Pirate Kingship

At the end of the third ring road, the North Sea Empire, the capital of Kingston.

In the garden of Ganquan Palace where red roses bloom all year round, the divine incarnations of Catherine, Byron, and Violet were having afternoon tea together.

"Sister, you don't have the opportunity to go to the Corridor of Truth in person, but you have to try the local specialties.

Try the golden silk dates, a specialty of the Desert Empire. This is a special product that is bigger than an apple, and it is also a demonized plant."

"Miss, I'll give you a cup of milk from the demonized cows improved by the Thirst Blood Cult to replenish your body. You must eat more eggs and milk during pregnancy."

Byron waved away the court maid and personally served the incarnations of his two sisters diligently, just because they were two. One holding an egg and the other with a bulging belly.

Catherine has five similar metal dragon incarnations: gold dragon, silver dragon, bronze dragon, brass dragon, and red copper dragon.

You can easily obtain it by sacrificing the corresponding metal materials of the same weight as a young dragon.

Before Byron and Violet went to sea, she had transformed into two avatars, the Golden Dragon Lady and the Bronze Dragon Lady, and generously gave Byron "one-stop service" before they left.

After obtaining the two major priesthoods of [Wealth] and [Agriculture] two days ago, she also differentiated into the Silver Dragon Lady and the Bronze Dragon Lady, each responsible for guarding one side.

The one in the palace is the Silver Dragon Lady who is most similar to the original Mithril Dragon.

Not only does she have to assist Byron in handling the government affairs of the entire North Sea Empire, but she is also responsible for hatching eggs every day.

The first avatar of Violet on the opposite side is similar. The little princess in her belly is already slightly pregnant. Both of them are key protected objects. Byron wants to carry them and walk.

The foundation of the empire is too weak, and many things need to be done by them personally.

It just so happens that the family has the ability to split themselves, so naturally they bear the burden that they should not have at their age.

The queen only carries two cities and 26 provinces, but they carry 26 million people from the two empires on their shoulders. Even if the three of them divide it into more than ten parts, it is still not enough.

Perhaps in another two or three years, when the country's transformation is on the right track and administrative reserve forces are gradually cultivated, they can gradually let go.

Of course, their personal involvement has also brought about a thriving empire, and they don't have to worry about being exhausted to death like the prime minister who also personally involved in everything.

Even during their rest time now, they can't forget to deal with emergency matters.

While the legendary battleship [Dreadnought] was conducting routine sea trials and legendary battleship technical tests in the "Golden Mist Palace", the data had been synchronized to the consciousness of all their incarnations.

The double-layer law network of the Silver Law and the Golden Law manifested around them, and decrees were issued rapidly.

Catherine tapped her fingers on the legal network and sent her orders to the Imperial Finance Department:

"Immediately add temporary investment to the steam battleship project of the Torrent Fortress.

Since the prototype of the Dreadnought has been perfectly finalized, start to build troops as quickly as possible.

If we compare the number of exotic warships, we still have a certain gap with the Castilian Kings, and the Invincible Fleet is still the Invincible Fleet that has never encountered failure.

With their support, the Orthodox Church still has the capital to show off its power.

But as long as the first batch of ten dreadnoughts are delivered, it will be time for us to completely counterattack the world's number one sea power.

Our cheap woolen products and various industrial products have been dumped on a large scale on the mainland, and the gold and silver harvested by the Castilians from the colonies are flowing into our pockets at an accelerated rate.

Financial issues, you don't need Don't worry. "

Violet connected to the internal network of the Imperial Industrial Equipment Department:

"The shipyards in Shannon Port, Clare County and Portsmouth Port, Hampshire are accelerating their completion and strive to be put into use in the middle of this month to undertake shipbuilding business.

Before the end of this year, at least 15 new shipyards will be built in the mainland, with no less than 150 shipbuilding platforms.

Steel warships do not need century-old oak, but only ore, coal and blast furnaces. As long as industrial capacity can keep up, there will be no situation where raw materials restrict production.

In the next few decades, war will be the main theme of the material world, and no matter how many warships are built, they can be digested.

