Chapter 39: The Wealth of the Fiji People
Early the next morning, when Shi Jiayan walked out of the room, it happened that Assi also opened the door on the other side. The two looked at each other quietly for a long time, and Shi Jiayan suddenly showed a firm smile: "Axi, let's also go forward to fight like the streamers, right?"
Hearing this, Axi bent his blue eyes, raised the corners of his mouth, and said, "Okay, I'll accompany you." ”
Hunting twenty beasts is not a very difficult task for the Demon Wild, and the difficulty is that the innkeeper asks for all of them. In the process of hunting, it doesn't matter if the prey is slightly injured, but serious injuries are definitely not okay, and he has to ensure that the beast he hunts back can continue to live for a few years.
After the rain had passed, the sky was clear, and at sunrise, as soon as the door of the inn was opened, I saw that Moye had returned with a few strings of fresh prey. Yes, just a few strings. He used long, flexible vines to tie the beasts he caught one by one, but each beast had only one leg tied to the long vine, separated by some distance from each other, so that even if twenty of them were tied to several vines at the same time, it would not prevent them from walking normally.
At the request of the innkeeper, Mono took the prey to the enclosure at the back of the inn and raised them in captivity as a reserve for future food. When I came out of the fence, I found a row of wooden stakes in the shape of a door frame on the shore not far away. To his astonishment, on the top of the beam, there were more than two dozen people who were tied up by ropes.
Puzzled, Mono asked the innkeeper who was locking the fence door, "That's the Lepelian people from last night, why are they hanging upside down on the beach?"
The innkeeper replied without raising his head: "For demonstration." ”
Soon, Moye and Priest Sirwin received an affirmative reply from Scarney, and they were finally able to set off for the Sirvenian Forest. After all, the Colosseum of the Sava Eva has been destroyed by the Streamers, and all the beasts in it have been released, and the Sava Clans, who have lost their daily entertainment and have excess energy, will definitely not let go of this opportunity to challenge the Streamers. Next, they are afraid that they will devote all their energy to the battlefield. However, now that I think about it, this war is not meaningless for the current streamers. For in the meantime it would have been possible to draw at least the attention of the Savoieans, and the many eyes and ears of the Lepelians on the western continent, to the south, so that the Fitans of the western seas could quietly move a large number of shipwrights to Honia in the north.
After the end of the war, the Sava Men will recuperate for a period of time, which will be very valuable to the Streamers, so that they can quickly set off from the interior to Honia in the north while the Sava Men have collected their troops and returned to Solong by boat along the coast. In fact, Honia is the closest place to the Eastern Continent in the Western Continent, which is one of the main reasons why Mono would recommend building a ship here in the first place.
After that, whether the Savoyard people find out or not, they should not be able to move north in a big way in a short time. Because the northern road is far away, and the climate in Honia in winter is humid and cold, it is not easy to march, and if the Sava people are not fully prepared, they will definitely not rush north, so the streamers also have enough time to wait for the Fidney to build all the ships. Although it is uncertain at this time, if the Sava Elite had learned in advance that the Streamers would be moving to the Northlands, or even leaving the Western Continent, they would have wasted their efforts to go to war at this time. However, it was not so much to quietly move to the Northlands as to guard against the Levarians in the Eastern Continent. Because, if the streamers want to avoid some unnecessary wars, they must find a way to land on the Eastern Continent unprepared, at least before setting sail from the Western Continent, they must not let the Lai Peilian people in the Eastern Continent be aware of it.
Looking at the backs of Moye and Sylvan Priest drifting apart, Shi Jiayan couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "The Streamers are really a great race, even if they have been exiled from the other world for thousands of years, they have never given up the belief of returning to their homeland. Even after thousands of years of war, there is not the slightest shadow of hatred in their eyes, and their soul realm is at a height that we can hardly reach in our lifetimes. More than 1,000 years ago, if the Fiji people had resisted bravely, I don't know what the situation would be like today...... Unfortunately, there are no ifs. ”
But at this time, Shi Jiayan didn't know that in the language of the streamers, there were no words related to the concept of "hatred", and the cultural differences between the streamers and the Lai Peilian people were not exaggerated to describe the difference. Words such as "revenge", "shame", "betrayal", "hero", "kindness", "sacrifice", "class", "country", etc., do not exist in the streamer's language, and there are almost no such emotions in the soul of the streamer. In fact, it was only after learning the Lepeilian language that the streamers gradually understood the meaning of this kind of Lepeilian language. However, they still can't understand the Lepeilian people's attachment to hatred and other negative emotions, just as the Lepeilian people can't understand the love that the streamers have for nature. On their homeland, the Streamer Star, the Streamer people experience their own unique sense of existence in the process of peaceful coexistence with other life forms. The races living in the world of Lei Peilian use the rule of "the law of the jungle" to exclude dissidents, and strive to expand their own race and improve their competitive advantage and superiority. Therefore, it is not surprising that two races with very different ideologies find it difficult to understand each other's thoughts and behaviors.
