The port of Vinaya has two main wharves, one facing the mouth of the Pombo River and the other facing the sea, which are nominally under the control of the Governors of the Three Kingdoms, but in fact the control of the wharves is in the hands of the United Kingdom General Chamber of Commerce.

For ordinary people, the United Kingdom Chamber of Commerce is a business organization under the United Kingdom government, because the president and founder of the General Chamber is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Rupert Fitz, but those who really understand the structure of the General Chamber know that the General Chamber of Commerce is a pure business organization that is completely independent of governments and composed entirely of businessmen.

In this organization, the members of the Chamber of Commerce influence the decisions of the Chamber of Commerce, and even Rupert Fitz, as president and founder, cannot go his own way.

At the beginning, there were only more than 30 members of the Chamber of Commerce, mainly the factory owners of Lanxi. However, with the establishment of the United Kingdom, Rupert Fitz improved the rules of the General Chamber of Commerce, and took the initiative to hand over most of the power of the General Chamber of Commerce, inviting chambers of commerce from other countries to join, so that the number of members of the General Chamber of Commerce increased to 130 seats and became an international chamber of commerce organization.

In the past month, the Chamber of Commerce has also been discussing whether the title of the United Kingdom should be changed to the Veron International Chamber of Commerce.

The Chamber of Commerce was able to obtain control of these two important terminals mainly because of the important assistance they provided during the peace talks at the port of Vinaya five years ago, and invested a lot of money in the subsequent reconstruction of the city, and finally after the restoration of the port of Vinaya was completed, they obtained the control of the port of Vinaya for 50 years, as well as a quarter of the tax rights.

When the ship was about to approach the dock, the captain instructed the crew to hang the flag of the General Chamber of Commerce on the flagpole, and then a small boat approached, talked a few words with the first mate on the ship, and led the ship to slowly dock at the predetermined dock.

Although faster, larger-loading steam engine ships have been invented and used, due to production capacity and other unknown reasons, there are not many maritime trading companies that actually own steam engine ships, as can be seen from the large number of half-sailed, half-mechanical ships docked in the port of Venaya, all-steel steam engine ships are still a novelty for many people.

After the ship docked, Leo said goodbye to the captain, stepped off the ship, and walked towards the city, and after watching Leo leave, the captain and the first mate couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Because it is a free port, the urban control is not very strict, and outsiders like Leo who have no status only need to spend some money to apply for a temporary resident certificate at the general chamber of commerce office of the port.

Only Leo had to go to the local Chamber of Commerce bank to exchange the currency used in the port of Venaya.

Five years ago, during the control of the Kingdom of England, the currency in circulation here was mainly the legal tender of the French Empire and the Kingdom of England, of course, the currencies of the Kingdom of America and the Kingdom of Sigmar could sometimes be used.

However, as the port of Vinaya entered the era of the three governors, the general chamber of commerce, which led the commercial trade of the port, proposed to issue a currency that only circulated in the port of Venaya, so as to reduce the losses and troubles caused by the large number of currencies and the confusion of the currency value, so that the Vinaya currency came into being.

The Chamber of Commerce has set up three currency exchange points at each of the two terminals to exchange money for merchants coming and going to the port of Vinaya, and has also set up a trading market at the currency exchange point, so that almost all merchants who come here can complete their transactions and transport their goods without entering the inner city of the port of Vinaya.

However, the vast majority of people who arrive at Venaya Port still make a trip to the city, because the convenience brought by the special business environment of Venaya Port allows the shops in the city to buy all the common and rare goods from all over the world, and the monthly auction house organized by the Vinaya Port Chamber of Commerce is held by merchants from all over the world. A feast for aristocrats and collectors.

If the city of Miria was once the center of world politics and culture, then the current city of Venaya is the center of the world's commerce and trade, and with the spread of telegraph technology, the simple trade of goods is no longer enough to meet the business model of the port of Venaya, so institutions similar to the stock exchange market have also begun to be established in the city of Venaya in the past two years.

