Chapter 248: Sambarwood

Federer Sambawood felt that he was lucky, he was only a silver one-star garrison captain at the beginning of the Imperial Civil War, then he was engulfed by the rebels of the Great Prince, and became a cannon fodder squadron leader at the forefront of the battle, and was soon abandoned by his wounds in a battle, and when he woke up to find corpses and crows rising and falling everywhere.

It was then that he was shocked to find the body of Master Ganmuk lying on the ground not far from him. You must know that Lord Ganmuk was the most famous golden knight in the city when he was the captain of the garrison, and it is said that he is about to be promoted to three golden stars, and every time he enters and leaves the city gate, Sambarwood has to salute him respectfully, but he disdains Sambarwood. I didn't expect to die in this battle, which is so shocking.

Sambarwood dragged himself to the corpse of Master Ganmuk by dragging his wounded thigh, only to find that a crossbow arrow that was not very straight and rough had pierced Master Ganmuk's neck. Sambawood was stunned at the time, he didn't expect that the famous Golden Knight was hit by a stray arrow before he could show his skills on the battlefield, thinking that Lord Ganmuk must be dead, he would die so obscurely, even Sambarwood couldn't compare, at least Sambarwood also cut two enemies before he was injured......

Sighing for a while, Sambawood originally wanted to dig a pit for Lord Ganmuk in the love of his fellow villagers, so as not to be used as food by crows and wild dogs, but when he cleaned up, he found that Master Ganmuk was simply a treasure trove of personal types, needless to say, the good fine iron full-body armor on his body, the arrow in the neck, the whole body armor was intact, Sambawood had to sigh that this character is going to be bad, what kind of way will it take for the stray arrow to hit the only unprotected weakness in the body......

A large bag of gold coins from the head of the old man of the Empire, as many as three or four hundred, and a lot of exquisite jewelry and gems, and even a gold bracelet with blood stains on it, it seems that the town he occupied two days ago made a lot of windfalls. It's just that Sambawood couldn't understand why Lord Ganmuk had brought so many things with him, and wasn't it too cumbersome on the battlefield?

What made Sambarwood happiest was that he had found a high-level Dou Qi cheats in a leather bag that Master Ganmuk was carrying, and it was the same metallic Dou Qi as him. After opening this secret book called Quenching Gold Fighting Qi, Sambawood found that the ancestor of Lord Ganmuk had once produced a great swordsman, but his ambition was unrewarded, and unfortunately he died in battle when the empire attacked the Fort Business Alliance a hundred years ago.

This great swordsman wrote his own experience and insights on this book of quenching gold fighting qi secrets left to his family, so that future generations can avoid detours when cultivating. It's a pity that his descendants don't have the same fighting attributes as him, and finally came up with a Ganmuk, but because of greed for money and lust, he didn't cultivate to the golden two-star until he was in his fifties.

Sambarwood was so sure that he decided to become a deserter. He found two horses whose masters had died in battle and were wandering around, and he skinned Master Ganmuk like a newborn baby, piled everything on his horse, and left.

As the leader of the cannon fodder squadron, Sambawood also knows some information about the war, and he is also smart and will not run home stupidly, so it will not be long before he will be drawn into the battlefield. He took two horses and ran to the sea, and then built a small hut on a barren mountain near the Sad Heart Ocean, usually hunting, or running for half a day to buy some food in a town outside, and after coming back, he worked hard to cultivate the Quenching Gold Fighting Qi. In troubled times, having a good skill is the foundation of survival.

Sambarwood sometimes feels like he is the protagonist of those knightly legends, and the adventures are there, and the encounters are soon there. Three years later, at the age of twenty-seven, Sambawood was finally promoted to three silver stars on his birthday, and he decided to go buy some wine and come back to celebrate, only to find a beautiful woman on the side of the road who was unconscious due to his injuries.

Just like depicted in the novel, the beautiful woman who wakes up has a family feud in the sea of blood. It turned out that in the middle of the hills, two days from Sambarwood's dwelling, there was a den of robbers. It's just that the correct name of the robbers in this bandits' den should be pirates, and the place where they block the road and rob is at sea, but they rarely patronize the interior, so Sambarwood doesn't know that he is neighboring with pirates.

The beauty is the single daughter of the original boss of the pirates, and the reason why she is called the original boss is because of the uneven distribution of the spoils, and the father of the beautiful woman was cut down by the second and third children. The third even wanted to surrender himself to be the cheap son-in-law of the dead ghost boss, but fortunately, the dead ghost boss also gathered a group of loyal subordinates, and plotted against the third child when the beauty was about to be forced by the overlord on the night of the candle night in the cave room, and then there was a big fight, the beauty was injured and was hunted down, and she fled with her head covered in a panic, and finally couldn't support the coma and was picked up by Sambawood.

