Chapter 440: Guards
They spent another day in Waves, and on the third day, they left Waves and headed for Elmod.
At this time, it had been a month's holiday, and it was just October, the month of frost, although the kingdom of Suthern had never seen frost and snow.
This time, it wasn't just a few of them, along with them, there was also the Royal Escort Fleet, these warships were not only to protect Princess March, but in fact, in the name of the princess, they were ready to intervene in Elmod's new channel.
The discovery of the new channel was like a piece of fat, and the vicious wolves around him wanted to pounce on it and bite it.
In fact, this is not the first time that Ivan III has sent warships over.
When the tide of Elmod's new passage first rose, Ivan had already sent warships over to get a piece of the pie, and the excuse at that time was that Amod had spent a lot of energy exploring the new passage, and the city's defenses were empty and law and order was chaotic, so he came to support.
But how could Elmod leave the defense of the city to the kingdom to maintain, and everyone could see the drunken intentions of the kingdom's warships.
However, after the kingdom's warships arrived in Elmod, the situation has not been optimistic, and there is a lack of effective progress.
On the one hand, the warships of the kingdom are not equipped with sonar, and on the other hand, they lack understanding of the environment, especially the poor mass base, and do not have enough support on the ground.
The royal family was very jealous of Amode's revenue, so they raised taxes on Aimard several times, but the city lord of Aimold passed all these taxes on to the people and chambers of commerce. Then those who used the kingdom to increase taxes even intensified their taxes, and those who actually handed them over to the royal family were much less than they received.
In fact, the tax increase of the royal family is only aimed at the city lord's mansion of Almod, and it is not aimed at the people below. The royal family does not have the right to decide how to collect Elmod's taxes, which are tax-included.
Almod pays a fixed tax every year, and the kingdom doesn't care what taxes are collected, after paying the quota stipulated by the kingdom, the rest will be all owned by Almod.
It's just that Elmod's business has become more and more prosperous over the years, and he has received more and more taxes, but the money paid to the royal family is still the original share, so the royal family has become more and more dissatisfied and wants to increase taxes on Elmod. Collecting a little more tax can also reduce some of Elmod's competitiveness, which has grown richer and more powerful in recent years.
It's just that Almoud can't give up the fat in his mouth, not only did he not pay much, but he went up and down, and stopped a lot of interests for himself.
After many years of independent development, Almod has long been unable to lose, and the kingdom has long had little control over this place.
This time, taking the opportunity of March to go to Amod, Ivan sent another fleet of 8 warships, called escorts, in fact, to reinforce the first wave of warships.
Ivan was very dissatisfied with the progress of the advance force.
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Jiayi stood at the bow of the flagship, holding on to the railing with both hands, swaying left and right along the ups and downs of the warship, but his feet seemed to have roots, and he didn't move at all, and his whole person was like a strong grass in the wind.
"The hush money you gave me isn't just an escort to Elmod? โ
Kaichi turned his head to look at the people around him and said to the other party.
The person next to him is the person who was bumped into by Jia Yi last time in an affair, although the other party is not very old, but he is already the commander of this flagship and the person in charge of this reinforcement.
His name is Sauron Solberg, Commodore of the Kingdom of Suthern, the leader of the younger generation of Wave City, and the dream lover of most of the young girls and young women in the royal capital.
He once commanded a warship to destroy an entire pirate regiment with a single ship, and later commanded the royal fleet to destroy the Redbeard Pirate Regiment, a stubborn disease that plagued the kingdom's maritime frontier for nearly a decade. With this military exploit, he was allowed to enter the palace with a sword by King Ivan III.
He is only in his 20s this year, and he is already a big knight, not to mention the young people in the entire royal capital, even if the knights of the older generation are counted, in the entire royal capital, there will be no more than four hands and fingers who can have the strength of a great knight.
As for the Heavenly Knight and the Starlight Knight are even rarer, and the legendary knights of the next level, the entire continent may not be able to find one or two, otherwise, the kingdoms will not be so afraid of the Supreme Council.
In the eyes of the various nobles of the kingdom, Sรธren Solberg's performance is almost perfect, except for the surprise of liking wives, but most nobles don't know or care about this.
Being able to steal people will only be considered a romantic affair, as long as you don't steal from yourself, everyone still likes these gossip.
Sauron looked at the sea in front of him, and he was also a little dissatisfied with seeing Jiayi again: "Don't worry, you will definitely be satisfied with the things this time, but it will take time, and when it arrives at Elmod, it will be handed over to you immediately." โ
"You're still afraid that I'll run away, shouldn't you be happy if I run away? Jia Yi also looked at the sea and said.
Although the two of them were talking, neither of them looked at each other, like a young couple making an awkward fuss.
Sauron said, "That's because it's not on me, and I can't get it until Imod." โ
March stood far away, looking at the two people standing side by side at the bow of the boat, thinking that he didn't know when the relationship between the two was so good, and he was still standing on the bow of the boat to "flirt".
After three days they crossed the Strait of Rogaland, skimmed the end of the ridge of Tunganes, and reached Aimade.
Before arriving at the port, Elmod's warship came out to greet him, which was the warship of the advance team sent by the royal family to Elmod.
After the two sides converged, the number of warships sent by the royal family to Elmod had reached 20, which was almost the same number as the number of warships owned by Elmod.
Of course, the military strength of a city in Aymerd is not comparable to the entire Suthern Kingdom, but it is impossible for the Suthern Kingdom to concentrate all its forces against Almod, Suthern has more opponents to face, and Almode is still nominally part of the kingdom's territory, and the king cannot interfere in the governance of his lord's territory at will.
At least Ivan III did not have this authority.
Sauron entered the harbor with a warship and was received by the local lord Gaitan Wald, this time in the name of protecting the eldest princess March, of course, the eldest princess could not be left behind.
This time, they didn't attend the banquet of the reception, and they tossed all the way down the boat, and they preferred to get a good rest, so they took the first step, got off the boat from the hidden place, and went directly to the Valoka Chamber of Commerce, without even seeing the lord.
It's enough to participate in this kind of government-run banquet once or twice to experience it, and it's a waste of time to participate too much, and Jia Yi has already heard about it when he was in Langtao City, Aimod and Langtao City are now at odds with each other, and there is a lot of friction between each other, so it's better not to get involved.
This time, Sauron personally led the team over, and he didn't know if he could suppress the snake Almod.
It's just that he slipped away like this and left Marchie alone, which doesn't seem to be very authentic, and Kaichi is also a little curious, when he was in Elmod, can Sauron hook up with the noble lady here?
In fact, Sauron was also touched by Jiayi once, but in Jiayi's eyes, it was as if he only thought about his wife every day when he didn't do business.