Let me tell you a number. The displacement of new warships built next year is equal to the active fleet of Iris next door!"

The incarnations sitting in the Holy Golden Empire and Torrent Fortress also revised the drawings and adjusted the subsequent production plans at the first time.

The incarnation sitting in Black Sail Port accelerated the posting of notices to carry out pirate transformation in advance, absorb the elite among the pirates for on-board training of new warships, and transform them into a modern navy.

Some sailors who mastered advanced sailing techniques could not adapt to the new era, and there was no way to change from high-end talents to redundant occupations.

With their orders, there was a "visible hand" in military manufacturing, which began to macro-control the entire North Sea Empire and the Holy Golden Empire.

In fact, the soul and body of the fifth-level pseudo-god are no longer distinguishable.

Except that the power of the main body is the strongest and retains some indivisible uniqueness of a god, there is no difference between the other incarnations and the main body.

The essence is like quantum entanglement, and the characteristics of each incarnation have been integrated into the overall properties. The properties of the individual cannot be described separately, but only the properties of the overall system.

The main body and multiple incarnations interact with each other at any time and anywhere, with no delay no matter how far away.

It is a unified whole that is closer than the left and right hands, left and right feet, eyes, ears, and even brain of ordinary people. There is no possibility of rebellion, and there is no worry about being too powerful.

While Byron was watching the two queens busy at work, the seven avatars and the original body suddenly became dazed, and then immediately returned to normal.

"Huh? What's going on?"

Suddenly, he felt as if a ninth interactive object from the same source suddenly appeared in his consciousness.

The essence is the same, the compatibility is full, but it is similar to his original body or avatar.

It's a pity that the feeling was only a flash, and it disappeared when he wanted to trace it again.

Byron didn't realize that the raven Fujin had just brushed past the activation knowledge in the "Pirate Code".

"All things return to one" touched a certain existence on the ship.

But as the distance between the two exceeded the perception limit of the raven, the mysterious connection was broken again.

However, as long as the two sides are still on the battlefield, they will meet again sooner or later.

Byron didn't become suspicious because of the temporary abnormality.

Putting this matter aside for the time being, he poured a cup of honey black tea for the two queens and said casually:

"Violet and I need to open up the third circulation belt before we can come back to hold the promotion ceremony of the sixth-level demigod.

But now our spirituality has been raised to 24.3, and the main priesthood has been determined, so we can do the preliminary planning work in advance.

It is not something that can be done in a short time to cover at least one continent with an influence range. It may take us several years."

Looking at Catherine:

"Sister, has the target of the world's first financial tsunami been determined?"

Catherine's silver dragon incarnation took a sip of black tea with honey and shook her head in distress:

"There are few countries in the world that have established a complete financial system.

It is not easy to find a suitable chicken to sharpen the [Financial Holy Sword].

We have also removed the poor knights who have already surrendered to us, and I am still slowly choosing the rest."

Before she finished speaking, the communication signal of the law network beside her suddenly sounded, and a male avatar jumped out.

"Is it Hal Black? Didn't I send him back to the Netherlands as an undercover agent? How come the emergency contact channel was suddenly activated?"

The three people knew each other.

Remit [Banker] Hal Black and some members of the "Free Masons" who were committed to becoming world nobles had secretly joined them.

The Black brothers were transformed into midnight demons by Byron and assigned to Catherine, the [Queen of Finance] of the gold and dollar sequence, under her direct leadership.

Catherine sent them to the Kingdom of the Netherlands on the southern coast of the North Sea.

Since the beginning of the Age of Exploration, the Netherlands has always been one of the most important destination ports for ocean-going fleets returning home, and the commerce, handicrafts and financial industries have developed rapidly.

It also attracted a large number of Remit bankers who started out as usurers.

The elite class has long regarded the Netherlands as one of their bases and has completely controlled this area through various means.

The Netherlands United Bank, the Gold Restoration Party, and the Free Masons are all collective products of the Remit group.

After they took control of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, they not only actively engaged in financial and commercial activities, but also promoted the rise of manufacturing industries such as wool textiles, and colluded with the land nobles in Hastings.

