Extraordinary Voyage-Chapter 718 - 618: New Shipbuilding Plan
On the land named Ilya, a fierce class transformation caused it to experience both the feudal kingdom system and the parliamentary republic system in a short period of time.
The original First Level: the Royal Family represented by the King and his relatives; Second Level: Church high-level Holy Professionals and aristocracy; the elite asset holders in the Third Level have all been completely swept away.
This nation, which was once a leader in the Tulip Alliance, now only has left farmers, citizens including the proletariat, and other lower-class people.
Without a doubt, Ilya as a whole has suffered a massive defeat, and without at least a hundred years of respite and recovery, it cannot possibly rise again.
Then, including lands that originally belonged to the aristocracy and those seized by asset holders over the last three months, all property certifications became void after the war. But they have not been returned to the farmers who lost their land.
The entire kingdom of Ilya is now under the alliance’s managerial control (all), and post-war it was divided according to a pre-agreed looting agreement, especially with Phaletis and Tyrone as the main controllers with the largest "managed zones".
All managed lands combined almost occupy two-thirds of Ilya’s total land area, leaving very little land still belonging to Ilya’s citizens.
On the map Liweina presented.
Aside from the Southern Continent colony long divided by the alliance, in the entire Ilya kingdom’s managed area, about more than half is already marked with blue representing Phaletis, symbolizing the outstanding contribution Phaletis made in this war.
Among them, the Baronial domain of the Galliot family, originally able to support forty Knights, has been circled by the Second Princess, which was a promise made by Her Majesty the Queen before the war.
During this era, most Great Lords who still hold territories are pursuing the concentration of lands.
Therefore, Liweina wasn’t surprised that Aiven chose land on the New Continent, besides the Baronial domain originally belonging to the Galliot family.
But what’s surprising was the location Aiven eventually chose.
Taking the map, Liweina waved and circled the position of Buffalo, glancing at Aiven:
"You are that optimistic about the New Continent’s future development? I thought even if you still chose to swap for New Continent colonies, you would pick Charles."
This time, Aiven gave her a playful smile:
"Your Highness, if I really choose Charles, would the kingdom really let me have it?"
Liweina gently lowered her eyelids, gracefully took a sip of tea, and thought:
’Understanding but not speaking up, everyone remains good friends.’
Though Phaletis holds the largest colony of the entire Tulip Alliance on the New Continent.
Yet with 150,000 square kilometers of Far Sails territory from south to north, 100,000 square kilometers of Georgia, and 210,000 square kilometers of Charles Territory combined, it is a massive entity totaling 460,000 square kilometers.
Even compared to the mainland kingdom, it’s no small figure.
How big of a heart must the Queen and Crown Prince, these kingdom rulers, possess to allow such a colossal creature to appear within their territorial map? Unless they truly transform from simple vassals into one of the kingdom’s owners, otherwise, to a monarch, constraint and balance are instinctive.
Buffalo, unlike Georgia, lies between the south and north, separated by the entire Phaletis Colony.
Its southern side is the coastal port city Concord belonging to Royal Colony Kabushel, and its northern side is Fortmon of the Pine Clan.
Though its area isn’t small, tallying to 140,000 square kilometers, it doesn’t connect into a whole landmass, and originally it didn’t belong to Phaletis’ territory, reducing internal obstruction within the kingdom.
Choosing this place, he naturally had his considerations.
Aiven, possessing many "Remote Sensing Satellites", had long drawn complete maps of the entire New Continent. Not to mention alliance colonies, in terms of understanding the New Continent, likely few globally surpass him.
Buffalo possesses 204 kilometers of coastline, 600 kilometers of lakeshore along the south bank of the Six Great Lakes. With 8000 lakes and 9 major rivers throughout, its water network is dense, facilitating natural waterway traffic.
Belonging to a monsoon climate, it’s highly habitable and most similar to the climate of the alliance’s mainland.
Among it lies Long Island Port at the mouth of Hartson River, naturally advantageous with a deep port bay and pocket-shaped entrance. It has a peninsula (Long Island) as a natural wind shield, exceedingly valuable in the hurricane- and storm-rich New Continent.
The bay characteristics deep, wide, discreet, with small tidal range, no winter ice, and being navigable year-round are present. Hartson River flowing into the sea from Long Island Bay is smooth, never suffering soil erosion or silt buildup.
Moreover, considering locational factors, the swift waterway for traveling from Old Continent to New Continent—Tessaga Ocean Current north of Black Sea directly faces Long Island Port.
Also a vital traffic hub for immigrants from Old Continent, especially Tulip. For New Continent majorly still wasteland, population itself is the greatest wealth.
Otherwise, using the pitiable population base of New Continent Nimansite people, relying on natural growth to reach sufficient population scale for development, who knows how long it would take.
Attracting immigrants on a large scale by various means will also be a long-term policy spanning decades if not centuries for New Continent colonies.
In addition.
