Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Eagle Returns
Gao De Jin didn't know that Lin Feng deliberately revealed the itinerary of the fleet, and when Lin Feng's fleet came back next time, the escort fleet would definitely teach the guys who beat the idea of his fleet a profound lesson.
Sunset Fort on Nanlin Island, where the water seems to stand on the tallest tower in the castle, she has often come here in recent months to look out over the northern sea, and at this time, she is always in a low mood.
It has been eleven months and eight days since her son, the Baron of Nanlin, who led a fleet to trade with distant tribal emirates, and as a mother, she hopes that his son will spread his wings like an eagle, but also that his son will be less struck by gales.
Today, the water looked at the northern sea as usual in the sunset, and suddenly, there were a few shadows of sails, and she silently counted those sail shadows, from the first pair to the seventh pair, and there were many more, it was a large fleet.
In the Crescent Harbor below Sunset Castle, the four warships left behind had already set sail, and judging by their appearance, they were ready to meet the fleet. Shui Wanru's heart suddenly felt a kind of happiness overflowing, yes, it was his son's fleet back.
Lin Feng, Tyranya, Shui Rou and Heliel, they were all standing on the foredeck of the "Breaking Waves", they finally returned, and Jackson also came to report to Lin Feng that four warships were heading towards them, and it should be Cook who came to meet them.
After eleven months away from home, seeing the familiar port appear in front of them, everyone in the fleet was cheering and shouting excitedly, and some even shed tears of joy, such an atmosphere also affected those human slaves and wild boar refugees, and made their original nervous mood relax a lot.
On the outside of Crescent Harbor, along Moon Bay, there are many new deep-water berths built there, which can easily let Lin Feng's thirteen merchant ships dock at one time, instead of having to take turns to dock and unload as before, which can save a lot of time.
As for Cook, who greeted Lin Feng, just in the open sea, Lin Feng gave him a task, asking him to lead the warship to reconnoiter and patrol along the route when Lin Feng came, as long as he found a ship, he would capture those who could be captured, and sink those who resisted desperately on the spot.
For these spy ships that came with Lin Feng's fleet, Lin Feng didn't want to waste time before so he didn't bother with them, and at that time, Lin Feng's merchant ships were basically full of goods or passengers, and it was really difficult to chase them, but now, there are warships here, and those ships don't want to run away.
Standing on the bow of the "Breaking Waves", Lin Feng saw the water standing on the dock from a distance, and a kind of emotion and joy filled his heart with the feeling of a wanderer returning home. Waiting for the boat to dock, Lin Feng was the first to walk off the boat quickly, and then greeted his mother.
Tyranya and Shui Rou followed closely behind him, and the two of them also missed Shui Wanru very much. The family naturally had endless words to talk about when they met, and it was not until they returned to Sunset Fort that their emotions gradually calmed down.
Linnab, now the Interior Officer of South Limburg, is stationed in South Limburg to handle the affairs of the whole island, and today, he is also in the crowd to welcome the return of the lord. After being seen by Lin Feng, he asked Lin Feng to arrest him and let him be in charge of all the affairs of the fleet's arrival at the port.
The focus was to appease the human slaves and wild boar refugees who arrived with the ship, and Lin Feng asked Lin Nabu to set up a temporary camp near the Crescent Harbor, and to house them separately, and then assign their work after they had initially adapted to the environment here.
After more than four months of life at sea, some of these people are old and frail and have also been infected with diseases, and there are even a few cases of death, well, Lin Feng specially took care of Lin Nabu and carefully gave them a physical examination, and those patients must be isolated and treated.
That night, Lin Feng held a return dinner at Sunset Fort, and the top figures on the island were invited. Lin Feng has not been on Nanlin Island for nearly a year, and Lin Feng also took advantage of this dinner to meet with everyone, and also to remind everyone and urge them, so as not to give them a slack heart.
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Kivica Nander was originally a knight captain of the North Wind Empire, but after being injured and retiring, his knightly collar went bankrupt due to poor management, so he changed his career to become a mercenary, only to be captured in a battle and turned into a slave.
Because of the famine, Kivika's original owner could not afford to support these prisoners of war slaves, so they were sent to Xilin Harbor, and finally bought by Lin Feng, a field baron from the Southern Human Empire.
Kivika's parents had long since died, and the other distant relatives had been cut off after his knighthood had gone bankrupt, and he had no wife, so Kivica had no objection to coming to Nanlin Island, he was alone anyway.
After ten days of rest and rectification, this group of nearly 1,000 human slaves, Lin Feng reassigned them according to their specialties, among them, nearly 500 prisoners of war slaves were assigned by Lin Feng separately, they will become part of the Marine Corps, and Kivika is their temporary captain.
Subsequently, Lin Feng informed them of the laws and regulations implemented on Nanlin Island, and promised that they would be treated equally, and they must abide by the laws and regulations of Nanlin Island and be protected by the laws.
For these slaves, nothing else was false, and only the few laws and regulations concerning the release of slaves as hired peasants and the promotion of hired peasants to freemen deserved their attention. And the relatives who came to Nanlin Island with them were the same as those wild boar refugees, who all started as hired farmers.
Lin Feng had upgraded all the hired farmers on the island to free people in the past, but the group of people who had recently been promoted from slaves to hired farmers, it was impossible for Lin Feng to directly promote them to free people, and the things that were too easy to get would not be cherished, and of course they would not be respected and loved as they should be.
As a result, there is now a five-year time limit for promotion from a hired farmer to a free man, and he cannot be promoted without exception unless he has made meritorious deeds. That is to say, a slave can become a freeman again after a maximum of ten years of work on Nanlin Island, and if he has made meritorious deeds during this period, the number of years will be reduced according to the magnitude of the meritorious service.
For Kivica and others who were selected for the army, they only had to serve for three years to obtain the status equivalent of hired farmers, and then after three years of service, they were free to stay and resigned, and similarly, after they had achieved military merit, they would also have their time limit reduced according to the merit of merit.
In this way, the human slaves were arranged, and everyone had hope, which naturally calmed down those chaotic thoughts. And the boar people saw that they were treated equally, and they were not discriminated against because of their alien status, so they naturally settled down.