Extraordinary Voyage

2020-11-02

Chapter 374 Recruiting

This early spring, which has made all countries unstable, has quietly passed.

It’s April, unconsciously, and even the kingdom’s northern colonies are already dyed with a deep green.

East Lenches, one of the Imperial Family colonies of Pharetis, Port Raleigh, is also the current capital of the colony.

Alwin and a chubby middle-aged gentleman are enjoying a sumptuous afternoon tea together in a very colonial cafe built of spruce wood.

The new continent’s specialty High Level coffee, almond sponge cake with native Faletis, and crème brûlée with pickled berries, seems simple enough to be luxurious enough for most colonists.

“Thanks to Director Necardo for his support for the construction of Hatrapa Port. If it weren’t for you and the East Lunch Company, even if this port was handed over to me, I don’t know how much it would cost. It’s going to take a long time to get it working properly.”

Alwin, in a white shirt, slim-fitting army pants, and boots, held his coffee mug in a leisurely manner, with his ruby cane beside him, and the shadows still lingered. There was a slight crackling sound.

“It’s just a small matter, it’s all for the great cause of the kingdom.

If you need anything, please feel free to ask, as long as it’s within my purview, I can give you priority to solve it. .”

Negado has long since lost the equal attitude he had when he first met Alwin, and he has been intimidating since he saw his power in Lengshuihewan.

Since then, he has been promoted to brigadier general in just half a year.

He was then appointed by Lieutenant General Gustav to be the second commander of the Pharretis garrison in the new continent, and at a young age he became the first Pharretis military commander in the entire new continent. The existence of ten.

The commander-in-chief of the garrison is a major general named Martin Christopher, the Great Knight. The main body under his command is the army force, which has been stationed in the colony for a long time, and actually mainly acts as a security police.

Although the actual battle strength of this unit is definitely not as good as that of the Navy, it is impossible to bypass them if they want to do something in the new continent.

And even if Alwin wasn’t prepared to get too involved in the garrison’s affairs, the position was there, and he already had the power to mobilize a small portion of the armed forces in the colonial cities without the consent of the governor.

The influence cannot be underestimated.

At this time, even in terms of his position in the kingdom’s bureaucracy, Necardo, as the trade director of the Eastern Lunch, already needs to look up to him.

“By the way, Mr. Director, you know, I need to recruit a ‘special’ group of seafarers.

You’ve been in the new continent for a long time, and you’re far more comfortable here than you are here. I know better, do you have any good advice on this?”

Alwin, who is in the know, has no need to scruple, and blunt seeks the help of the old bureaucrat.

Actually, the situation in the new continent has no sign of settling down during this time.

It was originally because Cyrus occupied the region with the best resources and the most valuable output. Among all the merchant ships going between continents, of course, their merchant ships were the most valuable.

It’s also a favorite target for pirates!

But now, under the leadership of “Oathbreaker” Bradley, a large number of pirates have begun to loot merchant ships from other countries.

Even if there is a difference in value, he can get a part of the so-called merit certificate from the pirate king.

At the same time, he shared his smuggling channels, private ports, extraordinary knowledge, and even some interest subsidies, and of course, the promise of building a country in the future.

Bradley even drew a blueprint for the location of the nation’s founding.

In the south of the new continent lies a vast land called Cabral, north of the Viceroy of La Plata on the shore of the Eastern Sea.

This area has fish and dragons mixed in together, and it is also the most complex place at present. There are colonists from many old continent countries, escape slaves, original Atrian natives, and Huge number of hybrids.

The strongest of them is the remnants of Gashna and Azik, who were once destroyed by Cyrus, and there are still a large number of indigenous wizards and Totem Warriors.

Although it was chaotic, it was regarded as the most ideal place by the pirates headed by Bradley to build a free pirate country.

Obviously, the pirate king was prepared to fail, and followed Cyrus all the way to the dark.

In this case, after several rounds of consultations, countries have reached a common resolution.

Compared with Cyrus, the military power of various countries is of course weak. Sending warships directly to meet force with force is a loss-making business who will not do it.

So they all adopted the model of large-scale privateering operations organized by the government, admitting that any individual looting the Merchant ship of Cyrus was a legal act and would not be regarded as a pirate.

Prior to this, privateering certainly existed, but it never rose to the level of systemization, normalization, and unification of goals.

Exactly like Alwin’s “Blood Loss Program”!

He wouldn’t believe it if he didn’t have the high-level executives behind Faretis to help fuel the flames.

So, under this premise.

Alwin can’t be left behind. Captains who have accepted privateer permission from the kingdoms may flock to them, but Alwin, the semi-official privateer fleet of Pharetis, has to start taking action. score.

The most important point is that I have never been a pirate, and I am not familiar with the way.

Even though they already had a few high-end ships captured from Cyrus, most pirates never dared to think of high-end ships, but they lacked a large number of people who could move them into motion.

The “Endeavour” has left the port of Hatrapa, and all the wounded who have been permanently disabled in the battle, including the first mate Borg, have also been sent to the warship by Alwin to return to the homeland. At this time Only 209 crew members of the original Cape Storm remained on the entire island.

Now, not to mention the few battleships that he has allocated to become the main force of the privateer fleet, even the “Cape of the Storm” itself lacks a lot of manpower.

