Volume III Chapter 48 The History of Navigation

Luna and Elidantina already knew each other, and the silver-clad Iron Girls with stars had seen Tina last time in the palace.

But this time there are a lot of different people.

One was so blond that it was so exposed that it could barely be revealed, her long hair was almost ankle-length, and the most conspicuous thing was her pair of terrifying twin peaks!

Born in an imperial family and having seen a lot of the world, Tina felt that her eyes were twitching, and in front of that incomparably huge size, all her breasts were paper breasts.

The golden woman's eyes were full of wildness, and she was 'playing' with the little girl she was carrying. ’

That little girl turned out to be a soul walker! With a pair of wolf ears and a wolf tail, a cute princess dress, and a puffy little face, she was trying to grab the golden woman's other hand, and a big tail kept flicking back and forth.

Behind Wang Wei, a woman who was almost wrapped in red except for her face and hands stood quietly, her eyes slightly squinted, and a faint smile on the corner of her mouth.

Tina was in a cold sweat.

It has long been said that this lord is a guy who gathers ruffians and hooligans, although he has long seen his ruffian side, and when I see it today, it is not a legend to say that he is a hooligan.

That's a fact-

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"Our scheduled itinerary this time is to start by land, passing through here, here and here, and finally arrive in the distant mountains, if you travel from the sea, you need to pass through three different sea countries, and these countries include the sea countries that have conflicts with us, and during the distant mountains council, we are not sure whether the sea tribes will abide by the peace agreement, after all, even if they do something, we have no way to investigate, our land navigation technology is still much worse than the sea country, so the land route should be relatively safe. ”

In the lord's mansion, Princess Tina pointed to the map and told Wang Wei the whole plan, Tina's consistent style is to do everything by herself, as long as she can do it, she will never trouble others. Now that the king had entrusted her with this burden, this time the entire travel plan was entirely made by Tina.

Different from what outsiders imagine, Tina is an absolutely erudite female talent, although there may be some gaps between her knowledge of astronomy and geography, but she has very unique views on the general trend of the country and some political issues.

"It's okay to go by road, but I've always had some questions, and you're here to help me out. ”

Wang Wei said to the princess.

"What is the relationship between us and the Sea Tribes now, what is the gap between our navigation technology and the Sea Tribes, what are the intentions of the Sea Tribes towards us, and whether all the Sea Tribes are closely united. ”

Wang Wei threw out three questions in a row, each of which was what Wang Wei was most concerned about.

"In fact, our relationship with the Sea Tribes is in a lukewarm period, and the communication between the Sea Tribes and humans has been in the last hundred years. ”

Princess Tina talked.

"More than a hundred years ago, the sea tribe that has been dormant in the sea suddenly sent negotiating envoys to the land, asking for trade with some coastal countries, before this, the relationship between the sea tribe and humans was very unfriendly, and many sea tribes tried to plunder human merchant ships or military ships to obtain resources that could not be produced in the sea. So that time the envoy of the sea tribe suddenly appeared, which made the human country also have a headache for a while, that is, at that time at the distant mountain council, the sea tribe and the human race after nearly a year of negotiations, finally demarcated the territory of the sea tribe, and agreed that human beings shall not cross the sea tribe's national border by sea at the same time, the sea tribe trade will be opened along the coast, including me, seven countries and the sea tribe have direct trade exchanges, and the sea tribe and the human race agreed that if there is any friction and dispute, it must be resolved through the distant mountain council. ”

"This agreement has been going on for decades, with the Sea Tribes selling some deep-sea specialties to the mainland through these coastal states, and the mainland selling some things that the Sea Tribes could not produce to the Sea Tribes. However, the Sea Tribes soon discovered that once the products sold by the Sea Tribes to the coastal countries changed hands through those countries, the profits generated were actually tens, hundreds, or even thousands of times the profits they could make! As far as the Sea Tribe's deep-sea pearls were concerned, the Sea Tribes thought that those things were worthless, so they sold them to the coastal countries for about 50 silver coins each, but after this kind of deep-sea pearls were processed in the hands of human beings, they might eventually be sold to the buyers in the hands of hundreds of gold coins. ”

