Extraordinary Sailing

After the news of the disastrous defeat of the Armada in the "Battle of Benin" spread, the world was in an uproar.

The first to bear the brunt is the Southern Continent, which is close at hand.

War is always a means, and the interests behind it are the strong driving force. As long as resources are not infinite, world peace will always be just a beautiful dream.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, after Tulip regained all the lost land occupied by Sirius, it immediately set off a carnival feast against Sirius to counterattack and liquidate!

Especially in the previous naval battle, a large number of elite troops in the Sirius fleet participated in the battle with the ship, but before they really started the boarding battle they were best at, they had already died in the sea with the no longer invincible armada.

To Tulip, the empty Cyrus colony is no better than a harmless little white rabbit.

The most mobile Aiwen and his party are in charge of the second largest colony belonging to Cyrus, Metical located on the southeast coast of the southern continent, and further east is the Eritrean Sea leading to the Peacock Islands.

Fighting with the army, they only need to be responsible for suppressing the formation. In the sporadic city strongholds along the way, after the essence has long been swept away, most of the Cyrus soldiers simply fled in the face of the menacing Tulipmen.

boom! boom! boom!

In the sporadic gunfire.

Seeing that the colonial capital of Metical has been captured all the way, without even fighting a decent tough battle, Gary patrols ahead, and Ivan, Olivia, and Milan, who have nothing to do, hide in the camp to share the spoils.

"One for you, one for me!"

"One for you, one for me!"

In addition to the gold and ivory ornaments that are abundant in the loot collected along the way, the Southern Continent is worthy of the reputation of being the world's gem warehouse. All kinds of diamonds, rubies, sapphires, chrysoberyls, emeralds, aquamarines, amethysts, peridots, tourmalines. Everything you expect.

In addition, there are grape-sized red essence fruits in front of several people.

After the naval battle, the "Extraction Potion" opened for a long time, and the large "Longnosed Chimaera" was not wasted at all, and its flesh and blood became a tonic for their promotion on the road to extraordinary.

The essence fruit produced by the sea monster on the spell side is of course a great supplement to the wizards. Since it is Aiwen's combat power item, he enjoys complete control.

He had been hiding it before, until the little apprentice An Qi, who was just about to hit the door, used them to successfully reach the limit before being promoted, and now Aiwen took it out and distributed it with Olivia and Milan.

"If only I could come here once a month."

Patting the animal-like "magic pocket" that Ivan gave him, Milan licked his lips and sighed.

Olivia, who also had a bumper harvest next to her, nodded her head vigorously, as if she could no longer agree with it. It was more refreshing to advance all the way than to raid the house. Except for the "Gem Star", all other types of ordinary witchcraft gems have been filled and there is still room left.

"The Kingdom is indeed right to choose Metical. If it is changed to Antananarivo in the Kingdom of Tairo, although there may be more gold coins, it may not be such a suitable windfall."

As the two strongest victors in the war, Phalatis and the Kingdom of Taro had already discussed a plan for dividing the spoils.

First, they teamed up to carve up the inheritance of the Kingdom of Ilia, and gave their own family a hard autumn fat.

Then Phalitis came to Metical, and the Kingdom of Taro went to the southernmost tip of the Southern Continent, Antananarivo Island, located in the Eritrean Sea across the sea from the Southern Continent.

The production of various vanilla, mainly vanilla, ranks first in the world. It is usually used for seasoning, making spices, or extracting essential oils. It is a daily necessities with considerable profits.

"I think the reason why the high-level officials of the Kingdom chose this place is not the gemstones. It's that this place, like Nigeria on the west bank, has rich coal resources."

"coal?"

Milan didn't know why, and Olivia thought about it.

Coal is something that other non-industrialized countries don't care about, but it is the food that the steam industry of the Phalatis Kingdom relies on for survival.

Aiwen, who proposed the "Overlord Disqualification Plan", has a long-term view than many people, and he can see through the real thoughts of the kingdom's high-level officials at a glance.

The plans mainly include the "blood loss plan" based on legal private plundering; the "trade war" based on cheap industrial products; and the "dismemberment plan" based on ethnic and religious conflicts.

The core of which is the "trade war", or the steam industrialization revolution behind the "trade war". The other two are used to weaken the enemy, and only this is to strengthen oneself in essence.

Before the industrial revolution, although human beings had made many dazzling achievements in agriculture, technology, culture, etc., the situation of not having enough food and commodities had never changed.

Both the individual and the society have poor ability to resist risks. A natural or man-made disaster will immediately destroy the family and even the country.

But after the industrial revolution, for the first time in history, the supply of goods exceeded the demand, that is, from the era of material scarcity to the era of material abundance.

For example: 50 ballpoint pens for nine yuan and free shipping. This is something that only industrialized countries can do.

Industry has the magical power to turn any short-selling goods into street stalls!

Only when the material civilization is enriched can more people be fed, more social divisions of labor can be created, and more people can be employed full-time as soldiers, doctors, workers, businessmen, scholars, inventors, artists, etc. thriving modern society.

Compared with the simple agricultural and animal husbandry society in the past, which one is more powerful? It is clear at a glance.