For the sake of the beautiful Sambarwood, he drew his sword and took the beauty on the road of revenge. In fact, he heard that the pirates are only four silver, the boss of the dead ghost is two stars of silver, the second and third and a beautiful woman named Uncle Thorin are all one star of silver, that is, Uncle Thorin led someone to plot against the third child, and now the enemy is left with a second one star of silver, and if he does not seize such an opportunity, Sambarwood will not be a smart person.

Everything went very well, and Sambawood soon knocked the second pirate to the ground, allowing the beauty to take revenge. The rest of the pirates bowed their heads, and with the assistance of Uncle Torrin, they reintegrated the Pirate Water Village, and Sambawood became the pirate boss, and the beauty became his wife.

Ten years have passed in a blink of an eye, and Sambawood has two sons and a daughter, and he has a happy life, but he is a little unhappy in his career.

As the boss of the pirates, Sambarwood knows that the early bird gets the worm and the early bird gets the worm. Therefore, he was very cautious about the cause of robbery at sea. Even if the dispatch is aimed at those smuggled cargo ships or lone merchant ships, they never do anything to the sea ships of those big chambers of commerce and nobles, and they never make a fortune in secret.

In the past ten years, the Pirate Water Village has developed rapidly, becoming more and more like a normal fishing village, with a population of more than 1,000. Sambarwood did not focus on robbery, he recruited displaced people to cultivate and graze on the hilly wasteland, so that the pirates no longer had to buy food from the outside world, and arranged for the old and weak women and children to collect firewood, boil the sea and burn salt, and even organized a convoy of merchants, exchanging the surplus sea salt and looted goods for the supplies urgently needed by the fishing village. Usually go to sea to make a fortune when you have the opportunity, and if you don't have the opportunity, you honestly fish to support your family, and you live a very leisurely life.

However, Sambarwood is very sober, and he knows that legally speaking, even if this pirate water village develops into a normal fishing village, it can only be regarded as a black household. Now when the army is in chaos outside, it is relatively peaceful, and once the situation is stable, whether it is the lord or the regular army, they have the power and responsibility to come and conquer. At that time, all these scenes that are too peaceful in front of us will be turned into blood, fire, and ashes.

And the location of this pirate water village is not very hidden, there are many people who know outside, and the terrain is not dangerous, but it is close to the sea, one is remote, the other is hilly, the road is difficult to travel, the lord of the belongings is too lazy to turn his eyes here, anyway, the pirates do not rob the villages in his territory.

The hill is on the map part of the domain of Count Sherlech, who was originally a corps commander in the former Empire, but led his troops in the civil war to establish the Duchy of Rum with the Grand Duke of Rum, so he was promoted from baron to count and awarded the domain.

The county of Shereh had three villages and one town, but all were concentrated in the south, and in the north were hills and barren hills, forests and tidal flats. Sambarwood had approached the Earl of Shereh two years earlier, hoping to be recognized by the lord and legalize the fishing village, and for that he was willing to become a knight of the count's lord and pay a large amount of taxes.

It is a pity that this Count Shereh held an important position in the Duchy of Rum and was not in the territory at all. Sambarwood's letter fell into the hands of the Governor, who was in charge of the administration of the realm. This master doesn't care about Sambarwood's status as a pirate, and he doesn't care if he is a silver three-star star, his master is a golden knight, and a silver-rank pirate is not a big deal......

The Lord Steward was concerned about how much income he could increase for the Earl, but for Sambarwood, a tax of up to 65 percent was unaffordable, and what was even more unacceptable was that the Lord Steward would send people to the fishing village so that it would be easier to count everyone's income so that they could collect the tax.

Sambarwood's bottom line was 50 percent, and the fishing village paid it himself, but the steward refused, and threatened to let the earl send troops to levy it. Sambarwood countered, saying that if the Earl sent troops, he would break it into pieces, and take his men to deal with the Earl in this hill to see how much the Earl was willing to pay to exterminate them. As long as they are around, they will attack the village in the future, and it is still possible to turn the county into ruins.

The two sides are so deadlocked, they can only acquiesce to each other's abilities. The steward turned a blind eye to the caravan sent by the fishing village, and gave them the convenience of walking through the streets and alleys into the village and town to do business. And Sambawood threw peaches and gave plums, and every New Year's holiday, he would give a heavy gift to the chief steward and the lord Count Sherreh, and the two sides were temporarily in peace.

Things finally took a turn for the better two months ago, when Sambarwood was promoted to a Golden Star, and Earl Shereh, who was far away in the capital of the Duchy of Rum, heard the news and wrote a letter to Sambarwood. In the letter, the Earl promised him that he would be willing to recruit Sambarwood as a knight of his family, and that the fishing village would be given to Sambarwood as the seat of his Golden Knight's manor castle. Of course, this manor castle had to be built by Sunbarwood himself, and the Earl said frankly that he had no money to help Sunbarwood build the manor castle.

