Chapter 250: The Dispute of the Chikde Chamber of Commerce (I)

While Lorist was drifting in the sad ocean when pirates were requisitioning all kinds of sea ships for their own use, in a hall of the Chicke Chamber of Commerce in Morente City, more than a dozen high-ranking members of the Chamber of Commerce were arguing over the failure of the interception fleet and the implementation of the strategy on Hilowas.

"I don't understand why the Chamber of Commerce wants to target the family territory on Hilois Island, in addition to the large area, what is the benefit to the development of the family and the Chamber of Commerce? Will our family be transformed into those imperial soil bun nobles that we don't look down on in the future? Or are we going to give up the dominance of the trade routes along the golden coastline of the Southern Sea?"

With such fierce rhetoric is the second young master of the Chikde Chamber of Commerce, Seboyev, who has always been responsible for leading the armed fleet of the Chamber of Commerce to kill the big and small pirates in the Sunshine Sea, and ensuring the safety of the sea passage of the five southern ocean-going merchant fleets of the Chamber of Commerce. Because of his long-term combat experience, he has the straightforwardness and heroism of an iron-blooded soldier, which is incompatible with the mercenary and calculating businessman temperament of the high-level chamber of commerce present.

Second Young Master Seboyev was the most opposed to using Shilovas Island as a family domain, believing that it would cause the family to lose control of the southern seas and have a great impact on the coastal countries on the Golden Coastline. Hilovas Island is alone in the north, and if the family uses it as a territory, then if there are any changes in the southern seas, it will be too late for the family to react when the news reaches Hilois Island.

"I hope that all of you here can see the situation in front of you clearly, the family currently has a total of seven fleets, except for the armed fleet under my command, five of the remaining six merchant fleets are responsible for maritime trade in the southern seas, which account for eighty percent of the Chamber of Commerce's revenue, while there is only one fleet in the north, which is only responsible for the spice trade of the Shayslan Kingdom and the material transportation trade of the Haneabada Kingdom, accounting for twenty percent of the total revenue of the Chamber of Commerce. ”

Young Master Seboyev simply picked up a small wooden stick and pointed it on the sea map hanging on the wall: "Although the benefits of maritime trade in the north seem slightly better than in the south, please don't forget that the situation of our chamber of commerce in the southern sea is won by our ancestors who have paid a heavy price and sacrifice all the way in the past hundred and seventy years, and without the status of the hegemon of the southern sea, it is impossible for us to monopolize the maritime trade routes of the northern Shayslan Kingdom and the Haneyabada Kingdom......"

The third young master, Murray Buck, stood up, what he hated the most was this second brother, in terms of talent, he couldn't compare to the boss Seriham? As the second eldest, you don't want to participate in the competition for the head of the family, why do you want to help the boss become the heir of the Chamber of Commerce? The northern strategy is my suggestion, and the seizure of Shiloas Island was also agreed by the top level of the Chamber of Commerce after a vote, and now that something goes wrong, you want to overturn this strategy, how can this be reasonable!

"Second brother, that's not the case, we also know that the Chamber of Commerce has now become the maritime overlord of the south, so we need to open up the maritime trade routes in the north and strive for new profits for the family. And Hilois Island will become the family's territory and maritime strategic fulcrum, occupying Shiloas Island, which means that the Chamber of Commerce has the entire northern coastline of the former Krisson Empire, and the increased income will be at least half of that of the south, and I believe that the Chamber of Commerce will need to increase three northern merchant fleets to meet the needs of trade expansion......"

Young Master Murray Barker retorted loudly, and he used the future interests of the North to strengthen the determination of the Chamber of Commerce's top brass to implement the Northern Strategy.

"Hehe......" Young Master Seboyev sneered: "No matter how beautiful the bubble is, it is a bubble after all, you only see the benefits, but do you think clearly about the risks and the price to pay? Not to mention anything else, the northern sea is high and the waves are fast, and there is bad weather from time to time, and the cursed coastline in the north can be compared with the calm and calm sea and the golden coastline in the southern sea? Just filling in the reef area in the shallow sea and establishing a port will cost countless funds, manpower, and materials.

It's a good idea to want to take the island of Hilovas as a family domain, but now you look at the miserable situation of the two interceptor fleets. The Chamber of Commerce has spent so much money over the years to cultivate four great sword masters, and one of them has been sacrificed in vain in an interception operation, this is the strength of our Chamber of Commerce to help one of the seven giants of the Business Alliance!

I said a long time ago, don't look at the former Krisson Empire has fallen apart and fought a civil war for so long, but that is the result of more than ten years of our Business Alliance Seven Giants gathering so many elites to painstakingly plan and plan in many ways, not that the former Krisson Empire is as rotten as a broken house and collapses.

