Chapter Three Hundred and Sixty-Ninth Forward to the Sea of Stars
"Let's go, everyone sit down~"
The flight attendant walked through the lobby on the second floor of the ship and asked the passengers to sit down without disturbing.
With the roar of whistles and spit, a white passenger ship slowly separated from the shore of Emenas, sailed into the broad Blue Stream River, went upstream, and headed west.
The rolling waves rolled up at the stern, leaving a long wake. After the ship sailed for a period of time and gradually stabilized, the passengers were allowed to move freely. They boarded the top deck in twos and threes, or came to the guardrail to see Stunning views on both sides of the strait.
Among these crowds, there was a young girl in a white and light blue summer dress, who was also leaning on the railing on the top of the boat, looking at the distant scenery.
There are steep and straight mountain walls on both sides of the huge river valley. Beneath the crimson mountain walls hundreds of meters high, this passenger ship is very small. It travels along the river channel on the side of the mountain wall, and it may not get the sun all day. Shrouded in the broad shadow of the mountain wall.
Such routes are obviously cooler and more comfortable in summer, so many passengers take passenger ships. Although they are not as fast as airships, they are cheaper and more affordable.
Most of the passengers on the passenger ship are from Crancia, and a small number are residents of the empire. The instability of the empire over the past few years has caused the arrogant local residents to reconsider whether to take refuge in a country to the west. Now there are many people on board. People compare the status quo of the two countries.
"I see, you might as well move directly to Crancia. Your life will be much more stable. As long as you work hard, you will never be hungry." An old lady said to a pair of young imperial men and women, Originally, the two of them just went to Crancia for a tour, and took a look at the current situation of the western countries.
"The laws and security in all parts of Crancia are very sound now. Even if you don't hire an escort on the road, you can travel safely without worrying about encountering robbers."
With the development of food and industry, healthy adults can rely on labor to support themselves and their families, so fewer and fewer robbers take risks.
"It's a bit of an exaggeration. In some remote places, there are no people around, and it is difficult to ensure safety. We both dare to come out because of our strength." This is true. The silver-haired girl saw it when she passed by. I found that both of them have the strength of Sequence 4, which is already very high among ordinary people.
"Hey, you don't believe it if you say it, you will know when you go." The old lady was a little angry when she saw that her kindness was being suspected.
Seeing that his lover made the other party angry, the girl next to him stood up and smoothed the game, and then a few people continued to talk about Crancia.
"It's very convenient to travel now. It's usually a train to go far away. If you're close, you can also pay to take an official short-distance bus. It's a big thing, and you must have never seen it before."
"Really, then you have to experience it." The man said, but his expression still looked a little unbelievable.
Just like this, the few people chatted, and they stopped temporarily until lunch time approached.
The wind on the river blew out, with damp water vapor blowing slightly cool on him. Roland Hill stood on the roof of the boat, lightly pressing the sun hat on his head with his hand, feeling the summer breeze and water waves.
This time back to Crancia, she deliberately did not fly back directly, but took the private transportation to experience the travel experience of people today.
It has to be said that its comfort level is much improved than before.
In the past, it cost at least 60 silver coins to cross this huge river valley between the Sigh Mountains. It was not necessarily safe, and the road was bumpy. Now, after the industrial development of Crancia, the number of river boats has increased greatly, and the cost has gradually increased. down. However, compared to transporting guests, the big boats on the Lanjian River are more used to transport goods from east to west and trade with each other.
I don't know where they are now.
This morning, she heard various descriptions about Crancia from passengers, many of which were related to life, such as travel, school, medical care, etc. It can be seen that with the development of industry, the country Some of the infrastructure in China has also been established quickly, which has brought strong demand, and many industries have made rapid progress and development in recent years.
The sun in the sky is still bright, shining on the river, reflecting the deep blue reflection, Loren Hill sat quietly on the passenger ship like this, listening to everyone's descriptions, and then arrived at the end of the journey, which is Crane The red gravel city of West Asia.
This steel city, which was famous in the past, is now even more roaring and hot. Many rivers are pumped up by waterwheels and then transported to large workshops in the city to cool down and control the reaction.
The white steam rises in the cooling tower, taking away a huge amount of heat. People pay attention to the output of various industries in the city. They are no longer the products of some corners. Rich minerals and diversified commodity goods have become local characteristics and concerns. .
After experiencing the cities along the way and enjoying the scenery of Crancia, Roland Hill finally arrived at the capital.
Outside the city of Solander is a flat and fertile wilderness, and now there are patches of pale golden sunflowers growing on it, and straight roads are distributed among them, which are cut into white squares that are flat and easy to manage.
"Passengers please get off the bus in an orderly manner and do not push in crowds."
Inside the station, the sound of the announcement never stopped, and visitors from the south, east, and northwest also walked off the train.
Carrying his light suitcase, Loren Hill also got off the train with everyone, looking curiously at the current station, where there are crowds of people, and there are staff commanding and leading the way everywhere.
