623.Chapter 621 620 I Thought I Was Playing Savage 6, Didn’t Think

Chapter 621 620.I thought I was playing Savage 6, I didn’t expect to go around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and back to Red Alert.
“Come on, come on, have a drink, my dear little grumpy friend, you see, handsome Murphy have taken the initiative to raise the wine glass, people are appointed by the king of the two countries, the Governor Oh, this is placed in the port of Chardonnay how you can also get the favorable treatment of the steam lords of the shit, la.

The warriors under his command are fierce, and they have already made a name for themselves in the Black Flame Pass.

I tell you, you small man do not ask for trouble!”

In the first class dining room of the “Good Luck” airship, the drunken First Mate Claire was persuading people to drink.

This coolly dressed guy is close to Murphy almost sitting in the governor’s arms, this kind of passion makes it difficult for Murphy to endure, but the damn Captain Pablo saw his first mate is close to another man, he actually just laughs and continues to drink heavily, not caring at all.

Hey, are all you pirates this wild?
But Murphy hadn’t been able to push Claire away yet, because this blood fear first mate was now giving himself a talking to.

At her invitation, Captain Paula who was sitting across from Murphy was very upset and grabbed a special wine glass with his cool mechanical hand, shallowly clinked his glass with Murphy and drank the wine inside in a single gulp.

For the good men and women who fought the wind and waves, this meant that the previous grudges were canceled.

Of course, she and Transylvania’s grudge really can not be counted on Murphy’s head is it, but it is a pity that year is the old bastard Salokdar kidnapped her damaged her ship, really want to take revenge now is also too late.

But the governor knows very well, Paula captain heart of the upset did not dissipate, just because she does not want to because of this matter and blood fear fleet relationship to get very stiff, now Pablo captain and Claire first mate obviously stand Murphy side, Paula also do not have too much to do, at least face have to cope with the past.

Murphy thought he had to put some effort into the matter suddenly had a turnaround.

Although this turnaround is quite unexpected, such as Murphy now can not understand how the big pirates across the Sea of Mists, and other people’s halfling serious shipping company involved in such a deep relationship.

But since Captain Paula and the big pirate sat together to drink, shows that this “perfect shipping” company in fact is not on the surface looks so serious place.

Not waiting for him to ask questions, hiccuping Pablo ignored the airship’s pyrotechnic control, picked up a skull-carved pipe and held it in his mouth, and gave Paula a gesture, the latter threw up his robotic arm and threw a ball of flame over to the captain to light up the tobacco.

In the midst of that rich tobacco odor, Pablo leaned back in the sumptuous deck seat and said in that very manly low voice:

“I guess Handsome Murphy must be thinking about some very unseemly things, like the feud between the pirates and the dirigible captain, ha, things aren’t really as complicated as you think.

Before the Blood Fear Clan entered the Sea of Mists, the line of pirates had already existed and prospered, and the Port of Chardonnay was another prosperous seaport, it was unavoidable that it had to deal with pirates, and there was a time when both sides were at a stalemate, but the halflings did have a crooked way of thinking about it.

Especially the steam lords, their wisdom really should not be underestimated.

Anyway, they drew a line in the sand about it, you know?

No matter who’s making a living on the Misty Sea, as long as they don’t cross that line with the Halflings, our ships are going to be able to dock in the bays near Chardonnay Harbor without a pirate flag and send someone ashore to buy something or sell something.”

“The black market of the halflings has a long history, in the era before the Black Plague, there was already a sizable black market in Chardonnay Harbor, and back then it mainly did the smuggling of certain commodities between the Elven Kingdom of Castile and the continental side of the world.”

Captain Paula hummed and slowly explained:
“Later on, after the introduction of the ‘Maritime Commerce Act’, the business of selling stolen goods with pirates quickly took over the mainstream of the halfling black market, and the tops turned a blind eye to this, the pirates had to rely on Chardonnay Harbor to sell their stolen goods, and the city also got the taxes paid by the black market, and the merchants were able to buy cheaper items.

Everyone was satisfied.

It was an agreed upon rule, and how I came to know Pablo and Claire, the old slutty cock, is another story.”

“Don’t hide it, tell it.”

Claire’s first mate leaned over Murphy’s shoulder and grinned:
“This Paula guy likes to play mysterious, in fact, when she was still a little kid, her old dad used to bring her to collect all kinds of rare goods in the pirate harbors in the outer sea, that’s when Babloo and I got acquainted with her old dad.

When her old man was seriously ill, we also made a special trip to the Far East route to bring her old man back the valuable elixir of the ancient kingdom of Calum, which allowed that very good old halfling captain to renew his life for ten years, and was able to teach all of his craft to Paula.

Unfortunately, Paula’s stupid luck was too bad.

