Chapter 1388: The experience of the old sailor

For the Church of Purification Fire, the Yadi Ancient Canal is an extremely important canal for them, because the area controlled by Purification Fire is in the north and south, and the main water system here is in the southern Petain Mountains, but the terrain is down. The higher northern regions are extremely dry and water-deficient.
After the Purification Fire Church settled in this area, it mobilized the believers to build a canal, and they did not build the canal from scratch. They expanded the ancient Yadi canal based on an existing local canal.
When did the ancient aqueduct that existed before and who built it? No one knows. So far, there is no information related to that ancient aqueduct. Even the building materials of the ancient aqueduct are purifying. When the Church of Fire was building a canal, it was demolished and used for the construction of a new canal.
If it weren’t for the Purification Fire Church, in order to commemorate the clergy who lost their lives during the construction of this canal, a stone stele was built on both ends of the canal, and the origin of the ancient Yadi canal was written on it. Perhaps no one knows at all by now. This thing about the ancient water canal.
Although the main function of this canal is to irrigate the land on both sides of the canal, in fact this canal was also used as a canal. Before the railway appeared, this canal can be said to be the most important in the area controlled by the Purification Fire Church. In a transportation channel, more than 90% of the materials in more than a dozen Principalities need to be transported through this channel.
In order to adapt to the width of the canal, the craftsmen specially designed a narrow but very long transport ship, and ingeniously designed a hook device, which allows these narrow transport ships called leaf ships to be connected end to end. A fleet of three or four people that can make the boat go smoothly.
In addition, in order to allow ships to pass through the canal smoothly, the person in charge of a wharf stationed by Purification Fire at the canal specially designed a boating rule. This rule is that the ships can only line up in a row and drive by the canal bank on the right hand side.
It is precisely because of the simplicity and effectiveness of this set of navigation rules that some interested people also put this set of rules on carriages on land, and finally formed the unified road traffic regulations currently implemented by various countries.
The fleet of Leo, Sylvia, and Penistan belonged to the Ivis Principality, a small Principality in the north. The population of the entire Principality is less than 100,000, and it is just such a body. The inland Principality produced the best sailors in the New World. Almost 80% of the population in the Principality of the Church was engaged in the sailor industry.
It is precisely because of this that most of the sailors of the Ives’ Principality will return to form a transport fleet by themselves after their retirement. There is also a saying in the area that there are leaf boats on the ancient aqueduct. Eight out of the ten are the boats of the sailor Ivis, and the remaining two are the boats of the sailor's son-in-law.
Although the number of transport ships of Ivis has been greatly reduced due to various reasons, merchants and officials of the Duchy of Churches along the route still choose the ships of Ivis when they want to transport some important materials.
Because these ships are very safe, almost every sailor on the ship has rich combat experience. If they encounter thieves, they have enough self-protection ability. Coupled with the reputation of Ives sailors, the probability of cargo loss is very low, or even lost. Ives will also pay compensation at the price, so even if Ives’s ships on the ancient aqueduct are less than half, the annual share of shipping is not small at all.
Leo originally only asked the clergyman responsible for the operation of the terminal to choose a fleet to go to Yordel, but he did not expect that the clergyman arranged for him to be in the fleet of an old sailor Ives, which also allowed Leo. , Sylvia and Petistan were not bored along the way, because this old sailor was invited by Leo and used some sales terminals together. He happily told the three strangers that he had been in the past so many years. Life at sea.
The old sailor's name was Tashi, and he became a sailor on an ocean-going freighter under the introduction of his fellow townsman when he became an adult.
When he was a sailor, steam ships had not yet become popular in this world. The vast majority of ocean-going ships on the sea were sailboats, and some were divine power ships made using magic and other magical powers.
When the old sailor mentioned the divine power ship, his face still showed strong resentment. Before Leo asked, he said the reason. It turned out that the ocean freighter he was on at the beginning was because he offended a divine power ship. The clergyman, who was sunk by the divine power ship at sea, all the people on board were dead, only he was slightly more lucky, lying on a broken deck and drifting to a nearby deserted island far away from the route.
After that, he lived on the desert island for two years. He thought he would never return to the civilized world, but what he did not expect was a sea storm that blew a pirate ship onto the desert island. He wanted to leave the deserted island. The island was forced to join the pirate ship and became a pirate.
Later, he stayed on this pirate ship for nearly 20 years, from an ordinary sailor to first mate, and accumulated a lot of wealth on hand, just when he was ready to find a chance to leave the pirate ship and return with the wealth in his hand. When he arrived at Ives, his life changed again, but this time the situation was not good, because the captain of the pirate ship he was in decided to fight with other pirate ship alliances and the fleet of the Holy Alliance to master the new and old continents. All the benefits of this route.
This great battle can be said to be a great war that established the sea power of the present world. It has also been recorded in various documents in detail. Even the inland country of the Haute Federation has a large number of books related to it. Leo and the others Naturally I have also seen it.
In those books, without exception, they wrote about how brave and powerful the fleet of the Holy Alliance at that time was. With the momentum of destruction, it easily destroyed the fleet of the Pirate Alliance, gained control of the routes of the new and old continents, and completely He drove the pirates into the history book. Since that great sea battle, there has never been a large pirate fleet on the sea. The sporadic pirate ships can still be seen, but it is no longer available to the present. The steamship poses a threat.
Although I have seen a lot of detailed information from books, there are even information on the personnel of both sides, the ratio of military strength, and the fleet array, etc., but these are not as good as the personal story of a person, and the person in Ta Shi The process of this naval battle in the mouth is quite another matter.