There are still benefits, becoming the golden knight of the Sheraikh family, the people of the fishing village will become the people of the castle of Sambawood Manor, and they will only have to pay thirty percent of the tax in the future. However, Count Sherray demanded that Sambawood must go to the capital and do his bidding. As long as Sambarwood goes to the national capital, the Earl will hold a ceremony to recruit family knights as soon as possible, announcing Sambarwood's knighthood.

For Count Sherraikh, recruiting a knight of the Golden Family is a very different treatment from recruiting a knight of the Silver family. There are many silver knights, and the golden knights are very rare, and even Sambarwood's original pirate identity is not considered, after all, this world is a fighting spirit, just like Sambarwood thinks when he practices hard every day, having a good skill, mastering a higher level of fighting spirit is the foundation of survival in this troubled world.

Sambarwood thought about it for more than a month before deciding to accept the Earl's invitation to become a knight of the Sheileh family. But he can't just leave, at least he has to arrange his men and choose the right place to build his manor castle. Of course, Sambarwood was only going to draw a line, put a few stones, dig a ditch at will, and make it look like a building, because he didn't have that much money to build a manor castle on his own.

Two days ago, Sambarwood received a letter from the Governor, saying that in twenty days it would be the fiftieth birthday of Lord Sherraich, and that Lord Count Shereh hoped that on that day Sambarwood would become a knight of his family, and that he would also add joy to his birthday. By the way, the Lord Steward reminded the Earl of his usual hobbies, which meant that Sambarwood also had a rich gift to prepare.

Sambarwood didn't have much money, and most importantly he didn't have a suitable gift, so he turned his eyes to the sea, and prepared to make a fortune on the sea before he went to the capital to become a knight of the Earl of Sherraih, so that his wife and children could live more comfortably after he left......

"There are two ships in front of me that are entangled, one is a medium-sized two-masted fast-sailing merchant ship, and the other is a strange-looking medium-sized ship, but it looks like it has burned a mast. Now the two ships are tied together and moving very slowly, shall we catch up and do something?" it was Teucer who spoke, five big and three thick, two stars of silver, but more like a pirate than his father, Uncle Tollin.

Sambarwood nodded, it was obvious that the two boats must have just been robbed, and it was not uncommon for such things to be sad in the sad ocean, and now it seemed that the winning side should tie the loser's boat together and want to take it back, and he might as well do this yellow finch himself.

The boarding process went smoothly, no one resisted, no one shouted, not even a single figure was seen. There were a few people on the slipway on the strange-looking ship, and they turned a blind eye to the pirates who were swarming on board, and went about their own business, and even a very young boy put his finger to his mouth and shushed it, signaling the pirates to be quiet......

Sambac brought with him two medium-sized two-masted sphalange armed merchant ships, which were fast downwind, reaching eight to nine knots, but were difficult to navigate against the wind, and tested the steerer's ability. However, this kind of ship is strong and has a large number of people, which is most suitable for the battle of the ship.

There were nearly 330 pirates on board the two medium-sized two-masted square sail armed merchant ships, and nearly 100 people jumped onto the strange ship at this moment, crowding the deck of the strange ship.

On the slipway of the strange ship was a small table spread with various hides and pens. A young man with long black hair in a ponytail was preaching to a middle-aged man in front of him with a face full of vicissitudes: "...... Why did I ask you to write out the formula and production process of green glass and oil glass and throw them out as bait, because in my heart, these two things are mass goods, and there is nothing fun about them. You see this is a telescope, this is a glass silver mirror, these two are the real money-making things, as well as these magnifying glasses, glassware, large pieces of flat glass, thickened partition glass, glass can also be carved on the glass, this is the direction of future glass development......

Mr. Mancheny, you have a general understanding of my various designs and ideas for glass, and when we send your family to the family territory, you will be in full charge of the family's glass production and manufacturing, and we will equip you with all the things you need, you can verify and test what you want to improve, you don't care how much it costs, I believe that you will give our family a hundredfold return in the future......"

Sambarwood listened dizzily under the slipway, what is this, glass production, technological improvement, it sounds too high-end and atmospheric, and he is a little unaware. And there seems to be something very wrong with the situation in front of you, but I can't say it......

I was about to tell my subordinates to be more careful to see if there was an ambush or something, but I saw the young man with long black hair on the slipway turn his head, show a mouthful of white teeth, and smile happily at himself and the others.

"You're coming too slowly, it's so impatient. The black-haired young man smiled and said, "I wandered in the sad ocean for two days before I caught a small shrimp." ”

The black-haired young man nodded at the medium-sized brig fast-sailing merchant ship tied to the side: "But you guys are good, there are many people, and the ship is neat, I am very happy." ”

The black-haired young man stood up: "I am the Earl of Norton, lord of the Isles of Hilois and the Northlands. I hereby declare that I have requisitioned your ships and men!"

Then he pointed his finger at Sambarwood: "I think you're good, from now on, you're my stormtrooper at sea......"

...... (To be continued.) )