Scales of Eternal Order

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Archipelago province, main island city.

In such a city where everyone knows how to row and row, embarking and setting sail-the leap from land to sea-is a completely unconscious behavior, as easy as lifting one’s foot across the threshold of one’s own home.

Ferry across the canal; maneuvering two rows of small boats to the small islands near the main island; drifting in the night in the weird lagoon; fully armed fleet heading to the battlefield with the sound of the noisy horns; sailing to worship according to the seasons The large sailing merchant fleet in Golden Horn Bay or other enclaves in the city…

These are the profound and recurring experiences belonging to the citizens of the archipelago provinces, and they are their daily lives.

Set sail, adventure, interest, honor, these are the life guide of the archipelago.

Navigation is the capital they depend on for a living.

For nearly a thousand years, they had no other way of life.

The sea protects them, provides them with opportunities, and determines their destiny; hidden waterways and difficult beaches are natural barriers, so the city has always been safe and no intruder can enter this place.

Even Zagan Pasha (later named “Hadif”, but the archipelago still likes to use the original title of “Pasha” to call this noble family here) and “Khalil family During the war that lasted for decades, the main island city of the archipelago provinces was not approached by the enemy. Those crappy sailors who didn’t even know the number of sails could not find a safe waterway to the main island.

Of course, some changes have taken place in the main island city in recent decades. It gradually evolved from an island city rich in pirates and merchants to a commercial transit center.

It began to provide coastal ports with shelter from wind and rain for ships carrying cargo from various ports of the Medici Empire and various overseas enclaves, and far away from Yuncheng.

Wood, cotton, metal, weapons, seeds, and spices are all transported back and forth through these coastal ports, and various stories, inventions, and ideas are also spread during the round trip.

“It’s amazing!” A scholar who visited the main island city once said, “This place hangs alone overseas, but it is clear that pepper, cloves, pine and black oil are only produced in the southern part of Medici. , Pink rock salt… these items are actually in stock here.”

In order to create a better commercial transshipment center, the archipelago provinces have established new cities on many affiliated islands.

New cities rise from the water, like magically transformed from a swamp, built on a foundation of oak piles sunken in mud. They look precarious, but in fact they are as stable as old. Gou.

As the capital of the archipelago province, the main island city is no exception: on the basis of the original old city, several new cities have been built on the main island.

These cities are very fragile in the face of the fickleness of the sea.

However, these cities do not produce anything except mullet, eel, and salt farms on the seashore.

There is no wheat and wood, and meat is very scarce. They all rely on the support of the old city and imports from other places. If there is a famine, the city will be extremely fragile; its only role is to sail and transfer cargo, so the quality of ships is extremely important.

In the new city of the main island city, the largest area is a shipyard supervised by the Zagan family. Many archipelagoers who are unable to go out to sea either because of their infirmity or because they have no way to go to sea can only come to work in this factory to make a living. Apart from this, this factory has also collected craftsmen from all over the world in Ashes. According to rumors, there are still some migrant workers from different planes in this factory.

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“Five barrels of tar, all of which are the sharp goods purchased by the shipyard.” In a small alley behind the shipyard, a person dressed as a boatman was pulling a flatbed truck with five large wooden barrels and was talking with a customer In the transaction, “the lowest price is twenty silver Kate.”

The man he traded with had a shaved head and was more than six cubits tall. His temples were covered with full beards. His face had long wrinkles that had been eroded by the sea breeze, and he was wearing a sleeveless dress. Her sharkskin armor is covered with linen shirts and panties, and her feet are in seal leather boots.

Hardly need to think about it. In the eyes of the connoisseurs, this look is like a master who uses a knife to beg for life at sea-also known as “pirate”-Namen playing a pirate is no longer one or two times, never show up.

“Can’t it be cheaper?” Namen countered.

Even if the other party said “minimum twenty silver Kate”, if he really doesn’t bargain, that’s Lu Ji’s performance. After all, people who are accustomed to non-capital trading do not bargain when buying things. Can anyone believe this?

The man who sold his top-notch goods squinted at Namen, “Brother, I think you are also a sensible person. The spare materials in the archipelago shipyard are all first-class goods. Just these five barrels of tar. If you buy it back and melt it, it’s enough to apply it to a three-masted sailing ship. Twenty silver kates are only, if you can’t buy it, you won’t lose money, you won’t be fooled, you will definitely get a good deal.”

“Buy it. Leave him the gold goods and see if he can catch a’mouse’ hole…” A voice rang from the bottom of Namen’s heart, not someone else, it was lurking in the sea off the main island of the archipelago. Ques, send him a message.

Having explained to the top of the Chamber of Commerce that he will carry out the first wave of attacks, the young blue dragon will naturally take action.

Of course, he is not trying to sink the archipelago, but must be in order to Chamber of Commerce, which will soon occupy this place, to solve some hidden troubles—— Those drow elves hiding in the archipelago provinces, if allowed to occupy this place, will surely incur even greater disasters in the future.

Therefore, the first wave of Ques’s attack was to target those “ground mice”, and the young blue dragon would pour water into its cave. If you want to fill the water accurately instead of flooding the entire archipelago, the first thing you need to do is find where the “mouse hole” is.

Therefore, he will send the spy who will play the most pirate in the Chamber of Commerce, to fish in the shipyard in the new city of the main island: the power of the drow has penetrated into this industry.

Although on the surface, because the Zagan family arranged many professionals in charge of accounting, they could not embezzle the interests of the shipyard on a large scale, but it was easy to support some channels to resell the shipyard materials to make the difference.

Moreover, Ques also knew that those drow elves are now experiencing a gold shortage-the gold reserves of Ash World are not high, and most of them are controlled by the Chamber of Commerce, the scale of the eternal order that seizes the wealth of Dawei Shuer ; The same is true for gold that flows in from other planes.

Many spell Rare Items and weapon armors of the drow clan are made of pure gold. Their daily repair and manufacturing also require the magic metal such as adamantine. And if you want to make fine gold, you must have gold as a raw material.

Before, those drow elves had engaged in ghosts in Spat City and wanted to buy a batch of gold, but they were eventually confiscated by the Chamber of Commerce. Therefore, their gold shortage situation has become more and more serious now.

It is based on this point that Ques uses gold to carry out “entrapment” to find the hidden position of the mouse hole.