Chapter 276: The Past of Venaya

Venaya Port, the largest seaport city on the Vilon, is also the most disaster-ridden city on the Velon, and is also regarded as an architectural miracle of the water city, many names are piled up on the name of this city, making it one of the most legendary cities in the entire Velon.

At first, Venaya was just a tidal flat at the end of the mouth of the Pombo River, where a large amount of sediment washed down from the upper reaches of the Pombo River gathered and gradually formed a small island after countless years of accumulation.

Like most landlocked countries, the French Empire did not value the island at first, and did not even consider it its own. A large number of debtors, criminals, runaway serfs and ordinary people fleeing the war gathered here, and gradually established a place outside the law, and it also became a famous nest for selling stolen goods and smuggling.

As the Kingdom of Sigma and the Kingdom of England began to colonize the Moissanite Continent and brought back a lot of resources and wealth from the Moissanite Continent, the French Empire also began to be interested in the Moissanite Continent, so they began to form the first navy of the French Empire and the first official port city.

Those who have settled in Venaya for hundreds of years have long since not regarded themselves as Farnes, they prefer to call themselves Venayas, and believe that Venaya is a land of freedom and does not belong to the Francoian Empire, so when the Francoian Empire was preparing to establish a port city in Venaya, the Venayans chose to rebel.

A war that should have been a huge disparity in strength lasted for half a year, two-thirds of the Venayans died in the war, while the people of the French Empire died even more, and the remaining Venayans were just some old, weak, sick and disabled people who could no longer support the occupation, and finally had to choose to surrender.

It's just that to the surprise of the surrendered Venayas, Maxim Mordison, the commander of the French Empire at that time and the first governor of the French Empire in Venaya, did not intend to let these people go, but chose to retaliate and slaughter all the living Venayas, and the foundation of the construction of the Venaya Port was to bury all the bones of all the Venayas into the foundation, so that these Venayans would be trampled on forever.

Maxim's massacre was not cared about at the time, after all, the dead Venaya were not considered human in the eyes of many people, but the practice of burying the dead in the foundation was criticized, and until now, many Franks believe that the reason why the Venaya Port has so many disasters is related to the bones of the Venaya people in the foundation, and that those undead are cursing the Venaya Port.

At the beginning, the French Empire formed a navy and built a port for the huge interests of the Moisan Continent, so the port of Venaya was originally a military port, and the first navy of the French Empire was stationed here, and it was also from here that it headed for the Moisan Continent.

Although the French Empire is a land power, with the strongest army and knights in the world, its maritime strength is very weak, and it cannot be compared with the two major maritime powers, and the timing of his choice to join the sea hegemony is also very inappropriate, both of which are the strongest time periods for the maritime strength of the Kingdom of Sigma and the Kingdom of England, so that a series of maritime plans formulated by the French Empire earlier ended in failure, and the losses were extremely heavy.

Not only the loss at sea, but the superior location of Venaya Harbor also attracted the attention of the Sigmar Kingdom, who felt that they could use Venaya Harbor as a springboard to infiltrate their country's influence into the Virune Continent, fulfilling the dream of Sigma's countless ancestors to enter the Velon.

Driven by the ideals of the ancestors and the practical interests of the ancestors, the Kingdom of Sigmar suddenly launched an attack on the port of Venaya, and in less than three days, it captured the port of Venaya, annihilating all the defenders in the city, and completing the first change of hands of the port of Venaya.

Naturally, the French Empire was not willing to accept that the port it had worked so hard to build was taken away like this, and immediately organized an army to launch a counterattack, and this counterattack opened the battle for Venaya, which lasted for thirty years.

In the past 30 years, the port of Venaya has changed hands between the two countries hundreds of times, and as many as a million soldiers of the two countries have died in this war, and the purpose of each other is no longer to fight for the port of Venaya, but has become an obsession, a kind of attachment that will be somewhat inexplicable in later generations. It's as if the port of Vinaya has become a symbol of the Vilyon Continent, if you get the Venaya Port, you will get the Vilyon Continent, and if you lose the Venaya Port, you will lose the Vilon.

