The Hope is a large ship with a load capacity of about 400 tons, and this time on this voyage, the cabin was filled with Harland's specialty brown sugar and liquor, and of course there were some soaps and cotton cloths in the cabin. Iron products and medicines were also loaded.

Compared with the kingdoms of Hiss and Ryan, the Kingdom of Palame is more friendly to the Kingdom of Grant because of its belief in the goddess of the Dawn.

On May 3, after a forty-six days of sailing, the Hope arrived at Hawkins Castle. The total mileage of this voyage has exceeded 5,000 kilometers.

After leaving the province of Ricks and entering the second half of the voyage, sailing mainly relied on sails. The small amount of coal loaded in the ship's hold can only be used when it is critical, and the steam turbine can be turned on for a maximum of three or four days.

After entering the port, the inhabitants of the capital of the Kingdom of Paramet warmly welcomed the fleet of the Kingdom of Haaland.

Because Haaland led the kingdom's fleet to spend money every time it was berthed, they would buy a lot of fruits, vegetables, grains, meat, and even fresh water. At the same time, the fleet of the Haaland Kingdom will also sell some goods that are urgently needed by the local residents, and the relationship between the two sides is quite harmonious.

It has been seven years since Richard began to operate the Red Moon Plane.

When I went south, I was attacked by a fish-man professional, and when I returned, it was relatively smooth. Despite encountering a sixth-order black-headed octopus, Hiss and Giggs led people to solve the opponent without danger. Not only did he get a sixth-order magic core, but the octopus material could also be exchanged for a lot of money.

In more than six years, the power of the capitalists and aristocrats such as Odaye has expanded a little. Now in the kingdom of Haaland, there are already four merchant barons, Odaye, Immorton, Rand, and Sampson. But compared to the huge military aristocracy, their strength is still very weak and cannot be on the stage.

Now near Priland, scattered undead creatures are very rare, and if you want to get soul crystals to exchange for merit, you must go deep into the Bolton Forest.

In the eastern part of the continent in the entire Dawn Plane, from the Kingdom of Harland in the north to the Grand Duchy of Caroline in the south, there are five coastal countries of Harland, Grant, Heath, and Parmame, with a coastline of 6,500 kilometers.

In order not to affect the maritime industry, Heath directly borrowed a huge sum of 80,000 gold coins from the Duke's Bank, and then borrowed some money from Giggs. With enough gold in hand, Heath recruited some members from the fleet who were planning to retire to form a mercenary group and go hunting in the Priland region.

After completing the refit, Heath and Giggs seized the time and sailed to Auxerre Castle once more, active on the Paramet route.

Because it is equipped with the magic crystal cannon, the magic ship of the Haaland Kingdom has strong combat effectiveness, and it can achieve one enemy against five, and the combat power on the sea surface is stronger than that of the Divine Radiance Empire.

According to the estimation of the ancient magician Terrance, the North and South spans of the Middle Continent is about a little more than 10,000 kilometers. The legendary magician once accomplished a feat by circumnavigating the planet Dawn.

Compared to twenty years ago, the path of hunting the undead to knighthood has become much more difficult.

Cotton cloth has less impact on the local market of Palamé. Because the kingdom of Paramet was a manor economy, the vast majority of aristocratic estates had a textile industry, and cotton cloth from the kingdom of Grant could only be sold to urban freedmen.

Soon after the knighthood of the Heath, their fleet began to support the knighthood of Giggs.

Of course, all this is difficult for the wealthy Hiss, who organizes a mercenary group to hunt the undead, and at the same time directly buys soul crystals with gold coins. It didn't take a few months to be knighted.

Relying on the profits handed over by state-owned shipping enterprises, coupled with the support of state finances, the Kingdom of Haaland has built more than 20 warships in the past six years.

Time flew by, and in a blink of an eye, it was June 3290 in the Dawn calendar.

With the continuous entry of iron products from the Kingdom of Haland, the iron mines near the capital region have begun to close, and a large number of blacksmiths have gone bankrupt.

Then there are ironwork. Even across the ocean, across 5,000 kilometers of coastline, the price of iron products in the Kingdom of Haaland is far lower than that of local goods. The difference in cost by more than 10 times directly collapsed the local steel industry.

However, after the outbreak of war between the two sides, it will inevitably be a battle of comprehensive strength of the sea, land and air.

The deep-water alchemy bomb and sonar detection equipment are all new weapons of the Harland Kingdom Navy, and people outside don't know about it at all. Giggs, a retired mid-to-senior naval officer, occasionally got the news at a party with his old comrades, and wrote to the Navy Yard to request that the new weapon be installed on his magic ship.

