Federer Sembwood felt that his luck was really good. At the beginning of the imperial civil war, he was only a silver one-star defense captain, and then he was coerced by the rebel army of the prince and became a cannon fodder at the forefront. The captain, who was soon abandoned due to his wounds in a battle, woke up to find corpses and crows all over the place.
It was then that he was startled to find the body of Lord Gamuk lying on the ground not far from him. You must know that Lord Ganmuk was the most famous golden knight in the city when he was the captain of the defense. It is said that he is about to be promoted to three gold stars. Wood dismissed it. I didn't expect to die in this battle, which is too shocking.
Sembawood dragged his injured thigh and moved himself to the body of Lord Ganmuk, only to find that a crossbow bolt that was not very straight and rough had penetrated Lord Ganmuk's neck. Sambawood was stunned at the time. He didn't expect that the famous Golden Knight would be hit by a stray arrow before he went to the battlefield. It must be that Lord Ganmuk must have died in peace. He would die so unknown. Lian Sen Barwood can't compare, at least Sambawood cut two enemies before he was injured...
Sighing for a while about the impermanence of the world, Sambawood originally wanted to dig a hole for Lord Gamuk for the sake of his fellow countrymen, so as to prevent the dead and wild animals from being used as food by crows and wild dogs. It is a personal treasure house, not to mention the fine iron full body armor on his body. An arrow was shot in the neck, and the whole body armor was intact. Semba Wood had to sigh how bad his character must be before he could be shot by the arrow The only unprotected weakness in the whole body...
A large bag of gold coins of the old man's head of the Empire, as many as three or four hundred pieces, and many exquisite jewelry gems, and even a gold bracelet with blood on it, it seems that when the town was occupied two days ago, Lord Ganmuk sent A lot of windfall. It's just that Sambawood couldn't understand why Lord Ganmuk carried so many things on his body, wouldn't it be cumbersome on the battlefield? But it doesn't matter, now these things are all cheap for me.
What pleased Sambawood the most was that he found a high-level fighting qi cheat book in a leather bag carried by Mr. Ganmuk, and it was the same metal fighting qi as him. Opening this secret book called Quenching Jin Dou Qi, Sambawood discovered that the ancestor of Lord Ganmuk once produced a great swordsman, but his ambition was unfulfilled. Unfortunately, when the empire attacked the Ford Business Alliance a hundred years ago Die on the battlefield.
The great swordsman wrote his own experience and perceptions in this gold tempered battle qi secret book left to his family, so that future generations can avoid detours when practicing. It's a pity that his descendants don't have the same vindictive attributes as him. He finally became a Ganmuk, but because of his greed for money and lust, he didn't cultivate to the second gold star until he was in his fifties.
Sambawood immediately decided to be a deserter as if he had found a treasure. He found two nearby war horses whose masters had died in battle and wandered around, stripped Mr. Ganmuk like a newborn baby, piled all the things on the horses, and left.
As the captain of the cannon fodder squadron, Sambawood also knew some information about the war. He was also considered smart and would not run home foolishly, otherwise he would still be involved in the battlefield after a while. He ran to the beach with two horses, and then built a small hut on a barren mountain near Sad Ocean. He usually hunted, or ran for half a day to a town outside to buy some grain, and practiced hard after returning. Quenching gold grudge. In troubled times, having good skills is the foundation of survival.
Sambawood sometimes felt that he was the protagonist in those chivalrous romances, and the adventure came, and the adventure came soon. Three years later, the 27-year-old Semba Wood was finally promoted to three silver stars on his birthday. He decided to buy some wine and come back to celebrate, but when he came back, he picked up a beautiful woman unconscious due to injury on the side of the road.
Just as described in the novel, the beautiful woman who wakes up bears a blood feud. It turned out that there was a robber's den in the hills two days' journey from the residence of Semberwood. It's just that the correct name of the robbers in this robber's lair should be pirates. The place where they block the road and rob is at sea, but they rarely visit the inland, so Sambawood is not very clear that he is neighbors with pirates.
The beauty is the single daughter of the original boss of the pirates. The reason why she is called the original boss is because of the uneven distribution of spoils. The beauty's father was cut down by the second and third children. The third child even wanted to descend to become the cheap son-in-law of the boss of the dead ghost. Fortunately, the boss of the dead ghost also enlisted a group of loyal subordinates, and plotted against the third child when the beautiful woman was about to be raped by the overlord at the wedding night in the bridal chamber, and then In a big fight, the beautiful woman was injured and hunted down, she fled in a panic, covered her head, and finally couldn't hold on and was picked up by Samba Wood in a coma.
