Codex Pirates

Chapter 34 Heavy Rain (Part 1)

The secretary of the trading company took out a handkerchief and continued to wipe off his cold sweat, and put on a puzzled look to satisfy the vanity of the big man in front of him: "What do you mean?"

"What is the name of that Chamber of Commerce?" Arcadio thought for a moment.

The secretary reminded cautiously: "Glittering Gold Chamber of Commerce."

"Look at this name." Arcadio smiled, appearing a little disdainful: "A group of upstarts in the countryside are just huddling together to keep warm. The greatest use of these overbearing little people is to use their hard work to open the way for the superiors, so as not to Trouble when we go."

"I sit and watch these little people who are only suitable for doing mundane tasks as big as sesame seeds and mung beans, running back and forth in places, just to let them build a good trade network, and then pick this ripe fruit."

The secretary of the business company scolded the cunning and cunning in his heart, and said in his mouth: "Foresight and foresight, it is true that your lord is worthy of being an important minister of the country. You, who are in the center of state affairs, have a different vision from those mediocre people who can only mess around in the local area from the very beginning."

He asked again: "So you want to come forward to contact the members of the Chamber of Commerce and let them be our affiliates from now on?"

Arcadio raised his eyebrows: "Why do you think you are a nobleman? When you need it, you can just order others to do things. There are little people you can cling to to help you do it. Those who participate in mundane affairs all day long are not considered 'expensive'." family!"

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In the dock area of ​​Kalmar City, Thassarian is inspecting the goods with the directors of the chamber of commerce in the warehouse rented by his own chamber of commerce.

Kalmar City's own production capacity is not enough to satisfy the growing urban population, so the entire city is like a giant beast, absorbing huge supplies from various places from the busy dock every day.

The Glittering Gold Chamber of Commerce is composed of various local merchants. There are people from all walks of life here. Their needs are to sell the products they produce, which is different from the needs of a big city like Kalmar. Coincidentally.

Therefore, under Thassarian's persuasion, various businessmen agreed to form a chamber of commerce, hoping to work together to open up the capital's big market.

So far, it seems to be quite effective. Thassarian thought contentedly.

boom!

Just as Thassarian was somewhat satisfied, he heard a loud bang at the warehouse door. A group of heavily armed soldiers had already smashed the door open, and then filed in and entered the warehouse.

Several people from the chamber of commerce wanted to step forward to inquire, but they were pushed away by a leading official. He looked around and asked loudly, "Who is the owner of this warehouse?"

Thassarian has been in business for a long time, knowing the virtues of bureaucrats, and thought that the other party was here to ask for bribes, so he winked at the director around him, and he stepped forward cautiously: "I am..."

Before Thassarian finished speaking, he was interrupted by the official, who looked Thassarian up and down: "You are the president of the Glittering Gold Chamber of Commerce, Thassarian?"

The official's tone was a bit wrong, which made Thassarian feel a little bad.

Just as he was about to say some flattering words, he saw that the official had already waved to the soldier who was like a wolf and a tiger: "Catch this profiteer who evades taxes!"

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The torrential rain came pouring down in no time.

In the room where Arcadio was, the secretary of the trading company and Eaton had already left, but several new guests came one after another.

Arcadio sipped his black tea slowly, and said to the people on the other side of the sofa: "It's not enough to just catch a president, I also have to beat them, this is actually the same as taming a dog, if you don't beat them once, Let them know who has absolute power, and they will not know who is the master."

"how do you want to do it?"

"I heard that they still have a few characters on board, and they have repelled some small pirates, so there have been no problems in transportation. In the East China Sea, you can't do business without a ship, let alone the sea. I want to They understand that as long as I don't nod, their goods won't even dare to leave the dock."

At this moment, Eaton was approaching the room again with a stack of documents, and it happened that there was lightning outside, and the thunder light suddenly illuminated the room, reflecting on the people opposite Arcadio, making their faces pale and frightened. Eaton jumped.

No wonder Eaton reacted like this. At this time, the two men sitting opposite Arcadio were completely incompatible with this magnificent room and the elegant and luxurious owner, regardless of their faces, clothes or temperament.

A man farther away from the door was as burly as a brown bear. His upper body was wearing a slightly yellowed white shirt with a black waistcoat on it. The tight top was only half-buttoned. A chest covered with thick body hair was exposed.

He wore a black three-cornered hat on his head, but his head was too large for the hat, and his hair was thick, so his messy long red hair and half of his head were exposed under the hat.

The red beard with the same hair color almost covers half of his face, but what is not consistent with his overall sloppy image is that his red beard is polished and shiny, and the long beard on his chin down to the chest.

He seemed to have suffered serious injuries, with several scars criss-crossing his face, an eye patch over his left eye, and a silver prosthetic limb on his left hand, with a pair of iron hooks on the top of the prosthetic limb.

Three-cornered hat, black eyepatch, hooked hands and a big beard, this image is almost exactly the same as the image of the pirate captain in the pirate stories Eaton heard when he was a child.

Although the man sitting next to this "Pirate Captain" is not as "avant-garde" as he is, his face is no less terrifying.

This man is as tall and strong as the "Pirate Captain", but he has gained a lot of weight. He is also dressed in sloppy clothes, and his discolored shirt is half-closed, which cannot cover his big belly with thick body hair, which makes people look sideways. The most striking thing was his face, which had severe burn scars covering almost half of his face, which made him have a mixed head, with messy red hair on one side and a bumpy bald head on the other.

On the burned side of the face, the beard was also sparse, curled into a shape that could barely be seen as a goatee.

This man with a scary face grinned at Eaton when he came in, showing a mouthful of big yellow teeth, as scary as he could be.

It was not the first time Eaton had met these two men, but every time he saw them, he felt uneasy.

Damn pirates! Eaton cursed mentally, but on the surface he didn't dare to show it at all. Behind Arcadio were several guards with live ammunition, and two of them had ten hands with sea stones stuck in their waists. It didn't exist when I met the secretary of the chamber of commerce, apparently even Arcadio was a little afraid of the two men opposite.

Eaton covered up his panic just now, and saluted the man wearing the three-cornered hat: "Mr. Barbarossa."

He saluted the scar-faced fat man again: "Mr. Hayreddin."

The two on the opposite side nodded casually.

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