240. Black History and Glorious History
For every Coronian, there are a few things that have been heard about calluses in their ears since they were young.
One of them is the history of the Coronne family's pioneering work in Coronnia.
Because of Coronia's compulsory education, it can be said that even the most lonely and unheard of people have heard this story countless times.
And when this story is mentioned, the other seven families have to be mentioned at the same time.
They were descendants of the other seven people who discovered the plane of Coronia with the royal family of Coronia.
All seven were subordinates of the ancestor of the Coron royal family who had used the Black Sail Battleship as part of his coat of arms, or rather his partners.
In the official history description of the Coron royal family, Wen Cheng was martial, heroic and wise, and liked to learn from Lei Feng to do good deeds, plus the ancestor who was not ignorant of gold, was actually just a concubine who was not valued by his father at the beginning. When he became an adult, he only got a clipper with black sails as his entire family property.
However, only three years later, this Coren completely changed his shotgun and replaced his sailboat with a fast void ship. The difference in value is so many times that everyone thinks that this Koren has either found a treasure left behind by an ancient navigator on a deserted island in the sea of the mother plane, or he is lucky to find an unknown shipwreck full of treasure.
But in fact, in the most secret documents of the Coron family, that is, those secret documents that only allow His Majesty the King and the legendary powerhouses who serve as guardians of the family to read, the true path of that ancestor is recorded.
That ancestor had found neither the ancient treasure nor the sunken treasure ship. The large fortune he used to purchase the Void Ship of unknown origin was obtained solely by relying on a successful black-eating operation.
In the maternal plane of that era, because the great development of industry and commerce and land annexation reached the extreme, the social contradictions were extremely intensified, and all kinds of riots, rebellions, uprisings and other large-scale violent activities occurred one after another, which also plunged the entire ancient empire into a very disorderly era.
It was then that the ancestors of the Cologne family invested their only assets in a very popular business at the time - piracy.
In the imperial inland seas, where trade is frequent, there are many islands, and the sea conditions are complicated, and countless pirates of all sizes have been active from ancient times to the present. In addition to the prosperity of the smuggling industry, the employment opportunities of a large number of mercenaries, and the sparring partners of generations of admirals, they are always like the steppe after the fire, and new faces have emerged one after another.
Two years after the ancient profession of piracy, a great revolt broke out in a city against the lords. The rebellious citizens, led by the stealthy careerist leader, defeated the lord's impoverished peasants and greedy mercenaries, and stoned the lord's family into the sea as a sign of their bloody battle against the Empire.
The military strength of the ancient empire was at a low point at that time, but it still had a crushing advantage over a city. After a thirty-month siege, the city was finally conquered, the citizens of the revolt were massacred, and the city was burned. The only escapees are the careerists and their accomplices who secretly dominate and drive all this to happen. At the end of the siege, the careerist also had a premonition of defeat and decided to flee the city.
But by that time, the Imperial army had already surrounded the city, and the only way out was by sea. Because of the perennial conquest, the Empire's naval ships were short of manpower, and the blockade and siege of the city could not be leaked.
The careerist's men found a pirate ship that was not afraid of death as a tool for escape.
On a stormy night, the Petty Tempest, the Swift Ship, stumbling through the naval blockade, came to the city's harbor, picked up its passengers with the city's wealth, and then threw itself into the furious sea again with great courage, disappearing without a trace.
At one point, the Empire tried to capture these rebels, but sadly, the Little Tempest never appeared again. Everyone believed that the ship sank that night because of the storm. The Empire has only routinely issued a wanted warrant. Wanted careerists and their accomplices, as well as the criminal pirate ship Little Tempest and several of its main leaders.
They are: Pirate Captain Blackbeard, First Officer Black Marsh, Second Officer Tigereye Stone, Navigator Shark Nasir, Spear Captain Felix the Flame, Stormtrooper Giant Hagrid Tiger, Quartermaster Ironclaw Hook, and Ship Medic Doolittle.
A year later, when the wanted notices were turned into a scribbling, tattered city psoriasis on the walls, the Tempest Night, a newest fast Void ship built by the Empire's most famous shipyard, welcomed its new owner.
They were Captain Azuyo Collen, First Officer Blake Pervas, Second Officer Sharon Stone, Navigator Nasir Wind Chimes, Chief of Gunners Philippe Akarin, Captain of Stormtroopers Hagrid Arambel, Quartermaster Jack Cook and Doctor Duric Arce.
If there were the old fur seals that roamed the waters of the empire, they should be able to easily recognize these eight guys, the eight leaders of the Little Tempest.
However, although the difference between pirates and void pirates is only two words, it is even more distant than the difference between a bullet and an atomic bomb.
