The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

If analyzed according to geographical knowledge, the Liszt River is not essentially a river, but an artificial waterway in a saline marsh.

The Liszt Marsh is the largest salt-alkali marsh in the northern part of the New World. The terrain is low and concave. When the tide rises on the seashore, seawater will flow back into this area, eventually forming a very huge marshland.

Only one species of red-leaf shrub grows in this swamp. This red-leaf shrub can resist the corrosion of saline-alkali marshes, and survives by drawing and purifying the saline-alkali water of the marsh, and its growth momentum is very strong, densely covering the whole piece of Lisi A special swamp, a large number of animals and birds live in this swamp.

The purpose of the earliest construction of the Port of Sainte-Pelia and Nice was the same. One side was a transit port that provided supplies for ships going north and south, and the other was a transit city that provided supplies for expeditions going deep into the interior of the New World. The two locations are exactly one east and one west, both at the waist of the Liszt Marsh, and the two places are also the positions with the narrowest straight-line distance among all the areas of the Liszt Marsh.

Later, as the countries of the Old World began to breed cherished animals in the New World, the Liszt Marsh, which inhabited countless animals, became a paradise for hunters, and the main service targets of the Port of Sainte-Pelia and Nice became those adventurers. For example, the ancestors of several big families in Nice are hunters, and even Nice still retains the traditional festival of hunting festival.

Later, with the continuous advancement of geography, someone measured that the straight-line distance from Nice to Port Sainte-Pelia was very short, and estimated that as long as one road was opened, it would only take a few days for businessmen to travel between the two places. It’s not like the Liszt River was opened before. It takes at least two months of detours to get there, and it’s easy to encounter robbers and robbers in the process of detours. Many businessmen are because of this. Man-made accidents have lost property and even lives.

When someone proposed the idea of ​​opening a river and connecting the two cities in the councils of these two cities, this idea quickly became a proposal, and it became a formal plan in a short period of time. The reason why it was so fast Passed mainly because the merchants between the two places have had enough of the time wasted and the dangers encountered by land.

Although the opening of the river has become a formal plan, it is somewhat difficult to implement, because the difficulty of digging a river in the Liszt Marsh is far more difficult than digging a river on other solid land, and every time the tide is high, it is a lot more difficult. The inverted sea water can easily destroy the construction results of the previous day.

It was also because of this difficulty that the entire plan had a stagnation period of nearly three years after the rapid approval. Even the city councils of the two cities wanted to abandon the plan. In the end, there was a child of a member of the Port of Sainte-Pelia. A whimsical suggestion was made at the festival banquet held by the city council, which allowed the implementation of the plan that had been stagnant for three years, and finally the current Liszt River was built.

The suggestion is simple. Since it is impossible to excavate the artificial river channel according to the conventional method, then abandon the conventional method and cut a river channel directly in the red-leaf shrub forest by cutting down the trees, and the boats passing on the river channel The intermediate wharf that needs to be docked at night does not need to be constructed according to conventional methods. It only needs to cut out a wharf shape on both sides of the river, and then erect it on the red leaf bush with wooden boards to become a usable wharf.

Although this method is simple and rude, it is quite practical. Soon the city councils of Nice and Sainte-Pelia adopted a new planning plan and started to formally promote the construction of the river.

In less than half a year, a river channel that runs through the two major cities of the east and the west appeared on the Liszt Marsh, and the Liszt Marsh was divided into the South List Marshes and the North List Marshes because of the emergence of this river.

According to the common sense of geography of this world, the Liszt River does not have the characteristics of a river at all. Even if all the trees on the river surface are cut down, the roots still remain at the bottom of the river, and there are swamp shrubs on both sides, so there is no so-called river bottom. The river itself is a part of the swamp, and even the depth of most river sections can only reach the waist of an adult.

However, this river that cannot be counted as a river played a huge role in the early and mid-term migration of the New World. At that time, nearly 80% of the goods in the entire inland area of ​​the New World were transported from this river to the port of Saint-Pelia, and then transported. To the Old Continent, the goods from the Old Continent were also transported from this river to the interior of the New Continent.

It is precisely because of such a huge cargo throughput that the two cities at both ends of the river, the Port of Sainte-Pelia and the city of Nice, became the first two cities in the New World with a population of over one million.

In addition, in order to better serve the ships going to and from the river, the councils of the two cities spent a lot of money to build three special rest piers in the deepest sections of the river. Later, these three piers even became three. A floating town built on red-leaf shrubs.

However, this kind of prosperity began to decline with the advent of steam trains, because steam trains are not only fast, but also have a huge carrying capacity. Far from being comparable to those flat-bottomed boats on the Liszt River, more importantly, this river. Every year, a lot of money is spent to clean the roots of the river bottom trees that grow stubbornly in the river. If they are not cleaned up, these roots will grow to the surface of the river and become dangerous things like reefs. The punt will basically be scrapped. This can be seen from the large number of hulks on both sides of the river that have not had time to clean up.

The appearance of the steam train had a smaller impact on the city of Nice, because the city council of Nice at that time had an excellent vision. When building the continental railway network, it took the initiative to invest, and even later increased investment, obtained decision-making power, and made Nice City become The central core of the continental railway network.

Although it is far from being compared with the past in terms of freight monopoly, the current status of the central hub of the New World still allows it to maintain prosperity.

On the other hand, the Port of Saint-Pelia is different. Although the Port of Saint-Pelia sees the future of steam trains, they hesitate in choosing whether to invest in the construction of the railway network because the investment is huge, but in the short term There is basically no possibility of returning to the capital, and there will even be loss of dedication. In addition, the conservatives of the city council of the port of Saint-Pelia have the upper hand. In the end, the port of Saint-Pelia chose to wait and see, and even sold a part of Lis in Nice. When the river rights of the Tehe were bought, he became the actual controller of the Liszt River.

