Chapter 740: Post-War Changes
Francis Drake, what kind of person she was, even now that she had confirmed her death, still hasn't been able to come up with an accurate and convincing coffin lid.
She is a pirate, there is no doubt about it, and in the waters of the North Sea, if a merchant ship encounters a pirate ship flying her flag, there are only two options left, put away the sails and stop resisting and surrendering, or pray to the gods that they will escape the pursuit of the other party.
The possibility of the latter is basically very small, from the rise of Drake to her demise, there are very few merchant ships that can survive the pursuit of the Golden Deer, and the Demon King who controls the storm has an incomparable advantage in sailing speed, as if there is a direct difference between walking and horseback, and the efforts of the former are completely futile in the face of the latter.
Francis Drake was a pirate, a great pirate, and in the history of the main plane, she set a precedent for building a nation as a pirate, which had never been done before, and was subconsciously thought impossible, a nation founded by pirates, made up of pirates, and relied on foreign plunder to develop and survive.
The North Sea Pirate Kingdom, often referred to as the North Sea Kingdom, is a country established by pirates and their families after Francis Drake obtained the certificate of overlord and completely occupied the North Sea, with those small islands in the North Sea as the territory of the country, and some people also call the North Sea Pirate Kingdom a country sitting on a ship.
People in this country will only carry out some simple production activities, because the territory is only a few scattered islands, which are not suitable for farming and grazing, and the livelihood of fishing cannot maintain the operation of a country, and eating seafood all year round will also lead to various physical problems.
It is a pity that although the islands do have some valuable resources, it is difficult for them to exploit these resources, let alone further process them, to increase their value, because the islanders do not have the corresponding technology.
For these reasons, the people who inhabit these islands have no other way to become rich than to plunder the ships that come and go, and to inflict misfortune on others for their own happiness.
After all, the hatred of poverty, the pursuit of wealth, and the desire for a better life are instincts that no one can stop, suppress, and eliminate, and are engraved in the body of living beings.
If you look at it this way, the establishment of the North Sea Pirate Kingdom can be attributed partly to the ability of Francis Drake, and partly to the needs of the people here, the appearance of Francis Drake just met such a need, so that the people here can win and become rich.
In this way, the North Sea Pirate Kingdom was established, and the citizens supported the leadership of Francis Drake, who was keen to be a member of the ship, to be a pirate who could bring happiness to their families, and they were able to win most of the battles with Drake, and their own casualties were negligible, even if the pirates were killed and disabled, incapacitated and worthless, they were still able to receive a sum of money from Drake that would keep their families safe.
This makes the pirates of the North Sea very fearless of death, and has extraordinary loyalty to Drake, it is difficult for foreign pirates to survive here in the North Sea, and it is also based on this that they have no way to resupply in the North Sea, whether it is food, water, repair materials or personnel, all the seaports belonging to the North Sea Kingdom will refuse to dock these outsiders, and will send fleets to attack.
In addition to these material factors, Drake's personal charm is also a reason that cannot be ignored, although she is a woman who can be described as rare among pirates, no one will discriminate against her because of her gender.
She's a pirate hero, a king of pirates, and if it weren't for her actions, you'd be hard-pressed to associate her with pirates, traitors, kills, battles, greed, debauchery, and rudeness.
Generous and generous, Drake looted a very small part of the treasure that was used to maintain the country and upgrade the facilities of the fleet, and the rest was distributed to his pirates, or as pensions for the dead and disabled.
In most battles, Drake uses dignified means to defeat the enemy, in this regard, she is like those Scandinavians, and hates the use of dishonorable means on the battlefield, so even if the enemy is defeated in her hands, few are unconvinced, and even some of them will give up their own interests and positions, and be attracted by Drake's charm to join her kingdom.
The strength is strong, among almost all pirates, including the more famous Hyreddin in the south, including the recently rising Edward Titch, these legendary pirates, Drake's strength can also be at the top of the pyramid, with the ability to control the storm, plus the Golden Deer and the evidence of the overlord, it can be said that in the North Sea, other pirates have little chance of winning against her.
Luckily, not all pirates can get the proof of overlordship so easily like Drake, the ability to manipulate the storm and the Golden Deer, in the pirate circle, even many people will call Drake the son of God left by Lady Luck on the main plane.
Especially in recent years, such rumors have intensified, and every time the pirate coalition encircled and suppressed Drake, it would end in failure, and every time the encirclement and suppression, the pirate coalition with the support of the Baltic Empire had an absolute advantage, at least in numbers.
If it weren't for the fact that this time the Baltic Empire tore through the mask that had been maintained before and dispatched the hole cards that had been hidden for many years, people have reason to believe that Drake and her Golden Deer, with their strength and luck, would once again break through the encirclement of the pirate coalition, and it would end with the defeat of the pirate coalition like many previous so-called "decisive battles".
For Drake's demise, the people of Beihai have mixed feelings, on the one hand, many of them are nostalgic for the days when Drake led them to victory and wealth.
On the other hand, they also knew that the reason why the Beihai Kingdom had been plundered by foreign pirates for a long time like a misty candle in the wind and rain, and the wealth they had obtained through plundering and collecting taxes had basically been plundered in the past few years.
