Chapter 169 Landing

The Southern slowly docked at the dock. Although the people in the port area were very busy, it still attracted many curious eyes. Whether it was merchants, porters, or tourists, they all stopped to look at this strange ship.

"Well, gentlemen who have come from afar."

Asta's affairs officer spoke, but this time he spoke in Ordo.

As the current "international trade" transit base, the middle and upper class people here can basically master several foreign languages ​​​​proficiently, and according to the research of linguists, the languages ​​used by Ordo, Horn Bay, Gabela Empire and other western countries of the continent belong to the same human language family, and have many similarities in grammar. It is not difficult for a Horn Bay person to learn the language of Ordo.

"According to the rules, we need to check your goods and collect taxes according to the type and quantity of the goods."

Quick was overjoyed, "So you can speak our language, that's great."

"Uh... Mr. Affairs Officer, we are here only to explore the future trade, so we don't bring any goods for sale, so this tax..."

But the affairs officer still insisted: "Even so, we still have to check it."

His eyes first fell on the artillery deployed on both sides of the deck.

"What is this?"

The affairs officer approached the artillery and reached out to touch the artillery god. He could feel that it was made of metal, and it seemed to be bronze?

Gleman's army was equipped with a powerful flamethrower weapon. This news was only circulated in a small area in a few territories near Alda. The Horn Bay, thousands of miles away in the south, didn't know about artillery at all.

Quick was full of nonsense: "This is our weapon against pirates. When pirates try to climb onto our ship, we stuff it with flammable materials. After igniting through the small hole, it will spit out flames to attack the enemy like a legendary dragon!"

The officer was very skeptical: "Does this thing really work?" It sounds like a product of a wild imagination.

Quick pretended to be shy and said: "Hehe, we are lucky. We haven't encountered pirates along the way, so they haven't experienced actual combat."

"If you want to fight at sea, you have to use crossbows. It is a powerful weapon that has been continuously improved and tested for thousands of years."

The officer's face was full of pride: "Guest, our weapons dealers here sell all kinds of bed crossbows. If you are interested, you can go and have a look. Of course, if you want to talk about which one is the best, of course we have to talk about the ones produced by Asta..."

He talked endlessly about the excellent performance of the weapons produced by his own city-state, making everyone sweat. Has the business habits of the people of Jiaowan been integrated into their nature? Even an administrative official came to promote his products.

Because they were new here, everyone did not interrupt the official and listened to him patiently.

"Okay, take me to your cabin."

The official finally finished his long speech and asked to see the cabin.

Quick quickly took him into the cabin.

The official looked around and found that there seemed to be no bulk goods that could be sold except for worthless things such as daily necessities and stored food.

Finally, he finally found something that could be called a commodity or a suspected commodity - barrels of gunpowder and boxes of shells.

"What are these powders?"

Quick introduced: "A kind of medicine used to treat sores, kill insects, and can also be used to keep away moisture. You know, when sailing on the sea, the environment in the cabin is very humid. This is what we prepared ourselves."

This is not that Quick is making it up. Gunpowder does have the above functions.

The agent touched his chin and said, "With so many, can you use them all? It is confirmed that they are salable goods. You have to pay taxes according to the type of medicine."

"Uh... okay."

The agent pointed at the shells and asked, "Are these metal balls?"

Quick explained, "These iron balls are only used for ballast."

The agent shook his head, "But you can still sell them! Metal is very popular everywhere."

Although he didn't understand why they had to be cast into spheres, wouldn't it be better to cast them into square shapes, which would be easier to place and carry.

"Ah, speaking of this. You can also sell those bronze pipes above. The price of bronze is not cheap."

The agent hammered his palm, looking like he was almost fooled.

Do you think you can deceive me by casting bronze into a weird shape and making up a random reason to deal with pirates?

Seeing that Quick still wanted to argue, Ladi hurriedly pulled his sleeve and shook his head to indicate that he didn't want to conflict with the port agent.

"Okay! Sir, we will pay the tax. Please tell us how much we should pay."

Quick compromised. After all, he was unfamiliar with the place. He had to be patient for now. He was no longer the free-spirited pirate leader before.

After paying a customs duty and a port entry and exit management fee, the people on the Southern were finally allowed to go ashore.

No mistakes!

After leaving the first mate to lead 20 people to guard the Southern, Quick led the other 20 people to the dock of Asta Port.

Prosperous! Prosperous!

Besides prosperity, it is still prosperity!

This is the first impression of this horn bay city.

The bumpkins from the Northwest Bay were shocked at once.

First of all, in terms of architecture, the houses here are simply works of art in their eyes. The exterior is decorated with exquisite reliefs, tall and beautiful, and the materials used are precious stones at first glance, or fired red bricks.

Moreover, the ground of the entire dock area seems to be paved with stone bricks, so there is no need to worry about the road being too muddy to walk even if it rains.

In contrast, the houses in the Northwest Bay are low and short, and the shape lacks beauty. The town is better, but the village is not so particular, and there is no money to be particular. Many people live in houses built with thatch, mud and rocks.

Then there are people. They have never seen so many people gathered in the same place, with different skin colors, different clothes, different decorations, and speaking obviously different languages. The crew on the Southern never thought that there are so many different humans in the world.

Several alternate children jumped and ran around, and Quick had to send people to pull one each to prevent them from getting lost.

But the adult sailors also had their mouths wide open, and even the business representatives who claimed to be well-informed were not much better.

"Hey, did you see that? Those people are dressed so strangely."

"Don't look so ignorant. It's embarrassing to walk with you."

"You're still blaming me, whose eyes were so wide open just now?"

The crowd kept exclaiming in amazement.

The only one in the group who looked normal was "Mr. Dirac".