Nearly thirty years ago, colonial missions supported by the Duchy of Stuart and the Duchy of Castile fought a war in south-central New World.

Even in the New World, the Duchy of Stuart and Castile never declared war, and the two warring sides were only the private armies of the colonial lords.

When they received the report of the battle at the Huerdo Pass, the two dukes happened to have a good drink at the royal palace banquet once every five years.

As a result, the two sides drank wine and enmity on the spot, and promised to control their colonial groups and divide the sphere of influence of the New World with the existing borders.

However, at that time, only the sphere of influence on land was determined, and the vast sea was still borderless.

A few years later, a number of privateers engaged in raiding merchant ships appeared on the routes between the Empire and the New World.

The profession of piracy appeared before the Age of Discovery, when pirates did not dare to go to the sea, and committed crimes in rowing galleys and sailboats near the coast and rivers.

But privateers were different, they robbed only the ships of hostile forces and were protected by their own warships.

Stuart and Castile each had multiple privateer fleets cruising the opposing waterways, and they were not only powerful but also well-armed, with some of the most powerful privateering fleets even boasting Galen-class galleons and dreadnought-class cruisers.

Privateer fleets can easily take down merchant ships and steal cargo, but they also have a natural enemy, the navy.

Ninety years ago, with the discovery of the New World and the beginning of the Age of Discovery, the empire found it necessary to build a navy, but because Gyeonggi was completely enclosed in the middle of the four regions, there were only canals and no seaports, while the seaports of Saxony and the Northern Regions were facing the East China Sea, while the New World was in the west.

With the support of the royal family, many attempts to sail eastward, after the disappearance of countless ships and the sacrifice of countless people, finally proved that it was impossible to reach the New World by sailing eastward. As a result, the royal family could only entrust Stuart, which controlled the western coast, and Castia, which controlled the southern coast, to form two naval fleets in order to form the Imperial Navy.

The empire's navy was controlled by the Grand Duchy at the beginning of its formation, using the Grand Duchy's seaports and recruiting local soldiers. Within a few years, the navy, known as the Tenth Legion, had split into two fleets, one for Stuart and one for Castia, and the order of the imperial capital was a piece of waste paper for them.

Since then, although the emperor has been appointing the commanders of the 10th Army, the commanders in charge of the navy do not have a single boat under them, and they take the money to retire in the courtyard of the imperial capital.

The previous emperor had exhausted the treasury and quietly built a fleet of more than twenty warships in the northern port of Norland, training 3,000 sailors.

The fleet made its way around the shores of the Kingdom of Light, through the South China Sea of Castia, and then sailed all the way to the northwest, and finally arrived at York Harbour, the northern colony of the New World and the largest port in the New World.

At that time, people thought that the era of the two major principalities in the southwest controlling the sea was over, and the newspapers in the imperial capital celebrated and sang praises of virtue.

Unfortunately, when this fleet sailed out of York Harbour again to cruise the seas, it never docked again, and everyone knew that it was the fleets of the two principalities that jointly annihilated this new fleet, and the royal family could only fight and swallow blood.

The royal family lost the sea again, so they had to bow their heads and continue to rely on the ports and sea ships of the Duchy of Stuart to communicate the colonies of Gyeonggi and the New World.

On the east coast of the New World, the port of Dora and the islands of Tara are haunted by privateers, and they can be robbed once in five voyages. Even so, trade with the New World was still a lucrative business.

The Qianyue Water Blue is loaded with machinery and equipment from the port of Moussey, such as flower binding machines, textile machines, and new small boilers, although there are not many of them, they are hens that can lay golden eggs in the New World, and this kind of cargo cannot be carried without a gantry crane in the port.

The old leopard captain specially prepared three boxes of silver coins to hide separately, in case he encountered a privateer, and took them out to spend money to eliminate the disaster, which was enough to be robbed three times.

As we approached our destination, the ship's chef was at the disposal of his stock, and today Captain Leopard's diner serves seafood risotto, served with thinly sliced and crystal-clear melt-in-your-mouth Castilla ham, and dessert is a sour blueberry jam petit four.

The old leopard was full of praise for the ham from the northern mountains, "This is the delicacy of the world, this time it is a wise choice to let Xiao Ali go to purchase, the salted meat I bought before is stinky shit, throw it into the sea, and the fish will not eat it!"

Lily smiled, "The price of this ham is probably enough for you to buy ten times the weight of bacon." I know that your crew is from the New World, but little Ali is from Castia, so he knows how to appreciate air-dried ham. ”

"Haha, Miss Julia, you're right, little Ali met me three years ago when I went to the imperial capital to run errands, when he was shining shoes at the door of the hotel, and also helping to carry luggage and call a taxi or something to earn some tips. I saw that the boy was clever and hardworking, and I happened to need help running errands, so I hired him. As a result, the matter was over, and he didn't want to give him severance pay, so he had to go to sea with me, and finally I let him get on the boat. ”

"So it's the Imperial Capital. ”

"He can't tell where people are, but he is literate and learns things quickly. Haha, of course it's not as good as your brother, Mr. Jacques is the smartest person I've ever met, and it's hard to learn the Heavenly Bell Method without two or three years, and it only took him more than ten days. At a young age, cultivation is already catching up with me, and you must know that I am a shaper who broke through in my thirties. ”

Jacques was curious: "In the empire, children have to go to school, at least they will finish the community school curriculum, otherwise their parents will be fined." ”

"That's in the Empire, there are no community schools, grammar schools, technical schools, and advanced source energy colleges in the New World, we don't have anything, like me, who was born and raised in the New World, if I am lucky, I can go to the private school run by the lord's house, and there are masters to teach me where I almost work, but in fact, most of them are blind.

This is why the people of the empire always look down on the origins of the New World, thinking that we are a little higher than the monkeys, just like the natives. Oh, sorry, you can't call it indigenous, call it indigenous. ”

Recently, with the old leopard, Jacques has seen a new world that is different from what Alyssa described, what is the new world like?

As night fell, Lily and Jacques lay on their bunks, Lily stared at the ceiling of the cabin in a daze, and Jacques looked at the bed in a daze on the top bunk.

Jacques suddenly said: "Speaking of which, I was also born in the New World, Medis, my parents eloped to the New World and hid incognito in Edith to give birth to me. ”

Lily hummed and said she knew, but she was thinking, "Elope...... Are we eloping?"

The deck and the passage of the cabin became noisy, with the sound of running, shouting, mixed with the reprimand of the old leopard.

"Something might be wrong, I'll go and see. Jacques put on his coat and rolled out of bed, opened the door, and just saw little Ali running through the passageway, and grabbed him to ask.

"Grandpa Jacques, the lookout says that there is a trail of privateers. ”

"It's the middle of the night!

I didn't want to meet a privateer, but I didn't expect it, but I still encountered it!