This is also the reason why the people's support for Drake has decreased year by year in the past few years, otherwise it is impossible for Drake's fleet to be left with the last Golden Deer, and it is impossible to be so depressed and cold at the last moment, which is completely inconsistent with the identity of a legendary pirate and a king.
For the Baltic Empire that killed Drake and led to the demise of the North Sea Kingdom, people are in hatred with anticipation, and the hatred is of course because the Baltic Empire is the culprit and direct murderer of Drake's death.
The so-called expectation is that the inhabitants of the North Sea are eager to become a member of the Baltic Empire, eager to change from a North Sea person to a Baltic Empire, and they want to obtain all kinds of benefits of the Empire.
This is not just the idea of the North Sea people, even if there is a war with the Baltic Empire now, the natives of the Ural Mountains, if they can, they are not willing to stand on the opposite side of the Baltic Empire, just because the Empire has not given them the opportunity to choose to surrender, and will not accept their surrender.
This is essentially the reason why Alice often talks about the fact that advanced civilizations will replace the old ones, for the people at the bottom, the advanced civilizations are congenitally attracted to join them, and the reason why they do not join is only because they are still in the old system and need to follow the orders of the head of the tribe and the kingdom of the country.
Under normal circumstances, the simple desire for knowledge will only exist in the heart for a long time, and will not turn into a substantial driving force for people to change, because people are conservative most of the time, accustomed to the present, and it is impossible to give up the existing environment to take risks.
Drake turned the people of the North Sea into pirates, allowing them to come out of poverty, become rich, get in touch with the world, and broaden their horizons, which led to the fact that when she was declining and weak, those who had benefited from her would be reluctant to go on adventures with Drake because of the wealth they had gained, and be enemies of the almost invincible country next door that had grown up.
The fall of the North Sea Kingdom and the fall of Drake will surprise many people, but in addition to surprise, there will also be a feeling that the strength of the Baltic Empire has gradually penetrated into the hearts of the people and has become a part of people's concepts.
Compared to the Baltic Empire, Drake, who established the North Sea Kingdom as a pirate, is unusually small and insignificant, just like a person who always looks at the sea and does not care about the lake.
This is how the people of the North Sea Kingdom view Drake, but the North Sea is not only the people who live on small islands, but also a large number of sea tribes living in the vast sea.
These sea tribesmen's perceptions of Drake are also very complicated in essence, on the one hand, they have to show submission to Drake because they have obtained the certificate of overlordship.
On the other hand, a large part of the Sea Clan has changed from forced to active because of Drake's charm, and it is really because of Drake's personal charm that they have dedicated their loyalty, even if those Sea Clan nobles are doing their best to stop it, they can't stop the idea of the Sea Clan below, they are willing to fight for Drake, and they are willing to fight against those powerful Baltic Sea Clans.
They didn't know that in their serious and extremely brutal fighting, it was just a simulated battlefield used by the Baltic Sea Clan to maintain the combat effectiveness of the warriors and exercise their will to fight, when the Baltic Sea Clan actually launched an attack this time.
These indigenous people of the North Sea know how wrong their previous estimate of the Baltic Sea was, and it is a pity that they did not have the opportunity and time to correct this mistake.
These sea tribes can no longer afford to cry for Drake's death, and the Baltic Sea tribes they face will not give them the slightest time, so they can only keep running, keep moving, and panic to find those places that they didn't dare to go before.
For the two forces in Scandinavia, Drake can only be a friend, because the North Sea occupied by Drake is very critical and controls the key points of access to the Baltic Sea.
They have always been wary of such a powerful neighbor as the Baltic Empire, as was the case with the Attila Empire, which had suffered from the poison of the Baltic Empire, and the United Kingdom, which had just risen from the corpse of the Scandinavian Empire.
The latter, in particular, if there is any king in the North who regrets and grieves Drake's death, it is the Gohm who went from leader of the coalition forces to king of the United Kingdom.
The coastline of the United Kingdom is on one side of the North Sea, and its southern territory is separated from Jutland by a short channel from the Baltic Empire, and if the North Sea is conquered by the Baltic Empire, then the entire United Kingdom has a long border with the Baltic Empire, and is completely surrounded by the Baltic Empire.
This is definitely not good news for the ambitious Gohm, the Baltic and North Seas are united, and the Baltic Empire has once again expanded wildly after occupying a large warm and fertile territory on land.
Having gained this springboard in the North Sea, the English Channel fell into the pocket of the Baltic Empire, and the Celtic Isles, with their economic and political control, were already one step away from being incorporated into the Empire.
At that time, the entire northern land will be left only with the United Kingdom of Gohm and the empire of Attila, but neither of them is on the same level as the Baltic Empire in any way.
As for the natives of the Ural Mountains, Gorm didn't think that those guys could cause any decent trouble to the Baltic Empire, and now the woman named Golia was indeed very famous, and a large number of tribes gathered in the hands of that woman.
Just like what Beowulf did all those years ago when he fought against the invasion of Atila.
However, Gom knew that the two were definitely very different, Beowulf had only one in this world, and there would only be one, and the Baltic Empire was also very different from the Attila Empire at that time.
If the woman named Golia thought that she could learn from Beowulf and become a second Siegel and establish a Ural empire in the Ural Mountains, she would be very wrong in the end.