Chapter 308: The Watcher of the Loyal Burnel

When Bernell, a loyal servant of Edward I the long-legged, arrives on Liberty Island, he finds himself in a new world!

He saw an Oriental district that was far more organized and sprawling than London's New Business District...... I've heard that they've only been here for three years......

Moreover, the new city also has a magical tool that can print the appearance of the city on cardboard......

He saw a dazzling variety of magical goods, many of which he didn't even know what they were for!

The prices of those goods are publicly posted on the top of the goods, and they are surprisingly expensive......

He saw merchants from all over the world walking back and forth in the streets, as if merchants from all over Europe had known about it.

Maybe it's the reason why there is no import and export tax on commerce here?!

He even saw shops that specialized in selling weapons.

There were strange-looking knives, guns, and bows and arrows, perhaps all of the Oriental style, far more refined than those commonly used in Europe.

He'd even seen it himself, and it was definitely sharper than anything he'd ever seen!

Oh my God, those are weapons that only a general can wear...... It's anyone's choice here!

There was also a terrible weapon, a kind of pipe, and the guy in the weapon shop gave him a demonstration...... Oh God, a flame flashed, a puff of white smoke rose, and after a crisp sound, a hole was actually punched out of the stump in the distance!

There is also a short tube, which is also extremely powerful at close range......

A single weapon of this length and the ammunition they were equipped with cost a total of twelve silver coins...... But he can afford it.

He bought them...... Because he had heard that when the king led his troops to quell the riots in Scotland, he was struck by this weapon!

Maybe the Scots bought it here ?!

He tried the guy, but the problem was too deep for the two sides to communicate properly.

Well, that's a question for later.

What attracted him was the rows of tall conjoined houses behind a small hill, where a dozen tall chimneys were erected, billowing black smoke...... God, they've been burning that coal!

When he got closer, he found another strange coal, lumpy, hard, and covered with tiny holes.

He took a piece and was looking at it repeatedly, when he suddenly heard an angry roar: "This is a coke factory, don't walk around, be careful to smoke you to death!" ”

He could hear the roar with a Scottish accent, and when he looked back, several stocky young men were pushing two-wheeled carts, their faces and hands covered in black soot.

He didn't understand what it was, but he immediately hid the strange coal in his sleeve, smiled and nodded, and left at once.

He finally understood why those Orientals needed so much coal...... It turns out that they have been burning there in vain...... I don't know why, but there must be a reason.

There were a few other places where he could not get in, and the large wooden door was closed, but he could hear a strange roar inside, as if the devil was roaring inside.

He looked up at the tall chimney, the black smoke still billowing out...... He pondered the relationship between the roar and the black smoke, believing that there was a relationship between them.

He's been patrolling the industrial zone on Liberty Island...... Finally caught the attention of two men dressed in black.

He was stopped by the shouts.

He saw that one of the two men dressed in black was white, and he spoke with a Venetian accent.

He knew they were patrolmen, for he had seen mounted policemen dressed identically with the two of them when he first arrived.

In comparison, patrols in pairs account for the majority.

They all wore steel knives and rattan...... It doesn't look like it's easy to mess with.

In fact, he never figured out what the patrol really meant, and only thought of them as soldiers patrolling the streets.

Of course, he couldn't figure out why the soldiers on Liberty Island had so many costumes.

He answered the two of them honestly, and showed a piece of paper that he had signed when he arrived at Freeport.

The white patrolman asked, "Are you from London?" ”

"Yes, sir."

"If you want to buy goods, you should go to the shopping street...... If you want to find someone, we can help you, as long as you name the other person...... Our patrol department can help you find out. ”

"No, no, sir, I'm just walking around...... I love looking at the tall chimney. ”

"Huh...... Be careful, the carriages for transport here are fast......"

It's true that horse-drawn carriages carrying goods here are much faster than in other regions.

Truth be told, he had never seen so many four-wheeled carriages transporting at one time...... He could see that there were coals and stones of all kinds in the wagons...... And then there's boxes or buckets of stuff.

Well, there's no way he can fully figure out what this place is up to.

However, when he reached the farmland area on Liberty Island, he could see exactly what they were doing.

I didn't expect this place to be perfect for growing wheat!

And that kind of wheat is not like the tall stature of those Orientals, but is short and multi-grained...... He once counted the grains of a wheat plant, counted them, and chewed them dryly.

Well, the Kingdom of England needed such wheat seeds.

There were other crops he hadn't seen before...... But he found out that there were Scots, and there were French, and even England who planted there!

He whispered a conversation with an Englishman named Baum...... The guy said directly that he would wait for the end of the employment period, and he would bring his wife and children and settle down here...... For the wages paid by the Orientals here were much higher than those earned in the Kingdom of England, and the fields here were gradually sold to private individuals...... Those Orientals also seem to be tired of managing farmland.

The fellow also introduced him to other crops, and thought some were very suitable for the Kingdom of England.

"As long as England gave a fifth of its land to the kind of crops called potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn, no one would go hungry again...... Wheat yields are still too low. ”

"Thank you for having the Kingdom of England in mind...... Have you heard of the Scotsman's riots? ”

"I've heard of it...... I know we're defeated...... Those Scots are so annoying, we have to ignore them when we work together! ”

"Were the Oriental merchants who sold them weapons?"

"I don't know, the port is full of ships coming and going, and no one can figure out what they're buying and selling."

He gave up asking, this guy was just a farmer.

He looked at the entire farmland and found that the irrigation system was extremely well-developed, with horizontal and vertical canals leading in all directions...... He saw the spew-spewling iron creature that turned on its own, and it was the one who kept pumping water from the well into the canal, making it flow far away on its own.

The weather had been dry during his visit to Liberty Island, but it didn't seem to have affected the growth of crops in the fields.

The place he was most interested in was the shipyard here...... He had asked privately if the mountain of hardwoods came from the north of Europe, and the west of the opposite continent, where there were countless black slaves......