Salander South Seaport, Morlo.

The fat man stood on one of the steps of the port, looking at the distance helplessly, the sea water has become particularly gentle and beautiful here, the sea water is almost still like a mirror, calm with a bit of charm. The hot and cold tides bring dense schools of fish to the sea water freely here.

Occasionally, a series of small white waves are left on the sea, and on the sparkling sea, fishing boats and merchant ships glide over the calm sea, leaving long traces of white waves on the stern of the boat, and the ripples drift in all directions, and then collide with other ripples, stirring up more ripples and circles, and it takes a long time to dissipate. "My lord, the coast here is known as the title of the Gold Coast," the port official Aurus next to him, pointing to the white sails in the distance, said, "During the prosperous period in the south of Salander, this is the most prestigious fish production area in Salander, and the annual catch of marine fish accounts for more than half of all production, the coastline here is very straight, there are many beautiful harbors, there are prosperous towns everywhere, there are busy shipyards everywhere, and the hot current of the sea brings a large number of large yellow croaker, Small yellow croakers gather here, and there used to be eight huge fishing grounds here, and at its peak there were more than 2,000 fishing boats.

Aurus's voice stopped, and he said with a bit of emotion. Salander southerners often say, here, you just stretch out your hand to the sea, you can catch a big yellow croaker small yellow croaker and the like, no need to trawl at all, although the big yellow croaker and small yellow croaker is very worthless, but for the fishermen here, each piece of fishing net pulled up, occasionally there will be a lot of rare fish, and this sea area is also the first place we arrived here to live, in the north of Port Morlo, is the most prosperous golden waterway in the south of Salander, from this coast all the way to the central coast,

Large quantities of raw materials and supplies were transported from the south to Sarander Kyoto in the center. It is then further processed there. It was then sold further north throughout Ikadiva. In particular, the spices that were abundant on the eastern island were very popular at the time when they were indispensable to the Icadivar aristocracy."

The port official's voice stopped, and he licked his lips dryly, he thought that he had spoken very well, but he still couldn't see a trace of joy on the face of this new adult, which made him feel very helpless, he only learned 2 days ago that an inspector was coming from the north, mainly to inspect the production of this year's fishing grounds,

For the identity of this adult. It was not very clear, but the group of black-armored cavalry that accompanied it undoubtedly proved that this lord was not from Salander, this was a soldier, and when he saw the inspector on his horse, his back was tired but straight as a sword, and Aurus, who was once from Mamunuk, in the south, felt this,

"I guess I'm here for the food for the army this winter!" Orus guessed, not someone who didn't know anything about the shape of the continent. It was precisely after the Falcon Empire obtained control of the south that there was no intention of blocking the news, and in the southern trading port of Moro, even a petty official like Orus who managed the fishing grounds. From time to time, you can also hear news about the continent of Ikadiva from where the merchant ships come and go, and the Falcon Empire is invincible on the battlefield. Powerful kingdoms on several continents have been destroyed one after another, and the territory of the empire is unprecedentedly strong.

Although as a Salander. Aurus can also feel a sense of pride bursting from his bones, toast to the Empire! In the port tavern of Moro, you can hear the sailors shouting like this from time to time, and Aurus will unconsciously raise his glass every time to echo,

Aurus was not a warmonger, although he was a Mamunuk, who had the glory of his ancestors, and he once wore impractical and gorgeous armor to show off to his companions, but the defeat in the war in the south made him change his mind, only after experiencing the history of being bullied, will he know that strength is not a decoration, but real iron and blood, what a longed-for and undesirable thing,

Aurus sometimes thinks like this, if Salander had half the strength of the Falcon Empire at that time, he would not have been bullied by the Normans to such an extent, the mountains and rivers fell, and hundreds of thousands of Salander southerners were driven into warships by the Normandy army like cattle,

The slave ships departed from Moro, and with the resentment and sorrow of the Salanders, one by one disappeared forever from the sea.

This activity continued for eight months, an eternal pain for the people of Salander, when corpses were sometimes seen in the waters of Moro who had been killed and abandoned in the sea for resistance, and the faint cry of the wind howling through the harbor could occasionally be heard in Orus. "The geographical location here is good, and it is rich in resources, why didn't the southern navy of Salander set up a military port here in the first place?"

The fat man looked into the distance with blazing eyes, and asked the port administrator Aurus, he came here this time to avoid the mentor Parschena, and there was another purpose, he wanted to check out the port of Moro in the south of Salander, which was once the birthplace of the maritime civilization of Salander, and was geographically closer to the strategic target Normandy, and it has very rich sea resources, if a military port can be built here, it can form a closest connection point with the Antolus that has just been occupied,

"Yes," said Aurus, with a somewhat gloomy face, "there are many natural harbors here, which can dock large warships, and the Salander Navy originally had plans to build a military port, but this plan was soon rejected!" "Oh, why?" asked the fat man in surprise, this is the best open sea port in any case

"Moro has an irreparable drawback, which is its proximity to the open sea, and strong open sea storms often sweep the harbor, and even the large warships owned by the former Salander Navy are often damaged in the storms, not to mention the smaller ones.

In addition, there is a shortage of timber for building warships in the mountains here, and if you want to get timber, you have to transport it from the far north, which is too expensive, and the resources to build one warship here are enough to build two ships in the wood-rich middle, which is the main reason why the navy gave up here in the first place."

"Isn't there a lot of timber in the south? Why is there a shortage of timber here?" the fat man looked carefully left and right, and found that the mountains near the port were indeed bare, and even if there were trees, they would not be strong enough for shipbuilding

"The sea breeze is too strong, and the trees are difficult to form at all," Aurus said with a wry smile on the corner of his mouth, "And the closest forest to here is the most terrible Black Forest, where it is the area of the exiles, under normal circumstances, who would dare to go!"

"Black Forest!" the fat man snorted, remembering that the Black Forest seemed to be the territory of the Sukhs, (to be continued.) )