Pirate Company

Be prepared for danger in times of peace, an eternal truth.

The Red Earth Continent has experienced a series of turmoil. Powerful major powers are secretly licking their wounds. The Hanseatic League seized the opportunity to occupy most of the maritime trade in the Red Earth Continent. They have lost enough vigilance against the crisis that exists at sea.

A huge trading port is equipped with armed siege forces, and there are warships of the Hanseatic League patrolling not far away. It can be regarded as heavily guarded, but even so, several pirate ships led by Klaus looted all the supplies in the port.

What's even more amazing is that the patrol warships of the Hanseatic League didn't respond immediately, and they arrived at the port belatedly to increase their personnel after Klaus finished the looting. Klaus took a few pirate ships full of cargo and left long ago, without even seeing the shadow of the other party's ships.

No one would have thought that someone would have the guts to tease the tiger's whiskers of the Hanseatic League at such a time. After doing such a crazy thing, Klaus' reputation was greatly shaken.

With his fame soaring, Klaus seized the opportunity and absorbed many poor people. His original number of pirate ships quickly expanded to more than 50 pirate ships.

With strength, it is much more convenient to do things. Klaus still has the talent to be a pirate. He led a powerful pirate force in his hand to start a robbery business in the North Sea and Pineapple Sea.

But none of the merchant ships of the Hanseatic League that he targeted could escape his murderous hands. The Hanseatic League intends to destroy Klaus's pirate forces, but they can't catch him.

Unlike other pirates, Klaus's reputation is not all infamy. For the Hanseatic League, Klaus is definitely a horrible and hateful pirate, but for many poor people living in the Northern Red Earth Continent, Klaus' reputation is much better.

Every time he plundered wealth, he would always take part of it and distribute it to the poor, which also gave him the title of "Robin Hood at Sea" among the people at the bottom.

Klaus's successful piracy has also pointed out a way for the poor people in the Red Earth Continent, and more and more people at the bottom have joined his pirate team.

They can't even eat, so they don't care whether their behavior is legal or not. Everyone living in the Red Earth Continent from top to bottom is full of adventurous spirit.

It's risky, of course it's a bit dangerous.

Another point is that they have no psychological pressure at all to be pirates. After all, since the birth of civilization in the Red Earth Continent, the profession of pirates has never been cut off. Some noble lords and even kings of a country started their careers as pirates.

In any case, Klaus's pirate behavior has played a role model for the Red Earth Continent. After being silent for a period of time, the Vikings living in the northern red earth continent came to the sea again and started the pirate business.

Perhaps because of the painful lessons of the last trip to sea, the Viking pirates were more disciplined this time. Except for the merchant ships of the Hanseatic League, they never attacked other merchant ships sailing at sea.

According to the Viking pirates' own explanation, on the ocean now, only the merchant ships of the Hanseatic League are the richest.

This kind of rhetoric, whether others believe it or not, anyway, the Hanseatic League does not believe it.

The pirate forces led by Klaus, together with the re-emerged Viking pirates, seem to be targeting the Hanseatic League, and they will believe that there is a ghost.

The behavior of a family eating alone is not good after all. Before the Hanseatic League had an accident, naturally nothing would happen. Once an accident happened, some people were ready to make trouble.

First of all, small businessmen who were similar to Klaus and had the same experience approached Klaus and formed an alliance force similar to the Hanseatic League to protect their maritime trade.

The model of the Hanseatic League has given a reference to the countries of the Red Earth Continent, led by the national power, using the wealth of the merchants themselves to form armed forces to protect their own maritime trade. It not only reduces the country's investment, but also further strengthens the interests of businessmen. After all, with legal armed forces in hand, the means for businessmen to obtain wealth will also increase a lot.

Various alliance organizations led by the kingdom have sprung up like mushrooms after rain. Among them, the five-port alliance, which is used to protect the maritime trade security of the Tudor Kingdom, is well-known, consisting of Hastings, Denver, Sylvania, Hayes, and Sandwich.

There is also the brotherhood dominated by Klaus, but unlike the alliances established by other kingdoms, they are more like pirates than merchants.

Because of Klaus's pirate behavior, it triggered a series of chain reactions, and the Hanseatic League was no longer a dominant force in the waters of the Red Earth Continent.

Fortunately, most of the forces have the support of the kingdom behind them, and they still maintain basic restraint, not causing horrible destruction like pirates ravaging the Red Earth Continent.

