Pirate Kingship

As Catherine launched the ultimate secret of the [Financial Holy Sword].

Byron, Violet, and the generals of the Lancaster Dynasty also followed her to look across the strait through the legal network.

At this time, a huge main fleet was quietly floating on the sea surface more than ten nautical miles outside the port of Amstel in the Netherlands, neither docking nor traveling far.

Among them were dozens of huge battleships of level three or above, each with at least 74 ship-borne heavy guns, and hundreds of cruisers below level four.

For the Netherlands, a "sea coachman" with more than 16,000 merchant ships of various types and a total tonnage of merchant ships of up to 580,000 tons, the scale of this main fleet does not seem to be too large.

But on the entire East Coast, it can already be regarded as one of the top five maritime powers.

In order to produce a level three ship with the largest number of services in the Old Continent, with a perfect balance of speed, firepower, and cost, more than 2,000 high-quality oak trees planted a hundred years ago need to be cut down for wood alone.

Moreover, these oaks must be high-quality wood planted in private estates, along rivers and roadsides. The yield rate of wild oaks is extremely low, and transporting them from the mountains is a deadly task.

Only those oak trees that fully enjoy the rain and sunshine and slowly grow to more than 20 meters in height for a hundred years can produce a section of wood that can be used to build the ribs of warships in the trunk.

Then it takes a full six years for excellent shipbuilders to successfully build through a series of complex processes.

The construction cost of a third-level ship in its own shipyard alone reached an astonishing 40,000 gold pounds, and the cost of a first-level ship at the bottom of the box was as high as 100,000 gold pounds.

If it weren't for the well-developed domestic river network in the Netherlands, connecting many inland timber production areas, and the extremely developed shipbuilding industry, these assets would not have been saved at all.

In addition, if the voyage is a little longer and the wind and waves are a little stronger, the service life of these sailing warships will drop sharply, and they need to be constantly updated to maintain the size of the fleet.

If the more durable teak that can be used for decades is used, the cost will need to be multiplied several times!

In normal times, the sailing fleet is a huge money-eating beast that devours the national finances. Once it is wartime, the total number is so small. If one ship is lost, one ship will be lost. It is impossible to replenish it in a short time.

The Old Continent has just emerged from the dark millennium. It is already very powerful to have a professional standing army. In any case, the Dutch Navy is a strong army.

"The 80/20 rule applies in any world.

20% of the business personnel create 80% of the performance; 20% of the customers contribute 80% of the orders; 20% of the countries control 80% of the wealth and military power.

As long as we win this battle, the entire Silver Continent will have no power to resist me at sea."

Byron remembered several facts that went against common sense in his previous life:

There are no more than 30 countries in the world that can produce bullets by themselves, only 5 that can independently produce fertilizers, and only 1 that has a full industrial chain. The tonnage of the coast guard ships of Dongda alone ranks ninth in the world's navy.

Big countries see the small countries around them as their younger brothers, but these small countries are collectively called "East Asian Monster House" when they go outside. Any country can immediately become a regional hegemony as long as it changes the map.

The Kingdom of the Netherlands is also in this situation. Although the country is small, it undoubtedly has the potential to become the "Third Reich on which the sun never sets".

Of course, it should have no chance now.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Gunshots were heard from time to time on these huge warships that were as big as hills, and along with the gunshots, there were also many wailing sounds:

"People can never make money beyond their own cognition! Bang!"

"Friends, remember my words, don't borrow, don't borrow, don't borrow.

Borrowing for industries that can make stable money is fine, but borrowing for consumption and desire is overdrawing your future and cannot resist any accidents. Bang!"

"Goodbye, tulip futures, and the 50-fold leverage that I want to get rich overnight! Bang!"

"We are all Remit people, and loan sharks are also Remit people. Why do we even cheat our own people? Not only loan sharks, but also contract fraud text traps.

The risks are all mine, and the benefits are all yours.

I also want the 2,800 non-Remit slaves promised by the Creator. When I go to heaven, the Creator will give them to me, right? Bang!"

Without being there, you can't understand how desperate they are now.

The worst thing is that not every speculator who has reached a dead end can still retain the most basic "reason".

A small group of people did not shoot themselves, but indiscriminately shot at their colleagues on the same ship.

They lost their future because of speculating in tulip futures, and they did not want other colleagues who controlled their greed and did not get stuck in the mud to continue to live well.

If they were not trapped on the ship, but in the city on the shore, they would have started to retaliate against society indiscriminately at this time.

Even the weakest first-level extraordinary person holding a dagger can cause great damage.

It is just as the saying goes: the brave are angry and draw their blades to the stronger; the cowardly are angry and draw their blades to the weaker.