Just with Ilya’s current development level, utilizing existing land to plant grass and raise dairy cattle, expanding the livestock industry. Essential living provisions for Nimansite people—dairy products have already ranked first in the alliance.
Furthermore, production of vegetables, watermelons, sweet cherries, pears, maple syrup, and maple beer all lead the entire alliance.
After mapping through "Remote Sensing Satellites", future agricultural planning on this topographically even and fertile land allows for at least 58,000 farms, totaling 4.68 million hectares.
Sufficiently capable of supplying a metropolis exceeding ten million people with ease.
It can be said that this place is naturally a god-given land for commercial trade, possessing most of the prerequisites to become a super-large commercial city!
Smart people are not limited to Aiven alone. 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂
Through the newly recruited talents, he realized that when business nobles abandoned the Southern Continent, they actually dispatched a large number of ghouls here, having already planned to follow it up in this area.
It’s just by a twist of fate that they lost such an opportunity forever.
As long as Buffalo is fully acquired, the total area of the Marquisate will reach 240,000 square kilometers. Even if placed in the Source Continent, it would not be considered a small state among numerous kingdoms.
Moreover, he still has a grand plan that can thoroughly utilize the geographical advantages here, even enabling the entire Phaletis Colony to take off.
However, it needs to wait until everything settles down, and then slightly consider before explaining it to Liweina and Her Majesty the Queen.
Well, Aiven thought it should be a surprise... perhaps.
After shifting from the previous topic, Liweina pondered for a moment and assured Aiven:
"If it’s Buffalo, then it’s not a big problem. I will convey your intentions to Her Majesty. It won’t take long after the Homeland Committee reviews it and officially issues the government decree."
At this time, she suddenly remembered something, got up again to fetch Aiven a document:
"Oh, and because of Miss Anita’s outstanding contribution in the war, although she holds no military position and has not sworn loyalty to Her Majesty, she is also granted an honorary title. You can bring it to her when you return. It’s just..."
The titles of nobility in the Kingdom are mainly of three types: firstly, Royal Honorary Title, granted to royalty or the highest nobles; secondly, Noble Honorary Title, granted to ordinary hereditary nobles; thirdly, Merit Honorary Title, granted to those with significant contributions.
Anita’s Merit Honorary Title falls into the third category, ranking as a Baroness.
However.
Although the Galliot family has few members now, after a great war, it has become one of the hottest families in the Phaletis and even the entire Tulip Alliance.
A mere Baroness title is just the icing on the cake, Aiven put it away after seeing it but remained curious about what she hadn’t finished saying.
"Just what?"
Liweina leaned a bit closer to Aiven, her snow-white arm supporting her sharp little chin, her lake-green eyes filled with anticipation, lightly biting her rosy lips before probing to ask:
"Aiven, does Miss Anita have any interest in joining the Kingdom Navy? Starting directly as a Major General, what do you think?"
Even, she casually forked a piece of caramel pudding from the plate in front of her, offering it pleasingly to Aiven.
The latter took it without courtesy, pairing it with red tea to enjoy it.
"Tsk, the royal chef’s skill is truly remarkable, ordinary things taste extraordinary. Hehe, Your Highness must have seen my sister can resist Tier 4’s power temporarily, right? Political propaganda? Extraordinary deterrence?"
Once again being seen through by this fellow who increasingly does not treat herself as their monarch, Liweina feigned anger, giving Aiven a glance and reached out to snatch the pudding in front of him.
Aiven quickly stretched his hand to protect it:
"I can’t make decisions for my sister, but I have a proposal for you to consider. Your Highness?"
"Let’s hear it."
"Actually, I still have an unused batch of ’Treasure Tree’."
Liweina’s eyes instantly brightened, before the war began, she knew Aiven’s [Legendary Battleship: Crown of Miracles] was built by materials he gathered himself, but she didn’t expect there would be excess materials.
Only a fool would inquire about the source of that batch of Treasure Tree at this time, as long as it’s not their own stuff wasted, it’s good.
Moreover, when Saint Angel Bellenus left at that time, he made a promise to the Kingdom.
As a support to the Phaletis Kingdom, as long as an Extraordinary Battleship can be completed, He is willing to expend colossal power to bless it, transforming it into a true Legendary Battleship.
Currently, the Kingdom lacks such precious ship material of the Extraordinary level. The share from "Treasure Tree Bay" is simply not enough to build a complete battleship.
"Aiven, are you going to sell the ’Treasure Tree’ to the Kingdom? You can name your price!"
Liweina, eyes shining, patted her chest, making Aiven a bit dizzy.
"Cough..."
Tap! Tap!
Aiven lightly tapped the table with a finger, a bone china teapot jumped up by itself, pouring a cup of tea for both of them.
"Your Highness, you see, to give rise to an independent ’Ship Spirit’ from a pile of dead materials is not easy. But for me, it’s not that troublesome.
The batch of ship material was originally prepared for my sister’s battleship, it’s just that the quantity isn’t large. I’ve heard the Kingdom also has some stock, why don’t we...?"
