Although the river dock is under the control of the French Empire, the control area around it belongs to the Kingdom of England. The buildings here are also a large number of red brick apartments with the architectural style of the Kingdom of England, and most of the men walking here are

Wearing an English-style tuxedo and a top hat, the woman wore a folded lace puffy skirt with a fishbone frame.

After entering the controlled city of the Kingdom of Yinge, Leo felt an inexplicable sense of intimacy. This was the emotional memory left in his body from his predecessor. Leo was not disgusted with this, but instead let go of his suppression of this feeling.

, let yourself carefully experience this feeling that you have never had before.

For cyborgs, the word hometown is definitely not a good word, because returning to hometown means repairing or even rebuilding. Many cyborgs simply equate hometown with death, even if they don't understand death at all.

What is.

However, at this moment, Leo felt the nostalgia for his hometown from the remaining emotions of his predecessor, which also made him understand why the ordinary soldiers who had acted with him in the past had such a look on their faces when they received instructions to go home.

expression.

Compared to the almost curfew-like nighttime streets of the French Empire, the city managed by the Kingdom of England is much more lively, because pubs can be seen everywhere in this city. In addition to some grocery stores for daily necessities, every street has

The rest of the stores are all pubs. A large number of company employees and dock workers after work come to the pubs on the street to relax at this time. All kinds of cheerful and chaotic music comes from the pubs, making the street very noisy.

In addition, there is almost no horse-drawn carriage in the urban areas managed by the Kingdom of England. All that is used on the streets are public rail steam cars.

Moreover, the public steam cars of the Kingdom of England are not only more than twice the size of ordinary steam cars, they are even raised to one level so that they can carry more passengers. As for whether such increase and height will cause any safety hazards,

These are not considered by bus company bosses. What they think about is getting more passengers to ride and making more money.

After walking for a while on the street, Leo chose a steam rail car that not many people were riding on, boarded it, and sat in the back seat. Because all rail cars were on city-circling tracks,

So he can reach the Embarcadero Terminal by taking any steam rail car.

The rail car was moving very slowly, and the thick smoke that was constantly sprayed from the front steam engine easily enveloped the carriage behind it. People riding in the carriage had to take out their masks and put them on, although it was impossible to completely do so.

It isolates dust and ashes from the steam, but at least it can give people a sense of safety.

Because of the steam smoke, the streets of the Kingdom of England seemed to be inside the clouds. Everyone was walking through the invisible fog, and there were quarrels, shouts, music and steam locomotive warnings everywhere.

Bronze bells.

As we approached the port terminal, the steam smoke gradually dissipated due to the sea breeze, and the passengers in the car also took off their masks. As the car drove to the road on the edge of the city, the driver blew the whistle thoughtfully.

, reminded the passengers in the carriage, and at this time the passengers also looked towards the sea view outside the window and the pier under the cliff.

The offshore terminal at the other end of the city needs to dock a large number of sea freighters for a long time, so the terminal is built to be wide, long, and large, all of which are exactly the same, and most of the land on the terminal is occupied by large warehouses for loading goods.

Covered, looking across, there is really no special scenery to see.

But the inland river terminals managed by the French Empire, because most of the ships docked here are small and medium-sized ships traveling on the inland rivers, the docking terminals do not need to be built too big, and the cargo ships only occupy the space of all the ships here.

A small part, and most of the rest are private cruise ships and imperial warships, so the dock styles here will be built separately according to the different docked ships, and these docks of different shapes have become one of the scenery here.

In addition, there are very few cargo warehouses on the inland terminals. Most cargo ships coming from land dock here for a while, and then drive along the edge of Vinaya Island to the open sea terminal on the other side to unload. In this area

Large tracts of land that were originally supposed to be used for building warehouses have now been turned into luxurious casinos and entertainment venues.

