"Let's go." Pompey held the side of the ship, waved to Woolley at the port, and said to the first mate beside him.

The first mate turned around and waved the flag, and a melodious horn sounded immediately...

That’s right, the captain of the Shelley was Pompey, but he didn’t actively fight for this position. Instead, Wu Lai forced it on him because Wu Lai felt that no one would be more suitable to go to the Kati Prairie than Pompey.

Pompey was happy to obey. First, being the captain of this big ship was undoubtedly a very prestigious thing. Second, with Mikoyan and other priests around, it was not his turn to worry about the temple affairs on Grindo Island. However, he suffered a lot when studying - how could Wu Lei not be strict when teaching in person? Wu Lei timed the time very accurately. On the day when the Shelley was launched, the construction of facilities such as houses, warehouses, and blast furnaces in the mining area was just completed. Nearly a thousand of the slaves that Guru bought for him became miners. Before the coal was shipped back, they had to continue to participate in the study, and the old smelting workers taught them everything they needed to know.

All the slave miners studied very hard and realized early on that Greendo Island was different from the others. They had long ago learned from Woolley about the benefits and methods of gaining freedom - as long as they could complete their work tasks, they would be freed from slavery in three years and become civilians who could reclaim wasteland and own land.

After the most difficult season, Greendo Island became completely self-sufficient in food, meat, oil, and vegetables. After the six towns built markets and shops for exchanging materials, Woolley began to plan foreign trade. Not only was it impossible for the island to produce daily necessities such as cloth and many raw materials, but it also wanted to push some products on the island to the mainland, such as the cigarettes produced by the tobacco factory managed by the Nivea couple, and the products of the glass products factory jointly founded by the Koch family and Woolley...

"The reason we do this is that Greendo Island cannot remain isolated overseas forever. Although our current population has reached more than 50,000, this is not enough to form a sustainable cycle. We must interact with the outside world, trade with them, and intermarry with them." Wu Lai said to David.

"Father, there is still chaos outside. If we show up in public now, it might easily cause trouble," said David.

"No, as long as we control Breaking Wave Town and build our port fortress, no one will be able to cause us trouble." Wu Lai smiled and patted David's shoulder gently. "You have worked hard for such a long time. You should take this opportunity to prepare for the wedding and have a good rest."

"Thank you, father." David nodded with a smile. In a dozen days, he will marry Lucie from the Kochi family as his bride. Although she is not a direct descendant of the Kochi family, what does it matter? You know, he and Lucie are "freely in love", and Wu Lai also said that love is more important than family background.

The fact that David was about to get married made Wu Lai feel emotional. He, the godfather, was still single, but his adopted son got married first. However, David was not to blame for this. Firstly, David was older than Wu Lai and had been busy with various affairs over the years. Secondly, Wu Lai himself was helpless. Apart from Iris, he felt that he wanted to marry both Shelley and Loli, and he should marry them. But there was a problem. According to Assyrian custom, there was only one wife, and the one who was married first was the wife. The later ones did not count. They could be kept, but they had no inheritance rights and no status.

In this case, Wu Lai couldn't decide who to marry first or later. The inheritance rights and status were easy to deal with, since he was so powerful that he could make his own rules. But there had never been a precedent for marrying two women together, and neither of the two women agreed. So, he could only wait and see.

But it was not enough to just waste time, the two women also "gave advice" to Wu Lai every now and then, which made him feel a little bit amused and helpless. He thought that no matter how smart a woman was, there was basically no difference between her and an ordinary woman when handling such matters.

Fortunately, Wu Lai was busy most of the time, so he was not harassed very often.

Compared to Wu Lai, other people's lives are much more comfortable, but no one can compare to Meng Bao. Now it no longer wanders around in the forest looking for prey and scaring small animals, but goes out to sea with the fishermen on the island every now and then. In order to satisfy its hobby and also to prevent it from harassing other fishermen too much, Wu Lai even built a boat for it.

However, Mengbao doesn't go out to sea to catch fish, but to hunt seals, manatees, dolphins and other big fish. He returns every time he catches one, and he is very generous - whoever paddles the boat for him can take away all the leftovers. With his appetite, he always leaves nearly half of the leftovers. As a result, every time Mengbao appears at the port with his proud steps, there will be fishermen rushing to form a team to row his exclusive boat to the dock, wait for him to board the boat, and then take him to the sea where seals are infested. The journey is not short, and it takes almost a whole day to go back and forth.

In fact, Woolley’s contact with the outside world has never been interrupted. Although he has left the mainland, he has maintained close contact with Baker, Turles and Plancy.

Woolley learned about the situation on the mainland from Plancy, and Baker purchased and transported necessities for the island to Breakers, while Tours provided salt, saltpeter and sulfur to Glyndwr Island.

Everything is in order, everything is thriving...

