Today, Link Port has eight steam-hybrid paddle steamers and ten diesel-powered fishing boats.

There were originally twelve large diesel-powered trawlers, but the first two fishing boats had been used for a long time and the mechanics here were not good at maintaining them, so they ended up falling into trouble.

In terms of mechanical repairs of large fishing boats, this world basically cannot do it. It is impossible to dismantle the east wall and repair the west wall, so Link needs to take the time back and hand it over to workers in another small world for repair.

Speaking of which, although the technology here is behind, Link still prefers this magical small world. The environment here is closest to Link's hometown. Although there are some industries here, it does not cause irreversible damage to the environment.

At least the sea water is not polluted, and the seafood here is almost endless. Ten large trawlers take turns to the sea to supply seafood to seven countries along the western coast.

During the World War, countless soldiers from the seven coastal countries in the western coastal areas ate fish and monster meat in the sea during the World War.

After the World War, everyone also summarized several convenient and delicious ways to eat the fish in the sea.

As the World War ended, a large number of soldiers recovered and returned home, and the way of making seafood and fish became popular, which was an unexpected surprise for Link's seafood company. With the end of the World War, the military's contract to support seafood was also ended, but the demand for seafood among the people increased.

As for the fastest and best-selling C+ seafood on the market, the taste is actually not as good as beef and mutton, but the price is more than twice as low as beef and mutton. If you buy a pound of beef and mutton, it is still easy to make a choice for housewives who go out to buy groceries.

When it comes to A-level and A-level seafood, although the price is much more expensive than ordinary beef and mutton, its taste and nutrition are not comparable to ordinary beef and mutton.

Another thing is that although the World War ended and the State of Zeland stopped collecting war taxes, it also gave a new tax on the five-year reconstruction tax. The tax rate for this reconstruction tax is five percent, with the purpose of rebuilding the home that was hurt in the World War.

In fact, the State of Zeland itself has not suffered any harm in the world war, but the economy of the newly swallowed territory of the State of Zeland is almost collapsed. If you don’t support it, wouldn’t it make people think that the State of Zeland is a poor country?

Therefore, the State of Zeland had to increase taxes in wealthy places to help restore the newly swallowed territory.

Not only does not increase taxes in the new territory of the State of Zeland, but instead, they can be exempted from taxes for two years and three years when they start a factory or mine. Even in the rural areas of the new territory, a five-year tax exemption plan has been introduced.

There is no way to do this. Compared with the original territory of the State of Zeland, the urban and rural areas on the new territory were broken. The State of Zeland and others even released hundreds of thousands of prisoners and returned home to farm. Those inland countries bet on everything in the middle of the war, and in the later period, they knew how to hold on. Being annexed is not without benefits for the newly occupied areas. The former nobles and powerful people were wiped out by the newly occupied countries. With tax cuts and other measures, although the economy has not yet recovered, no one at the bottom has ever thought about the previous kingdom.

The lower-class people are always the most realistic, and whoever gives more benefits will be directed toward whoever is. This is not wrong. In the past, inland countries were simply levied heavily for war. If the lower-class people had not had the power to resist at all, they would have risen up and rebelled long ago.

This is also the reason why the victorious countries did not want to compensate but directly divided the territory of the inland countries, because with the economy of the inland countries at that time, they could definitely not afford the sky-high military spending.

Even if you can afford this number, it will be a matter of one hundred years to save up the whole country (in fact, it would be better to kill the nobles if you want to keep going). However, according to the current interest rate of loans on the mainland, the military expenditure for compensation will be an astronomical figure even if it is a hundred years later. It can only be more and more.

Now that we have taken over the territory of the landlocked countries, although we need to invest a certain amount of funds to develop and resume production, it is better than to pay it back. Before the World War, there was a gold coin war caused by lending disputes. It has not been many years since the incident.

Two years after the World War and as business on the entire continent was booming, problems arose in the colonies of southern countries.

