At dawn, the huge dock area of Port King has become bustling with people.
Beside the salt-frosted wooden pier, coolies in dirty and tattered linen clothes were shouting hard at all the ships that were docking.
"You're so strong and energetic! I'll help you move a load of goods for just two silver coins! You can't find such a good thing anywhere else!"
"More people go faster! It won't delay your business! Our guys here are quick and clean, so you can use it comfortably!"
"A professional in slaughtering fish and beasts! The harpoon is top-notch accurate! The professional harpooner is looking for a job on a ship! Some sea hunting ship will take him in!"
"The cargo fleet from Lu Gaoyin has arrived at the port! Which caravan wants to transport goods to Lu Gaoyin? Come and register quickly! One ton of cargo is worth one gold coin. It is affordable and safe. It has been at sea for twenty years.
The old captain will lead the way!"
In addition to the poor laborers who make a living by transporting goods, there are also a large number of scarred sea hunters and well-dressed merchants and cargo owners working at the port.
Of course, the latter goes without saying. Almost most of the wealthy people in King's Port made their fortunes as traders.
The former is a special occupation born out of King's Port's special geographical environment. These so-called "sea hunters" and "sea hunters" are actually hunters who specialize in going out to sea to hunt various sea beasts that appear in the Twin Seas.
King's Harbor is located on a promontory at the southernmost tip of the Western Continent. Further south is the endless Twin Seas. This vast sea is not as gentle as the Nobile Sea. It not only has strong winds and waves, but also tidal undercurrents.
A large number of huge marine behemoths appeared in it.
Due to the vast living environment and the protection of the ocean, these ocean giants have never been disturbed by the forces of hell. They are all native species that have been living in the Twin Seas since ancient times.
But not being corroded by the power of hell does not mean that these giant sea beasts are easy to deal with. In fact, if it is in the sea, even many clone-level demons are no match for these giant beasts.
However, it is difficult to deal with. Many sea beasts here also have high economic value.
The skins of some sea beasts can be made into warm and beautiful clothing, and some sea beasts have natural spices in their bodies that exude a peculiar fragrance. Not to mention that these sea beasts are so huge that if you catch one, just selling the meat can make a lot of money.
All the sailors on the entire hunting ship made a lot of money.
However, even so, sea hunting is still a hard job. Every year in King's Port, countless sea hunters and sea hunting boats go to sea and never come back.
It is said that in the depths of the Twin Seas, some of the giant sea monsters that have survived for countless years are as big as half a city. If any sea hunting ship accidentally ran too far and ran into these monsters, it would be terrible.
Not even Neptune can protect them!
This is a group of guys who put their heads in their waistbands to earn a living. Among them there are even some mercenaries with a lower level limit, and even some professionals. After they can no longer survive, they can only earn a living on a hunting ship.
There are a lot of people there too.
In addition to having a large number of high-quality fragrant orchards in Port King, the trade in marine animal products is also a major source of the economy in Port King. It is this lucrative trade in marine animal products that supports 70% of the poor families in Port King who are among the lower classes.
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The nobles of King's Port are basically big businessmen. They control nearly 50% of the high-quality fragrant orchards on the entire northern plain of King's Port. These nobles control the economic lifeline and political direction of the entire King's Port, and are the richest people in the world of Sanctuary.
One of those people.
The manager of King's Port is the Wood family, which claims to be the royal family of King's Port. The founder of this family was once the consul of King's Port appointed by Westmarch. He was also exhausted by the demonic invasion in the Westmarch Kingdom.
On this occasion, he was the first to raise the banner of rebellion.
Since then, the Wood family has become the largest family in King's Port. They have control over the remaining allspice orchards on the southern plains of King's Port, and have used the power of gold coins to build a living family from scratch.
A powerful army of all-professionals.
After the founder of the Wood family raised a flag to rebel against Westmar, he took advantage of the chaos to capture Dunkre, the city closest to King's Port. The city's pleasant climate and good living environment attracted most of the people in King's Port.
Most of the nobles settled in this city.
Slowly, Dunklay became a settlement for the nobles of Port King. In the end, even the Wood royal family built the royal palace in the city of Dunklay.
The city of King's Harbor was gradually forgotten, and it became a mere port and the settlement of all "low-class people who were not worthy of living in Dunclair".
Hundreds of years later, Dunkre has become the capital of King's Port. The ambitious Wood II expanded Dunklay repeatedly, and finally even connected the city with the original old city of King's Port.
Since then, only some old people and outsiders who are familiar with history will call the name King's Port. In King's Port, everyone now only divides this huge city into two parts.
That is, the "noble district" where Dunclay was formerly located and the "port district" where King's Port was formerly located.
When the Wood family first raised their flag to rebel, there were three local aristocratic forces supporting him. These three aristocratic families are now the three major aristocratic families in King's Harbor, namely Margery the "Golden Face" and Joshua the Diamond Cane.
and "Lion and Holy Sword" Frank.
The so-called "golden face", "diamond walking stick" and "lion sword" refer to the crest images of these three families.
The Margery family is good at trade and commerce, and they control the business affairs of King's Port.
The emblem of this family is a beautiful face with a gold mask on half of the face, so it is called the "gold mask".
The Joshua family is the core of King's Port's diplomacy. The ambassador of King's Port who used financial aid to force the Kingdom of Westmarch to recognize King's Port's independence was the head of the Joshua family at the time.
The emblem of this family is a platinum cane inlaid with colorful gems, so it is summarized as the "diamond cane".
The Frank family is the only professional family among the three major families in King's Harbor. Its family is rich in Paladins. King's Port's current all-professional army is also the "Shining Aegis" legion of the King's Guards. Most of its officers and
The commander-in-chief of the legion comes from the Frank family.
The guy in this family is a golden lion holding a shining holy sword, so he is called the "Lion Holy Sword".
The royal family of Kingsport, the Wood family, had their family emblem that was developed later. It is a golden crown suspended in front of crossed swords. Therefore, the Wood family is also called the "Golden Crown Family".
Under these three nobles and the royal family, there are also a series of small aristocratic families closely connected with the interests of King's Port. These families are either small and medium-sized professional families that were captured by the King's Port royal family with a financial offensive and moved their families to King's Port.
Or they were a merchant family that later accumulated a lot of wealth through the fragrant fruit trade and successfully joined the upper class society.
King's Port is a city built on piles of fragrant fruits. From the perspective of outsiders, King's Port's "Noble District" should be a beautiful seaside urban area with the mellow fragrance of fragrant fruits, but this is the land that is laid at the feet of all the nobles in the Noble District.
Whether there are only fragrant fruits in it, the poor people in the harbor area have the most say.
In the cabin of a cargo ship that was about to dock, Xue Hua silently put the travel book titled "King's Port Chronicles" back in the inventory, and then looked out the porthole at the extremely busy huge ship under the golden light of the morning sun.