…

Compared with the tranquility of Glyndwr Island, the Hurritian-occupied area was deteriorating. More and more Assyrians who had originally chosen to surrender but could no longer bear the slavery and exploitation began to try to flee the Hurritian-occupied area and flee to Kayiked and Lovington. When they encountered obstacles, the originally simple escape turned into a bloody incident.

The constant occurrence of bloody incidents caused many people in the Hurrian-occupied areas to feel great disgust and resistance to the Hurrian army. Under the instigation of some people with ulterior motives, riots broke out almost simultaneously in the three cities of Qatti, Seneca and Menia. The Assyrians vented their anger on the old and weak Hurrians and Kimo who were resettled in the city by the army. In the process of the conflict between the two sides, casualties were inevitable.

The Hurlit army immediately used the most brutal and bloody method to stop the riots - they sent out troops to chase and search for the Assyrians who caused the chaos, and then killed them on the spot as an example to others.

But the result was that the situation became more and more serious. More Assyrians fled in groups or simply took up weapons and rushed towards the Hurrians closest to them, regardless of whether they were the elderly, the weak, women, children or soldiers...

Just when Trajan was exhausted from dealing with the situation, a long line of people appeared in front of the Red Valley Bay Fortress. Tens of thousands of Hulites, Kimos, the elderly, the weak, women and children cried and begged the defenders to open the gates of the fortress. Many of them were pale, thin and ragged, and it seemed that their only possessions were a mouth waiting for food...

"What's the point of you coming? Wouldn't it be better to stay under the hands of the Tianjuan people and harm them?" The soldiers stationed at the Hongguwan Fortress couldn't help but think so, but they had to pass the news to Armenia and let Trajan make the decision. After all, it was the Hurrites and Kimos who were crying and wailing outside the fortress.

"What else do you want to ask? We are of the same origin. Can you bear to watch them die in the canyon?" Trajan scolded the messenger, signed the order to open the fortress gate, and blamed Helen in his heart.

Trajan's order was quickly sent back to the Hongguwan Fortress. When the gate of the fortress slowly opened, less than 20% of the tens of thousands of elderly, weak, women and children who had been waiting outside the gate for almost five days were able to stand and walk on their own. Some of them had even become corpses, because the food thrown down from the fortress wall by the defenders could not be eaten by everyone.

The defending generals had no choice but to send a large number of soldiers to help, because General Trajan ordered that all these people of the same origin must be brought into the occupied area...

As the garrison soldiers hurried out of the fortress and dispersed into the densely packed crowd in the canyon, the 20% who were able to stand and walk slowly walked into the fortress. When almost all of them had entered, something strange happened suddenly -

After a brief commotion and screams, a few loud "boom, boom, boom" noises exploded like thunder. Amid the deafening sound, a large cloud of smoke and dust mixed with a large amount of fine stones and wood chips flew everywhere. There were also broken limbs and arms flying into the air accompanied by a large amount of blood. The three main gates of the fortress burst open...

There were cries, cries of pain, the sound of heavy objects falling, and the sounds of footsteps and running all at once...

"Enemy attack!" After the initial surprise, a soldier shouted a warning, but he was immediately stunned because he saw that the "refugees" who were so weak just now became extremely agile in an instant. They tore off their rags, revealed daggers, crossbows and other weapons, shouted slogans of charge, fought in all directions, and kept cutting at the panicked defending soldiers like the scythe of the god of death. Some of them even rushed to various hubs in the fortress with fire and explosives.

Chaos, complete chaos, explosions, shouts of killing, cries for help, howls of pain, all the sounds that seemed to come from hell were mixed in the smoke, flames, and splashes of blood...

The Hulett soldiers who were originally supporting the women and children outside the fortress hurriedly ran back, but they did not carry weapons when they left the fortress, and they were scattered in the crowd, so it was not only difficult for them to gather together, but also unable to form a decent counterattack force. To make matters worse, these old, weak, women and children who could no longer distinguish between enemies and friends were also in chaos. At the other end of the canyon, dozens of large flags suddenly appeared, and behind the large flags were the endless Tianjuan Army...

"General Trajan, your kindness has killed the Hurrians!" The general raised his sword in great grief and anger and faced the four "refugees" who were rushing towards him...

Half a day later, there was no Hulet or Kimo soldier left alive in the Hongguwan Fortress. The old, weak, women and children outside the city who were no longer useful were either killed or driven into the river by the Tianjuan Army...

When all the wailing and screaming fell into silence, Hatra's sixteen-person sedan slowly moved through the canyon and entered the Red Valley Bay Fortress, which was still filled with the smell of blood and gunpowder.

When several Tianjuan generals came forward to greet them, Hatra gently waved his hand and said slowly: "Leave some people to destroy this fortress for me, and the rest will follow me to fight Seneca."

