Chapter 1: Ella's Sword Technique One Hundred Styles (3)
In this way, sitting on the small warship arranged by the girl, Balar and Ural arrived in Gotland.
During the reign of Ragna, Gotland was the capital of the pirate kingdom. At that time, there were very few ships coming and going to Gotland, and occasionally a fleet of ships docked, which was also the pirate ships of lords from all over the country. Lords from all over the country basically only came to Gotland twice a year: once during the slack season, the lords gathered in Gotland to hold meetings to discuss the targets of this year's large-scale plundering operations; the other time was that after returning from the plundering, they wanted to pay Ragna some of the plundered property.
After Hestein took over the Pirate Kingdom, the capital of the Pirate Kingdom was transferred to Zeland, and Gotland was downgraded to the capital of Sweden. Originally, Gotland would decline a little, but under Ella's rule, it was more prosperous than the Ragna period. At the beginning, lords from all over Sweden only came to college to study under the compulsory requirements of Ella, but after getting used to the bathhouses, water supply pipelines and other infrastructure in Gotland, they were reluctant to return to their dilapidated territory. This situation was especially true after Ella attracted Almani's caravans and turned Gotland into a trade center for the entire Sweden. So far, 70% of Swedish lords purchased real estate in Gotland, and more than half of the year they spent in Gotland.
The prosperity of Gotland also attracted other lords of the Pirate Kingdom. Under this trend, Gotland surpassed the period of Ragna's rule and became the real political center of Sweden. In a sense, it became the second capital of the Pirate Kingdom after Zeland.
Balar and Ural disembarked at the port and saw many people busy loading goods on the merchant ship: air-dried meat, pickled fish, milk, honey wine, various vegetables, various soy products, as well as a large amount of bread and rye. Ural felt a little curious and asked casually: "Is Gotland's trade mainly exported food?"
The soldiers who sent them came heard this and replied: "No, the largest foreign trade volume is all kinds of fish, and the most profitable fur is the highest. As for food, it is too cold here. When the number of people in Gotland increases, they basically rely on imports."
"Then is this food..."
"These are to be paid tribute to the Hero King. He went out to sea for more than a year and then sent us news that he had found the legendary Wenlan, which looked even wider than the entire Eulapa continent! However, the place where they landed was in the north of Wenlan, and the climate was as cold as here. In order to continue exploring south, he needed more food. So now you see that we are loading food on the ship. We have transported two batches to Wenlan before, and this is the third batch."
Balar asked Ural in a low voice: "Brother, where is Wenlan?"
Ural shook his head. He had only heard that the new pirate king of the Pirate Kingdom took more than half of the pirate lords to the sea to travel west after two years of rule over the Pirate Kingdom, and then disappeared. Wenlan is a legend that is only circulated in the Pirate Kingdom. Many pirate kingdoms, including Ragna, questioned its authenticity, and of course, the Almani people had no way to know it.
"I don't know, it's in the west far away from the sea-"
The soldier wanted to explain with pride, but halfway through his words, he suddenly thought of something and shook his head repeatedly: "No, no, no, this is a confidential matter of the Pirate Kingdom, I can't say it."
But this only made Ural and Balar even more curious. Ural knew that the soldier would most likely not answer the answer if he asked directly, so he began to indirectly attack: "The far west? You have to sail on the sea for a month, right?"
"It's much further than you think. These ships have to go to Iceland first and then to Greenland. After two transfers, they can reach Venland smoothly. Even if you tell you these words, it doesn't matter. Iceland and Greenland are under our control and are not open to the public. Without these two transfer points, no fleet can arrive in Venland alive!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the soldier suddenly thought of something and changed his mouth:
"Ah, the 'Flying Zelan' should be fine. That ship is the same as the fortress."
Ural shrugged. He wanted to see if he could get some benefits, but since the soldier said so, it would probably be out of the way. However, this message may be sold to others at a high price in the future. As long as it is hidden too far and cannot reach the information, it is enough to say it is a rich new world.
The soldier also gave Ural and Balar the way: "The Alchemy Academy is in the southeast corner of the city, but it is a comprehensive university, which teaches engineering and mathematics, and alchemy is just one of the majors. The principal is the King of Sweden himself and is not here now. But if you just want to enter the school, just go find a dirty teacher named Gottfried."
As soon as the soldier finished speaking, a commotion suddenly occurred on one side of the port. People began to flee in all directions, and in the middle of the crowd, a monster squirting fire was rushing around!
"Get out of the way! Get out of the way!" The two pirates poked their heads out of the monster's belly and shouted at the crowd, "This thing can't stop!"
Ural looked closely and saw that it was not a monster, but a chariot with four wheels. Unlike ordinary chariots, it was covered with thick iron sheets on the top and bottom, and there were no horses in front of it, but a copper bear head that kept spitting fire outwards.
Before Ural could take a closer look, the thing suddenly slid on the ground, turned a corner, and rushed straight towards them!
"Hurry...Run!"
Ural pulled Balar to run in front, and the thing was chasing behind. The distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer. The hot Balard spurted out of the bear's head and shouted that his butt was hurt. Seeing that the car was about to run over from Ural and Balar, suddenly, it knocked on a stone. Although the stone was not big, it made the weird car overturn over and decomposed it into hundreds of small parts on the ground.
Two pirates in the car sat on the ground and touched their heads.
"What is this?" Ural asked with trembling lingering fear, "How did it move?"
"This is our invention, called a tank!" A pirate pointed to a high slope in the distance: "Push it down from there and it can move quickly as soon as it was just now! If it is on the flat ground, you have to pedal hard inside."
"You have to add a device to stop the car." Another pirate looked at a broken rope in his hand and said, "This is not a horse, you can't pull the reins!"
"The structure is also very problematic, and the strength is too low." The pirate picked up a part from the ground and pondered it carefully, "Would you like to increase it more?"
"Add to the point? Then I can't move! I have to let Malay!"
"Then you lose the meaning of iron wrapping! Once the horse dies, it will become an iron lump!"
The two pirates were holding the parts on the ground and discussing each other, and they made Balar and Ural stunned.
Chapter completed!