The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Venaya Port, the largest seaport city in the Vinaya Continent, is also the most catastrophic city on the Vinaya Continent. It is also regarded as a water city with architectural miracles. Many names are piled up on the name of this city, making it a One of the most legendary cities in the entire Velen world.

At first, Vinaya was just a beach at the end of the estuary of the Pangbo River. A large amount of sand washed down from the upper reaches of the Pangbo River gathered here, and after countless years of accumulation, a small island was gradually formed.

Just 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. A large number of debtors, criminals, escaped serfs, and ordinary people fleeing the war gathered here, and gradually established a place outside the law here, and it has also become a well-known den for selling stolen goods and smuggling.

As the Kingdom of Sigma and the Kingdom of England began to colonize the Mozambique continent and brought back a large amount of resources and wealth from the Mozambique continent, the French Empire also became interested in the Mozambique continent, so they began to form the first navy of the French Empire and The first official port city, Venaya, with its excellent geographical location, became the first choice of the French Empire.

Those who have settled in Venaya for hundreds of years no longer regard themselves as French people. They prefer to call themselves Vinaya people, and they think that Vinaya is a land of freedom and does not belong to the Faran Empire. So when the French Empire was preparing to establish a port city in Venaya, the Venaya people chose to resist.

A war that should have been disparate in strength lasted for half a year. Two-thirds of the Venaya people died in the flames of war, while the people of the Faran Empire died even more. The remaining Venaya people were just old and weak Remnant was already unable to support the occupation, and could only choose to surrender in the end.

However, what surprised the surrendered Venaya people was that Maxime Modison, the commander 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, but Choose a retaliatory massacre, slaughter all the surviving Vinayas, and bury all the bones of the Vinayas in the foundation of the construction of the Vinaya Port, so that these Vinayas will never die. trampled on.

No one cared about Maxim's massacre at the time. After all, the Venayas who died were not considered human beings by many people, but the practice of burying the dead in the foundation has been criticized. Many French people think that the reason why there are so many disasters in Venaya Port is related to the bones of Venaya people in the foundation, and they think that those undead are cursing Venaya Port.

In the beginning, the French Empire set up a navy and built a port for the huge interests of the Mozambique continent. Therefore, Vinaya Port was originally a military port. The first navy of the French Empire was stationed here, and it was also from here Depart for the mainland of Mozambique.

Although the French Empire is a land power with the strongest army and knights in the world, its sea strength is very weak and cannot be compared with the two sea powers at all, and the timing of his choice to join the sea hegemony is also very inappropriate. It was the time period when the kingdom of Sigmar and the kingdom of England had the strongest sea power. As a result, a series of sea plans formulated by the French Empire earlier ended in failure, and the losses were extremely heavy.

Not only the loss at sea, but the superior location of Venaya Port also attracted the attention of the Kingdom of Sigma. They felt that they could use Venaya Port as a springboard to allow their country's influence to infiltrate the Vinaya Continent and complete the Sigma Kingdom. The dream of countless ancestors stationed in Velen Continent.

Driven by the ideals and real interests of the ancestors, the Kingdom of Sigma suddenly launched an attack on Venaya Port. In less than three days, it captured Venaya Port and wiped out the defenders in the city. The first change of hands in Port Vinaya.

Naturally, the French Empire was unwilling to be reconciled to having their hard-earned port taken away in this way, and immediately organized an army to launch a counterattack, and this counterattack started the 30-year-long battle for Vinaya.

In the past 30 years, Vinaya Port has changed hands between the two countries hundreds of times. Millions of soldiers from the two countries died in this war. The purpose of each other is no longer to compete for Vinaya Port. Instead, it became a kind of attachment, a kind of inexplicable attachment that future generations will think about. It's as if Venaya Port has become a symbol of Vinaya Continent. If you get Vinaya Port, you will get Vinaya Continent. If you lose Venaya Port, you will lose Vinaya Continent.

According to some good people now, at that time, the high-level officials of the two countries were cursed by the undead of Vinaya, and there was only one thought in their minds, which was to seize the port of Vinaya.

The 30-year battle between the Farnese Empire and the Sigmar Kingdom for Venaya Port finally ended with the Farnese Empire taking back Venaya Port, but the ultimate beneficiary was not these two countries, but the Kingdom of England.

