Vinaya Port, the largest seaport city in the Velen continent, is also the most troubled city in the Velen continent. It is also regarded as a floating city with architectural miracles. Many names have been piled on the name of this city, making it a
One of the most legendary cities in the entire world of Velen.
At first, Vinaya was just a beach at the end of the outlet of the Pangbo River. A large amount of sediment washed down from the upper reaches of the Pangbo River gathered here. After countless years of accumulation, it gradually formed a small island.
Like most landlocked countries, the French Empire did not pay much attention to this small island at first, and did not even regard this small island as its own territory. There were a large number of debtors, criminals, escaped serfs, and ordinary people fleeing the war.
People gathered here and gradually established a lawless place here, and it also became a famous den for selling stolen goods and a place for smuggling.
As the Kingdom of Sigmar and the Kingdom of Inge began to colonize the Moissan continent and brought back a large amount of resources and wealth from the Moissanite continent, the French Empire also began to be interested in the Moissanite continent, so it began to form the first navy of the French Empire and
The first official port city, Vinaya with its excellent geographical location became the first choice of the French Empire.
Those who have settled in Vinaya for hundreds of years no longer consider themselves French. They prefer to call themselves Vinaya and believe that Vinaya is a free land and does not belong to the French Empire.
So when the French Empire was preparing to build a port city in Vinaya, the Vinaya people chose to resist.
A war that was supposed to have great disparity in strength lasted for half a year. Two-thirds of the Vinaya people died in the war, while more people from the French Empire died. The remaining Vinaya people were just old and weak.
The remnants were no longer able to support the occupation, and finally had no choice but to surrender.
However, what the surrendered Venaya people did not expect was that Maxim Modison, the commander-in-chief of the French Empire at that time and the first governor of the French Empire in Venaya, did not intend to let these people go.
Choose retaliatory massacre, slaughter all the living Vinaya people, and bury all the bones of all Vinaya people in the foundation of the Vinaya Port to make these Vinaya people forever
Being trampled on.
No one paid much attention to Maxim's massacre at the time. After all, the dead Vinaya people were not considered human beings in the eyes of many people, but the practice of burying the dead in the foundation was criticized, and it remains so until now.
Many French people believe that the reason why Vinaya Port is experiencing so many disasters is related to the bones of the Vinaya people in the foundation, and believe that those undead spirits are cursing Vinaya Port.
From the beginning, the French Empire established a navy and built a port for the huge interests of the Moissanite continent. Therefore, Vinaya Port was originally a military port. The first navy of the French Empire was stationed here, and it also started from here.
Set off towards the Mosang continent.
Although the French Empire is a land power with the strongest army and knights in the world, its maritime strength is very weak and cannot be compared with the two maritime powers. Moreover, the time when it chose to join the maritime hegemony was also very inappropriate.
This was the period when the Kingdom of Sigmar and the Kingdom of England had the strongest maritime power, which caused a series of maritime plans formulated by the French Empire to end in failure, resulting in extremely heavy losses.
Not only the losses at sea, the superior geographical location of Vinaya Port also attracted the attention of the Kingdom of Sigmar. They felt that they could use Vinaya Port as a springboard to let their country's influence penetrate into Velen Continent and complete Sigma.
The dream of countless ancestors to settle in Velen Continent.
Driven by both the ideals of their ancestors and practical interests, the Kingdom of Sigmar suddenly launched an attack on Vinaya Port. In less than three days, it captured Vinaya Port and completely annihilated the defenders in the city.
The port of Vinaya changed hands for the first time.
Naturally, the French Empire was not willing to let the port they had worked so hard to build be taken away from them, so they immediately organized an army to launch a counterattack, and this counterattack started the battle for Vinaya that lasted for thirty years.
In the past thirty years, Vinaya Port changed hands between the two countries hundreds of times, and as many as one million soldiers from the two countries died in this war. In the end, the purpose of each other was no longer to compete for Vinaya Port.
It has become a kind of persistence, a kind of persistence that is somewhat inexplicable in future generations. It is like the Vinaya Port has become a symbol of the Velen Continent. If you get the Vinaya Port, you will get the Velen Continent. If you lose the Vinaya Port, you will have the Velen Continent.
It's like Hong Kong has lost the mainland of Velen.
According to what some meddlesome people say now, the top leaders of both countries were cursed by the undead of Vinaya at that time, and they had only one idea in their minds, which was to seize Vinaya Port.
