Chapter 412 Voyage
Paul’s grand voyage dinner ended in great joy.
At dawn the next day, the dock area was almost crowded with people. Not only residents in Fulan Port, but also residents from nearby villages and towns also came to join in the fun and see off the three exploration fleets.
Theodore, the mayor of Port Fulan, specially hired a group of bands to play music and music on the pier, making the atmosphere lively and lively.
The three commanders, Stanford, Grant and Nigel, solemnly bid farewell to Paul and his party, and then walked onto the gangplank of their respective ships.
Then their ship raised its sails and anchored, moved out of the berth amidst bursts of cheers from the shore, and sailed toward the sea.
There are three exploration teams, each with three ships, and they are all newly built three-masted sailing ships, equipped with more than 150 crew members.
Yes, with the improvement and upgrading of technology, the influx of private capital and the large-scale introduction of skilled craftsmen from Cape Bay, the shipbuilding technology in the Northwest Bay is developing by leaps and bounds, a kind of Galen ship similar to Three-masted sailing ships have appeared in major shipyards. With their longer hulls and larger carrying capacity, they have begun to become the backbone of maritime trade.
Judging from the appearance alone, the three-masted sailing ship that Paul equipped for the exploration team is larger and stronger than Columbus's Santa Maria and Magellan's Victoria.
However, European sailing boats were improved by accumulating technology bit by bit in a down-to-earth manner. In a sense, Alda's current sailing boat was "spurred" by Paul. Is it strong enough? Crossing the ocean is really unknown, and we don’t know how big the world’s ocean is.
"Wish them good luck!"
After praying silently in his heart for a long time, Paul patted the commander of the Navy's First Fleet, Quick, who looked resentful, and prepared to leave the dock.
"You should have given such a dangerous mission to the Navy, not to those rookies."
Quick complained to Paul, and he remembered that he drove the ship in 1990 The glorious feat of the Nanfang's voyage to Cape Bay to open up a maritime trade route had been a dull moment at the grand banquet yesterday.
Ah, I really want to lead the fleet to an unknown sea area again, and then earn great glory again!
Paul knew how Quick was feeling now, and persuaded him: "Quick, give the opportunity to young people."
"What? Mr. Grayman, do you think I am too old? I am only three years old this year." He's in his early teens!"
"Uh...I didn't mean that..."
Just when Paul was thinking about what to say to comfort Quick, an attendant squeezed out of the crowd and hurriedly ran to him.
"Lord Grayman, Miss Setia has something important to ask you."
"Oh? Where is she?"
"It's right there, look!"
Paul looked in the direction pointed by the waiter and saw a beautiful figure standing in the back of a tavern. She waved to him gently from the balcony upstairs.
He quickly found La Di and was surprised when he saw the person.
"What happened? Why do you look like you haven't slept all night?"
"This is not the place to talk, Lord Graiman. Please go to the city hall and find a place where no one is around. I will report to you in detail."
...
"What... What?”
Compared with the little surprise just now, Paul was shocked this time!
“Another wizard...uh, another mage came to my territory?”
When La Di saw Paul's reaction, she was heartbroken, but she still confirmed to him: "Yes, and some of them contacted me, just yesterday evening."
La Di was careful. He told the story of what happened yesterday evening, but concealed Sylvia's "conspiracy".
"Well..."
Paul closed his eyes, folded his arms, and sat on the chair thinking about something carefully.
"Lord Graiman, what do you plan to do...what do you plan to do with them?" Ladi asked cautiously.
"Expulsion? Or... imprison them, or... or hand them over to the church?"
"No!"
Paul answered without any hesitation .
"They are just new immigrants! They have not committed any crimes, at least not since they came to the Northwest Bay. Do you remember what I said? I will not refuse the 'good people' among them, and I will accept them. The 'bad guys' will all be arrested, so let's see how they behave in the future."
"Lord Grayman..."
Looking at Paul's sincere eyes, Ladi felt an inexplicable emotion well up in her heart, making her whole body feel warm.
She had almost made up her mind just now. Once Paul decided to imprison Sevia and others or hand them over to the church, she would immediately go to report the wizards to escape, and then go to Paul to plead guilty.
Now, all doubts have been dispelled.
"Huh? Why are you blushing?"
"Uh... no, it's nothing."
La Di replied evasively, while turning her face away from looking directly at Paul, although this was a bit rude.
"Lord Grayman." She calmed down and said again: "However, we cannot guarantee whether there are any unstable elements among them that may pose a threat to the territory or even your safety. To You know, one spellcaster’s methods are often unpredictable even to another spellcaster. Have you forgotten the assassin who blocked the road?”
La Di’s words reminded Paul of four things. The mysterious roadblocker from years ago was simply invulnerable and extremely powerful. It was easier to kill someone with his bare hands than to kill a chicken. Fortunately, he couldn't stop the bullets, otherwise his entire team would have fallen into his hands.
“Then what do you think we should do?”
"Please ask Mr. Cecil to send people to monitor their residences. Do not disturb them on weekdays, and take action immediately if any abnormality is discovered. And I... no matter how busy I am at work, please let me see you once a day. "
"This is not a long-term solution."
Paul waved his hand, "According to their own statement, they escaped from Jiaowan and must be very sensitive to everything around them. What should we do if we think we are going to be detrimental to them and do something drastic?”
“That’s true...” Ladi was struggling in her heart as to whether she should disclose Sylvia’s “conspiracy” to them? Paul came clean.
"Lord Graiman, I'm very sorry, I just disappeared..."
Just when Ladi made up her mind to tell the truth, Paul suddenly hit the table.
"Let's go meet them."
"What?"
"Go and meet them and explain everything clearly."
Paul explains, “What’s going on is, they can’t tell if we’re going to be bad for them, and we can’t tell if they’re going to be bad for us, and then they can’t tell if we’re going to… Ah, I’m confusing myself. , in short, this formed... Well, how should I put it, let's describe it as a 'suspicious chain'. Fortunately, we are all human beings, we all speak a language that we can understand each other, and we are not millions of light years apart. The distance, haha, I’m really millions of light years away from them, so I’m not worried anymore.”
Ladi was a little confused when she heard what Mr. Grayman was saying behind him, what a chain of suspicion, what a light year.
But the previous words are easy to understand.
Going to meet and talk everything over is indeed the simplest and most effective way.
I'm very sorry, the name of Count Larnaca in the previous chapter was wrong. It should be Price Parker, not Maltz Kent. Thanks to "Battleship-[Zhengtu]" for pointing it out.
(End of this chapter)