Hearing Shi Jiadi's emotion, Assi lowered his head and looked at her side face, and said, "Isn't the Streamer giving us a good opportunity now? When the shipwrights come, let's take this opportunity to create a new Fiji City in Honia." This is what you have always wanted, but it has been fulfilled in advance, isn't it?If the Savoyard people dare to climb over the Essetti Mountains to drive us, I will accompany you to the Solong, so that the Savoyard people will understand once and for all that if the Fiydons had not discovered the Western Continent, they would not be alive now. ”
Hearing this, Shi Jiayan suddenly brightened up, and then smiled: "Ha, you are right! Whether it is a thousand years ago or today, what the Lepeilian people can take away from us is actually just some things outside the body, and the most valuable treasure of the Fijian people is the 'brave heart'. If we can conquer the vast ocean, why can't we conquer a small piece of land?"
Indeed, maybe they are not just trying to help the streamers, but more to take the opportunity to encourage themselves to be brave enough to win a hopeful future, and both of them know this.
As early as more than 1,000 years ago, when the Lepeilian nobles in the central region of the Eastern Continent were still fighting in all directions and were deeply involved in the battle for land resources, the southern seafaring people, the explorer-loving Fiji people, had mastered rich seafaring knowledge and the most advanced shipbuilding technology at that time, created great wealth, and discovered the existence of the Western Continent for the first time. But unfortunately, later the wealth was robbed and expelled from their homeland, and the Fiji people at that time had no power to fight back, and since then they can only drift on the sea.
In ancient times, the Lepeilian people of the Eastern Continent always shy away from the sea. Because the rough seas made their own biological limitations more obvious in the face of natural forces, and aroused the deep fear and inferiority complex of the arrogant Lepelian people, only the controllable land was regarded by them as the most precious resource for survival. Therefore, the nobles of the central region of the Eastern Continent did not attach any importance to navigation, and their knowledge of geography and navigation was quite scarce, and they were even far inferior to the half-bloods who later engaged in business.
More than 1,000 years ago, the only voyage of the nobles of the Eastern Continent was to follow the ancient Hill king Yiwan Sukaranna to the East China Sea in search of the immortal land full of gems. However, after the death of Yiwan Sukaranna, the nobles of the Eastern Continent at that time could not wait to swarm and seize all the power of the Sukaranna family, resulting in the complete collapse of the Guhil Empire, which had only maintained peace in the Eastern Continent for fifteen years. Coupled with the sudden natural disaster at that time, and the sudden alien "invaders", the nobles had to try to expel the aliens while they were busy separating their forces. Therefore, for a long time, the Eastern Continent was mired in a difficult situation. During that period of unusually dark history, the Lepelian people of the Eastern Continent completely forgot the brave Fijian explorers and the glorious seafaring age they had created.
It wasn't until about 300 years ago that the aliens finally withdrew from the sight of the Lepelian people, and the Eastern Continent began to enter a period of relative peace and only cannibalism.
In the past 100 years, since the half-bloods began to travel between the east and west to carry out commercial activities, the Lepeilian talents of the eastern continent have realized the benefits of sailing. Because they were able to obtain some rare items from the Western Continent, such as a leafless acorn worth far more than a hundred slaves, which was not found in the Eastern Continent, and could satisfy the vanity of the nobles and show their distinguished and noble status. Gradually, however, the nobles of the Eastern Continent could no longer be satisfied with the very limited goods that the half-blood merchants had brought from crossing the sea. They began to build ships vigorously, not only for the sake of the precious leafless acorns, but even to covet the western continent where the leafless oaks grew.
After nearly 100 years of sea exploration, it was not until about ten years ago that the noble envoys of the countries of the Eastern Continent were finally able to officially land on the land of the Western Continent under the pretext of "friendship and mutual assistance to jointly resist foreign enemies" more than 1,000 years after parting ways with the Sava people.
However, whether it was the Lepeilian people in the eastern continent and the Savoyard people in the western continent, or the half-blood people who did business by sea, their seafaring knowledge and shipbuilding skills were still far from catching up with the natural navigators - the Fiji people. After all, before they knew how to build ships, the ships of the Fiji people were already able to sail against the wind.
This is the main reason why Moye will find the Fiji people to build ships. When Moye was still in the half-blood merchant fleet, he often brought some wood, food, and other daily necessities from the land to the Fiji people at sea, in exchange for their help, so that the half-blood merchants could sail safely on the sea for ten years.