European Financial Emperor

057 A crazy salty part-time job (1)

It was around the time Yihwan’s top passed through central Argentina.

Lee Hwan, who held a concert at night, allowed sailors to show off their talents and skills to the fullest.

Some people danced to an upbeat rhythm, and some people who had nothing to do tomorrow drank alcohol.

As Lee Hwan created a free atmosphere, the sailors followed him with sincere respect.

The black mercenaries who originally followed Yi Hwan also admired Lee Hwan once again and swore allegiance to him.

Such Lee Hwan’s sailing method really worked like magic to summon pirates at night.

ding ding!

Even today, the emergency bell rang to the top who had a concert on the deck without fail.

“I can see the light ahead!”

“fire?”

“It’s coming pretty quickly!”

Hwan Lee, who had climbed the watchtower of the West Stellar, looked through the telescope and saw a ship lit up from a distance of 1km away.

It was clear that pirates were either calling for help or rushing to loot at the light.

Lee Hwan burst into laughter.

“You changed your mind to die.”

“What should I do?”

“If the enemy wants to fire a cannon, they will respond with the cannon.”

“Sink it?”

“You have to let them know that looting is expensive.”

The West Stellar deliberately took a step closer to the approaching ship.

All the merchants had already evacuated to their cabins, but the flagship was trying to sort things out for fear that the enemy’s cannon might hit them.

The West Stellar, with a crew of 350, was made entirely of iron armor and was equipped with an enormous length of guns.

However, the vessel that stood in the way of Lee Hwan was much larger than that.

“… … Commander, this is a large sailing ship. A ship that big is hard to find even in the Netherlands.”

“Yeah, it’s just a neckline.”

They continued to run with the momentum to destroy Lee Hwan’s ship.

The West Stellar’s diesel engine was equipped with a generator that could provide power while the ship was sailing, which enabled the use of light bulbs.

When Lee Hwan’s flagship turned on a large incandescent lamp to illuminate the surroundings, the color of the enemy’s flag appeared.

“It’s a black flag. You’re blatantly calling yourself a pirate.”

“Does it sound like you’re repeating yourself wanting to die?”

He decided to take this opportunity to test West Stellar’s guns.

Lee Hwan ordered the artillery to fire the artillery.

“Sink the pirate ship. Prepare to fire the main battery guns.”

“Target, the pirate ship ahead! Main battery guns, ready to fire!”

ding ding ding!

The bell rang four times, giving the artillery orders to fire.

After the observer identified the location of the pirate ship with the torch lit, he gave the coordinates to the cashier so that he could calculate the shooting specifications.

Although not as precise as modern marksmanship, shooting at an enemy within a kilometer was a breeze.

Bibi B B B B B… … .

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Morse code was passed between the wired signal between the checkout and the observer, and it was converted back to a shooting specification and passed to the gunner.

The shooter turned the muzzle to the target by indirect aiming.

Ricky Rick!

The shooting data obtained by East Stella through thousands of shots found out how the angle (square) of the charge and the muzzle was proportional to the firing range, and instead of aiming the muzzle directly, the muzzle was used using the declination angle divided by 6,400 according to the exact shooting specification. It was also found that it is more accurate to turn

“The main battery guns are ready!”

When the firing line was informed that preparations for firing were completed from the hulls that had been loaded, the fire control station gave permission to fire.

Beep beep… … .

When the signalman gave the gunner an OK sign, he immediately pulled the trigger handle.

“launch!”

Whoops!

The shells flew off with a great roar.

The sea provided a natural buffer for the guns, so recoil from fire was much less. Thanks to this, Shingles went straight to re-aim.

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Meanwhile, the shells that flew out 850 meters accurately penetrated the enemy’s hull.

And after a while, the pirate ship exploded.

Aww!

The lieutenant laughed and reported to Lee Hwan.

“It’s a hit!”

“Okay, first hit.”

“There was no wind and the tide was calm. It would have been better to practice if the conditions were a little worse, but unfortunately.”

Even at this moment, Lee Hwan grinned at the lieutenant who was worried about the improvement of the soldiers’ skills, like the sound of air blowing in a balloon.

“Hey, do you know how much it costs per shell?”

“iced coffee! That’s right, I forgot.”

The reason that such a relaxed battle could be fought meant that Lee Hwan’s firepower was so overwhelming.

“After checking the enemy’s wreckage, rejoin the main unit.”

“Yes, Commander!”

The West Stellar, which started the diesel engine and headed to the enemy’s site, found pirates drowning in the sea.

They grabbed a floating piece of wood and begged for life on the West Stellar.

“Help me! I will do anything if you save me!”

Lee Hwan went out to the deck and watched it directly.

But he shook his head.

“Wow, you idiots. What time is it now, to pirate?”

“What should I do? May I get you?”

“What can I do with these guys? They make a living by slicing people like meat.”

“I might give you a bounty if you take me to the Royal Navy stationed in the Falklands. If it was a famous pirate ship, you could get an incentive from the Dutch royal family.”

