Pirate Kingship

"Thank you, thank you for the kindness of Her Majesty the Queen of Finance! From now on, I will definitely change my ways and never trade futures again."

"Long live the Queen of Finance! Long live Saint Byron!"

"With the North Sea Empire, justice will come. Your Majesty, we had a hard time under the rule of the Remit."

As expected, Catherine's decree had just been issued, and the whole kingdom was in jubilation. Heartfelt gratitude filled the [Golden Law] that had spread across the strait.

This grand occasion was not only because their own debts were forgiven, but also because there was no longer the mountain of the Remit banker class on their heads.

The Kingdom of the Netherlands was parasitized by the Remit people, just like a big crab parasitized by a crab slave. It was exhausted and miserable, and almost forced to change its sex.

From a long time ago, as long as a Remit person settled in a certain industry or company in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Remit people would soon be everywhere.

Then the fellow tribesmen scattered in various countries abroad will also flock in and squeeze out the locals.

Up to now, they not only control the economic, political and military lifelines, but also almost control all the high-quality jobs and industries in the country, absorb the nutrients of the entire society to support themselves, and occupy the living space of a large number of locals.

Many people have no doubt that if this continues, many Dutch people will have to leave their homes and flee their homeland amid the curses of the Remit people: "Get out of our Netherlands".

Now suddenly it has become a blessing in disguise and ushered in the dawn of rebirth.

The people's money is returned in full, and the gentry's money is divided into 19. How can there be such a good thing since ancient times?

This is simply a holy king!

From hell to heaven, countless middle and lower-class citizens of the Kingdom of the Netherlands couldn't help but burst into tears at this moment.

In addition, the effect of the national title of [The First Empire on which the Sun Never Sets] has long been spread all over the world.

The Dutch, who have not yet experienced the First World War and formed a nation-state, have already wished that they were born as imperial people.

"When will the North Sea Empire come to garrison? We must lead the way for you!"

Byron and Catherine naturally heard their voices and nodded with great satisfaction. To win the hearts of the people is to win the kingdom.

As for those Remit banks that have been emptied of funds and lost all accounts receivable, will there be a wave of bankruptcies? What does that have to do with us?

Anyway, the war has been declared, so why should I care about your life or death?

In stark contrast to the civilian class, the Remit bankers headed by the Free Masons Association were kicked out of the ruling system of the Netherlands by Catherine, and each of them vomited three liters of blood.

"Even a million pirates can't compare to this knife of the Queen of Finance. The roots are all cut off."

"Gone, all gone, you are so vicious!"

They also remembered the great shortcomings and virtues of the North Sea Empire, this troublemaker, from the bottom of their hearts.

But they no longer have the power to resist.

The fleet that had not yet completely left the port also collapsed on the spot. The people's hearts were scattered. How could the team still be led?

And everyone realized that if they couldn't escape the country as soon as possible after they lost power, they would probably be beaten to death on the spot by the furious Dutch!

"Let's go to the southern continent to join the Golden Power Restoration Party, and concentrate our strength to survive this crisis."

[Protector] Cromwell did not die, but was seriously injured by the backlash of the kingdom's finances. He gritted his teeth and wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth.

He touched the zero-level holy relic [Dead Sea Scrolls] hidden in his chest. It was it that saved Cromwell's life under Catherine's sword just now.

Then he left most of his panicked compatriots behind and fled the battlefield with his guards, without trying to join the Orthodox Alliance.

Although the legendary banker suffered a great defeat in the place he was best at and most unexpected, he quickly regained his sanity.

He was not naive enough to think that as long as he waited for the Invincible Fleet to win, the Orthodox Alliance would fulfill its promise to support their founding of the country at the beginning.

The most critical basis for dividing the cake has never been merit, but the strength of each party!

They lost the power to influence a maritime power.

Based on what the Remit people have done in recent years, when the Orthodox Alliance wins, I am afraid they will not mind putting the Remit people on the table.

As soon as he set out on the road of escape, he had already thought of his own way out:

'The Remit Church and the Creator Church are not the same kind of people. We just use each other. If there is a chance, no one would mind stabbing the other in the back.

Although we are defeated now, my daughter [Elf of Love] Salome, and the great being standing behind her have not lost!

As long as we get back in touch with them, the Free Masons will be able to take back everything that belongs to us.

You wait, the Remit Homecoming Group will come back! '

The victorious Catherine floated lightly beside Byron with countless golden digital pixels.

After shaking off the blood on the holy sword, he put away the [Financial Holy Sword] that had just completed the feat of killing a country, and looked at the entire North Sea coast that was finally connected, feeling very happy:

"All obstacles have been cleared, and no one can resist the torrent of our industrial revolution.