At the beginning, there was a long debate among the senior officials of the French Empire about the purpose of this pier. Most people believed that it should be built as a military pier, specifically used to dock warships to contain other people who were also the controllers of Vinaya Port.

Two enemy countries, but the Marquis de Luo was eventually appointed as the governor, against all odds, came up with a new plan to build the dock into a carnival city.

Facts have proved that this plan is very successful. In less than a year, this pier has become one of the tourist attractions in Velen Continent. A large number of tourists come here every month to gamble and have fun. The Governor's Palace specially caters for these tourists, from France

The Lan Navy mobilized several decommissioned warships, transformed them into large cruise ships, and set up special routes to receive tourists from all over the Velen continent.

When Leo got off the car, a group of vendors immediately gathered around, selling souvenirs from Vinaya Port. It was obvious that these shrewd vendors could tell at a glance that those people were tourists who had just arrived in Vinaya Port.

A permanent resident of Vinaya.

Leo asked the vendors around him: "I want to find a boat. It's a private cruise ship. The owner of the boat is a distinguished nobleman of the French Empire. His boat should leave tonight. Who can help?"

If I find it, I will reward you with one hundred Vinaya coins."

These hawkers were immediately attracted by Leo's proposal. Although one hundred Vinaya coins was not a lot for Leo, it was also the profit of these hawkers for ten days and a half. Naturally, they wanted to get this reward.

Jin. However, most of them did not know the situation at the dock and had no idea what ship Leo was looking for, so they could only look forward to the bounty.

Some of the vendors also had some crooked ideas, but their eyesight could see that Leo was not easy to deal with, and it was not worthwhile to sacrifice themselves for a hundred Vinaya coins, so they suppressed those crooked ideas as soon as they appeared.

"I know." At this time, a shoe shine kid carrying a shoe box squeezed in from the crowd, raised his hand high, and said to Leo.

"Take me there, one hundred Vinaya coins will be yours." Leo did not doubt whether the child would lie. In his opinion, even if the child lied, it would not matter. The other party would definitely know about the local snakes in the dock area.

As long as you find a local snake and ask, you can still get the information you want.

"One hundred is not enough, I want two hundred." The child could see that the vendors around him didn't know the information Leo wanted, so he sat down and raised his price.

"Okay." Leo agreed to the price without bargaining.

"Follow me." Under the envious eyes of everyone, the child led Leo along the steps to the pier area below, then passed through a group of shops selling souvenirs, passed two casinos, and arrived near the pier.

Then, the child asked Leo to wait for a while, and he climbed to a lookout booth next to the road. He scanned the ships docked on the pier and quickly found his target.

After getting off the observation pavilion, he led Leo towards the only west side, near the French Empire Military Terminal, a high-end pier specializing in personal cruise ships. However, when he was about to approach the pier, he was stopped by the security guard at the pier.

Once down, they were not allowed to come any closer.

For this reason, the child pulled Leo to the second floor of a fishing tackle shop next to the road, then pointed at a white sailboat docked on the pier without any steam machinery installed, and said: "That's it, the boat you are looking for.

That’s the one.”

"Who is the owner of that ship?" Leo looked at the ship and asked in a deep voice.

The child was a little dissatisfied that Leo did not pay him immediately, and there was also a little worry in his eyes. It seemed that he was worried that he would not get the reward he deserved.

Although he was a little worried, he still told what he knew.

It turned out that the information about this beautiful white sailing ship was overheard by the child from the conversation between the shoeshine customers. The two customers who were talking were the managers of this pier.

The white sailboat belonged to the private ship of the Minister of Finance of the Emperor of France. The person who drove the ship to the port of Vinaya was the son of the Minister of Finance. In another hour, the ship will leave the port and sail back to the inland. In addition to the information about this ship

In addition to the information, the child provided a very important information, that is, the relationship between the son of the finance minister and the son of the governor was very bad, almost to the point of incompatibility.

