Chapter Thirty-Seven: People Are Hard to Tear Down
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"Will, in front of you is the port of Tartus, one of the trading centers of the Dark World. (Please search, the novel is better and faster!)"
The introduction of the half-elf beauty did not make Luo Zhengdao feel very happy, but he felt a little pressured, after all, the situation was still unclear, and he was forced to start immediately, which was not in line with his usual style.
After a series of trials and setbacks, the pirate ships Yang Wei and Yong finally broke free from the negative energy environment that haunted the Sea of Death and sailed into the dark sea adjacent to the Sea of Death.
Comparatively speaking, although the environment of the Sea of Darkness is not pleasant, it is much better than the Sea of Death, which is infested with undead creatures, not to mention the absence of negative energy in the air, what a refreshing and pleasant thing!
Among the seven seas of the New World, the sea area known as the Sea of Darkness is, in fact, much larger than the waters, especially considering that there is a dense underground space under the six places, and there is no fallacy to summarize it in terms such as rat holes or sewers. The Sea of Darkness is located between the outer and inner seas in the usual sense, and like the pirate paradise of the Sea of Light, the Sea of Darkness is also a hunting ground where piracy is rampant. The combination of dark skies and complex underground caverns that helped pirates hide their spoils and evade the navies of the great powers helped them to hide their booty and evade the navies of the great powers, and the combination of these favorable conditions contributed to the fact that this sea area became a pirate paradise, which does not seem to be the result of incomprehensible logical reasoning.
Absentmindedly put down the binoculars, Luo Zhengdao's expression was very strange, and he turned his head to the half-elf beauty and said:
"Are you sure we're going to do it here, and we're not violating the legal restrictions of the privateering license?"
Without waiting for Vina Dubov to answer, Boatswain Zora, who was anxious to replenish the contents of his waist bag, could not help but interject:
"Your Excellency, your certificate is limited to the prohibition of raiding ships flying the flag of the Yaling Empire, as well as ports and territories, Tartus is a free port, and no one will think that this is also Yaling's territory."
Not displeased that Zola had interrupted her conversation with Na Jeong-do, Vina Dubov smiled elegantly and intellectually, and said in a relaxed tone:
"Well, Zora is right! The sea where the Arling fleet often cruises is not their territory, and in the Dark Sea, the Arling is just as much a bandit as we are, but in the name of collecting tolls. ”
Perhaps subtly influenced by the half-elven blood in her body, Vina Dubov, like most half-elves, has a slightly hostile view of the Yaling, who has a strong sense of racial superiority. This fact is obvious, she has no affection for the Yaling Empire, and every time she is given the opportunity, she has to sneer before giving up, but it is not correct to doubt Vina's professionalism because of this. Luo Zhengdao's cheap father, the previous Earl of Fu Lu is not a mediocre and brain-full rotten nobleman, his generous governance of the territory has made the people have a chance to succeed in a decent life, and the law is rigorous and fair, so he has won the reputation of "virtuous marquis", which is also the capital of Qiongzhou to resist until the last moment when the Guangming Dynasty overturned.
Needless to say, how could this great man, who is quite praised in many aspects, hire a governess for his only son and heir, and choose a beautiful vase with a beautiful face and an empty head?
Knowing that what the Yaling Empire did might not be so unbearable, since everyone said so, Luo Zhengdao also said that he had no objections, and asked instead:
"Do you have the right place to start?"
Hearing this, Zola Hegel smiled, stretched out his hand to the anchorage of the port of Tartus, and said:
"Your Excellency, please see, those brigs moored on the right side are the family fleet of Harvey Boyle, the former Grand Admiral of the Bright Dynasty."
Luo Zhengdao looked at the boatswain in confusion and asked rhetorically:
"Didn't the human nobles all flee from the Lord 6?"
After following the old earl for a while, Vina Dubov knew more about this kind of inside information, and she took the initiative to take over the conversation and explain to Luo Zhengdao:
"I heard that Harvey, this bastard is not a hereditary nobleman, he has long taken refuge in those green skins, and is willing to act as a spy for them, when those green skins are cleaning the human nobles, the Boyle family can mix well!"
With a look of sudden realization, Luo Zhengdao nodded and said:
"Oh, I see, it turned out to be a personal traitor."
After listening to Luo Zhengdao's statement, the half-elf beauty was stunned for a moment, and then she laughed and trembled, and said:
"Rape? Will, you're using that word so aptly. ”
In this new world of multi-racial and multicultural mixture, advanced doctrines such as nationalism are far from being on the rise, and the contradictions and conflicts between different races are mostly based on disputes over practical interests. The wave of nationalism in the Old World was also accompanied by the Industrial Revolution, which eventually reached its peak in the twentieth century, and the two world wars between two decades were also inseparable from the surging tide of nationalism.
