Chapter 128: The Antolian Navy of the Shichibukai Sea
In Leon's view, salt is not only a commodity, but also an extremely precious strategic resource.
No one can live without salt.
It is by no means a common condiment, but an inevitable requirement for maintaining the body's water balance, acid-base balance and body fluid circulation.
In the medieval Western countries of the previous life, not being allowed to eat salt for a month was a seemingly harmless but actually extremely dangerous punishment. It could range from loss of appetite and weakness in limbs to muscle spasms and vision loss. Blurred or even accelerated heart rate.
My limbs are weak!
For the Antolian people, especially the hunters and mercenaries, whose living environment is extremely harsh, this is undoubtedly an extremely fatal point!
Therefore, purchasing salt from other aristocratic territories has always been a huge expense for Antolia, and the amount of money spent was not even inferior to Antolia's previous expenditure on purchasing grain.
And now that Leon has seen the hope of making Antolia a salt production center in the southwestern highlands, he naturally does not dare to be careless at all.
After hastily explaining the key points of the follow-up work of new city construction and household registration compilation to Aaron, he immediately grabbed Andrew and rushed towards the southwest heights impatiently.
Having said that, the road construction process in Antolia is quite gratifying.
Because as the size of the mining town continues to expand and the ironmaking workshop adjacent to the Southwest Highlands comes into operation, the road connecting the Thorn Territory and the Southwest Highlands undoubtedly has the highest construction priority among the many roads.
And these cement roads paved with Grum slime are extremely friendly to war horses. Not only will they not damage the horses' hooves, but the speed when riding them is also quite impressive.
However, the further to the southwest, the more difficult it becomes to build the road.
Especially when passing through the mountain forests on the edge of the southwest highlands, not only do trees along the way need to be cut down first, but the gradually rising altitude also makes road construction more difficult for the Antolians.
But even though the road had not yet been completed, it only took Leon less than a day to reach the mining town located on the edge of the southwest highlands.
Although when Leon last arrived in this land, it was just a barren wasteland, but less than a few months later, row upon row of houses had already appeared in front of Leon's eyes. .
When they saw the flag symbolizing Leon Jimena, Marquis of Antolia, appearing on the outskirts of the town, officials from the mining town hurriedly trotted all the way to gather in front of Leon.
"Fernand Bello."
Andrew pointed at the middle-aged man standing at the head and introduced Leon:
"When the plateau hounds attacked, this man responded to the call of the Marquis and became an security guard. Tolia's militiamen, but unfortunately he was injured in the subsequent battle to eliminate the tall-footed monster birds and lost his left hand." "
I saw that he was alert and extremely reliable, so after leaving the southwest highlands and going north with the Marquis, he I left this place to him. I have reported this to you. Even Butler Aaron said he is a rare talent." "
I remember him!"
Leon nodded with satisfaction.
In this land called Antolia, there are not many high-quality talents who can serve as administrators, and Fernand Bello, who was born in the military, is definitely one of them.
Not only does he act competently, but he is also stable enough.
"I've met the Marquis!"
Bello looked slightly excited.
Although as a former member of the Antolian militia, Bello had seen Leon from a distance, but after all, he was just watching from a distance.
But now, his commander was closer than the lord, and his angular face was so handsome, how could he not be extremely excited.
"Take me to the lake to have a look."
Leon stated the purpose of his trip very simply.
Leon is satisfied with the current development of the mining town, and Bello's management skills are obviously good.
It is true that the middle-aged man in front of him, like most people in Antolia, is illiterate, but this does not affect him from keeping the town in order.
Obviously, a large part of Bello's talent lies in his management ability.
"Understood!"
Although he has become the manager of the mining town, Bello still habitually gave Leon a standard military salute.
The distance between the pink lake and the mining town is not that far, and the horse with its crotch gives everyone a speed buff. When the sloping sunset in the evening shines on this land, this lakeside in the middle of the highlands So it's close at hand.
The dim sunset dyed this vast lake with a gradual color, like a pool of pale pink petals falling on the world, spreading from the distant lake towards the surroundings.
The golden light and pink lake water come together, which can't help but bring a bit of dreaminess to the place.
However, Leon at this time had no time to appreciate the beauty of this moment.
There were only two things in his mind, one was pike and the other was salt.
There is no need to go into details about the usefulness of salt, but Leon still knows nothing about the pike.
Therefore, the purpose of Leon's trip was not only to determine the feasibility of sun salting, but also to catch a few pike and bring them back, so that the scientific instruments that had been dormant for a long time could play their role.
"Where are the pikes?"
"Most of them gather at the bottom of the lake. If it weren't for the tall birds that used to only eat warm rocks come to the lake to look for food, we might not be able to find these fish living at the bottom of the lake."
Bello answered truthfully: "To this end, the mining town also specially mobilized several militiamen with good water skills to set up a water patrol team."
After that, Bello pointed to one side of the lake.
Not only were there several simple barracks there, but there was also a wooden boat with an extremely simple structure moored on the lake nearby.
Good guy!
How long had it been since I'd been here? The Antorians, who were extremely subjective and proactive, had even organized a navy? !
"Seven people?"
"How does the Marquis know?!"
Bello couldn't help but widened his eyes and looked at his lord in shock.
Even though Leon is the top commander of the Antolian army, he has just returned after all, and in a remote place like the southwest highlands, the transfer of a few soldiers does not need to be reported at all levels.
But his lord actually knew everything about the southwest highlands, which really made Bello feel an inexplicable shock.
Hearing this, the corners of Leon's mouth couldn't help but twitch.
Why does the navy configuration under my command look much cruder than the Mongolian navy in the Shichibukai...
I
suddenly feel that the pace has been a bit slow in the past few days?
Thanks to "Novel Romance" and "雪ジ" for the reward! At the end of the year, each person is given a box of pike to take home and eat~
(End of this chapter)