According to some do-gooders now, at that time, the high-ranking officials of both countries were cursed by the ghosts of Vinaya, and there was only one thought in their minds, which was to seize the port of Vinaya.

The thirty-year battle between the French Empire and the Kingdom of Sigmar for the port of Venaya eventually ended with the French Empire retaking the port of Venaya, but the ultimate winner was not these two countries, but the Kingdom of England.

After thirty years of war with the French Empire, although it was only a local war, the Sigma Kingdom spent hundreds of millions of manpower and material resources, even if the countless wealth transported from the Moisan continent was still difficult to fill this huge hole.

Because the Kingdom of Sigma wanted to attack the port of Venaya, they could only rely on their powerful shipping, so in the past thirty years, the proportion of the Kingdom of Sigma invested in the sea increased day by day, from less than one-fiftieth at the beginning, to nearly two-thirds of the naval ships were transferred to the port of Venaya.

A large number of Sigmar navies were diverted from the Moissanite route, allowing the Inge navy to take advantage of the situation. It's just that the Kingdom of England is very smart, they did not blatantly expand the navy to occupy the loopholes in the sea controlled by the Sigma Kingdom, but secretly formed civilian navigators, disguised as pirates, and plundered the sea areas controlled by the Sigma Kingdom.

If the secret plot of the Kingdom of England is only the external cause of the loss of maritime supremacy of the Kingdom of Sigmar, then the exploitation of the colonies by the Kingdom of Sigma is completely their own grave.

In order to fill the huge financial hole of the battle for the port of Venaya, the Sigma Kingdom frantically increased the taxes of the colony, constantly raising taxes, and in just thirty years, the Sigma Kingdom increased the taxes in the Moisan continent by more than 100 items, and even married and had children need to pay taxes, and the taxes have been adjusted more than ten times.

In the face of such heavy taxes, the people of the colonies could not bear it at all, resulting in the continuous outbreak of tax wars in the Kingdom of Sigmar for thirty years.

It was this kind of resentment that originated from interests and accumulated over the years that made the people of the entire Sigma Kingdom colony turn their backs, and the Inge Kingdom seized the opportunity to attack the Sigma Kingdom colony under the slogan of eliminating all exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and the entire colony had little resistance, and in less than five days, all the colonies of the Sigma Kingdom in Moissanite completely fell.

The loss of the colony is not the real reason why the Sigma Kingdom lost its maritime supremacy, but the real reason why the Sigma Kingdom gave up its maritime supremacy to the Inge Kingdom was that the invincible fleet of the Sigma Kingdom encountered an unknown shipwreck and was wiped out on the way to the colony to quell the rebellion from Venaya Port, making the Sigma Kingdom have less than ten warships available in the country within 20 years.

After gaining supremacy at sea, the Kingdom of Inge seems to have fallen under some kind of curse like the Kingdom of Sigmar, suddenly launching an attack on the port of Venaya and seizing it from the French Empire.

Faced with the new maritime overlord and the Inge Kingdom, which was at the peak of its resources and manpower, even if the French Empire was unwilling, it had to temporarily stop the competition for the port of Venaya and recuperate.

Although the Kingdom of England almost became the de facto controller of the port of Venaya, the war against the port of Venaya did not end, but for more than 100 years, the French Empire would often attack the port of Venaya, trying to wrest control of the city from the Kingdom of England.

However, the luck of the French Empire is really not good, for more than a hundred years, countless attacks have failed to recapture the port of Venaya, the closest to the success of the capture, even has occupied three-quarters of the city, as long as the siege for half a day can completely deal with the remaining city of the Inge Kingdom army. However, because the commander of the defending forces of the Kingdom of England used a small group of ships to attack the inland towns along the Pombo River directly from the Pombo River, the army attacking the port of Venaya had to retreat, and finally missed this and the only time in a hundred years that it was possible to recapture the port of Venaya.

However, five years ago, the inexplicable war between the French Empire and the Kingdom of England ended in the defeat of the Kingdom of England, and the defeated armies had to retreat to the port of Venaya, preparing to evacuate from the sea.

But the French Empire sent airships and all the warships to intercept the rescue fleet of the Kingdom of England, so that nearly half a million troops were trapped in the port of Venaya, in a dilemma, and the most troublesome thing is that the food and grass have been exhausted, and there will only be a week at most, and everyone in the city will be so hungry that they don't even have the ability to fight.