After taking away the family assets accumulated by the Remit people for hundreds of years, there is no need to worry that the fruits of the revolution will be stolen by them.

From now on, there will only be one force that rules the world's countries through the economic lifeline, and that is our Demon Banquet Council!"

The reason why the Remitians chose to oppose the North Sea Empire and set up trade barriers in the entire Orthodox Alliance to hinder free trade was essentially a trade conflict caused by the impact of industrialization on handicraft workshops.

When the private capital of the Kingdom of the Netherlands was plundered, the upper institutions were exhausted, and the Remitians fled as a whole, the entire country naturally shook with it.

Real money and silver flowed out of this country in large quantities, and the Netherlands had to tighten its money supply.

The "tulip bubble" inevitably went beyond the financial field and turned into a severe impact on the real economy.

Those handicraft workshop owners and factory owners who were once in a precarious situation and lived on bank loans can no longer borrow new money to repay old debts.

If nothing unexpected happens, with the large number of Dutch handicraft workshops abandoned and people's livelihood declining, it is destined to evolve into a depression that will last for many years.

But crisis is also an opportunity!

It just so happens that the handicraft workshops have completely disappeared, and we can take advantage of the opportunity to start the industrial revolution, so that many mature handicraftsmen can be transformed into workers, and the manufacturing industry can be reborn from the ashes.

They have absolute economic power, which will soon be transformed into absolute political power.

It won't be long before the whole country changes hands.

Byron, who has won the hearts of the people before then, may cross the threshold of 50% equity of [Silver Law] at any time!

And Catherine has already gained huge benefits at the first time.

With the feedback of the wishes of the vast number of people in the Netherlands, a golden light shines from Catherine's towering chest, and then spreads rapidly throughout her body.

Hula la.

Financial power surges.

It promotes the rapid fusion of its own divinity and the immortal ladder. In just a few breaths, about two-thirds of its spirituality has transformed into the [Immortal Divinity] that belongs exclusively to demigods.

A pair of small golden dragon horns on the forehead reveal the supreme and noble divine aura, which can easily transform stone, steel, and mercury into gold when they touch them.

Its own kingdom of God Financial Street also drags the merged Golden Mist Palace and Huashan Heavenly Kingdom to float up rapidly, and it is only one step away from rising to the material world.

The promotion ceremony of the three major priesthoods, [Change], [Finance], and [Creation], has finally gone halfway.

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

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

The second step is to swing the [Financial Holy Sword] to the Netherlands, where the financial industry and commerce are most developed, to set off a wave of financial tsunamis to harvest wealth and eliminate major capital and competitors.

The third step is that after the financial war kills the chicken, all countries will realize that the world trend is unstoppable, and then they can ignite the fire of change in everyone's heart.

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

If it weren't for the demigod promotion ceremony [World Change] of Byron and the two queens as a whole.

Seeking to shake the huge influence of the whole world, rather than being limited to one country or one continent, so that the three of them can gain the power comparable to that of the old demigods when they just promoted to the sixth level.

At this time, Catherine, who led the world's first financial crisis, might have been promoted.

You know, the mother goddess of dragons [Tiamat, the mother of a hundred dragons] is now only a demigod.

After Catherine is promoted to the sixth-level dragon god, she might be able to completely jump out of the barriers of the inherent dragon species in the material world and open up a new dragon bloodline, such as pixel dragons.

Byron gave a thumbs up and praised her very servilely: "Sister is mighty", and did not forget to remind her:

"The 'profit-seeking nature' of capital is its original sin.

With the continuous development of finance, capital will definitely prefer the financial speculation market with short cycles and fast money, rather than investing in the down-to-earth real economy.

Technology companies are not looking up to the stars and the sea, but are all flocking to small loans. That is the greatest sorrow of capital.

If we don't control it, the whole country will definitely move away from reality and end up dying miserably."

At this point, he also felt sympathetic.

I still remember when I was writing my graduation thesis, the whole society was still advocating to learn from developed countries to develop the tertiary industry. The stupid, big, rough and black secondary industry was far less civilized and environmentally friendly than those developed countries.

But after a few years, when the tide receded, some developed countries showed others their drooping appearance without underwear.

Some people who almost cut themselves off were probably also scared out of their wits, and no one said that the proportion of the tertiary industry was too low.

Catherine nodded solemnly:

"Don't worry, I know that finance is a double-edged sword.

I also remember you said that capital is not born from the womb or from eggs, but from metamorphosis, and any existence that touches it will be polluted.

It is a more secret source of pollution than those old gods, and it may even pollute those old gods.

