Three days after the banquet at Sisis' Darius mansion, Sicis's high society still pervades an indescribably oppressive atmosphere of fear.

These Sisis merchants and aristocrats hid in their homes and gritted their teeth cursing the great dictator of Sisis, and they kept greeting Tang Jie in their most vicious language and fierce tone, as if even the terrifying demon king of hell was not as evil as a cold hair of this man.

Tang Jie's naked threat at the dinner party made them all feel like a steel knife was on their necks, but what made them most painful was that the 50% sea tax proposed by Tang Jie was a number stuck on their psychological bottom line.

This is a data provided by Darius after careful calculation, and if it is on the same level as this data, then these merchants will still have profits to try, although it is much less than before, but in the maritime trade, as long as the exchanges are smooth, and they are not robbed by pirates, they can still make more money if they run a few more times, but if it is higher than this figure, then these merchants will not be profitable, and it is not possible to earn back a few more runs.

Once the merchants are forced into a corner, the energy they burst out is also very amazing, as the saying goes, rabbits will bite when they are in a hurry, if these guys really don't want to go on a collective strike, then Sisis will become a dead city, a stinky city, and the transaction between Tang Jie and the king of the Duchy of Mata will not be able to continue.

What's more, if these merchants turn around and give the money directly to the king of the Duchy of Marta, or even more money for him to come out, then God knows if this king will turn around and tear up the agreement?

In any case, there are no written or verbal guarantees for this kind of thing, and it is maintained entirely by tacit attitude and short-term common interests of both parties.

In stark contrast to these merchants, the commoners of Sisis, especially the sailors on the docks, were very excited by Tang Jie's distribution of the looted goods of the Mutt family, and even the beggars on the street were more or less divided into a few silver coins, which was considered a great joy for all.

What made them especially happy was that as the Crumbel family continued to inject their own strength into Tang Jie's power group, Tang Jie's ships on hand quickly increased from four warships to eight warships, and began to form a fleet size.

For this, Tang Jie also saw it in his eyes and was excited in his heart.

Except for the extremely demanding weapon of the Black Dragon King, no matter how powerful a battleship is, it can't be compared with a fleet, and naval strength is more often a strategic deterrent weapon, how can a battleship be more feared than a fleet?

The most important thing is that Tang Jie has more warships at hand, so his control over the Roentgen sea area and the golden route will be greatly improved, he can order Nia to drive four warships outside for a long time, like sharks cruising around the coast of the Principality of Marta to feed, as long as the other party dares to turn his face with him Tang Jie, Nia and her four warships will immediately pounce on it like sharks smelling blood!

On the other side, he could also order Bill and the others to lead four other warships to search the vicinity of the golden route non-stop, so as to block the lucky merchants who tried to take risks.

In this case, Tang Jie's demand for talents and manpower is unprecedented, coupled with the fact that he previously distributed all the wealth of the Mutt family to the poor people of Siss, which greatly bought the hearts of Siss, and some civilians who were still hostile and skeptical of Tang Jie's status as a pirate are obviously much more pleasant.

In addition, under Agatha's deliberate management, the Clumbell family bribed many locals and spared no effort to advocate for Tang Jie, firstly, to publicize the exploitation of civilians by those nobles, and to smear these nobles who were already declining enough; secondly, to repeatedly emphasize that Tang Jie had never attacked a civilian since he became a pirate, and his subordinates had never robbed those civilians.

At first, the local Sisian civilians were a little unimpressed, after all, the notoriety of pirates was too obvious, but when they looked back and thought about it carefully, it seemed that this black-haired pirate did not seem to have bullied the commoners and robbed the poor, and he seemed to have been fighting to the death with those noble lords from beginning to end......

As these voices spread in the shadows, a unified view slowly emerged among the common people of Sissy: the pirates of Alcatraz are the same as us, everyone is poor, the poor do not fight the poor, and everyone is the child of Tira, the god of the sea!

Although Tang Jie's current status and the word poor have nothing to do with it, relying on the strong financial resources of the Clumbel family, Tang Jie feels that he has a strong breath like never before, and he is even extra confident when he speaks.

