After a moment of silence, the banks of the canal were boiling again!

Residents and workers in the docklands were celebrating the victory, and many oak wine glasses fell into the river in a graceful arc, rising and falling over the water.

The cheers of the audience gradually turned into two words:

"Docklands!Jacques!Docks!Jacques!Jacques!Jacques!Jacques!Jacques!Jacques

Jacques, the little hero of the docks, did not escape the fate of being lifted by a group of big men, who were lifted up by the big men of Bronco, held high above his head, and thrown back to the docks when the two boats met.

The eight finalists converged under the inner city walls, waiting for the Count's speech and awards.

Jacques stood on the bow platform, looking proudly at Alyssa and Emma, his right hand clenched into his left chest and the two girls returned the salute.

Jacques looked up and saw Lily in the golden dress lying on the railing of the high platform without a ladylike appearance, waving to him. Jacques clasped his hands around his mouth and shouted:

"Master!"

Lily also said loudly, "Jacques!"

"Master, am I angry?"

Lily embarrassedly replied, "It's okay!"

"What's the reward?"

Lily: "......"

The highlight moment of "Hum ......" Jacques ended here, and the Count's voice came from the source stone loudspeaker:

"Today, on the annual Guardian Virgin's Day, we, the people of Port Mousse, come together to celebrate our own festival.

The origin of this festival, the legend of the Eve Saint, we in Port Mousse know that without this Port Mousse canal, Mousse would always be a small city with an empty harbor but no function. It was the Lady of Eve who led the people to build this canal, and it can be said that the canal was the lifeline for Mousse to become the largest city in the south.

Our Obelisk, which awakens fewer transcendents each year than Pris, less than Casares, and even less than Erin, and our Obelisk in the Southern Five Cities has the fewest awakened people!

But we are the richest city in Castile!

But!

Canals can't be built anywhere, they need to have a water system, and they depend on the terrain, so I won't say much about them.

What I want to say is, starting today!

Today, we people of Port Mousse want to create a new canal that can flow through the whole of Castile, a canal that can flow to the imperial capital, and a canal that can flow to the whole empire!"

Harrison said behind Jacques, "Lazy Karl, are you getting high today?"

On the high platform, the Earl continued to speak excitedly, and his fat face turned red from excitement:

"Prosperity is caused by the flow of goods, the flow of goods, and the flow of people! What we need to do now is to make things flow, let people flow!

Imagine if you were to leave for the Rand today. To walk, you have to walk for at least 15 days, and you can only bring 20 pounds of goods except for the necessities you carry. If it's a horse-drawn carriage, 5 days! 300 pounds of cargo. Steam car, 3 days, 100 pounds of cargo. Steam wagons had to carry coal, and they didn't carry as much cargo as horse-drawn wagons.

So if I give you a way, from Moussey to Rand, as long as one day and one night, you can leave this morning and arrive tomorrow morning, and the goods, hehe, you can bring as much as you can, and you can send 100,000 catties at a time!"

"This can't be!" said someone in the crowd, ignoring the count's majesty.

The Count chuckled:

"When my grandfather invented the nautical formation, many people said the same, and when his fleet reached the New World and returned with a full load, some people said it was a hoax!

What is the Baptiste family famous for?

I can't invent it, but my son can!

Let me introduce my son Robert Baptiste and his new invention – the train!"

When Jacques heard the word "train", he struck a spirit, isn't this what Fat Orange told the story?

On this day, the residents of Port Mousse witnessed a historic moment, the Earls Court actually quietly built a railway from Broncou to the docks, until the steam locomotive dragged six carriages into the city with white smoke, arrived at the platform in the dock area, people knew that this road that had been repaired day and night in the past month was originally a railway dedicated to running trains.

However, this is not the first railway in history, as early as half a year ago, the Earl's Court began to build a railway from the coal and iron mines of the Roa Mountains to the industrial town of Branco, which was opened to traffic a month ago. Raw materials such as coal and iron can be transported to the plant at a lower transportation cost.

Another historic event was the fact that on this day, the first railway company was founded, and the shares of the railway company were put on sale on the stock trading floor of Port Mousse.

Stock trading was something Lee Baptiste had come up with back then, and it was not popular in Castia, with only about 20 joint-stock companies and a trading scale of more than 100,000 silver coins.

However, the walls bloom inside and the walls are fragrant, and the stocks are very popular in Stuart, and the stock exchange in Lendinium, there are thousands of companies, and the daily trading commissions reach hundreds of thousands of silver coins.

On the first day, the shares of the railroad company were snatched up like crazy, and one lucky person bought a hundred shares of the railroad company, sold them at five times the price, and walked out of the trading floor with thousands of silver coins to enjoy life.

The reason for the surge in the railroad company's stock price was that after Robert showed the train, he announced a plan to build a railway. The Port Mousse Railway Company will build a rail network between the five southern cities and a direct passenger and freight railway to Rand, the capital of the Duchy of Castia.

Robert also gushed in the VIP area to introduce the railroad and trains to the leading figures of Port Mousse and the nobles of the surrounding towns, planning a vision and raising funds.

Lily quietly leaves, finding Jacques at the food stall feasting. Two young girls, Alyssa and Emma, are also there, slowly tasting the famous fish cake in Port Mousse. In front of Jacques, there were five empty bowls of seafood soup, hundreds of skewers of roast mutton and fried fish cakes, and when he saw Lily smiling, Jacques hurriedly said: "Great! Master Lily, you can count it, I knew you were coming, borrow 1,000 livres, I have eaten all the money on us, and there are still a lot of unsettled!"

Lily was glad to come, but Jacques was immediately discouraged, so she took out two silver coins from her small handbag and handed them to the shopkeeper, asked for some snacks, and ate them with the apprentice and Emma.

Emma noticed Lily's new hairstyle and asked, "Mentor Lily, why is your hair curly?"

Lily said proudly: "This is the latest popularity of Rand, I heard that it came from the imperial capital, this is called perm curly hair, is it good-looking?"

Emma nodded, "Beautiful!"

Alyssa grabbed her short hair, which was not as long as Jacques's messy hair, and sighed to herself, determined to keep it long.

Lily said, "Then I'll see if the barbershops in the inner city have learned to perm hair, and I'll take you with me next time." ”

Jacques stuffed his mouth full of meat, but still tried to say: "Emma, don't burn, it's like a bunch of springs, it's ugly!"

"You...... I'm ugly, am I?" Lily slapped the table.

"Ah, master, I was wrong! I didn't mean that......"

Jacques, the little hero in the docks, enjoys the care from Master Lily, "Caring for You Brand Electrotherapy Massage".