I Have Accomplished Nothing, So I Can Only Become the Pirate King

Chapter 43 What a waste

The royal city of the Deep Forest Kingdom is a bit like the buildings built by the Indian tribes in Sage's memory, especially the royal palace. There are square and carved buildings on the huge steps made of stone.

 It gives people the feeling that there are many treasures here.

After dealing with the hundreds of soldiers gathered, Sage marched straight into the palace. A dozen pirates spread out and searched for the money stored in the palace.

At this time, in the palace made of stone, on the high steps, Sage was sitting in front of the stone throne, with one foot on the armrest, lying down, supporting his head with his hands, looking at Ajin Inspection of box after box.

"male."

Ajin turned over a box, said something, and continued to turn over the next box.

"male."

 He turned over another box and looked at the next box again.

 “Can you still tell the male and female from the box?”

Renedia on the side looked curious and ran over to push a wooden box away. There was nothing inside.

 “It’s empty!” A group of blue veins popped out on her forehead.

This scene made Sage on the throne twitch his eyes.

 The treasure chest was found, but there was nothing in it.

 It’s all empty!

Not even a piece of Bailey was found. The men worked for a long time and only found some supplies. The overall value was not as valuable as the king's corpse. At least the corpse was still wearing a lot of gold jewelry.

 “Captain, find a guy who claims to be a butler!”

A pirate carried a middle-aged man wearing a cloak and fine feathers to the front of the temple and threw him to the ground.

 “No, don’t kill me!”

The man knelt on the ground, sticking his **** out, holding his head in his hands and trembling, "I can say anything, please spare my life!"

 “Steward Gadri, long time no see.” Marika smiled softly.

Hearing the sound, the housekeeper looked up and said in surprise: "Ma, Malika! Is this your revenge?"

“It can be understood this way. In short, I am about to join the pirate group formed by this man with a bounty of 70 million, and this Captain Sager is troubled because he cannot find the treasure.”

 Marika kept smiling: "So can you please tell me where the treasure is?"

Sage glanced at Marika approvingly.

 After killing the king, the woman seemed to have made up her mind to get on the ship.

 “Wealth, treasure.”

The steward stammered: "Those who have no treasure, all the money collected will be handed over to the World Government by the King."

"What?!"

Sage said blankly: "Pay so much money? There's nothing left?"

Sage didn’t know how much the heavenly gold was, but he knew that with the king’s style of asking for money everywhere, there was no way he wouldn’t be able to get enough of the heavenly gold.

“No, it’s not, Captain. The King felt that the kingdom was too poor and had no resources, so he wanted to change his country, so he paid more money to the World Government in the hope that he could become the king of a new rich country.”

The world government is of course a behemoth, but this behemoth does not include the whole world, but only nearly half of the countries.

 There are still more than half of the non-member countries in the world. Even in the East China Sea, half of the countries do not belong to the world government.

 It’s not that people don’t want to be protected by the World Government. There are only a handful of cases like this, where the country is so powerful that it doesn’t bother to join the World Government and pay a large sum of money from heaven.

Most countries simply cannot afford to pay so much money

These countries are not protected and have no ‘human rights’ within the scope of a world government, and can of course be conquered at will.

However, there are not that many powerful countries within the scope of the World Government. They are all just the same, and some are even worse than those that have not joined. The sea is so wide that even the World Government may not know the location of all the countries that have not joined.

Even if we really find a country, with the power of a single kingdom, it is estimated that the expedition will be difficult.

 After all, local defense is definitely more advantageous than attacking from afar.

The king of the Deep Forest Kingdom thought that since he couldn't do it himself, he might as well hand it over to the World Government and pay more every time, hoping that the World Government would replace him with a wealthy non-member country and become the king of that country.

The Deep Forest Kingdom is indeed very poor. The only productive resource is fruits. The king squeezes them to death and even kidnaps and sells them to the Bridge Kingdom. Only then can he have the remaining money, which is also given to the World Government. , then there definitely won’t be much money left.

Sage clicked his tongue: "Who gave it to you? Do you know where he is?"

“No, I don’t know. I just know that every year, the money is delivered to government officials along with the gold from heaven.” The steward replied.

Yes, it’s gone.

