Chapter 298: Inland wharf

Although the inland wharf is under the control of the French Empire, the control area around it belongs to the Inge Kingdom. The buildings here are also a large number of red brick apartments with the architecture of the Inge Kingdom. Most of the men walking here are Wearing an English-style tuxedo and top hat, the woman wore a folded lace fluffy skirt with a fishbone bracket.
After entering the controlled city of the Kingdom of Leo, Leo felt a sense of intimacy, which was the emotional memory left in the body by the predecessor. Leo did not resent it, but let go of the suppression of this feeling. , Let yourself experience this unprecedented feeling carefully.
For biochemicals, the term hometown is definitely not a good word, because returning to hometown means repairing or even rebuilding. Many biochemicals simply put hometown and death equal, even if they do not understand death in the end What is it.
However, at this moment Leo felt the nostalgia for his hometown from the remaining emotions of his predecessor, which also made him understand why the ordinary soldier who had acted with him before received an instruction to go home, his face would show up like that. expression.
Compared to the almost curfew-like night streets of the French Empire, the Kingdom of the Kingdom of England is much more lively, as taverns can be seen everywhere in this city. Except for some grocery stores on every street, the rest of the storefronts are all taverns. A large number of off-duty company employees and dock workers come to the taverns to relax at this time. A variety of cheerful and messy music comes from the tavern. , Making the street very noisy.
In addition, there is almost no horse-drawn carriage in the urban area managed by the Kingdom of England, and the street is driven by public rail steam cars.
In addition, the public steam car in the Kingdom of England is not only more than twice as large as the ordinary steam car, but it has also been raised to a level, so that more passengers can be boarded. As for this increase and increase, will there be any safety risks, These are not in the scope of the bus company's boss, they think of letting more passengers ride, they earn more money.
After walking a long distance on the street, Leo picked a steam rail car with few people on board, boarded it, and sat in the back seat. Because all the rail cars are around the urban area, he can take any steam rail car to reach the inland wharf.
The rail car is moving very slowly, and the thick smoke that is continuously emitted from the steam head in the front easily wraps the rear car in it. The person riding in the car has to take the exit cover and wear it, although it is not possible to do so completely. Isolate the dust and ashes in the steam, but this can at least give people a sense of security.
Because of these steam fumes, the streets of the Kingdom of England are like clouds. Everyone walks in the fog that can't see their fingers, and there are quarrels, shouts, music, and steam locomotive warnings everywhere. Bronze bells.
When approaching the port dock, the steam smoke gradually dissipated because of the sea breeze, and the passengers on the car also took off the masks. As the car drove to the road on the edge of the city, the driver sounded the whistle and reminded the passengers in the car. At this time, the passengers also looked at the sea view outside the window and the pier under the cliff.
The offshore pier on the other side of the city has long-term berths for large numbers of shipping vessels, so the pier is built wide, long, and large, all of which are exactly the same, and most of the land on the pier is given by large warehouses loaded with goods. Cover, look at the past, there is really no special scenery to see.
However, the inland wharf managed by the French Empire, because the majority of the ships docked here are small and medium-sized ships traveling on the river, the dock does not need to be built too large, plus freight ships only occupy all the ships here. A small part, most of the rest are private cruise ships and imperial warships, so the pier style here will be built separately according to the docking ships, and these different pier types have become one of the scenery here.
In addition, there are very few freight warehouses on the river docks. Most of the cargo ships from the land dock here for a while, and then drive along the edge of Venaya Island to the offshore dock on the other side to unload. The large plots of land that were supposed to be built in warehouses have all now become luxurious casinos and venues.
At the beginning, the high level of the French Empire argued for a long time about the use of this pier. Most people believed that it should be built as a military pier, specifically for docking warships, and used to contain the other who is also the controller of the Port of Vinaia. The two enemies, but the Marquis of Duro who was eventually appointed as the governor, came out of the debate and came up with a new plan to build this pier into a carnival city.
Facts have proved that this plan is very successful. In less than a year, this terminal has become one of the tourist attractions of Weilun mainland. A large number of tourists come here every month to gamble and play. For these tourists, the Governor’s Palace transferred several decommissioned warships from the French Navy, transformed them into large cruise ships, and set up special routes to receive tourists from all over the Velun continent.
When Leo came down from the car, he immediately gathered around a group of peddlers selling souvenirs from the port of Venaya. Obviously, these savvy peddlers could see at a glance that those people were tourists who had just arrived in the port of Venaya. Those people were Resident of Vinaya.
The hawkers around Leo asked: "I want to find a boat, a private cruise ship, and the owner is a distinguished French nobleman. His boat should leave tonight. Who can help I find it, and I reward one hundred Wieners."
These hawkers were immediately attracted by Leo’s proposal. Although one hundred Wiener was not a lot for Leo, but it was also the profit of these hawkers for ten days and a half months, they naturally wanted to get this reward gold. It's just that most of them don't know the situation of the terminal, and it's not clear what Leo is looking for, so they can only sigh at this bounty.
Some of the hawkers also had crooked brains, but their eyes showed that Leo was not easy to provoke, and it was not cost-effective to compensate themselves for one hundred viena dollars, so those crooked brains were suppressed by themselves as soon as they appeared.
"I know." At this time, a shoe-shine kid carrying a shoe box squeezed in from the crowd, raised his hand high, and said to Leo.
"Take me to you. One hundred vienna dollars is yours." Leo did not doubt that the child would lie. In his view, even if the child lie, it does not matter. The other party will definitely know the ground snake in the dock area. As long as you find the ground snake and ask, you can also know the information you want.