Just like this time, so many chambers of commerce planned to seize the territory of the Kingdom of Redlis and the Kingdom of Antinac as their own territories, none of them wanted to confront the 300,000 army of His Royal Highness of the Second Highness of the Kingdom of Antinac head-on, but hoped that the Kingdom of Redlis could jump out and clean up the mess after losing both of them.

Emaciated camels are bigger than horses, you see. The loss of the former empire does not mean that the nobles of the former empire have no strength in their hands. If you don't find out the details of the other party, you can directly treat it as an enemy, and now it's okay, let's hit the iron plate.

You don't want to think that Hilovas Island was originally the princely domain of His Second Highness, but he would give others as a territory, with the strength of His Second Highness, he must have done this for a reason, but you are arrogant to treat others as those incompetent nobles, and you want to hijack the other party to coerce the transfer of Hilovas Island to the Chamber of Commerce, what a beautiful thought......"

"That's enough, Seboyev, don't say any more......" President Chikde, who was sitting at the top, interrupted him: "Your brother is also thinking about the interests and future development of the Chamber of Commerce, and now it is only a temporary difficulty. We, the Chikde Chamber of Commerce, are also one of the seven giants of the business alliance, so we can't just back down. We may not have the strength and self-confidence to deal with a kingdom, but we should still be able to deal with the territorial nobles of a former empire. ”

"Father, haven't you understood the defeat of the two interceptor fleets and the sacrifice of the Great Sword Master Kumori?" Young Master Seboyev argued unconvinced: "I don't think about business and future development, just from a military point of view, I can conclude what a difficult enemy you have provoked. The Peterson Chamber of Commerce has done its best to agree with us, saying that we can buy the Isle of Hilowass from the Earl of Norton, and are willing to pay a price he cannot refuse.

If this Earl had been like the greedy nobles with whom we are usually in contact, we would have been able to sit down and negotiate the price. But the earl did not even want to talk, nor did he reply to the Petersen Chamber of Commerce, and set sail for the night. This shows that in his heart, the island of Hilovas is unyieldable, and we must pay the price of blood and fire if we want to get it.

I admit that the third brother's arrangement is very thorough, although the first interception missed the opportunity because of the negligence of the surveillance spies, but the second interceptor fleet Admiral Ban Kid and the third interceptor fleet Admiral Lao Yali are both long-tested, extremely experienced naval combat elders, I have carefully deduced afterwards, their handling is not a trace of error, not to mention that the third interception fleet also has the Kumori Great Sword Master in charge. So we have a lot of hope for these two fleets ...

Just when we thought that the Earl of Norton had lost his wings, he taught us a profound lesson with his decisiveness and determination. In the face of Admiral Bangid's second interceptor fleet, the Earl took advantage of the good performance of his clipper and his surprising golden archer to break through the interception and sail away, and we lost the sailor crew of a medium-sized armed merchant ship.

Admiral Bangid then used the messenger Petrel to tell the third interceptor of the third fleet in detail what had happened. Despite the surprise, Admiral Alli, the elder made a perfect arrangement, and the ships of the intercepting fleet were chained from ship to ship, and he and the Grand Swordsman of Kumori were in charge of two large merchant ships, just to target the golden archer. In order to prevent the Earl of Norton from repeating his old tricks, the Grand Swordsman of Kumori also deliberately went to the large merchant ship on the left.

Such an arrangement should be foolproof, but the Earl of Norton still has his hole cards hidden, and who of you would have thought that he himself was a third-level great swordsman, and as a result, we lost nearly five hundred sailors, three experienced captains, eleven silver swordsmen, two golden swordsmen, and one great swordsman. I've killed pirates in the Sunshine Sea for three years without such a big loss!"

Second Young Master Seboyev angrily accused: "The current result shows that Murray Barker didn't investigate the details of the other party at all when dealing with this Earl of Norton, and rashly regarded a third-level great sword master as an incompetent nobleman, causing major and heavy losses to the Chamber of Commerce, and he must be responsible for this consequence!"

"Why do you say that earl is a third-level great sword master?" the third young master, Murray Buck, blushed with anger.

"Just because he killed all the three hundred and forty-seven people on a large merchant ship in less than half an hour!" Second Young Master Seboyev replied in a louder voice, he pointed to an old man with a solemn face and said, "You ask Grandpa Udi, he is a second-level great sword master, can he do all this in half an hour? That still happened in front of nearly a thousand people, and there is no trace of falsehood!"

The second-level Great Sword Master old man smiled bitterly and shook his head.

"You have found a great enemy for our family and the Chamber of Commerce!" Second Young Master Seboyev looked at his younger brother and said sarcastically: "Father didn't let you be so careless when he handed over this matter to you, have you carefully investigated the situation of this Earl of Norton?"

"I, of course I've investigated, what's the difference between that Earl Norton and other nobles?, it's just that his swordsmanship is better......" Third Young Master Murray Backer's eyes began to flicker.