After Byron stole the country, the land nobles who initiated the "enclosure movement" in the country were liquidated, but the Remit people in the Netherlands suffered no losses.

This time, when their family was preparing for their respective sixth-level promotion ceremonies, the Netherlands and the Southern Continent's Gold Restoration Party were the two top candidates.

Catherine clicked on the avatar casually, and the sweaty [Banker] Hal Black appeared in front of the three of them.

Seeing that Byron and Violet were both there, Hal Black hurriedly saluted and said in a hurry:

"Your Majesty, something bad has happened!"

Without waiting for further questions, he spilled out everything he knew like a bamboo tube pouring out beans:

"Some time ago, the Empire dumped all kinds of wool textiles and industrial products on the continental countries, which soon hit the wool handicraft industry of the Kingdom of the Netherlands hard.

A large number of workshop owners united to push the Dutch Parliament to issue a resolution to unite international grain traders and completely cut off the grain supply to the North Sea Empire before the end of July."

Under Black's narration, a trap designed many years ago surfaced.

The enclosure movement for many years not only allowed the land nobles of Hastings to obtain land, wool, wealth, and status, but also almost allowed the four major grain merchants of Remit to monopolize the grain trading market in Hastings.

In this world, if there is anything that can make huge profits, it is banned drugs and weapons.

If there is anything that can fundamentally control a country and a nation, it must be food!

Although the conversion of a large amount of cultivated land in Hettings to pasture increased the country's fiscal revenue, it also had to rely on imports because it no longer produced food, leaving its lifeline in the hands of the Remit people.

Especially in recent years, wars have continued and international food prices have risen steadily.

Now in many countries, a standard Furl bread has been sold for five copper Furls, and it may rise to fifty or even five hundred Furls in a short time!

Once the import of Hettings is blocked, the poor who can't afford bread may not even be able to afford potatoes.

By then, the Remit people don't need to start any hot wars. The dry firewood and raging fire of the Hettings people will ignite at any time, and it will burn whoever the grain merchants want it to burn!

With this group of ambitious people pushing the issue behind the scenes, the royal power of the North Sea Empire is doomed to lose ground.

Coupled with the external pressure from the old gods’ followers across the sea, the high-ranking officials of the empire who could not produce food could only choose to beg for mercy from them, and even pay an unimaginable heavy price to obtain “forgiveness”.

The fuse was the booming wool textile industry in the North Sea Empire.

The low-priced dumped goods occupied the market of the Dutch wool industry in large quantities, and large-scale machine production beat the handicraft workshops to pieces.

The merchants of Remitt could no longer sit still.

At the end of his speech, Black sincerely proposed:

“We in the Black family still have some food reserves that can be used for emergency use by the empire.

However, your majesties, we still have to think of a solution quickly, otherwise the current situation of the empire will really be in great trouble.”

However, what Black did not expect was.

After hearing his urgent intelligence, the Byron family was stunned, but when they looked at each other, they laughed at the same time.

Although Catherine and Violet were not as bold as Byron, they also held their ivory fans and smiled.

Hearing their laughter, Blake wiped the sweat from his forehead and showed a glimmer of hope in his eyes:

"Your Majesty, doesn't the empire actually lack food?"

He had long ceased to be a Remitian. He had sold himself and the land nobles for a good price. Now he and the North Sea Empire share the same fate. Of course, he did not want the newly unified empire to fall apart again.

But Catherine shook her head:

"In the past two years, we have continuously accepted a large number of Protestant immigrants.

They were right in their predictions. Both the North Sea Empire and the Holy Golden Empire have a large food gap. This is our weakness."

Blake's face suddenly fell, and his heart fell like a roller coaster.

At this time, Violet added with a smile:

"But. Our steel production is absolutely sufficient!"

This banker of the Jinyuan sequence obviously has not learned to think about the problem from a banker's perspective. He opened his mouth and corrected helplessly:

"Your Majesty, I am not talking about steel, but food.

No matter how much steel is produced, it can't be eaten!"

