Although it is unclear who built the Port of Saint-Pélia, it did not prevent people at that time from using this magnificent port city. The country where the expedition was located was the first to settle in the Port of Saint-Pélia and swore that it was responsible for the port.

sovereignty of this city.

However, that country's maritime power was too weak. Before it could transport the population to the port of Santa Pelia, the city was immediately snatched away by other maritime powers that came after hearing the news, and even the people transported later

Those people also became slaves.

After that, the city changed hands several times between various maritime powers and pirates, and the ethnic groups and nationalities of the city's residents also became very confusing. In the end, it was operated by five underground forces who controlled the five districts of the city and three nobles who controlled the real power of the city.

Next, the city completely broke away from the control of those maritime powers and powerful pirates and became an independent city-state.

In the following decades, this city experienced several wars caused by foreign forces. The residents of the city, which were originally like scattered sand, also became united and became a whole under the temper of these wars. Those who tried to occupy

The various external forces in this city also recognized the city's system in the stubborn resistance of the Port of Santa Pelia.

The people who now rule St. Pelia Port are no longer the few forces and noble families who first established the city. The first eight city families have long since disappeared in subsequent power struggles. Now they rule St. Pelia.

There are only two powers in China, one is the church and the other is the Chamber of Commerce.

Unlike Nice, which prohibits churches from participating in city government affairs, Port Saint-Pélia has had churches participate in city politics and military affairs from the very beginning. Five of the first eight urban families were devout believers in certain churches.

The three are also inextricably linked to the church.

Later, in the war between St. Paulia Port and other forces, the church also played a very important role. Whether it was encouraging people's hearts or providing logistical supplies, it was the driving force to support St. Paulia Port to persist. In the final stages, the church also played a very important role.

A church force that supported St. Belia Port even personally sent church knights to participate in several battles to show their attitude. In the end, the system and status of St. Belea Port were recognized, which was not unrelated to this.

Later, during several power struggles within the Port of Santa Pelia, the first few church forces stationed in the port gradually penetrated into the city council. Finally, after the heirs of the last city family left the Port of Santa Pelia, they took control of the city.

Half of the city council seats dominate the city's government affairs and also control the city defense army. Therefore, the city defense army in Saint Pelia Port is almost all church armed forces and knights.

As for the other half of the city council seats, they are occupied by the city chamber of commerce in Porto Santa Pelia.

The full name of this city chamber of commerce is the Santa Pelia City Chamber of Commerce. It is mainly composed of five large chambers of commerce and a dozen small chambers of commerce. They control the commercial activities of the entire city and most of the shipping route trade related to the Port of St. Pelia.

, so they also control all the navy in Santa Pelia Port.

What is interesting is that all the franchised chambers of commerce in the City Chamber of Commerce are not locally produced chambers of commerce in Santa Pelia Port. They are all foreign chambers of commerce that borrowed the shells of certain local chambers of commerce and became so-called local chambers of commerce.

For example, the Rand Chamber of Commerce, which controls four trade routes and owns 20 freight ships, is a subsidiary chamber of commerce of the New World shipping giant Rand Group.

It is precisely because of this that even after the prosperity brought by the Liszt River declined, the Port of St. Paulia was still able to maintain a certain degree of prosperity and did not become completely abandoned. It was because of the existence of these foreign chambers of commerce that the local port of St. Paulia

For people, these chambers of commerce are both loved and hated in their hearts. They love it because the city is prosperous, citizens’ salaries, and most of all kinds of goods come from these chambers of commerce, but they hate it because these chambers of commerce do not belong to them or their city.

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As the carriage carrying Leo and the others approached a little closer, the church emblem on the outer city wall of Saint Pelia Port and the city gate arch also came into everyone's eyes. This emblem was familiar to both Leo and Sylvia.

, is the emblem of the Fountain Temple.

Just like other places in the New World, the Spring Water Temple is also the most important church in St. Pelia Port, because both the residents of St. Pelia Port and the drinking water supply for ships need to rely on the Spring Water Temple.

The temple produces clean drinking water.