On her third independent voyage, she encountered the Fourth Black Plague, and encountered trouble in Transylvania that she had no way of solving with her wits, resulting in the destruction of the family heirloom airship, the ‘Impact Hammer’.”

“Alas, it was a fine ship! The Impact Hammer was a truly armed commercial airship, with two main guns front and rear plus thirty-seven bombing ports that were practically mobile explosives depots.”

Pablo also smoked his pipe and said with a regretful expression:
“Back in the day, my Blood Fear fleet was in big trouble, we were trapped by a large group of Wave Fishers outside the Great Reef Province, or Paula’s old man risked being hanged by the Steam Lords, and used bombing tactics to help us blast our way through.

That’s a life-long friendship.”

“Blanch, stinking pirate! You also know that you and our family are friends for life?”

Captain Paula finally couldn’t hold her tongue.

The irascible halfling female captain clenched her mechanical hand into a fist and thumped it on the table as she cursed:
“I thought I could trust you guys, but you ended up pulling the plug when you met your fellow countrymen! Forcing me to reconcile with this damn vampire, what the hell did he give you guys?”

The two pirates shrugged and didn’t answer.

Murphy laughed, placed his glass on the table, and said to Captain Paula very seriously:
“Transylvania will really make it up to you, Honorable Paula, how about this, I authorize my consul to sign a five-year tax-free contract for your ship, and during these five years, your airships don’t need to pay taxes for carrying any goods into Transylvania.”

“Ten years!”

The halfling captain took off his own captain’s hat, glared at Murphy, and said:
“I’ve got two smaller cargo blimps besides the Good Luck, are you sure you want to give us tax exemption? I’ll give you that, us running hard means a lot of lost taxes for your officers.”

“It’s all just a fly in the ointment, I want your friendship for something really big.”

Murphy wasn’t hiding anything, and since the two great pirates who could hold Paula were now on his side anyway, he lionized him:
“As you can see, now that Transylvania is in the middle of a war, we are seriously lacking in air power, so I hope to use your connections in Chardonnay Harbor to help us get some armed airships.”

“That’s you overthinking it.”

Paula had guessed that this vampire governor who was so humble today must be asking for something, but after hearing Murphy’s request, she instantly pulled a face, picked up her wine glass and toned down a few large gulps before she huffed and whined and said:
“Every airship in Chardonnay Harbor has to be registered with the Airship Bureau under the Council of Steam Lords when it leaves the factory, and we have a specific range of business licenses, commercial airships can’t intervene in the militaries of various countries, and armed commercial airships are directly under the management of the Steam Lords.

Especially after the last black plague, when the lords summoned all the airships to carry out an unprecedented military mission, this kind of control has become more and more strict.

Governor Murphy, it’s really not that I won’t help you.

The various instruments on our airships require the use of specific types of arithmetic pearls as their operating cores, and if we violate the Steam Lords’ requirements, there’s no way for us to receive the necessary overhauls and maintenance in Chardonnay Harbor.

The arithmetic beads on those instruments record the routes of the airships, there is no trick to this kind of thing, otherwise do you think King Louis of the Kingdom of Canary Blossom would not want to use the more convenient airships, but go to spend a lot of money to ask us halflings to build the railroads?
The Steam Lords don’t want the conflict in the outside world to spill over into Halfling civilization, you know?
Unless they want to, there’s no way that military forces like airships, steam trains, and legions of walking machines can be leased to foreign countries, so I suggest you just die.

No airship owner would dare take such a risk.”

“Well?”

Murphy blinked, as he heard the extra meaning of Captain Paula’s words and said:
“So, if the problem of the arithmetic pearl can be solved, there are still many airship owners willing to take the risk, right?”

“Of course, war is a profitable business.”

Captain Paula grunted and ruffled her long, rather dashing blue hair as the halfling captain with the scarred face leaned back in her card seat, also picking up a small, ship-sized pipe, and said:

“A young vampire like you can’t imagine how much it cost the Brass Dwarves to borrow our dirigible formations to transport soldiers into the Dark Mountains during the Fourth Black Plague, much less how much the nations paid to have the dirigible formations risk their lives to transport wounded soldiers.

All I can say is that there are actually hawks in the Council of Steam Lords
They wish to profit from acts of war.

And while most of us halflings are timid and neurotic, occasionally we give birth to guys who are surprisingly bold, like me.” “Right.”

Murphy nodded as he took a piece of paper and pen from his traveling bag, swished a line, glanced at Captain Paula again, twisted the seal on his finger and stamped on it, and asked Pablo to act as a witness and put the seal of the Archduke of Bloodfear on it.

Finally it was handed to Paula.

The halfling captain glanced at the paper, which said very briefly that ten years’ privilege of tax exemption was granted to Paola’s freight company, on condition that Paola must bring back to Transylvania within two months a minimum of three carriers that could be converted into armed airships.

“All you need to do is take it to Miriam and the consul will give you a more formal tax exemption document.”