The thirty-year battle between the French Empire and the Kingdom of Sigmar for the Port of Vinaya finally ended with the French Empire retaking the Port of Vinaya, but the ultimate winner was not these two countries, but the Kingdom of England.
After thirty years of war with the French Empire, although it was only a local war, the Kingdom of Sigmar spent hundreds of millions of manpower and material resources. Even with the countless wealth shipped from the Mosang Continent, it was still difficult to fill this huge hole.
Because the Kingdom of Sigmar wants to attack Vinaya Port, it can only rely on their powerful shipping. Therefore, in the past thirty years, the proportion of the navy invested by the Kingdom of Sigmar here has been increasing day by day, from less than one-fiftieth at the beginning to later
Nearly two-thirds of the navy's ships have been deployed to Vinaya Port.
A large number of the Kingdom of Sigmar's navy was diverted from the route of the Moissan continent, allowing the Kingdom of England's navy to take advantage of the situation. However, the Kingdom of England was very smart, and they did not blatantly expand their navy to occupy the loopholes in the waters controlled by the Kingdom of Sigmar.
, but secretly formed private sailors, disguised as pirates, plundered the Kingdom of Sigmar and controlled the sea area. Pirate Earl Drake was an outstanding figure who appeared at that time.
If the secret plot of the Kingdom of Inge is only the external cause of the Kingdom of Sigmar's loss of maritime hegemony, then the Kingdom of Sigmar's exploitation of the colonies is completely digging their own grave.
In order to fill the huge financial hole in the battle for Vinaya Port, the Kingdom of Sigmar frantically increased various taxes in the colonies and continuously raised taxes. In just thirty years, the Kingdom of Sigmar's various taxes in the Moissan Continent increased by 1%.
There are more than hundreds of taxes, including even marriage and childbirth, and the taxes have been adjusted more than ten times.
Faced with such heavy taxes, the people of the colonies simply could not bear it, and within thirty years, anti-tax wars broke out continuously in the Kingdom of Sigmar.
It is this kind of resentment derived from interests and accumulated over the years that makes the people of the entire Kingdom of Sigmar colonies turn against each other. The Kingdom of England seized the opportunity and attacked the colonies of the Kingdom of Sigmar with the slogan of eliminating all excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes. The resistance in the entire colony was minimal, and in a short time
In five days, all the colonies of the Kingdom of Sigmar in Mozang Continent were completely lost.
The loss of the colony was not the real reason why the Kingdom of Sigmar lost its maritime hegemony. The real reason why the Kingdom of Sigmar surrendered its maritime hegemony to the Kingdom of Inge was that the Kingdom of Sigmar's invincible fleet withdrew from Vinaya Port and went to the colony to suppress the rebellion.
On the way, they encountered an unknown shipwreck and the entire army was wiped out, leaving the Kingdom of Sigmar with less than ten warships available in the country within twenty years.
After gaining maritime hegemony, the Kingdom of England seemed to be cursed like the Kingdom of Sigmar. It suddenly launched an attack on Vinaya Port and seized Vinaya Port from the French Empire.
Facing the new maritime overlord, the Kingdom of England, whose resources and manpower were at their peak, even if the French Empire was unwilling to do so, had to temporarily stop the fight for Vinaya Port and instead recuperate.
Although the Kingdom of England almost became the de facto controller of Vinaya Port, the war against Vinaya Port did not end. On the contrary, in the next hundred years or so, the French Empire would frequently attack Vinaya Port in an attempt to
Take control of the city away from the Kingdom of England.
However, the luck of the French Empire is really not good. Over the past hundred years, countless attacks have failed to recapture Vinaya Port. The one that came closest to succeeding even occupied three-quarters of the city.
It only takes half a day of siege to completely eliminate the remaining Ying Kingdom troops in the city. However, because the Ying Kingdom's garrison commander used a small group of ships to attack the important inland towns along the Pang Bo River directly from the Pang Bo River, the offensive and maintenance forces were hindered.
The army in Naya Port had to return to defense, and ultimately missed this, the only possible sergeant operation in a century to recapture Vinaya Port.
However, five years ago, the inexplicable war between the French Empire and the Kingdom of England ended in the Kingdom of England's defeat. The defeated armies had to retreat to Vinaya Port to prepare for evacuation from the sea.
But the French Empire sent airships and all warships to intercept the rescue fleet of the Kingdom of England, leaving nearly half a million troops trapped in Vinaya Port.
