Just when Lorist was floating in the Ocean of Sadness, when the pirates wantonly requisitioned all kinds of ships for their own use, in a hall of the Chicod Chamber of Commerce in Morant City, more than a dozen high-level officials of the Chamber of Commerce were trying to intercept the failure of the fleet. He quarreled with the implementation of the Hilovas Island strategy and his face was flushed.
"I don't understand why the Chamber of Commerce wants to target the family's territory on Hilovas Island. Besides the large area, what benefits does it have for the development of the family and the Chamber of Commerce? Could it be that our family will transform into those empire bumpkins that we don't like in the future? Nobles? Or do we want to give up the commercial route dominance of the golden coastline in the southern sea?"
The one who spoke so fiercely was Seboyev, the second young master of the Chicod Chamber of Commerce. He has always been responsible for leading the armed fleet of the Chamber of Commerce to kill pirates of all sizes in the Sunshine Sea, and ensuring the safety of the sea passages of the five southern ocean-going merchant fleets of the Chamber of Commerce. . Because of his long battle experience, he has the candor and heroism of an iron-blooded soldier, which is incompatible with the profit-seeking and calculating businessman's temperament of the senior chamber of commerce present.
The second young master Seboyev is the most opposed to using Shilovas Island as a family territory. He believes that this will make the family lose control of the southern waters, and it will have a great impact on the coastal countries on the Golden Coast. Hilovas Island is alone in the north. If the family takes this as their territory, it will be too late for the family to react when the news reaches Hilovas Island if there is any change in the southern waters.
"I hope everyone here can see the situation in front of us clearly. The family currently has seven fleets. Except for this armed fleet under my command, five of the other six merchant fleets are responsible for maritime trade in the southern sea area. They occupy Eighty percent of the chamber of commerce's income, while the northern fleet is only responsible for the spice trade of the Kingdom of Shayslan and the material transportation trade of the Kingdom of Haneyabada, accounting for 100% of the chamber's total income. twenty."
Master Seboyev simply picked up a small wooden stick and pointed on the big map hanging on the wall: "Although the income from maritime trade in the north looks slightly better than that in the south, please don't forget that our chamber of commerce in the southern seas The situation of ruling the roost was won by our ancestors who paid a heavy price and sacrificed all the way in the past 170 years. Without the status of the hegemony of the southern sea area, it is impossible for us to monopolize the Northern Shayslan Kingdom and Hanea The maritime trade routes of the Bada Kingdom... ”
The third young master Murrayback stood up. He hated the second brother the most. In terms of talent, how could he not compare to the eldest brother Thurliham? As the second child, it's fine if you don't want to participate in the competition for the head of the family. Why do you want to help the boss, a wretch, become the heir of the Chamber of Commerce? The northern strategy is my suggestion, and the capture of Hilovas Island was also approved by the high-level chamber of commerce after a vote. Now that something goes wrong, you want to overthrow this strategy, which is unreasonable!
"Second brother, that's not the case. We also know that the Chamber of Commerce has now become the maritime overlord in the south, so we need to open up the northern sea trade route and strive for new profits for the family. As for Hilowas Island, we will Becoming the family's territory and maritime strategic fulcrum, and occupying Shilovas Island, means that the Chamber of Commerce owns the entire northern coastline of the former Krissen Empire. At that time, the increased income will be at least half of that in the south. I believe that the Chamber of Commerce needs to increase by three. Only the Northern Merchant Fleet can meet the needs of trade expansion... ”
Master Murrayback refuted loudly. He used the future interests of the North to strengthen the determination of the high-level chamber of commerce to implement the North strategy.
"Hehe..." Master Seboyev sneered: "No matter how beautiful the bubble is, it is still a bubble. You only see the benefits but do you think clearly about the risks and the price you pay? Among other things, the northern sea is very windy and rough. There is also bad weather, and can the cursed coastline in the north be compared with the calm waters and golden coastline in the south? It will cost countless funds, manpower and materials to fill up the shallow reef area and build a port.
You want to seize Hilovas Island as a family territory, which is a good idea, but now you look at the tragic situation of the two intercepting fleets. The chamber of commerce has spent so much money over the years to train four great sword masters, and one of them was sacrificed in vain in one interception operation. This is the basis for our chamber of commerce to be able to survive as one of the seven giants of the business alliance!
I have said long ago that despite the disintegration and disintegration of the former Krissen Empire, and the civil war that has been fought for such a long time, it took more than ten years for the seven giants of our business alliance to gather so many elites to plan. The result of many efforts and schemes is not the decay of the former Krissen Empire, which collapsed like a pile of dilapidated houses.
Just like this time, so many chambers of commerce planned to seize the territory of the Kingdom of Ridleys and the Kingdom of Antinac as their own territory, and none of them wanted to confront the 300,000 troops of the Second Highness of the Kingdom of Antinac head-on. Instead, he hoped that the Kingdom of Ridleys would come out and clean up the mess after he had suffered both defeats.
