At the same time, the mixed ocean-going fleet had come to the end of the first circulation and was about to enter the Bantaan Sea.

A three-masted merchant ship with the Hattings Blood Cross Flag looks completely inconspicuous from the outside, but inside it is a three-step, one-post, five-step and one-sentry guard, heavily guarded.

The web of law enveloped the whole ship, and not a single blind spot was spared.

A large number of uniformly dressed elite armed men looked at them like knives, and they did not relax their vigilance even on the sea, which showed their elite.

Everyone carried knives and rifles, armed with the finest sabers of the Heights Kingdom, as well as the latest model of Charville Model 1470 flintlock pistol.

Armed to the teeth.

Even the most modest sailors on board were much stronger than those on other merchant ships, which shows that they were rich!

This is none other than the Royal Revenue Inspectorate of the Kingdom, headed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Proverb: "The greatest evil of criminals is tax evasion!" ”

Due to the love and killing of the Iris Kingdom back then, the war is like a gold-swallowing beast that frantically devours the kingdom's finances.

John, the eighth-generation ancestor of Byron, changed the need for his nobles from serving to providing a variety of additional heavy taxes for the state.

This change led the nobles to join forces, and on June 15, 1215, the Silver Age, he was forced to sign the Magna Carta, which was under the king's law.

One of the main purposes was to reduce the king's taxing power.

Everyone knows that "tax" is the money at the disposal of the state and the king, and it is the real representative of national strength.

The Lancastrians were constantly thinking about regaining that power.

Successive kings secretly supported Protestantism, suppressed divine power, and retracted royal power.

Although it did not have the power to increase taxes internally, it established a professional team of tax collectors while firmly grasping the royal navy, the king's private army.

Equip HM Revenue Inspectorate with armed personnel to levy taxes on land, commodity trade, trade and imports, and strive not to spare any of the copper plates that should be levied.

In the time of Henry V, the height of royal power, the power of this team also reached its peak.

There are even their own armed inspection teams, prisons, courts, lawyers, and intelligence departments that can compete with any of the big nobles in the country.

During this period, he naturally fought with the noble council and various forces countless times.

If this development continues, maybe one day there will be such a scene:

"I will solve the cases that the trial court can't solve, I will kill those who the trial court doesn't dare to kill, and I will take care of the things that the trial court doesn't dare to do.

In a word, I will take care of what the trial court can manage, and I will take care of what the trial court can't control.

This is the tax officer, is it clear enough? ”

Handsome!

Byron's phrase "death and taxes are inevitable only" is also in good tradition.

When the White Rose York family seized the crown, the butt decided to make a head, and naturally inherited this system that was strongly opposed in the past.

Even under the leadership of the Earl of Warwick, there is a great posture.

"Cheers!"

"For the hard work of our one-month ocean voyage, and for the bright future we are about to usher in."

In the officer's cabin in the stern building, a group of seven or eight tax officers with real power sat around the table.

There are only one or two [Lawkeepers] and [Treasure Hunters] among them, and the rest are all [Golden Eyes] and [Treasure Guards] who are the most sensitive to money in the Golden Yuan sequence.

With an unrivalled sense of money and numbers, the gold dollar sequence can be seamlessly switched between the banking industry and the tax department.

Better than many of the [lawyers] who have studied dogma and tax law the most.

Once they are allowed to get out of the horse, even the ancestral money urns that have been buried in the yard for decades can be dug up for him.

The tax collectors were pampered most of the time, and even though they enjoyed the best living conditions on the ship, they hated the long ocean journey.

At this time, they were finally about to leave the first circulation, and everyone was in high spirits.

"Haha, who said that the support that the Newman family of waste called for must be on their side?

It's just a dog raised by His Majesty.

This time the amount of ink is huge, the evidence is conclusive, once the sword of Damocles falls, they will definitely die. ”

"That's right, the defeat of the Kingdom of Castile and the Star-Moon Empire is the perfect opportunity for our Black Courts to rise to prominence.

It would be a waste to give a good place like Jamestown to such an upstart.

Your Excellency The Kingmaker has promised that if the Newman brothers who are loyal to His Majesty Edward are brought down, everything they have will be handed over to us.

I believe that the people of the colonies have long awaited an incorruptible governor.

Gentlemen, we must not fail to live up to the trust of Your Excellency the Kingmaker. ”

"That's right, His Majesty Edward is still too young, this splash of wealth is not something that can be grasped by the wind and waves, so let's bear it for the Newman brothers."