Although there is water everywhere in Lister Swamp, it is saline water and is not edible. Even if it is filtered by other methods, the filtered water will still contain some toxins that cannot be eliminated. Drink this water once or twice

There is no problem, but if you drink it for a long time, you will suffer from a kind of water rust. The skin of the body will be dry and cracked, the muscles will atrophy, and you will be extremely thirsty. You need to drink water constantly. As long as you don't drink water for an hour, you will be thirsty.

And death is extremely painful.

Therefore, the church stationed in St. Paulia Port at that time was the Quanshui Temple, and the Spring Water Temple also occupied twenty seats in the city council of St. Perlia Port. Although it was not the largest in terms of the number of seats, it was

These twenty seats are all very important, such as the speaker of the parliament, the supervisor of the parliament, etc. It is definitely the church with the largest influence on the entire port city.

Because of this, in order to commend the contribution of the Fountain Temple to the entire Port of Santa Pelia, all the city gates were engraved with the emblem of the Fountain Temple, and there was even a spring similar to a landscape fountain built inside the city wall.

Small altar.

I don’t know when the habit was formed. Everyone who enters the Port of Santa Pelia will stop by this small spring water altar, wash their hands and wipe their face with the spring water sprayed from the water bottle stone sculpture.

In this regard, Leo, Sylvia and Penny also followed the Romans and came to the pool to wash their hands after entering the city.

However, Qiao An did not go near the pool, because he would feel uncomfortable if he was close to the pool. Apparently, this water purifying fountain created with magic had some inhibitory effect on Qiao An's body's imitating alien cells.

The moment Leo entered the city, he had already scanned the entire Saint Paulia Port through the mental network, and after receiving the feedback information, he instantly figured out one thing, that is, the entire Saint Puriya Port was definitely not like this.

What was built by the people of this world was not necessarily built by gods. Instead, it was most likely a product of Earth Federation technology.

The reason why he made this judgment was that the original main building of the entire Saint Pelia Port was carved from a whole white-walled stone mountain. In other words, the main building is a whole, not what it looks like on the surface.

What stood up were just individual buildings.

This construction model comes from a medium-sized alien civilization race. This race invented an energy beam weapon that can soften most solid materials in the universe. They once used this technology to transform a whole piece of metal into

An unassembled spaceship.

The Earth Federation later obtained part of the technology of this energy beam weapon, and then improved it into a special construction tool that the army can quickly create combat bases on the front line.

A construction team of fifty people armed with this construction tool can transform a mountain or a plain underground into a complete base with sufficient space in half a day.

Although Leo has never been exposed to this tool because it is defined as a highly confidential tool by the Earth Federation, Leo has spent a long time in a base built with this tool, and it is not just a base, so he has no idea about it.

The buildings built with this tool were very familiar. When his mental network scanned the Saint Pelia Port, he instantly thought of the bases he had stayed in before.

Because he had already seen the space capsule in the Ultra Federation, he would not be too surprised even if he now saw a city that might have been built using Earth Federation technology. The only thing he was curious about was who built it.

city, why can he use which tools, and what is his purpose in building this city?

After all kinds of questions flashed through Leo's mind, he buried them in his heart. He had no intention of speaking out, let alone exploring more deeply. He just regarded this as something that happened during this journey.

Small disturbances, unless clues are brought to him, he will not have the idea of ​​actively looking for trouble.

After cleaning their hands in the pool, the young couple enthusiastically led Leo and the others to the hotel opened by their family's chamber of commerce. When they heard that Leo and the others were coming to St. Pelia Port for the first time, they even gave the coachman considerate instructions.

Walking along some of the most famous landscape routes in the city allowed Leo and the others to see all the famous landscapes of Santa Pelia Port at once.

Santa Pelia Port is divided into the Old City and the New City based on different buildings, but locals prefer to call them White City and Black City.

As the name suggests, Baicheng District is the main body of the city built along the coastline. It is also the most original white-walled stone city. Although the architectural style of this urban area is too old and obsolete now, it will not inevitably destroy the main style of the entire city.

, so a long time ago, the city council passed a decree that no renovations were allowed in this area. Even if the church moved here, it could only adjust the style of its church according to the architectural style here.