This is different from the martial artist who is physically strong, powerful, and coercive because of martial arts practice on weekdays, no matter how capable Tang Jie is, no matter how capable he is, no matter how he can fight, he has no money on hand and it is empty, thousands of people on the island want to eat, drink and Lazar, this is all money, the treasure found in the treasure map of Athos originally thought it was a great treasure, and he could eat and drink for a lifetime without worrying at all, but now it seems that Tang Jie felt that he was ridiculously naïve at that time.

Not to mention anything else, just talking about raising these four warships and raising more than a thousand people on this island, Tang Jie felt that the speed of spending money made him feel terrified to think about, not to mention that he also had to support the continuous research and development and creation of inventions by two dwarven craftsmen on the island, as well as the "dark night" troops who were wildly trained on Alcatraz Island.

If Tang Jie's money in hand is broken for a day, the people's hearts on this island will fluctuate, if it is broken for ten days, then Tang Jie's foundation will begin to be seriously unstable, and the wind and rain will be shaky, if it is broken for a month, Tang Jie will have to take Nia, Bill and others to continue to wander around the sea, where to drink the northwest wind.

This is the truth that a penny is difficult to defeat a hero.

The reason why Tang Jie chose to attack the merchants of Sisis before was that he wanted to enrich his funds and find a way for himself to make money that he could support for a long time.

But now it's different, Tang Jie, the millionaire who looted from the Mutt family, said that he would scatter it, and the astronomical wealth that could be extorted from the Sisith merchants every month, Tang Jie said that he would give it away.

This kind of behavior can no longer be described with "throwing a lot of money", this is simply throwing thousands of dollars, throwing hundreds of millions of dollars!

People say that once a person has money, he will give birth to "the spirit of a king", Tang Jie thought this sentence was nonsense at first, but now he thinks about it, it is true.

If you have money, you have a different confidence to speak, and you can easily smash people with millions of dollars, how can this not make others stunned, dumbfounded, and bow down one after another?

What's more, Tang Jie's own fists are extremely hard, and the name of bravery is known to women and children, plus there is a fleet with good combat power at hand, this combination of "big stick" and "gold yuan", in addition to the behemoth of the Kelsman family, in the Roentgen Sea and even in the Sea of Nilcia, there is no pirate group or merchant chamber of commerce that can compete with it!

It was in this situation that when the number of Tang Jie's ships expanded to eight warships and urgently needed to recruit a large number of sailors, a large number of Sisis civilians and sailors flocked to Tang Jie's Alcatraz Island, and for a time there was even a grand occasion of many sailors driving the most rudimentary windsurfing boards to Alcatraz Island!

This situation was far beyond the most optimistic imagination in Tang Jie's mind, and he had to let his fleet stop these crazy sailors on the outskirts of Alcatraz Island, lest they stray into the reefs and undercurrents around Alcatraz Island and cost their lives.

The task of recruiting sailors was given to Bill, a job he was very good at for the veteran sailor who had been adrift at sea for more than a decade.

While Bill was taking the trouble to pick out the sailors one by one, the rest of Alcatraz was not idle, except for Gilgico, who was still in the "Night" troops all day long, and the other Alcatraz characters basically appeared in the brand new conference room of the beach castle on the west side of Alcatraz.

In this spacious conference room of about 70 square meters, all made of granite, Nia, Lilith, Agatha, Angel, Maria, Simon, Darius, Link, Christina, Rogge, Werewolf Morgan, Dada Tribal Elders, and other tribal elders sat in their places, looking in unison at the black-haired man standing tall at one end of the long table.

At the strong request of Nia and others, the conference room abandoned the "round table" proposed by Tang Jie and adopted this long round arch long table, in order to highlight Tang Jie's absolute dominant core position at the end of the long table.

The other people on Alcatraz Island don't have any other opinions on this, after all, they all know very well that these people are all gathered together to form an interest group because of Tang Jie, Tang Jie is here, this group is here, Tang Jie is dead, this group is dead, and no one can take Tang Jie's place.

