Heaven’s Intention

Early in the morning, when the first rays of sunlight hit the coastline. Ordinary citizens who live by helping others. Already got up and started working.

Fifty kilometers away from Yuanfan Town, there is a seaport, and this seaport is Aps City.

Arpus City can be said to be the place with the largest number of workers in the nearby area, not only because it is the largest seafood trading place, but also because the docking, loading and unloading of merchant ships, and the surrounding construction of more than a dozen small towns also indicate the prosperity of this place.

Whenever summer comes, fishermen who fish will gather in the fish market to bargain with the vendors and big customers who come to buy fresh fish. And the loading and unloading of cargo ships at those ports also requires cheap labor.

However, with the recent rampant pirates, there have been fewer cargo ships going to and from the sea, and even fewer ships docking at this seaport to load and unload cargo. Even if there are, most of them are engaged in short-circuit trade People, the profits are pitiful, and the money that can be paid to helpers is even more limited.

Although due to the lack of population after the evil disaster, all of them can be arranged for agriculture.

But for the sake of the long run, the various lords kept townspeople who specialized in this kind of work.

It's just that the rampage of pirates has made these people unemployed.

at this time. Most of the men who came to look for work were sitting in the corner, looking expectantly at the passers-by. I hope that some of these people will have some customers who come to hire workers, so that they can take some money and go home to do business.

The weather is getting hotter and hotter. After a while, I'm afraid it will be even more difficult to find jobs. At this moment, a worker with a shirtless shirt was sitting under the shade, his face full of worry.

Although it was only early in the morning, the huge sun in the sky still exuded a scorching heat. As long as it was exposed to the sun, within a few minutes, the skin of the sunburned person would turn red.

In a few days, I'm afraid the weather will be even hotter. If they can't find work to do, they can only be wasted.

Yeah, it's hard to do anything in this kind of weather, especially when this kind of work is scarce. In the past, you could get a copper coin for carrying goods a few times, but now there is less work, and you can't get a copper coin for carrying goods ten times. Prices have risen so sharply after the disaster, if we don’t think of a solution, the whole family will starve to death.”

There were a total of seven or eight people sitting in this green shade, and all of them had disheveled faces, which were the result of long-term malnutrition.

Hearing the worker's sigh, the person sitting next to him also remembered his troubles at home, and also sighed. There was decadence and loss in the tone.

Yes, yes, the evil disaster has just passed, and pirates started to make noise again. This day is really unbearable. After hearing this, the others were also resonated, and they all echoed.

These workers are all in the same town. Although the lords of many territories will not exploit the people too much, they will definitely not be as kind and loving as Romon. Most of the commoners in the territories are farming for the lord, farming for the lord. The food has to be handed over. The food left by the family cannot sustain the consumption of the whole family for a year. Many farmers plant the land when the farming is busy, and come out to find work when the farming is slack. Otherwise, they will rely on the leftovers Living on food, life is really a bit tight.

The same is true for these people from small villages and towns around the port, but their life has been really hard in the past six months.

If it was in the past, they could still rely on the work they found on the port of Aps City, helping the workers to earn some money to supplement their families. But now, the ports closer to the town are all affected by pirates, and the merchants can't even take care of their own lives, so how can they think of these laborers who depend on them for a living?

Originally, these people were counting on the newly formed Fifth Fleet to wipe out the pirates and make their lives better.

But I heard that there has been no news from the Fifth Fleet since it went to sea. It is estimated that the pirates made dumplings. Now these pressures from life are like the huge sun in the sky, scorching the internal organs of these peasants. If the caravans don't go to sea, they don't need to unload and move their goods. If they don't need to unload and move their goods, they will naturally lose their usefulness. A few months of free time is still secondary. , with such endless free time, their life will probably become even more difficult.

You tell me, what happened to the Fifth Fleet that went out to sea? Why did it suddenly disappear? Those are eight warships! We have all seen it with our own eyes. Every ship is so big that it looks huge wherever it is placed. Why did the eight ships suddenly disappear in the sea? Since they were free, these people who knew each other naturally sat around and chatted. Apart from their own family affairs, the content of the chat was about the fifth Fleet thing.

After all, this incident happened recently, and it has a lot to do with their lives. When they talked about it, they were quite nervous.

Isn't that right? I heard that the representatives of those commercial firms also gave that lord a lot of gifts. As a result, the other party disappeared as soon as he went out to sea. I'm afraid those people will cry too. A worker answered lazily. over the phone.