He drew his sword for the beauty Sembawood, and took the beauty on the road of revenge. In fact, he heard that the pirates only have four silver stars, the boss of the dead ghost is a two-star silver star, the second, third, and a beautiful woman named Uncle Torin are all one-star silver, that is, that uncle Torin led someone to assassinate the third child, and now The only enemy left is a second child with one silver star. If he didn't seize such an opportunity, Sambawood would not be a smart person.
Everything went very well, and Sambawood quickly knocked the second pirate to the ground, and let the beauty avenge her revenge. The rest of the pirates bowed down, and with the help of Uncle Torrin, they reorganized the pirate water village, and Sambawood became the boss of the pirates, and the beautiful woman became his wife.
In the blink of an eye, ten years later, Semba Wood already had two sons and a daughter, and lived a happy and happy life, but he was a bit frustrated in his career.
As the boss of the pirates, Semba Wood knows that the early bird gets the worm, and the early worm gets eaten by the bird. So he was very cautious about the cause of sea robbery. Even if the dispatches are all aimed at those smuggled cargo ships or single-order merchant ships, they never attack the sea-going ships of those big chambers of commerce and nobles, and work hard to make money secretly without publicity.
Over the past ten years, Pirate Water Village has developed rapidly, becoming more and more like a normal fishing village, with a population of more than 1,000. Sambawood didn't set his sights on robbery. He recruited refugees to cultivate and graze on the hilly wasteland, so that the pirates no longer needed to buy food from the outside world. He also arranged for old and weak women and children to collect firewood, cook sea salt, and even They also organized convoys to trade, and exchanged excess sea salt and looted goods for urgently needed supplies in fishing villages. Usually when I go to sea, I can make a fortune if I have the opportunity, and if I don’t have the opportunity, I will fish and support my family honestly. I live a very happy life.
But Sambawood is very sober, he knows that from a legal point of view, even if this pirate village develops into a normal fishing village, it can only be regarded as a black household. Now it is safe and sound when there is chaos outside. Once the situation is stable, no matter whether it is the lord or the regular army, they have the right and responsibility to come and conquer. At that time, all the peaceful and stable scenes in front of me will be reduced to blood and ashes.
Moreover, the location of this pirate water village is not very hidden, and there are many people who know about it outside. The terrain is not dangerous, but it is close to the sea. , anyway, the pirates don't rob the villages in his territory.
On the map, this hill belongs to the territory of Earl Schellech. Count Schellech was originally a regiment commander in the former empire, but he led his troops to follow the Duke of Rulm in the civil war and established the Duchy of Rulm. Promoted from baron to earl, this territory was granted.
The Earl of Shellech has three villages and one town, but they are all concentrated in the south, while the north is hills and barren mountains, forests and tidal flats. Sambawood contacted the Earl of Shelech two years ago. He hoped to be recognized by the Lord and legalize the fishing village. For this reason, he was willing to become the knight of the Earl Lord and also willing to pay a large sum of money. taxes.
It's a pity that the Earl of Shelech holds an important position in the Principality of Rulm and is not in the territory at all. Sambawood's letter fell into the hands of the Lord Steward who was in charge of the management of the territory. The chief executive doesn't care about Sambawood's pirate status, nor does he care if he is a silver three star, his master is a golden knight, a silver rank pirate is no big deal...
The Lord Steward is concerned about how much income can be added to the Earl, but for Sembawood, a tax of up to 65% is unbearable, and what is even more unacceptable is that the Lord Steward will send people to the fishing village. In order to more conveniently count everyone's income and collect taxes.
The bottom line of Sembawood is 50%, and the fishing village pays by itself, but the master manager refused, and threatened to let the earl send troops to conquer. Sambawood confronted the Earl, saying that if the Earl sent troops, he would break them into pieces, and lead his men to deal with the Earl on this hill, to see how much the Earl was willing to pay to destroy them. As long as they are still there, they will attack the village in the future, and it is still possible to turn the county into ruins.
The two parties were so deadlocked that they could only acquiesce in each other's abilities. The general manager turned a blind eye to the merchant convoy sent by the fishing village, and gave them the convenience to go through the streets and alleys into the village and town to do business. As for Semba Wood, he will send peaches and plums, and will send a heavy gift to the general manager and the lord Earl Shelech every year and festival, and the two sides are getting along peacefully for the time being.
Things finally took a turn for the better two months ago, because Sembawood was promoted to a gold star, and Earl Shelech, who was far away in the capital of the Principality of Rulm, wrote a letter to Sembawood himself when he heard the news. In the letter, the Earl promised that he was willing to recruit Sembawood as his family knight, and divide the fishing village to Sembawood as the location of his golden knight's manor castle. Of course, Sembawood had to build the manor castle himself. The Earl said frankly that he had no money and could not help Sembawood build the manor castle.
There are still advantages. If you become the Golden Knight of the Shelley family, the people in the fishing village will become the people in the castle of Sambawood Manor, and you will only have to pay 30% of the tax in the future. However, Earl Shelley asked Semba Wood to go to the capital and obey his orders. As long as Sembawood goes to the capital, the Earl will immediately hold a ceremony to recruit family knights, announcing Sembawood's knight status.
