I was regarded as a demon god by a witch

Chapter 237 Purchase of Ships and the Law of Turin

The next morning, they set sail and left the church and the people of Ravenna. Not long after they left, a group of knights holding the church flag rushed into the dock where they were before.

The leading senior knight exuded terrible strength, and his armor shone in the sun, as if it were the glory of the Lord.

The senior knight said angrily: "I am the police detective from Albert, do you have a group of guests from Ambrose?"

"Let them come out and meet me."

"The dean of Alberet Abbey needs to see them and let them out immediately."

The boss of the dock followed the staff, walked out of the dock, glanced at the knight, and raised two fingers. "First, they're gone."

"Second, this is our privately contracted property and has nothing to do with the church."

"Although you are a fourth-level knight and I am just an ordinary person, if you dare to do this again, I will report you to the church court, and I will also punish you in the next day because of your reckless and stupid behavior." Vote for someone else on the diocesan ballot for [-] in choosing the Abbess of Alberet Abbey."

The senior knight narrowed his eyes. He could stab the owner of the shipyard to death with one finger, but he also knew that the other party was telling the truth.

He had no choice but to roll his eyes, then clamped the horse's legs tightly, and let the war horse adjust a direction. "I see. If they come back, please tell me...Forget it, they probably won't come back again."

His deputy, a great knight, asked, "Are we going to chase?"

Alberet's Inspector Knight rolled his eyes. "It's so troublesome to chase locally, and it will be even more troublesome if you chase it across dioceses. If you get it later, we will probably blame the patrol team of Albert Abbey on us."

"I don't want to lose the votes of the faithful in the diocese just like that."

"Anyway, it's not an important matter, and the other party is not a fugitive. We will report back in a few days, and just say that the other party has left [the Church and the people of Ravenna]."

The deputy great knight took off his silver gloves, and laughed. "Then let's go to the pub and drink."

"That's a good idea, too," said Detective Inspector Knight. "We'll never do anything that will cost us votes."

……

It took two days for Ivita and the others to leave the country [Church and the People of Ravenna] and enter the Belisarius Republic, one of the three major republics.

After paying 1 penny and getting a smile from the fat toll booth official welcoming them into the Belisarius Republic, Ivita and others entered this land of Turin.

Immediately, Ivita felt that his magic power was terribly suppressed, and he could hardly use too much magic power.

Ivatar tried to use fire magic, but the fire bird magic could only burn a flame at his fingertips.

Ivita looked at the other people on the ship, "Heartstone Witch, how much magic power can you use?"

The Hearthstone Witch's complexion was also very bad. She shook her palms, and the magic fire burned for a moment. The lavender flower god fire from the fire elemental flower only existed for a moment before disappearing into nothingness.

Cecilia Landwalker felt the elven blood in her body, but she found with a pale face that she was almost turning into an ordinary person.

All the professionals on the ship have discovered this problem. Whether they are fighters or hunters, their strength is not disappearing, but weakened to the point where they are almost ordinary people.

Tartax spoke the truth. "This is the law of Turin! People who are close to the legendary city of Belisarius will be affected by the law of Turin and cannot exert their power. Otherwise, they will compete with this legendary city and the metropolitan area it constitutes. .”

"But rest assured, in the land radiated by Turin's law, everyone is almost an ordinary person."

"I said, you usually have to rely more on wisdom than physical strength. Maybe you can find your own wisdom here."

Tartax suddenly felt that it was inappropriate to talk to Ivita like this, and added another sentence. "Of course, Lord Ivita is not included in this."

Knowing that it was the [Law of Turin], Ivita sat on the boat with peace of mind and observed the scene on both sides of the river.

The two sides of the Belisarius Republic are basically flat roads paved with volcanic ash and bricks, and there are pedestrians on them.

These pedestrians are sailors and merchants on their way.

They soon entered a small town called [Lahainavu] in the Belisarius Republic.

This small town is near the sea and built on both sides of the Po River. It can be said that the water resources are very rich. The whole town is called a small town in Belisarius. If you put Ambrose, it will be a city at this scale.

The houses in the whole town are built of red bricks and blue bricks with more than a dozen floors facing the water. They are beautiful and high-rise buildings.

The residents in the small town are very hospitable. On the Po River in the middle of the town, there are many people selling goods on boats.

Compared with the two countries that Iveta and the others passed through before, this place is simply bustling.

It's like the difference between a big countryside and a super city.

There are a wide variety of goods here, from gemstones from all over the world, and even rare spices such as ambergris and sunburberry, to fruits, food, handicrafts, and even children's toys from all over the world.

The children here, like the children of the Ravenna church, can run and play happily in the streets, and they will not go home until they get dirty and are scolded by their parents.

But unlike the children in the Ravenna church, the children educated by the church love books. The children here love to socialize, and they prefer kites and paper windmills bought from street vendors.

Even, a child threw out the paper airplane in his hand. Under the expectant eyes of him and his companions, the paper airplane flew towards the boats on the Po River, turned around a few times, and passed several boats. , actually fell to Ivita.

Ivita hooked his hand, and the magic hand turned into gravity, pulling the paper plane over. Although the magic was suppressed here, he could still do it to this extent.

Ivita threw the paper plane casually, and the paper plane circled a few times in mid-air, before it landed on the head of the official who was telling the magnificent history of the Republic to the people who had just entered the Belisarius Republic on the shore.

The official touched his head, then turned his head and found Iveta, he was not angry, but just smiled at Iveta.

"Welcome to Belisariu!"

On the ship.

"Is that where we set off from this town, recruit captains and sailors, buy ships, and head to Cross Island?" Evita said.

"Yes." Tartax told Ivita, "If it's for going to sea, this town is enough."

