Chapter 199: Let's talk about it later
On the docks of Little Wolf Castle, it was particularly noisy today. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Mountains of goods crowded almost the entire open space of the wharf, and the wharf was densely packed with merchant ships, but none of them contained goods.
All five members of the Little Wolf Castle Management Committee have come to the docks, and this situation has been going on for three consecutive days, and if you don't think about it, when the first heavy rain of autumn falls, a lot of goods will become moldy and spoiled at the docks, and the goods outside will not be able to enter.
"Lord Kevin, can you think of something?"
Kevin was also embarrassed, he knew that these ships on the dock belonged to the Crescent Merchant Marine Alliance, and they relied on the ships to crowd the dock and deliberately increase the freight.
But he didn't have a good way, and it was very easy to sink all these ships, but what about after sinking?
Whether he goes to the battlefield or the arena, he is fearless, but what he is doing now makes him anxious.
Simon, the head of the Secretariat, came out of the crowd at this time, and he said with a dejected face, "The Crescent Alliance is asking for negotiations. ā
Negotiation?
The five members of the management committee looked at each other, and when they asked for negotiations, the other party must have wanted to sit on the ground and raise the price.
"I'll go. ā
Kevin touched his dark bald head, waved his hand and led the Black Iron Army brothers directly to the clearing in the middle of the dock.
More than two hundred captains and thousands of sailors had nothing to do. They sat on their cozy little benches for a long time and bragged and chatted, and when they saw Kevin coming, they sent a representative.
"What do you want?"
As the sheriff of Little Wolf Castle, Kevin is clearly not in a good mood. Because if this matter is not handled well, Lord Renault will blame him, and he will inevitably be "evaluated for performance" again.
The representative of the Crescent Alliance is a chubby old man who has been drinking the river breeze for many years, and his skin is covered with rusty spots: "Who are you?
"I'm the sheriff of Little Wolf Castle, just say what you want, don't grind here. ā
"Hmph, a little sheriff, not a small tone," the fat old man glared at him with disdain, "you go and tell Renault that in the future, we will take half of the tax commission on all the goods in Little Wolf Castle, otherwise there will not be a boat on the Nibel River to carry goods to you." ā
Damn, this guy isn't afraid to die if he eats too much.
Half of the tax commission of Little Wolf Castle will be loaded into many ships in a year.
There is definitely no way to agree to this, and even a few old guys from the management committee have no right to make this decision.
However, since he took the initiative to negotiate, of course, he did not intend to agree to any request.
Kevin said coldly, "You have two choices now, either come according to the previous standards and load the goods honestly, or just get out of the way for me right away." ā
"Haha, who don't know the height of the sky," the captains of the surrounding boats burst out laughing, "do you think there are other boats on the Nibel River now? Without our Crescent Merchant Marine Alliance, you don't want to ship a single cargo out, and you don't want to bring in a single cargo. ā
Kevin glared at him, he knew that the Crescent Merchant Marine Alliance had gathered half of the ships on the Nibel River, and even if the two hundred or so ships on the dock were emptied, it would probably be useless.
Just as they didn't know what to say, a small boat that could only accommodate two people quietly docked on the shore, and two soldiers dressed as guards squeezed through the crowd to find Kevin.
"Lord Renault asked us to ask you what's going on, why can't you even handle this little thing?"
Kevin's stern tone made Kevin's heart feel cold, and his eyesight was excellent, and at a glance he could see ten huge ships moored on the river in the distance.
Mistress Renault is here!
Kevin instantly seemed to have found a backer, and he was sure in his heart, but at the same time he was ashamed.
When Lord Renault left Little Wolf Castle, his words suddenly echoed in his ears again: "If you dare to make trouble, you will be punished strictly, and I will give you a top when the sky falls." ā
But he was frightened by this group of guys, and became constrained, thinking that he was well-handled, but in fact he fell for it, and almost missed Lord Renault's business.
Sneering at the captains who were still laughing at him, Kevin left the dock with the team and the Steering Committee.
"Haha, I just said they can't do anything about us. ā
"There's a good show to watch now, there are so many goods on the dock, we are all going to rot here!"
......
Amid the taunts of the captains, the merchants could only bleed their hearts gloomily.
Even if Little Wolf Castle agreed to share the tax revenue of the Crescent Merchant Marine Alliance, they still had to face several times the increase in freight, and no matter what, they lost money this time.
Just as he was considering whether to return the goods to the north for disposal, more than a hundred escorts rushed to the docks. Before everyone could react, mortars were quickly erected.
Bang bang bang -
The mortar made a dull noise, firing shells at the ships on the pier.
Boom -
The explosions were deafening, and the dense ships were torn apart by the power of artillery fire. The huge mast fell, the sails caught fire, and the sailors who remained on board were tragically blown to pieces.
He ...... What are they doing here?"
The fat old man stared in horror at the splashes and broken planks, and the other two hundred captains, like him, couldn't believe that the black bald head had the audacity to sink all the more than two hundred ships!
"Oh my God," the merchant was also amazed, "without the ship, our cargo is completely ruined!"
The roar continued, and some merchant ships anchored outside quickly anchored, and the sailors on board hurriedly rowed their boats into the river, ignoring the captain who was still on the shore.
As long as they stayed away from the docks, the strange explosion would not reach them.
But soon they were stunned on the boat, and at some point ten large boats stopped in the river, and they were already surrounded in a semicircle.
Boom -
More intense artillery fire was fired from these ships, and the shells pierced directly through the hull, instantly disintegrating the entire ship into a sky of splinters, and none of them escaped the fate of being sunk.
The originally crowded dock was in a panic at this time, and the captain and sailors on the shore, seeing that their ship was destroyed, fiercely drew their long swords, they wanted to kill the guards of Little Wolf Castle.
Bang bang -
A neat row of gunfire sounded, and the sailors who rushed to the front fell to the ground one after another, and there was a small round hole in their bodies, and the bright red blood could not stop shooting outward.
Bang bang -
Another shot rang out, and hundreds of steel balls once again found their target, burrowing into the warm flesh.
"Rush, their weapons can only be used twice!"
The sailors plucked up their courage again when they saw that the convoy had unloaded the strange steel pipe, but this time they were desperate to see the convoy raise their bows and crossbows neatly.
With a roaring sound of breaking through the air, the bolts burrowed into their bodies like meteors, and then began to discharge and burn violently. (To be continued.) )