Pirate System

Chapter 215

Elizabeth's face was reflected in the vanity mirror, her skin was fair and delicate, her cheeks were healthy pink, her lips were dyed with lipstick, her eyes were bright and light, shining with agility, and she wore a simple but beautiful hairstyle on her hair. Obviously, maintaining it this well over the long haul is no easy feat.

She looked at herself in the mirror and looked at herself in pity, observing every detail, sometimes pushing her temples, and sometimes posing various coquettish gestures in front of the mirror. She was intoxicated by the beauty of playing, and felt that looking in the mirror and dressing up were very pleasant things. During the boring voyage, she often enjoys it and kills time.

She spent more than a year at sea, crossed tens of thousands of miles of sea, passed through dozens of countries, and met people of different races, skin colors, and languages. With a huge caravan, she went through various trials and finally arrived at the Wuzhou Kingdom described in "Oriental Insights", which is an ancient and rich land-although not everyone is rich, but the rich and powerful People are selling really richly. The nobles of the Wuzhou Kingdom were very hospitable, and the merchants received warm hospitality in the residence of the prince and marquis, and also received many gifts, including very precious gold and silverware.

Simon, the president of the clover caravan, was even summoned by the king of the Wuzhou Kingdom. In addition to the royal gift, he also got a famous name, right? A real title of nobility.

In Elizabeth's impression, Wuzhou Kingdom is a treasure land, rich in natural resources, flat and fertile, with thousands of miles of fertile fields. The only disadvantage is that the technology is backward, unable to keep up with the pace of this era, and cannot produce flintlocks and artillery. This is actually a very dangerous thing, but the nobles of Wuzhou Kingdom don't seem to take it seriously. In terms of local customs and customs, she feels that the orientals respect etiquette, are hospitable, and especially save face, which can be seen from many aspects.

Like other merchants, she brought in a large amount of goods, all of which were special products from the West, which were very cheap, but Wuzhou could not manufacture them. She used two ships of cheap gadgets to earn a huge profit of 40,000 gold coins, and the ships also carried goods that were only found in the East. After they were shipped back to the Greenland Empire, they could make another fortune by changing hands. She brought back crates of pottery. The pottery making process in the East is very different from that in the West, especially in terms of patterns. The pottery she brought back is called blue and white porcelain by Eastern businessmen. It has beautiful blue patterns and is beautiful. It has a unique charm, and it will definitely sell for a good price after it is shipped back.

Doing business at sea is actually such a thing. Merchants transport goods that are unique to one place to another place that needs the goods, and make a difference from the price. That's why people call them sea coachmen.

On the way home, whenever Elizabeth thought of the cargo, apart from being happy, Elizabeth would occasionally sigh.

Among the caravans, no merchants would let their ships go home empty, and they all bought their favorite goods. Many, many merchants bought slaves along the coast, intending to bring them back to the Five Great Empires for sale. In this day and age, isn't it? It's a shame that even the laws of the empire supported the cause of slavery.

However, Elizabeth hated the slave trade from the bottom of her heart. She felt that a merchant should not sell his soul, right? Whether it's a beaten soul, or someone else's soul. The act of selling slaves is equivalent to degrading the merchants to the level of goods

Elizabeth's father is also a businessman. When she was a child, she once heard his father say this sentence - businessmen nowadays forget the two most important sons in business, one is honesty and the other is conscience.

Bearing in mind her father's teachings, she will never do business that burdens her heart. She wants to make money, but she wants to make clean money

Thinking of this, she once again aroused her thoughts about her father. How is that amiable old businessman doing now? Did you suffer in prison? Whenever she has this kind of worry, she will eagerly want to rescue her father. Fortunately, God bless, the profit she made this time is enough to fill the debt owed by the fraud case, so that her father can be redeemed . After experiencing these things, she clearly realized the power of money. Even if her father was rescued, she would still continue to be a businessman to earn more money. This is not only because of her worship of money, but also because of her love for businessmen, she likes doing business in her bones.

For the future, apart from saving her father and continuing to be a free businesswoman, Elizabeth still has a faint spring tide in her heart. She just turned 21 years old this year, and she is already very old. Now, ladies and gentlemen of the empire, Some married at the age of sixteen. Thinking of getting married, all kinds of men she knew appeared in her mind. These men stood in her memory in different postures, and the clearest figure among them was that Eastern pirate Tang Ke.

