More than 100 nautical miles from Alcatraz, Sisis, Darius is enjoying a dinner party of his own in his own domain.

Yes, it was a dinner party for him.

Outside the foyer, there was a long queue of carriages, the dignitaries and nobles who kept gilding their names from the floor of the front hall like flowing water, the aristocratic gentlemen in neat tuxedos and the beautiful and beautiful Sisian ladies in evening dresses in the hall, the bands played hard in the splendid hall, and the waiters kept shuttling back and forth in the crowd with precious drinks like dexterous swallows.

And he, a stocky businessman, dressed in a tuxedo specially made for him, stood in the middle of a banquet like a clothed penguin, and the people around him flattered and flattered him with a smile and rhetoric that bordered on sycophancy.

It was originally the mansion of one of the Sicisian tycoons, Tony Pike, but when Tang Jie's Black Dragon King destroyed Alamshe's fleet in one fell swoop, the tycoon fled the famous commercial harbor that could be brutalized by pirates at any moment in a rush of turmoil and panic.

Without the protection of the naval fleet, Sisis is like a pretty girl who has stripped naked, shy and ashamed, hiding her with her hands, as if a random person can take her **.

No one wants to live in an insecure place, especially the rich.

While the vast majority of businessmen frantically sold their goods and fled in a hurry, Darius relied on his relationship with Tang Jie to boldly swim against the current and eat wildly.

Soon his actions brought him astronomical wealth, and it wasn't long before Tonis Pike's mansion became his new home.

A few months ago, this small businessman, who was still pimping customers in the port of Sisis every day to watch various ships and sell ships to make money, has finally been transformed into a force to be reckoned with in Sissy.

Now, he is one of the richest people in the entire Siss, he controls nearly half of the Siss's civilian resources, and even the Sicis's land snake, the old nobleman Mutt, has to choose to avoid the newly rising Darius, and dare not touch his edge.

But this is not the most important thing, the reason why the Sisis people are really afraid of him and hate him, but they have to curry favor with him is because he is the spokesman of the pirate Tang Jie's interests in the Siss!

As long as he says a word, a chamber of commerce will lose the right to trade on the golden route because of his decision!

It is precisely because of this that Darius really has a nouveau riche and villain mentality, especially the courtesan Betty, who has always accompanied him in the past, is also a cautious smile, where is the previous high and contemptuous eyes from the bones?

Looking at the dignitaries who looked down on him in the past and nodded to him like grandsons, and then looked at the ladies around him who usually disdained him at all and pretended to be saints, but now gathered around him like bees, Darius felt that he was simply happy!

What do men pursue when they live in this world?

It's so simple!

In a word, money, fame, power and women!

Before meeting Tang Jie, Darius's biggest dream in this life was to be able to own his own manor and be able to marry the beautiful Betty.

Can ...... now Darius knew that if he hooked his finger at Betty, this courtesan, who usually seemed holy and inviolable, would definitely strip herself naked for the first time, and then serve herself in the most obscene and flattering way!

All of this was so beautiful and exciting that Darius was in a dream.

The fat profiteer laughed, holding his goblet, and while talking affectionately with those who came to greet him, he unabashedly bloomed with his people

Almost all of the people who came here to the dinner were Sicis's head and face, and they all felt disgusted and disgusted by the nouveau riche face of Darius, but no matter how disgusting and wanted to vomit, they had to endure it, even if Darius spoke with great poison, even if this fat man had a fox odor, and even if this fat man put a huge stinky fart, they had to smile and say: What a fragrant fart!

In other words, as long as this fat man does not jeopardize their interests and does not threaten their safety, but can make them profitable in the current situation, then no matter what this fat man does, they have to endure it!

If this kind of thing happened in the distant inland imperial capital, maybe those old nobles would definitely feel unbelievable and incredible about the situation in front of them!

Isn't this nouveau riche the spokesman of a pirate, and why does he have the same power and status as a governor?

People who live on land can never imagine what the world of the sea is like, and they will never understand why so many people dream of owning a sea boat, sailing out to sea regardless of life and death, and going to a sinister world to pan for gold for their dreams!

Only those who beg for a living in the sea know how much wealth is hidden in this vast blue sea!

Let's take the simplest example!

Rich in the precious luxury furs of Tuna County in the northern part of the Pound continent, if this thing were transported by horse-drawn carriage on land, the amount of gold cost for the freight far exceeded the value of the goods themselves!

A fine fur was originally worth a hundred gold coins, but by the time it was transported from Tuna County to the imperial capital of Garcia, it would be worth five hundred gold coins!

Because it is not the wooden oxen and horses that transport them, the coachmen have to eat on the road, and the horses have to eat! And these things also need to be transported with the goods, which will increase a certain amount of manpower and material resources!

The extra 400 gold coins should not only include the consumption of freight on the road, but also the local checkpoint taxes that pass through various provinces and counties along the way!