Byron stopped playing guessing games with him. He waved his hand and sneered with a bandit's face:

"Although our industrial system has only been established for a year or two, our current steel production is equivalent to the total of the Silver Continent. As of July this year, it has exceeded 1 million tons.

It is expected to triple next year.

Since I have so much iron in my hands, I still have to look at other people's faces to eat? It's a joke!

The industrial output value is put out to air. The ones who are most worried that I can't eat should be those good neighbors on the continent."

Blake's head was sweating faster.

"That makes a lot of sense."

Catherine opened her ivory fan with great interest, smiling brightly:

"Isn't the ritual target of the financial tsunami now available?

'The Sea Coachman' is indeed the 'Sea Coachman', and when I was sleepy, I got a pillow.

I originally felt a little embarrassed to chop anyone, but today they offered their necks to me.

Recently, the security fleet has often reported that the Netherlands has crossed the border into our North Sea fishing grounds to fish. I'm afraid they have already had a plan to break up with us. Signs of arm wrestling.

Aunt Meganila also sent back information.

It is said that Louis XI has been unlucky recently after being cursed by the ghost hand knife. He has narrowly escaped many accidents several times. Last time, he was almost knocked off his horse by a wild boar.

There should be only a few days left.

It is just right to take this opportunity to deal with the Netherlands together, and complete the promotion ceremony of the three of us in one go, and completely change the world. "

Byron and Violet nodded and reached a consensus immediately.

If you look down from the sky, Hastings, Anchor Bay, and the Evernight Peninsula form a circle with the North Sea as the center, and there are only two gaps in the southern land.

One of them is Iris, and the other is the Netherlands.

If the empire's territory is combined with the two of them, it will be the Northern Empire in a broad sense, completely perfect!

So far, the promotion ceremony of the three major priesthoods of [Change], [Finance], and [Creation] has been very clear.

The first step is to harvest the whole world by relying on the "industrial and agricultural scissors gap" made by industrial finished products, and severely damage the manor economy that countries have maintained for thousands of years.

Let the whole world feel the power of the industrial revolution to change the world.

Then swing the [Financial Holy Sword] to the Netherlands, where the financial industry and commerce are most developed, and set off a wave of financial tsunami to harvest a wave.

After the financial war kills the chicken, you can take advantage of the situation to ignite the fire of change in everyone's heart.

Replace manual labor with large-scale machine production, and factories with manual workshops, improve social productivity, and change the face of the whole world.

These three promotion ceremonies are linked together.

Only through the advancement of the previous two ceremonies of Violet and Catherine, can the [World Change] ceremony that affects at least one continent, and preferably sweeps the world, be completed.

Let Byron ascend to the position of demigod in one fell swoop with the peak of world influence!

Just looking at this scale, it is definitely much stronger than the "Myth Reenactment" ceremony of Cleopatra replacing the desert gods.

As for how to implement it specifically?

Catherine took a sip of tea and asked the banker meaningfully:

"Mr. Black, I heard that merchants from the Netherlands have just brought back a beautiful flower called tulips from the west coast, right?

Now those [Famine Hunters] are still exploring planting methods, and it will be difficult to expand production in a short period of time, especially some special varieties that are very rare and difficult to buy with money. "

Blake didn't know why the topic suddenly jumped from food and steel to tulips.

But he could only answer honestly:

"Yes, Your Majesty the Queen."

Catherine's smile became even brighter:

"Then, help me acquire tulips from now on.

I want to plant tulips in my garden, put tulips on the windowsills of the nobles of the empire, and put a tulip on the lapel of every nobleman when the empire holds a banquet.

Please mark the price of tulips for me! "

"As you command, Your Majesty."

Blake, who didn't know why, was respectful.

But before turning off the communication, he shuddered suddenly when he looked at the identical smiles on the corners of the family's mouths.

It seems that what they want to purchase is not tulips, but the lives of businessmen Remit!

The local side has already prepared in advance to attack the Remit people who control all the economic lifeblood of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, preparatory to the demigod promotion ceremony of the three people.

