Coolant Ferry.

This is the upper reaches of the Reims River, in the middle of the Sun Mountains.

The Reims River came from the north, passed through the Sun Mountains, gathered the ubiquitous streams like weeds in the mountains, and after rushing out of the Sun Mountains, it was also a vast soup, stretching forward for dozens of kilometers before passing through the city of Reims and merging into the Sea of Stars.

Speaking of which, this is not a famous river.

Although it came from the north, from the Aar Mountains, which crossed the continent and divided the Noah's continent into north, south, east and west, it was also unknown before entering the Sun Mountains, at that time, it was just a nameless river, and from time to time it was cut off, and only a few small boats and fishing boats could gallop on the river.

You can't go big boats.

Therefore, it is impossible to choose this river channel from the north of Reims, and the final destination of the big ship going up the river can only be the Kurant ferry in the mountains.

When you get here, the Reims River will also hover in the mountains, like the roots of a big tree branching out countless root systems, and you don't know which one is the main root system.

Ships can only dock here, and then switch to the land route and continue north.

After passing through the long Sun Mountains, if it had been more than a hundred years ago, it would have been possible to continue along the road, unless all the carriages were engraved with wind runes, otherwise the journey would have been extremely long and arduous, at least a little more than a month to reach the imperial capital Bahrain.

In this case, it is better to choose the sea route.

Head north in Reims Harbour and sail along the coast, along the coast with lighthouses, even at night, and in a day or two you can enter the English Channel.

On one side of the English Channel is the continent of Noah, and on the other side is the island empire of England.

The narrowest part of this strait is only more than 10 kilometers, and legend has it that when the weather is good, ordinary people with super eyesight can see the land on the other side of the strait even if they stand on this side of the strait.

Even if it's just a black line.

However, the ships going north from Reims will not reach anywhere, which is the northernmost part of the French Empire, the northern exit of the strait, and at the southern end of the channel, the sea is still relatively wide.

Shortly after entering the Channel, the ship will dock in Orleans, the territory of Van Gaal Philippe's Philippe family.

After arriving in Orleans, he turned from sea to land, and took a horse-drawn carriage along the wide post road to the south, all the way south, and in a few days, he arrived at the center of the empire, the inland city of Bahrain.

Of course, in addition to this, you can also take a riverboat and continue along the waterway.

It's just that in order to control the floods, many rivers in the north have dams, and the dams can also be navigated, but it takes a certain amount of time to pass, and it is about the same time as taking the land route, although it is more comfortable and less twists and turns, but there are also a lot of boredom on the boat.

More than 100 years ago, most people who traveled from Reims to Bahrain would basically choose the second route.

If it had been a thousand years ago, this second road would have been the only way, because if you went north by land, you had to pass through the territories of many nobles, and basically, each nobleman would set up checkpoints and collect taxes, in this case, if the specialties of Reims City were transported to Bahrain, the price would have to be doubled.

The merchants of that era, especially the big merchants, all had an aristocratic background behind them, and on the surface, the people who spoke were just agents of the nobility, and basically, they had no status.

For business to develop, it is a joke.

After the establishment of the French Empire, because of the war with the southern Amurs, countless nobles broke their families and lost their territories, which also gave the Louis family an opportunity to extend its claws to the localities, so that there were two major administrative institutions, one was central and the other was local.

Local administrators, such as mayors and governors of a province, are appointed by the central court.

Of course, local governments also have autonomy, and as long as they do not violate the imperial constitution, local governments can enact their own laws and regulations, which is the power of the council.

The Council is divided into the House of Lords and the House of Commons.

The House of Lords can only be joined by the nobility, and the members have noble status, while the House of Commons is a wealthy family, represented by taxpayers, and the House of Commons has a large number of people, from which the statutes come from, and the House of Lords has the power to agree and veto.

There is also a game between the central and local governments.

Just like the mayor of Reims, he won't have the surname Leslie, he won't have the surname Alfonso, or even a southerner, this is some kind of balance, although there will inevitably be internal friction, but it is also within the limits that the empire can tolerate.

In short, at this stage, the power of most of the nobles has been suppressed, at least, they cannot control the life and death of the lords as unscrupulously as their ancestors, and their power has been passed on in a more obscure mode.

This transformation was accompanied by blood and fire at the beginning!

Many families who don't want to change have been wiped out because of this, among them, there are even powerful blue-blooded nobles, and under the general trend, they can only be crushed if they go against the trend.

Especially after the rapid development of magic stone technology, the society has also changed greatly, and the idyllic life of the past is gone, and the proportion of industry and commerce has surpassed that of agriculture.

