12. Meeting, Dance Party (19)
"What does it mean that you can't go to sea?"
Gloria's mouth opened wide in disbelief.
"Please, I've asked 16 boats in the morning, and all of them said they can't go to sea, they have to wait, what kind of trouble is this?"
I almost leaked words like "Are these broken ships here today?", "Are all men shrinking eggs now?", and his face full of resentment almost touched the tip of the bearded captain's nose.
"Even if you say that to me, it's useless!" 'That guy' has been active a lot lately, and several boats have sunk into the sea, and the rest of the people don't dare to take it lightly, there is only one life!"
With a spit on the ground, the captain and the sailors who were squatting on the trestle looked at the water antenna in the distance with melancholy and resentment.
For Charlemagne, who begged for a living at sea, there were three objects that they hated and feared.
One is the sea. No matter how brave men are, whenever they think they have conquered the sea and are full of ambition, the sea, which was so beautiful a moment ago, will show its hideous face and tear the foolish to pieces with stormy waves. It is the people who take refuge in the sea that they are always full of reverence for the sea.
The second is the navy of the royal family of Albion, in order to show the strength of its sea power, knock on the old rivals, the warships of Her Majesty the Queen are always keen to disgust the Charlemagne. Most of the disgusting methods were to intercept Charlemagne's merchant ships returning to their home ports, on the grounds of cracking down on smuggling, checking for contraband, smuggling slaves, and most importantly, arresting deserters to replenish the much-needed crew.
At that time, the captains of the royal navy and merchant ships of the royal family of Albion gave their crews a very poor meal, including moldy bread, sprouted potatoes, live maggot oatmeal, and so on. They are often smoked half to death with "nine-tailed cats" for trivial things, and the discrimination and abuse of crew members from the Brittan region is particularly severe. At the same time, Charlemagne's merchant fleet and navy expanded dramatically, and a large number of sailors were urgently needed, and quite favorable conditions were offered for this. For better treatment and higher wages, hordes of Breton sailors and Charlemagne-speaking Albiann sailors deserted and boarded Charlemagne's ship. Because of this act of digging the foot of the wall, the following situation often occurred: a Charlemagne merchant ship was intercepted by the Albion warship, and the muzzle of the black hole was pointed at the merchant ship, and it was ordered to stop the ship against the wind. Unarmed merchant ships were helpless against this. You can only hit big luck. Either you can escape before the hole sinks to the bottom of the sea, or you have to stop the ship and let the Albion pirates with the words "Justice" on their coats and backs board and search. This was followed by document checks, interrogation (and sometimes torture) of the ship's owner and crew, and the insistence that the young-faced crew members, including underage teenagers, were Albion deserters. Lock it with shackles. Towed away along with the fine (cargo on board).
Even the Albion Cabinet did not dare to justify such atrocities. However, the royal navy insisted that "if you were once an Albian, you will always be an Albian", "those who can speak Charlemagne are not necessarily Charlemagne", "our intelligence is absolutely reliable, and those who claim to be Charlemagnees are deserters, and they use forged passports" and so on. In the end, he even said "what's yours is mine, what's mine is still mine", and he refused to stop. As a direct consequence of this behavior, Charlemagne's coastal areas became the staunchest supporters of naval expansion, and there were even donations from old and young women and children to build warships, and the most popular among children in the coastal areas was the game of simulating the sinking of the warship of Albion......
In any case, at least for the time being, the strong Albion Navy is one of the lingering nightmares of Charlemagne's sailors.
The last one is a mysterious sea monster whose name and entity are not even known, and can only be referred to as "that guy".
No one knows when or where the beast appeared, what it looked like, and where it was found, but it was the cause of many mysterious shipwrecks. No matter what country's ship encounters, once it encounters "that guy", it will never be able to see the land again.
Each country organized an investigation team to investigate the matter, but found nothing, and accused each other of developing new weapons, and engaged in a war of words.
In terms of the total amount of losses caused, the monsters in the sea may not be as good as a fraction of the first two, but the elusive mystery, as well as the ever-amplifying sense of terror in the process of word of mouth, make the sea beasts have the same deterrent power as natural disasters and man-made disasters.
"No matter which ship I asked, I would say, 'You can't go to sea lightly,' and 'I'll talk about it when the fleet is ready.'" ”
Roland Mo rubbed his chin, and the ladies sat or lay on their stomachs, as a representative, Gloria nodded forcefully. All the corners of the harbor city of La Rochelle were visited, and the answer to them was one - wait, when we had enough fleets, we would go to sea.
Taking advantage of the rest day and Li Lin's business trip, Roland and Diana La Roschelle slipped out of Lüders, but what they didn't expect was that Valrhona and Gloria had been waiting for a long time.
"If you want to hide from me and act alone, you are still a hundred years early. ”
Gloria said, Valrhona just shrugged, and the dragon princess, apparently in Li Lin's absence, used a small adventure to pass the time waiting for negotiations to begin again—of course, she wouldn't admit it.
It's hard to hide from the two who live in the same room, but it's reasonable, but the third person who joins in the middle of the game is really beyond everyone's expectations.
"I thought La Rochelle was a blind spot, but I didn't-"
A crisp, prickly female voice rang out, and Roland looked at the woman who pulled out the chair and sat down beside him.
She is over twenty years old, but she is undoubtedly a beauty.
He has a tall and small nose, big eyes, a sunburned face and neck due to long-term outdoor activities, occasional exposed arms showing off his original snow-white skin, and long hair tied with a golden ribbon at the back of his head.
Even if she wears a long hooded coat worn from afar, it does not detract from her beauty in the slightest, and her expressionless and undulating way of speaking gives people a feeling of weakness, but the gaze that Diana casts on her is not trust and friendship between peers, but more like respect between superiors and subordinates, and a little ...... Fear.
"Miss Christina......"
"Just call me Bell, brother Roland. ”
The long sapphire blue hair swayed with the movement of shaking his head, the amber eyes could not make people feel the temperature, and next to Bell's head, a metallic reflection flashed, and Diana's body stiffened for a moment.
"There was little expectation of heresy in the first place, and although the Huguenots claimed to give priority to the doctrine of the Temple, it would be naïve to expect heresies who deviated from the true doctrine of the Mother God, as the Gospels say, to 'knock and open the door,' and to help passers-by. ”
The golden light is not flickering, the empty reflection of the light is a crystal cross earring, look closely, you will find a line of small characters engraved in the center of the cross.
Iscariot - Another name for the Inquisitor of Heresy who judges the sins of heresy in the name of God. (To be continued......)
PS: I'm sorry.,Running back and forth between two girlfriends.,Last night I gave a gift to one.,Go to the night market.,Leave to accompany the other to choose a computer during the day.,There's no time to code words.,There are double changes to make up for at night.,Please support you who have tickets!