Chapter 19: Super Port City

The next time I saw Brother Ehilon was three days later in the afternoon. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

This is not a slack. In addition to deliberately letting Ye Guyun, who had just arrived, quietly clean up his mood alone, these days, the two of them also had to help deal with a series of difficulties from a group of people under His Excellency Calf - you must know that this powerful sage could never have formed a visiting group just for a tourist vacation, let alone the destination was a place with a delicate relationship with the Crescent City Dominion.

As the most necessary and adept group of people, the bureaucrats, especially those in the lower ranks, naturally think that they have to step up and do something for the big people at the top, so they do not need to be instructed to actively look for all kinds of small mistakes, take the opportunity to make mistakes, and blame them.

Of course, they don't cause big trouble if they are only capable of picking thorns (and they don't dare to cause big trouble), which may be a blessing in misfortune, although you definitely won't feel easy because of this little luck.

As long as it is troublesome, no matter how small, it is always necessary to devote energy to deal with it, one or two or even ten or eight pieces are okay, and the strong will even feel that they are insignificant, but when the number becomes "many" in the real sense, and it is like a mountain of seas, anyone will only feel overwhelmed and breathless.

Like, for most people, swatting mosquitoes is a simple matter of waving an arm, but when you're faced with an overwhelming number of mosquitoes filling a room, you feel overwhelmed and quickly hide your face and retreat.

The good news is that the mission is finally gone, just yesterday. The inhuman ordeal was over, and the brothers who were solely responsible for dealing with the matter felt a sense of relief and good luck in keeping the clouds open, even though they would never recognize the two idioms. And they were relieved physically and mentally, and they didn't even notice that His Excellency Calf, who had always been in awe, did not express anything in his "visit" from beginning to end, as he had expected earlier.

Failure to express is perhaps the most powerful statement. It can lead to a lot of false doubts for some, like Archduke Thurman. His jealousy of His Excellency Calf has been very deep for a long time, and it is not ....... Fearful as a tiger. Therefore, he could not believe that the Great Sage, who had always eyed the Dominion of Crescent City and was known for his wisdom and ability, could stay in his number one goal for three days without saying anything, and the Grand Duke fell into a sad sleepless state.

And for an unrelated bystander like Ye Guyun, this move is also worth having fun with. At this moment, he was pondering: "Is it deliberately not done, or is it disdainful, or is it postponed?" and so on, it seems that there are other possibilities...... No, why should I speculate about his thoughts, but it's just a native......"

Ye Guyun, who was confident that he had the necessary anti-heaven plug-in for crossing the public, quickly put aside all his trivial thoughts, he moved his eyes to the window, and he was ready to go to Crescent City with the two brothers.

Speaking of which, Ye Guyun has had an excellent time in the past three days. He had remained in the original room above a tower, quiet, peaceful, away from people, free from distractions—not because his freedom was restricted, but because he didn't want to move. And the timid but extremely warm-hearted Aunt Suzanne took care of him so well that he felt a little dependent on the chubby middle-aged woman......

Ye Guyun put on new clothes, which came from Aunt Susanna's hands - the original shabby brocade robe naturally couldn't be worn for a long time, but he couldn't accept the medieval dressing style, so he asked Aunt Suzanne to find materials, and the two joined forces to make their own.

The so-called two teamed up was just that he drew a rough drawing, and then asked Aunt Suzanne to implement it with all her might. Thanks to Aunt Susanna's ingenuity and skill, and he also has real experience in dressing, he can realize the things on the pattern. Three days, most of which were spent here, saved him from the feeling of being long and lonely.

Men's new clothes are mostly simple, and Ye Guyun's is no exception. The duo created a long, knee-length wool coat with an almost knee-length hem, a pair of tough, athletic, dark straight-leg trousers (in fact, they imitated jeans), and a pair of sturdy round-toed shoes that resembled leather shoes and ankle boots. A unified typical modern style, the pursuit of simplicity and comfort, after wearing it, Ye Guyun more or less found a bit of the feeling of the first life. Of course, one set was not enough to change the wash, and the enthusiastic Aunt Suzanne agreed to make a second, third, fourth, and more sets for him, and promised to continue to refine and improve them to perfection – provided that she made these products her own unique craft.

Ye Guyun didn't know how she wanted to maintain the "unique" attribute of the product, he happily agreed without thinking about it, this aunt with a bit of a broken mouth is actually quite cute, kind, and has a good personality, and it is not bad to be able to help her a little.

And there is a reason why Chinese-style robes are not made. The first is that it is inconvenient to make, and the second is that the materials are difficult to find. The reason for the inconvenience of production does not need to be elaborated, but the difficulty of finding materials made Ye Guyun somewhat surprised.

In this world, silk is one of the most expensive luxuries, and the clothing made from it is even more precious, and in some city-states, it can even be exchanged for a property, and only the truly rich can wear it as everyday clothing. In view of this, Ye Guyun immediately dispelled the idea of asking for silk materials, the Ai Xilun family is indeed a local tyrant, and it is extremely polite to treat him, but this is not a reason for him to squander it at will.