This momentum began with the British Empire.

Originally, England was just a kingdom, and it is called an empire precisely because it was at the forefront of change and affected the whole world.

Now, not only Fran, but also Byrne in the north, and even the Rakshasa Empire, which is called the barbarians in the far east, has begun to change and is no longer resting on its laurels.

Only through change can we become rich and strong, otherwise we will fall behind, and if we fall behind, we will be beaten, which is an eternal truth.

In the past, from Reims City to Bahrain, no matter which road you choose, even if it is not hindered at all, it will take half a month.

Now, that's not the case.

If you choose the sea route, you can leave in the morning and arrive in Orleans the next morning.

There is a direct train from Orleans to Bahrain.

The so-called train, but the saying of the water blue star, the two are very similar, both travel on the laid track, both are long carriages, several carriages make up a train.

It's just that the powertrains of the two are completely different.

The aqua star was originally a steam locomotive, then an internal combustion engine, and then an electric vehicle, and the train locomotive of this world is powered by magic stone technology.

In the beginning, there were a lot of magic stones used, and the volume of the rune array was also quite large, but the power generated was not large, and often a huge locomotive could only pull one or two carriages of the same size.

Over the past hundred years, with the development of magic stone technology, the front of the locomotive has become smaller and smaller, the consumption of magic stones has become less and less, the volume of the rune array has also been greatly reduced, but the power generated has become more and more powerful, and it is not difficult for a small locomotive locomotive to pull the train composed of more than a dozen huge carriages.

The speed of the train is also getting faster and faster.

From Orleans, it takes more than ten hours to reach the imperial capital of Bahrain.

In other words, if you board the train at night, you just need to sleep and open your eyes and you will be in Bahrain.

So, if you depart from Reims, board a sea boat that night, and the next night you will be at the port of Orléans, from which you will go directly to the nearby station to board the train, and you will arrive in Bahrain early the next morning.

In other words, it used to take at least half a month to travel long distances, but now it can be reached in two days.

This is the best route, and as long as there is no conflict between the French Empire and the British Empire in the Sea of Stars, most people will choose to take this route, unless there is a direct train to Bahrain in Reims.

For the time being, the road has not yet been opened.

The Sun Mountain Range is too wide, and it is very difficult to build a track through the Sun Mountain Range, and it is necessary to build a bridge through a hole, even with the help of transcendents, it is not a simple matter.

However, although these difficulties are not the reason why this road has not been opened for a long time.

First of all, the Leslie family of Swan Castle was not in favor of building this train track in the beginning, if there was this track, the influence of the Imperial Center on Reims City would inevitably increase by a few points, and it was probably impossible for the Leslie family to build this road as it is now, and building this road is a bit like opening the door to thieves.

However, without this road, Port Reims would not have lived up to its name as the largest operating base in the south.

Goods shipped from the Far East or the New World would not be unloaded at Reimsport, but would continue north, to Orleans, radiating to the north of the Empire.

In this way, the port of Reims can only affect the surrounding area, and that cargo throughput is nothing to the entire port.

If this track had been built, the goods unloaded from the port of Reims could be transported directly to the north by train, that is, ships from the south would not have to go north, but only unload their goods at the port of Reims, and at that time, the port of Reims would have become the largest port in the empire, surpassing Orleans in the north and those ports along the way.

After some games, after compromises and struggles, the Leslie family reached a consensus with the central government.

They decided to build the railway.

Now, the railway is still under construction.

In addition to the steep Sun Mountains and the difficulty of building tracks, there are too many weird mountains that make it difficult to repair this railway if these weirdness can't be removed.

Therefore, Leo Leslie and his entourage appeared at the Coolant Ferry, they took a riverboat north to the Coolant Ferry, and then disembarked from the boat, and the group took a horse-drawn carriage along the ancient post road through the Sun Mountains, and after leaving the mountain, they continued to travel hundreds of kilometers to the southern city of Ghana.

There, there is a direct station to the imperial capital of Bahrain.

Originally, there was an alliance between the French and the south against the northern dynasty.

This Ghana is also one of the alliances, is a bridgehead against the north, with a castle fortress, Ghana's Zidan family and Leslie have always been friendly, the current patriarch Mason Zidan Archduke is Leo Leslie's comrade-in-arms, the two used to fight side by side in a legion when they were young, Mason Zidan is not an extraordinary, but a golden knight, and his combat effectiveness should not be underestimated.

Therefore, this time Leo Leslie chose this path when he went north.