Pirate Kingship

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

A three-masted merchant ship with the Hettings Blood Cross flag looked completely inconspicuous from the outside, but inside it was guarded every three steps and every five steps, and was heavily guarded.

The legal network covered the entire ship, leaving no blind spots untouched.

A large number of elite armed personnel in uniform had eyes as sharp as knives, and they did not relax their vigilance even on the sea, which showed their elite.

Everyone carried knives and guns, equipped with the most sophisticated sabers of the Hettings Kingdom, and the latest model of the Charleville 1470 flintlock.

It can be said that they were armed to the teeth.

Even the most ordinary sailors on the ship were much stronger than those on other merchant ships, which showed that they were rich!

This was the Royal Tax Inspection Bureau of the Kingdom led by the Minister of Finance.

Motto: "The greatest evil of criminals is tax evasion!"

Due to the love-hate relationship with the Iris Kingdom in the past, the war was like a gold-eating beast that devoured the kingdom's finances like a crazy gold-eating beast.

Byron's eighth-generation ancestor, John, the "Lost King", changed his demand for his nobles from serving in the army to providing the country with a variety of additional heavy taxes.

This change caused the nobles to join hands and force him to sign the Magna Carta under the King's Law on June 15, 1215 in the Silver Age.

One of the main purposes was to reduce the king's right to levy taxes.

Everyone knows that "tax" is the money that the country and the king can control, and it is a real representation of national strength.

The Lancasters are always thinking about taking back this power.

Kings of all generations secretly supported Protestantism, suppressed theocracy, and gathered royal power.

Although they had no power to increase taxes internally, they established a professional team of tax officials while firmly grasping the Royal Navy, the king's private army.

Equip the Royal Tax Inspection Bureau with armed personnel to collect taxes on land, commodity transactions, trade and imports, and strive not to miss any copper coins that should be collected.

In the era of Henry V, when the royal power was at its peak, the power of this team also reached its peak.

It even has its own armed inspection team, prison, court, lawyers, and intelligence department. It can go head-to-head with any great noble family in the country.

During this period, it naturally fought with the noble parliament and various forces countless times.

If it continues like this, there may be such a scene one day:

"I will solve the cases that the trial court sequence cannot solve, I will kill the people who the trial court dare not kill, and I will manage the things that the trial court dare not manage.

In a word, I will manage the things that the trial court can manage, and I will manage the things that the trial court cannot manage even more. I will kill first and report later, and the royal power will grant it!

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

Cool!

Byron's words "Only death and taxes are inevitable" also have a fine tradition.

When the White Rose York family seized the crown, the butt decided the head, and naturally inherited this set of systems that they strongly opposed in the past.

Even under the leadership of the Earl of Warwick, they are in a great position to surpass their predecessors.

"Cheers!"

"To our hard work in the ocean voyage for a month, and to the bright future that is about to come."

In the best officer's cabin in the stern building, a row of seven or eight powerful tax officials sat around the table.

Among them, there were only one or two [Law Masters] and [Treasure Hunters], and the rest were all [Golden Eyes] and [Treasure Guards] who were most sensitive to money in the Jinyuan sequence.

With their unparalleled sense of smell for money and numbers, the Jinyuan sequence can switch seamlessly in both the banking industry and the tax department.

They do better than many [Law Masters] who have the deepest research on dogma and tax law.

Once they are asked to take action, even the ancestral money jars buried in the yard for decades can be dug out.

These tax officials are pampered most of the time. Even if they enjoy the best living conditions on the ship, they hate this long ocean journey.

At this time, they are finally about to leave the first circulation belt, and everyone is in high spirits.

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

It's just a dog raised by His Majesty.

The amount of embezzlement this time is huge, and the evidence is irrefutable. Once the sword of Damocles falls, they will definitely die."

"That's right. The fight between the Kingdom of Castile and the Star-Moon Empire is a great opportunity for us, Hastings, to emerge as a new force.

It's a waste to give a good place like Jamestown to such an upstart.

[Kingmaker] His Excellency promised that as long as the Newman brothers who are loyal to His Majesty Edward are turned over, Everything they have will be handed over to us for management.

I believe that the people of the colonies have been looking forward to an honest governor for a long time.

Gentlemen, we must not let down the trust of His Excellency the Kingmaker. "

"That's right, His Majesty Edward is still too young, and this overwhelming wealth... No, it's the wind and waves that he can't control, so let us bear it for the Newman brothers."

