Path of Light.

Chapter 865 866. Change
The merchant Moses finally moved into the cabin of a three-masted sailing ship with a group of imperial merchants.

Their jobs also changed to doing odd jobs in the shipyard, including but not limited to cleaning shells from the bottom of the ship, scrubbing the deck, drying and mending sails, etc.

Recently, Roy has seized twenty-three damaged sailing ships, all of which need a comprehensive overhaul.

The ship repair yard on Kui Island is apparently also very busy, with endless work to do every day, but compared to chiseling stones in the reef area, the work at the ship repair yard is obviously much easier.

However, these imperial merchants were clearly divided into two factions. The imperial merchants who first revealed the slave trade route to Roy huddled together for warmth, while the other imperial merchants formed another group around the merchant Moses. Although there was no friction or conflict between the two sides, it was obvious that they were not in harmony.

However, the imperial merchants who were the first to surrender to Roy were obviously treated more favorably, and they lived in cabins on the second floor of the ship.

The merchant Moses and his group could only live in the cabin on the lower level. Not only did these imperial merchants live here, but five hundred imperial crew members also lived in the cabin on the lower level. These crew members were also arranged by Roy to work in the shipyard...

In fact, even if the merchant Moses did not personally find Roy and reveal more information about the slave routes to him, Roy also planned to arrange them to work in the shipyard.

Because in the past few days, there have always been conflicts between the Plateau Headhunters and the Imperial crew, and most of the Imperial crew were crippled...

So Roy had decided to separate them long ago. The shipyard was short of manpower, and obviously the imperial crew members who lived on the ship all year round were the best candidates.

Roy didn't expect that before he could arrange this matter, the merchant Moses could no longer resist. He actually took the initiative to come over and explain the slave trade route. This really saved him a lot of trouble.

Just half a month after the gray dwarf fleet led by Commander Machio was defeated on Kuei Island, the gray dwarves who had been living secretly on the islands around Kuei Island finally ushered in a major relocation.

Every night, some large and small ships appear in this sea area and bring the gray dwarves from the surrounding islands on board.

These ships did not sail north, nor did they sail to the Lost Sea, but sailed south...

In fact, Roy was thinking of conducting a large-scale investigation of the islands around Kuei Island, arresting all the gray dwarves who had engaged in slave trading in the past, and sending them to the Pagisto Plateau in the Partington plane to mine. However, plans did not change quickly, and before he could arrange this matter, the gray dwarves on the islands around Kuei Island had already run away.

The trade between the half-elves and the Naga sea tribe gradually developed. What no one expected was that the thing that was deeply welcomed by the Naga sea tribe was not the lemon that could enhance the flavor of seafood, nor those expensive exquisite daggers, but the most inconspicuous hemp rope for the half-elves.

These Naga sea tribes love to string beautiful shells together. In the past they used a variety of silk threads, but now they can get cheap hemp threads from half-elves.

Transactions at the dock suddenly became frequent.

Walking on the busy dock, what made Roy speechless was that some half-blood elves actually carved some wooden basins and cups and sold them on the stalls at the dock...

Now there are half-elves and Naga sea tribes cooperating in fishing. There are currently about 80,000 half-elves living on the island. In addition to eating fruits, in order to maintain sufficient physical strength every day, the half-elves also like to eat fish. A small fish market has been formed at the pier.

……

When the group of elf slaves rescued by Roy first arrived on the island, they didn't know what to do.

Now they have gradually started a new life on the island. They can get free fruits every day and live in a brand new tree house that can shelter them from the wind and rain. Now they are beginning to pursue a more refined life...

Wendy bought two blue groupers at the fish market and walked back through the busy market with the wooden basin.

Many half-blood elves on the dock knew her, and the elves who escaped from the Lost Sea with her would take the initiative to greet her when they saw her.

As a wood elf, Wendy actually just eats some fruits and drinks some honey lemon tea every day.

Sabrina is also a vegetarian...

Roy and Moira were the only two people who ate fish, and they ate it almost every day, and occasionally Miss Tiffany would come over and eat some grilled fish with them.

