Did the lord get rid of poverty and become rich today?

A transport ship full of wine and food disappeared at sea. The captain used to transport goods for Galan Nord, Destalov, and Qiao Yi took his ship several times.

The Ximeng bandits who were in charge of receiving the cargo waited for two days at the agreed pier, but failed to wait for the cargo ship.

However, there has been no abnormal weather at sea in the past few days, and there will be no situation where the victim cannot arrive on time.

Sensing that something was wrong, Ximeng immediately passed the incident through the carrier pigeon, asking if the Storm Leader confirmed that the wine ship had left the port normally.

As soon as Joe looked at the letter paper in his hand, he frowned.

Although the transport ship is not yet equipped with steam power, it is also equipped with advanced artillery technology, and there is even a five-man firearms team on board. Unless it encounters a large pirate fleet and is directly piled to death by human flesh, it should not be so silent It's right to disappear without a trace.

Even if you are really in danger, you can send a carrier pigeon to send a message in time. How could it disappear into the sea out of thin air?

The king of the south has been coveting the commercial taxes of Stormwind City for a long time, and sent people to collect various imaginary taxes many times, but Qiao Yi "invited" them out.

Of course, Qiao Yi didn't pay any taxes.

The group of Raven Island also had conflicts with the Ximeng many times because of the huge profits from alcohol, and had a long-standing grievance with Stormwind City and the Ximeng.

Which of them is it?

"Robert, go and call Sammy to gather people and go out to sea to find clues."

Robert led the way.

However, before he stepped out of the gate of the political building, he bumped into the vice-chief of the navy, Garin, who came in a hurry.

Jia Lin didn't look very well, and there was some unconcealable anger in his eyes, but he didn't lose his sense of proportion.

"My lord, a letter from Raven Island, the transport ship is in their hands. They want us to hand over the brewing method and the weapon manufacturing method within five days, and promise to give them [-]% of the income from the storm every year, and they can send all the crew You must send it back in its entirety. Otherwise, you will be responsible for the consequences. The signature is the owner of the Seventh Island, Seria."

Qiao Yi almost laughed out of anger.

Who gave this ghost woman such confidence?

As long as there is a grain of peanuts, it is not enough to drink like this.

Qiao Yi was about to speak, but noticed that Jialin was still holding a small lacquer box in his hand: "This is?"

Jialin's face was a bit ugly: "They also sent... something."

"What?" Qiao Yi frowned slightly, looking at the lacquer box in Jialin's hand that smelled of blood, he reached out and was about to open it.

"...My lord." Galin hesitated for a moment, and withdrew his hand, as if he didn't really want Qiao Yi to open the box himself: "Inside... is a hand."

one hand? !who?

With a twitch, Joe lifted the box.

Inside the box was a blood-stained left hand carefully supported by red flannelette. Under the dark skin was blood loss and frozen blue-black, and there were white bone fragments on the wrist.

The strong smell of blood came to the face, mixed with the stench of decay, irritating Qiao Yi's fragile nasal cavity.

Qiao Yi's face paled quickly, resisting the churning in his stomach, and saw the hand clearly.

It belonged to Captain Starov.

——The kind businessman who donated more than half of his income to the poorhouse.

"boom--"

Qiao Yi slammed the box shut, and an invisible storm was brewing in his pitch-black eyes.

"Where is the person who brought the things?"

"Cut it off." Galin replied: "Chief Sami chopped him off, and his head was hung on the flagpole that overlooks Haiya. He also said..."

"what did he say?"

"He said that he asked the lord for an order to allow the Watchman to go out to sea and blow up Crow Island." Jialin lowered his head, not daring to meet Qiao Yi's eyes.

In his perception, all generals who are too assertive will not end well.

And his superior, Sami, not only beheaded him without authorization, but now he wants to start a war on his own initiative, which made him break out in a cold sweat for his superior.

At this time, Joe, who had calmed down, sat in the chair, and tapped lightly on the cold table with his slender fingers.

The air in the room was quiet, only the slight sound of breathing.

Everyone is waiting for Qiao Yi's decision.

After a while, Qiao Yi took out a document from the bottom of the drawer, signed his name, stamped it with his seal, filed one copy, and handed the other to Jialin.

"Tell Sammy."

"As he wishes!"

……

A transport ship has been hijacked by pirates.

This incident caused an uproar in the Navy.

As the Admiralty representing the commanding heights of this continent's technology tree, each of them knows what the launch of the Watcher means.

This means that they don't need to fight face-to-face with the enemies on the sea, but only need to open the muzzle, load the ammunition, and then light the fire wire, and they can enjoy an extremely gorgeous explosion. The aesthetics of the explosion.

Are those pirates crazy?

Even if they hadn't heard the news of the Watchman's launch, they should have experienced the power of artillery over the years, so how dare they hit the muzzle of the gun?

And all of this was answered three days after Qiao Yi signed the document to open the wartime state at sea.

"My lord, the Holy Fire organization has sent a message."

"They asked for weapons support. Weapons of mass destruction appeared in the hands of the king's army. They were gunpowder kits. The Holy Fire Organization was caught off guard and suffered heavy casualties."

"The momentum of the rebel army has dropped sharply, and they have retreated to the territory of Lord Sorov, entering the defensive stage!"

……

"My lord, the south is in a hurry!"

"More than [-] shops belonging to Stormwind City have been sealed up, and merchants are prohibited from trading with Stormwind!"

"Baishuiling and other ports have been sealed off, and refugees are prohibited from fleeing northward. At present, 21 ship owners involved have been burned at the stake!"

……

"My lord! The Crow Island incident has changed!"

