Chapter 530: The Fortune Fleet (Page 1/1)

Wilson led his own expedition to Timbuktu, the golden city of West Africa, and brought back nearly 100,000 pounds of gold.

Such a large amount is almost equivalent to the annual income of the royal family, and now it is higher than the fiscal income of the Irish region.

Such a huge income caused the whole London area to shake, and then to the whole United Kingdom, and it was no longer the newly formed cabinet that people talked about, but Wilson and a group of gold seekers.

Yes, the Gold Seekers are the ones they have been called, the ones who have surprised the whole United Kingdom.

The huge amount of gold made Edward unable to sit still, and hurriedly met with this group of gold seekers.

These huge quantities of gold cannot flow into the market because it will cause inflation in the United Kingdom and will also increase the opportunity for private coinage.

In this way, His Majesty the King directly bought all the gold in their hands for 100,000 pounds sterling, thus ensuring the economic security of the United Kingdom.

Of course, as we all know, gold is too soft, and gold coins need to be minted with some other metals to be synthesized before they can be used in the market.

This becomes the income of the coinage.

Generally speaking, the return ratio is around 6 to 12 percent, depending on the conscience of the competition.

The acquisition, even at a minimum of six percent, yielded six thousand pounds, and it was received on the sitting.

Of course, money and gold are such things as being loved by all, and the king is no exception.

The consumption of thousands of guards every year is also very great.

The larger head belongs to the part of the court reward.

If people have made meritorious contributions, they must always be rewarded; For your contribution to the country, you must always be rewarded. Rewarding soldiers fighting on the front line also requires a lot of money.

Moreover, the allowances for the central ministers and members of the Supreme United Parliament are also directly paid by the royal family, and as prices increase, the amount will naturally rise.

Of course, these are all reasons, but the main one is that the king loves money, and never thinks that there is no shortage of money.

And these crimes are all prevarications for upcoming crimes.

The young king stood on the windowsill and looked at the wide river in the distance, his eyes serious and serious:

"It seems that the moral culture of my modern people has gradually been lost, and now I only have money in my eyes!"

Immediately, his lips curled slightly:

"Morality, in the sixteenth century, in front of a nation, has always been a floating cloud!"

"Especially from the point of view of the victors, all this is nothing more than the primitive accumulation of capitalism, it is predestined! It's hard not to do it! ”

"In the history textbooks in the future, what will I appear as? The Forger of the British Empire? Lolicon King? Or the dirty kings of capitalism! ”

In his eyes, his expression kept flowing, and he looked very proud.

"Interesting, I'm really looking forward to it!"

While he was contemplating, a huge fleet of ships rode the wind and waves, crossed the Thames, sailed into the vast Atlantic Ocean, and headed for the vast African continent.

The reason why we say that the fleet is huge, first of all, is that its size, in terms of the scale of civil organizations, with the exception of the Royal Navy, is unprecedented in the history of the United Kingdom.

No other civil society can organize such a huge tonnage.

It consisted of thirty-six armed merchant ships, about 400 and 600 tons in size, and from a distance, it was mighty, and the guns on the ships were cold and merciless, and black, like ancient beasts, which could open their mouths wide at any moment and wait for people to devour.

There were more than 3,000 sailors and soldiers on board, and all of them were armed with muskets and beautifully dressed.

On the deck, the sailors didn't care, and most of the loaded troops vomited up and down one by one, guarding the deck, holding on tightly, their mouths facing the sea, vomiting food in their stomachs.

And below them, a school of large and small sea fish, jumping from wave to wave, following the movement of merchant ships, just to cherish this rare food area.

"Vomit" on the ship less than half a day, Robert, who has vomited three times, at this time has no vigor when he first got on the ship, no young vitality, like an old man in his sixties, loose, his face is desperate and decadent, and he wants to die.

"Hey! Robert, how's it going? Still adapting? Robert felt footsteps sound around him, and then a slapping sound sounded, making him want to raise his fist and beat him hard.

"My Mr. Michael, please stop torturing me, don't you know that your best friend is desperate at this time?"

Robert didn't bother to raise his head, and said helplessly to the familiar voice owner.

When Michael heard this, the smile on his face deepened, and he showed his yellowed teeth, and said softly:

"Before you got on board, you were smug and boasted everywhere, 'I'm the one who wants to get a lot of gold, so let's wait for me to come back and get rich!' But. It's only been a few hours and you're a sick cat? ”

His friend Michael didn't care about his feelings at all, but put it in his ear and said proudly, so angry that Robert was about to grit his front teeth.

"Well, if I knew it would be so uncomfortable to take a boat, I would ......"

"What am I just about? Not involved in the mission to the Golden City anymore? Michael said with a smirk.

"How is it possible, for the sake of gold, these are nothing, and you know, in order to get this place, I have bribed five pounds! And how can it be wasted? ”

Saying this, Robert raised his head, looked ahead, and said firmly, but after a while, he couldn't help it again and began to vomit.

And on the flagship of the fleet, a six-hundred-ton armed merchant ship, the commander-in-chief Elvis Knight, is observing the sea with Mr. Wilson, the leader of the fleet at this moment, who made a fortune because of the Golden City a while ago.

"Mr. Wilson, I wonder if the City of Gold has more troops? How much gold can you have? ”

"There are definitely not many specific troops, but you need to pay attention to the fact that the tonnage of the fleet is too large, and I am afraid that I can only follow behind the ships of small tonnage and move slowly!"

Wilson stomped his feet and sighed at the luxurious ship, but because the White Nile was too small and the ship was too big, there were good and bad.

"It's okay, then let's grab it all the way, although most of my command are militiamen, I can still crush those heretics one by one and plunder the cities on both sides of the river!"

"In this way, our trip will have greater value, and everyone can make a fortune!"

At the end, Elvis Knight and Wilson burst out laughing in unison.

This time, they are here to make a fortune, and morality or anything has nothing to do with them.

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