On the other side, Byron, who had been recuperating in the "Golden Mist Palace" for a few days and replenished his energy, also quietly sneaked into the sea of ​​monsters.

According to the goal determined by Raven Fujin when he set foot on the site, he came to the residence of the Night Demon Organization's "Twilight Church" - a large island with a freshwater port.

At this time, the island is already crowded with lycanthropes including goat-headed men and werewolves; ghouls; half-night demons; night demons and so on.

It’s hard to describe the appearance of the Familia in front of them, but all the Night Demon Familia are handsome, beautiful and eye-catching.

No wonder Lilith loves this type of family the most.

This was Byron's goal as well.

“The priestly incarnation of [Mother of Creation, Lilith] has not yet arrived, and it is said that she is drawing blood to enhance her power in the country ruled by the Night Demon.

Only a few fifth-level Night Demon Kings and Night Demon Princes led the troops to garrison.

As long as I am not besieged, I am not afraid of anyone on this island. "

Transform into a black bat that is everywhere on the island, fly to a rare stone villa on the island, and hang upside down on the window sill.

I saw a young night devil writing a letter in the study.

He looks to be in his twenties, handsome yet feminine.

He has short silver hair, red pupils, and a slender and well-proportioned figure. He is the kind of handsome guy that every woman would scream and beg him to accept as a blood servant.

As long as a person stands there, he doesn't know how many Ha blood people will surround him and offer their lives for him.

In fact, this is a Night Demon Prince who has lived for two hundred years, the fifth-level false god [Grand Duke of Thorns] Vlad III, who is also the youngest son of a certain Night Demon King.

His status is neither high nor low, his strength is neither strong nor weak, and he is most suitable for fishing in troubled waters.

After Byron made sure that there was no one else in the study, he immediately took action decisively.

First, use the [Deception] power to block the connection between inside and outside the room, turning this place into an information island.

Then the shadow under his feet silently spread behind Vlad III.

The water of the [Styx River], which received the increase of [Hades] priesthood, suddenly rose into a big wave, and before the other party could react, he was suddenly swept into the Huashan Heavenly Kingdom.

"Who! Enemy attack——!"

The Night Demon Prince subconsciously erupted with a scarlet aura. He shouted sternly and wanted to warn the outside world for help, but he was unable to break through the barrier set up by Byron.

The next moment the whole person disappeared into the room.

Having grown up in a place like the Corridor of Truth, there is no fighting spirit.

While he was still in the air, he activated the [Bleeding Fighting Technique], pulled out a scarlet thin sword from his wrist, and slashed at Byron who appeared behind him.

Byron ignored the thin sword and had already activated the [Seal of the Storm King]. Electricity shot out from his fists and he shouted:

"Hey!"

Holding his fists with both hands, he shattered the rapier with one move and knocked him into the bottom of the Styx.

The body, memory, spirituality, treasures, and anchors were all digested in the blink of an eye and died silently.

Byron transformed in a sudden change, perfectly replacing the identity of [Archduke of Thorns] Vlad III, and inherited the anchor on him. Even the Night Demon King who was connected to him by blood could not detect the abnormality.

After walking out of the Kingdom of God again, he looked in the mirror and nodded with satisfaction:

"Perfect!"

The long-hidden entry [Sorrowful Troubles] has reappeared, sharpening its knives against the new boss.

“Special Effects: Lancaster, no one else!

Others are the boss's confidants, and you are the boss's biggest worry.

The better your ability and the more outstanding your achievements, the more valued and recognized you are by your superiors, and the closer you are to the role of 'confidant' in the eyes of others.

When you launch a backstab sneak attack on your superior, the stronger the ability bonus you get. "

Of course, it cannot be said that this entry has never been opened recently.

At least for the past two days, the vixen who had to ride on Lancaster was "stabbed in the back" by him almost all the time!

Byron sat down at the table again and looked down at the unfinished letter on the table. It turned out to be a love letter:

"Beautiful Miss Joan of Arc, my love!

Ever since you accepted my Lord's blessing and joined the big family of Night Demon, I have fallen in love with you at first sight."