In fact, when the tulip bubble just collapsed, [Protector of the Country] Cromwell realized that the situation was not good and decisively ordered the fleet to leave the port.

Blocked the news of the collapse of the domestic tulip market, and used the authority of [Protector of the Country] to temporarily cut off the legal network.

Ordered the entire fleet to enter a wartime state, and strictly prohibited any means of communication with the outside world.

However, his order was still a step late.

Because Cromwell and his organizations bore the brunt of the tulip bubble and suffered heavy losses.

As the president of the Leimit Free Masons and a big banker, he only slightly focused on his own organization and personal interests, and had long forgotten the navy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands for the time being.

Even though he had already used his position to place a large number of confidants in the fleet, they were considered direct troops under his control.

Of course, this choice surprises no one.

It has always been a matter of course for these Remit people who have not been assimilated by other tribesmen even though they have lived among them for thousands of years.

But even his first thought was to block the news.

With Byron and Catherine’s driven flow flowing under the surface, there is no way to plug the loopholes, and what is supposed to come will still come.

When Cromwell learned that the news had spread throughout the fleet, the commotion spread to every battleship, and the command system almost collapsed, he still couldn't help but look livid and even had a chill down his spine.

“Lord, why did the thunder explode at this time?

It's only the end of October, the winter trading days have just begun, the bulbs won't be replanted into the ground until February next year, and there's still at least three months of growth left, so why the rush? There is no reason.

Amstel, the financial center of the east coast, and the entire banking system of the Remit people were going to be ruined. "

Cromwell knew what was the best way to recover the losses at this time.

But there is no way I can say it if I spend my own money to settle all futures contracts.

Let’s not talk about whether he and other bankers who control the country’s economic and political lifeline have the financial resources to plug this huge hole in the country.

The premise of rescuing the market is that the "market" still has hope of rebounding and can continue to find other successors.

But once he realized that there was a powerful and mysterious force behind the bulbs, he knew that the tulip market would never exist again.

A [banker] will never make a loss-making transaction. Confidence is more precious than gold. No one will have confidence in the price increase of tulips in the future.

So, his final order was:

"Supervision team, go quickly and suppress all the troublemakers.

In addition, I promise to fleet commanders and above officers that I will forgive their debts and settle the futures contracts in their hands.

They all guarded their warships for me. After the purge, they re-promoted junior officers and restored their combat effectiveness as quickly as possible. "

Now that the Royal Fleet of the Holy Silver Empire, with the legendary battleship [Immaculate Conception] as its flagship, has entered the North Sea, there is also the undefeated Armada behind it.

The Protector decisively chose the "cheaper" solution.

As long as you bribe a few people, you can take advantage of the loopholes, find gaps, and defeat this tinderbox-like team one by one.

The attendant hesitated:

"Your Excellency, most of the junior officers are from Remit."

The Lord Protector frowned:

“The Remites who don’t care about the overall situation are not my kind.

Go ahead and deliver the order. "

Unfortunately, as soon as Cromwell's order was issued, his ears were suddenly filled with the sweet sound of gold coins flowing.

Wow.

Turning around, he saw that all the cities and towns in the Kingdom of the Netherlands behind him, as long as they were covered by the tax system, were all glowing with an illusory golden light.

In the spiritual vision, they formed a majestic golden torrent and rushed towards the port where they were.

"What's going on?!"

This fifth-level legendary banker in the gold-dollar sequence and the Minister of Finance of the Netherlands immediately sensed the power essence of this golden torrent.

But it is difficult to resist the call of the [Financial Queen] and the [Financial] priesthood in her hands.

When the golden torrent passed by him, it immediately enveloped the Minister of Finance, who was in charge of finance.

When Cromwell opened his eyes again, the world in front of him had changed.

When he saw the very familiar scenery around him clearly, his eyes suddenly widened.

This turned out to be the online financial street he had been to many times before!

Even Cromwell himself is the supreme VIP here.

Don't get me wrong, he is not trying to cheer up this competitor. The reason for recharging and spending is just to gain insight into the operation of this mysterious space, and then open an online trading platform himself.

He and the Free Masons had already come up with a project plan.

They have huge offline banks, investment institutions, a dazzling array of trading companies, and close relationships with churches.

You can completely take advantage of your offline advantages, spend money to seize users, provide large subsidies, find girls who are comparable to the fairies in the lake as customer service, provide customers with refund-only services, find those big-name artists in the palace to promote... and so on.

Even if a series of personalized services cannot compete with the Financial Street, they can still use the ultimate trick to encourage the church to find a way to disconnect the online Financial Street.