It turns out that in that naval battle, although the Holy Alliance gathered ten supernatural power ships as the main battle ships, and there were many naval fleets of church countries, because of the chaotic command, the fleets of the Holy Alliance basically battled separately. , There is no sign of cooperation at all.
As for the Pirate Alliance, the situation is similar to that of the Holy Alliance. Even the big pirates cannot command the ships of the small pirates, but they are better than the Holy Alliance, that is, they have extremely rich experience in fighting each other. Ships duel, it is difficult for the warships of the Holy Alliance to defeat the pirates of the same size.
Another point is that the Pirate Alliance also has some divine power ships made by non-church forces. Although these ships cannot be compared with the church’s divine power ships in terms of power, these ships can use some extremely weird methods, and these methods are still being used. The role played in naval battles is far beyond that of church ships.
So when the war started, the Holy Alliance was completely crushed by the Pirate Alliance, a large number of warships were sunk, and even several flagship divine power ships of the Holy Alliance were captured by the pirates.
Continue to fight according to normal conditions. The fleet of the Holy Alliance will definitely be wiped out at HNA, but suddenly I don’t know what happened. The big pirates who initiated the Pirate Alliance suddenly turned back against the water and cooperated with the ships of the Holy Alliance to attack others. The pirate ships of the Alliance were ultimately betrayed by this sudden betrayal. Except for those big pirate ships, all the other pirate ships were sunk. Most of the pirates died at sea, and only a few were captured, Tashi One of the captured pirates.
Originally, the captured pirates of Ta Shi would be hung from the mast of the ship and died of thirst. However, in the Holy League, a powerful man in the Holy League took the captives over and sold them to a few southern plants on the grounds that he suffered heavy losses. The garden is a slave.
After that, for almost five or six years, he worked as a slave in that plantation until a caravan from Ives had a supervisor who was his nephew, and he was recognized at a glance, and the caravan paid the money. Having bought his freedom, he returned to Iver and served as the captain of the caravan's fleet in the ancient canal.
The old sailor himself is not a talkative person, but after Leo used some small tricks, he seemed to open up a certain kind of heart knot, and recounted his past experience, no matter what he said, I said everything I shouldn't have said.
The great sea battles like the Holy Alliance and the Pirate Alliance are secrets that should be buried in the bottom of my heart. Although his words alone will not have any impact, if someone wants to make trouble, his account of that great battle is also very likely. Will become the handle of others.
However, whether it was Leo, Sylvia, or Petinstein, they were not particularly interested in that great battle, but they were all more interested in Tashi's 20-year pirate career.
Petunia’s idea is very simple. It is to think about the treasures buried by the islands, especially after the great sea battles. Most of the pirates with names on the sea either died at sea or became prisoners. They used to them. The treasures that arrived have become unowned. This illusion of wealth made her temporarily forget the pain of losing her last relative.
As for Leo, he paid attention to the various sea experiences that the old sailor told about the twenty years. Among them, there are very common looting of merchant ships, maritime adventures, especially those related to geography, customs, etc., of course, there are also various things to this day. The mystery that the old sailor hadn't figured out. For example, the old sailor once saw an extremely huge golden deer walking on the sea, but he, like everyone else on the ship, thought it was just a common mirage.
However, this experience gave Leo other ideas. He once mistakenly thought that the golden giant deer that the old sailor saw was the same one he saw, but after careful inquiry later, he discovered that it was another one. The golden giant deer, because there is no castle on top of the golden giant deer, and the antlers of the golden giant deer are not golden, but crystal-like transparent.
I don't know why when mentioning the golden giant deer in this world, Leo felt that if he went to sea by boat, he might be able to see him at sea.
On the other hand, Sylvia's concern is more specific than Leo's. She is concerned about the adventure at sea that Lao Shui handed to.
During that experience, the old sailor and his companions on the pirate ship encountered a storm. They were forced to dock on an unnamed island that was not marked on the chart, but they found that the island did not seem to be primitive. Human Island, because there is a complete wharf on this small island, and there is also a manor on the wharf.
After that, they entered the manor to explore and found that the manor had been unoccupied for a long time. They found some properties in the manor and never found others. It was just from the manor’s situation that the people who lived here went in a hurry. , And left without even taking the clothes.
Because they felt the situation on the island was weird, they did not live on the island, but lived on the boat and left after the storm passed.
After one night, UU read www.uukanshu. The com storm has passed, but the pirates who woke up found that the small island before it had disappeared somehow. The place where they docked was on the sea and looked around, not to mention the small island, not even a reef.
Sylvia suddenly paid attention to this experience because the old sailor also drew some scenes he saw on the small island when he was telling it, but because of the long time, his memory was a little fuzzy. The paintings looked a little fake, and these paintings contained the emblem on the gate of the manor, and the emblem looked very similar to the emblem of the Belmont family.
This made Sylvia think that the manor on the small island might be a settlement of the Belmont family in this world, so she asked the old sailor in detail where the island where the manor was located and its approximate location on the sea. , Depending on the situation, I should take a trip to that sea area this time I go to sea.
Leo had no objection to this. In fact, even if Sylvia didn’t say anything, he thought about taking some detours during this voyage to the New World, because from the mouth of the old sailor, he found that the New World and the Old World The sea is full of all kinds of mysterious things. The number of these mysterious things far exceeds the number of all kinds of mysterious things on the land. It feels like after humans have migrated to the New World, those mysterious existences that make mysterious things in the New World They are all transferred to the sea.