"Bastard, is that what you do? self-righteous speculation, perfunctory! You didn't even spend a small amount of money to find someone from the Peterson Chamber of Commerce to ask the Earl of Norton about his origins!" the second young master Seboyev scolded, he went to the corner of the wall, and took a bag with a lot of animal skin paper documents.

The second young master, Seboyev, took these documents and said: "After the interception fails, I will order someone to investigate this Earl of Norton, none of you would have imagined that this Earl himself is a legend in our city of Moronte. Do you still remember the challenge competition held by those academies more than seven years ago? A Black Iron Instructor from Dawn Academy challenged all the silver players in Moriente City, and as a result, he set a record of 3,000 consecutive victories and won the title of Black Iron Lock, Silver Invincible. ”

Now everyone here is active, more than seven years ago, this incident is very legendary, there are also many silver swordsmen in the Chikde Chamber of Commerce to challenge, but none of them can win, the silver swordsmen who participated in the competition came back and said, they are all convinced by the swordsmanship taught by the black iron named Locke.

"This Black Iron Sect is the current Earl of Norton...... Second Young Master Seboyev was very satisfied to see everyone's faces showing surprise: "At that time, there was a rumor that there were two golden swordsmen who wanted to teach that Black Iron Sect a lesson, and then let their junior disciples easily defeat him in the next day's competition. So the two golden swordsmen went to intercept the Black Iron Sect at night, and the next day they were two nameless corpses in the patrol station.

If it weren't for the fact that the Black Iron Sect had the strength to defeat the Golden Swordsman, how could that old fox of the Dawn Academy be willing to let him come out to challenge the Silver Swordsman, it would be a game in itself. In more than seven years, the Earl of Norton's swordsmanship had advanced one step further, as illustrated by the encounter with the interceptor fleet.

However, the Earl left the city of Morent seven years ago and returned to the Northland to inherit the family domain and title, and the information I received from the Peterson Chamber of Commerce was that the earl should have been a baron at that time, and he and some friends of the Academy organized a convoy to return to the Northlands, defeated the forces of the territorial nobles in the kingdom of Ridleys, and also arranged for the Peterson Chamber of Commerce to occupy the sea trade route to there.

The next intelligence is a little fragmented, our Chamber of Commerce did not arrange intelligence investigators in the Kingdom of Antinac, and we could not collect complete information, but there are signs that the Second Highness of the Kingdom of Antinac was resurrected with his help and regained power, and he was also made a count, and the island of Hilovas was the family territory that His Royal Highness added to him.

The news from the Vesian Chamber of Commerce was that in the Northlands, the Count was known as the Raging Bear of the Ground, and that he was safe and sound if he was not provoked. The Grand Duke of the Northland was defeated by his family's armed forces and lost his Grand Duke's domain, and it is said that he also allowed his family soldiers to loot in the Grand Duke's domain for seven days and seven nights, committing countless evil deeds. Then the king of the Iberian Kingdom, the second prince of the former Krissian Empire, led an army of 100,000 to conquer, but the army of 100,000 was wiped out in a war, and the second prince fled from the royal capital in embarrassment. ”

"Here's the wonderful ......" Second Young Master Seboyev held up a document and read: "This second prince was very annoyed after the defeat, so he instructed the Three Great Swordsman Galinan beside him to assassinate this Earl of Norton. You have all heard of the reputation of the Great Sword Master of Calinan, known as the peak of half a step, and then half a step forward is the Sword Master. As a result, half a year later, the soldiers of the Norton family hung the body of the great swordsman of Calinon on the cross, captured the royal capital in a cart, and captured the second prince, which was revenge for the despicable act of the second prince as the king but sending people to assassinate him......"

"Wait, did you get all this information from the Visia Chamber of Commerce?" asked President Chikde.

"Yes, the Vician Chamber of Commerce has contracted those two iron mines in the Iberian Kingdom, and is very concerned about the situation in the Northlands. Now the kingdom of Iberia is headed by the queen, and everyone ignores the king who was taken away, as if he did not exist. And the Earl of Norton united the three nobles to run the Northland into a monolith, it is difficult for people to go deep into his family territory to find out his details, but I heard that this earl is engaged in development and construction in his family territory, and now it seems that it should be true, at least he has opened a sea passage from the Northland to the island of Hilowas, so he will appear in the city of Moldant. ”

Second Young Master Seboyev put down the document in his hand: "Now do you know how much mistake you have made? My younger brother, such a count of a military merit inheritance family, you actually treat him as one of those moth-like nobles, if you want to seize his family territory, Shilois Island, can you imagine how much price you have to pay to the Chamber of Commerce?" Even if we can achieve the final victory, it will shake the foundation of our Chamber of Commerce, and even give up the hegemony of the Southern Sea to other chambers of commerce, so that our Chamber of Commerce will fall from the throne of the Big Seven and be trampled under the feet of those second- and third-rate chambers of commerce that usually look up to us, then you will be satisfied......, won't you?

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