The area of ​​the New World is far greater than that of the Old World. In the past, the New World also had a civilized society, but now there are only a few indigenous people. These indigenous people have only a few thousand people in a village, and they cannot stop the pioneers from developing the New World.

Those indigenous villages that knew the current affairs chose to naturalize, that is, learn the language and writing of the pioneers, and intermarry with the pioneers, and finally integrate into it.

Others who are ignorant of the times have already died under the swords and magic of the pioneers. Some of the natives of the New World can also know magic, but the number is very small, and only a few priests in each village or tribe can use magic.

For the natives, magic is sacred, mysterious and powerful. One of the ten pioneers who went to the New World was a magician, which made the local natives very frightened - the priests of their own tribes were all selected from thousands of miles away. And it seemed that they were not as strong as the newcomers here.

The indigenous people have always had many problems in developing the New World. The problem is that the New World is too big. In the past few decades, everyone has developed areas in the northern part of the New World. In the south of the New World, there are almost the same size territory. However, only expeditions will occasionally pass there because there are territory of orcs.

Link has never seen the orcs here. Link has seen the orcs in the Holy Empire of his hometown. In addition to looking a bit wild, it has retained some characteristics such as ears and tails. It is basically no different from humans. There are also many orcs born from intermarriage with humans.

However, after news came from the colonies of southern countries, Link realized that the orcs here were very powerful.

Basically, the south of the entire New World is the territory of the orcs. In addition, the orcs here can also be magic, and they are undead magic that is forbidden by humans. Undead magic is not just about playing with bones, such as death fingers, banshee's howl, life absorption, etc., all belong to the undead magic.

Now Link understood why he encountered a necromancer who had undead magic for the first time in his adventure to the New World. It seems that the New World itself is the base camp of undead magic.

Nowadays, the southern countries have spent money to publish large advertisements in newspapers of the State of Zeland, which are hiring mercenaries to wipe out orcs in the southern part of the New World.

However, anyone with a discerning eye can see that it can make several southern countries restless. The information that advertising recruits people across the mainland must have encountered a fierce attack from orcs.

During the development of the New World, the slowest southern countries finally caught only the southern areas bordering orcs. Now, dozens of colonies have been captured by orcs in these southern colonies in the New World. After the orcs break through the colonies, they naturally don’t leave any chickens and dogs. What can be eaten is naturally eaten. Of course, orcs do not eat the bald ape clan when they have enough food (this is the name of orcs for humans). After all, the bald ape clan is also a branch of orcs, but it is impossible to use it if they don’t eat it. Orcs are experts in playing undead magic. These bald ape clans are naturally used as material for undead magic.

In the eyes of orcs, the northern part of the New World is their own backyard. If you want to go in, you can go in at any time. It is completely unreasonable for those bald apes to build cities in various places to prevent orcs from entering.

The reason why undead magic is taboo by humans is that the use of undead magic materials requires at least a smart species. Low-level undead magic is to play with bones and zombies, but when it comes to middle-level undead magic, it involves the soul level.

Normal humans believe that after death, whether the soul dissipates or ascends to heaven, they will return to nature, but the magic of the undead will imprison the soul. This is a bit unforgivable.

The Continental Mage Alliance's attitude towards undead magic is to forbid all research on undead magic. Because on the old continent, the most convenient material for studying undead magic was human.

If you cannot prohibit the study of undead magic, it will be too late to wait until these undead mages grasp the material and catch their own people.

Among the orcs, almost every orc can use undead magic several times. The materials used by orcs come from their own people. Prisoners of war and orcs who have lost their combat power and labor will be regarded as materials for undead magic.

This situation is mainly caused by the different values ​​of orcs and humans. For humans, playing undead magic is a blasphemy of the dead. For orcs, playing undead magic is a relative who lives in another form - of course this form cannot reach eternity. An ordinary orc skeleton soldier will decay for more than a hundred or decades.