So Wendy would go to the market at the pier to buy fish every day.

"Wendy, here to buy fish again!"

"Wendy, I collected some wild honey in the jungle a few days ago. This beeswax is very sweet. Take some..."

Every day, elves would take the initiative to send gifts to Wendy. They didn’t ask Wendy to do anything, they just wanted to make friends with her.

Walking barefoot on the soft beach, the warm sand swallowed her ankles.

The sunlight was a bit dazzling, and she didn't want her arms to get freckles from the sun, so she ran a few steps and came to the shade of the tree.

I walked over the terrace railing into the living room, placed the purchased sea fish in a wooden basin in the kitchen, covered it with some crushed ice, and then closed the lid so that the two fish could be preserved until evening.

In the evening, Sabrina and Moira returned from the barracks.

After taking a bath, Sabrina lay in a wicker chair and ate fruit.

Moira saw the fish in the tub and said to her sister Sabrina:

"Roy has gone to Partington. Sister, what are we going to do with these two fish?"

Sabrina turned over in the wicker chair and said casually:

"You've been thinking about learning how to grill fish, right? You might as well give it a try. You can't always ask Roy to grill fish for you. He might be busier in the future. You should also try to make some..."

Moira pouted, looked at the blue spots that had long since died, scratched her head in annoyance and said:
"Then come and help me, okay!"

Sabrina didn't want to pay any attention to her...

Moira squatted before the basin, thinking of the private words Miss Tiffany had said to her the night before:

"Moira, no matter if you are an elf, a naga, or a human, once you have wealth and power, you will have a halo around you. The more wealth and power you have, the more dazzling the halo will become."

'Even if he doesn't flirt with those pretty girls, there will be admirers who will come to him.'

'Although I think he did a good job in this regard, at least better than most of the elf nobles. But you also saw that the golden Nania and the fairy-like Olive, they just wrote their thoughts on their chests.'

"Although you and your boss have a deep relationship, you can't be without a sense of crisis. Sometimes you need to make your attitude clear so that they can put away all those little thoughts..."

Moira blinked, she never thought that one day she would be troubled by such a thing.

In fact, elves are very casual about relationships. If they like each other, they will stay together. If both parties feel bored, they will separate.

Roy has ordinary human blood, so he is different from many elves. He is a very loyal half-elf, and Moira is very dependent on him, and their feelings have naturally gathered together bit by bit.

She understood Roy better than anyone around her.

For example, the siren Olive always tries to seduce Roy...

But she knew that Roy had a deep-rooted paranoia about sirens. Roy once told her a love story between a human and a siren, but the ending was not very good. The siren was imprisoned and the human was forced to become an ascetic.

Now this Nania is a mermaid, and Roy actually likes Naga mermaids very much... When Moira's eyes are narrowed, she looks like a cat.

As she looked at her sister Sabrina, Miss Tiffany's words echoed in her ears again and again.

No matter how hard it gets to go...

……

Just as Moira's heart was filled with ripples, Roy had already brought Leah to Padstow.

Every time she walked into a portal, Leah would observe the brief space-time rift passage.

According to the explanation of the great magician Grames, these space cracks are actually sub-dimensional spaces. There are countless nodes between the sub-dimensional space and the plane. If you have the ability to open these nodes, you will have the ability to travel through the sub-dimensional space.

Unfortunately, the laws contained in the space-time rift are profound knowledge that Leah cannot access now...

Leia just wanted to find the real sub-dimensional space through the channel of the space-time rift, but just one second made Leia feel dizzy.

Walking out of the central square of Padstow, Roy found a carriage on the side of the road and went directly to the Tree of Life where the military headquarters was located. Sure enough, Leisander was still busy handling official business.

"I thought you were going to be busy on Kui Island for a while..."

When Lysander saw Roy striding into the office, he put down the quill in his hand and pushed aside the thick stack of documents waiting for signature.

Now Padstow is a central city with a population of over one million, and there are several large baskets of documents that need to be signed and processed by Raysand every day.