Murphy spread his hands and said:

“I don’t care how many ships you have under your freighter’s command, this privilege will remain in effect, but for every five ships you add to your command, Transylvania is going to get the right to use and commandeer one of them, big or small.

As for what we use it for, you stay out of it.”

“Are you vampires insane?”

Captain Paula shouted:
“I’ve said it all! The Steam Lords are controlling us with arithmetic beads, and there’s nothing we can do about it.”

“I have thirty-six thousand cracked opbeads in my possession, and I maintain a fairly good relationship with a master engineer who can quickly modify them… No, an alliance!

Trust me, Captain Paula!

As long as you can bring us the blimps we need, I have a way to keep the Steam Lords from catching you!

Those air units that will be re-commanded as ‘Kirov Blimps’ will have one-fifteenth of each battle’s kills deposited directly into your Freightliner’s account in Transylvania as rebates when they are harnessed by my warriors and set foot on the battlefield.

Though we do not yet have a bank here, I am sure that the institution will be set up soon.”

Murphy said as he picked up his glass and raised it to Paula:
“So, good cooperation?”

Paula’s expression immediately became appalled.

She didn’t quite believe the conditions that this vampire said, but if it was true, it meant that her poor “Perfect Shipping” company might be able to accomplish a step forward today.

What is this? The family silver.

This is the business windfall, as long as you stand on it, even if you put a pig in the manager’s office, you can become the big money in the halfling!

“Ah, no, I can’t promise you right away!”

Paula felt her brain burning a little as she put her captain’s hat back on and said:

“Give me two days to think it over, you have to understand, Handsome Murphy, this is a bit of a dry run, I have to convince myself to take the risk, and I have to plan a process to avoid scrutiny if I do.”

“No problem, I’ll give you five days to think about it.”

Murphy said as he took a sip of his drink:

“You can start by going to Miriam to sign the tax exemption papers, and on the way, make another run to Chardonnay Harbor to bring us back the various machines and supplies we’ve procured there.

There are several factories over here waiting to be opened, and speaking of which, would the factory owners in Chardo Harbor be interested in investing in Transylvania? It’s a newborn fertile land, a true blue ocean market, I guarantee they won’t lose money.

Also, your crew would love to see Transylvania, so could you land your cool blimp?
I’d like to invite my generals and commanders to board the airships to observe and get a minimum idea of the war behemoths they’ll be able to navigate later.”

“Of course of course, in front of such a huge profit, all of this is trivial.”

Captain Paula’s mind was no longer in this dimension.

She agreed with her mouth full, and then returned to her captain’s cabin for some serious and rigorous thinking.

A few minutes later, the hovering blimp began its descent, and amidst the cheers of the halfling crew, Murphy gave Pablo a wink, and the two vampires made their way to a more private smoking room under the guise of enjoying some tobacco.

Captain Pablo leaned back in a big-brother sitting position against the all-glass built viewing skylight, gulping down the smoke while looking at Murphy, waiting for a question.

“Why did you help me?”

Murphy refused the tobacco that Pablo handed him, the stuff didn’t fit the persona he had been maintaining.

He asked:
“Do you and Claire have a favor to ask of me?”

“Of course, I don’t hide that.”

Pablo laughed and said:
“Claire is dying of impatience, and if I hadn’t been calming her down, my stupid first mate would have had to use a stupid color seduction technique to beg for your help. But I know that against a woman of Grand Duke Tris’s rank, she doesn’t stand a chance of winning.

We have a great matter to discuss! A great matter that concerns the survival of the Bloodfear Clan.

But now is not the time to talk about it, I must tell you very seriously, Handsome Murphy, Claire and I and our marines didn’t come to Transylvania to put up with this damning fuss just because Venerable Lord Paying had a kind heart.

We had our own troubles to deal with.

It was very, very scary trouble, and in fact, after we left, the entire Blood Fear fleet has suspended their activities in the Sea of Mists and stayed honestly in the Blood Swept Harbor.

It wasn’t that we suddenly changed our nature, or that the Misty Sea suddenly became dangerous.

The Blood Fear Clan is in trouble, Handsome Murphy.

To escape that terrible disaster, Claire and I took a trip to the Far East six months ago.

We paid a fortune that could have bought a small duchy to get a clear line of guidance from the Dragon Emperor’s Chintian Supervisor’s Stargazer, and upon our return to the Vampire Coast, Venerable Lord Paying sent a message.

This is ample proof that that guidance was correct.”

Captain Bloody exhaled a smoke ring to hide his cheek as he whispered:

“You! You can help us! You can save us! We’ll help you win this battle so that you’ll owe a favor that has to be repaid, and it’s only at that point that I’ll tell you about the trouble with Blood Fear.

I know that you will help.

That’s the way pirates do things.”

(End of chapter)