Beside him, several guests from the Southern Islands asked Solander to the guards on the side.
The famous scenic spot, a place worth visiting, walked in front of a tall lion mane orc. He was dressed in sturdy coarse cloth and carried a copper-colored metal box on his shoulders. It seemed to be his personal tools. There was a smell of oil, and some ground staff with long rabbit ears warmly received pedestrians in uniforms and guided the direction of business.
Following the crowd and the sound of the broadcast, Roland Hill moved in an orderly manner in the bustling crowd, and the tip of his nose could smell the unique smell of sweat in summer. When I walked out of the station, a warm breeze hit me, and I felt a sense of enlightenment.
Looking from the square outside the station, the north is the continuous palace on the hill, which is now the administrative center of Crancia. After walking out of the train station and entering the wide street in the center, you can directly see the palace, halfway up the mountain. The tall statue of 'Lorraine Hill with the Lantern'.
In the discussion and voice of the crowd, Roland Hill lowered the brim of the sun hat to try not to reveal his appearance, then lowered his head, and walked quickly to the less-populated street, only then he breathed a sigh of relief.
‘Almost forgot, there is a large statue of its own here. ' When Roland Hill thought about this, he felt helpless and wanted to cover his head, but he didn't say much.
After some searching and finding out the necklace Tides gave him and putting it on, Roland Hill relaxed a little and continued to walk down the street.
The sky in summer is very blue. Occasionally, airships can be seen flying from a distance to land and take off in the open space outside the city. In addition to these big guys, you can also see sporadic Wing tribe guards patrolling the sky and maintaining the city. If there is any sudden situation, they will fall from the air and take action to solve it.
Most of the shops on the street are doing good business. Pedestrians come and go from all over the place. The rooms inside are all hung or placed with fans of various shapes. Under the small power unit of alchemy structure, they are constantly rotating, blowing the cool breeze to relieve the heat. .
The energy consumed by such a device is magic. Generally, it only needs to be replenished by the clerk at regular intervals. It is very convenient and does not even need wires.
Compared with the time when I visited many years ago, the clothes of pedestrians on the street are much richer today. They are no longer the same as in the past, full of coarse linen clothes, but mostly made of comfortable cotton cloth with yarn quality. In summer, it is breathable and cool. .
It was already evening when we entered the red scorpion palace.
Palinsa, the secretary general, brought several maids to help clean the place before letting Loren Hill in.
"Welcome back, Your Royal Highness." The former princess, now the head maid and secretary-general, looked at the girl in front of her with joy.
"Yes, I'm back." Putting down the suitcase, Loren Hill hugged her lightly.
"It's been hard work these years." To appease the head maid, who was a little taller than himself, Roland Hill let go after a while.
Palinsa seemed to have a lot to say about Roland Hill's return, but she didn't know how to start because of that.
"Giggle, don't be in such a hurry, there is time tomorrow, it's not too early today, you should get off work and rest." Roland Hill waved his hand to let Parisa not to worry, and then walked around the familiar room, fingering Gently stroked those furnishings, tables and chairs, and then stopped.
"By the way, I also brought you some gifts." After walking around, Roland Hill suddenly remembered something, and then walked to the gift box, opened the box, and took out a beautiful box.
"This is a specialty of the Emerald Forest. There are fine wines to maintain the body, as well as refined aromatherapy to soothe the mind and recuperate the spirit, and finally the delicate hairpins made by the elves." As he spoke, Loren Hill opened the box and introduced the contents.
"Would you like to try wearing it?"
Roland Hill took out the golden hairpin imitating flowers inside. The flowers were made of metal filaments intertwined, and there were light blue pearls embellished among them, which had the complex and natural-looking beauty of elf style.
"Thank you, Your Highness Lorraine." Parisa was surprised to receive the gift, but also moved by it.
As the great sage of Crancia, the guide, the object of everyone's admiration and follow, I don't know how many people want to meet her, and how many of them want to make an impression on this Highness. .
It's a pity that Roland Hill has always been at ease, and few people in the country know where this silver-haired sage is now living in seclusion and living.
"It's so beautiful when you put it on." A simple compliment made the maid with a solemn expression for ten thousand years to shed tears, rubbing her eyes and blinking.
"Why are you crying?"
"Because I was very moved, I am still remembered."
Maybe, sometimes, I just hope that I can be seen and recognized by others, and I don’t want to be a follower, an irrelevant background.
"Okay, okay, don't cry, Palinsa was a princess before, she can't be moved so easily, or she will be easily deceived." Roland Hill once again appeased the secretary-general, and the two Sitting in front of the sofa.
After a while, Palinsa calmed down and couldn't help feeling embarrassed for her actions just now. She stood up first, and then said goodbye to Roland Hill.
"I won't disturb His Highness's rest today. I'll come back tomorrow. Crancia now needs your review and guidance again." After speaking, she was about to turn around and leave. Fortunately, Roland Hill stopped her in time and asked her to take her with him. Gone that gift box.