After obtaining his temporary identity documents, Leo climbed up the stairs from the War Gate and the 578 stairs of bones behind it, and entered the city of Venaya.

The War Gate and the Staircase of Bones at the Vinaya Port Marina are two of the most important landmarks in the Port of Venaya.

The Gates of War are steel arches forged from broken weapons abandoned in the port of Venaya, and it is unknown whether they were cast or affected by some unpredictable force. After the arch was cast, the surface of the arch began to appear with some rust as the sea breeze eroded, and these rust stains looked like faces with angry expressions and loud roars.

If the rusted faces on the Gates of War were an unintentional special effect, then the Staircase of Bones was a deliberate sight created by the Forgers.

After more than 100 years of war, tens of thousands of people died in Vinaya City, and most of these people did not even collect their corpses, and all of them were left in Vinaya City. Later, the forgers of the Kingdom of England collected these bones and mixed them with plaster, creating the bone ladder that we see today.

Legend has it that the two staircases of bones at the north and south ends contain great power and mystical knowledge, and those who walk on them may have the opportunity to peek into the mysteries of death and gain knowledge beyond death.

At the beginning, when the captain introduced the various attractions of Venaya Port to Leo, he focused on the Bone Staircase, and at that time, he was also very curious about the Bone Staircase, guessing whether there was a magic circle hidden in the Bone Staircase, which could affect people's minds and produce the so-called illusion of death. But when he walked on the ladder of bones, he knew that he had made a mistake in his judgment, and this was an ordinary ladder where human bones could be seen.

It's just that walking on this ladder can still bring a shock to the soul of ordinary people, after all, for the vast majority of ordinary people who have not even seen the dead a few times, trampling countless bones under their feet is like walking with death, so the rumor that can understand the mystery of death from it is not unfounded.

Perhaps the authorities of Vinaya Port also knew that this road was too shocking for ordinary people, so they built an ordinary stepped road next to it for ordinary people who were not very good at mentality.

However, the construction of this ordinary ladder not only did not reduce the number of others from walking the ladder of bones, but also made many people who were not very accustomed to this ladder of bones also have the courage to go up, after all, no man wants to be looked down upon.

Interestingly, some clever businessmen also saw the business opportunity here, and simply contracted the right to certify this ladder to the General Chamber of Commerce, and made some exquisite certification badges for this ladder, as long as it is the first time to walk through this ladder, you can buy a beautiful silver badge here, and those who wear this badge can get discounts in some taverns and inns in the city.

Like a staircase of bones, every thing that can be used for business in the entire city of Venaya Port has been thoroughly developed, and the moment you enter the city, you can feel a strong commercial atmosphere.

Roadside stalls, shops, hotels, hotels, horse-drawn carriages, newsboys running around, street salesmen selling stock purchase certificates, and so on, make people who come and go dare not receive the commercial atmosphere at all times.

It is also because of the special commercial atmosphere of Vinaya Port that some boring people are not used to it, they specially created a goddess of commerce in the name of art, and made a statue of the goddess of commerce and gave it to Vinaya Port.

The statue of the goddess of commerce, all minted from coins from various countries, is a female statue blindfolded, holding a money bag in one hand and a balance tilted towards the money bag in the other, as if to satirize the Chamber of Commerce in the port of Venaya that only values money and not fairness.

In the face of this almost humiliating statue, the General Chamber of Commerce, which is the commercial controller of the port of Venaya, was not angry, but very generously placed this statue at the entrance of the city near the sea pier, and even built a church of the goddess of commerce nearby, and found a special religious scholar to improve the teachings of the goddess of commerce, and turned this originally mocking thing into a new religion.

Although this Goddess of Commerce Church has not yet been recognized by the Orthodox Church, judging from the attitude of the chambers of commerce of various countries that have trade with the port of Venaya towards this church, it is believed that it will not be long before this Goddess of Commerce will be included in the list of Orthodox Gods.