"The five major islands joined forces to attack the fourth island of the Ximeng. Their ships were equipped with gunpowder! The Ximeng successfully repelled the incoming enemy, but the casualties were slightly greater."

"The Simon family is considering moving to land to avoid being besieged by the five islands again."

……

The news flew towards the political affairs hall like snowflakes, filled with the atmosphere that the mountain and rain are about to come, as if a new storm is brewing, and a little carelessness will easily destroy the peaceful life of the storm leaders.

Only then did Qiao Yi understand where the confidence of these pirates was.

——They have the support of the southern kingdom, even gunpowder.

Although they don't know where they got the gunpowder, it definitely can't be the handiwork of pirates. It can only be the southern kingdom with the dwarf prison on Reed Island.

Soon, Qiao Yi's conjecture was verified by the spies.

The stupid Andre gave the pirates gunpowder, food and grass support, and wanted the pirates to compete with the storm collar, so that he could free up his hands to clean up the civil strife, and the fisherman would benefit after both the pirates and the storm collar were injured.

With such a good plan, Qiao Yi couldn't help but want to applaud and scold an idiot by the way.

No matter how many hole cards Andre thought he had in his hand, he gave the gunpowder to the pirates. The result of this kind of stupid behavior can only be to breed tigers and eat them back.

The most frightening thing is not a smart person, but a fool who thinks he is smart.

Joe only wanted to write a book and send it to Andre's palace, so that it could be pasted on Andre's over-indulgent kidney deficiency face: "You don't have a brain, why do you have a brain?"Do you keep fish?

But it is undeniable that Andre's actions did cause a lot of trouble for the Storm Territory.

The Stormwind Consul has no desire to withhold such news from his subjects.

As a result, the prosperity and tranquility of Stormland was suddenly broken, and everyone realized that war might be coming.

After cleaning up the rebels in the south, the next target must be Stormwind City!

But unexpectedly, the people did not fall into panic because of this, but were full of fighting spirit.

"Damn, dare to cut off our money! Get rid of them!"

"Call to the south!! Let them know that we are not easy to mess with!"

"The Stuarts only believe in the guns in their hands!! We will never bow to the despicable Andre!!"

"I escaped from the south, and now I have a life that I never dreamed of before. I even have my own field! Now no one can take it away! Even the emperor!!"

"My family members were all killed by cavalry swords, and I want them to pay with their blood!! Kill them to the south!!"

"My lord!! Go to the south!!"

"Kill the past! Kill the past!!"

"Swear to the death to defend the Stormcollar—"

"..."

People took to the streets, shouting to fight to the south.

The recruitment office of the military headquarters was overcrowded for a while, and there were countless young people who came to sign up to join the army. There were natives of the Stormwind Territory, and there were also subjects of the Norman Kingdom who had migrated and lived a good life.

At this time, the political affairs hall was shrouded in a wartime low-pressure atmosphere.

After hearing about the incident, the three brothers Huolin, the patriarch of the dwarves, dared to explain in a hurry. At this moment, their faces were flushed, and they slapped the table loudly.

"There is absolutely no way our clansman leaked the fire medicine formula!!"

"The dwarves never bothered to do such despicable things!!"

"The laboratory was not stolen!! I swear on the glory of the dwarves!! Not even a fly flew in!!"

As soon as Joe sat in the chair, he knocked on the table calmly, signaling them to be quiet.

He rubbed his ears that were sore from the dwarf's loud voice: "When did I say that the gunpowder in the hands of the southern army and pirates is your fault?"

嘎

The three yelling dwarves suddenly fell silent as if they had been forced to press the pause button.

"You...you didn't doubt us?"

The three bearded men came together and asked cautiously in unison.

Joe nodded.

Just like the proud elves who never disdain to take advantage of small things, the dwarves whose racial characteristics are unbending, straightforward and bold, are extremely unlikely to do such a thing.

Instead of looking for trouble with the dwarves, it is better to carefully check whether there is something wrong with the army or the holy fire that also has thermal weapons.

And another possibility that isn't impossible - the Southern Kingdoms didn't get this thing through the North.

Don't forget that Reed Island also houses a group of enslaved dwarves.

Over the past few years, Qiao Yi has been devoting himself to developing the economy, and he doesn't want to start a war with the south just yet.

A skinny camel is bigger than a horse. If the Southern Kingdom is really put into the arsenal and wants to fight to the death with the Storm Leader, the Storm Leader in the past two years will be piled to death by human flesh just because of its huge population base.

It wasn't until later that the army was equipped with gunfire units, and the navy's ships were generally equipped with cannons, and the Stormland entered the era of hot weapons. This threat was gradually eliminated.

So the matter of saving the dwarves has been shelved until now, but unexpectedly, it has become a huge hidden danger at present.

"Then what should we do now?" Huo Lin, who had relieved the crisis of trust, sat down on the coffee table, holding the teapot and pouring a large pot of water.

Regardless of who leaked the secret, if you fight against an enemy who has gunpowder, your own casualties will increase exponentially.

This is already a fact that must be faced.

However, Qiao Yi just twirled the pen in his hand, looking out the window at the cloudy sky and the rainy sky, he put the pen in his hand on the table with a "snap", and curled the corners of his lips.

"First deal with the idiots who sold the Crow Island Group and paid for it."

"Then... go and grab the Southern Kingdom's arsenal!"

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The author has something to say: I asked for leave yesterday because I was not feeling well, and went to the hospital for a checkup. The problem is not serious, but lymphadenitis.

Don't dare to stay up late.

Little angels also pay attention to their bodies, if you can’t stay up late, don’t stay up late, it’s really harmful to your body!