"One hundred is not enough, I want two hundred." The child could see that the hawkers around didn't know the information Leo wanted, so he sat on the floor and said the price.
"Yes." Leo did not bargain and agreed to the price.
"Come with me." In the envious eyes of everyone, the child led Leo down the steps to the dock area below, and then through a shop selling souvenirs. Some of them walked past two casinos and came to the dock.
Afterwards, the child asked Leo to wait for a while, he climbed to a lookout pavilion beside the road, scanned the boats docked on the pier, and quickly found the target.
After getting off the lookout pavilion, he led Leo toward the only west side, near the French Empire Military Pier, a high-end pier specializing in personal cruise ships, and ran over, but when he was about to approach the pier, he was stopped by the security of the pier. After they came down, they were not allowed to come closer.
To this end, the child took Leo to the second floor of a fishing tackle shop next to the road, then pointed to a white sailboat docked at the pier without any steam machinery and said, "That's it, the vessel you're looking for That is the one."
"Who is the owner of that ship?" Leo asked Shen when he looked at the ship.
The child was a little dissatisfied with Leo’s failure to pay immediately, and there was also a little worry in his eyes. It seemed that he should be worried that he would not get the reward.
Although he was a bit worried, he still told what he knew.
The original information about the beautiful white sailing ship was inadvertently heard by the child from the conversation of the shoe-shine guests, who were the managers of the pier.
The white sailing ship belonged to the private ship of the Minister of Finance of the Emperor of France. It was the son of the Minister of Finance who drove the ship to the port of Vinaya. After another hour, the ship left the port and sailed back inland. In addition to the information about the ship, the child provided an important piece of information, that is, the relationship between the son of the finance minister and the son of the governor was very poor, almost to the point of incompatibility.
"Good! The news you provided is very good." After listening, Leo reached out and touched the child's head, and then wrote a cash check of three hundred virgin dollars and gave it to the child.
When the child saw that there was an extra one hundred vienna dollars, he was overjoyed and ran downstairs with the wooden box, but he ran halfway, and as if he had thought of something, he went back upstairs and turned towards Leo Asked: "Sir, do you want to know where the finance minister's son is now?"
"Have you seen the finance minister's son?" Leo questioned.
The child nodded and said, "It was not long ago that the finance minister's son was sitting at the little Tom's booth and was cleaning shoes. I was right next to it."
Leo asked again: "How do you know that it is the son of the finance minister?"
The child shrugged and pretended to say: "Don't know the rich noble lords in our business, but we must know that the competition in our business can be fierce. If you don't pay attention, the guests will be snatched away. ."
Leo smiled and thought for a moment, Shen Sheng asked: "Since you know the finance minister's son, did you see a cat ornament on his body?"
The child shook his head and said, "The cat pendant did not see it, but there was always a black cat beside him."
"Black cat." Leo heard this answer, a smile appeared on his face, and wrote a cash cheque of one hundred vena dollars to the child, and then signaled that the child could leave, and increased the tone to remind the child not to Tell others about his inquiry into the son of the finance minister.
The child who had received another one hundred vienna dollars ran downstairs happily, and after running a distance, he stopped again, as if thinking of something, and then he looked surprised: "Yes! I You can sell this news to the noble master, and he should also give a lot of money."
Thinking of this, the child took a big step and ran towards the other side of the pier. It took more than ten minutes to reach a cargo terminal and quickly came under a cargo ship.
At this time, the guard guarding the cargo ship stopped the child and said, "Go, little mouse, is this where you should come?"
"I have important information to sell to Sir Richard Weston." the child shouted immediately.
Naturally, the security guards did not believe that a little shoe-shining guy on the pier would know any important information, so he was ready to drive the child away.
"Wait!" At this time, a noble young man with gorgeous clothes and a black cat standing on his shoulders came down from the cargo ship and came to the child and said, "What important information do you want to sell me?"
"Very important information," the child smiled when he was attracted to his goal, and said, "However, I want to know how much you are going to pay for this information?"
Richard Weston smiled, not paying attention to the offending behavior of the child, and said: "It's really a greedy kid! However, I like your greed, as long as your information is really useful to me, I will show One hundred gold as a bounty."
The child was immediately attracted by the huge bounty of the one hundred gold flange, and he didn't think about it directly.
Hearing the child's words, Richard Weston did not fail to pay the bill. He directly ordered the servant next to him to take out a 100-gold-flanged gold ticket and handed it to the child. After thinking for a while, he immediately returned to the cargo ship.
"Sir, why are you back?" The owner of the cargo ship was counting the cargo on the ship~EbookFREE.me~ When he saw Richard Weston returning to the ship, he was stunned.
Richard Weston said: "Don't you want to see my father? You sail now and leave the port of Vinaya, I will introduce you and my father to know, and can even talk about your affairs customer."
Hearing Richard Weston’s words, the owner could not help but stunned. At first, he thought that Richard Weston was playing with himself. After all, he had not been able to persuade the other party, but he could turn around. The head of the other party offered to cooperate, which would make people feel weird.
However, he thought about it and remembered Richard Weston's personality and credit in the French aristocratic circle, and he couldn't help but think that this might have a turning point.
Although leaving the port of Vinaya now will cost the shipowner a cargo, but the thought of if the transaction can be negotiated with the finance minister, let alone a cargo, it wouldn't matter if all his net worth was lost.
Thinking of this, the owner of the ship immediately made a decision and was ready to order the ship to sail.
But Richard Weston raised his hand to stop the shipowner's order, followed by a bitter smile, and said, "It's too late, it's too late!"