A skinny camel is bigger than a horse, you have to understand this truth. The disappearance of the former empire does not mean that the nobles in the former empire's territory have no strength in their hands. If you didn't find out the details of the other party and directly regarded him as an enemy, it's all right now, let's hit the iron plate.
Don't you think that Hilovas Island was originally the prince's territory of the second highness, but he would give it to others as a territory. With the strength of the second highness, there must be a reason for him to do so, but you carelessly treat others as those incompetent The nobleman wants to hijack the other party and coerce him to transfer Hilovas Island to the chamber of commerce, what a beautiful idea... "
"That's enough, Seboyev, stop talking..." Chairman Chickard who was sitting at the top interrupted him: "Your brother is also thinking about the interests of the Chamber of Commerce and the future development, and it is only temporarily difficult now. That's all. Our Chicod Chamber of Commerce is one of the seven giants of the business alliance, so we can't just shrink back. We may not have the strength and confidence to deal with a kingdom, but we should still deal with a former empire's territorial nobles. It can be eaten."
"Father, haven't you understood the failure of the two intercepting fleets and the sacrifice of the Great Swordsman Kumori?" Master Seboyev argued unconvincedly: "I don't consider business and the future. Development, just from the military point of view, it can be concluded that you have provoked such a difficult enemy. The Peterson Chamber of Commerce has tried its best to negotiate for us, saying that we can buy Greek from the hands of the Earl of Norton. Lovas Island, and offered an offer he couldn't refuse.
If this earl is like the greedy nobles we usually come into contact with, we can sit down and negotiate the price long ago. But the earl didn't even want to talk about it, and didn't reply to the Peterson Chamber of Commerce, so he sailed away overnight. This shows that in his heart, Hilovas Island is not for sale, and we must pay the price of blood and fire if we want to get this island.
I admit that the arrangement of the third brother is very thorough. Although the first interception missed the opportunity due to the negligence of the surveillance spies, the admiral Pan Kidd of the second interception fleet and the admiral of the third interception fleet, Old Alex, are experienced The test, the sea battle veterans with extremely rich battle experience, I have carefully deduced afterwards, and there is no mistake in their handling, not to mention that there is Kumori Great Swordsman sitting on the third interception fleet. So we have great hopes for these two fleets.....
Just when we thought that the Earl of Norton could not fly, he taught us a profound lesson with his decisiveness and determination. Facing Admiral Pan Kidd's second interception fleet, the earl took advantage of the excellent performance of his fast ship and his unexpected golden archer to break through the interception and leave. lost the sailor crew of a medium armed merchant ship.
Admiral Pan Kidd immediately used a letter to Haiyan to tell everything that happened in detail to the third old Admiral Alex who intercepted the fleet. Although it was unexpected, the old Admiral Alex still made a perfect arrangement. Iron chains were pulled between the ships that intercepted the fleet. Golden Archer. In order to prevent that Earl Norton from repeating his old tricks, Kumori Great Swordsman went to the large merchant ship on the left.
Such an arrangement should be foolproof, but that Earl of Norton still hid his hole cards. Who would have thought that he himself was a third-level great swordsman. As a result, we lost nearly five hundred sailors and crew members. There are eleven silver swordsmen, two gold swordsmen, and one great swordsman. The pirates I have killed in the Sunshine Sea for three years have not suffered such a big loss! "
The second young master Seboyev angrily accused: "The current result shows that Murray Baker did not investigate the other party's details when dealing with the Earl of Norton, and rashly regarded a third-level great swordsman as incompetent." The nobleman has caused heavy and heavy losses to the Chamber of Commerce, and he must be responsible for the consequences!"
"Why do you say that the earl is a third-level great swordsman?" The third young master Murrayback blushed with anger.
"Just because he killed all 347 people on a large merchant ship in less than half an hour!" The second young master Seboyev responded in a louder voice. The old man said: "Ask Grandpa Udi, he is a second-level great swordsman, can he do all this in half an hour? It still happened in front of nearly a thousand people, without any falsehood!"
The old second-level great swordsman smiled wryly and shook his head.
"You have found a great enemy for our family and the Chamber of Commerce!" The second young master Seboyev looked at his younger brother and said sarcastically: "Father entrusted you with this matter, it is not because you are so careless , Have you carefully investigated the situation of this Earl of Norton?"
"I, of course I have investigated. How is that Earl of Norton different from other nobles? It's just that his swordsmanship is better..." The third young master Murrayback's eyes began to flicker.
"Bastard, is that how you do things? Self-righteous guessing, perfunctory! You didn't even pay a little money to find someone from the Peterson Chamber of Commerce to ask about the origin of that Earl of Norton! You don't know that his men have such A golden archer, I didn't know he was a great swordsman, you found such an enemy for the chamber of commerce without knowing anything, you didn't even think about the serious consequences!" The second young master Seboyev yelled, he came I went to the corner and took a bag, which contained many animal skin documents.