After the generals received the order and made the arrangements, Hatra covered his nose with the handkerchief again, but a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Woolelindo, I will soon annoy you, I really wish you knew it earlier - Hatra thought to himself.

…

Wu Lai was in a very good mood today because the coking plant finally succeeded in producing qualified coke after five failures.

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After dinner, Wu Lai took a few bottles of wine to the temple. This was an appointment he had made with Mikoyan. In addition to Guru, Shelley, Loli, Iris, Caesar, Otto and Galileo also went with him. To be honest, they hadn't gathered together for a while. They were all busy with their own things on weekdays. Even Wu Lai and the three women only met once every few days.

Mikoyan was naturally very happy to see Wu Lai and his group. After the host and the guests exchanged greetings, since the weather was fine, they simply did not go into the living room and sat on the large lawn in front of the main hall of the temple. Mikoyan asked someone to bring wine cups, dried fruits and other things, and also called a priest to play the piano to accompany him. With the breeze, wine and music, everyone's mood was even higher.

As they drank and chatted, the topic turned to the situation on the mainland.

"The Shuman family is quite tough, but it's a pity that they are in such a difficult situation. Otherwise, the Duncan family would be in a much more difficult situation," said Mikoyan.

"Yes, but I don't know how long they can hold out." A priest nodded and continued, "His Excellency High Priest Saint Lean has been under house arrest for so long, he must have suffered a lot. And I heard that the Gerard family was dispersed by the peace faction, and I don't know where they fled to. If I had known this, I might as well have followed the lord to the island, at least I could have had some peace."

"Arch Priest Saint Lean is defending the dignity of the temple." Mikoyan said, and then asked Wu Lai, "Where is Wright now?"

"He went out to sea a few days ago. He heard from the fishermen in Polang Town that there was a big island more than 200 miles to the north, so he led some people to look for it." Wu Lai replied.

"He is too brave. The ocean is vast. What if he loses his course..." Mikoyan had just said half of his words when he was interrupted by Galileo.

"How can I do that?" Galileo drank faster than the others and was a little tipsy now. He didn't care that Mikoyan was of higher status than him. He raised his beard and said, "The ships of our Grindø Island are all equipped with the compass invented by the Lord. All the captains, first mates, second mates, and even the helmsmen and sailors have learned to use it. By the way, the captains, first mates, second mates, and so on have also been taught the technology of drawing nautical charts by the Lord. All the captains..."

"Alright, alright, alright." Mikoyan pushed Galileo impatiently, stopping him from continuing his chatter. "I know, I know. And you, Galileo, are not bad either. You are now the general manager of the arsenal, and you have also taught many soldiers, right?"

"Yes!" Galileo laughed and poured himself another glass of wine.

Seeing how funny he was, everyone started laughing, except Oddo, who didn't laugh and looked a little unhappy.

Seeing this, Wu Lai punched him lightly on the shoulder: "What's wrong? You were fine just now."

"Lord, I suddenly thought of Tianjuan's siege weapons. Since they have those things and now occupy this large area of ​​land and population, as long as they are willing, I am afraid it won't take long for them to take over the entire continent. Whether it is Kayikede or Lunvington, they can't withstand their attack." Odo said.

Hearing what Odo said, Guru couldn't help but interrupt and said, "The Tianjuan people's firearms manufacturing technology was stolen from the lord. The lord will definitely find a way to counter it."

"Lord, was it stolen?" Mikoyan was stunned. Not to mention him, no one around knew about this except Shelley and Guru. The reason was naturally that Wu Lai didn't mention it.

Seeing that everyone was looking at him with inquiring eyes, Wu Lai had to admit it even though he didn't want to mention it: "Yes, Guru is right. A large part of the chaos on the continent was caused by it. If it weren't for the leak of gunpowder technology, it wouldn't have been so easy for the Tianjuan people to succeed."

"You can't say that." Shelley had no heart to let Wu Lai take the blame. "The Tianjuan people have been coveting it for a long time. Even without your gunpowder technology, they would have launched attacks on other territories. It's not like they haven't done that before."

"That's right." Galileo chuckled, "What do you have to worry about? Can a plagiarist be more powerful than the inventor? With the lord here, you can just be like me, Galileo, and keep your heart at ease. Think about it, the only person in the entire continent who can control the people of Tianzhu is sitting with us."

"Drink your wine." Mikoyan glared at Galileo, then cast a questioning look at Wu Lei again, "Can you counter it?"

Wu Lai smiled and said, "The emperor of Tianjuan is very smart. Judging from the power of the siege weapons she made, she has mastered gunpowder very well. But everyone should know one thing. Objects like catapults are powerful weapons for siege, but not necessarily for defense. Moreover, compared with the artillery that I will soon release, catapults are just a pile of garbage. As for gunpowder, there are too many ways to play with it..."