Chapter 345: Pirate Nationhood
Five days later. The turmoil within the Shadow Island Organization caused by the destruction of the three major pirate groups has been largely quelled, and the Council has convened a number of emergency meetings to discuss the organization's next steps.
The tone of the truce with the Sea Clan was first set, and the hidden strength of the Sea Clan was revealed as soon as the three pirate groups were destroyed, which made the pirates who had been thankless for a month and a half have no support for the war.
Pirates don't like to fight wars in the first place, they are better at looting fleets, harassing coastal towns and ports, and even collecting protection money. Pirates who have always fought with high flexibility at sea and have been fighting in the dark and in the dark have been extremely aggrieved when fighting with the Sea Clan, but because the Sea Clan is more flexible and has become the enemy and the enemy.
It was already difficult to fight, and suddenly found that the Sea Clan was not as easy to pick up as expected, and the pirates began to unanimously oppose the war with the Sea Clan. In the eyes of the pirates below, Yorick was originally an anti-war speaker, so he naturally made a decision that conformed to the will of the people.
At that time, although the benefits of fighting the Sea Clan were proposed by Yorick, the decision was made by the three Speakers. At that time, due to the lack of prestige and Yorick's own deliberate disconnection from the decision to go to war, the other pirates except for the parliamentarians present at the meeting had always seen Yorick's anti-war face.
Yorick, who caters to popular tastes and has the support of more than half of the members of the Shadow Isle Council, has become the only supreme power in the Shadowland Order. In order to consolidate Yorick's position, Yu Fei even personally helped Yorick control the most prestigious veteran members of the parliament.
Under the control of the council, all the pirate fleets left the eastern theater east of the Shadow Island, which was regarded as a direct abandonment of the large area of sea where the sea tribe was most frequented. Anyway, it's far away from the Eslaze continent. The main area where the pirates did their "business" was not there.
Inside the Shadow Isle Order. The current mainstream opinion is to leave the Sea Clan alone. Let's talk about it when the interior settles down. Of course, this is also a manifestation of the influence of our great Speaker Yorick's principle of "before you go outside, you must first secure your interior" - Yu Fei uses all means to focus on consolidating and elevating Yorick's position.
The fall of the three pirates means that the power structure of the Shadow Island organization has been greatly disorganized. The remaining Speaker Yorick has used the prestige cultivated in the past two months and the support of the majority of the parliamentarians to temporarily enforce the dictatorial rule in special times and special means.
Although a small number of MPs were dissatisfied with the rule of Yorick, who had just been in office for a short time, this opposition was quickly worn out in the face of the general trend. The part of the pirates that is most difficult to identify with Yorick's status has actually been cleaned up by the Sea Clan under Yorick's internal and external cooperation.
And so, for the month that followed, when Yorick was in power. The Shadow Island organization gradually stabilized. Most of the pirates are back on track and are back in business. Some of the large pirates who had been completely controlled by Yorick in the shadows remained around the Shadow Island in the name of guarding against the Sea Clan's counterattack.
One month in power has greatly increased Yorick's prestige, and the vast majority of pirates consider Yorick to be a very good decision-maker. Especially in the eyes of the middle and lower class pirates, Yorick is simply the great savior who rescued them from the maelstrom of fighting the Sea Clan.
Just as Yorick's popularity was growing, under the covert operation, a voice was getting louder and louder in the Council of Shadow Isle. Some members of the council pointed out that although they lost the battle with the Sea Clan, the previous proposal for a pirate statehood was a very good note.
Now that the Shadow Isle organization has reached a turning point, it must change its way of existence in order to better survive the changes. Founding. It's a very good choice. This is the argument of those parliamentarians who have put forward the proposal to continue the statehood.
It's weird, this argument has just been raised. It was supported by several veteran members of the parliament, and it was quickly recognized by the majority of parliamentarians, and the news was passed on to the following. In the middle, Yu Fei's mental power control is naturally indispensable.
When the news reached below, most of the pirates reacted with a moment of shock and then excitement. Before the battle against the Sea Clan, the proposal for the establishment of a pirate state was only known to a few people in the Parliament, and it was the first time that the pirates in the middle and lower classes had heard of this bill.
For the average pirate, pirate statehood is a very exciting proposal. No one is born willing to be a pirate, and even the capable pirates at the top have a bright identity on the coast. Owning a country that belongs to a pirate is a dream for ordinary pirates.
Founding! Support the statehood! For a long time, the call for the establishment of a country belonging to the pirates became louder and louder in the Shadow Island organization, forming a wave.
After five days of deliberation and soliciting opinions, the Shadow Island Organization unanimously decided on the idea of a pirate statehood. It's time for the Shadowbolt Organization to change its structure!
As for the new organizational structure, it was decided after some discussions.
Because the members of the Shadow Isle organization are all pirates or their families, the structure of the state is generally highly centralized, and the parliament finally decides to form a federal state similar to the United Kingdom of Candela.
Of course, a federal state also needs a king. As the only remaining Speaker and Pirate King, Yorick is naturally the most desirable and desirable king. Under the King, the Council of the Shadow Isle was retained, but split into two parts.
After the establishment of the Pirates, the Council of the Shadow Island will be divided into the Federal Assembly and the People's Assembly, which can also be said to be the House of Lords and the House of Commons. Most of the members of the Federal Assembly are members of the original Shadow Island Council, representing various large pirate groups and states after the establishment of the state.
The newly emerged People's Assembly is composed of representatives of the people elected by middle- and lower-class pirates, pirate rangers, and adventurers in the sea, and exercises some power.
The King, the Federal Parliament, and the Popular Assembly were the power structures of the pirate states after the establishment of the pirates. The specific distribution of power is still being discussed.
As for the way the state is managed, it is embodied in the word "federal". The Shadow Island Organization is not a tight-knit organization in the first place, and even if it were a pirate state, it would not be easy to manage it centrally - the vastness of the sea and the scarcity of islands also made it impossible for a new country to manage it as well as on land.
According to the original division of power, the sea area covered by the Shadow Island Organization was divided into thirty-four states, each of which was composed of a considerable number of small and medium-sized pirate groups and one large pirate group. In dividing the islands, balance was also taken into account as much as possible, and the territory and power of the 34 states were placed on the same level.
Unlike the imitation of the Candela Commercial United Kingdom, the pirates were prepared to establish a more vague hierarchy of states, not even an aristocratic class. This is because most of the pirates became pirates because they were oppressed or even framed by the nobility, so after Yorik carefully considered and considered everyone's opinions, there was no aristocratic class.
The actual reason is that the existence of the aristocratic class will reduce the king's dominance, which is not what Yu Fei wants to see. What he needs is a country where Yorick can say his word, at least militarily.
In addition to the changes in power and management, the biggest change is that pirates no longer practice looting. To be honest, not many people will be willing to live a life of licking blood with knives, and there are not a few pirates who are killed every year by the regular army of coastal countries and even caravan guards.
After the establishment of the state of pirates, if the ordinary pirates did not want to join the army, they would be assigned to the states and some areas along the coast occupied by the pirates to become the kingdom of the people, living materials and other things to solve the problem.
As for the economic source of the kingdom, it is natural to collect protection money. Pirates who do not want to return to the land will be incorporated into the kingdom. In the army, it has become a tool to protect the kingdom and "suck blood" from other human nations. (To be continued......)