"They were imprisoned by the [Sword of Damocles] of His Excellency the Kingmaker, and now I'm afraid they are trembling with fear, hahaha"

The transcendent status of tax officials has also cultivated their empty-sighted character.

So much so that in the intelligence, the two pirate generals who were very close to the Newman family were not put on their hearts at all.

They traveled with the two warships of the Inquisition.

The ship full of medium-sized transcendents and holy relics over there will naturally make all the intruders die a miserable death.

Even if the suspected fourth-order [blue-haired] Barbarossa Hairing came in person, he didn't want to hurt them in the slightest.

There is a network of laws, and it is even less likely to be breached internally.

But at this moment, the treasure hunter suddenly moved his nose and wondered:

"Do you smell blood?

It seems to be mixed with a bit of strange alchemy gunpowder. ”

He searched for the smell and gradually fell to the floor.

Everyone's eyes gradually fell to their feet with him, and they were all shocked:

"Alchemy Gunpowder ???"

In the cabin directly below the stern.

[Falcon] Alvin started the deep sea jump to come here, and disguised himself as a crew member to quietly board the ship, and has been lurking for a day.

At this point, a glass bottle containing blood-red liquid was placed on the ground.

A little more liquid spilled on the ground.

As soon as it comes into contact with the air, it immediately begins to tumble violently and bubble, emitting a thick red mist that becomes extremely unstable.

"This kind of 'blood and fire singing' still needs to be improved by Violet.

If it weren't for Mr. Falcon's undaunted death, and my own body was here, I wouldn't have dared to use such a dangerous thing. ”

This is the assassination item that Byron commissioned Violet to make.

The core is the kind of [Gunpowder Recipe: Flame Kiss] that she has used many times.

It is mediocre in power, but if it is eaten by various animals, it will react uniquely with their flesh and blood, turning into terrifying incendiary or explosive objects.

But this time, they weren't using ordinary animal flesh and blood.

It's all the [Blood of Transmutation] (Chapter 176) of the Barbary Pirate Third-Order Frogman that Byron had refined with the Blood Grail!

It is equivalent to making a third-order transcendent into an alchemy bomb and repeatedly purifying the superlative.

Even Violet, a master craftsman, lamented that she had never made such a luxurious work of art in her life.

And name it the ultimate art - a song of blood and fire!

Byron himself is trying to get rid of the relationship.

Naturally, he would not drag Violet into the water, and with this "big firework", he secretly lurked on the ship of the inspection team alone.

He also took out a flare gun that the ship used to sail at night, aimed it at the glass bottle, and fixed a time-delay device provided by Violet.

Set the time for ten seconds.

Then it slid out of the porthole like a fish.

Dive into the water, join the man-eating sharks that have been waiting here for a long time, and instantly run for their lives underwater.

"False tax avoidance: researching tax laws, falsifying ledgers, arguing with tax collectors, hiring lawyers, and fighting in court.

And the real tax avoidance is: "

Boom——!!!

In the midst of an earth-shattering bang.

Before the tax collectors who had just sensed that something was wrong had time to react, the stunned look on their faces was frozen forever.

The blazing shockwave was centered on the "song of blood and fire" and swept away in all directions.

Both the ship's planks and the human body were torn to pieces in an instant, and they were instantly turned into ashes in the heat.

Even the iron cannon equipped on the ship was swept away by countless fire dragons, and when it was blasted into the air, there were already traces of melting.

And in the eyes of onlookers, only a black-red cloud of fire rose into the sky.

Even the explosion of an ammunition depot was far from such a spectacular sight.

Byron, who was on the run, did not discover that his logbook [Secrets: Prophecy, Kingship and the Prophecy of the Racial Revival of Woden, the God of Wild Hunts, Historical Influence 69]:

"During the Imperial Age, the Wanfolk were still chasing wild deer in the forests of the Eternal Night Peninsula, and in a few hundred years, they would chase the entire Silver Continent.

Conquered the continent by force, but conquered by pagan beliefs, the glory of the people of Northland sank into the deepest part of the ocean.

But one day it will be reawakened by blood and flames!

My right eye will witness everything. ”

The transcript crept out, but without any advancement, it disappeared again.

Shout! Shout! Shout!

A large number of transcendents from the nearby sailing ships rushed to the deck to look at the place.

Especially among the two most powerful Inquisition ships in the entire fleet.

One of the [Corona Priests] at the head took out a crystal ball-shaped holy relic and put it in front of him, aiming at the fire dragon that rose into the sky.

After carefully looking at it for a while, he said to himself with a dark face:

"Divination results, all the people died, the cause of death flare went off?!"