Chronicles of Ryan the Wizard Chapter 89: Northward (1)
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Since Chilaviv’s inflammatory speech, the whole free paradise has immediately fallen into a certain kind of enthusiasm. A large number of supplies and mercenaries continue to go to the seaside city of Haifeng City, where they will transfer to sea boats and head north. Of Sunrise City, and then through the South Talun Prairie, to the final destination-Thor Fortress.
Ryan and the others only left on the ninth day. Because the number of people who signed up was too much, and the messenger of Thor Fortress came too suddenly, a large number of sea ships were on the route, and they did not dock to Sea Breeze City. Therefore, the shipping ships could not meet the transportation of such a huge flow for the time being. After experiencing the chaos of the first two days, the Freedom Paradise Merchants Alliance quickly came forward to make arrangements to divide the mercenaries and materials going to the Thor Fortress into many batches. As soon as Sea Breeze City has enough capacity, it will board the ship immediately.
So an unusual phenomenon appeared. The army supporting Thor's fortress had already reached Sea Breeze City, and the rest of it remained in Freedom Paradise. Ryan and the others were placed in the sixth batch. The reason they were in this batch, as long as it was still because of Lille and York.
The 20 magicians sent by Chilaviv were all high-level magicians. They were divided into three groups and went on the road separately. Lille and York and six others were in the second group, and when Lille and York learned When Ryan and the others were about to go, they tried their best to invite Ryan and the others, so Ryan and the others waited for a few more days.
When they learned that Lille and York were also magicians sent by Chilaviv, Ryan and the others had a deeper understanding of the strength of the Dolock Business Alliance. When they were in the imperial capital, Ryan listened to Victor. However, there are now less than three hundred senior magicians registered in the Magic Guild, but Chilaviv immediately dispatched twenty.
Flanner's previous conjecture has also been confirmed. The "Hands of Magic" is indeed the industry of the Dolock Business Alliance. At the same time, if you care about the organizations that the magicians and mercenaries belong to, you can roughly estimate the strength of the various chambers of commerce in Liberty Paradise. There are really a lot of low-key at ordinary times. In this support, the Chamber of Commerce has shown the tremendous strength that it has secretly mastered.
On the way to Sea Breeze City, Ryan and the others have always been sitting in a carriage. That extra-large carriage can accommodate eight people, but now it’s just five people sitting in, plus Xiao Bai lying in a corner. It’s naturally very relaxed. This is the prerogative of the magician. Lille and York just mentioned it casually, and soon someone sent this extra-large carriage. The Dolock Business Alliance will try its best to meet the various requirements of these magicians, which is also an important reason why Chilaviv can have so many magicians.
Along the way, Ryan, Lille, and York kept discussing and researching the content related to the magic circle. Lille and York checked Ryan’s records in the Magic Guild a little bit and found that Ryan only had the qualifications of a magic apprentice, but Lille and York, the two masters with senior magician qualifications, would not just ignore Ryan, on the contrary, they treat Ryan as the same identity as themselves.
A magician who can make a three-level magic scroll has at least the qualifications of an intermediate magician. What's more, the scroll uses the "Matrix Superposition" invented by Victor, the only great magician on the continent. "Technology, the magical power of level three is equivalent to that of level five. Based on this alone, Lille and York knew that Ryan's future development was boundless, how could he be treated as an ordinary magic apprentice?
As for Ryan’s current embarrassing identity, Lille and York knew that it was caused by the "Magazine’s Test Code." Two hundred years ago, things are used without changing a word. What? Can it work? Lille and York also suffered from it.
This team didn't go fast, because the ship they were going to take was still on the way back, and it would take a few days before they could dock at the Horse Head of Sea Breeze City, so they had enough time. In addition, there are four mercenary regiments with a total of more than one hundred mercenaries and five hundred carriages. Those mercenaries are all on foot, and the carriage is fully loaded, and they can't get up soon if they want to.
Bumpy along the way, no matter how slow you go, as long as you go in the right direction, you will always reach the end. After six days of trekking, Ryan and his party finally came to Sea Breeze City.
Sea Breeze City is located in the southeast of the mainland, where there is the largest deep-water port on the entire mainland. The traffic between the north and the south of the empire, if it weren't for the slow-moving of horse-drawn carriages, most of them would sail between the sunrise city in the north and the sea breeze city in the south. For bulk cargo transportation, you can only take the sea route from Haifeng City. .Mobile viewing
The local population of Sea Breeze City is not very large, about four to five hundred thousand. However, there are a lot of businessmen coming and going here every year, and there will be countless mercenaries passing here, even tens of thousands. Most porters, most of these porters are from other places. Their income from a year of hard work here will be enough to feed their family after returning to their hometown. In addition to these, the Empire also has 100,000 troops stationed in Sea Breeze City, which includes 50,000 elite troops, including 5,000 cavalry, 15,000 archers, and 30,000 infantry.