After 30 years of war with the Faran Empire, although it was only a partial war, the Kingdom of Sigma consumed hundreds of millions of manpower and material resources. Even with the countless wealth brought from the Mozambique continent, it is still difficult to fill this huge hole.

Because the Kingdom of Sigma wants to attack Venaya Port, it can only rely on their powerful sea transportation, so in the past thirty years, the proportion of the navy invested by the Kingdom of Sigma has been increasing day by day, from less than one-fiftieth at the beginning to less than one-fiftieth in the later Nearly two-thirds of the Navy's ships were deployed to Port Vinaya.

A large number of the Sigmar Kingdom's navy was transferred from the route of the Mosang Continent, allowing the England Kingdom's navy to take advantage of the gap. It's just that the Kingdom of England is very smart. They didn't blatantly expand their navy to occupy the loopholes in the sea area controlled by the Kingdom of Sigmar. Instead, they secretly formed civilian navigators, disguised as pirates, and plundered the sea area controlled by the Kingdom of Sigmar. Pirate Earl Drake It was the outstanding people who appeared at that time.

If the secret planning of the Kingdom of Engel is only the external cause of the Kingdom of Sigmar's loss of maritime supremacy, then the Kingdom of Sigmar's exploitation of the colonies is completely digging their own grave.

In order to fill the huge financial loophole in the battle for the Venaya port, the Kingdom of Sigma frantically increased the various types of taxes in the colony and kept raising taxes. More than a hundred, and even marriage and childbirth need to pay taxes, and the tax has been adjusted more than ten times.

Faced with such a heavy tax, the people in the colonies couldn't bear it at all. As a result, in the past 30 years, the Kingdom of Sigmar continued to break out anti-tax wars.

It was this kind of resentment that originated from interests and accumulated over the years that made the people of the entire colony of the Sigmar Kingdom turn against each other. The Kingdom of England seized the opportunity to attack the colony of the Kingdom of Sigmar under the slogan of eliminating all exorbitant taxes. The resistance of the entire colony was minimal. In five days, all the colonies of the Kingdom of Sigma in Mozambique had completely fallen.

The loss of the colony is not the real reason for the Kingdom of Sigmar to lose its maritime supremacy. The real reason for the Kingdom of Sigmar to hand over its maritime supremacy to the Kingdom of Engel is that the Armada of the Kingdom of Sigmar is withdrawing from Venaya Port and going to the colony to counter the rebellion. On the way, an unknown shipwreck was encountered and the entire army was wiped out. As a result, the Kingdom of Sigmar could use less than ten warships throughout the country within twenty years.

After gaining the supremacy of the sea, the Kingdom of Engel seemed to be under some kind of curse like the Kingdom of Sigma, and suddenly launched an attack on Venaya Port, and seized Venaya Port from the French Empire.

Facing the new maritime overlord, the Kingdom of England, whose resources and manpower are at their peak, even if the French Empire was unwilling, they had to temporarily stop fighting for the port of Vinaya and instead rest and recuperate.

Although the Kingdom of England has almost become the actual controller of Venaya Port, the war against Venaya Port has not ended. On the contrary, for more than a hundred years, the French Empire will often attack Venaya Port, trying Take control of the city from the Kingdom of England.

However, the luck of the French Empire was really not very good. For more than a hundred years, countless attacks failed to recapture Venaya Port. Among them, the most successful one even occupied three-quarters of the urban area. As long as the siege takes another half a day, the remaining city of the Kingdom of England's army can be completely eliminated. However, because the commander of the defenders of the Kingdom of England used a small group of ships to directly attack the inland town along the Pangbo River from the Pangbo River, the army that attacked the port of Venaya had to return to defense, and finally missed this time, which was also a hundred years This is the only sergeant operation that has the potential to retake Port Venaya.

However, five years ago, the inexplicable war between the French Empire and the Kingdom of England ended in the defeat of the Kingdom of England. The defeated armies had to retreat to Venaya Port, preparing to evacuate from the sea.