In a short period of time, Ye Guyun no longer had the luxury of being able to wear silk clothes, as for making robes and clothes from cotton cloth (which is as rare, but actually more popular than silk) or even more crude linen...... At least in the second life, Ye Guyun, who was accustomed to fine clothes and fine food, felt that he couldn't accept it.

Bad habits, you need to change......

In the end, on the premise of getting enough wool and leather (these two things are even cheaper than cotton cloth in Crescent City), Ye Guyun chose to make a modern style of clothing.

Among them, of course, there is also a hint of wanting to say goodbye to the past.

Now, he doesn't even wear his hair in a bun, because as long as he picks up the comb and sits in front of the mirror, he will think of someone or something, and sadness will inevitably follow. In order to avoid this, he had to change his hairstyle - he didn't make a big move, just cut his hair shorter, and then tied it at random at the back of his head, and hung a long bridle on both sides of his forehead in the middle, with the short stubble on his chin, the whole person looked a lot of vicissitudes and decadence, which was also in line with the mood at this time.

A new image always attracts a certain amount of attention, and if the new image has a style that is very different from the current fashion and retains a certain unique beauty, then, congratulations, you will get a star level of attention.

On the way out of the castle, not only the two brothers beside him were always amazed, but all the passers-by they met on the way were paying attention to Ye Guyun. In particular, a few bold and hot girls learned to whistle in a certain tone that they had heard before, and then laughed unbridled with their companions, and fixed their eyes on the figure, and followed him away until it disappeared.

In this regard, Ye Guyun neither enjoyed nor feared, and walked through the whole process with a cold face as always, as if those extra attention did not exist at all, which really made the two brothers admire it very much.

The three of them soon reached the entrance of the castle, crossed the drawbridge that had not been put away for a long time due to the war, crossed a fairly wide moat, and truly entered the city of Crescent City.

On the map, Crescent City, as its name suggests, is a bay city with a crescent moon in an inverted C-shape facing the sea to the west. The outer edge of this crescent moon is an arc-shaped mountain with two continuous peaks, one south and one north. The mountains in the north are tall and towering, the mountains are steep, it is not an exaggeration to call it a natural danger, so it is named the North Peak by the citizens of the first generation; the mountains in the south are relatively low, but they stretch more widely, the mountains on it are bright, the scenery is beautiful, it is a place that is more suitable for outing, so it is named the South Xiufeng by the citizens of the first generation.

The pass where the two tall mountains meet, on the contrary, seems to be particularly flat, but at these critical points, there is naturally a strong fortress with no less defensive power than Ashlon Castle, tightly blocking the only passage connecting the inside and outside of the city, and the elite Crescent Knights are stationed in batches in turn.

Such unique geographical conditions have made the Crescent City have never fallen for thousands of years—no! it should be said that since the day the city was founded.

The plains of the Bay Area, where two mountains meet the ocean, are the essence of the city. It has long been a transportation hub in the Northlandy region, an economic center, and a political and cultural center for some time. Although it is not as good as in the past, it is still a well-known developed place in the country and even in the mainland.

Frankly speaking, by the usual standards of a well-developed large city, the innate conditions of Crescent City are not superior at all. Its urban area is long and narrow, and the layout of the city is greatly limited, and the various functional areas can only be distributed linearly one by one in the crescent-shaped urban area, and the mutual echo and support have to be reduced, and the synergy effect is greatly weakened, which is a very fatal weakness for a city that aspires to become the largest in the region and even in the country.

Of course, just as there are always two sides to a coin, this long, narrow and curvy terrain is not all its drawbacks, and it also brings some unique benefits. For example, what it takes to be a good port.

Because of its proximity to the sea, such a narrow terrain means an extremely long coastline, a large number of excellent berths, and a crescent moon that curves like a crescent makes the city a natural haven.

That's great.

Then add to this the excellent hydrological conditions of the area: extremely deep water levels that make it easy to moor, gentle waters with few waves that are conducive to navigation, and, most importantly, the "Gift of God", a warm current that never freezes in the harbor even in the dead of winter.

It's also excellent.

Finally, this is the only reliable outlet to the sea in the vast Northland, which means that the city's radiation range extends to the whole of Northland, and beyond......

This is even more excellent.

There is no doubt that all of the above are among the advantages of the development of maritime transport and trade, which are no longer possible. And the future of the city, too, is undoubtedly at sea, in the harbor, in the midst of the great ships of the sea. Rulers of the millennia, both virtuous and foolish, have recognized this. As a result, they regard the cleaning of port affairs as their primary internal task. Each of them, during his tenure, signed the most important decrees, which were the removal of reefs, the clearing of siltation, the deepening and reinforcement of berths, and the rectification of port security...... Etcetera. Thanks to the continuous maintenance and strengthening over the years, the city, I don't know when, has become a developed, prosperous, world-famous super port city, known as "the whole city is a port"!