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Chapter 4410 4412 [Three Fires for a New Official]

The method adopted by Xiang Nan was also very direct.

First, he directly caught the deputy Braden Phoenix in the Royal Port Navy who opposed his taking over the Royal Port; second, he personally led a team to capture the big pirate Red Eye Sharlock, who had a reward of 3,000 gold coins on the wanted list.

Braden Phoenix was originally the deputy of the sheriff of Port Royal. After the previous sheriff retired, he thought he could take over as the sheriff of Port Royal and become the ruler of this generation.

But I didn't expect a young man like Xiang Nan to appear out of nowhere. He was only 22 years old this year, and before he could outlast him, he was outlasted first.

Therefore, Braden Phoenix was naturally full of complaints about this, but he did not show it on the surface and was still actively helping Xiang Nan complete the takeover.

His plan was to first stabilize Xiang Nan, paralyze him, and then find an opportunity to plot against him.

Port Royal seems to be prosperous, but in fact, there are undercurrents. There are many pirates and bootleggers doing business here. They are cruel and murderous.

As long as he gave them a little money and a little promise, they could help him get rid of Xiang Nan. Then, he might be able to take over.

Xiang Nan was not deceived by Braden's apparent submission.

Being proficient in Legilimency, he saw through Braden's plot at a glance, and also found out that he was secretly selling gunpowder and firearms to pirates.

So he didn't waste any time and took people to check the armory. He soon found evidence of Bryden's arms trafficking. He was thrown into jail on the same day for "treason" and "collusion with piracy". The worst consequence was hanging.

Now that the deputy sheriff had been imprisoned, the remaining officers and soldiers naturally did not dare to act rashly.

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Afterwards, Xiang Nan personally took action and arrested the big pirate Red-Eyed Sharlock.

Red-Eyed Sharlock is one of the most famous pirates in the Caribbean. He owns a battleship, the Roaring, and more than 30 men. He often robs merchant ships on the sea.

He was clever and cunning, and good at disguise, often sending people to pretend to be sailors in distress to beg for help from passing merchant ships, or claiming that goods in a certain place were selling well and guiding merchant ships there.

Once the other party took the bait, he would rush out in the Roaring Sea Ship and ruthlessly plunder the merchant ships. As a result, his reward was once as high as 3,000 gold coins.

You have to know that the purchasing power of gold coins at that time was very amazing. The annual salary of an admiral would not exceed 800 gold coins. A captain like Xiang Nan only had an annual salary of 100 gold coins.

The bounty for the famous Captain Jack Sparrow was only 10,001 gold coins. It can be seen that although Red-Eyed Sharrock was not a top pirate king, he was also a famous pirate.

Logically speaking, the sheriff of Port Royal should be held accountable for allowing such pirates to roam around.

However, Xiang Nan knew that the person who was secretly colluding with Red-Eyed Sharlock was the Deputy Sheriff of Port Royal, Braden Phoenix.

He secretly colluded with Red-Eyed Sharlock. Sharlock bribed him and he informed Sharlock.

In this way, if the navy wants to take action to suppress the pirates, Sharlock will be able to receive the news in time, set sail and escape, and come back after the storm has passed.

In addition, the former sheriff of Port Royal was old, so they were kept in the dark and succeeded repeatedly.

...Xiang Nan would naturally not be easily deceived. He easily found the hiding place of Red-Eyed Sharlock from Braden Phoenix's mind, and then killed him with his dreadnought.

Before Sharlock could react, he was already trapped in his lair. Facing the bombardment of hundreds of guns from the Dreadnought, he could not get out at all and could only raise the white flag and surrender.

As a result, Xiang Nan not only successfully arrested Sharlock and his gang, but also successfully seized a large number of stolen goods that had not been sold yet, as well as a large sum of money, equivalent to more than 3,000 gold coins.

Xiang Nan gave part of the seized money to Weatherby Swan and part to all the officers and soldiers in Port Royal, so each person could get three gold coins. For them, this was also a windfall.

As for the goods, Xiang Nan planned to return them to the merchant ship robbed by Sharlock.

In this way, all parties benefited and were naturally very satisfied with Xiang Nan.

Especially those merchant ships, they are all afraid of Red-Eyed Sharlock, worried that they will be robbed by him. Now Sharlock has been arrested and will be hanged soon.

In this way, the shipping routes near Port Royal are safe, and they can feel at ease doing business here.

Governor Weatherby Swann was also very satisfied. He had just arrived at Port Royal and hadn't even sat down yet, but Xiang Nan had already reported several great achievements to him.

Catching corrupt officials in the military is certainly a merit; catching notorious pirates is certainly a merit; returning the cargo from merchant ships is naturally even more of a merit.

What satisfied him most was that Xiang Nan gave him a sum of gold coins, more than a thousand in total. Although not all of them belonged to him, he had to share some with his subordinates so that everyone could benefit from it.

But out of 1,500 gold coins, he could at least save 500. 500 gold coins were enough to cover his salary for two years. He had just arrived at Port Royal and had received a windfall. How could he not be satisfied with Xiang Nan? He immediately decided to invite Xiang Nan to his home for dinner.

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"Mr. Norrington, what was the process of catching pirates like? Was it thrilling and exciting?" When Elizabeth heard that Xiang Nan had just arrived and had captured a big pirate, she couldn't help but get excited and kept asking Xiang Nan questions.

"Of course it's thrilling." Xiang Nan said with a smile.

He knew that Elizabeth liked thrilling stories the most, so he added fuel to the fire and exaggerated the process of destroying Red-Eyed Sharlock to make it sound thrilling and exciting, and secretly praised himself for it.

For example, how he saw through the collusion between Braden and Sharlock with his sharp eyes, how he used a clever trick to get Sharlock's hiding place from Braden, how he carefully deployed troops to block Sharlock in his lair, and how he took the lead and led his men to charge into battle...

Xiang Nan was best at making up stories, and Elizabeth was young and inexperienced, so she was naturally fooled by him. She looked at Xiang Nan with eyes wide open, full of admiration.

"Mr. Norrington, you are amazing," Elizabeth said admiringly.

"Nothing." Xiang Nan waved his hand and smiled, "By the way, this is the dagger used by Red-Eyed Sharlock that I seized. The handle is made of whale teeth and the scabbard is made of shark skin. I think you should like it."

"Of course, I like it very much." Elizabeth took it immediately and pulled it out of the scabbard. The dagger was shining with cold light and looked very sharp.

"I wonder if it has ever killed anyone," murmured Elizabeth.

"At least twenty people should have died from this dagger." Xiang Nan said with a smile, "So you have to be careful not to cut yourself."

"I'll keep it carefully," Elizabeth said immediately.