Chapter 109: One-Eyed
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Although the one-eyed body is not unusually tall and burly, it is unusually strong and strong. Especially the kind of hands that hold the rudder, the bones are thick, and the green tendons are bulging, but they are unusually stable.
The forty-year-old One-Eye, who is the underground overlord of this sea - or to put it bluntly, he is a pirate leader, but the identity of a pirate is semi-public.
On the surface, he was the leader of the largest group of the most famous black ship business in Port Dean, with four ships under his command, hundreds of sailors alone, plus the thugs he had raised, thieves, and the eyeliner who carried him news on Port Dean, and the coolies who fed him on the docks, etc.
All this qiē added up, and there were at least five or six hundred people who ate with him.
One-Eyed had been running the sea for more than twenty years, and at the age of sixteen he had been a sailor on ships, had been eating with merchant ships, and had at one point joined the Navy Patrol in Port Dean as a minion, making friends in the Navy with some of his fellow military mates—a move that would have helped him in his later development.
At the age of twenty-four, One-Eye saw the development of the East China Sea, sold all his belongings, and bought a boat with a few friends and started a black ship business.
In the first few years, because there were not many people competing in this industry, and the development of the East China Sea was very rapid, and the official policy of the empire began to be conservative, the business of the black ship was extremely hot - he himself was the head snake of Port Dean, especially the experience of serving in the army, so that he quickly relied on a few former colleagues to catch up with the relationship of the navy patrol fleet, he was very generous, and he was willing to pay the capital, and he bought a "protective umbrella" for himself.
It must be said that many people think that One-Eye is a lucky guy, because several of his colleagues who served in the army were fortunate to be promoted in the following years, some of them held important positions in the garrison of Port Dean, and some of them served as mid-ranking officers in the navy's patrol fleet.
It was with the friendship and protection of these people that the one-eyed black ship business flourished.
Everyone mentions him and says that this one-eyed guy is too lucky. If it weren't for the fact that his former good friends now occupy high positions, I am afraid he would not have been able to get so many official umbrellas.
But in fact, only One-Eyed himself knows his own qiē, and it is not by any luck that he got it!
Luck?
That's what people who don't have the ability to say! Only people who don't have the ability can pin their fate on some illusory "luck."
The real situation is that after he made his first pot of gold in the black ship business, this guy with courage and vision has already begun to plan for the future!
One-eyed is not a real reckless, in fact he is the kind of real "hero"! He has courage, vision, and dares to gamble when he encounters opportunities!
At the beginning, he took most of his belongings and found a few old colleagues in the army, which laid the groundwork for his development today!
What few people know is that his colleagues were later promoted all the way, and among them, he had a huge one-eyed effort!
For example, one of the lieutenants who is now used by the garrison commander in the garrison mansion was only a small low-ranking officer in the logistics system of the patrol fleet in the past, but after receiving the financial support of One-Eye, several important promotion opportunities were opened by the money provided by One-Eye. In a few years, he entered the garrison mansion of Port Dean and served as the lieutenant of the garrison chief!
Another one who has been greatly assisted by One-Eye is a naval captain of the current Port Dean Naval Patrol Fleet. In the past, he was just an inconspicuous minor officer in the naval patrol fleet of Port Dean, but later every promotion was unusually smooth, and with the secret help of the One Eye, every operation of the naval patrol to destroy the black ships at sea would achieve great results - the direct beneficiary of this was the officer.
After accumulating a lot of such "merits", a few years later, he was promoted to the rank of first mate on the ship.
The most important thing was that three years ago, when competing for the position of captain of one of the warships of the patrol fleet, another competitor at that time fell to his death in an "inexplicable" "accident" during a patrol operation. directly caused that promotion without any twists and turns.
And those who have received strong support and monetary benefits from One-Eye." "After taking the position, he also gave One-Eye a lot of shelter and help. As a result, One-Eye's development over the years has become smoother and smoother, and in this part of Port Dean, it has become a real underground king.
Especially in the nearby seas, he has become the true king of pirates on the sea!
His fleet is usually a black ship, and if the passengers on board are fat sheep, they will unceremoniously turn into pirates, killing people and goods!
One-Eye is greedy and ruthless enough, but at the same time he is very careful in what he does. Every time he makes a move, he will first inquire about the origin and background of the passengers on the ship, and will never dare to provoke the passengers who will bring trouble and trouble to him.
Of course, since you will choose a black ship to go to sea to do business, you will generally not meet any passengers with a very hard background. The real big businessmen with status will do business with regular business associations.
However, over the years, the biggest thorn in One-Eye's side is one person: Hook!
Hook was bold and refined, skilled, and brave. More importantly, Hook was a very righteous man and very well-behaved, so he had an excellent reputation in this trade, and many smuggling customers in Port Dean trusted Hook.
Because of word of mouth, over the years, Hook has robbed a lot of business for One-Eye. Although Hook only has one boat and does not cause much damage to One-Eye's business, this person has always been in zài, which makes One-Eye extremely unhappy.
He had tried to deal with Hook in other ways. For example, ask your own umbrella to mobilize official forces to kill Hook in the name of "anti-black boats".
But to One-Eye's disappointment, such efforts did not succeed.
Although Hook is only a small ship boss, he seems to have some origins. In several raids against the black ships, the official patrol fleet seemed reluctant to attack Hook.
One-Eye's news from his own umbrella is that this Hook has a somewhat unusual background, and his reputation is so great that even the garrison commander of Port Dean knows about this person, and even hinted to his subordinates not to provoke him.
This makes One-Eye very helpless.