But the Faran Empire sent airships and all warships to intercept the rescue fleet of the Kingdom of England, causing nearly half a million troops to be trapped in Venaya Port, in a dilemma. The most troublesome thing is that the food and grass have been exhausted, and there is only one week at most. Time, everyone in the city will be so hungry that they won't even have the ability to fight.

For this reason, the Kingdom of England had to negotiate with the Kingdom of France to rescue the more than 500,000 troops, and the Empire of England had no intention of fighting with the Kingdom of England because of the changes in West France, which made the negotiations go smoothly. In the end, the French Empire took back half of the control and ownership of Venaya 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 alone, so it brought in the newly established United Kingdom and traded half of its control rights to the United Kingdom. Naya Port has entered the period of tripartite control and is also known as the period of the three governors.

Leo had been to Venaya Port before, or more correctly, Leo's predecessor. At that time, all the British troops landed in Venaya Port, and then distributed to various fronts.

It's just that no matter how much Leo recalled, he couldn't remember what Venaya Port looked like, as if this memory had been erased by some force, and the only thing left was only one impression, which was weird. In Ou's eyes, the shape of Venaya Port is very strange.

It was precisely because of the abnormal memory that Leo was more curious about Venaya Port. When he knew from the captain that he would arrive at Venaya Port at noon, he left the cabin early, walked to the penetration, and looked at the port. Direction to Vinaya port.

After the cargo ship bypassed a protruding lighthouse cape, several oncoming cargo ships greeted with sirens, and the distant Venaya Port also appeared in Leo's eyes.

After seeing the appearance of Venaya Port clearly through the farsightedness ability in the spiritual vision skill, Leo immediately understood why his predecessor thought Venaya Port was weird, because Venaya Port was a city built on a hive.

The official urban area of ​​Vinaya Port is about 30 to 40 meters away from the sea level. Below the urban area is the foundation formed by the accumulation of countless urban ruins. These foundations are full of holes and look like a huge beehive from a distance. have to.

"It's shocking, isn't it?" The captain walked up to Leo with a pipe in his mouth at this time, and looked at the Venaya Port in front, and said, "Every time I see Vinaya Port, I can clearly feel it. From the bottom of my heart to the more than 100 years of war that took place here, I lament the cruelty of war."

Leo asked: "Are the foundations below all the ruins of the former city of Venaya Port?"

"Hmm." Perhaps it was because the captain was about to arrive at the destination, and the captain's nervousness had also relaxed, and he didn't mind chatting with Leo, so after hearing Leo's inquiry, he shared what he knew about Wiener Leo was told about Yagang.

The small island where Vinaya City is located is formed by the accumulation of sand, and there are no stones that can be used for construction, so they need to be transported from outside.

The initial materials used to build the Venaya Port buildings were stones transported from the Pangbo River Petroleum Quarry, which cost a lot, and the reconstruction after each war was very difficult, because a large number of destroyed and abandoned building stones needed to be cleaned up , before it will be rebuilt, without deepening some costs.

For this reason, a Sigma officer who was occupying Venaya Port at that time thought of a temporary solution, that is, instead of cleaning up the abandoned stone, he directly filled the ruins, leveled the foundation on the ruins, and rebuilt a new building.

This method is only a temporary method, and the leveled foundation is not to build residential buildings or the like, but to build some simple fortifications to resist the attack of the French Empire army.

But no one expected that this temporary method would become the unique architectural model of Viana Port after repeated use.

Every time after experiencing war, the new city of Venaya Port will build the city on the filled ruins, sometimes the ruins are not even filled, just leveled a little. In the end, the urban area continued to pile up and became what it is now, and the old ruined urban area became a sewer.

Although the war in Venaya Port has never really stopped for more than a hundred years, these wars will not affect the commercial activities in Venaya Port, and the more intense the war is, the more commercial activities here will be. is prosperous.

Grapes and wines from the Bodo area, precious specialties from the Black Forest, and animal fur from the northern ice field, etc., are all gathered here in the Vinylon Continent, and shipped to all parts of the world, and goods from all over the world are also shipped here to be sold to various states in the Vinylon Continent. County town.

This is not only 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 Vinaya World, and almost all official chambers of commerce in all countries have established offices here. It can be said that this place dominates the commercial activities of the entire Vinylon world.