The second young master Saiboyev took these documents and said: "After the interception failed, I ordered people to investigate the Earl of Norton. None of you would have thought that the Earl himself is a legend in our city of Morente. Everyone still Remember the challenge competition held by those colleges more than seven years ago? A black iron instructor from Chenxi College challenged all the silver players in Morente City. As a result, he set a record of 3,000 consecutive victories, winning the black iron Locke, the invincible silver title."
Now everyone here is active. This incident was very legendary more than seven years ago. There were also many silver swordsmen in the Chicod Chamber of Commerce who went to challenge, but none of them could win. The silver swordsman who participated in the competition came back and said From then on, they were all convinced by the swordsmanship taught by the black iron named Locke.
"This Black Iron Instructor is the current Earl Norton..." The second young master Seboyev was very satisfied to see the shock on everyone's faces: "There was a rumor at that time that two golden swordsmen wanted to Teach that black iron teacher a lesson, and then let their juniors easily defeat him in the next day's competition. So the two golden swordsmen went to intercept the black iron teacher at night, and they turned out to be the next day Two unnamed corpses in the police station.
If it wasn't for that black iron instructor who had the strength to defeat the golden swordsman, how could that old fox from Dawn College let him come out to challenge the silver swordsman? That would be a round in itself. In more than seven years, that Earl Norton's swordsmanship has improved a step further, and the encounter with the intercepting fleet illustrates this point.
However, the earl left Morente City seven years ago and returned to Northland to inherit the family territory and title. The information I got from the Peterson Chamber of Commerce was that the earl should have been a baron at that time. He and some friends from the college organized a convoy To return to the Northland, they defeated the armed forces of those territorial nobles in the Kingdom of Ridleys, and also arranged for the Peterson Chamber of Commerce to occupy the maritime trade route leading there.
The following information is a bit fragmented. Our Chamber of Commerce did not arrange intelligence investigators in the Antinac Kingdom, so we could not collect complete information. However, there are signs that the Second Highness of the Antinac Kingdom recovered with his help. , took back the ruling power, and he was made an earl because of this, and Hilovas Island was the family territory that the Second Highness granted to him.
The news from the Vicia Chamber of Commerce is that in the Northland, this earl is known as the angry bear who is squatting on the ground. If you don't mess with him, nothing will happen. The Grand Duke of the Northland was defeated by his family's armed forces and lost the Grand Duke's collar. It is said that he allowed his family soldiers to rob the Grand Duke's collar for seven days and seven nights, committing countless evil deeds. Then the king of the Kingdom of Iberia, the second prince of the former Krissen Empire led an army of 100,000 to conquer. As a result, the army of 100,000 was wiped out in the First World War, and the second prince fled back to the capital in embarrassment. "
"The next exciting thing is coming..." The second young master Seboyev held up a document and read: "The second prince was very annoyed after being defeated, so he ordered the three great sword masters beside him, Kalinan, to assassinate this prince." Earl Norton. You have all heard of the reputation of the Great Swordsman of Calinan. He claims to be half a step to the top, and he is a swordsman after half a step. As a result, the soldiers of the Norton family hung the body of the Great Swordsman of Calinan on the cross half a year later. The car captured the capital and took the second prince back. This is revenge for the despicable act of the second prince who sent someone to assassinate him as a king... "
"Wait, did you get all this information from the Vicia Chamber of Commerce? How does the Vicia Chamber of Commerce know about the situation of Earl Norton?" asked President Chickard.
"Father, the Vicia Chamber of Commerce contracted the two iron mines in the Kingdom of Iberia, and is very concerned about the situation in the North. Now the Kingdom of Iberia is in charge of the queen, and no one cares about the captured king. As if he did not exist. And the Earl of Norton united the three nobles to run the Northland as a monolith. It is difficult for people to go deep into his family territory to check his details. I just heard that the Earl likes his family territory It seems that it should be true now that he is engaged in development and construction, at least he has opened the sea passage from Northland to Hilovas Island, so he will appear in Morente City."
The second young master Seboyev put down the document in his hand: "Now do you know how big a mistake you have made? My brother, the count of such a family inheriting military achievements, you actually treat him as those moth-like incompetent nobles, you Can you imagine how much the Chamber of Commerce will have to pay to seize his family’s territory, Shilovas Island? You still think that the Chamber of Commerce will be able to dominate the northern seas in the future, but when you think about it, this Earl will never die with our Chamber of Commerce
The northern seas will become the battlefield between us and this earl, and our chamber of commerce must continuously pour our strength into this bottomless pit. Even if we can win the final victory, it will shake the foundation of our chamber of commerce, and even hand over the hegemony in the South China Sea to other chambers of commerce, causing our chamber of commerce to fall from the throne of the seven giants, and be overwhelmed by those two or three who usually look up to us. Liu merchants will trample under your feet, then you will be satisfied, right? my brother..."
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