Government officials

What's so good about that kind of thing? There are only two kinds. One is greedy by oneself, and the other is one who turns it in truthfully and is then greedy by the higher-ups. But no matter which one it is, it has nothing to do with Sage.

"Where are the nobles in your country?" Sage asked unwillingly, "They must be rich."

 How can a country only have a king? Of course there will also be nobles. "The nobles are in the village, and their money has been collected by the King, but there should be some left. I will lead the way!" the steward shouted.

 “Forget it. It’s too time-consuming.” Sage thought for a while and gave up the idea.

 There are many villages and towns in a continent, but the nobles are definitely scattered. Not only does it take time to rob them, but they may not have that much money.

 Besides, he is a pirate, not a bandit. Their ship was still docked in the shoal, and it could easily be discovered by the navy if it stayed for too long.

boom!

Sage stood up and kicked the stone throne to pieces. He looked down at the butler who was kneeling on the ground and said unhappily: "So I walked for a long time to get here, but the most valuable thing is the gold on the king's body." ?”

"I, we can collect taxes from the common people now! No, I will collect taxes immediately!" the steward said immediately.

 “Forget it, I have no interest in poor people, and”

Sage walked down the steps, glanced at the gate, and said, "It's hard to say whether you can still receive the tax. Withdraw!"

He stood up and walked straight out of the palace gate. In the town below the palace, civilians holding dung forks and wooden sticks gathered together spontaneously. When Sag appeared, they automatically divided into two rows and got out of the way.

 “Mr. Marika”

The civilians saw Malika behind Sage and were about to speak, but Malika blinked her eyes, put her index finger on her lips, and made a hissing gesture.

 The street leading to the door stopped at this moment.

It wasn’t until Sage walked out of the gate of the royal city that he turned back and asked, “Don’t you want to say hello?”

"Ah, I'm going to be a pirate, so I'd better not say hello, otherwise people in the city will be in trouble if they are thought to be colluding with pirates."

Malika smiled and said: "If you do what you said, then I will agree to your request and become your crew member."

In her eyes, Sage fulfilled his words, killed the king, broke down the country, and allowed people to go back again.

 Without the king, there would be no heavy taxes, so everyone could have enough to eat.

 As for other things

"oh!"

 The royal city behind suddenly burst into loud cheers.

 “Why are you shouting so loudly?”

Renedia looked back and asked: "Is the king so happy after his death? Yes, it seems so. I was also very happy when Murdock died."

"That's different. You're taking revenge. They're celebrating getting rid of heavy taxes. No one will have to go to the Bridge Kingdom in the future."

 Lily said something, then paused and added: "Probably"

No one can say whether they can resist and change the status quo, or whether they will be suppressed and remain the same as before.

 “What do you think, Sage?” she asked.

 “None of my business.”

Sage sneered: "I'm just a pirate here to rob. I don't care what happens to them. Anyway, I've been given the opportunity. If you have the ability, make your life better. But..."

 He sighed: "What a waste."

 “Waste?” Lily was puzzled.

Sager vowed: "Of course, if I have such a large territory and so many people, I will definitely iterate new strategies around featured products, align granularity, carry out barrier-free promotion of information, and rely on distribution capabilities to leverage vertical fields. , finally achieve value conversion, and then you can make a lot of money!”

　　Lily: “…”

Although she didn’t quite understand, she had a hunch that Sage’s failure in starting a business might be due to more than just bad luck.

  She changed the topic again and said: "Why don't you try to recruit them? They don't seem to be against pirates, plus there is Miss Marika."

“Having Marika and dragging her to play in the sand for two years, these people are not suitable to be pirates.”

Sage shook his head and said, "Besides, I've walked out and no one has followed me. It means they don't want to be pirates, so they should look elsewhere."

 “If it’s a crew member”

 Marika thought for a while, raised her hand and said: "Captain, I have a suggestion. You can try it at the Bridge Kingdom."

"oh?"

Sage's eyes lit up and he smiled: "Yes, I have a plan for the Kingdom on the Bridge!"

 “What?” Lily asked subconsciously.

 “To the Bridge Kingdom!”

Sage waved his hand: "There must be the men I want there!"

 (End of this chapter)