According to the precious information brought back by the expedition teams who have been to the south of the New World after heavy casualties, the orcs have reached a very high and common level in playing with the magic of the undead. In the orcs, the orcs are all orcs and skeleton soldiers who work in farming and working, and the orcs and zombies with stronger combat power are responsible for the safety of the village - that is, patrol and stand guard.

Moreover, almost every high priest in the orc village is a strong man of the level of the undead magician.

Although orcs also need to meditate and also damage their bodies, orcs' bodies are much stronger than humans. The magic level of ordinary orcs is not high, and they can be said to be true dual cultivation of magic and martial arts - orcs with relatively high magic levels, such as those undead magicians, are still very weak.

After reading the news in the newspaper, Link got up from the beach lounge chair and moved his body, then said to Phoenix, Mary Gis, and Veranika beside him: "You three are ready, it's time to go to the New World to experience it."

“Yes, Master.”

In the past, Link had waited for these three red-haired female warriors to go to the New World to experience it after they were promoted to the Holy Land. However, this matter was blocked by the World War. During the World War, the three red-haired female warriors also participated in the war. With Link's cover all the way, there was naturally no danger.

Compared to other Western League Sanctuary warriors, there are only one enchantment carriers with flying techniques, Phoenix and the three of them have seven enchant carriers. With a full set of epic equipment, the general Sanctuary is no match for them at all.

Phoenix is ​​now at level 18, Veranika and Marie Gees are both at level 17. Even Delia and Edwina, who were finally collected, are now at level 14. Of course, these two are still lacking in combat experience, but they have also seen blood and have to kill fish every day.

Now Delia and Edwina, who are half-step Sanctuary, have grown up, leaving them to guard the house this time.

In fact, leaving Delia and Edwina to keep their homes behind, they are more afraid that sea monsters will attack Link Port. Usually, Link is not bored to bask in the sun on the beach of the port every day, but to be alert. Who knows when sea monsters will attack?

If the sea monsters come to attack at night, it's nothing. There is no one near the dock at night. Although there are people on duty on the large fishing boats parked here, the steel body of the large fishing boat can block most of the attacks of monsters.

During the day, many dock workers here have to work on the pier. If you don’t be alert, let alone monsters, hungry big fish can jump on the pier to eat people.

If you want to go to the New World, Link Port has its own ship. After changing the route of the ship, it quickly sold a large number of ship tickets. The southern countries are relatively rich, and this time they are eager to recruit people, so the rewards given are still very high, so they can naturally tempt a large number of mercenaries to earn this life-long money.

At the end of this world war, many mercenaries lost their fixed jobs, either doing odd jobs or choosing to go to the New World. This time, the colonial development point of the southern country was attacked by orcs, and the price of hired mercenaries offered was much stronger than the price offered by the military in the world war.

Because it was a flight changed by his paddle steamer, Link and others naturally settled in the first class. During this voyage, Link met his acquaintance, the female mage Constance, who was also in the first class.

Back then, Link and the female mage Constance went to the catacombs together and made a fortune. Of course, judging from the current income of Link Port, it was just a small amount of money and a net profit of several months.

However, looking at the patterns on the mage robe on Constance, this person is now at level 12 and still lives in the first class cabin. He looks pretty good.

After all, the two people have disappeared for eight years. It is normal for the little mage to grow up back then. But the embarrassing thing is that Link was a level 11 mage back then, and now he is a level 11 mage. Although his magic power has increased a little, his magic power level is still level 14, which can be considered as having no progress at all.

The status of mages in this world is higher. In order to better play a pig and eat a tiger, Link naturally chose to appear as a magician outside. Only a small number of people who were injured by Link with his fighting spirit knew that Link was not a pure mage.

But it’s useless for these people to know. This is the enemy’s secret. I also hope that the enemy can tell you how to achieve dual cultivation of magic and martial arts.

After meeting, Link greeted first: "Hi, Constance, long time no see you, how are you okay?"
Chapter completed!