"Bah, bah, bah, what do I think that rude pirate is doing?" Elizabeth blushed charmingly, she wiped her cheeks, and the burning temperature couldn't go away. She comforted her, but it was just that Tang Ke impressed her a little bit, okay? other.

Just when she was struggling with this matter, there was a sudden cannon fire, and then more and more cannon fires, it didn't sound far away, it should be a ship in the caravan firing.

Did you encounter a sea monster?

She muttered in her heart, straightened up, and walked quickly to the door, her knee-length golden skirt fluttering. She walked through the corridor of the cabin and passed by the sailors. Her handsome figure attracted the admiring eyes of many young men, but she was already used to it. She found out that the sailors didn't hear the sound of the guns, so she went straight to the deck without asking, took down the binoculars hanging from her slender waist, and followed the sound of the guns.

On the distant sea, beyond the position of at least six ships, two ships are bombing a ship. The bombed ship is not a pirate ship, but a ship inside the caravan. This is obviously a very strange thing, why beat someone?

With the scale of one to a dozen ships, they can advance in a line-up formation during the voyage, but as long as the sea is wide enough, a larger fleet will adopt a different formation. After all, there are too many ships. Connecting into a line is not conducive to tailing each other.

At present, in terms of formation layout of the caravan, ships with powerful firepower are deployed on the periphery, and are subdivided into forward, left and right wings, and tail left and right wings. Within the protective circle of warships, the first floor is ordinary merchant ships and material ships, the second floor is the ships of some big businessmen, and the center is the ship of President Sicammon.

Simon cared for Elizabeth along the way, and what he did clearly exceeded the scope of the president's obligations to members. Because of this relationship, Elizabeth's two ships were mixed in the innermost layer. This is the safest place. Even if there is an attack, there is no need to worry, because there are outer warships to resist the attack.

Elizabeth's ship is at the core, and the artillery battle is at the periphery. From the visual inspection, the bombed ship is not big, about the same size as the Mandela, between small and medium-sized ships, lonely, right? foreign aid. On the two attacking ships, the flag of Sikamon was flying, which means that this battle was initiated by the supreme leader of the fleet. Due to this, no one took the lead in expressing dissent.

The battle slowed down the speed of the entire fleet, more and more merchants came to the deck to watch, and an uneasy atmosphere enveloped more than 160 ships. Fortunately the battle did not take long, and the two ships fired a few rounds before attacking the crippled enemy ship and taking the entire crew prisoner.

Elizabeth had a very bad premonition that this battle would never break out because of a small friction, there should be a deeper and more serious reason.

After the battle was over, the caravan continued to move forward, and quickly returned to its original speed. The dilapidated ship was abandoned, but the captives and the gold coins on board were taken away by other ships.

Simon claimed that the cause of this battle was that the people on the ship had misbehaved and stolen his treasures, so he would punish him lightly. At least he gave everyone an explanation, and this matter will be settled soon.

Although the cause of the incident was discovered, Elizabeth did not? Can't dispel the worry in my heart. She can guarantee that she is the person in the caravan who most hopes to return safely. Only by returning safely can she save her father. For this reason, she has a very high vigilance for all kinds of danger signals.

In the evening, Simamon sent someone to invite Elizabeth to dinner, and Elizabeth agreed to the dinner, and wanted to ask about it during the meal.

The Knight of the Waves, the ship that Sycammon was on, is also the command ship of the fleet.

This ship is a magic ship. When defining the rank, it has caused disputes among many shipbuilders, resulting in ambiguity. Some people think that this ship is a third-order magic ship, but others vehemently refute it. He insisted that the firepower of this ship was enough to be regarded as a Tier 4 magic ship. It can be seen from this that the firepower of this ship is stronger than the ordinary Tier 3 magic ship.

The Knight of the Waves is 130 yards long and 12 yards wide. It is covered with silver-white metal skin. The ship has a trident-shaped ram, and there are as many as six propellers at the stern. Although the metal hull makes this ship heavy, right? However, with the sails of five masts and the help of six propellers, the speed of this ship can still reach a terrifying eighteen knots. Crash the enemy ship and cut the enemy ship in two. There is also a huge extendable sharp blade hidden in the belly of this ship. Once the enemy ship tries to engage in side-to-side combat, the sharp blade can be used to pierce the approaching enemy ship.