"Yes! The information you provided is very good." After listening, Leo reached out and touched the child's head, then wrote a cash check for three hundred Vinaya coins and handed it to the child.

When the child saw that there was an extra one hundred Vinaya coins, he was immediately overjoyed. He took the wooden box and ran downstairs. But halfway, he seemed to have thought of something, and returned upstairs, towards Leo.

Asked: "Sir, do you want to know where the finance minister's son is now?"

"Have you met the son of the Minister of Finance?" Leo asked.

The child nodded and said: "Not long ago, the son of the Finance Minister was sitting in Little Tom's booth shining shoes, and I was right next to him."

Leo asked again: "How do you know that is the son of the Minister of Finance?"

The child shrugged and said in a mature manner: "It's not okay to work in our industry if you don't know those rich nobles. You must know that the competition in our industry is fierce. If you are not careful, your customers will be snatched away.

.”

Leo smiled, thought for a moment, and asked in a deep voice: "Since you know the son of the Minister of Finance, have you seen a cat pendant on him?"

The child shook his head and said, "I didn't see the cat pendant, but there is always a black cat next to him."

"Black Cat." Leo smiled when he heard this answer. He wrote another cash check for one hundred Vinaya coins and handed it to the child. Then he signaled that the child could leave, and reminded the child in a more serious tone not to

Tell others about his spying on the Finance Minister's son.

The child who got another hundred Vinaya coins happily ran downstairs. After running a certain distance, he stopped again, as if he was thinking about something. Then he said with a look of surprise: "Yes! I

You can sell this information to that noble lord, and he should also give you a lot of reward."

Thinking of this, the child took big steps and ran towards the other side of the pier. It took more than ten minutes to run to a cargo pier and quickly came under a cargo ship.

At this time, the security guard guarding the cargo ship stopped the child and said, "Go away, little mouse, is this where you should be?"

"I have important information to sell to Sir Richard Weston." The child shouted immediately.

Naturally, the security guard didn't believe that a little guy who shined shoes on the pier would know any important information, so he was ready to drive the child away.

"Wait!" At this time, a richly dressed aristocratic young man with a black cat standing on his shoulder stepped off the cargo ship, came to the child, and said, "What important information do you want to sell me?"

"Very important information." Seeing his target being attracted, the child smiled and said, "However, I would like to know how much money are you prepared to pay for this information?"

Richard Weston smiled, not caring about the child's offensive behavior at all, and said: "What a greedy kid! However, I like your greed very much. As long as your information is really useful to me, I will give it to you."

One hundred gold flanges as reward."

The child was immediately attracted by the huge bounty of one hundred gold flanges, and told Leo's story without much thought.

After hearing what the child said, Richard Weston did not refuse to pay. He directly ordered the servant beside him to take out a gold ticket of one hundred gold flanges and handed it to the child. After thinking about it for a moment, he immediately returned to the cargo ship.

"Sir, why are you back again?" The owner of the cargo ship was counting the cargo on the ship. When he saw Richard Weston returning to the ship, he couldn't help but be stunned.

Richard Weston said: "Don't you want to see my father? If you set sail immediately and leave the port of Vinaya, I will introduce you to my father and even tell you about your matter.

guest."

Hearing Richard Weston's words, the owner of the ship couldn't help but be stunned. At first, he thought that Richard Weston was playing a trick on him. After all, he tried his best and failed to persuade the other party. But in a sudden change,

However, the other party offered to cooperate, which makes people feel weird no matter how you look at it.

However, when he thought about it again, he remembered Richard Weston's character and credibility in the aristocratic circle of the French Empire, and he couldn't help but feel that this matter might really turn around.

Although leaving Vinaya Port now will cause the ship owner to lose a piece of cargo, it doesn't matter if he can negotiate a deal with the Minister of Finance, not to mention a piece of cargo, even if he loses all his wealth.

Thinking of this, the owner of the ship immediately made a decision and was about to order the ship to sail.
Chapter completed!