Hiss came from the serf class, and his living environment since he was a child made him envious of everything that the nobles had, and deep down in his mind he wanted to be knighted for meritorious service. Giggs himself was a baron on the east coast, and after his defeat and surrender, he saved his life but lost everything. His goal in life was to regain his knighthood and regain his family's lost honor.

The Deepwater Alchemy Bomb is a weapon recently developed by the Kingdom of Haaland, and according to an idea proposed by Richard, the Arsenal Department spent six years constantly renovating the Alchemy Bomb. Using a time-lapse touch fuse, the charge was strengthened, and the supermagic metal shell was reresearched, and the depth charge was successfully created.

In order to accurately use the deep-water alchemy bomb, the Harland Mage Guild also installed sonar detection devices on the magic ship based on the principle of sound wave reflection.

With the support of the top, Giggs, Heath and other shareholders signed confidentiality treaties. Once again, the Hope was remodeled, thickening the bottom of the ship with a superalloy plate and installing sonar detection devices and depth charges.

This refit cost another 6,000 gold coins, and since Giggs entered the shipping industry, he and Hiss have invested more than 30,000 gold coins in the Hope, and the second-hand steam cargo ship in his hand has gradually become a real magic ship.

The first to enter the kingdom of Parame was medicine. In order to open up the market, the Kingdom of Haaland distributed a small amount of medicine to the Parame people for free, and only sold it to make money after confirming the effect.

After purchasing a batch of copper ingots at the port of Bajil, the Hope began to return.

According to the rough map drawn by Terence, the southern part of the Central Continent is a boiling sea, and when you sail 1,000 kilometers from the southernmost point of the continent, the temperature of the sea will exceed 100 degrees, and a large amount of water vapor will envelop the entire sea surface, and you will feel as if you have been steamed when you enter it. Passing through the boiling sea is an endless ocean, and continuing to sail more than 10,000 kilometers will reach the Arctic Sea.

In the next six years, with huge profits, the fleet of Heath and Giggs has expanded from small to large, and has expanded to four magic ships and nine steam ships, and the assets in their hands have already exceeded 300,000 gold coins. The power of capital is stronger than that of Odaye, Immorton and other factory owners.

In the past six years, there has been no fighting in the Kingdom of Haaland, of course, there can be no naval battle, and if Hiss and the others want to make meritorious contributions, they have no chance.

Port Baguir is located in the east of the Pereira Copper Mine, and after the copper ore is mined in Pereira, it will be transported to the Port of Baguil for preliminary smelting and smelting into 30 kilograms of copper ingots.

Of course, the production of mountain copper is very small, even the Pereira copper mine does not produce more than ten tons a year. The share that can be sold to the Haaland Kingdom is only about three or four tons.

Of the 800 sailing ships, more than half are officially controlled.

Heath has served Haaland for more than 20 years, accumulating three major merits and six medium merits. The merits he accumulated after retirement were not exchanged for resources such as gold coins and potions.

After the two discussed, it was decided to let Hiss prepare for the knighthood first.

With such a large profit, it is no wonder that Giggs did not even do it as an officer and entered the shipping industry wholeheartedly.

In just eight years, the navy has doubled in size and now has fifty-three magic ships.

Moreover, in the subconscious of Giggs and Hiss, they also wanted to make meritorious deeds and obtain knighthoods.

At this moment, in addition to the factory owners and merchants of the Haaland Kingdom, the maritime trade merchants also stepped onto the stage and were knighted.

If you run three times a year, you can earn back a boat.

In a centralized militaristic state like the Kingdom of Haaland, commerce has reached a certain scale and must be added to the state system. Only by becoming a hereditary aristocrat can you have legal privileges, will you not be attacked and discriminated against politically, and will future generations be able to protect your property.

The assets had grown to such a size, and Giggs and Heath certainly wanted to become hereditary barons.

The Hope made a successful trip to the kingdom of Parame, earning 5,000 gold coins for a round trip.

The undead who escaped from the seal of the Northland Ice Fields were hunted and killed by the mercenaries.

If the Hope fights a naval battle with a regular warship, it will be easily crushed by the warship. However, encountering a small number of fish-men and deep-sea monsters, the Hope's survivability has been greatly enhanced, and it can deal with most threats.

Liquor, brown sugar, and soap were all new industries, and these in-demand goods were mainly sold to the aristocracy, selling more than ten times as much as the local ones.

Now that he had enough assets in his hands, the Hiss could only target the north.

Giggs sold the ship's cargo wholesale to a Viscount of Paramet, and sailed south with the gold coins to the port of Baguil.

With a sonar detection device and a deep-water alchemy bomb, it is enough for the magic ship to solve some of the underwater threats.