When Leo ascended the stairs, the first thing he saw was the goddess of commerce that had been created for mockery and was now the symbol of Venaya.

"Psychic reaction?" In the eyes of ordinary people, she is just a statue of the goddess of commerce, but in the eyes of Leo, it is a very powerful wizard and strange thing, he can feel the strong spiritual energy fluctuations on the statue, according to his estimation, this spiritual energy fluctuation is at least level six.

The statue's anomaly intrigued Leo, and after looking around the statue, he soon spotted something interesting from the statue's base, a magic circle composed of Turing roots. And tracing back from the edge of the magic array, you will find that this magic array spreads to all sides, and the streets and houses seem to be part of the magic array, and the content related to the magic array is all hidden in the pattern relief of the walls and roads in the form of decoration, and it is impossible to identify it if you don't look closely.

Seeing this scene, Leo couldn't help but gasp, because he was already sure that there was probably a large magic array hidden in the entire city of Venaya Port, and what the function of this magic array was, Leo was not very clear for the time being, but it was certain that the people who buried this magic array had a lot of plans.

Although he didn't know who designed the magic circle, Leo was sure that the person who built the magic circle must be the United Kingdom Chamber of Commerce. Because only the General Chamber of Commerce, which is responsible for the reconstruction of the city, has the ability to arrange such a large-scale magic array. In addition, this statue that looks like someone humiliating Venaya Harbor may have been secretly planned by the Chamber of Commerce, in order to logically set up the statue in the eyes of the magic array, and also to smoothly allow the Goddess of Commerce to appear.

Because of the conjecture in his heart, Leo couldn't help his strong curiosity, and instead of looking for a hotel to settle down, he went directly to the Church of the Goddess of Commerce, which was not far from the statue of the Goddess of Commerce.

Although the appearance of the goddess of commerce seems to have originated from a mocking joke, the Chamber of Commerce did not treat it as a joke, whether it was writing canonical doctrines, building churches, or recruiting clergy, the Chamber of Commerce formed the Goddess of Commerce Church as if it were a real church.

The shape of the Church of the Goddess of Commerce is to imitate the ancient three goddesses of wealth, and the fifteen pillar statues around the church have changed from the original three goddesses of wealth to fifteen goddesses of commerce with different postures, and the surface of each statue is inlaid with coins from different countries, corresponding to fifteen different countries in the world of Velon.

Although the exterior looks like the Three Goddesses of Wealth, the interior of the Goddess of Commerce is more like a bank, except for the church where the main prayer is used, and it is indeed a bank, because the United Bank of the Fifteen Nations of the General Chamber of Commerce is located here, and there is a huge vault under the bank, which is dedicated to keeping the valuables of the merchants of the city.

Among the gods in the world of Velon, there has never been a god related to commerce, but there has been a god related to wealth. However, the three goddesses of wealth do not involve business, they are only aimed at the wealth itself, and there are no requirements on how to get the wealth, such as the wealth obtained by robbery, the wealth obtained by stealing, etc., and the wealth obtained by illegal means is also among the blessings of the three goddesses of wealth.

Perhaps because of this paranoid doctrine of wealth itself, the three goddesses of wealth were quickly banned by governments after a period of prosperity, and even the Orthodox Church also removed the three goddesses from the list of righteous gods, so that the three goddesses of wealth soon disappeared from the religion of the world of Vilon, and there was not even an underground church.

After Leo entered the church, he directly entered the prayer hall of the goddess of wealth with the others, at this time the priest of the goddess of wealth was preparing for the daily routine, and there were already many people sitting in the prayer hall, judging from the clothes and demeanor of these people, they should all be businessmen, and so many people would waste precious time to listen to people's sermons, which really surprised Leo.

However, this accident did not last long, and when the pastor began to preach in earnest, he realized that the teachings of the so-called goddess of wealth were business manuals that taught others how to do business, and the most interesting thing was that at the end of the sermon there was a valuable business message, such as this time to tell everyone that there was a recent famine in Galica, and the price of food would increase significantly.