Hearing Alwin’s words, Neicado, who has worked in the new continent for many years, pondered for a while:

“If it is only for Cyrus, I know a group of very suitable people. people.

Don’t know you’ve heard of Santo Dominque Island and the Arawak?”

Hearing the familiar words, Alwin was intrigued and put it down. Coffee cup in hand:

“Santo Dominic? You mean that ‘Voodoo Poison Cult’ in the new continent’s Place of Origin and base camp?”

“That’s right! However, Santo Dominque is its current name, and when the Aboriginal people lived there, it was called Hispaniola.”

Originally one of the Atrians was called Hispaniola. The tribe of Arawak, living on the island of Hispaniola.

This island ranks second in the yellow golden sea, with an area of 27,000 square kilometers, rich in sugar cane, coffee and rice.

But about ten years ago, the Cyrians, in order to prevent the infiltration of the Sacs (who wanted to recreate a similar alliance with the Iroquois on the island), used the army against these inhabitants. Massive raids and blockades were carried out.

The natives of the Arawak tribe were driven to sea by slaughter and famine.

But the self-righteous Cyrus did not expect that the Arawaks who retreated to the sea gathered around the northern island of Tortuga and became irreconcilable pirates with Cyrus.

Moreover, the fierce and unafraid of death and the means are cruel. In order to avenge the massacre of Cyrus, most of the Cyrus captured by them will be executed.

There is no hostility towards the pioneers of the old continent other than the Cyrus.

Because Tortuga Island is also in the northern part of the golden sea, the East Lunch Company has dealt with them before and also helped deal with spills of war, which can be said to be good.

“It’s just that their current living conditions are not very good. Tortuga Island is not enough to support too many people. Maybe enough people can be recruited from them.

cough Cough, just because Arawaks now have a male-to-female ratio of about 7:3, and male-to-male pairings are common among them, and they even have a formal marriage-like relationship.

Do you mind that?”

Alwin thought about it for a while, and although there were some minor glitches, it didn’t affect the raid. And in terms of their “interest-driven” management style, race shouldn’t be a big problem.

So, Alwin nod

:

“I don’t mind, I respect other people’s customs and mate choice.”tone barely fell, looked up the window and saw Milan walks by talking and laughing with a young girl.

The girl’s long-haired shawl wears a delicate feathered headband and wears a short leather armor, revealing large areas of delicate wheat-colored skin.

The whole person is like a beautiful and dangerous female leopard, which is definitely different from the numb native slaves who are submissive in the current colony.

“Huh, that’s what?”

At the same time.

The boundary between the outermost part of the yellow golden sea and the Black Sea, which is busy with shipping, is near Baptos Island.

“Pop! It’s the ‘Iron Bone’ again, let them go on like this, how can we loot?!”

A pirate ship with black sails, wearing a The first mate of the pirate with a red hood and gold teeth put down the brass telescope in his hand, spit and cursed bitterly.

Not far from them, a merchant ship with a full load of cargo and a good draft was moving slowly, which should have been a very suitable prey.

But it is very paradoxical that a pirate ship with black sails is escorting it beside it.

Through the bow gun, which is as recognizable as a vertebra, the pirate chief mate can easily identify who is the one who is bad for him.

The old continent peer “Iron Bone” William, who has risen for less than a year!

This is a typical “righteous thief”.

Whether it is a legal merchant ship or a smuggling ship, this guy only charges 1/4/2022 of the total value of the goods, and will send it out as an escort gift to prevent it from being robbed by other peers.

Because of its special geographical location, Baptos Island is a hunting ground for many pirate ships waiting for their prey. Now a guy who suddenly appears to disrupt the situation, of course, makes many people very unhappy.

But fearing the strength of “Iron Bone” William, after several attempts by Early-Stage, for the time being, no one dared to single out the rules set by William!

However, let’s go on like this

“Captain, the golden sea is no better than the east coast of the Black Sea.

There are only two pirate kings here, and there are even more big pirates. Countless, will we be sapped by these colleagues after a long time?”

The first mate with a beautiful briar pipe breathed out a deep breath of white smoke and said with some concern.

“That’s right, Captain! Shall we change places? Or go back to the east coast of the Black Sea!”

Sturdy youth with a bare bronze upper body also echoed, After being rescued by the navy and escaping from the great pirate Bassem.

It has been almost a year since he came to the new continent, and he can clearly feel the growing dissatisfaction of his colleagues here.

Even if they docked at a pirate’s private port, the crew on the ship did not dare to say the name of the ship they were on, just for fear of revenge by their peers who had broken good things.

With two iconic pirate machetes on his waist, a middle age person with azure stubble, hearing this turned his head and raised his brows:

“If you These bastards can live up to their expectations, do we still need to look at other people’s faces? This is already the third place we have changed!

I almost sold myself to that vengeful navy boy for your bastard captain, otherwise As for the fact that you are still in the new continent and dare not go back?”

I never thought about it, tone barely fell.

A white seagull flying over their heads suddenly swooped down.

Fluttering –

Landing lightly on the mizzen spars.

dong!

Spit out an ancient Gashna gold coin and smashed it to the feet of Iron Bone William.

In his ghostly expression, he said slowly:

“Good day, Mr. William! I finally found you, you promised me to do three things for me. It shouldn’t be forgotten, right?”

Thank you for the two hundred rewards for rowing without paddles! Thank you for your monthly and recommended tickets!

(end of this chapter)