For this reason, the Kingdom of England had to negotiate with the French Empire to rescue the more than 500,000 troops, and the Kingdom of England had no intention of continuing to fight with the Kingdom of England because of the changes in West France, so that the negotiations went smoothly, and finally the French Empire took back half of the control and ownership of the city of Venaya.

After signing a negotiation agreement with the French Empire, the Kingdom of England also felt that it could not fight against the French Empire alone, so it pulled the newly established United Kingdom in and traded half of its control to the United Kingdom.

Leo had been to the port of Venaya before, or more correctly the predecessor of Leo, where all the Inge troops had landed and then been dispatched on various fronts.

It's just that Leo can't remember what Venaya Harbor looks like no matter how much he recalls, as if this memory has been erased by some force, and the only impression left is weird, that is, weird, and the appearance of Venaya Harbor is very strange in the eyes of Leo before.

It was precisely because of the abnormality of his memory that Leo was even more curious about the port of Venaya, and when he knew from the captain that he would be able to reach the port of Venaya at noon, he left the cabin early and walked in the direction of penetrating and overlooking the port of Venaya.

After rounding the protruding lighthouse promontory of the cargo ship, the port of Venaya in the distance also appeared in Leo's eyes as several oncoming cargo ships greeted them with their whistles.

After seeing the appearance of Venaya Harbor through the farsightedness ability of the Psionic Ability, Leo immediately understood why the predecessor thought Venaya Harbor was weird, because Venaya Harbor is a city built on a beehive.

The official city of Venaya Harbour is about thirty to forty meters above sea level, and below it is a foundation of countless urban ruins that have been piled up, which are hollow and look like a giant beehive from a distance.

"It's shocking, isn't it?" The captain walked to Leo's side with his pipe in his mouth, and also looked at the port of Venaya in front of him, and said: "Every time I see the port of Venaya, I can clearly feel the war that has taken place here for more than 100 years, and sigh the cruelty of the war from the bottom of my heart. ”

Leo asked, "Are all the foundations below the ruins of the former Venaya Port city?"

"Hmm. Perhaps because he was almost at his destination, the captain's nervous mood had eased, and he didn't mind chatting with Leo, so after hearing Leo's inquiry, he told Leo what he knew about the port of Venaya.

The island on which Vinaya City is located is an accumulation of mud and sand, and there are no stones that can be used for construction, so they have to be transported from outside.

The original materials used to construct the port of Vinaya were stone from the quarries of the Pampo River, which was very expensive and difficult to rebuild after each war, because a large number of destroyed and abandoned building stones had to be cleaned up before they could be rebuilt, without any deepening costs.

To this end, a Sigma officer who was occupying the port of Venaya at the time came up with a temporary solution, which was not to clean up the discarded stones, but to fill in the rubble, level the foundation on the rubble, and build a new building.

This method was only a temporary method, and the leveled foundation was not to build a house or something, but to build some simple fortifications to resist the attack of the French army.

What no one could have imagined was that this temporary method, after repeated use, would become a unique architectural model for the port of Viana.

Every time after a war, the new city of Venaya Harbor would build its city on top of the rubble, sometimes not even filling in the ruins, but only slightly leveling them. Eventually, the city was piled up and turned into what it is now, and the old ruined city became a sewer.

Although the fighting in the port of Vinaya has not really stopped for more than 100 years, these wars have not affected the commercial activities of the port of Vinaya, and the more the fighting is raging, the more commercial activity flourishes here.

The grapes and wines of the Bodo region, the precious specialties of the Black Forest, the animal skins and furs of the northern ice fields and other products of the Vilonian continent are gathered here, loaded and shipped to all over the world, and the corresponding goods from all over the world are also transported here and sold to various states, counties and towns on the Velon.

This is not only because of the special geographical location of the port of Vinaya, but also because the port of Vinaya is home to more than ninety percent of the chambers of commerce in the world of Vinaya, and almost all the official chambers of commerce of almost all countries have offices here, which can be said to dominate the business activities of the entire world of Vinaya.