“incentive?”

“When I left the Netherlands six months ago, the bounties on pirates and traffickers were quite high. There were people who bought guns in East Stella because they deliberately went after them.”

Even before the guns and ironclad ships were sold, there were quite a few people who went out to sea to beat the pirates themselves.

This was possible because the reward system, which was created when the Imperial Sailing Corps was founded, has now completely established itself.

If so, it was said that pirates fishing on the way out like this would be quite profitable.

“Okay, then I’ll get it and bring it to the Falklands, okay.”

Lee Hwan decided to throw a net at the drowning pirates and pull them up in one shot.

Originally, it was a net brought to catch fish in an emergency, but it was deliberately thrown to kill the flag of the pirates.

The pirates who swam to the vicinity of West Stella by grabbing a piece of floating wood to live far away, knelt in front of Lee Hwan and were meekly captured.

Some of them even declared themselves to be captains.

But his identity was astounding.

“I am Hernando Persida, a nobleman from Spain.”

“Hernando Persie?”

“I have the right to negotiate the price, so I want you to take me to the Spanish port.”

Lee Hwan laughed as if he was full of energy.

“Hey, you bastard. What’s going on in the yard that’s all gone?”

“… … Here in the South Pacific, Spain and several countries in South America are currently at war with each other. Sometimes the ship may be damaged or even completely destroyed. Being defeated in battle is definitely my mistake, but can I claim my rights as a noble?”

“Now, when did South America and Spain end the war? Are you talking like that?”

He couldn’t confirm his identity in this vast sea whether he was a Spanish noble or not, and Lee Hwan didn’t even want to do that.

He tied up all the pirates, including the captain, and threw them into the corner of the cabin warehouse.

Hernando Persie, who sat in the corner of the warehouse made of iron bars, shouted at Lee Hwan, a whale whale.

“I am Hernando Persida! A Spanish nobility!”

“… … It’s terribly noisy.”

Eventually the jailer gagged his mouth.

***

After some time, Lee Hwan arrived at the British Naval Base in Falkland.

He took the alleged Hernando Persie and his men to the British Logistics.

The bounty officer at the logistical base was startled to see Hernando Persie.

“Huh! Isn’t this guy Hernando Persie, a pirate from the Spanish nobility?”

“what? Was this guy a real nobleman?”

“Haha, the Baron may not have known well. He is the second son of the Persie family, a Brazilian official who came down from Spain, and he is fighting a very lonely battle against the Brazilian Empire.”

“What, then, are you saying that the war was not over by yourself?”

“It’s like that.”

“Hey, that’s funny. You said you were shadowboxing alone during the war that was over.”

“Shadowboxing?”

“It means that you did the flashlight on your own.”

“Haha, yes. They looted all passing merchant ships to go to war, and even put a bounty on this guy’s neck in Spain. There are even rumors that the Spanish royal family downgraded him to slavery.”

He couldn’t have been an outrageous person.

Lee Hwan looked at Hernando, who was still in prison with a sly, and still shouting himself as a nobleman.

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Maybe that guy was a monster born of this age of war and greed.

He was doing some crazy things, but he must have struggled to make a living in his own way.

However, the act of plundering merchant ships while selling the name of the nobility could not be tolerated.

“Anyway, how big is that guy’s neck?”

“75 pounds.”

For £75, you can buy about 568 grams of gold, which was worth three years and eight months even for a high-paid Swedish worker to roll over.

Lee Hwan expected that he would receive ten times that amount because he was from a noble family, but it seems that was not the case.

Still, it was a decent harvest by catching one slave whose name was removed from the Spanish aristocratic list.

However, the officer in charge said something that would turn Lee Hwan’s outfit upside down.

“Haha, if you had brought the ship alive, you would have gotten 800 pounds. I’m sorry.”

“… … What does that mean?”

“It is said that the ship he was driving was originally the flagship of the Spanish Governor-General’s fleet. He boldly stole it and fled, it is said that it must have contained at least £200 of the Spanish royal voyage.”

“Huh!”

“Now that the Spanish Navy is building a new governor’s flagship, it doesn’t mean much, but it’s the biggest and fastest ship in Spain, so the bounty was pretty high.”

He could have earned ten times more, but it was quite a shock that Lee Hwan broke it with his own hands.

However, there was one thing I learned through this, and that was that the bounty business was quite savory.

Lee Hwan now decided to regularly stamp the Falklands.

He obtained a list of bounties from the current British and Dutch royal families from the Falkland Logistics Base and kept them in his flagship.

He said, gathering the mercenaries together and handing out copies of the bounty list.

“From now on, I will stop by the Falklands and hand over the pirates. The money received as a bounty will be divided equally among you. Of course, the items that come out of robbing a pirate ship are equally shared.”

“Oh oh… … !”

“Isn’t there anything like this for a pastime?”

As a part-time job that the mercenary fleet could do, there would be nothing like this.