Just when Pia Gilardino was blushing and arguing for his own interests, Howmadt Suk welcomed a special guest.

Isabella is a Spanish shipwright, as an old unprotected cruiser, after a series of hardships and storms, she chose to become a businessman, and later in the long career of the ship's mother, she met several like-minded shipwives and opened a company together, and the business is getting better and better.

This time she had just returned from the United States, and now since the depths of the Atlantic Ocean are the territory of the deep-sea fleet, the southern Greenland route between the Americas and Europe can only be routed. It is close to the Arctic Circle, and the winter storms are so severe that it is almost impassable. And summer is also very dangerous, the ice floes in the Arctic Circle will drift along the ocean current, and the route is full of icebergs, and if you are not careful, the ship will be destroyed and people will die, so many people are unwilling and afraid to run this route.

Fortunately, she is a ship girl, and it is more convenient to modify her own hull to run the transportation by herself, and the hull of the cruiser is relatively strong, and she is not afraid of general ice floes. Even so, once she encountered a violent storm, the hull was blown off course, and then hit an iceberg, fortunately, the iceberg was very large, after the storm stopped, she climbed the iceberg, relying on a relatively stable space environment to barely recover the hull, and then luckily encountered a passing ship and was rescued.

Now, she is a veteran of the American route, and this time she came back safely and without any danger. Originally, she could have run again while the season was right, but she was a little uneasy by the fate of one of her little sisters, Rena Christina, who had rescued her from the iceberg in the first place.

She also knows this sister very well, this is an honest, trustworthy, strong and brave little girl. More than half a year ago, when Reyna happily told herself that she had found an admiral, Isabella was a little worried that Reyna might have been deceived. Later, Rena told her that the hull had been converted into a Des Moines-class heavy cruiser and had become a flagship, and she was a little relieved. She could feel that from then on, the little girl had been sending her every day with happiness, and the words were full of bits and pieces of her admiral's life.

But just a few days ago, Rena suddenly sent her a message, which was a farewell letter, and every ship's mother would send a similar letter to her acquaintance before returning to the sea.

In the years since her birth, Isabella has received dozens of such letters. But never once did it break her heart. Although Rena later told her that she was safe, she still had palpitations, so she decided to come over and see for herself how the little girl was doing.

Isabella trusts her eyes, and she wants to see Rena for herself. So when she was stopped by a patrol boat outside the harbor, she didn't tell the truth.

"This is the Italian Navy's Avielle and Camechia Neira of the Second Fleet of the Castle Guard, please identify yourself when you come to the ship!"

Isabella didn't care about the two small destroyers, but she still stopped the ship honestly: "I'm Isabella, the mother of the Spanish rover ship, the hull is a little damaged, and I request to enter the port to take back the hull for repair." ”

After a while, the two little ship girls climbed onto the deck and looked around curiously, and one of the red-haired sighed: "Wow, it's big!" It's a heavy cruiser. ”

Another blonde ship disagreed: "No, this is a light cruiser, you see how ugly this triple turret is, it is the Southampton-class of the British, fantasizing about the paranoia product of the 152 pipe defeating the 203 pipe, a more common road cargo on the market." ”

The red-haired shipwreck was not convinced, and said: "No, Admiral Xu said, the Southampton-class turret is one less than the Brooklyn-class, but the protection is basically the same, and it may not be advantageous to fight heavy patrols in the Mediterranean, but the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean are still good, where the sea conditions are bad and the range advantage is not great." Brooklyn and Sister Helena have said that they have defeated heavy patrols in the Atlantic. ”

The blonde one was disdainful: "Cut, I can't beat Sister Sissi anyway, let her in." ”

The red-haired one was a little impatient: "Okay, hurry up and check it out, maybe there will be some delicious food left when I go back, I asked Sister Ohama to leave me a few egg tarts, I don't know if they were snatched away by Barcellisa and them." ”

Isabella was not angry when she heard the argument between the two, the Brooklyn class was of course slightly better than the Southampton class, but she couldn't buy the drawings. In fact, the Southampton class was already the best blueprint she could buy on the market, unless she switched to a London-like heavy tour. But for a full-time shipwreck who runs transportation, heavy cruises are of little significance.

Although the two little destroyer girls complained, they checked very carefully, and finally gave Isabella a card: "Okay, this is your pass, take it, someone will see it when you enter the port, and you won't be arrested." ”

Ports with strict management will have passes, but seeing that the two little cute girls were about to get off the ship and leave, Isabella hurriedly asked, "Excuse me, where is the entry tax?" ”

Who knew that the two waved their hands: "There is no entry tax." ”

Now Isabella was surprised, not every town guard is willing to issue a pass, but the entry tax is what every ship lady needs to pay, each town guard is different, although a person pays not much money, it can accumulate a lot, this is a very important financial source for the town guard commanders, there is no here?

The red-haired little cute girl turned around and scratched her head embarrassedly: "I'm sorry, I forgot, this is only recently implemented, although we don't have an entry tax here, but there must be a consumption certificate when leaving the port, we call it an invoice here." ”

"Oh? So how much do you have to consume? ”

The other party said a number, which is about the same as the entry tax of the general town guard's house. Isabella couldn't help frowning, she thought that the other party was a change of direction for a clever purpose. At first, she thought she had met a good Samaritan, but when she went in, she saw that the other party's port was selling pebbles, hourglasses and other gadgets, and the price was extremely high.

The only difference is that this proof of consumption is almost the same as following up the Hong Kong tax, so how can the other party make money? Intrigued, Isabella asked the other party about the location of the market.

When she entered the port, she found that the bazaar was easy to find, because it was brightly lit. This made her frown again, shouldn't the lights be controlled? The bazaar is small, about 50 meters long. The street is quite wide, but there is no shadow of the shops on both sides, and there is a mess of building materials everywhere, in fact, this is a construction site!