Act 270 The Strangeness of the Black Rock Kingdom
After leaving the Qingquan Mine, Bai Gang and his party rushed directly to Yunfeng City, arriving just five days before the wedding.
Then comes the hectic wedding process.
Bai Gang is like a marionette at the mercy of others, it feels like he is playing with a dress-up Barbie doll, of course, he is the one who is being played.
With the concerted efforts of both Yunfeng City and Stormwind City, a wedding with otherworldly wind and Chinese style was finally successfully completed.
It's like surviving in the wild for half a year, and after surviving the wedding process, Bai Gang finally survived the last day of the dinner.
Whether it's another world or Earth, weddings inevitably have to entertain guests with great fanfare, and similarly, as the protagonist of this day, Bai Gang also needs to talk to the many guests who came to the wedding with Syrne.
At first, Bai Gang didn't feel anything wrong, but when they came to the guests of the Black Rock Kingdom, which was only separated from the Divine Duze Empire by an echo canyon, they frowned.
He didn't see any guests from the other six kingdoms of the Southern Seven Kingdoms except for the Black Rock Kingdom!
Although because of the long distance and the fact that the newly rising Stormwind City is not well-known in the Seven Southern Kingdoms, it is normal for the Seven Southern Kingdoms not to send any heavyweights to attend the wedding, but it is very strange that there is not even a single person except the Black Rock Kingdom!
This does not at all correspond to the most basic rules of conduct among the aristocracy!
According to Bai Gang's understanding, unless there is a feud between the nobles of Anglia, the neighboring nobles will always send people of equal class to congratulate them when they have a happy event, and if they don't go, they will be considered stingy, which is related to the face of the nobles!
Moreover, the land area of the newly established Principality of Black Thorns is about the same as that of the smaller countries in the Seven Southern Kingdoms, so the kings of the south don't care about such a major change of power!? It's incredible!
Even if it is difficult to affect them through the affairs of the Sacred Duze Empire in an echo valley, it is not a bad thing to know what kind of person the ruler of this new principality is, right?
Can a kingdom be stingy with gifts and manpower?
It's not strange that one king is brain-dead, but it's strange that all six kings are brain-dead! If they really have this level of ability, then how did those kingdoms in the south survive under the undead soldiers?
The envoy of the Black Rock Kingdom is named Stamford, the third prince of the kingdom, a delicate young man who is almost like an elf, full of arrogance formed by being in a high position all the year round, and always rejects people thousands of miles away like an iceberg.
"Congratulations, Earl White. Oh no, it's time to call you His Majesty the King of the Kingdom of Black Thorns. ”
Stamford's smile was so standard that it could be called the perfect demonstration of aristocracy, but Bai Gang still felt that underneath that smile was an undisguised contempt and an iceberg-like temperament.
"Thank you for coming, Your Highness the Prince. I wish you a pleasant stay in Yunfeng City. ”
"Of course, I will."
Stamford raised his glass and drank it down.
After the routine exchange with the guests, Bai Gang stood beside Cardion's father-in-law, who had become a duke.
"I'm a little curious why I haven't seen the emissaries of the other Southern Kingdoms."
Duke Kadean said helplessly: "We sent messengers to deliver messages to the kings of the Seven Kingdoms, but the people of the Black Rock Kingdom refused to let our messengers pass through Echo Canyon, and all the letters were forwarded through the defenders of the Blood Fortress, so there must be something wrong with it." As for what exactly is the problem...... We're sorry, but we don't know either. ”
Bai Gang's brows furrowed: "In addition to the six kingdoms that were absent, that Prince Stamford also had a strange attitude, didn't the Black Rock Kingdom want the Holy Duze Empire to stand in front of them to shield them from the attacks of the undead?" Why put on that perfunctory attitude? ”
"I've heard of Prince Stamford, he's that kind of personality himself, and a cold attitude couldn't be more normal for him." Marquis Cadean said, "However, since the people of the Black Rock Kingdom know the character of Prince Stamford, they still send him as an emissary...... I'm afraid this attitude is what they intended! ”
Bai Gang said: "In other words, it is very likely that the affairs of the other six kingdoms are also making trouble?" ”
"Quite possibly."
"That's going to be troublesome...... Bai Gang said gloomily, "I originally wanted to trade with the human kingdom in the south through the Echo Canyon, but now it seems unlikely. ”
According to the base's vision, the Principality of Black Thorns will build a railway through Echo Canyon to sell goods from Earth to the Southern Kingdom, and the base has prepared a lucrative transfer of benefits in order to get the Black Rock Kingdom to agree to this plan.
However, judging from the current situation, I am afraid that cooperation should be unlikely.
In fact, in the subsequent talks with Stamford and the others, they rejected all the requirements of the base, not to mention the construction of a railway, even the envoys appointed by the emperor himself must undergo extremely strict scrutiny before they can enter the territory of the Black Rock Kingdom through the Echo Canyon!
This situation forced the base to choose another way to go to other human kingdoms in the south - ships!
The width of the dimensional rift is limited, and it is not possible to transport ships directly to the Atlas, and even segmented transportation is difficult, and in order to travel on the Atlas Ocean, it is necessary to first build a shipyard on the shores of Jigokudani to build ships.
After a long period of hard work, the shipyard was indeed established, and it also started to assemble a ship using parts transported from the earth, but due to the transportation restrictions of plane cracks, the size of the ship is quite small, with a displacement of only more than 4,000 tons, which is like a small sampan compared with the ocean-going giant ships that often cost tens of thousands of tons or even hundreds of thousands of tons.
This size is simply out of reach on Earth!
Moreover, in order to make way for other construction projects, the shipyard's production speed has not been increased, until now there is only one sea ship that can operate in the entire Storm base, and it may be possible to add another one next month, but it will be at this level until the large steel mill in Jigokudani is established.
This is also the reason why the base is reluctant to use seaborne trade, it is too much capacity to transport parts of the earth to the other world to assemble sea ships, and it is impossible to produce too large ship types.
But now that the traffic line on the road in Echo Canyon is temporarily out of play, the base can only focus on the "small sampan" again, the traffic is less, but it can be used after all!