Therefore, the Industrial Revolution is a major turning point in the process of human civilization.

As for why the Tulip Alliance, especially the Phalatis Kingdom, is the place where steam engines are most popular in the entire human civilization world?

Because Phalitis is actually the place where coal was first discovered in the entire human world. Before the discovery of coal mines in the various colonies, the coal production of Phalatis accounted for 80% of the world's coal production!

It was also one of the important reasons why the Alchemist School chose Phalitis as their bridgehead when they returned to the Old World.

In addition, the development of the steam industry is inseparable from sufficient iron, but for Phalitis at the beginning of the popularization of steam engines, iron was the most lacking.

Because at that time, the production of iron was determined by the area of ​​the forest.

It is necessary to burn charcoal and iron ore together to produce qualified iron. About 100 kilograms of wood can only produce 1 kilogram of iron. At that time, an ordinary ironmaking plant would consume 2,400 mu of forest a year.

Therefore, the forest coverage rate of Phalitis even dropped to 10% at one point.

It was not until they took the lead in finding a way to smelt iron with coke a few years ago that this situation was fundamentally reversed.

If things go on like this, maybe within a few years, the iron output of Phalitis alone will be more than the total iron output of other countries in the world. And in this era when the number of cannons represented military strength, iron production was almost equal to military strength!

In addition, with the development of steam engines, long-distance iron-clad ships can be expected in the future, and these coal-producing areas distributed in coastal areas will become excellent supply points.

After roughly explaining the importance of this territory to the two people, Aiwen turned around and looked at the large military map that had changed from red to blue in the camp, and said with some concern:

"The only thing that makes me a little uneasy now is, where did the remnants of the fleet that escaped in the spiritual storm go? Why couldn't even the seagulls find their trace?"

At the same time as Tulip counterattacked and liquidated.

The colonial capital of the Sark Empire, St. Louis.

In the love nest built for the "canary".

Prince Clement, the Governor of the Southern Continent of the Sark Empire, hugged his lover's slender and soft waist and rubbed his ears with her. He was greedy for the infinite beauty of this "beauty", and shared the military battle report with him indifferently:

"My Diana, you see, thanks to your suggestion. This time, Sirius suffered a big loss, and let us Sac follow suit without a fight. You are really my lucky star!

I have told His Majesty about you, and when the reward is awarded, you will be Dame Diana! happy? "

Sac, who has a lot of interests in the Southern Continent, took advantage of this opportunity to snatch a few resource points belonging to the Cyrus enclave.

However, their mutual understanding is that Lobito, the largest colony of Cyrus, is also one of the areas with the richest natural resources such as minerals and forestry in the entire Southern Continent, and no one will move it for the time being.

That was the last face of Sirius who didn't have much territory in the Southern Continent.

"Of course. Happy."

Clement did not realize that the smile on the face of the beauty in his arms was far-fetched.

Diana, who is also Phanes of the "Curse School", although she doesn't know the allusion of three years later and three years later, she also feels that her undercover work is really unpleasant.

What if this playboy who is becoming more and more infatuated with him suddenly proposes to him one day? Is it a promise, a promise, or a promise?

The Cyrus people who were experiencing the collapse of the wall did not know that the bad luck on their heads did not stop there.

Half a month after the war, another explosive bad news was brought back to the colony by a merchant ship that went to sea.

There are still seventeen surviving small half fleets, not repaired at a secret naval base as everyone initially expected, in an attempt to stand up and wait for an opportunity to fight again.

Instead, when they were evacuating towards Luanda, they encountered a super storm at sea, and the entire army was wiped out!

The merchant ship found the broken hull of the Sirius battleship on a deserted island near the route, and a team of three survivors. Both human and physical evidence are undeniable.

This also means that Silius' last military strength in the southern continent has been completely emptied, and the only suspense left for Tulip has also been settled.

But even greater doubts arose. Why didn't Tulip, who also returned later, encountered a storm that could destroy a fleet?

When Aiwen received this heavy news and hurried back from Metical, which had already completed the strategy, and prepared to help An Qi, who had completely completed the pre-promotion process, to carry out the official wizard promotion.

But very unexpectedly received a spiritual message from Fisher, the dean of Raging Waves Church. The content is very short and only one sentence:

"The greeting gift from the Church of Raging Waves to Tulip, I hope you will like it."

Obviously.

In the past, the "Mother of Sea Monsters" hated all human beings, which was closely related to his path, a contradiction that no one could reconcile. Even if the great voyage is in full swing, no human kingdom wants to get involved with the master of the Black Sea, and the best attitude is to stay away from it.

But the "Goddess of the Black Sea" Hipponoah, who has been banned for three hundred years, is a human being who became a god, but this may not be the case.

This time, who knows which peak powerhouse made an attack on the Armada, it was a very blatant gesture of favor.

However, when Aiwen saw Fisher's message, when he finally solved the doubts in his heart, he tightened his scalp, as if being stung by a scorpion, and sent it back to the mainland immediately.

Let the queen, the crown prince and the princes of the capital have a headache.

Reminiscent of the situation of Raging Waves Church and that goddess, there must be troubles behind showing affection for nothing! Big trouble!