Chapter 142: Strange Fleets

Chapter 142: Strange Fleets

Although it was only early summer, the midday sun was already slightly vicious, and the wanton light shone on the river.

This is Enke Port, located about 30 miles downstream of the imperial capital of the Lancang Grand Canal. At the same time, it is also an important auxiliary port around the imperial capital.

The Lancang Grand Canal of the Empire crosses the east and west of the empire, and it took the efforts of several generations of emperors of the empire and the efforts of several generations to open up several major rivers of the Roland continent from east to west, and then opened them to the sea, forming the eastern and western arteries of the empire. It has become an important channel for blood transfusion to the "imperial capital", the heart of the empire.

However, with hundreds of years of peaceful and prosperous life, the prosperity of the imperial capital is overwhelming, and the original port terminal of the imperial capital, although it has been expanded several generations ago, but the capacity is still unable to meet the throughput of increasingly busy ships. Therefore, in order to alleviate and divide the burden of the port of the imperial capital, as early as a few decades ago, such an Enke port was built in this place about thirty miles downstream of the imperial capital to share the throughput of the imperial capital port.

Decades of development, plus the tax of the port of Shendu is 20% higher than here, so some small and medium-sized caravans are often willing to dock their fleets here, although the goods will be transferred from land to the imperial capital when they arrive here, but fortunately, the tax here is slightly cheaper, and the cost of land transportation is somewhat eased.

The encirclement of this Enke port has spawned a town of tens of thousands of people in decades, and the town has actually gathered several cargo transport carriage shops near the imperial capital.

At this moment, next to a merchant ship dock in the port of Enke, a large ship has just moored steadily, this is a standard sea ship, three-masted shape. This allows such a ship to be raised to a very fast speed when the wind is strong at sea.

The ship was already stable, and two business-like guys had already jumped off the ship, whispering and laughing with the official tax official of the empire waiting on the dock for a while, and after paying the tax, he touched a gold coin in his hand, and stuffed it into the tax official's hand with a sleeve cover, and suddenly smiled at the other party. Even the inspection was omitted, and the document was signed directly.

Behind a large group of coolie porters waiting on the dock waiting for work surrounded them, and for a while they loudly pleaded, hoping to get a little work.

"Sir, hire me! Hire me! My manpower is strong, my hands are light! If you have any valuable goods, you will never let your goods be damaged!

"Dear sir, hire me! I have twenty people under me, each with only two copper horns! Two copper horns! In

the midst of this noise. On the other side of the ship, a wooden plank had already been lowered, and two tall women walked down from the ship side by side, one wearing light knight armor, and they were as beautiful as flowers. Especially a pair of slender and sturdy long legs are even more amazing. The other is even more surprising, actually wearing a set of white magician robes, but it is a mage robe that should have been quaint. It was modified beyond recognition by herself, a robe was changed into two separate robes, and a light leather armor was also put on her body, looking at the texture, I don't know what kind of Warcraft skin was made of, and a bright red cloak was approved behind her. Even more strikingly, the sorceress has long dazzling silver hair that thrives in the sun. It's just that on the face that should have been coquettish and cute, there was a cold look, especially a pair of eyes, which made people look at it, and they couldn't help but chill their hearts!

Such a rare pair of female knights and female magicians walked off the ship, which immediately attracted the attention of others, but with the female magician snorted coldly, people who were close. I couldn't even help but shiver. Quickly withdrew his gaze and did not dare to look at it again.

"Joanna, you see. It seems that everyone is afraid of you. Ruolin smiled slightly, she looked at the busy look below, sighed, and casually summoned a subordinate on the ship: "Find someone to take a look, quickly unload the goods, there are new goods to be on board tonight, so grinding, if you don't have time to load the ship at night, be careful with your legs!" These

two are Ruolin, the first female knight under Du Wei, and Joanna, the violent female magician. Du Wei originally sent the replica Captain Jack Sparrow to take his newly acquired henchman George Bush to the north to find the Snow Wolf Mercenary Group, the two lived up to expectations, and soon found the Snow Wolf Mercenary Group and handed over Du Weidi's personal letter, and the leader of the mercenary group, Beinrich, was worried when he received the letter: he had just hunted a batch of goods from the frozen forest, but the smuggling merchants who were willing to take over were too black-hearted, and actually pressed the price down by two percent lower than usual! Baiinrich was worried about this matter, and just happened to receive Du Wei's letter, and after reading the content of the letter, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and immediately decided to sell all the goods in his hand to Du Wei.

At the same time, Beinrich also contacted a few friends of the small and medium-sized mercenary group who had a good relationship with him, and everyone discussed and decided that as long as Du Wei's bid could be maintained at this level in the future, then all the prey of several people in the future would be willing to sell all to Du Wei.

