Chapter 1: Chronicles of King's Port
By the early hours of dawn, the huge docklands of Kingsport were already bustling with people.
On the side of the salt-frosted wooden docks, coolies dressed in filthy and tattered linen clothes shouted at all the ships calling at the port.
"Hey, he's strong! Just two silver coins will help you move a shipload! There is no such good thing anywhere else! ”
"Lots of people, fast speed! Never delay your business! Our guys here have neat and clean hands and feet, and you can keep them comfortable! ”
"Fish slaughtering professional! Harpoon makes first-class accurate! Professional forklifters are looking for boats to do the work! Which sea hunting ship will take it in! ”
"The convoy from Lugauin is docking! Which caravan is going to deliver goods to Lugoin, come and register quickly! One ton of cargo and one gold coin, affordable and safe, the old captain who has been at sea for 20 years leads the way! ”
In addition to the poor laborers who made a living by transporting goods, there were also a large number of scarred sea hunters and well-dressed merchants.
Needless to say, the wealthy class in King's Harbor had almost all their fortunes as merchants.
The former is a special profession born out of the special geography of Kings Port, and these so-called "sea hunters" and "sea hunters" are actually hunters who specialize in hunting all kinds of sea beasts that haunt the twin seas.
Kings Harbour is located on the southernmost promontory of the Western Continent, and further south of it lies the endless Twin Seas, a vast sea area that is not as gentle as the Nobil Sea, with strong winds and waves, tidal undercurrents, and a large number of huge sea monsters.
Due to the vast living environment and the protection of the ocean, these sea giants have not been disturbed by the forces of hell, and they are all native species that have lived in the twin seas since ancient times.
But if they haven't been eroded by the power of hell, it doesn't mean that these giant sea beasts are easy to deal with, in fact, if they are in the sea, even many doppelganger-level demons are no match for these giant beasts.
However, it is difficult to deal with, and many sea beasts here also have high economic value.
Some sea beasts have skins that make warm and beautiful clothing, and some sea beasts have natural fragrances that exude a strange fragrance. Not to mention the huge size of these sea beasts, they often catch one, and just selling meat can make a lot of money for all the sailors on a whole sea hunting ship.
However, even so, sea hunting is still a hard work, and every year in King's Harbor I don't know how many sea hunters and sea hunters never return.
It is rumored that in the depths of the Twin Seas, some of the giant sea beasts that have survived for an unknown number of years are even as small as half a city, and if any of the sea hunting ships accidentally run too far and encounter these monsters, then even the Sea King will not be able to protect them!
This is a group of guys who pin their heads to their belts to beg for a living, and there are even some mercenaries with a lower level ceiling, and even some professionals, who can only go to the hunting ship to earn a living after they really can't get along.
In addition to the abundance of high-quality fragrant fruit orchards, the trade in sea animal products is also a major source of economic resources for King Port, and it is this lucrative trade in sea animal products that feeds the poor families in King Port who are among the inferior people.
The nobles of King's Harbor are basically large merchants, who control nearly half of the high-quality fragrant fruit orchards in the northern plains of King's Harbor, and these nobles control the economic lifeline and political direction of the entire King's Harbor, and are among the wealthiest people in the sanctuary world.
The rulers of King's Harbor are the self-proclaimed royal family of King's Harbor, the founder of this family, who was the Archon of King's Harbor appointed by Westmar, and was the first to raise the banner of rebellion when the Kingdom of Westmar was exhausted by the demonic invasion.
Since then, the Wood family has become the number one family in King's Port, holding control of the remaining fifty percent of the fragrant orchards in the southern plains of King's Port, and using the power of gold coins to form a powerful army of all-professionals from scratch.
After raising the banner against Westmar, the founders of the Wood family took advantage of the chaos to capture Duncre, the nearest city to King's Port, which attracted most of the nobles in King's Port to settle in the city.
Slowly, Duncre became a settlement for the nobles of King's Port, and eventually, even the royal family of Wood built the royal palace in Duncre.
The city of King's Harbour was gradually forgotten, and it became a pure port and a settlement for all the "inferior people who were not worthy to dwell in Duncre".
Now, hundreds of years later, Dunclair is the capital of King's Port, and the ambitious Wood II expanded it again and again, eventually connecting the city to the original old city of King's Port.
Since then, the name King's Port has been known only to some old people and outsiders who know the history well, and in King's Port, everyone now only divides the giant city into two parts.
That is, the "aristocratic district" where Dunclair used to be located and the "port district" where the former King's Harbour was located.
When the Wood family first raised the banner to rebel, he was supported by three local noble forces, and these three noble families are now the three great families of King's Port, namely "Golden Face" Margery, "Diamond Cane" Joshua, and "Lion Sword" Frank.
The so-called "Golden Silk Face", "Diamond Cane" and "Lion Sacred Sword" refer to the family crest images of these three families.
The Marjery family was skilled in trade and commerce, and they were in charge of the business of King's Port.
The family crest of this family is a beautiful face with a gold wire mask on half of its face, so it is called "gold wire mask".
The Joshua family was the diplomatic core of King's Harbor, and the ambassador of King's Harbor who forced the Kingdom of Westmar to recognize the independence of King's Harbor with financial aid was the head of the Joshua family at the time.
The family crest is a white gold cane inlaid with colorful gemstones, so it is summarized as a "diamond cane".
The Frank family is the only professional family among the three major families in King's Port, and its family is rich in paladins, and the current all-professional legion of King's Harbor is also the "Shining Aegis" legion of the King's Praetorian Guard, and most of its officers and commanders are from the Frank family.
The guy of this family is a golden male lion holding a shining holy sword, so it is called the "male lion holy sword".
The royal family of King's Harbour, the House of Wood, whose family crest was developed later, was a golden crown suspended in front of the crossed twin swords, so the House of Wood is also known as the "Golden Crown Family".
Under these three nobles and royal families, there are also a series of small aristocratic families that are closely linked to the interests of King's Port, which are either small and medium-sized professional families who were taken over by the King's Port royal family with money and relocated to King's Port, or merchant families who later amassed a lot of wealth through the fragrant fruit trade and thus successfully established themselves in high society.
In the eyes of outsiders, the "aristocratic district" of King's Harbour should be a beautiful seaside urban area with the mellow fragrance of fragrant fruits, but whether there are only fragrant fruits in the land under the feet of all the nobles in the aristocratic district, the poor people of the harbor area have the most right to speak.
In the cabin of a cargo ship that was about to dock, Xue Hua silently put the travelogue book titled "Chronicles of King's Port" back into the inventory, and then looked out the porthole at the huge port that was unusually busy under the golden glow of the morning sun and sighed silently.
"Alas......"