"I walked around town early in the morning, and I have to say, you're much better than Oliver." Duke Violet looked at his son-in-law, and his serious face showed relief.

"Just do what you can." Colin said modestly.

"Before Master Roman and I came here, we also made a trip to Akibara Castle, and it looks like it's going to be bigger."

"Yes, Uncle Fairmont." Colin nodded: "The location of Akibara City is right in the center of the entire Xiaya, not only can it gather more people, but it will also be the largest transportation hub in the future, so the scale will be much larger than Winterfell." ”

"Looks like you've got everything planned."

"Just a little idea."

"What's next?" Fairmont asked.

"My idea is that after the wedding, I'm going to send someone to the north to reactivate the abandoned Starwind Harbor."

Xiaya's land is long and narrow, from the Longji Mountains in the south to the Horseshoe Sea in the north, and the only outlet to the sea is in Xingfeng Port.

If you take a boat from Starwind Harbor to the nearest Duchy of Brighton, it only takes two days.

There are almost no pirate troubles in the Horseshoe Sea, but Duke Oliver, who needs to concentrate his forces in the fortress, can't afford to keep a port running, not to mention that the original Charya doesn't need to have a port, after all, there is not much maritime trade.

"Are you going to go to sea?"

"Yes." Colin said: "Especially knowing that Brighton may break away from the Blue Alliance, maybe Shaya can establish a maritime trade route with them." ”

Fairmont said: "Originally, I was not very optimistic about this, after all, building a port is not so easy, but after watching the construction of Twilight City and Autumn Plains City, maybe it is not a difficult task for you." ”

"The people under my command do have a lot of experience in building houses and roads." Colin smiled, "However, you still need your support Uncle Fairmont." ”

"My support?"

"Yes." Colin nodded: "There is nothing wrong with building a port, but with a port, it is equally pointless to have no ships, so ......"

When he said this, he smiled a little embarrassedly: "Uncle Fairmont, I know that you have commanded the navy for many years, and you must have talents in this area, and almost no one in Xia Ya can build ships." ”

Shipbuilding is not a simple thing, and it is not something that can be learned by reading a few books.

Perhaps with Colin's understanding, he could start Xiaya's shipbuilding industry by studying it himself for a while, but that would obviously waste a lot of his time.

Anyway, my father-in-law has a better choice here, so why bother thinking about it yourself.

Colin is already very experienced in gnawing the old, and the old man's cheapness is not taken advantage of.

Tulum was separated from its greatest enemy, Oshik, by a horseshoe sea, so Duke Violet spent most of his time in the army commanding naval operations.

"I'm afraid you're not just lacking shipbuilders." Fairmont seemed to have read through his mind.

Colin smiled: "It would be better if there were enough sailors and generals who were familiar with naval warfare, you know, Roderick and the defenders of the fortress, although they were accustomed to warfare, had no experience in naval warfare. ”

"I can provide talent from both fronts." Fairmont didn't hesitate much, and seemed to have thought about it a long time ago, and said: "But there won't be a lot of them, after all, the navy needs enough strength to guard against Oshik." ”

"Not a lot." Colin was not greedy, and said with a smile: "I believe in the people of Xiaya, who have a strong ability to learn. ”

……

……

The day of the wedding has finally arrived.

February 14th.

This is the wedding date set two months ago.

Colin doesn't know if this is a coincidence, but in short, he is still a little excited to get married for the first time in his two lives combined.

However, the experience of being picked up from bed by my sister before dawn was not very good.

After a little breakfast, Colin sat there and let others fiddle with it.

The real aristocratic costumes are more complicated for men than for women, and the ornaments are so heavy that they are not much lighter than a set of armor. What Colin couldn't accept the most was that the hat was ridiculously high, with a few tall colored feathers stuck in it, which looked like a peacock in courtship.

No wonder the last time I heard Veronica say that it took more than half an hour to wear her princess dress once, now it seems that it is not an exaggeration at all, in short, Colin has been sitting there for an hour, and it feels like it has just begun, and a group of people are running around him, very busy.

Colin was bored, thinking that Veronica should be in the same state as him now.

The most important person in the whole wedding has to be Tessa, as the groom's senior sister, she really did everything herself, and until early this morning, she was still arguing with the ceremonial officer about some details of the wedding.

From 8 a.m., another group of celebratory guests arrived.

First of all, Dadamir sent the king's daughter Anissa to congratulate and observe the ceremony, and the nineteen-year-old princess came with great sincerity, congratulating him with a gift of one-twentieth of Dadamir's annual ore production and enough for the wedding of the Emerald Lake's specialty white pine fish, which was not expensive in itself, but the cost of long-distance transportation skyrocketed. The congratulatory gifts had been delivered to Winterfell a few days before the wedding.

Dadamir, who was already ready to withdraw from the battle, regained a foothold in the Emerald Lake with a large supply of materials from Xiaya, and even beat several other opponents to the point of being powerless for a while, but the other party also had a backstage, and as soon as the support from the Western Continent was in place, the two sides fell into a stalemate again, but compared with before, Dadamir controlled a much larger range.

The great nobles in Tulum also said to a greater or lesser extent that although only one representative was sent to attend the wedding because of the long distance, the gift money of all the people added up was also a considerable income.

What Colin didn't expect was that the conservative nobles of Duke Varrant's family also sent people to come, and the congratulatory gifts were no worse than others.

Since the unification of the whole of Shaya, there has been an irreconcilable contradiction between Colin Vane and Duke Varant, and because the identity of Roman Sagan's disciple is considered to be a diehard loyalist of the king's line, the two sides are almost close to doing it directly, but on the surface, the etiquette still has to be in place.

A better example of this is the Oshik Empire.

The young Emperor, through an official of the Oshik embassy in Thunder City, sent a pair of statues made of pure gold, which looked like Colin and Veronica, a full-length statue, dressed in wedding dresses, almost half a man tall, glittering in the sun.

(End of chapter)