So the Sea Tribes thought that this kind of trade was very unfair, and asked the land countries to compensate for the difference, but all the prices of the transaction were negotiated with the Sea Tribes, and it was naturally impossible for humans to change their interests at will, so the dispute that lasted for more than ten years made the relationship between the Sea Tribes and humans tense for a while, but as if we had nothing to do with them in the deep sea, they had nothing to do with us on land. Most of the things that the Sea Tribes export to the land are some luxury goods, while the Sea Tribes import from the land to the East

The most important feature of iron tools is that they are constantly corroding, and they are used to using land tools, and they are reluctant to reuse their original tools. As a result, all negotiations were put on hold, and some prices were appropriately raised to a certain extent. ”

"The matter should have ended here, but we have learned from some sources that the Sea Clan has been trying to win over some amphibians in remote areas, and the import of metals from land is getting bigger and bigger, and even some obviously unreasonable projects are not refuted at all, which makes us realize that the Sea Clan seems to be planning something earlier. ”

Tina told the history of the Sea Clan's contact with humans in one breath, and Illidan obediently handed Tina a cup of tea to moisten her throat.

"Speaking of the nautical gap, I don't think we and the Sea Clan are at the same time as each other. The survival law of the jungle is particularly obvious among the sea tribes, perhaps it is a problem of the living environment, the sea tribes have always followed a barbaric way of life that respects the strong - of course, this is no different from humans, but humans will at least have some cover-up or more responsible emotions in it, and the appearance of the sea tribe is more like a manifestation of the law of the jungle. Most of the relationships between people are naked hostile. They face death threats almost from birth, and when they grow up, they can pose death threats to others. ”

"The Sea Folk are able to arm themselves with all the resources of the sea, and although they are scarce, the diversity of marine life has allowed them to find another form of force. Biological force. The most famous is the Whale Battleship of the Eastern Ocean. Giant whales are huge creatures that live in the eastern ocean, and their adult body can be more than 50 meters long, and some older ones can even exceed 80 meters! Giant whales will produce a kind of carapace on their epidermis during the growth process, and as they age, this carapace can grow to a thickness of more than three meters. The Sea Tribes tamed these creatures, placing weapons on their carapaces and attaching battering horns bought from the continent on their heads. There are few things that pose a threat to these creatures, and their only weakness is their soft bellies, but even if you can dodge the warriors of the frigate, the whale's layered layer of fat several meters thick is not something that can be cut through casually. ”

"The rest, such as the Norwegian sea monster, the giant electric ray, and the nebula jellyfish, which is said to be able to grow up to 500 meters in size and monitor tens of kilometers of sea area, are beyond the imagination of our people on land. ”

"The Sea Clan is not united. ”

Tina thought carefully before saying this.

"It's like that with any race of creatures. There are very few of the Sea Tribes who are not partly inclined to the land side, but those are a very small minority, and they have no say in anything. ”

Wang Wei listened carefully to Tina's explanation, and memorized all the details in it, especially the part about the sea clan's force.

"How fast is that whale battleship?"

Wang Wei is only most interested in force, a hard indicator.

"The speed is very slow, worse than ordinary sail warships, and even worse than some small high-speed warships powered by magic crystals. ”

Tina said.

The so-called magic crystal power battleship is to use the elemental power of some large magic crystals to generate wind, or water flow to propel the power equipment of the battleship, due to the high cost, it requires a lot of effort from alchemists, and is generally used in very high-end special warships.

"And how big are the warships on land?"

Wang Wei asked.

"There are very few warships on land that are so big, because of material limitations, a warship is about thirty meters long, only some super-large warships, or special merchant ships can reach fifty or seventy meters, and although the super-large warships are powerful, but because they are not as flexible as small warships, and the cost is high, it has always been used as a symbol of national strength, and few people really mass-produce this kind of warships, even the old Tolkien Empire has only five such super-large warships, and there should be no bigger than this。 And only what we know is that there are more than twenty giant whale warships in the Eastern Ocean, not counting some of their small warships, and most importantly, the warships of the sea clan are all capable of diving underwater!"

Tina said after some serious thought.

"Oh, I see, that is, all the self-confidence of the Sea Clan, does it come from their warships and underwater advantages?"

Wang Wei asked again.

"To put it simply, their confidence comes from the superiority of force in the water. ”

Tina said.

"So what if they don't have an advantage in the water?"

Wang Wei asked.