"They were imprisoned by His Excellency the Kingmaker's [Sword of Damocles], and now they are probably trembling with fear, hahahaha"

The transcendent status of the tax collectors also cultivated their arrogant character.

So much so that the two pirate generals who were very close to the Newman family in the intelligence were not taken seriously by them at all.

They specially traveled with the two warships of the Inquisition.

The ship full of mid-sequence extraordinary people and holy relics will naturally make all invaders die miserably.

Even if the suspected fourth-level [Blue Hair] Barbarossa Helding came in person, he couldn't hurt them at all.

With the Law Network, it is even more impossible to break through the inside.

But at this moment, the treasure hunter among them suddenly moved his nose and asked in doubt:

"Do you smell a hint of blood?

It seems to be mixed with a little strange smell of alchemical gunpowder."

He followed the smell and gradually lay on the floor.

Everyone's eyes followed him and gradually fell to his feet, all of them were shocked:

"Alchemical gunpowder. ? ? ? "

In the cabin just below the poop.

[Falcon] Alvin started a deep-sea jump to come here, and then disguised as a crew member to sneak on board, and has been lurking for a day.

At this time, a glass bottle filled with blood-red liquid was placed on the ground.

A little bit of liquid was spilled on the ground.

Once it came into contact with the air, it immediately began to roll and bubble violently, emitting a red sticky mist, and became extremely unstable.

"This 'Song of Blood and Fire' needs further improvement by Violet.

If Mr. Falcon hadn't been so fearless, I wouldn't have dared to use such a dangerous thing if my real body was here."

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

The core is the [Gunpowder Formula·Kiss of Flame] that she has used many times and is more expensive than gold.

It has mediocre power, but if eaten by various animals, it will react with their flesh and blood to become a terrifying burning or explosive.

But this time, they didn't use ordinary animal flesh and blood.

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

It is equivalent to turning a third-level extraordinary person into an alchemical bomb and repeatedly purifying it to obtain the best product.

Even Violet, the master craftsman, was sighing that she had never made such a luxurious artwork in her life.

And named it the ultimate art - Song of Blood and Fire!

Byron himself was trying to distance himself from the matter.

Naturally, he would not drag Violet into the water. With this "big firework", he secretly lurked on the inspection team's boat alone.

He took out a signal gun that was commonly used on ships during nighttime sailing, aimed it at the glass bottle, and fixed a delay device provided by Violet on it.

Set the time to ten seconds.

Then he slid out of the porthole like a fish.

Diving into the water, he joined the man-eating shark that had been waiting here for a long time, and instantly fled underwater.

"False tax avoidance: studying tax laws, forging account books, arguing with tax collectors, and hiring lawyers to debate in the court.

And the real tax avoidance is:."

Boom--! ! !

In a loud noise that shook the earth.

The tax officials who had just noticed something was wrong had no time to react, and the astonishment on their faces was forever frozen.

The hot shock wave swept in all directions with "Blood and Fire Song" as the center.

Both the ship planks and human bodies were instantly torn to pieces, and then turned into ashes in the high temperature.

Even the iron cannons equipped on the ship were swept by countless fire dragons, and when they were blown up into the sky, they had already shown signs of melting.

In the eyes of the onlookers, they only saw a black and red cloud of fire rising into the sky.

Even the explosion of the ammunition depot was far less spectacular than this.

Byron, who was running for his life, did not find that in his logbook [Secret: Prophecy, Kingship and the Prophecy of the Racial Revival of the God of Wild Hunt, Woden, Historical Influence 69]:

"In the Empire Era, the Bay People were still chasing wild deer in the forests of the Evernight Peninsula. Hundreds of years later, they will chase the entire Silver Continent.

Having conquered the continent with force, but being conquered by pagan beliefs, the glory of the Bay People in the North 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 written record quietly emerged, but without advancing any deciphering density, it disappeared again.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Many extraordinary people in the nearby sailboats rushed onto the deck and looked here.

Especially the two strongest warships of the Inquisition in the entire fleet.

The leading [Corona Priest] took out a holy relic that looked like a crystal ball and placed it in front of his eyes, aiming it at the fire dragon that soared into the sky.

After carefully looking at it for a long time, he muttered to himself with a dark face:

"The divination result, everyone died, the cause of death. The flare went off accidentally?!"