If all these people are included in Sea Breeze City, then the actual population of Sea Breeze City will definitely exceed one million. Sea Breeze City is also one of the few cities actually controlled by the empire in the south. The Fernando imperial family also has a temporary palace here. It is said that there is a magic teleportation array connected to the northern imperial palace for emergency refuge. Of course, this is just a rumor, because at least 5,000 elite soldiers are responsible for the security guard of the temporary palace, and it is impossible for outsiders to enter.
Since the ship still has one day to dock, Ryan and the others will have time to go around in Sea Breeze City, and the mercenaries have already scattered. It’s not time to gather, I’m afraid who I can't find them anymore.
Lane followed Lille and York to the dock area to take a look. The landscape there was unique, especially the towering steel brackets on the dock, which opened their eyes to Ryan and the others. When the carriage filled with goods enters the dock area, it will be unloaded by porters immediately, and then loaded into a large wooden box in order. A large wooden box can be filled with goods on twenty carriages. Ryan watched with his own eyes the staff in the dock area and the merchants who transported the goods. After checking the materials in the large wooden box, they nailed the door of the large wooden box, and at least fifty porters pushed forward with a rolling log.
When the large wooden box is pushed to the dock area near the ship, it will be tied with thick hemp rope. Those hemp ropes are at least the thickness of an adult man’s arm. Ryan roughly counted it. A large wooden box at least Hundreds of ropes were tied, and those ropes were connected to steel supports. Ryan was puzzled by this move, and he asked Flanner in a low voice, who then smiled mysteriously and motioned him to continue watching.
When the rope was tied up, more than a hundred porters gathered. Each of them grabbed a rope in his hand, dragged it hard, and then slowly hoisted the big wooden box through the towering steel brackets. Every time a little bit of height was lifted, more than twenty porters immediately pushed over the huge wooden planks with pulleys and placed them under the large wooden box. Soon, the height of the large wooden box exceeded the height of the sea ship.
"Look carefully at the terrain." Flanner reminded Ryan in a low voice. Ryan followed Flanner's instructions and found that the area where the cargo ship was docked was rather peculiar. It was a recessed pier. The ship stopped in the recessed area. On both sides of the ship, there is solid ground, each with two towering steel supports. Earlier, Ryan only cared about the height of the brackets, but didn't pay attention to where they were seated.
With the efforts of hundreds of porters, the large wooden box began to slowly slide towards the sky above the ship. Only then did Ryan notice that the heights of the brackets were different, and it was possible to use the drop to make the wooden box slide from high to low. Of course, this also required a few hundred meters of porters to firmly grasp the rope in their hands. If the sliding speed was too fast, the consequences would be great. Not good.
The big wooden box slid slowly in the air, and the steel bracket made a creaking sound, obviously bearing a huge weight. The porters who pulled the rope on the shore dragged it back desperately, and their bodies were almost touching the ground. On it. Finally, the big wooden box came to the sky above the sea ship. Under the unified command, the porters slowly loosened the ropes in their hands and parked the heavy wooden box on the open deck of the sea ship. Several dozen meters of porters waited there. They still used sliding wood to slowly push the large wooden box into the cargo hold.
Ryan and Allendo took a long hiss. This is the first time they have seen such a spectacular scene. Flanner smiled and said, "How about it? It's magnificent." Ryan nodded and said, "It's good, everyone is not strong, but with such a series of methods and tools, it is possible to move such a heavy wooden box. ."
Ellendor asked: "Why do you have to put it in such a large wooden box? Isn't it more labor-saving to carry it loosely?"
Flanner obviously comes to Sea Breeze City frequently and understands the truth. He explained: "If it is shipped in pieces, it is easy to go wrong. Let’s not talk about how to ensure that the goods are not repackaged along the way. Just the sea is huge. In the wind and waves, those scattered cargoes are inevitable from bumps and losses. Now there is a special wooden box, which is sealed after the goods are packed in, and there are fire marks on both sides. As long as you go to the destination and check it, you can know if anyone has moved. Hand and foot. And do you think that the scattered handling saves time? In fact, using this kind of large wooden box for overall handling, although a little troublesome, but at least half of the time can be saved. Isn't this shortening the transportation time in disguise? ? Last point, such large wooden boxes are also easy to stack, you see, neatly stacked in the cargo hold, isn't it a more reasonable use of the limited space on the ship?"