For example, the Spring Water Temple usually digs a pool at the entrance of the temple and then fills it with water. However, the Spring Water Temple in Saint Pelia Port did not follow this rule. It just set up a pool at the entrance that can be moved at any time.

small altar of water bottles.

Even if the Spring Water Temple is like this, other churches will naturally not renovate their churches and temples by destroying the buildings. This makes all their renovation items removable, including the statues of gods.

If you are an architect or scholar who is very obsessed with the study of ancient buildings in the Old World, coming to the Port of St. Paulia will definitely be like a mouse falling into a rice barn. Here you can find a large number of ancient buildings that have disappeared in the Old World.

Especially in recent years, both the New World and the Old World have begun to advocate anti-ancient architecture, so ancient buildings that were considered obsolete in the past have become popular again, and St. Pelia is the best place to learn about ancient architectural styles.

It is precisely for this reason that architects from the New and Old Worlds can be seen everywhere on the streets of Baicheng District. The City Council of Saint-Pélia also took advantage of this opportunity to establish an ancient architecture academy to take advantage of the opportunity to bring Saint-Pélia to the forefront.

Ya is built into a holy place for learning ancient architecture.

Compared with Baicheng District, which is popular among outsiders, Heicheng District is obviously not that popular. This does not mean that the security in Heicheng District is bad. Although the security there is indeed a little worse than that in Baicheng District, it is still worse.

The number is limited, after all, the church knights and church armed forces patrol there every day, and no one dares to provoke the church people.

The reason why outsiders are reluctant to go to Heicheng District is mainly because Heicheng District is too dirty and messy.

It is dirty because Heicheng District does not have a complete sewer system like Baicheng District. Even if a sea storm hits, Baicheng District's sewer system can still operate well, ensuring that Baicheng District will not have water accumulation problems.

But Heicheng District is different. Planning issues were not considered at all when the Heicheng District was built. Only two drainage ditches were built on both sides of the narrow streets. Not only are the ditches not very big, but the terrain is also high. Once there is too much rain, the ditches will

It won't have any effect, and the water in the ditch will spread out and flood the entire Black City area.

It is not that the City Council of Porto Santa Pelia has not thought about building a sewer system for the Black City District by imitating the sewer system of the White City District. However, not to mention the huge amount of money spent on the construction, it is just the operation mode of the sewer system.

So far, no one has been able to completely figure it out, so it is impossible to say that it is imitated.

What's more important is that the underground of Black City is made up of huge rocks instead of soft soil. The difficulty of digging a sewer in the rocks is even more difficult than re-opening a channel of the Lister River.

It is precisely because of these reasons that there is no sewer in Heicheng District so far. They are all ditches that serve no purpose. Once it rains, Heicheng District will be flooded. Although the water will recede quickly after the rain stops, Heicheng District

A large number of low-lying areas will accumulate water, and even some domestic sewage will accumulate together, making the entire black city area filled with a rancid smell at all times.

Because Baicheng District is on the coast, the wind from the sea always blows from Baicheng District and then enters Heicheng District, so the stench from Heicheng District will not spread to Baicheng District, which makes the wealthy and powerful people living in Baicheng District

Many people did not feel the pain and turned a blind eye to the plight of the Black City.

As for the chaos in Heicheng District, it is not a disorder of public security, but a disorder of construction.

Because there is no architectural planning in the Black City area, all outsiders who want to settle in Santa Pelia Port but have no money will allocate a piece of land in the Black City area and then build their own residences at will, which directly leads to the entire Black City area.

Not only are the streets in the city narrow and disorderly, but the buildings are also all kinds of strange. Some people even claim that the Port of Santa Pelia combines the most magnificent buildings in the world with the weirdest and ugliest buildings.

But even in a dirty and poor place like the Black City District, the people living here are very devout believers. The church knights and church armed forces recruited by several churches in St. Paulia Port are all recruited from the Black City District, and even

There have also been several big figures such as paladins and bishops appearing in Black City. This has permeated the entire Black City with a weird idea that suffering is blessing. This idea has even given rise to a quasi-religious organization called Passion.
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