The contents of the plan just flashed through his mind, and another question fell on his mind:

"Isn't this the territory of [Mr. Wednesday] and [Ms. Friday]? Why was I dragged here?"

What came here was not his real body, only his consciousness. The national finances of the Netherlands formed his new body.

The embodiment of a country's finances is similar to the national personality embodied by the "King's Military Power". They are both some kind of animal. The Kingdom of the Netherlands is the white spoonbill.

At this time, Cromwell turned into a half-human, half-bird white spoonbill with a wingspan of dozens of meters.

Whoosh!

The next moment, a strong wind suddenly blew across the entire cross-shaped financial street, and the clouds above dispersed, revealing many towering pyramids suspended in the sky.

A gorgeous, capable and atmospheric figure in a red skirt held a golden holy sword in her hand and stepped down the steps in the void.

The magnificent golden light behind her, which was ten times more powerful than that of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, formed the most gorgeous skirt in the world under the girl's feet.

In an instant, it attracted the attention of everyone on the financial street.

"Is that the owner of the Financial Street [Ms. Friday]?"

"No, I saw this face in the International Port.

That is the Queen of the North Sea Empire [Queen of Finance], [Mithril Dragon], [Flower of the North] Catherine Lancaster!"

"Ms. Friday is actually the Queen of Finance? How is this possible? When the Financial Street first appeared, she was still a low-sequence second-level Mithril Knight."

Buzz.

The Financial Street is visited by a large number of extraordinary people from morning to night. It was not until today that they finally saw who the mysterious [Ms. Friday] was. The whole Financial Street was in an uproar.

But the facts are in front of us, and there is no doubt at all.

Although the reputation of the [Queen of Finance] was very loud in the past, she has always been regarded as a vassal of the Pirate Emperor Saint Byron.

Today, the image has changed drastically.

Who doesn't know that the online Financial Street, which connects almost every extraordinary person, is a huge financial empire, not inferior to any country in the real world?

The influence even transcends independent countries and touches every corner of the Silver Continent with extraordinary people.

The two titles of [Queen of Finance] and [Ms. Friday] were combined into one, and Catherine instantly became one of the most influential figures in the entire Silver Continent and even the world.

It also made countless neutral forces caught between the Orthodox Alliance and the Protestant Alliance suddenly see the situation clearly.

At first, Byron broke through the restrictions of the country of Hastings and took over the five countries of the Bay People, relying on Queen [Queen of War] Violet's strong claims on the three countries of Anchor Bay and Evernight Peninsula;

Then they established the Holy Golden Empire in the Bantaan Islands, established diplomatic relations with various countries, and firmly controlled the throat of the southern continent. Relying on the [Queen of Finance] Catherine of the Holy Golden Empire, various precious resources and financial businesses were run in full swing;

The Desert Empire in the East Continent announced a change of dynasty two days ago, and everyone was shocked to realize that even the world's number one beauty had become the "royal lover" of His Majesty Saint Byron, and even gave birth to two children for him.

Two queens and one lover, three women each managed a large empire, and they were the top forces in the three continents.

In addition to the online financial empire, it is not certain who will be the boss of the material world if it were not for the triple crown on the Pope's head.

I don't know how many people are jealous to the point of madness.

"The North Sea Empire has revealed one card after another, and I don't know how many cards have not been revealed.

Everyone says that the Habsburg royal family of the Holy Silver Empire rules the world with their lower body, and they will never shed blood if they can get married.

In fact, the people who really rule the world with their lower body should be your Lancaster royal family!"

At this time, even if someone told them that there was a fourth woman with the surname Lancaster on the west coast where there was still a lack of power, they would never have any doubts.

Even if there was no woman in power in the Zoroastrian Empire and the Star-Moon Empire.

Catherine ignored what the people below were thinking, but pointed her sword at Cromwell, who was integrated with the national finance, and shouted out the opening remarks that had been prepared for several years:

"I have a sword, with gold as the blade, silver as the blade, credit as the spine, finance as the hilt, finance as the scabbard, and products as the counterweight.

Rely on market rules to govern, use power, law and force to implement, "investment" is the slash, "consumption" is the thrust, and "export" is the cut.

This kind of sword, stabbing forward, no one can stop it, holding it high, nothing can stop it, pressing the sword down, it is invincible.

Please try the sword, Mr. Cromwell!

The finance of the North Sea Empire versus the finance of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, let's fight fair."

At this moment, "The supreme art can kill the country!" is no longer the ambition and bragging of the weak.

Catherine condensed her wealth into a real holy sword, which could cut people, and could also represent the finances of other countries in anthropomorphic warfare, and could really kill the financial systems and industries of other countries with one sword.