With these two fighting styles, the ship can remain invincible in close-range collisions both frontal and sideways. But the builder of this ship was obviously not satisfied with this. The ship was also equipped with a few specially-made huge metal crossbows, capable of shooting long crossbow arrows three yards long and as thick as a wrist, and their range and power were far beyond ordinary cannons. In this way, the ship also has considerable combat effectiveness in long-distance combat.

In addition, there are two rare and powerful dragon eagles on board. With these two dragon eagles as escorts, even enemies from the sky can be easily dealt with.

With these magic weapons of attack, the Knight of the Waves can already stand out from the crowd at sea. Anyone who wants to play tricks on this caravan must be prepared to face the Knight of the Waves

Dressed up, Elizabeth came to the Knights of the Waves. She walked through the red carpet on the deck and entered the brightly lit ship building with the steps that a lady should. Like a mansion on shore, the decoration is luxurious and magnificent.

A tawny dragon eagle flew over suddenly, clinging to the sea deliberately, the strong wind under its wingspan even lifted the waves. It swept across, bringing a cool breeze to the corridor, which came in through a bank of windows.

Elizabeth's hair fluttered, she stretched out her white hands and closed them. She noticed just now that there seemed to be some red liquid on the dragon eagle's beak, which made her have some bad associations.

Although there was a larger dining room in the ship building, Sycarmon chose a small room with a sense of comfort to entertain Elizabeth. This moderately sized long table in the room can bring the two closer together when eating.

Simon bent down very gentlemanly, took Elizabeth's hand, and kissed lightly on the slippery surface of the white glove. During this short but sweet process, he kept looking up at Elizabeth closely, with nostalgia in his eyes with admiration.

Elizabeth withdrew her hand and smiled politely.

"Miss Elizabeth, please sit down." Sycarmon's voice was a bit shrill, or neutral. He was also very slender, with fair skin, and even pierced his ears, wearing an earring studded with diamonds.

Elizabeth doesn't like sissy men like Sycamon very much. She likes the man's muscular mass and slightly dark face. Because of this, she has always maintained a lukewarm attitude towards Sycammon's obvious love. Attitude.

The two greeted each other politely, then drank fine wine and ate beef with small bites.

Elizabeth felt that it was time, so she tentatively asked: "Don't you realize that the thieves on the Xiaomeng stole some of your valuables and found them later?" Her tone carried a gentleness that was rarely shown in the past. I think this tone is conducive to getting the truth of the matter.

Simon raised his orchid finger, took a sip of the wine, and after savoring it carefully, he said with satisfaction: "Do you think keeping secrets is a compulsory course for a lady?"

"I think so," Elizabeth said firmly.

"Okay then. You are a very, very lady, so you must be very good at keeping secrets. In this case, I will tell you the truth of the matter, and you must keep the truth in your heart after listening. Of course, at last So that I can also be contained in your heart."

Elizabeth smiled without answering, her card and gold reflected brilliant light, her smile was as sweet as honey, making one want to drink it.

Simon showed an intoxicated expression, and said in this half-drunk state: "Actually, the people from Xiaomeng didn't steal my son, it was just a rhetoric for everyone's peace of mind, you are so smart, you must have guessed it, right?"

Elizabeth turned her head slightly and blinked playfully.

Sycammon was even more intoxicated, and continued: "Though the damn gang-sorry, I said a bad word-well, they didn't steal my jewelry or gold coins, but they have more serious crimes. They, in fact A spy sent by pirates."

Elizabeth's pupils contracted a bit, and there really was something else hidden.

"And the pirate who sent them here is a tricky pirate leader. His name is Christine. Have you heard of this man? He is a notorious pirate, and no businessman would want to touch him."

"I found him, you can skip the part about introducing him and the Joker Pirates, and get straight to the main point."

"I really like your straightforwardness, and your inner drive, it is like a beautiful flame that shines into my life, making it hard for me to extricate myself." Simon praised several times without hesitation , and then turned back to the topic, "The point is, my dragon eagle caught the Xunying they secretly released, and intercepted a letter, which reported our affairs in detail, and the most terrible thing was that they wrote The exact date we arrived at the Turbulent Sea, the error is absolutely within half a day Think about it, if Christine found out about our whereabouts, what would he do?"

Elizabeth was not interested in those nasty compliments, but this important information made her shudder. Christine is a very scary pirate with a lot of ships. If Christine leads people to guard the channel, the clover caravan will be in danger. up. Suddenly, she lost all appetite and never wanted to touch those tender beef again.