For Earl Schellech, recruiting a gold family knight and recruiting a silver family knight is a completely different treatment. There are many silver knights, but golden knights are very rare. Even Semba Wood's original pirate status is not considered. After all, this world is ruled by vindictiveness. Having a good body and mastering a higher level of dou qi is the foundation of survival in this troubled world.
Sambawood thought for more than a month before deciding to accept the earl's invitation to become a knight of the Shelech family. But he can't just leave, at least he has to arrange his men and choose a suitable place to build his own manor castle. Of course, Sambawood only intends to draw a line, place a few stones, dig a ditch, and make a building, because he doesn't have that much financial resources to build a manor castle by himself.
Two days ago, Sembawood received a letter from the Chief Steward. The letter said that Earl Shelech's 50th birthday would be twenty days away. The Earl hoped that Sembawood could become a knight of his family on that day. Also add a joy to your birthday. The steward reminded me by the way that the earl's usual hobbies meant that Sambawood had to prepare a rich gift.
Sambawood's money is not rich, and the most important thing is that he has no suitable gifts, so he turned his attention to the sea again, planning to make a fortune at sea before he went to the capital to become the family knight of Earl Shelech. So that my wife and children can live more comfortably after I leave...
"Master, there are two ships entangled in front, one is a medium-sized two-masted fast sailing merchant ship, and the other looks strange, it looks like a medium-sized ship, but it looks terrible, as if a mast was burned. Now The two boats are going very slowly tied together, shall we catch up and do it?" It was Toke who was talking, tall and thick, with two silver stars, and he looked more like a pirate than his father, Uncle Torin.
Sambawood nodded. It was obvious that the two boats must have been robbed just now. This kind of thing is not uncommon in Sad Ocean. Now it seems that the winning side tied the loser's boat together and wanted to take it back. You might as well be the oriole.
The process of boarding the boat was extremely smooth, no one resisted, no one called, and no one was even seen. On the other hand, there were a few people on the berth of the strange-looking ship. They turned a blind eye to the pirates who swarmed onto the ship, and went about their own business. There was even a very young boy who put his finger on his mouth and hissed. After a moment, I signaled the pirates to be quiet...
Sembak brought two medium-sized two-masted square-sail armed merchant ships. This kind of ship is very fast when the wind is downwind, and can reach eight to nine knots, but it is a bit difficult to travel against the wind, and it will test the steering ability of the driver. However, this kind of ship is powerful and has a large number of people on board, so it is most suitable for the battle of taking over the ship from the ship jumping gang.
There were nearly 330 pirates on board the two medium-sized two-masted square-sail armed merchant ships. At this moment, there were nearly a hundred people jumping onto the strange ship, and the deck of the strange ship was crowded to the brim.
There is a small table on the berth of the strange ship, which is covered with various animal skin papers and pens. A young man with long black hair in a ponytail was preaching to a middle-aged man with a vicissitudes of life in front of him: "...why did I ask you to write down the formula and production process of green glass and oil glass and throw them out as bait, because in In my mind, these two things are mass goods, nothing interesting. You see, this is a telescope, this is a glass silver mirror, these two are the real money-making things, and these magnifying glasses, glassware, and large pieces of plate glass , thickened window glass, and the glass can also be engraved. This is the direction of future glass development...
Mr. Mancheni, you already have a general understanding of my various designs and ideas for glass. After we send your family to the family territory, you can take full control of the family's glass production and manufacturing, and ask people to give money. , we will equip you with all the things you need, and you can verify and test what you want to improve as much as you want, and don’t care how much you spend. I believe that you will give our family a hundredfold return in the future... "
Sunbawood was dizzy from hearing it under the berth, what is it, glass production, technological improvement, it sounds too high-end and atmospheric, which makes him a little confused. And there seems to be something wrong with the situation in front of me, but I can't tell...
Just as he was about to tell his subordinates to be more careful, to see if there was an ambush or something, the young man with long black hair on the berth turned his head, showing a mouthful of white teeth, and smiled happily at himself and the others stand up.
"You guys came too slowly, it really makes people impatient to wait." The black-haired young man said with a smile, "After two days of wandering in the Sad Ocean, I only caught a small shrimp."
The black-haired young man pouted at the medium-sized two-masted fast sailing merchant ship tied to one side: "But your wave is good. There are many people and the ship is neat. I am very happy."
The black-haired young man stood up: "I am Earl Norton, the lord of Hilovas Island and the Northland. I hereby declare that all your ships and people have been requisitioned by me!"
Then he pointed at Semba Wood and said, "I think you're not bad. From now on, you'll be the captain of my Sea Charge..."
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