For the Church of Purifying Fire, the Yadi Ancient Canal is an extremely important water canal for them, because the area controlled by Purifying Fire has a higher terrain in the north and in the south. The main water systems here are all along the line of the Petain Mountains in the south. On the contrary, the terrain

The higher northern regions are extremely arid and water-scarce.

After the Purifying Fire Church settled in this area, it mobilized believers to build a canal. And they did not build the canal from scratch. They expanded it based on an existing local ancient canal into the current Yadi Ancient Canal.

No one knows when the ancient water canal that existed before was built or who built it. There is no information related to the ancient water canal. Even the building materials of the ancient water canal are being purified.

When the Church of Fire built the canal, it was demolished and used for the construction of new canals.

If the Purifying Fire Church hadn't specially built a stone tablet to stand at both ends of the canal in memory of the clergy who lost their lives while building this canal, and wrote the origin of the Yadi Ancient Canal on it, perhaps no one would know about it now.

The ancient water canal thing.

Although this canal is mainly used for irrigation of the land on both sides of the canal, it is actually also used as a canal. Before the advent of the railway, this canal can be said to be the most important in the area controlled by the Church of Purifying Fire.

A transportation channel, more than 90% of the supplies of more than a dozen religious principalities need to be transported through this water channel.

In order to adapt to the width of the water channel, the craftsmen specially designed a narrow but very long transport boat, and also cleverly designed a hook device, which allows these narrow transport boats called leaf boats to be connected end to end and connected into a single

A fleet of three or four people can make the boat move smoothly.

In addition, in order to allow ships to pass smoothly on the canal, a dock manager stationed at the canal by Purifying Fire at that time specially designed a sailing rule. This rule was that ships could only line up in a row and drive along the canal bank on the right.

It is precisely because this set of boating rules is simple and effective that some thoughtful people also put this set of rules on horse-drawn carriages on land, eventually forming the unified road traffic regulations now implemented in various countries.

The fleet that Leo, Sylvia and Penistan were traveling on belonged to the Principality of Ivis, a small principality located in the north. The entire principality had a population of less than 100,000, and it was such an identity.

The inland Duchy produces the best sailors in the New World. Almost 80% of the population of the entire Duchy is engaged in the sailor industry.

Because of this, after retirement, most of the sailors from the Principality of Ivis will come back to form a transport fleet and engage in the transportation industry in the Yadi Ancient Aqueduct. Therefore, for a long time in the past, the area where the Yadi Ancient Aqueduct is located

There is also a theory in the area that leaf boats were driven on the ancient canal. Eight out of ten boats were the boats of Ivis sailors, and the remaining two were boats of the sailor's son-in-law.

Although the number of Ivis transport ships has been greatly reduced due to various reasons, merchants and officials from religious principalities along the route will still choose Ivis ships when they want to transport some important supplies.

Because these ships are very safe, almost every sailor on the ship has rich combat experience. If they encounter thieves, they have sufficient self-protection capabilities. Coupled with the reputation of the Ives sailors, the chance of cargo loss is very low, or even lost.

Ivis will also compensate according to the price, so even if Ivis's ships on the ancient canal are reduced by more than half, the annual shipping share is not reduced at all.

Leo originally just asked the cleric in charge of dock operations to randomly select a fleet heading to Yodel, but he didn't expect that the clergy arranged for him to be in a fleet in charge of an old sailor named Ivis. This also made Leo

, Sylvia and Pennistan did not feel bored along the way, because the old sailor, under Leo's invitation and using some sales terminals, happily told the three strangers about his work in the past many years.

Life at sea.

This old sailor's name is Tap Shi. Like almost all Ivis people, he became a sailor on an ocean-going cargo ship under the introduction of his fellow villagers when he reached adulthood.

When he was a sailor, steamships had not yet become popular in the world. Most of the ocean-going ships on the sea were sailboats, and some were powerful ships built using magic and other magical powers.

When the old sailor mentioned the power ship, there was still strong resentment on his face. Without waiting for Leo to ask, he explained the reason. It turned out that the ocean freighter he was on was because he offended a man on the power ship.

The clergyman was sunk by the powerful ship at sea. Everyone on the ship died. Only he had better luck. He lay on a broken deck and drifted to a nearby desert island far away from the shipping route.

After that, he lived on that desert island for two years. He originally thought he would never return to the civilized world, but what he didn't expect was that a storm at sea blew a pirate ship to the desert island. In order to leave the desert island, he

Dao was forced to join the pirate ship and became a pirate.

Later, he stayed on the pirate ship for nearly twenty years, rising from an ordinary sailor to first mate. He also accumulated a lot of wealth on hand. Just when he was about to find an opportunity to leave the pirate ship and return home with his wealth.

When he arrived in Ivis, his life took another turn, but this time the situation was not good, because the captain of his pirate ship decided to have a decisive battle with other pirate ship alliances and the fleet of the Holy Alliance to control the old and new continents.

All benefits of this route.

This great sea battle can be said to be the battle that established the sea power in the world today. It has also been recorded in various documents in detail. Even the landlocked country of the Ott Federation has a large number of books related to it. Leo and the others

Of course I’ve seen it too.