"That's right, they will stand guard in front of the Turbulent Sea, waiting for us to come to our door, and they will probably treat us like fat sheep."

"But fortunately, it's fortunate that you intercepted that letter. In this way, we can change the route and avoid the ghost pirate group directly." Elizabeth breathed a sigh of relief and exhaled a faint fragrance.

"No, I don't intend to change the route." Sycamon giggled a few times, pretending to be mysterious.

"Why?"

"Because I have a more brilliant plan," Sycammon clapped his hands for wisdom, and made a clear sound, "After I captured the Xiaomeng's people, I forced the captain to write a new letter. Said that we changed the route and asked Christine to quickly shift positions. In this way, Christine and the others will leave the turbulent sea and run to the open sea to wait. And we can also follow the original plan without changing the route. , and continue to the Turbulent Sea. To find out, passing through the Turbulent Sea can save quite a long sea journey and avoid several dens of thieves.”

"This plan is not safe." Elizabeth was obviously upset. She didn't like this kind of gambling plan.

"Your expression is even more charming."

"We are talking about business, Mr. Sycammon, please be more serious."

"Elizabeth, what's the matter with you? Why are you suddenly so angry? I thought you would be amazed by my wise decision and look at me with admiration."

Elizabeth closed her beautiful eyes, and she adjusted her attitude, telling her that when dealing with Sycamon, a smile is far more effective than scolding.

"Mr. Sycammon, your resourcefulness really impresses me, but I always feel that your plan is a bit too risky, isn't it?"

"Don't worry, there will be no mistakes." Sicammon said confidently, "I compared the handwriting on purpose, the letter written by the thief captain under my persecution, and the letter intercepted by me are in the The handwriting is the same, and after receiving the letter, Christine will not suspect anything."

"What about Xunying? Xunying is very smart."

"I picked one of my Xunhawks, and the two Xunhawks are almost identical."

"Almost?" Elizabeth? Smiling helplessly, he pointed out the problem.

"Anyway, don't worry, my plan can trick those pirates around and let us pass through the turbulent sea safely." Sycammon showed a hint of impatience, and kept strengthening his tone.

Elizabeth maintained her previous gentleness and tried hard to persuade Sycamon to adopt a safer plan, but Sycammon couldn't listen to her suggestions at all. She cursed secretly in her heart, Simon was usually such a bitch, why did she have a stubborn temper at this time?

Although Sycammon is interested in her, Sycammon has always been arbitrary and has always occupied a leading position in the caravan. He has always changed other people's ideas, and his ideas are not allowed to be changed by others. He looked forward to the thrill of a successful plot, and changing his plan would make him feel like admitting defeat.

"Okay, Elizabeth, thank you for your reminder, thank you for your concern, I am very touched. But, this is not a good topic, because I have already decided and I don't plan to change it. I think we should talk about something different. Yes, let’s talk about something I’d like to talk to you about, for example... my deep love for you. If you want, the sea and the sky can testify, and I can marry you as soon as I return to the Greenland Empire.” Sika When Meng talked about this topic, he resumed his previous excited attitude and looked at Elizabeth expectantly.

Oh my god, here it comes again... Elizabeth pretended to have a headache, rubbed her temples, and waved her hands: "I'm sorry, I've been in poor health for the past two days, and my head is always in a daze. Let me say goodbye first, and thank you Tonight's treat." Holding her head, she stood up and bowed politely.

"What's wrong with you? Are you confused? Did you hear what I said just now?" Simon also stood up, wiped the oil stains on his mouth with a napkin, and showed suspicious eyes.

"What did you say just now? Oh, no, my head is really hurting. I'm really sorry. I have to go back and lie down for a while." Elizabeth waved her hand and walked away with her head supported. She walked firmly so as not to Sycarmond came up to help me meddlesomely.

Simone chased after her, and Elizabeth lied that she was dizzy, continued to perfunctory, and refused to accept the ship's doctor's diagnosis. She returned to her new ship, free from Sycammon's entanglements. Although Sycammon was full of confidence, she was still very worried that this forged letter would not be able to deceive Christine, because Christine's name at sea was Sea Loach, and she was known for being cunning.

"Phew, Sycamon, I hope your little trick will be successful this time." Elizabeth returned to the room and prayed to the moon outside the window.