He himself tried to deal with Hook, but Hook's personal force was strong, and once in a firefight, one person and one sword, killed one hundred and ten of his men scattered everywhere.
That experience later almost became the biggest laughing stock of One-Eye: more than 100 of his subordinates, on the dock, were chased and killed by Hook alone with a knife, as if driving sheep, upside down for hundreds of meters!
That incident made One-Eye lose face!
As a boss, although Hooke's savings may not have much of a loss for him in terms of money, it is a huge damage to his face. Everyone knew that One-Eye was jealous of Hook, but there was nothing they could do about him—if it lasted too long, it would damage One-Eye's prestige!
You are a dignified underground king of Port Dean, the biggest pirate leader in the nearby seas, but you have never been able to deal with a ship boss, this kind of thing spreads, so how can One-Eye convince the public in the future?
Besides, a place like Port Dean is not really so peaceful, where wealth is gathered, dragons and snakes are mixed, and although One-Eyed is beautiful, he secretly does not know how many people covet his status.
If the prestige is damaged, I am afraid that it will allow those careerists who secretly covet themselves to breed ambition and courage.
So, One-Eye must get rid of Hook!
This time, he paid for Mario next to Hooker, which was a very proud means for One-Eye. Through his long-term observation, he decided that Mario was definitely an anti-bone boy.
Sure enough, a little benefit and a promise turned against Mario. This guy patted his chest and promised himself that this time he would be able to secretly connect people and make Hook's rebellion at sea together.
But One-Eye doesn't put all his hopes on Mario.
He still made a backup plan, and personally led his largest ship to the sea, waiting for the place of Half Moon Island! If Mario's rebellion plan succeeded, One-Eye could receive the results on the spot - as for Mario, One-Eye had already thought about it and killed that kid on the spot.
If Mario fails, then it won't be a big loss for One-Eye. On the contrary, Hooker's ship was bound to suffer a revolt by a crew rebellion, and it was bound to be greatly weakened.
At this time, One-Eye decided to go all out at sea and kill this thorn in his side!
In order to be able to complete the battle, One-Eye even traveled this time and showed his weapon at the bottom of the box: artillery!
This is a real artillery, which he got from the umbrella of the army at a high price.
The naval patrol fleet in Port Dean was not large, with only two warships equipped with such expensive weapons as artillery.
Relying on his protective umbrella in the army, One-Eye spent a lot of money to secretly smuggle and buy an artillery piece from the army! Anyway, his brother, who was the adjutant of the garrison, used to be in the logistics system, and with a stroke of the pen, he marked an artillery piece as "damaged" in the logistics booklet.
As for the money for the purchase of artillery, most of it went into the adjutant's pocket, and the small half was used to soothe people up and down and keep them silent.
With such a near-invincible weapon in naval warfare, One-Eye has enough confidence that after getting rid of Hook, no one in the nearby sea will dare to challenge his position!
Originally, Fang had just pursued all the way to the sea, and One-Eye already felt that victory was in his hands.
But the sudden change in this shape made One-Eye, who had experienced a lot of storms, extremely shocked!
He never expected that there would be a magician on Hook's ship!!
Damn it!
That's a magician!
It is the most noble and awe-inspiring group in the entire Roland Empire!
As an authentic Rolander, One-Eye certainly knows very well how powerful a magician is.
So just now, Chen Daolin flew to the ship on a magic broom and attacked, which made the sailors and one-eyed men on the ship extremely panicked.
Although One-Eye later summoned up the courage to order a counterattack with a bow and arrow, and finally forced the magician back, the morale of the man who put it on had already dropped.
Magician? This is a real magician! Who would dare to provoke it?!
On the Roland Continent, there are not no people who dare to provoke magicians. But my own group of people, to put it bluntly, is just a group of pirate gangs, where can they afford to provoke magicians?!
Just when everyone was downcast, it was One-Eyed, and after the initial shock and frustration, this ruthless pirate leader actually gave an order that terrified all his subordinates!
"Keep firing!!"
With One-Eye's ruthless order, his subordinates were stunned!
No one dared to move, everyone looked at each other.
“...... Boss, is it really okay to do this?"
On the deck, a pirate leader with a black turban on his head looked at the one-eyed man in front of him, this guy was the long face that Chen Daolin had seen on Half Moon Island.
As a one-eyed henchman, at this time, only a long face dares to ask questions.
"Why not!"
One-Eye snorted heavily, and he swept his men around him with a fierce look. Seeing with one eye, many of these subordinates were frightened by the magician just now.
Although One-Eye knew that they couldn't be blamed for this, as the leader, he still felt a little dissatisfied.
He suddenly strode over, rushed to the artillery, snatched the torch from the gunner's hand, and shouted, "Are you all scared!!
No one spoke.
One-eyed raised his voice again, and shouted at the top of his voice: "Do you all think that people like us, our identity, can't provoke those terrible magicians at all? What kind of characters are those magicians? With a wave of our hands, we can call the wind and rain, and we can crush us to death like ants, so in the face of that kind of opponent, we can only obediently turn the bow of the boat and run away with our heads, isn't it?!"
There was still no one to speak, and even some of his subordinates looked at One-Eye with fearful eyes, although they didn't say anything, but the expression on their faces clearly expressed the meaning: What else can I do if I don't do this?
One-Eye smiled.
He laughed a few times, and the only eye that was left flashed with a fierce glint, and then with this sinister smile, he suddenly stretched out the torch and quickly lit the fuse on the cannon!
"Ahh
"Oh my God!"
"Boss!!"
There were a few exclamations around, and many people were shocked, but their eyes were still ruthless.
With a bang, the artillery let out a deafening roar! (To be continued)