In those books, without exception, they all wrote about how heroic and powerful the fleet of the Holy Alliance was at that time. With an overwhelming force, it easily destroyed the fleet of the Pirate Alliance, gained control of the routes of the New and Old Continents, and completely

The pirates were driven into the history books. Since that great sea battle, there has never been a large pirate fleet on the sea. A few sporadic pirate ships can still be seen, but they can no longer be seen.

Steamboats posed a threat.

Although I have seen a lot of detailed information from books, including personnel information on both sides, military strength ratio, fleet array, etc., these are not as good as the personal account of a person involved, and in Tap Seac, the person involved

The process of this naval battle is completely different.

It turns out that in that naval battle, although the Holy Alliance assembled ten divine ships as the main combat ships, and there were also many naval fleets from church countries, due to the chaos of command, the Holy Alliance fleets basically fought independently.

, there was 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. However, they have one advantage over the Holy Alliance, that is, they have extremely rich experience in fighting alone.

In ship duels, it is difficult for Holy Alliance warships to defeat pirate ships of the same size.

Another point is that the Pirate Alliance also has some divine ships that are not manufactured by the church. Although these ships cannot be compared with the church's divine ships in terms of power, these ships can use some extremely weird methods, and these methods are still there.

The role played in naval battles is far beyond that of church ships.

So when the war started, the Holy Alliance was completely overwhelmed by the Pirate Alliance. A large number of warships were sunk, and several of the Holy Alliance's flagship power ships were even captured by the pirates.

If the fight continues under normal circumstances, the Holy Alliance fleet will definitely be wiped out in Hainan. But suddenly, I don’t know what happened. The big pirates who initiated the Pirate Alliance suddenly turned against them and cooperated with the Holy Alliance ships to attack other ships.

The pirate ships that were originally allies were eventually betrayed by this sudden betrayal. Except for the ships of a few big pirates, all the other pirate ships were sunk. Most of the pirates died at sea, and only a few were captured.

He was one of the captured pirates.

Originally, the captured pirates like Tap Shih would be hung on the mast of the ship and die of thirst. However, a powerful man in the Holy Alliance took away all the captives and sold them to several southern plantations on the grounds that he had suffered heavy losses.

Become a slave.

After that, he worked as a slave in that plantation for almost five or six years, until a supervisor in a caravan from Ives was his nephew and recognized him at a glance, and the caravan paid

After buying his freedom, he returned to Iver and served as captain of the caravan's fleet in the ancient aqueduct.

The old sailor himself was not a talkative person, but after Leo used some small tricks, he seemed to have opened up some kind of knot in his heart, and told all his past experiences, no matter what should be said,

I still said everything I shouldn't have said.

The great sea battle between the Holy Alliance and the Pirate Alliance is a secret that should be buried deep in the heart. Although his words alone will not have any impact, if someone wants to cause trouble, his narration of the great sea battle is also likely to

It will become a source of leverage for others.

However, neither Leo, nor Sylvia, nor Penistine were particularly interested in that sea battle. Instead, they were all more interested in Ta Shi's twenty-year pirate career.

Penny's idea was very simple. She was thinking about the treasures buried on the islands. Especially after the great sea battle, most of the famous pirates at sea either died at sea or became prisoners.

The treasures she found became ownerless, and this illusion of wealth made her temporarily forget the pain of losing her last relative.

As for Leo, he pays attention to the various maritime experiences told by the old sailors in the past twenty years. Among them are very common plundering of merchant ships, maritime adventures, especially those related to geography, customs, etc., and of course there are also various things that still exist today.

Mysterious things that even the old sailor didn't understand. 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 deer the old sailor saw was the same as the golden deer he saw. However, after careful inquiry later, he discovered that it was another one.

The giant golden deer, because there is no castle on top of the giant golden deer, and the antlers of the giant golden deer are not golden, but as transparent as crystal.

For some reason, when he mentioned the giant golden deer in this world, Leo felt that if he took a boat out to sea, he might be able to see it on the sea.

On the other hand, Sylvia's concerns were more specific than Leo's. She was concerned about a sea adventure mentioned by the old sailor.

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 that primitive and unknown island.

Human Island, because there is a complete pier on this small island, and there is also a manor on the pier.

After that, they entered the manor to explore and found that no one had lived in the manor for a long time. They found some property in the manor but never found anything else. However, judging from the situation of the manor, the people who lived here left in a hurry.

, and left without even taking any clothes.

Because they felt that the situation on the island was strange, they did not live on the island. Instead, they lived on the boat and left after the storm passed.

After a night, the storm had passed, but the pirates who woke up found that the previous island had disappeared inexplicably. The place where they docked was on the sea. Looking around, not to mention the island, even a reef was missing.

No.

The reason why Sylvia suddenly paid attention to this experience was because when the old sailor was describing it, he also drew some scenes he saw on the island, but because it had been so long, his memory was a little blurry.

The paintings also look a bit fake, and among these paintings is the coat of arms on the gate of the manor, and that coat of arms looks very similar to the coat of arms 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 go to that sea area this time.

Leo had no objection to this. In fact, even if Sylvia didn't say it, he had thought about taking some detours during this voyage to the New World, because from the words of the old sailor, he discovered that the difference between the New World and the Old World was

The seas in the world are full of all kinds of mysterious things. The number of these mysterious things far exceeds the number of mysterious things on the land. It feels like after human beings migrated to the New World, the mysterious beings who create mysterious things in the New World have disappeared.
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