Especially for those economies that were already bleeding and suffering from all kinds of injuries, one sword would definitely work.

As she spoke, the North Sea Empire's finances turned into a sky full of golden light and wrapped around her body.

Ouch!

Accompanied by a high-pitched dragon roar, a golden dragon hundreds of meters long held a hundred-meter-long sword and slashed at Cromwell's white spoonbill.

"You call this a fair fight? Shameless!"

[Protector of the Country] almost spit out blood when he heard Catherine's shameless words, which he didn't know which rogue she had learned from.

The other side's golden dragon was brilliant, while his white spoonbill was covered with wounds and bleeding.

It means that the kingdom is still losing blood after being hit hard by the tulip bubble.

Even when the East Coast Financial Center was intact, it might not be able to defeat the North Sea Empire, let alone now?

What made him most angry was that the blood flowing from his body was constantly gathering into the national finances behind the other side.

There was no need to guess who was behind the "tulip bubble".

He also realized that if he was killed by the other party at this time, the tragic consequences would definitely not be something he could bear.

"Ah, Lancaster, you deserve to die--!"

A financial holy sword also appeared in Cromwell's claws, but compared to the one in Catherine's hand, it was only a small dagger.

Even on the battlefield, few people used daggers against two-handed heavy swords. No matter how shabby, at least they had to use a swift sword, which was enough to make people despair.

The two streams of light collided with a loud bang.

Catherine used [Supreme Art] to cooperate with the magic [Mind Dragon's Nest] (digital modeling):

"It can break the boundary between matter and information, just like the followers of the sleeping god can freely travel through dreams and reality, and freely switch the state of real matter."

Everything about the finances of the two countries began to be digitized, formalized, and statisticalized, flowing rapidly past her eyes like a waterfall.

The sword in his hand flashed, hitting Cromwell's weakest point. The small dagger and one of his claws flew into the air, turning into a golden stream of light and gathering behind Catherine.

The next two moves followed one after another, and the sharp financial holy sword cut the white ibis, the embodiment of the Netherlands' finances, into eight pieces in the blink of an eye and swallowed it up.

[Swordsmanship Secret: Cyclical Financial Crisis! ]

There are three moves in total: [Raise interest rates], [Bottom-hunting], and [Lower interest rates].

It is not much different from bursting the tulip bubble.

They have seen through the essence of the financial tide harvesting countries:

"The first step is to raise interest rates, and the world will withdraw money back to the North Sea Empire. Assets around the world will generally fall or even go bankrupt;

The second step is that the major financial groups under the empire will take action to buy high-quality "non-performing assets" around the world at extremely low prices;

The third step is to lower interest rates and release money. The value of assets around the world will rise again, but the owner has changed."

As long as they can always keep walking on both financial and military legs, this set of processes can continue to work, suck blood from the world to feed themselves, and become the most powerful "Night Demon Emperor"!

Fake capitalists: squeeze employees, provide blessings, and act as foreign agents.

Real capitalists: plunder foreign countries to feed themselves, benefit the entire country, and let all citizens enjoy the dividends created abroad.

"No——!"

Cromwell, whose real body was still in the fleet, opened his eyes again, suddenly spit out a mouthful of blood, and his breath also waned.

But he forced himself to raise his head and look in the direction of the Kingdom of the Netherlands behind him.

A sharp whine of a white spoonbill came from the collective subconscious, and then it was completely silent.

Then a lion's roar representing the North Sea Empire resounded in everyone's ears, and the national finances changed hands.

This sword was equivalent to the two establishing the most stringent outsourcing contract. The financial system of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, including the central bank, was outsourced to Catherine and the North Sea Empire.

Everyone has heard of contracting land and orchards, but who has heard of contracting a country?

Now I have heard of it.

The economic lifeline of clothing, food, housing, transportation, taxation, customs, coinage, etc. was all lost, and the Netherlands became a semi-feudal and semi-colonial on the spot.

This is: "The winner takes all, and the loser eats dust!"

In the international power system, wealth is the foundation of all national power.

In order to enhance their own power, each country is trying to obtain more wealth.

As the mystical ownership of national finances has changed, all Dutch citizens who rely on this system have to turn accordingly.

Although it is not a change of dynasty, it is not far away.

What's even more amazing is that after becoming the host, the first decree Catherine issued in the legal network was:

"The Vanguard Pilot Colonial Trading Company and the Vanguard Bank will redeem individual futures contracts at a low paper price, and institutions are not included."

The individuals are mostly Dutch civilians, and the institutions are all Remit people.

Using the money of the latter to settle the account of the former, in the end the whole kingdom will have to thank them.