In the end, a series of erroneous decisions made the Port of Sainte-Pelia's importance on the new and old continental freight routes plummet after the opening of the mainland railway network, and the entire port city eventually declined rapidly.

Now the Port of Saint-Pelia has returned to the state of the original cargo transfer station. If it were not for the city of Nice, it would still allocate a part of the cargo to the Liszt River, and then transfer from the Port of Saint-Pelia to the Old World, perhaps the current Saint-Pelia Even the superficial prosperity of Rosedale Harbour cannot be sustained.

However, although the Port of Sainte-Pelia could not obtain huge monopoly benefits from freight, the decision-making level of the Port of Sainte-Pelia found another way and found another way to make money, and this road was still a costless business. .

Because the Port of Saint-Pelia holds more than 90% of the shares in the Liszt River, the river that runs through the Liszt Marsh can be said to belong to the Port of Saint-Pelia, and the three pier towns on the river. Naturally, it is completely attributed to the Port of Sainte-Pelia.

The Port of Sainte-Pelia was therefore centered on the three pier towns and developed into the depths of the Liszt Marsh in the north and south. A large number of jungle towns dedicated to marsh adventurers and hunters were established, and the Liszt Marsh was completely controlled. In its hands, the various natural resources of the Liszt Marsh are also fully controlled by it.

As for the wealth and benefits of the Liszt Marsh in the end, no one else knows except for the city council of the Port of Saint-Pelia, but from the point of view of the decline of freight convenience in the Port of Saint-Pelia, it is still possible. Maintaining the prosperous scene on the surface, it can be seen that the wealth that the Port of Sainte-Pelia obtained from the Liszt Marsh is not a small amount.

However, this situation has changed in recent years, because some countries around the Liszt Marsh have also begun to claim partial ownership of the Liszt Marsh, and some have even sent troops into the marsh, seeming to want to forcibly occupy the marsh.

In the end, these troops disappeared in the swamp silently. Although the Port of Sainte-Pelia did not admit that it was their own work, the discerning people knew that they could silently wipe out thousands of people in the Liszt Marsh. I am afraid that only the Port of Sainte-Pelia, which knows Liszt Marsh well, can do it.

After seeing that they could not be forcibly occupied by the army, those countries did not give up. Instead, they secretly encouraged some social activists to publicize that the Liszt Marsh belongs to the entire New World, and any New World people are the owners of the Marsh. The Port of Sainte-Pelia was pushed to the opposite side of the entire New World.

These social activists may feel that it is not enough to just promote outside the swamp. Some of the daring even went to the swamp and gave various propaganda and speeches in the marina town controlled by the Port of Sainte-Pelia.

When the Sanctuary was docked in the first small town with a rehabilitated dock, many social activists led their students to promote their shared ideas on the marshes on the wooden shelves on the docks.

It’s just that most people who come to the harsh environment of the swamp are aimed at catching a rare creature and getting rich overnight. How can there be any idle time standing in front of those people’s crude wooden shelves and listening to their nonsense? , And those who want to experience the swamp adventure will not care about who the swamp belongs to, they just have to play fast.

It is also the attitude of these guests that the Saint Pelía Port Guard, who is responsible for the security of the dock town, did not drive these social activists away. They gave speeches and propaganda, as if it were a side show with local characteristics.

When Leo and the others disembarked, it was already dark. They were sailing on the dark Liszt River. Even the most experienced old captain seemed to have committed suicide, so they had to live in this pier town for one night and leave early tomorrow morning.

After disembarking, Leo and his party did not rush to the small hotel reserved by the Sanctuary, but called several social activists who were about to leave the dock and return to their place of residence, and then they were in the tavern on the dock. Invite them to dinner.

The reason why Leo and Sylvia would be interested in these social activists is that these social activists are from the Old Continent, and they happen to know some of the Old Continent from these people.

These social activists did not originally want to talk to Leo and the others. This was not because they saw that Leo and Sylvia had any bad thoughts, but because they saw the church next to them wearing a vain heart. After Joan in the knight armor, he simply regarded Leo and Sylvia as members of the False Heart Church.

In their impressions, the clergy and believers of the vain heart are some lunatics, who may be kind and friendly to you at the first moment, and may turn their faces and swords at the next moment, so try to stay away from the people of the vain heart church. It is the consensus of the people of the Old Mainland.

However, after Leo and Sylvia explained a bit, these social activists realized that they had misunderstood and accepted the invitation of the two happily. Of course, the premise was that Qiao An did not sit at a table with them.

Under Sylvia's conscious guidance, the few social activists who had drunk did not hide it, and said what should and should not be said.

What makes Leo and Sylvia interesting is that these social activists did not come to the New World voluntarily at all. All of them at uukanshu.com fled to the New World. In fact, in their minds, only criminals and thieves would be willing to move to the New World. This is also a common view among people in the Old World.

In fact, these social activists don’t know much about the countries of the Old Continent. They lived in a small country called Latovik since their birth, because this country produced a very famous social activist and wrote A textbook-like social structure, so most scholars in this country are social activists.

Because most social activists use sharp words to criticize politics to show their political views, they often offend some powerful and powerful people, and these social activists just because of some extreme words make a neighboring country have real power. The big man was offended. As a result, that big man was notoriously careful, so he sent people to assassinate these social activists, forcing these social activists to leave their homes and flee to the New World.

Although these social activists do not know much about the situation in other countries, they still have some basic understanding of the political environment of the entire Old Continent. According to them, all the countries in the Old Continent are piled up in a row of steam called rights. On the train, it is impossible to get off, and at the end of the train track is a mountain called Revolution, and crashing into it will inevitably lead to car crashes and deaths.