The pirate captain returned with a full load, anyway, there is a port in the north, so he contacted Ruolin and sent three ships to the north to pick up the goods. After receiving the goods of the three ships, Ruolin was also a little anxious in her heart, this kind of trafficking in Warcraft is illegal after all. You have to wait for the little master Du Wei to find a way to get a legal approval. However, Du Wei had already left the Luolin Plain and came to the imperial capital, so Ruolin had no choice but to leave for the imperial capital to find Du Wei for discussion.

After all, this woman is a character who once led a small adventure group to the south and north, and naturally has plans in her heart, she thought: under the banner of Duwei's Rollin family, this kind of legal approval must not be difficult to get, since this is the case, it is better to simply take a ship of goods directly to the imperial capital! When you get to the imperial capital, you get the approval, in the imperial capital, the price of this kind of monster's magic core and fur bones is higher than other places, and then you can make a big profit by the way, isn't it a good thing?

So. A total of three ships of cargo were bought from the north, two of which went south, and one entered the Lancang Grand Canal from the mouth of the East China Sea, and then went all the way west to the imperial capital.

It's just that things like this monster fur are illegal, and unless there is an imperial official document in hand, these things are explicitly prohibited. In order to hide from the public, a shipment of ordinary leather cargo was also deliberately trafficked on board. It was the goods of the leather merchant on the Luolin family plain who had a good relationship with Du Wei, and it happened to take this hitchhike to transport the goods to the imperial capital, and also saved a lot of freight, and after the ship arrived in the imperial capital, it unloaded the goods, and when it returned home, it was an empty ship, and it happened to pass through the Kote Xingsheng where the Luolin Plain was located. Ruolin promised to return empty. He could lend the ship to this leather cargo owner to transport goods, and it just so happened that he also had to purchase a lot of things in the imperial capital. This saves a lot of shipping costs. It's just that those joints that cleared the customs along the way were handled by the people sent by this leather merchant.

In such a ship, a small half of the cargo is fur and bones decomposed from the corpses of Warcraft from the frozen forest. There was also a small bag of magic cores, which Ruolin carried with her.

The two beauties got off the ship, and the unloading place next to it had already been handled by the subordinates sent by the leather cargo boss all the way, just those sailors on the ship. Originally, they were all pirates, where did they come to the imperial capital? Although it is still more than thirty miles away from the imperial capital, the prosperity of the small town of Enke Port has already made everyone dizzy, and there are hotels and inns not far from the port, and prostitutes dressed in fancy clothes come and go, making a group of pirates itchy, eager to jump off immediately and spend a lot of time.

Ruolin has been taking this group of pirates for a few days. Knowing that these guys are rude by nature, although they usually manage strictly, they also know that to control their subordinates, they must have Zhang Youchi, seeing this, they couldn't help but laugh and scold, and ordered that the people on the ship could get off the ship in batches and go to the port to rest, but they were strictly ordered not to cause trouble.

The pirates listened. One by one, the eyes shine green. Thank Ruolin for his kindness, and then take the money for it. The change of clothes, in less than a moment, ran halfway, only those unlucky guys who happened to take turns on duty, watching those happy companions leave, could not help cursing.

"Hmph!" Looking at a group of pirates cheerful, Joanna naturally knew that these guys got off the ship and went to the port town to find fun, I'm afraid that there are still few drunk ** and other tricks, thinking of this, a burst of annoyance in her heart, if not for the fact that she has stayed with this group of pirates these days, she has long been accustomed to the rudeness of these people, I am afraid that a "ice rain storm" magic has already bombarded over, even so, she can't help but have a cold face, and whispered angrily: "A gang."Stream man! Ruolin

had already seen it, and when she went south and north, most of the rude men she knew from the mercenary group were the same. She looked at Joanna's face and said with a smile: "Miss Joanna, now we are also here, and when the carriage is prepared, we will go to the imperial capital to meet Young Master Du Wei."

"Bah!" A strange look appeared on Joanna's face, but her mouth said with disdain: "What am I going to see that little bastard for!" Hmph, go for yourself! I came to the imperial capital with you, firstly, to help you press the ship, and secondly, I myself have something to come to the imperial capital. Well, by the way... You help me pass a word to that little bastard, just say what I Joanna promised him, I'm done! In the future, I will not owe him anything! Next time if I meet him again, I must let him suffer a little!

Speaking of this, Joanna glanced at Ruolin and couldn't help but say: "Ruolin, we get along these days, although you are not good at magic, but the talent for learning martial arts is good, but it is a pity that you have not met any good teachers since you were a child." Although I have taught you some these days, I know that I am not a teacher, so I can't help you much. People like you, why follow that little bastard of Du Wei? It's better to just follow me, my teacher is a first-class powerhouse in the world, martial arts and magic, all proficient, you followed me back, I ask him to accept you as an apprentice..."

