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- Plato (one of the greatest philosophers and thinkers of Western culture)

Nat, the god of merchant, is a legendary merchant who rose to prominence in the western Mediterranean fifteen years ago; In just three years, he went from an obscure small merchant to a wealthy family, like Hannibal in the mall!

It is said that Nat was originally just a wandering Greek, whose ancestors were a nobleman in the city-state of Messina; Later, after the fall of the city-state of Messina, the family began to live a wandering life throughout the western Mediterranean.

Of course, this is only a more general statement, and those who know it know it; The Greek nobles who were unwilling to submit to foreign rule almost all became part of the Sicilian pirates, and the so-called wandering life was just their last fig leaf.

In fact, Nat himself was born at sea; At the time, his father was the captain of the pirate ship and the patriarch of the Nat family. On the day of Nat's birth, his father was robbing a merchant ship of the Kingdom of Carthage.

No one thought that the merchant ship would be a decoy released by the navy of the Kingdom of Carthage, and the merchant ship was not the so-called merchants and goods at all, but all heavily armed Carthaginian warriors; In the distance, more Carthaginian warships are still coming!

The pirates in a desperate situation had to choose to resist stubbornly, you know, at that time, after the Carthaginian kingdom caught the pirates, they would not hesitate to execute all of them; In order to survive, the pirates had to carry it to the end!

It turns out that the loose and selfish pirates were no match for the navy of the Kingdom of Carthage; Under the blows of the Carthaginian soldiers on this merchant ship alone, the pirates could not hold out, and even the pirate ship was almost taken by the enemy.

The battle, from beginning to end, was a one-sided battle, and the retreating pirates could not even organize effective resistance; In such a situation, Nat's father resolutely handed Natt over to one of his henchmen, and let him escape with Natt in the only lifeboat on the ship.

Miracles can be called miracles because they cannot happen often; It is clear that a miracle did not happen to these pirates. In the end, the battle was won by the navy of the Kingdom of Carthage; As the losers, all but those who died in battle were hanged outside the city of Carthage.

Needless to say, among those hanged was Nat's father, the captain of the pirate ship. Thankfully, Nat was taken away from sea by the warrior who was loyal to the captain; They went with the flow until they reached the east coast of the Kingdom of Spain.

Once on the land of the Kingdom of Spain, the warrior sought a secluded village and began to live incognito with Nath; This small village also became the place where Nat lived until he was ten years old.

In fact, Nath's father chose the warrior only because of his loyalty in the past; However, the warrior also has a pretty good ability, and that is the talent for business.

After entering this small coastal village in the Kingdom of Spain, the warrior began his business career in order to survive and take better care of Nat. In ten years, he earned quite a good fortune and became a squire of status in the local area.

For ten years, the warrior did not think about his own aftermath at all, he did not marry a wife, have children, and did not do anything else; In addition to making money in business, he carefully taught Nat and wanted to make Nat better.

It's a pity that Nat was not as temperamental as he was when he was a child; Nat, who is a teenager, is just a naughty and naughty child. Like other village children, he is mischievous every day and does stupid things that make people laugh and cry.

Such a Nat, although normal, made the warrior who regarded him as his own very helpless; He felt that the captain's son would have to become a figure who stood up to the sky in the future, how could he just be in the countryside?

So, for the sake of Nat's education, the warrior sold all his possessions in the area; He took all the gold he had earned and Nath to Asturiga, the capital of the Kingdom of Spain, where he wanted to give her a higher education.

This loyal warrior, his ideas are good, but the reality is cruel; His own business talent allowed him to earn a lot of gold in Asturiga, and his favorable living conditions made him a gentleman.

Even in Asturiga, Nat still went his own way and laughed with others all day long, never studying seriously, let alone becoming reformed.

This life continued for another four years, and at last after a time of Nat's drinking, the warrior who hated iron but not steel broke out; He dragged Nat into his study and beat him so violently that it was the first time in his life that he had beaten and scolded Nat with his own hands.

After the beating and scolding, he did not hesitate to tell Nat all about his true life experience, and bluntly warned Nat that if he did not make any progress in his studies, he would be kicked out of the house!