In this way, the cost of the goods is equivalent to 400% more out of thin air!

What's more, the volume of land transportation freight has been very small, which has led to many goods that should be basic goods being transported to other places, which has become a sky-high luxury!

However, there was no such scruple in sea transportation, and if you took the road north from Tuna County, it would only take a few dozen miles to be transported by sea to the port of Kuniske, the closest to the imperial capital, and then these materials would be transported to the imperial capital by short distance.

And in the whole journey, the transportation cost of sea and short-distance land transportation only cost less than 100 gold coins, which is 200% less than land transportation!

The most important thing is that a single trip by sea can transport several tons or even a dozen tons of goods, and the cost of transporting such a weight of materials on land is unimaginable!

Because of this, it is not uncommon to see people who have made a fortune from the poor by sea trade on the coast, and some people are desperate to get a ship to go to sea, and they can bring back a cabin of safflower herbs from Dam City, and they can sell it for a very good price in Sissy!

In Dam City, these things cost less than five silver coins a kilogram, but in Sissy, they are worth two gold coins per kilogram!

In the Pound Empire, ten silver coins were equal to one gold coin, and between two cities that were not too far apart, the value of the same commodity was several times different!

Loading a shipload of such goods can earn tens of thousands of gold coins out of thin air with one trip!

With such huge profits, how can people not be blushed by this kind of maritime trade, which is almost plundering?

Before Darius met Tang Jie, he was just an ordinary businessman with a net worth of only tens of thousands of gold coins, but now in a short period of time, his net worth has risen wildly, reaching a million!

Moreover, this is still Darius's rather cautious accumulation of wealth, and he does not want his crazy greed to attract Tang Jie's dissatisfaction with him.

But no matter how cautious he is, he can't stand the major chambers of commerce that are crazy to bribe him, some of these chambers of commerce bribe tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of gold coins at one time, and some know that this profiteer is lustful, so they simply send thousands of charming beauties for him to enjoy.

For the nobles of the upper class, they know best how difficult it is to send a woman who can handle it.

First of all, this woman must not only be beautiful, in good shape, and have no defects anywhere, but also know how to work in bed, music, poetry, literature and history, and all kinds of things that only scholars can understand, so that they can cater to the interests and hobbies of their masters and please them.

In order to do this, these merchants and chambers of commerce often buy some girls when they are young, and then spend a lot of money to train them, and the cost of this training process is definitely not something that can be calculated by tens of thousands of gold coins!

Not to mention anything else, among the most famous brothels in the imperial capital, some popular prostitutes are cheapest to exceed 100,000 gold coins!

The value of a woman who exists by pleasing men is much higher than a few warships, which has to be said to be incredible.

It is such a huge bribe, which is enough to make people jaw-dropping in any place, you must know that when Tang Jie bought a three-masted battleship, he only spent 20,000 gold coins!

But for these chambers of commerce, the money they bribed Darius was only a small amount, and as long as the merchant decided to let them pass, then they could earn back several times, dozens or even hundreds of times more in trade!

Therefore, when these chambers of commerce and businessmen learned that Tang Jie dominated the Nilsia Sea, many businessmen chose to send their protection money as soon as possible, but there were also those businessmen who relied on their own strength and courage to have the courage not to pay the road fee.

At this time, all Darius had to do was to find out the details of these daring chambers of commerce, and then send the information to Alcatraz Island.

Later, Nia would send Bill and his pirates to wait for them on the routes that the ships of the Chamber of Commerce must pass through, and when they were discovered, they would quickly chase after them, mercilessly kill the entire ship, rob the whole ship's cargo, and then cut off the heads of the dead men in the most brutal way and hang them on the ship's masts.

In this most brutal way, the pirates of Alcatraz are telling the merchants with bad luck and bad intentions that anyone who tries to bypass us will doe the same as these guys!

When these bloodied ships were discovered, everyone was shocked by the ferocious and swift tactics of the Alcatraz pirates, and Sissy, Dam, and the entire southwest coast were silenced!

For a while, more and more merchants began to flock to Dalcia to choose "trade asylum", and at this time Darius did something that made all merchants gnash their teeth the most.

He announced that he would publicly auction the exclusive rights to goods traded at sea in a closed setting!

In other words, he broke up the various commodities and told the merchants: If you want to sell firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, fur, felt, hats, sanitary napkins, whatever you want, you must bid for it!

This decision immediately caused all the merchants to curse the insatiable fat man frantically, if cursing could kill a person, I am afraid that Darius would have been crushed tens of thousands of times.

But what disgusted and angry them the most was that Darius, when he auctioned off the trade rights of these goods, he also auctioned off five "noble undifferentiated trade places".

This means that I have five quotas here, and these five noble traders will not be subject to any restrictions on commodity trade, they can sell whatever they want, and they can sell whatever they want to make money!