After spending the night in this familiar little palace, Roland Hill first went to the underground bath to take a bath, then changed into breathable pajamas and walked to the small balcony on the roof.
Because the lights are not turned on, it is a little quiet around. In this era when the environment is not polluted, the vast Milky Way nebula can be clearly seen in the summer sky. The light spots in it are long and far away. Unconsciously, people calm down and experience the vastness of the world and their own insignificance and limitedness.
After a good night's sleep, the sky gradually turned white, the sun slowly rose, and it was a new day.
On this day, Roland Hill saw those familiar figures from the past again, because in recent years, Crancia's vigorous progress, everyone seemed to be smiling a lot. The most obvious thing is that Roland Hill felt that Pullman was better than Pullman. I gained a little weight before, maybe I ate too well.
Sitting under the light-colored high-back seat, Loren Hill listened to everyone's progress over the years and the progress of each project, nodding from time to time.
"Now the trains have been laid in the center of each province, roughly connecting the whole country. According to the plan of the year, roughly three-level schools have also been constructed, namely town-level primary schools, city-level middle schools, and provincial-level schools. University." Tolan, Education Minister, recounts the progress over the years.
"Enrollment in primary schools is completely free, and secondary schools will be subsidized by the state. Excellent and poor students can also receive complete tuition reductions and subsidies. Universities also have corresponding support measures."
I have to admit that education is a lot of expenses, but fortunately now, Crancia has abundant finances, so it is not difficult to support such a policy, and with the development of the industry, all kinds of talents are also in a period of strong demand, so there is no need to worry about it. The students produced cannot find jobs.
"The popularization of legal awareness is currently in the propaganda stage, but with the support of the Church of Angels, this work is progressing much more smoothly than before." Ms. Fowler, the Supreme Judge, said of the recent progress.
In the Seven Kingdoms of Xuehua, the Angel Church had a high reputation in the past. Even if most of the poor people could not pay their taxes, they would go to the Angel Church and invest a few copper coins in the hope that they could get some treatment when they were sick. and reassure.
Although the role of the Church of Angels is gradually being replaced by the newly built healing homes and nursery homes, this influence has not disappeared. In fact, many healing homes and nursery homes have been opened together with the churches of the Church of Angels. for the neighborhood.
The advantage of this is that the treatment and medical treatment that was accumulated in the Angel Church in the past can be shared with the Healing Home, and the Healing Home can also ask the church for help when it encounters patients who cannot be rescued by conventional means.
Today's Angel Church is also slowly returning to its original purpose, to inspect the prototype of the chaotic disaster, to stabilize people's hearts, to comfort the mind, etc.
It stands to reason that the church and the state are two parallel and unrelated organizations, but because of the existence of the special Archangel Roland Hill, the current purpose of the church and Crancia is highly consistent, both for the chaos crisis in a hundred years. Be prepared, so also extraordinarily harmonious.
Many Crancia students can go to the sanctuary for further study, and the priests and nuns in some remote areas of the church can also get some subsidies and support from the state to overcome the difficult situation.
Not all churches are opened in big cities. Many churches in remote towns and villages exist to monitor whether there is a chaotic vortex in the local area. This is the responsibility determined by the Sage Society and the Church of Angels. Part of the chaotic vortex has been repaired and filled by Roland Hill, but there is no guarantee that no one will open it again in the future, so such a system has not been cancelled.
After listening to the reports of the ministers and chiefs of Crancia, Roland Hill roughly understood the current situation of Crancia, which is probably similar to the industrial countries in the early 20th century in history, but it is much more stable and harmonious.
'It's soon, how many years have passed. ' thought Lorraine Hill.
"Where is the progress of the sky battleship now?" she asked instead.
"At present, the power problem has been initially solved, but there are still many difficulties to overcome in terms of material and sealing stability." The chief explanation of the magic guide craftsmanship on the side, this mature and beautiful female mage is Tireira, who gave Lorraine back then The Rourna mage from the prototype of the Hill steam turbine.
"The sky warship of Oz was in a hurry, and it failed to solve the problem of sealing and life-support system after entering space, so there was no reference in this regard, and the progress was relatively slow." She explained the reason.
"Are these, I think about it, I will sort it out in a few days and give you some information for reference."
Today's Roland Hill not only knows the craftsmanship of the Twilight Era, but even the craftsmanship of the 'Deep Sea Union' tens of thousands of years later. It's just that the realization of these technologies requires various foundations that cannot be realized under the current conditions. So we need to rearrange and find some compromises.
"Everyone has worked hard all these years."
After a day's meeting, the silver-haired girl stood up to thank everyone who bothered, and everyone said that it was right.
"Towards the sea of stars, move forward."
No matter how good the vision is, the resources and space of the earth are limited after all, which also means that if things develop later, if they do not jump out of this circle and cage, they will surely usher in a tragic end.
This is also the reason why Roland Hill is obsessed with recovering technology quickly and getting out of this small world.
We have an even greater future ahead.
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