Roy sat opposite Lysander and asked him:

"How is the Half-Blood Elf Council in Padstow running? We can't take on all the responsibilities ourselves. Some of the trivial matters in the city should be handed over to the council, leaving the city construction and maintenance of public facilities to the rest."

"Leshande, you only need to take care of the city's taxation and treasury allocations."

"The courtroom at the parliament is already up and running, and is now handling various disputes in the city."

Leishande leaned back in his chair somewhat tiredly, and the female assistant brought him two cups of tea.

Roy looked out the window. The conspicuous rows of warehouses were just across the square. The warehouses should be full of magic herbs now.

"Next, I will try to open up the magic herb market. There will be some magic herb trading houses in Padstow. I plan to issue some purchase orders this time and let those trading houses buy up scattered magic herbs. They will gather the magic herbs together and then trade with us in the form of orders!"

"Why make so much trouble?"

Lysander frowned and looked at Roy in confusion.

Roy spread his hands and explained to Leisander:

"In the future, Kui Island will definitely re-establish contact with the Elf Continent and the Green Empire. At that time, elves and humans will enter Padstow City to do various trades. I don't want all the magic herb business in Padstow City to be controlled by my trading company. Such a magic herb market is not healthy. Only by supporting a few trading companies founded by half-blood elf merchants can the magic herb market be more competitive..."

"I don't quite understand what you're saying! Anyway, you have the final say over the entire magic herb market, you can do whatever you want!"

Leisander waved his hand with a headache.

Roy continued:

"In the future, the income from the mines on the Pagisto Plateau will gradually be added to the treasury of the Plateau City, mainly used as military expenses for the mine guards..."

Leisander had a bad feeling. He stared at Roy:

"Boss, what do you want to do?"

Roy said: "I want to get the Partington plane back on track step by step. This plane belongs to the half-blood elves, and all the resources on the plane cannot be controlled by one person. If that happens, it won't be long before an Alvis Lord emerges."

Leisander finally understood Roy's thoughts:
"So you want to hand over the magic herbs first, so that when foreign merchants enter Padstow in the future, they won't be able to directly control the magic herb market?"

Roy nodded, and then said:

"Not only the magic herb market, but other industries must also be gradually regulated..."

"By the way, Rambo has been in the spinel mine for too long. Let him come to Padstow City to join the Council of Half-Blood Elf Elders. He will first be responsible for the management of the city workshops. In the future, the management of the entire city will also be gradually transferred to the Council of Half-Blood Elf Elders. Half-Blood elves have no nobles, and all council members must be elected by the half-blood elves."

Leisander looked at Roy's back as he stood in front of the window and said in a deep voice, "I understand."

……

The magic airship heads to the Plateau City.

The population of the plateau city soared to 600,000.

Because a forging workshop was built near the black iron mine in the Jiaxi Mountains, a large number of gray dwarf craftsmen worked in the forging workshop, so many metal tools flowed from the forging workshop into the plateau city.

In just two years, handicraft workshops in this plateau city have sprung up in every corner of the city like mushrooms after a rain.

With the exception of some copper metal utensils, many wooden tools now have metal parts added to them.

The biggest difference between half-elves and other elves is that they are used to living a hard life.

They are very hardworking and thrifty by nature, and are more receptive to new things.

Even without tree houses, the half-blood elves in the city can live in brick and stone houses. Even without fresh fruits and dried fish on the market, the half-blood elves are willing to live in such a city.

Originally there were only highland headhunters in the prisoner-of-war concentration camp, but now a large number of gray dwarves have been added, and the number of prisoners of war has increased to 150,000.

Mulin expanded the mine guard regiment several times. The mine guard regiment gradually expanded from 5,000 elf guards to 50,000 half-elf guards. The number of elf guards increased nearly tenfold. The current mine guard regiment can already be called a legion.

Roy sat in front of Mu Lin and said to her:

"Let Captain Helic come back. There is no need for him and those half-elf warriors to live in such a cold place."

"We have sent someone to deliver a letter to them, but there has been no response."

Mulin rolled her eyes and responded to Roy.

(End of this chapter)