When we were about to enter the waters of the Golden Isles, we unexpectedly met Vanney, and even more unexpectedly, we also met Leonard, one of the pirate leaders of the Golden Isles, on the ship, and the most shocking thing was that Leonard brought us the news that the Golden Isles had changed dramatically.

Previously, through the summary of various news, I have a relatively clear understanding of the strength structure of the Golden Islands. Several large pirate groups led by Arthur's pirate group basically occupy the pinnacle of power in the entire Golden Islands, and they naturally divide up most of the resources and interests, because they have more guns and stronger and stronger strength, so there are almost no other pirate groups in the Golden Islands that can shake their position, and those large pirate groups are also tacitly aware of each other, maintaining a good relationship atmosphere with each other as much as possible, and trying their best to avoid any conflict and friction.

The last annual pirate ranking contest was a rare accident, with the second place going for the first place and the third place going for the second place, only to kill the second place leader. However, after that accident, most people in the archipelago believe that the power structure of the Golden Isles has been reshuffled, and with the death of Bren, his power has also collapsed, and Leonard has secured the second place in the archipelago, which will remain for at least a few years.

But what I didn't expect was that not long ago, Leonard suddenly announced that his group had merged with the new third-ranked pirate group, and also absorbed some of the old members of the Bren group, so that this new pirate group surpassed Arthur's pirate group in terms of numbers and weapons, and first of all, the title of the largest pirate group in the Golden Islands changed hands.

Immediately afterwards, the three pirate groups that were originally ranked sixth, eighth, and ninth also suddenly announced that they would hand over the voting rights of the island council in their hands to Leonard, so that Leonard also held more votes than Arthur, and theoretically speaking, Leonard should become the new head of the Golden Islands council.

This series of changes caught Arthur a little off guard, he actually knew that Leonard was always wary of himself and was suspicious and dissatisfied, so in the last qualifying competition, he helped Leonard get rid of Bren, originally thought that he had sent such a big favor to Leonard, Leonard should be grateful to himself, but he didn't expect Leonard to secretly make so many names. Arthur didn't expect that the four pirate groups ranked third, sixth, eighth, and ninth actually fell to Leonard, although I don't know what means he used or promised what irresistible conditions, but just with this series of operations, this young man who is dozens of years younger than himself has to be awe-inspiring when he thinks about it.

However, although Leonard's series of operations caught Arthur off guard, it was not so simple to sit in the position of the head of the Sea Island Council.

According to the so-called Golden Islands Code, the head of the Golden Islands Council is elected every four years, and each time a person with a majority of the votes is elected, if anyone wants to challenge the position of the leader during these four years, a no-confidence process must be initiated, and in order to start this no-confidence process, more than half of the top ten pirate groups must vote for it. If the no-confidence voting process is successfully initiated and the final vote of no confidence reaches more than half of the votes, the parliament can remove the leader and thus hold a new election.

According to the current situation, Leonard merged the third-ranked group, and got the support of the sixth, eighth, and ninth groups, which is nearly half of the number, but the parliament of the Golden Islands is not a one-person-one-vote system, so if in terms of votes, he will have to at least win over any of the three new third, fourth or fifth groups before he can initiate a no-confidence voting process.

Therefore, it is still quite difficult for Leonard to sit on the throne of the head of the council from the normal process. Of course, these are all things stipulated by the so-called archipelago code, and as a pirate, there is naturally a simpler and cruder way, which is to fight. As long as Leonard succeeds in fighting Arthur, what votes or not, and the majority is less than half, it is just a process, but this choice will also bring a lot of unexpected situations, and once someone does it first, then there may be a second one in the future, in which case, the position of the head of the council will become a time bomb.

After listening to Leonard's tirade introduction, our minds were in a mess, a loose council of pirates actually had so many doorways in it, and it seemed to be calm but in fact magnificent.

But what does Leonard have to do with all this? We're not pirates, we don't have the right to vote, and even if Leonard wants to trade with us, he'll have to wait until he's the head of the council first, right?

I said to him, "I didn't expect so many stories to happen in the Golden Islands after leaving for a while, and to be honest, I have a special admiration for you now, but these don't seem to have any direct connection with our trade dealings, right?" ”

Leonard said: "It doesn't seem to matter, but it's actually related. Nowadays, the life of pirates is getting more and more difficult, the equipment of merchant ships is becoming more and more advanced, and it is more and more difficult for us to rob, and because of the reputation of the Golden Islands, more and more merchant ships would rather take a detour than go to this sea area, and the survival problem of pirates will gradually become prominent. Those groups that are still wavering are actually more interested in who can lead the Golden Islands to see the future. ”

Leonard's words make a lot of sense, but the same question, what does it have to do with us? The pirates are having a hard time, so don't they have even less money to buy rum?

I was puzzled and asked, "Then what are you going to do?" Even if I agree to trade with you, it will still be difficult to rob what should be difficult to rob. ”

"I naturally have my own plans for this, but for now I need you to agree to my conditions."

Leonard has reservations about me, and I can't have anything to do with him, especially since he also got together with that profiteer from Fanny, so I have to be a little more careful, I said to him: "Today's events are too sudden, I need to think about it, to be honest, I don't really want to get involved in the power struggle between you pirates, so let's give me a few days to think about it, and when I get to the Golden Islands, I'll treat it as if today's incident didn't happen, how about it?" ”

"Yes", Leonard nodded and said, "I can give you time to think about it, but I can only give you three days at most to think about it, and after three days we will either be friends or enemies." ”

Once agreed, Leonard came to the deck, whistling at the ship in the distance, and Fanny's merchant ship approached again. After returning to Vanney's ship, Leonard said to us: "I hope to see the day when we join forces." Van Nistelrooy, who was standing next to him, shook his glass at us, as if we were already in the same boat.

Sending Leonard away, we immediately had a meeting to discuss, although Leonard's final threat sounded very uncomfortable, but he is now an ambitious pirate leader, we can't deal with him, we have to think about whether this business with pirates can continue.