It's just that merchant ships sailing at sea and doing maritime trade are not as safe as before. Maritime armed forces of different forces, seeing merchant ships of other forces, will always play pirates from time to time.

Although the Red Earth Continent is chaotic, there are standardized and large-scale maritime trade protection measures. After all, the economic strength of the countries in the Red Earth Continent has been well supplemented.

To be a little messy, for other kings, the benefits far outweigh the disadvantages. At least the Hanseatic League has lost its hegemony, and the merchant ships of other forces can walk on the sea, right?

The merchant ship of Yixian Food Company also took advantage of this opportunity to return to the ocean of the Red Earth Continent.

Even though Yixian Food Company did not form any alliance forces, there was no force that took the initiative to provoke Yixian Food Company's merchant ships. In their view, Yixian Food Company is harmless, and they are the only ones who won't act as pirates.

In the Red Earth Continent, only Yixian Food Company is a completely legal businessman. The powers of various countries can't afford to offend the powerful king of Iceland, Zhou Yixian, for the benefit of a little looting.

But they didn't know that the instigator of all the recent events in the Red Earth Continent was precisely the one they didn't want to offend, the King of Iceland Zhou Yixian.

If the Hanseatic League hadn't been too domineering, Zhou Yixian wouldn't have bothered wasting the few brain cells to make this happen to them.

Zhou Yixian doesn't like something as unskilled as robbery. His two allies are quite interested.

Recently, taking advantage of the chaos of various forces on the sea, Queen Margaret and Klaus made a fortune by plundering the merchant ships of the Hanseatic League.

For this reason, the two specially invited Zhou Xian to have a celebration.

In the Kingdom of New Fjords, in Queen Margaret's palace, only Monday was free and the three of them raised their glasses of wine.

"I wish us the best of luck in plundering more wealth."

Zhou Yixian, who raised his glass, took a sip of the wine in the glass, but did not agree.

"King of Iceland, I have to say that cooperating with you is the most correct decision I have made in my life."

The accumulation of huge wealth made Queen Margaret dazzled. She did not notice Zhou Xian's indifferent reaction, but flattered with joy.

"The next step, should we be more ruthless? The Hanseatic League is nothing more than that."

Klaus drank the wine in the glass and filled it up for himself again. Just like his name, he liked to drink it all in one gulp. After making several cups in succession, he stopped what he was doing and looked at Zhou Yixian.

Both Queen Margaret and Klaus knew that everything they got would be inseparable from Zhou Yixian, and they still valued his opinion very much.

"Illegal business will not last long after all. Being a pirate has no future."

Zhou Yixian did not agree with them as expected, but expressed his opposition.

"Why, don't we continue? With the power in our hands, there is nothing to be afraid of."

Klaus fell into the thrill of looting, and it was still a bit difficult for him to lose this wonderful feeling. Even though he was afraid in his heart, he still boldly expressed that he did not agree with Zhou Xian's views.

"I think it's better to stop looting for a while longer."

Queen Margaret, sided with Klaus. By plundering the merchant ships of the Hanseatic League, the domestic fiscal revenue has been enriched a lot in a short period of time. She has lost her ambitions for land, and she kind of wants to go back to Harald's old path.

"Do you think, if you continue, how much wealth can this continuous solution bring you?"

Zhou Yixian took another sip of the wine in his glass and asked back.

"There should be quite a few more."

"You mean, the Hanseatic League will do something?"

Regarding Zhou Xian's question, Margaret and Klaus both pondered for a while and gave their respective answers.

Different positions have different perspectives. Queen Margaret has a much longer-term view than Klaus. She felt from Zhou Yixian's question that the Hanseatic League will not let them continue. .

After all, the Hanseatic League, which was jointly established by many red-earth continental kingdoms and had hundreds of cities in the alliance, was not an existence that she and Klaus could compete with at all.

The two of them succeeded repeatedly, what's more, the Hanseatic League was distracted by the strength of the alliance formed by other kingdoms, and did not concentrate on dealing with them.

It is already irreversible for other countries to form their own commercial alliances. The Hanseatic League does not want to go to war with other kingdoms, so it might as well try its best to protect its own merchant ships and strive for a sufficient share of maritime trade.

When the time comes, it will be a thunderous blow to Klaus and the new Viking pirates.

"Really. Can't go on?"

Queen Margaret still didn't give up, seeing that a way to get rich quickly was lost, she asked hesitantly.

Klaus understood that he did not have enough right to speak in front of the two big men, so he just quietly stood aside, waiting for the two to discuss the results.

More, it means to look at Zhou Yixian.