sails of various colors continued to advance on these routes, arrived at their destinations, unloaded the cargo carried on the ships, and became merchants. Miss Caroline's jingling pockets became the jingling silver coins in the sailor's patched pockets, and the sweat-stained coppers in the calloused hands of the dockworker.
The Golden Route has made an indelible contribution to the economic development of the mainland. Without these routes to infuse blood into the industrial system, there would be no subsequent rise of the magic industry, and the United Caldari States would not be able to win the founding war and establish the first parliamentary republic. nation. (Awesome, I belong to the C clan!)
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It can be said that among the legendary stories that happened from the savage era until the reunification of the continent, the most exciting stories are all told around those golden routes, around the legendary pirates who fought and fought for this route, and around their lifelong battles. The legendary generals who competed for control of the shipping routes, the adventurers who shed blood and sweat fighting pirates and water monsters, the wealthy businessmen who organized huge fleets
Among these legends, the most legendary one belongs to the platinum route that starts from Dongyue Bay, a large port of the Northern Territory War Alliance in the north, runs through the West Sea, crosses the territorial waters of the West Sea Union, and reaches Maputo Port of the Southern Holy Tree Alliance.
The reason why this route is called the Platinum Route is simply because of the saying that if you invest a copper in Dongyue Bay, you can get a platinum coin when the fleet returns next year.
Our story takes place at the starting point of this golden route, the pearl of the Northern War Alliance, the port city of Dongyue Bay
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Wang Ming silently looked at the Dongyue Bay information briefing written by Cang Yang, which looked like a history book, and found that he could finally say that popular long sentence.
"Cang Yang Sang, although I don't know what you are talking about, you seem to be very powerful!"
Wang Ming stared at the information for a long time - "It's so annoying! I hate history books the most! Can't you give a simple and easy-to-understand explanation?"
Faced with the complaints from the knight leader, Cangyang silently took the parchment away from Wang Ming's hand, turned it over like a fried egg, and handed it back to Wang Ming's hand.
Dongyue Bay
Affiliation: Northern Territory War Alliance
Owner: Dongyue Clan
Residents: 200,000 people (5% of the Wolf tribe, 80% of humans, 10% of other beast tribes, 4% of ice elves)
Main industries: logging, shipbuilding, fishing, whaling, transportation
The reputation of this legion here: 1.6 (weak favorability)
The reputation of our mortal enemy, the Holy See of Light, here: -7.6 (beat it to death)
The industries and items owned by the legion here are: 500 units of rum purchased here by Comrade Yue Ying Youtanhuayuan.
Legion buildings:
Tokachi stone statues, special buildings
"We will win ten out of ten battles!"
Effect: Anyone who urinates or defecates within fifty meters around this statue will not be fined by the urban management.
Seeing this, Wang Ming felt more and more terrified. He raised his head and found that Cang Yang was looking at him charmingly, and then slowly approached
"ah!!!!!!"
Wang Ming jumped up from the bed in a dance, and the quilt was kicked away with a kick filled with mad fighting spirit. It hung on the chandelier, blocking most of the light.
Realizing that he had lost his composure, the young man wiped his head with cold sweat: "Fortunately it was a dream. How could you have such a terrifying dream? Is it because you have been under too much pressure recently?"
"Mia! It's time to have breakfast!"
The door was violently knocked open, and Yuhuang and Xinglian rushed into the bedroom with a huge noise.
¡°It¡¯s hard to get to the Northern Territory, so you have to try the local food!¡±
While talking, Yuhuang put a piece of dried meat into his mouth as a demonstration, and his cheeks were bulging out from the piece of meat, which looked a little funny.
"Get up quickly, the eldest sister said that the sun is rare today, so I need to take out the quilt to dry it!" Xinglian snatched the boy's quilt away, and the extremely cold air in the northern region immediately froze Wang Ming into a ball.
"Cold, cold, cold! What are you doing!"
"Is it cold? Then go and eat barbecue!"
¡°Eat barbecue!¡±
Two girls, one big and one small, seemed to be talking about cross talkWith such yelling and screaming, Wang Ming thought that he would never sleep again, so he had no choice but to walk out with them.
"Xinglian, are you okay?"
"It's okay! So you can't use the excuse 'You can't eat too much greasy food before your body recovers' to deduct my ration later!"
"I'm not the eldest sister, how can I be so stingy"
"Ah Sneeze - Mia, it turns out that people can sneeze even if they say bad things to their faces."
"Sister, I didn't mean it, ahhhhhhhhhh!"
ps: I originally wanted to insert a paragraph in the middle: "Baidu fights to break the sky, let's beat it by hand"
By the way, although I want to withdraw from Tieba, but I don¡¯t have an ecf invitation code, so I can only collect information in the eve bar for the time being Please find a usable ecf invitation code
I want something that works! Don't fool me with used ones!
In addition, I found that the legion I added seemed unreliable, and I asked a strong legion to take it in ==
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