Behind Tang Jie hangs a huge map of the ocean, drawn on a cowhide base, taken at a certain scale from the nautical map of the famous navigator Esra Rondo's book "Atlas of the World".

For those who live at sea all year round, the importance of a nautical chart is as important as the life of a captain, and the slightest difference in the markings on a nautical chart can lead to a completely different fate for a ship.

On this hanging map, the names and locations of the world's oceans are drawn on the left side of the map, the oceans are in blue ink, and the difference in water levels in the oceans is also shown in the shades of ink, the famous islands and island groups in the ocean are marked with green ink, and the location of Alcatraz Island is deliberately marked with red ink.

Next to this one-to-one million ocean map is a one-to-one detailed ocean map, on which the detailed shape of Alcatraz Island is outlined, and even the terrain differences on Alcatraz Island have been clearly marked, and amazingly, some small island groups scattered around Alcatraz Island are also clearly outlined.

Tang Jie stood in front of this one-person-tall map, he looked around at everyone with blazing eyes, and said in a deep voice: "I'm glad to see everyone sitting at the same table! Friends, look at the companions around you, we come from different countries, different worlds, different skins, different languages, different cultures, but we are sitting here, sitting at the same table, entrenched in the same island, dominating the same ocean, united in the same group!"

Tang Jie turned around and pointed to the location of Alcatraz Island on the nautical chart behind him: "Here we are now, a tiny island that is so tiny that you can barely find it on a map that is magnified a million times!"

The dark-haired pirate's voice reverberated through the room, and his voice was high-spirited and exciting: "But now our voice, our power, has spread throughout the Roentgen Sea......

Tang Jie wiped his hand within the range of the Roentgen Sea, and then swam around the entire Nilsia Sea: "Soon, the entire Nilsia Sea will fall into our hands, and at that time, we will become the veritable king of Nilsia!"

These sensational words made the people in the room suddenly smile on their faces, and the people sitting here were all people who had a strong sense of identity and belonging to Tang Jie's group, even outsiders like Christina and Rogge also showed a look of appreciation and admiration in their eyes.

After all, to establish a foothold in such a dangerous place as Alcatraz and grow rapidly, this kind of thing is simply unthinkable in the eyes of others!

Tang Jie picked up a whip from the table, pointed at the location of Alcatraz Island with the tip of the whip, and then gestured the position of the golden route, he said: "Now we have controlled the golden route of the Nilsia Sea, and we can't do anything about the golden route of the West Sidrian Sea beyond the Nilsia Sea, besides, ...... around us."

Tang Jie quickly nodded to several nearby port cities around Alcatraz Island: "Sisis, Damm, Zaken and other ports still have quite serious threats and hidden dangers, once the navies of these port cities are united, they will be able to form a three-sided attack posture against us!"

"In this case, Alcatraz lacks space for naval warfare, once a large-scale naval battle breaks out, we can only rely on this island and the military facilities on the island to resist to the death, while our warships will be cut apart by the enemy, unable to return to the island for replenishment, and can only drift away for a long time, so that if the time is short, the two ends may still be able to support, but if it is a long-term war of attrition, then the situation on both sides will become extremely unoptimistic!" Tang Jie began to pour cold water on everyone after eating a candy at the beginning.

This kind of military meeting was a question he had been pondering since he returned to Alcatraz.

Being a pirate is actually very good when he does his part, but Tang Jie knows very well in his heart that if he doesn't develop and grow like crazy now, he will definitely be eliminated mercilessly in the future, because the pressure on him from the Kelsman family is too strong.

Almost every minute he thought about how he would respond if he fought against the Royal Navy of the Pound Empire, which was controlled by this huge family.

In his opinion, the current Alcatraz Castle's protection and offensive capabilities are already quite outstanding, but in the face of the enemy's overwhelming fleet, no matter how powerful Tang Jie's castle is, it is impossible to turn into a stone battleship and rush out to sink all the enemy ships!

Alcatraz needs strategic depth, it needs a strategic port that can hide ships, eggs can't be put in one basket, when the enemy surrounds Alcatraz, there must be guerrilla warships that can move freely and supply freely to put pressure on the other side on the periphery!