Before she finished speaking, she saw Ruolin looking at herself with a smile, and couldn't help sighing: "Okay, I know you have to refuse again." In that case, let's see you again!

Saying that, Joanna took a deep look at Ruolin and said in a low voice: "Although I have a sister, but I have never been the same with her, every time I see her, I get angry, but you, I like it very much, if I can have a sister like you, it must be very good." He

hugged Ruolin hard. Joanna said goodbye and left, she is a magician, and she has always been arrogant by nature, she can do whatever she wants, and regardless of the eyes of so many people around, she flew up, and then turned into a light breeze in the direction of the imperial capital. Disappeared in a moment.

At this moment, the surrounding crowd immediately boiled. The people on the Roland Continent were most in awe of the magician, and seeing that a magician suddenly flew up into the sky here, casting magic far away, they couldn't help but shout.

Ruolin frowned and looked in the direction of Joanna's departure, sighed lowly, and when she raised her head, she shouted to a few stunned sailors behind her: "Haven't you seen Joanna's magician perform magic!" What a daze! Go to work! Then Ruolin

had a few more words with the subordinates sent by the leather merchant. The furrier from the Rollin Plain seemed to have made up his mind to hold the big tree of Du Wei. Among the people in charge who were sent to deliver with the ship this time was his own brother, a middle-aged man in his forties.

This man's name is Hebang, he has traveled south and north for half of his life, and he is a very shrewd and capable guy. On this way, the car and boat dock were all done in front of Ruolin Land, which was very thoughtful. Just now, without waiting for Ruolin's orders, he had already found a cheap warehouse on the port of Enke (because it was a large port with the imperial capital back). There are many low-cost rental warehouses around the port town), arranged for someone to unload a ship of goods and transport them into the warehouse, and immediately found a carriage and horse shop and negotiated the price.

Ruolin was very grateful to him, but this Hebang smiled and said: "When I came, my brother had already commanded, Miss Ruolin is a knight, how noble." Where I can do these mundane things with my own hands, naturally I will do it for me.

Ruolin thanked him twice, and Hebang asked again: "The goods on the ship have been taken down, Miss Ruolin, will you enter the imperial capital today?" It just so happens that I am also going to enter the imperial capital to purchase from several commercial houses, and I have already sent someone to rent a carriage, so let's go on the road.

"It just so happens that I am also going to see our young master and wait for the young master to give the order." The goods here are also easy to ship out. Otherwise, you can't stay in the warehouse. The

two were walking on the pier when they suddenly heard a loud horn sound from the canal!

Ruolin looked back. I saw that above the wide river, the main channel was occupied by a fleet of more than a dozen merchant ships. This vast fleet of ships laden with cargo was obviously different from the scattered merchant ships that were constantly coming and going on the river, and the head ship of this fleet hung a flag embroidered with green oak branches, and if no one occupied the main channel, even the surrounding merchant ships recognized this flag and avoided it from afar.

Above this fleet, there are actually regular emperors wearing uniforms and armor, looking at that style, it is actually a regular imperial capital guard!

"This is obviously a merchant ship, and it is not an official flag, how can there be an escort from the imperial capital guards? Such a wide river, but it is necessary to occupy it alone, and it does not let people run parallel with them, so domineering! Ruolin frowned.

"Miss Ruolin is coming to the imperial capital for the first time, right?" Hebang glanced at it and said in a low voice, "Don't say more!" The origin of this fleet is not simple!

"Oh?"

Hebang secretly pointed to the oak-leaf flag on the head of the fleet, and whispered, "See?" That was the flag of the Solomon family, this was the merchant ship of the Solomon family. People are backed by the royal family's official businessmen, and the family's business has His Majesty the Emperor in it, and they have to earn a large amount of gold coins for the royal family every year, and also help take care of a lot of royal properties! Such a background is not comparable to others!

Hebang stared intently for a while, and said, "The waterline of the ship is very deep, it seems that there are a lot of heavy goods transported on it, and it will soon be a summer festival, probably an offering to the royal family brought by the Solomon family from all over the world."

Ruolin shook her head: "It shouldn't be an offering, the summer festival will arrive soon, if it is an offering, I'm afraid it should have been prepared a month ago, and it's too finished to send it now..."

Hebang smiled and said, "What does he send, what does it have to do with us."

Ruolin nodded, but couldn't help but look at the fleet twice, she was a warrior, and at a glance she could see that far away on the fleet, excluding those guards, even those sailors, they were all strong, full of spirit, and fierce. Ruolin couldn't help but feel a little more strange in her heart...

When I took the rented carriage and came to the imperial capital, it was already afternoon, and this rented carriage was naturally far less luxurious and comfortable than the carriage of the Luolin family, and it was good to bump all the way, but I don't know what seafood this carriage originally transported, and there was a salty smell in the carriage. Ruolin is used to going out to sea these days, it doesn't matter. Hebang couldn't stand it, he was the boss's own brother. He also has a distinguished status in the family industry, and he is usually served by others, and he was bored in the carriage for a while, and he almost didn't vomit out.

