Chapter 19 – The Knight’s Allegiance
Chapter 19 – The Knight’s Allegiance
Paul held his breath, the last life only existed in the history books of the government and bandits family drama actually in front of the eyes of the living performance.
Through Quirk’s account, it turns out that a few months ago Edward led his own close friends fleet suddenly left, as for what to go, they these peripheral minions are not qualified to know. There is no tiger in the mountain, monkeys call the king, lost the constraints of the scattered pirate gangs all of a sudden against the sky, the fire merge of the fire merge, grabbing the territory of the land grabbing, in the past under the strict orders of Edward shall not be used for fishing, but now, well, regardless of his three sevens and twenty-one, how much can be grabbed counted as much. And a few pirate gangs close to the territory of Gleiman, but boldly to nearly twenty years have not dyed inland advanced.
After continuing to interrogate Quirk for a period of time, Paul ordered to throw this guy into the dungeon, black face to the crowd announced: he is ready to take advantage of the absence of the main force of the pirates, the eradication of the remaining pirates in the Northwest Bay, but also the territory of a clear sky.
Ford chief not without worry said: “I understand the indignation of adults at this time, eliminate the scattered pirate gangs should not be a problem, but if Edward’s main fleet came back how to do? As you saw some time ago, the other clans won’t help us until they themselves are violated, and I’m afraid that we don’t have much chance of winning against Edward based on our one collar alone.”
“That’s why we need to build a strong navy to defeat Edward after he returns with a win.” The nobles of the Kingdom of Aldo didn’t have much of a sense of sea power at all, which was why they allowed the pirates to grow big.
“My lord, it costs a lot of money to build a ship, oh, plus the training of sailors and daily maintenance, it’s a bottomless pit.”
“Don’t worry gentlemen, there will be bread and there will be milk.” The young earl confidently vouchsafed.
The reason why he wanted to eradicate the pirates was not only because of his indignation towards the nobles for not caring about the deaths of the coastal commoners, but there were other reasons as well.
After this period of time, he found that this world was quite backward, except for the nebulous magic in the legend, the overall level of technology was comparable to that of the European Middle Ages on Earth, and all kinds of supplies basically relied on craftsmen to polish them by hand. So he thought hard about the big plan to get rich, and after eliminating all kinds of unrealistic whims, he finally locked in a few industries that could make money right away, such as papermaking, printing books, and ceramics.
But the problem came, Aldo’s northwest region is still relatively backward, the people generally can not read a word, the hands of a few money, who will buy the things he made, the nobles may be interested in novelty, buy to decorate the door and so on, but only by selling to the nobles can not earn much money. So he must sell his products to the more economically developed places further south, such as the king’s capital Jingyao Fort, such as the Corner Bay Alliance further south, or even borrow the hand of the Corner Bay Alliance to transport the products to more distant places.
How to transport the goods there? Taking the land route is impossible, not to mention the fact that the south is at war, the royal family and Jarls are fighting in the dark, even in peacetime, there are still many barriers, and all the lords of all sizes are basically geese and geese. So he set his sights on the sea route, as long as he clears out the pirates and opens up the sea route, he will be able to fully utilize the advantage of the large cargo carrying capacity of the sea transport, and he will not have to put up with the layers of blackmail from the lords all over the world, and he will go straight to his destination.
And to achieve this purpose, the construction of a capable of attacking and defending the sea force is essential, although in addition to the Horned Bay Alliance such as commercial countries, other countries do not have any sense of sea power, however, the known world of the sea is not a power vacuum, large and small pirates, water bandits as many as the North Sea Edward is one of the famous one, the criminals who have been sanctioned by the law, because of the draconian government The criminals sanctioned by the law, the serfs who could not survive because of the tyrannical government, the refugees driven by the war, the thrill-seeking adventurers, as well as the ordinary people who were forcibly captured into the gangs, constantly injecting fresh blood into the pirates.
“Lord Gleeman, I thank you for your great kindness on behalf of the fathers and mothers of my hometown.” The old knight suddenly stood up and bowed deeply towards Paul, his voice surprisingly choked.
“Where where, this is my part as a lord.”
“In the future, I will willingly be driven by you, please don’t disdain my old age and uselessness.” Although it wasn’t a formal declaration of knightly allegiance, the meaning of it could be understood by anyone.
After the old knight finished saying these words solemnly, he sat down and didn’t move a muscle, seemingly reminiscing about something.
What’s going on, did my kingly aura suddenly explode? Paul’s head was full of questions. At this time, Philip butler once again attached his ear and said quietly, “When Knight Schroeder was young, his family was pirated …….”
Originally, no wonder the old knight’s emotions were suddenly so agitated.
He cleared his throat, “Let’s discuss future actions.” Claude, the commander of the second battalion, spoke first: “Count, taking advantage of this great victory, the army’s morale is booming, why don’t we recapture Fulan Harbor in one fell swoop and expel the pirates from the land.”
Immediately, someone expressed their opposition, “We must not be reckless and careless, according to the captives’ statements, they still have at least seven to eight hundred people combined, we are still at a disadvantage in terms of numbers.”
The young earl immediately ordered, “Bryce, you are responsible for recruiting a batch of new soldiers at once, within a month, I would like to see two full infantry battalions.”
Bryce rose and responded, “Yes, Lord Lord.”
The old knight who was still reminiscing about the past a moment ago suddenly spoke, “There is a need to train a group of soldiers who are proficient in water warfare, the recruits should be recruited more from fishermen families, after all, our enemies are pirates, it is also considered to be a cultivation of seeds for the future navy.”
“Seconded, it’s best to dedicate two companies to create a water unit, and train more in water fighting skills such as gang jumping battles, so we won’t have to be so passive the next time we take on pirates.”
“I think the firearms invented by Lord Earl is very suitable to be used on the water, especially that grenade, equip some in large quantities, throw a few of them when you are near the enemy ship, and make sure everyone on the other side hangs.”
“The musket is also good, I saw with my own eyes that four unlucky people on the other side were hit, one shot and they were finished.”
“Build a few paddle sailing ships with ramming horns, or requisition fishermen’s boats to be remodeled, and go downstream along the river Wise ……”
“What you all said is good, I will deploy manpower and increase the production of firearms, and warships will be built.”
The atmosphere at the meeting was getting warmer and warmer, the victory they had just gained had made the crowd in high spirits, and they were offering advice and suggestions.
Just as Paul was listening and thinking about the suggestions of the crowd, a servant quietly came in and said something to the steward Philip, who immediately pulled on his coat.
“Has something happened?”
“My lord, the bell-caster you asked for has been found.”
Paul slapped his thigh and rejoiced, “Oh? Haha, it’s finally here.” Then he said to the crowd that was discussing, “You guys discuss first, I’ll go and come.”
Then he urged the servant who came to report the news to lead the way and ran away in a puff of smoke.
The people who were left behind were dumbfounded, is there anything more important than dealing with pirates?
(End of this chapter)