Time, everyone in the city will be so hungry that they will no longer have the ability to fight.
For this reason, the Kingdom of England had to negotiate with the French Empire to rescue the more than 500,000 troops. The French Empire also had no intention of continuing to fight with the Kingdom of England because of the changes in West France, so the negotiations went smoothly.
In the end, the French Empire took back control and ownership of half of Vinaya City.
After the Kingdom of England signed a negotiation agreement with the French Empire, it also felt that it could not fight against the French Empire on its own, so it brought in the newly established United Kingdom and traded half of its control rights to the United Kingdom.
Naya Port entered a period of tripartite control, also known as the period of three governors.
Leo had been to Vinaya Port before, or to be more correct, it was Leo's predecessor. At that time, all the British troops landed at Vinaya Port and were then distributed to various fronts.
However, no matter how hard Leo recalled it, he could not remember what Vinaya Port looked like. It was as if this memory had been erased by some force. The only impression left was that it was weird. In the past, Lei
From European eyes, the appearance of Vinaya Harbor is very strange.
It was precisely because of the abnormal memory that Leo was even more curious about Vinaya Port. When he learned from the captain that he would be able to reach Vinaya Port at noon, he left the cabin early, walked to the penetrating point, and looked into the distance.
Direction to Vinaya port.
After the cargo ship rounded a protruding lighthouse promontory, several oncoming cargo ships greeted them with their whistles, and the Vinaya Port in the distance also appeared in Leo's eyes.
After seeing clearly the appearance of Vinaya Port through the far vision ability in his spiritual vision skill, Leo immediately understood why his predecessor thought Vinaya Port was weird, because Vinaya Port was a city built on a honeycomb.
The formal urban area of ​​Vinaya Port is about thirty to forty meters above sea level. Below the urban area are foundations made of countless urban ruins. These foundations are full of holes and look like a huge honeycomb from a distance.
have to.
"It's shocking, isn't it?" The captain walked up to Leo with his pipe in his mouth. He also looked at the Vinaya Port ahead and said: "Every time I see Vinaya Port, I can clearly feel it.
After seeing the wars that took place here for more than a hundred years, I lamented the cruelty of war from the bottom of my heart."
Leo asked: "Are all the foundations below the ruins of the former Vinaya Port city?"
"Yeah." Perhaps because he was almost arriving at the destination, the captain's nervous mood relaxed and he didn't mind chatting with Leo, so after hearing Leo's inquiry, he told him what he knew about Weiner
I told Leo what happened in Yagang.
The small island where Vinaya City is located is formed by the accumulation of silt. There are no stones that can be used for construction, and they all need to be transported from outside.
The first materials used to build the Vinaya Port were stones transported from the Zhongyou quarry on the Pangbo River. The cost was huge, and reconstruction after each war was very difficult because a large number of destroyed and abandoned building stones needed to be cleaned up.
, it will be rebuilt, which will increase some costs.
For this reason, a Sigma officer who occupied Vinaya Port at the time came up with a temporary solution, which was not to clean up the waste stones, but to directly fill in the ruins, level the foundations on the ruins, and build new buildings.
This method is only a temporary solution, and the flattened foundations are not used to build buildings such as residential buildings, but to build some simple fortifications to withstand the attack of the French Empire army.
But what no one expected was that after repeated use, this temporary method turned out to be the unique architectural pattern of Viana Port.
Every time after a war, the new Vinaya Port city would build a city on the filled-in ruins. Sometimes the ruins were not even filled in, but just slightly leveled. Eventually, the city continued to pile up and became
It became what it is now, and the old ruined city became a sewer.
Although the wars in Vinaya Port have never really stopped for more than a hundred years, these wars will not affect the commercial activities of Vinaya Port, and the more intense the war is, the more commercial activities here become.
It is prosperous.
The grapes and wines of the Bodo region, the precious specialties of the Black Forest, the furs of beasts from the northern ice fields, and other goods from the Velen Continent are all gathered here and shipped to all parts of the world. Correspondingly, goods from all over the world are also shipped here and sold to various states in the Velen Continent.
County towns.
This is not just because of the special geographical location of Vinaya Port, but more importantly, because Vinaya Port has gathered nearly 90% of the chambers of commerce in the Vinaya world. Almost all official chambers of commerce in all countries have their offices here.
Chapter completed!