Owning a Void Ship is not a pirate dream at all, and no pirate would do such a pipe dream. Because the various professionals needed on the ship alone are simply not what the pirates can find.
Therefore, where the Void Ship is made, there will be no pirates at all.
Azuyo Koren, the discoverer of what is now Coronia, the ancestor and founder of the Koren dynasty, helped him immensely.
On the maternal plane, the Coren family is a well-known old duke family. Thus, even if Azuyo was nothing more than an unloved concubine in an unappreciated branch, he could still buy the Void Ship through various connections, recruit experienced crews, and obtain lucrative commercial contracts.
This is also the reason why even the unappreciated concubine, Azuyo Koren, still has great respect and loyalty for the surname Koren.
In the void is also a lawless realm. Azuyo Koren bought a fast Void ship that approached the battleship. In addition to commercial activities, Azuyo and his friends are still unwilling to be lonely and engage in piracy.
Unfortunately, in the course of a robbery, they encountered a fast warship that suddenly appeared.
In terms of speed and combat effectiveness, the semi-commercial conversion of the Tempest Night could not match the fast battleship.
As a void pirate, once caught by the government forces of various countries, they will be executed without mercy.
After a long three-week chase and stop, Azuyo found himself in a position to shake off the Seeker behind him.
As a last resort, he and his companions had to launch a Void Jump, and it was a Void Jump with an undetermined target.
After jumping into the void, the Tempest Night was unfortunate enough to find itself in an unusually unfamiliar area. Although he threw off the fast ship (the undetermined Void Jump could not be tracked), he also put himself in an extremely dangerous situation.
All of the people aboard the Tempest Night are facing a crisis of running out of food and water.
In a strange void, the Tempest Night was unable to find any plane to dock with supplies. Even if Azuyo Koren immediately imposed the strictest material control on the entire warship, the living materials on board could only last for six months. Compared to the vast void, the difficulty of encountering a plane suitable for human survival in six months is no less difficult than looking for a needle in a haystack.
Four months after an aimless cruise, riots broke out aboard the Tempest Night. Tortured by utter despair and the hardships of everyday life, the crews of the ship, who had fallen into a frenzy, began to attack and kill each other. Some of the frenzied crew members even began to devour the flesh and blood of their comrades, as if they had degenerated into ferocious beasts.
Together with his companions, Azuyo organized the few remaining sane crews, and after many hard battles, finally eliminated the mad crews, but by this time, there were less than twenty living people in the entire Void Ship, and all the supplies were only enough to support them for a month.
At Azuyo's insistence and encouragement, the survivors decided to make a last-ditch attempt to make a rudderless voyage into the depths of the Void, facing life and death.
It was a voyage that was repeatedly mentioned in the teachings of Coronia. Of course, in the textbooks, it is the great and noble explorer Azuyo Koren who led his expedition and finally discovered Coronia after a lot of hardships.
But in fact, when Azuyo and his brothers found Coronia, they had been without food for five days and water for three days.
At the last moment, only Azuyo, as the captain of the ship, did not give up, insisting on searching the void in the bridge.
And it was his last persistence that saved all the survivors.
He found signs of a plane's existence.
With no choice, Azuyo Koren sailed the Tempest Night straight into the plane's barrier.
Then the whole ship was saved. When they entered the plane, it was raining heavily in the sky. All the people who were still alive didn't bother to think about the composition of the rain, and they ran to the shell of the Void Ship, and opened their mouths greedily towards the sky until they couldn't drink anymore.
At this time, there were only fifteen people left on the Stormy Night.
After the Void ship landed, they quickly killed a stupid beast with their shipboard weapons, and regained their vitality by filling their stomachs with its flesh and blood.
For the next three years, Azuyo and his companions had to settle down in Coronia, where they worked to repair the damage caused by the forced passage of the plane barrier and explore their surroundings.
They found it to be an extremely rich plane, the kind that all Void explorers would expect to discover, and once discovered, it could be an important asset.
In the course of three years, due to illness, beast attacks, and accidents, the weaker members of the team were unable to survive the invasion of this savage plane. In the end, only Azuyo and his seven old buddies survived.
As the first sapient beings to arrive on this plane (Azuyo themselves believe that there are actually underground gnomes living underground), they naturally have the original ownership of this plane.
As a token of gratitude to Azuyo Koren for saving everyone, they named the newly discovered plane Coronia, with the consent of all. And according to the proportion of each other's contributions at the time of the purchase of the Tempest Night, the benefits of Coronia were divided.
Captain Azuyo Koren, fifty percent.
First Mate Blake Pervas, 20 percent.
The remaining six old fellows, five percent each.
These people and their descendants were born in the end a king, a duke and six marquises. All the high nobles of the earliest kingdom of Coronia were included.