Under this premise, Tang Jie set his sights on the island groups around Alcatraz.

If these island groups stand on the commanding heights of Alcatraz Island and look at the sea, they are not visible to the naked eye at all, and the nearest islands are all twenty or thirty nautical miles away from Alcatraz Island, but it is this distance that has become the ideal strategic distance in Tang Jie's mind.

Too close is easy to be discovered by the enemy, too far and easy to rush to the battlefield in time of danger, and most importantly, the island group twenty or thirty nautical miles away from Alcatraz Island is fan-shaped, and continues to extend in the direction of the West Sidritic Sea, in Tang Jie's imagination, if his forces can cover this island group, then this island group will become a strong strategic support for Alcatraz Island, which can provide Alcatraz with rich hiding locations and a broad strategic maneuver space.

In fact, Tang Jie had already thought about this when he decided to take root in Alcatraz Island, but at that time, no matter how manpower and material resources were enough, it was already the greatest luxury to be able to take root on Alcatraz Island, let alone want to extend his tentacles to this island group.

But now it's different, the Clumbell family has a lot of manpower and material resources to resettle, and it is impossible for Alcatraz Island to accept it all, otherwise this island will self-destruct because of the human bombing, it just so happens that all these people go to these undeveloped islands, with Tang Jie's deterrence in this ocean and the strong financial resources of the Clumbel family, it is not difficult to develop this island group.

As Tang Jie spoke, some people with sharp reactions quickly realized that this group of islands could not only serve as a strong backing for the enemy's attack on the Pound Continent, but also that it could immediately become a strategic defense front against the enemy once an enemy came to attack in the West Sidritic Sea.

This is really an offensive and defensive strategic arrangement!

Christina's eyes suddenly lit up as a professional officer who graduated from the Royal Military Academy of the Falco Empire!

Tang Jie watched the change in everyone's eyes, he smiled and nodded, raised his whip and slapped it on the map: "As long as we can complete the arrangement of this island group, then we will arrange it here, here, and here, into a closely connected network of forces!"

Tang Jie clicked at Sicis's position, and then the whip fell on the position of the island group around Alcatraz Island, and then a little heavier on the position of Mosanbik!

"With this network of influence, we can firmly control the Nilsia Sea in our hands!" Tang Jie spread his five fingers, as if he wanted to pinch this ocean in the palm of his hand, "Whoever can control the ocean will be able to control the world! Whoever controls the Nilsia Sea will control half of the Pound Continent! Whoever controls this sea will have the strength to challenge any family or even country in this world!"

When Tang Jie, who was pointing at the country, finished saying this, his sharp gaze fell on Agatha's body, and he said in a deep voice: "Agatha, do you have anything you want to say?"

In the final analysis, Tang Jie's plan for the Circle of Influence in the Nercia Sea can only be completed with the full support of Agatha and her family, and Agatha's attitude is crucial.

Agatha smiled and said, "It is an honor for me and my family to be part of such a grand project!"

Tang Jie glanced at Agatha with a smile on the corner of his mouth, he turned his head to look at the elders of the Dada tribe and the elders of the other tribes on the island: "Do you have anything you want to say?"

These dark-skinned elders stood up one after another and said to Tang Jie with the most respectful courtesy: "Lord Tang Jie, we thank you for taking us in when our country was ruined, my people and I will repay your magnanimity with our lives, and I and my people will prove to you with loyalty and courage that we have our own value in your future maritime empire!"

Tang Jie nodded with satisfaction, he was about to open his mouth to continue talking, suddenly the attendant at the door opened the door a crack, and poked in the head of a attendant from the outside.

"My captain, someone wants to see you!" said Nia, in a low voice.

Tang Jie frowned and asked, "Who?"

Nia said with a strange look on her face, "It's our old friend...... Horn!"

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It's too late...... 5,700 words update~~~ Tomorrow my parents will come to Suzhou, and my mother's parents will prepare to meet the parents of both sides, it is estimated that I will have to accompany the whole process, and it may be very late to update tomorrow, forgive me!