In Nat's view, everything that happened that night was nothing more than his father scaring him, and he was not afraid of it; Because he knew that his father loved him, and there was no way he could really kick him out of the house.

Nat, who continued to do nonsense outside, soon reaped the consequences, for he was literally expelled from the house; Looking at the closed door and a gold coin thrown at the gate, Nat had no choice but to rely on himself.

In fact, Nat himself is quite capable of doing so; Coupled with the fact that he made some close friends during his four years in Asturica, he survived without the support of his family.

It's just that if he survived like this, he is completely different worlds from the freshly dressed angry Marco before; At this time, Nat also believed in his father's true background that he had told him, and he also understood the family hatred he was carrying.

However, Nat is not a person who likes to fight and kill; Probably because of the atmosphere of life, Nat's life ideal is more about wanting to be a successful businessman, rather than a warrior who avenges his biological parents.

After three years of wandering around Asturiga, Nath's life is getting worse and worse than before; At first, Nat's friends thought that Nat had just been kicked out of the house by his father in a fit of rage, and that he would have to go home sooner or later. Therefore, they did not have any rejection of Nath, but often helped Nat from time to time.

Later, things turned around; That is, Nath's father actually married a new wife in Asturiga and gave birth to a son! In this way, Nat's status plummeted in an instant; The people who had been helping Nat also left Nat one after another, and some even began to ask Nat for loans.

This change completely changed Nat's life; In order to avoid debts and survive, Nat had to quietly leave Asturiga and look for new opportunities in the outside world.

It never occurred to Nat that all this was deliberately arranged by his adoptive father; Even the so-called newlywed wife is just a disguise, and the child is even more of a fictitious thing. All of this was figured out by his adoptive father in order to hone Nat; Even the person who asked for the loan was specially arranged by his adoptive father!

Nat, who was ignorant of all this, could only leave Asturiga, and even more so his adoptive father, with resentment and unwillingness, and start a new life of his own; That year, Nat was seventeen years old.

Seventeen-year-old Nat has an overly ordinary talent for business; It is a miracle that he started by borrowing usury and then engaged in the wine reselling trade, and that he had accumulated a fortune of tens of thousands of gold coins in just three years!

However, Nat was only twenty years old; At such an age and with such ability, these are enough to make Nat once again among the wealthy businessmen in the local area, and he has also become the object of competition among the local nobles and wealthy merchants.

The young and promising Nat will naturally have a proud heart; In order to better express himself and earn more gold, Nat decided to buy a merchant ship for himself, then go to Sardinia with a full load of goods, and return to Spain with a shipload of wine.

Such a heroic decision made Nat a local figure for a while; You know, there are many merchants who can do business, and there are many people who are engaged in maritime trade, but there are really few people who can actually own their own merchant ships.

The young Nat has surpassed most of the local merchants in this respect; In order to make a greater profit at once, Nat not only invested all his family property, but also raised 30,000 gold coins from local merchants.

In this way, Nat took his merchant ship, loaded with a whole shipload of goods worth more than 30,000 gold coins, and went to sea; Unfortunately, God played a big joke with Nat this time, and only three days after going to sea, Nat encountered a storm at sea.

In a storm at sea, a merchant ship laden with cargo quickly sank; Nat himself carried a plank in his arms, and after several days at sea, he was rescued by other merchant ships returning to the port.

When Nat returned to the port, he was not confronted with friends who were cold and warm, nor with the aristocratic rich merchant lady who chased him in the past, but with angry merchants who begged for loans; At this moment, Nat really has nothing.

It was at this time that Nat's adoptive father appeared; Not only did he immediately repay Nat's debt of 30,000 gold coins, but he also told everyone on the spot that Nat was the only heir to his 100,000 fortune!

The fact that Nat was able to make a splash in the space of three years proves that he has a very smart brain; At this time, Nat finally understood his adoptive father's good intentions. After holding his adoptive father and crying bitterly, Nat also began his legendary career as a business god! (To be continued.) )