When she arrived at the east gate of the imperial capital, looking at the huge queues of cars and horses and pedestrians at the east gate to enter and exit the imperial capital, Ruolin sighed: "It's just that there are so many people, when will it be."

"That's already good." Hebang covered his nose and smiled bitterly: "I heard that the imperial capital's gate tax has been raised again... Alas. When we do business, the goods cannot be directly transported to the port of the imperial capital, we can only disembark in the port of Enke, and we have to transport a trip to the imperial capital by horse-drawn carriage, which originally has an extra freight fee, and the city gate tax is raised again, and we have to lose another sum ... This business is getting harder and harder to do. By

the time he entered the imperial capital, it was already evening. Ruolin really doesn't want to ride in the carriage anymore, she considers herself a knight, how can she always ride in the carriage? Without waiting for the Count's Mansion, he first took someone to buy a few horses at the horse market in the city and sorted out his appearance. With two old subordinates, who were also taken in by Du Wei at the beginning, Ruolin used to venture into two attendants and an archer. A barbarian warrior, three people and three horses, inquired all the way to the Count's Mansion.

The servants outside the count's mansion saw someone coming, and saw that Ruolin and the three were actually wearing the armor of the Luolin family's own private army, but they had never seen it before, and they couldn't help but be strange.

Ruolin strode forward and identified herself. It was Young Master Du Wei's direct subordinate, and the people inside reported it, and a moment later, Mad ran out and immediately took Ruolin and the three of them in.

Du Wei was hiding alone in the room studying a bunch of Warcraft skeletons.

Since returning from Lord Count's study the day before, Du Wei had been closed and only fiddling with his things in the room.

He got a lot of good things from the old madman Eric. At home, he wrote out the recipe that was said to replace "Mithril Silver". After counting the goods in his inventory, he found that he had actually gathered more than twenty kinds. It's just that there are still seven or eight things, but there is no one in hand, it is estimated that Ai Like may not have much inventory there, if you want to get it, you have to find another way.

Du Wei is not worried about anything else, as long as he can get a seed, he can successfully cultivate it by miraculously "time passing".

Carefully studying the mystery of the formula, Mad had already reported it, and then brought Ruolin in.

Du Wei put away his things, closed the door, and met Ruolin in the reception room outside.

I haven't seen it for a few months, Ruolin looks like her face has lost the sincere fear she had faced herself, and she has become more mature, her tall figure has highlighted a bit of delicate curves, and her full chest has become more and more rounded, especially the long legs that Du Wei has praised, showing more and more youthful and unrestrained atmosphere.

Living on the sea has made her skin a sexy wheat color, and although her face is slightly thinner, it is more energetic.

"Sit down." Du Wei dragged his chin with one hand, leaned lazily on the chair, looked at Ruolin, and smiled: "You worked hard." I will remember your credit. Say, why did you run all the way to the imperial capital to find me?

Ruolin sat on the lower chair beside Du Wei, looked calm, and reported the matter. When it came to the willingness of the Snow Wolf Mercenary Group to unite with several other mercenary groups willing to sell the goods to themselves and hope for long-term cooperation, Du Wei immediately said, "Accept it!" Why not, this is nothing to hesitate. We now have ships and people, and what is missing is cargo. Commander Beinrich is a good friend who has experienced life and death with me, and he is also a person I respect, and I have saved the lives of more than a hundred of them, and he is a person who can be trusted.

"Yes." Ruolin nodded: "I also think so, before coming, an agreement has been drafted, please look at it, if there is no problem, I will send someone to the north this time." One more thing..."

After Ruolin said that she brought a ship of goods to the imperial capital this time, Du Wei frowned slightly and thought for a while, and said, "This is a problem, but it should not be difficult to solve, you wait two days, I will find a way to get this matter done."

"Then there's the question of money." Ruolin smiled bitterly: "You didn't have much money to bring to the north on the Jack Sparrow ship, and we didn't have cash at all when we bought so many goods this time." However, the Snow Wolf Mercenary Group's Beinrich ship trusted you, and with his help, we only left a deposit of 10,000 gold coins and shipped the goods back first. So, I'm here to ask you for money this time.

Du Wei immediately called into Mad and asked Ruolin to follow Mad to pay for the money. After thinking for a while, Du Wei said: "This time, all the goods, pay one percent more to Commander Bayinrich." He is a good friend of mine, and I thank him for his help this time, this favor cannot but be returned!

Ruolin immediately nodded and thought for a while, and the female knight suddenly said: "Young Master Duwei, when I was in Enke Harbor, I saw the fleet of the Luomon family on the canal... But that fleet seems a little strange..."