To say that Luo Zhengdao's novel contempt with obvious racist tendencies attracted the attention of the half-elf Vena, she was just trying to be fresh and interesting, and she couldn't understand the spiritual core.
"How big is the Boyle family's boats?"
Rather than discussing those metaphysical nihilistic topics, Boatswain Zola Hegel had a stronger enthusiasm for real money, and when he heard Luo Zhengdao's question, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, and he said:
"Of course, who doesn't know that the head of the big official's family is the richest, and if he eats the bastards of the upper family and the lower family, he will be even more unable to walk."
Murder and arson of gold belts, repair bridges and repair roads without corpses. The more inferior the character, the easier it is to succeed in social competition, so villains are a good survival strategy, the premise is not to get to the point of anger and resentment, otherwise it is a matter of course to die an ugly death.
Bullying honest people will inevitably make people unhappy, and Luo Zhengdao will not have a psychological burden on the best scum, so he immediately nodded and said:
"Okay, send someone to keep an eye on them, and look for an opportunity to attack as soon as the ship leaves the port."
Zola Hegel smiled professionally with confidence and a strong desire to fight, like a shark that smelled blood, his swarthy face set off his white teeth, and said with a smile:
"Hey, hey, hey, Captain, please rest assured, we are eating this bowl of rice, and there is no need to say what to do."
Black eating black is the only way for pirates to get rich, and the number of unlucky eggs who fall under the knife of their peers is probably a little bit more than the proportion of being wiped out by the army, so the ruthlessness of the black heart is the common value of the pirates.
Like Harvey Boyle, a man with a reputation for being a traitor, even pirates who rob homes and houses are deeply despised, and the best scum who eats inside and outside to help other races kill their own clan, and rests in a half-orc tribe that believes that milk is a mother, it is among the rather unpopular bastards, let alone other intelligent races. Having said that, villains always have a way to survive in line with their own identity, Harvey Boyle can reap a lot of benefits by selling the trick of seeking glory, and afterwards can avoid the potential danger of being unloaded and killed by the goblin Second Empire, regardless of character defects, this guy's survival wisdom is also worthy of recognition, and the great evil is not a role that the incompetent can do
"Dangdangdang......"
The bell was heard ringing in the distance, and the boatswain's smile grew brighter, and he pulled the cork that had plugged the communications brass from the aft deck command platform, and shouted:
"Your Excellency, Boyle's fleet has struck the bell."
was fiddling with the magic card in the captain's room, and when he heard a loud shout from the brass pipe, Luo Zhengdao also raised his voice and shouted:
"Okay, I'll be there shortly, and now the fleet is under your command."
"Yes, Your Excellency, Captain."
Shortly after the bell rang out, eight brigs of the same size and style sailed out of the port of Tartus, marching in parallel in two columns, with a hundred or so black muzzles pointing in unison towards the undisturbed Aetheric Sea.
In the face of such a fierce slaughter scene, those slightly smaller pirate groups will be discouraged, don't let the fox not fight and provoke a commotion!
These light and fast brigs can be roughly classified as armed merchant ships, and the comprehensive performance of such ships is still a little short of the standard of warships, not that the Boyle family can't afford to build warships, but it is really a last resort considering their own situation, and the status of human traitors in the Second Goblin Empire is more embarrassing, and they can only clamp their tails and be people.
Since the goblins became the new overlords of the main 6, a large number of human civilians who have been reduced to slavery certainly hate traitors like the Boyle family, and there are no shortage of goblin bosses who look at them unpleasantly in the upper echelons of the empire. In the streets and alleys of the imperial capital, it is often rumored that a certain bigwig openly proposed in the Senate that all human beings should be stuffed into concentration camps. It is conceivable that in the difficult days on the cusp of the storm, the Boyle family was sincerely afraid to rein in their edge, even if they had abundant financial resources, how could they dare to risk angering the goblin master to build their own or buy powerful warships? Isn't that self-defeating?
The risk of investment is directly proportional to the rate of return, and this also applies to buying and selling without capital, plundering is a business that requires careful calculation of the revenue ratio, and the kind of Pyrrhusian tragic victory is not much different from failure.
Ordinary pirates are engaged in a subsistence business, and they travel thousands of miles to adrift in the Aether Sea, seeking wealth rather than leisure. Pirates will not lightly attack the armed merchant ships in a group, and it will easily be a pyrrhic victory that outweighs the losses, but today they bumped into Luo Zhengdao, an outsider who eats raw rice, and the Boyle family fleet does not have to expect their backstage background and the armament of this fleet to bluff this group of wolf-like Xinke pirates.