Claude slept so deeply that even the bell ringing at the Temple of War at six o'clock in the morning did not wake him up from his sleep. It was not until his mother realized that it was a little late that Angelina went upstairs to push him awake. come over.
He wiped his face randomly, picked up two pieces of white bread with his schoolbag on his back, and rushed out of the house. The time for class is coming soon, and if he is late in the morning, the strict Professor Wickham will not mind letting him stand at attention at the door of the classroom for three periods.
I rushed into the classroom out of breath. I was very lucky. The bell for class had just rang. Mr. Vincent, the arithmetic teacher for the first period, had not yet entered the classroom. This situation could not be considered late.
"Why did you come so late?" asked Erikson next to him: "The three of us have been waiting in front of your house for a long time, thinking that you had left long ago, but we didn't know that you didn't come until we got to school."
Claude looked for the arithmetic textbook from his schoolbag and replied: "Don't mention it, I overslept this morning, I just ran all the way here."
"Your eyes are a little red and swollen, your eye sockets are dark, and your face is a little pale. You slept very late last night," Bockaar said, looking at Claude's face.
"Really?" Claude touched his face: "Isn't there a banquet at home last night? After that, my father discussed something with the guests in the study and left very late. When I wanted to sleep, I didn't know Where did the two wild cats come from and called Chun on the roof? You know I live in the attic. How could I sleep? I finally drove the two wild cats away, but after all this trouble, I couldn't fall asleep. When I fell asleep, I couldn't sleep. I couldn’t get up in the morning.”
"Haha, you are quite unlucky." Viricero laughed: "This is the spring season for wild cats, and the sound is quite disturbing. But there is a way, as long as it is on the roof of your house If you kill a wild cat on the roof, no other wild cats will come to your roof again. How about I bring a musket from home and lend it to you? In fact, cat meat is also quite delicious, and it is more tender than chicken."
"Pull him down." Claude looked at him with contempt: "Do you think my father will agree to my shooting on the roof with a musket? By then the wild cats have not been shot, and the roof will have to be renovated. If you want to eat wild cat meat, you can go there yourself. Go hunting in the wild.”
"Vero, you said that cat meat is more tender than chicken, is it true?" Ericson was successfully diverted from the topic by Vero.
"Of course, I tell you, that time." Then the two of them got into a heated discussion about the quality and cooking methods of cat meat. If they weren't in class, Claude doubted whether these two guys would go home right away, get their muskets, and go looking for wild cats all over the town.
"Claude, I know what they are discussing," Bock said loudly.
"Who are they"
"Your father and the others, my father was also here last night. What they discussed was to open a sea route from Bailu Town directly to the Tiersim Territory of the Nubisian continent. If this sea route can be successfully opened, then Bailu Town will If it can be upgraded to a port city, it will no longer need to accept the jurisdiction of the Baromise County. It will be able to obtain independent budget and allocation powers in terms of administration and finance. It will be directly governed by the royal city, and its status will be comparable to Port Nerru."
Bockaar spoke louder and louder, and his mouth almost touched Claude's ear.
"Oh, this is a big deal." Claude understood very well why Bockaar was so worried. If this news got out now, it would definitely cause a sensation. It turned out that his father and the others were planning this big event during this time.
Port Nieru is the only large port in the Kingdom of Overas and a military port. The only naval fleet of the Kingdom is located there. This navy, also known as the Fearless Fleet, is the guarantee for the security of the kingdom's eastern coastal waters. Its mission is to resist enemy navies from invading the kingdom's waters, sweep away pirate gangs along the coast, maintain maritime trade routes, etc.
The Kingdom of Ovelas is located in the eastern part of the Falea continent. Although it has a coastline of nearly a thousand miles, there are only two places suitable for harbors. Except for Nieru Port, which is a deep-water port and has several shallow-sea fishing ports, other places are either beaches or tidal flats, or cliffs, which are not suitable for berthing of ocean-going ships.
After Sterling X ascended the throne, he changed the aggressive strategic oppression of the countries in the eastern part of the continent by the previous king, eased relations with various countries, opened up trade routes, exchanged what was needed, and vigorously developed trade with various countries.
In a way, Sterling X is actually