From now on, I will use this power like the taboos of black witchcraft."

Since the [Queen of Finance] has this awareness and caution, the capital of this world will most likely not evolve into a flood beast that devours everything.

"Beep!"

Just as the Kingdom of the Netherlands withdrew from the battle sequence, the Holy Silver Empire Royal Fleet, which was the first to arrive in the North Sea, gradually approached the North Sea Empire's deep-sea fleet, which was on high alert.

That was the Strait Fleet of the Kingdom of Hettings.

This fleet is only equipped with conventional sail warships, and its main task is to guard against the tide of beasts rushing out of the Sea of ​​Monsters.

During this period of time, because the blood beast's lair had long been eaten up by the Mother of Monsters herself, the invading wave of sea monsters had lost its organization and its lethality had weakened a lot. The deep sea fleet had always been able to deal with it independently.

The extraordinary ranks of fleet members grow extremely fast.

The legendary battleship [Dragonhead Ship Valhalla] became the flagship of the fleet, and the fleet commander was served by his father-in-law [Whale Hunter] Jack Harold.

At this time, it was Valhalla, the ship spirit who had transformed into a bodybuilding Valkyrie, who sounded the early warning horn.

Byron himself was still in Kingston, but his "divine vision" could easily have a panoramic view of the fleet on the opposite side.

The ball of pure white light at the front is particularly eye-catching.

You can see that under the light, a pure white slender galley, with both sails and oars, leads the entire fleet to glide on the sea like an arrow.

From a distance, I heard a grand and majestic voice of praise filling Beihai:

"Holy, Virgin Mary of Creation, the Lord is with you, full of grace. Praise be to you among women, praise to you in the fruits of your womb, for you were born the Lord of our souls."

The soldiers who heard this voice were all shaken in their souls and wanted to kneel down and bow their heads to sing hymns along with the voice.

That is the legendary battleship [Immaculate Conception] commanded by the Habsburg Dynasty!

The shape is a very ancient Olympian trireme, with a strong style of the mythical era.

It is powered by sails and oars, and is configured with three rows of rowers. It can sail at high speeds and operate flexibly in narrow sea areas.

It is about 36.9 meters long and 5.5 meters wide, with a full load displacement of 47 tons. The bow is equipped with a 200 kilogram bronze ram.

There is a towering main mast in the center of the hull, with a large square sail hanging from it.

The red emblem of "She-Wolf Breasts Babies" is painted on the sail, which represents the origin of the ancient Silver Empire: the two sons of Mars, the Jupiter god of war, were raised by she-wolves and established the original city-state.

During close combat at sea, the mainmast can be lowered to facilitate combat.

In the case of a tailwind, the speed of sailing can reach 6 knots with the sails spread out, and the speed can reach 8 knots by relying on the oarsmen. In wartime, when the oars and sails are used together, the speed can exceed 11 knots.

Although the design concept of the galley has completely lagged behind this era of great navigation, the extraordinary power carried by this boat cannot be underestimated.

The ship was built from a single sacred cedar tree.

It is said that this tree was stained with the blood of the Virgin when it was still a pine cone. After it took root and sprouted, a miracle was born on its trunk.

Not only has it grown extremely strong in just a few years, but there is also an image of the Virgin embracing the Son on the surface of the tree trunk, making the three-dimensional image look like a lifelike relief.

It was revered as: "Our Lady's Tree" by the earliest believers at that time.

But after the Son was crucified, the sacred tree was cut down by soldiers of the ancient Silver Empire and turned into a popular warship of that era.

The relief-like statue of the Virgin is located at the bottom of the boat, silently overlooking the entire sea.

Because it has existed for so long, its legendary battleship skills are very familiar to the senior officials of mainland countries, especially the Taiwanese people who have taught each other for thousands of years.

——[Monster Invocation]:

“When traveling in the sea, all ownerless marine creatures within a mile of the vicinity are the guardians of the ‘Virgin Mother’, and they will 100% carry out the captain’s orders even if they are shattered to pieces.

At the same time, it can also summon the projection of powerful monsters from various mythological eras in the collective subconscious of the Holy Silver Empire.

[Maelstrom] Charybdis, [Six-Headed Sea Serpent] Scylla, [Deep Sea Banshee] Siren, etc., etc., the highest level of power can reach the false god. "

Except for this legendary battleship that is at the bottom of the box, the regular fleet of the Holy Silver Empire is not as good as the Netherlands.

A land-based country that has not participated much in overseas colonial activities will naturally not raise a huge fleet.

The Immaculate Conception was already famous in the ancient Silver Empire, and it often faced off against another galley that came to plunder the ship, the Valhalla.