In recent years, the Kingdom of Haaland has successively established the South China Sea Trading Company, the North Sea Trading Company, and the Royal Shipping Company, which play an important role in the maritime industry and lead the development of maritime trade.

However, compared to the magic ship of the Haaland Kingdom Navy, the defense of the Hope is slightly worse, and the firepower is far from comparable to that of the warship. The warship is a small magic ship, equipped with twelve magic crystal cannons, and its firepower exceeds that of two companies of marine artillery. On the Hope, however, only two twelve-pounder guns were armed.

Moreover, you can also make a lot of money when you return, the kingdom of Parame has a large number of magic plantations, rich in all kinds of magic plants, and there is a large copper mine in the south of the kingdom of Parame, which is rich in copper, and occasionally a small amount of mountain copper is sold.

A cargo ship with a load of 300 tons can earn 4,000 gold coins for a trip to the kingdom of Palame.

Even if you can't transport mountain copper, you can still make a lot of money by buying a batch of copper material and shipping it back.

Under normal circumstances, the military department would not approve the sale of new weapons to private individuals, but Richard pushed for the development of the sea, and last time, with Richard's support, even the magic crystal cannon was sold to private shipowners. The Deep Water Alchemy Bomb is a defensive weapon, and is actually not as sensitive as the Crystal Cannon.

The knighthood of Hiss and Giggs led a large number of merchants to invest in maritime trade, and in just eight years, the number of ships registered in the Kingdom of Haaland increased fivefold, and there were already more than 800 sailing ships on the sea.

And the number of ships that run the route of the Kingdom of Parame every year is as high as dozens. The transportation of oralcum is basically the task of escorting warships, and it is not the turn of private shipowners at all.

The Divine Radiance Empire only has more than 200 magic ships, and it also has to take into account the eastern and western oceans, and its East China Sea Fleet only has more than 80 magic ships, and its combat effectiveness alone cannot be compared with the Harland Navy.

Three hundred kilometers further south of Port Baguil is the Grand Duchy of Caroline, the southern part of the Grand Duchy of Caroline is a large tropical desert, the temperature can reach fifty or sixty degrees in summer, only a small number of heat-tolerant plants survive, animals and plants are very rare, basically uninhabited.

In the past seven years, with the opening of ocean routes, the goods of the Kingdom of Haaland have entered the market of the Kingdom of Paramet, winning the love of the Parame people.

The northern part of the Kingdom of Harland is the Northern Savannah, and the northern part of the Northern Savannah also has boreal forests and northland ice fields, and the southern part of the Grand Duchy of Caroline is a tropical desert.

After Heath was knighted, he did not manage the territory carefully, after all, for him, farming was far less than running a boat to make money. He divided part of the land to the mercenary group that followed him, and then used the cultivated land to recruit a part of the landless freemen, handed over the fief to his son to manage, and continued his own shipping business.

Over the years, more than 100,000 mercenaries have poured into Priland, and now there are thirty hereditary nobles in this area, and the number of undead they have killed exceeds tens of millions.

Although Odaye and others were excluded and discriminated against by the military aristocracy, their political status was far stronger than that of sea merchants such as Hiss and Giggs.

Orichalite is a natural super-magic metal, and the market price of one ton in the Haaland Kingdom is 6,000 gold coins, while the local market price is less than 5,000, and you can make a lot of money by transporting one ton back.

On this voyage, the Hope not only obtained a sixth-order magic core and obtained the reserve magic energy, but also earned a profit of 6,500 gold coins. After returning to Starlight Castle, the insurance company also paid a few hundred gold coins for pocket money.

With enough gold in hand, Giggs first paid pensions to the sacrificed and disabled crew members, and then discussed with Hiss and decided not to pay dividends for the time being, and continued to strengthen and refit the magic ship. Especially the super magic alloy plate at the bottom of the boat, this time it must be thickened. In addition, the Haaland Kingdom's newly invented weapon, the Deep Water Alchemy Bomb, will be installed.

In May 3292, Ryan Giggs was also knighted.

Even if the navy of the Haaland Kingdom has the upper hand, it may not be able to defeat the enemy's bipedal wyverns, lion cavalry, and Pegasus knights.

Although the Haaland Kingdom also attaches great importance to the flying troops, the foundation is shallow after all, and the cultivation of the Warcraft flying class is relatively slow, although it can be rampant in the eastern countries, and there is no chance of winning the war with the Divine Radiance Empire. Of course, it is not too difficult for the Harland Kingdom to deal with the three legions garrison of the Holy Radiance Empire in the eastern part of the continent.

(End of chapter)