This is tantamount to throwing five of the most tempting bones to these merchants, and what merchant doesn't want to be the most valuable and profitable thing to be transported in every trade trip?

To put it bluntly, Darius's previous ideas were all under the guise of the "aristocratic indiscriminate trade quota" for the five circles of money in the back.

The reason is very simple, merchants are not jack-of-all-trades, and they don't know whether their shipload of goods from one city to another will be able to make money all the time, and if they are limited to trading only certain goods, then it is very likely that this thing will make money this month and lose money next month!

Business is like this, the price of any commodity rises and falls like waves, and no one wants to catch it!

Therefore, the safest thing is these five "noble undifferentiated trade quotas".

Darius looked at the flattering faces around him, and he could certainly read the visceral curse and disgust in the eyes of these people.

The purpose of today's dinner was to test the thoughts and opinions of these businessmen and dignitaries, but now it seems that these guys have a lot of opinions in their hearts!

Darius shrugged his shoulders, and he muttered to himself: This is what the dark-haired guy taught me, if you want to curse, curse him!

This shameless method of collecting money was indeed told by Tang Jie to Darius before Alcatraz Island fell into the sea, this man from the era of an extremely developed market economy in another world, of course, knows some ordinary business methods of making money.

It's just that Tang Jie himself knows that if he wants these businessmen to pay obediently, he must have an armed force that can correspond to them!

Otherwise, these businessmen are desperate to smuggle wildly, can he and Nia really be able to patrol outside 24 hours a day?

The sea is so big, no kidding!

Therefore, Darius did not expect that his action would be approved by these merchants and nobles, and he was ready to fight a fierce battle with these fellows tonight.

The battle in the commercial realm has a different flavor than the fierce naval battles and sinister political battles, and Darius holds his fat chest high and looks at everyone with his chin raised like a fat rooster.

He knew very well that once he was able to complete the task given to him by Tang Jie, then he would solve the most fundamental problem of Alcatraz Island in a short period of time: there was no stable and reliable source of funds!

This auction fee and the auction fee for other commodity trade rights, Darius can know with his toes, it must be an astronomical amount!

On top of that, if Alcatraz gets the money, then Nia will be able to use the money to continue recruiting and snowballing!

In this turbulent year, as long as you have money in your hands, Alcatraz is not afraid that no one will take refuge in them!

And when Alcatraz Island grows stronger and stronger, it also means that this group of pirates entrenched in pirates will have more ships and pirates that can go to sea, and more ships and pirates patrolling and guarding will mean that more smuggled merchant ships will be looted and attacked, and more merchants will suffer huge losses without a home!

In such a situation, there will definitely be more businessmen who choose to compromise and participate in this shameless auction, and then continue to provide Alcatraz with a steady stream of funds!

This is simply an infinite loop of black holes, and Alcatraz will grow wildly in a short period of time with this capital chain, becoming a super fortress in the true sense of the word!

Darius thinks that the guy with the long black hair must be a devil from hell!

If it weren't for the devil, how could he have come up with such an evil and shameless idea?

While Darius was sighing in his heart, there was a sudden commotion at the dinner.

"Who are you?"

"What do you want to do? Stop, stop!"

There was a burst of surprise and inexplicable shouts outside the front hall, apparently someone ignored the waiter in front of him, and chose to break in, and after a crackling brief fight, the two doors in the hall with exquisite patterns were suddenly pushed open!

A soldier wearing silver armor, quite tall, wearing a helmet with one hand on the long sword at his waist, strode in, the armor on his body made a rattling sound, the momentum was amazing!

The soldier was followed by a rush of nearly a hundred soldiers in silver armor, armed with unsheathed swords and marching in order, and soon swooped down on the strategic positions and quickly captured the mansion.

For a moment, all the people in the hall froze, and the staggered situation turned into swords and swords in the blink of an eye, and the screams of the women and the frightened shouts of the men were mixed, and the originally joyful music became screams one after another.

Hell, where did this soldier come from?

For a while, these merchants and nobles thought that Darius wanted to kill them all, but when they turned their eyes to Darius in horror and anger, they found that Darius was also shocked and panicked!

Isn't it this greedy fat man?

The merchant aristocrats looked at each other!

One of the leading soldiers stood in the middle of the hall, and after looking around, the soldier lifted his helmet, revealing long fiery red hair and a rather masculine woman's face.

The woman's eyes were sharp and her eyes were sinister, and she said coldly, "Who is Darius?"

With a "bang", the people around him spread out from Darius's side like waves, clearing a circle with a diameter of four or five meters for him, even Betty, who had been pretending to be a bird and snuggling up to him just now!

Standing in the middle of this empty circle, Darius had no way to deny it even if he wanted to, he smiled more ugly than crying, and the corners of his mouth twitched: "Can I say that I am not Darius?"