The two sides have each other's victory and defeat. This time they meet again in a battle between the two camps, which can be regarded as a settlement of old and new grudges.

On the deck of the galley, [The Aloof King] Ferdinand issued a challenge to the deep-sea fleet, and his voice rolled in like thunder:

"Despicable pirates and despicable heretics, you will never have a chance to be arrogant this time. I will hang you all on the holy pillar of the church!"

What responded to him on the other side was the reverse V sign made by all the Bay residents and sailors, led by the whale hunters, with the backs of their hands facing outward!

There were also bursts of boos.

The soldiers of the Holy Silver Empire suddenly turned pale and furious.

"court death!"

There is an anecdote about the origin of this reverse V sign.

During the Hundred Years War between Hattings and Iris, the Hatings army, which was about to be defeated, acquired a new secret weapon - a longbow made of yew.

Under the leadership of Henry V, they reversed their disadvantage at the Battle of Agincourt.

The Iris army was so angry that they lost a large number of longbowmen and issued a killing order. As long as they captured the archers of Hattings, they would cut off the middle finger of their right hand used to draw the bow and hang them.

However, Iris's oath did not deter the counterattack of the Hastings army, and Iris was defeated in the end.

When the Iris army retreated, all the archers stood on the hillside and raised their right hands, showing off their middle fingers that still existed, and shouted loudly:

"Look! We can still pull the yew longbow! Pull the bow!"

After decades of evolution, the hand gesture now means "go to hell" on the whole continent, expressing contempt and insult.

The V-sign with the palm facing outward means victory.

[The Lonely King] Ferdinand's forehead veins jumped, and he pulled out his command knife and swung it down:

"The Immaculate Conception, release the black forkfish, and sink them for me!"

A halo suddenly lit up underwater, and many dark and ugly figures flew out of the halo, pulling out white water lines like torpedoes and rushing towards the opposite deep-sea fleet.

This special demonized fish is not a sea monster, but it has a magical property. It can eat prey that is ten times its size. When the food ferments, it will float to the surface and explode in the low-pressure shallow sea.

The powerful force is enough to destroy warships!

The whale hunter also issued a combat order to the ship spirit that the Harold royal family had lost and recovered:

"Valhalla, open the Hall of Heroes and summon the fleet of heroes!"

Woo woo woo.

Then there were gusts of cold wind on the sea, and countless black ghosts swayed behind the dragon head ship.

Then one, two, three. Hundreds of black sail pirate ships of different shapes from different eras appeared on the sea.

The dragon head ship (paddle boat), sloop, flute-shaped ship, carrack, galleon. All pirate ships that have existed in history are available.

There are no living people on the ship, but the heroic spirits of the Bay people with green ghost fire and bloody smell.

This is the legendary warship skill [Heroic Fleet] that the Dragon Head Ship had used once in the South Continent:

"You can summon the heroes sleeping in [Hall of Valor·Valhalla] and the pirate ships that sank into the sea with them when they died in battle to help in the battle."

The [Dead Soul Aura] that can deter all living things was deployed in the Heroic Fleet.

The green "fish poison potion" was also poured into the sea.

Both the Deep Sea Fleet and the Bay People's Heroic Spirits have rich experience in dealing with sea monsters and various marine creatures.

There is no need for Byron to command remotely in person.

At this time, he had boarded the only other legendary warship [Pirate City] in the North Sea Empire except the [Golden Deer], and led the Iris Fleet to block the southernmost end of its own territorial waters.

Just as the Lonely King took action, Byron's raven had seen that the Invincible Fleet, which was at least three days away, suddenly disappeared in the sea.

At the same time, a bright golden dot suddenly lit up in the North Sea, turning into an illusory brass sextant that Byron was very familiar with.

It was the holy relic [Latitude and Longitude Sextant] once held by the Puppet King.

A series of formulas flashed in the air: "cos z = sinφ sinδ+ cosφ cosδ cos t", and the local precise longitude and latitude were obtained.

The movable arm on the sextant began to slide by itself.

Just below the ruler, an invincible fleet led by the legendary battleship [Holy Trinity] also grew from small to large, as if it had teleported here from a very far distance in just a moment.

Now, after receiving the bad news that the Kingdom of the Netherlands had suffered a shocking change and was defeated before the battle, the Pyrenees had to risk being teleported to the moon and descend on the battlefield in advance.

However, they were blocked outside the territorial waters by the legal network that the North Sea Empire had opened in advance, and they were unable to get to the imperial capital Kingston in one step.

Before the large fleet landed on the sea surface of the Strait of Dover, a drake-like voice sounded on the battlefield first:

"Valhalla, little beauty, I miss you so much!"