They did have a lot of hardship without work, and compared with those sea caravans who were cut off from all sources of income, it was nothing.

At the time when piracy was rampant at the beginning, these caravans that survived by sea trade went to sea several times from time to time. With the mysterious disappearance of the Fifth Fleet, no caravan dared to go to sea anymore.

Even if they were traveling in a group, they would die if they encountered those ferocious pirates. No matter how valuable gold was, it was not as valuable as human life. At this time, these caravans in the county had already started to plan to evacuate this area.

Can't afford to provoke, can't we still hide? If this goes on, no matter how strong the caravan is, it will be over.

The workers were lazily basking in the sun while chatting. Not far behind them was a sentry post responsible for monitoring the situation at sea. Several soldiers were listlessly leaning against the wall, sitting or lying, looking at the blue sky. The blue sky is in a daze.

The topic of chatting among the workers unknowingly turned to these soldiers.

Look at those sentinels who stay in the checkpoint all day without doing anything. It's actually quite pitiful. I heard that because the naval warships that went out to sea suddenly disappeared in the sea, the people on it got angry. Even they who are responsible for observing the situation at sea Not only were they deducted a month's salary, but they were also severely scolded by the officials above, saying that they were not good at doing things. In fact, what does the navy matter have to do with them? Today The situation is really chaotic. A worker who knew some inside information said with a sigh.

Don't just say they are pitiful, who is going to pity us? You have been sitting for almost a morning, and there is no one who asks us to work. The family is still waiting for me to take the money back, always like this Going down is not an option. When will those damned pirates leave.” Another worker said helplessly.

At this moment, someone happened to come to the port to recruit some workers for building houses. The voice of the master's yelling was heard by these men, and these men immediately jumped up and ran over.

And in the checkpoint where they were discussing just now, a sigh suddenly sounded. A middle-aged sentry stood up, walked into the house with some dispiritedness, and refilled the deflated water bladder. Those who work in this sentry are all soldiers who are not very good in the city. Otherwise, who would Are you willing to come here every day to enjoy the sea breeze and sun?

The middle-aged sentry looked at the other soldiers lying by the wall, and walked to the edge of the checkpoint while drinking water helplessly.

The checkpoint was built quite high. Although there were many gaps in the side wall of the checkpoint due to the wind and sun and the disrepair for a long time, it was still very strong overall. The checkpoint is about as high as a two-story building. Looking at the sea from here, you can see far away.

The middle-aged sentinel is the person in charge here, so no matter how reluctant he was, he still looked towards the sea in a serious and responsible manner, for fear that something unusual might happen, but he didn't notice it.

In the end, it didn't matter what he saw. He almost choked while drinking water, opened his mouth wide open, and didn't even notice that the water bag in his hand fell to the ground and the water spilled all over the floor.

After a long time, the sentry called out: Quick, come and see! What, what is that!

What? Have pirates come over? The sentinels who were still lying on the ground like dead pigs jumped up when they heard this. Standing on the edge of the checkpoint and looking towards the sea, I saw more than a dozen warships coming from a distance, passing along their port and heading to the other side.

Those warships sailed majesticly against the wind, and a flag with the Fifth Fleet logo on the main battleship was constantly flying under the sea breeze under the flag. A group of sailors stood tall and straight on the deck, and some of them were tilting their heads, looking at the coastline.

The Fifth Fleet is back! Look! The Fifth Fleet is back!

The people on the coast did not notice the warship on the sea at first. When the warship got close, those people who were looking at the sea and chatting stood up in panic. Their first reaction was that the pirates were coming, and after running for a while, they stood up. Looking back from a distance, I remembered that the flag on the battleship belonged to the Fifth Fleet.

And the faces of the sailors that had been clearly seen were indeed those they were familiar with. People finally let go of their fear, shouting and shouting in surprise.

We are the Fifth Fleet that went out to sea to destroy pirates. Look, everyone, under the leadership of Baron Tetasio, we have wiped out a pirate and seized four ships! When the battleship passed by the port, a sailor with a loud voice rushed Shout out to the shore.

This is something that Romon has instructed, and the news must be spread quickly.

Sure enough, after listening to this call, everyone cheered when they saw the change from eight ships to twelve ships.

The Fifth Fleet is back...after more than 20 days at sea, it's back...

The Fifth Fleet is triumphant, returning with four ships of spoils...

As these warships continued to land on the coast and finally docked at Yuanfan Port, the news of these victories also began to spread to the outside world. (!)