"There is no need to go to a bigger capital."

"The population of this small town may exceed 30."

Ivita frowned, and the Hearthstone Witch and other professionals were also shocked, while ordinary people such as carpenters and chefs on the ship didn't pay attention to these things.

The Hearthstone Witch said: "It is indeed a republic equivalent to a kingdom-level power."

"One of the models of the three major republics, it really lives up to its reputation."

Tartax said: "Let me introduce it to you. The total area of ​​the Belisarius Republic is only 3.3 square kilometers. This land area is not large, only a fraction of the land area of ​​the independent country of Viscount Ambrose. It is a big one, but the local resident population plus the floating population can have a population of more than 500 million!"

"The population and the number of professionals far exceed Ambrose."

"And this does not count the overseas territories of the Republic of Belisarius and the population of its overseas territories, and those seafarers who have been at sea all year round. Some captains and seamen may have been wandering outside for more than ten years, but they have never returned home, unless the country In case of difficulty, the National Bank issued a conscription order to everyone."

"The Republic of Belisarius has a very large overseas territory on the sea. They can't even count the area. They are basically robbed or purchased. The nobles here are big businessmen, and only the nobles have votes. However, the big merchant nobles here would rather organize a fleet to go abroad than pay taxes to their highest administrative and financial institution [National Bank].”

Sitting on the bow of the boat, Ivita raised an eyebrow at Tartax and said, "I thought this bank that owned a kingdom could easily collect taxes."

Tartax laughed and said, "I'll tell you a story that actually happened."

"The National Bank of Belisarius once ordered the big merchant nobles in the republic to check their own business books, and asked them to make up for the business taxes owed for several years in one lump sum."

"But in the next six months, those big businessmen took out their wealth, and then gathered a fleet of thousands of warships and more than 2 mercenaries, and went on an expedition to the Seljuks who believed in the god of beasts. An island occupied by the Roma Empire."

"They snatched the 1.3-square-kilometer island, and then packaged and sold the island, including the island's sovereignty, to the [National Bank] to compensate for the underpaid commercial taxes they had accumulated before."

Tartax smiled wryly. "This is the merchants of this republic. This republic is different from the Republic of Floracana and the aristocratic commercial republic. They allow merchants to monopolize their operations, so most of the merchants are monopoly capitalists in the true sense."

"They're very aggressive and very mobile."

All the professionals on the ship frowned. They didn't expect the merchants in Belisarius to be so ruthless.

I would rather take out my family property to start a war and plunder resources than pay taxes.

The Hearthstone Witch was greatly admired and sighed sincerely. "This is a completely free world. The wolf kings join forces to devour everything fairly. The weak will be eliminated and the strong will be rewarded."

Ivita thought about it, and he captured some useful information from Tartax's conversation. "So, the nobles of the Belisarius Republic are big merchants. How many of them are there?"

Tartax thought for a moment. "As announced last year, there are still more than 33 people."

"Because several fleets and a certain amount of wealth are required to be considered aristocrats, many merchant families who have fallen into poverty will be forcibly deprived of their noble status."

"In other words, we have come to the world that worships money the most and the most free kingdom."

"The advantage is that in order to maintain the atmosphere of its own important commercial hub, it attaches great importance to order."

"The court system here is so well developed that the price of fighting a dispute here far outweighs the price of going to the courts to settle a dispute," Tartax said.

"If you kill someone here, you will be wanted."

"Stealing property was considered as bad as killing."

Ivita nodded, "You are more familiar with us than us here, take us to the place to buy ships and the place to recruit captains."

Tartax said to Ivatar, "Are we buying a brand new ship, or a second-hand ship that has been trafficked?"

Ivita thought for a moment and tapped her finger on the side of the boat. "What are the advantages and disadvantages of this?"

Taltax said: "The price of a second-hand boat should be half the price of a new boat. Although it is cheap, we are not good at it, and we are easy to be deceived by others. Some people even appear in the sea because of the rotten keel of the second-hand boat. Shipwreck due to storm."

When Ivita heard this, he said directly: "Then we should buy a new boat first-hand. We are all newbies at sea, so there is no need to test the areas we don't understand here."

Tartax nodded and said, "Then I suggest you buy a two-masted caravel."

"This is the ship that pirates like to use. It is fast and safe, and can hold a lot of supplies. Businessmen also like to use this kind of ship."

"The most important thing is that this kind of ship can also carry about eight [-]-pound guns."

Ivita turned to look at Tartax in surprise, and said, "Cannon?"

"Could it be that the pirates and the Republic have artillery weapons? Why doesn't Ambrose have them?"

Tartax looked at Ivita suspiciously, "Gunpowder weapons are the technology of the Belisarius Republic, the Florcana Republic and the Noble Merchant Republic. They have been blocking the technology. Even if there are artillery sales, they are sold at a small amount at a high price. .”

"How could Ambrose afford it and not need it."

"As for the pirates, their artillery was stolen."

It is normal for Ivita to be silent when he heard this, because artillery has been popular since the peak of the Middle Ages, but the technology of firearms has not been popular.

The knight class in this world is so powerful that gunpowder weapons can no longer be eliminated. Therefore, the countries in the magical black forest have no need to purchase firearms on a large scale.

But at sea, since everyone can only step on the ship, it is very useful if you can bombard the opponent's ship with artillery.

It is estimated that it is also because of this that the three major republics will firmly grasp the artillery technology.

Ivita said to everyone, "Taltax, take the landwalker and two hunters to buy a ship."

"Be careful not to encounter thieves, and not to be robbed of money."

"I, the Hearthstone Witch, and others are going to recruit the captain and sailors."

(End of this chapter)