Feneport Kingdom, Kant Town.
Hobart rose early and began a new journey that day.
There were two routes from Feneport City to Colson County. One was to depart from Feneport City and travel by water along the Taidi Jie River. However, because there were no passenger ships going directly to Bugas City, the capital of Colson County, one had to spend a great deal of time waiting for a ship, making the entire journey take around three days.
The other was the overland route Hobart was taking now. Since there was no train directly to Colson County, he could only board at the train station in Kant Town and take a six-and-a-half-hour train ride to Bugas City.
Generally, people traveling to Colson County went by train and returned by ship.
On the train, Hobart learned more about Colson County. Only the mountainous southern region had been granted by the king as fiefs to nobles; the north remained under the county government's rule.
But after freight traffic on the Taidi Jie River was cut off, Bugas City was gradually marginalized as well.
That was why this provincial capital still had no direct railway to the capital. The wave of large-scale railway construction across the Northern Continent had only begun in recent decades.
Bugas City had lost its importance fifty or sixty years ago and had missed that wave of "development."
There were no railways or shipping routes south of Bugas City. Hobart might have to ride or walk along the Taidi Jie River to reach his fief. Even the passengers on the train did not know exactly how many days the journey would take.
They had only heard that there were many bandits along the way, so he needed to be careful.
By the time Hobart arrived in Bugas City, it