Extraordinary Sailing

Half a month later.

Boom——

A small merchant ship with an ordinary appearance slowly approached the port of Hartrafah.

Under the command of several pirates uniformly wearing black uniforms, a group of young and middle-aged men walked up the wooden plank road one by one.

"Newly disembarked in line for registration, what about you, don't look around!"

The little leader among the pirates pointed at a young man with pale blond short hair who was in his twenties and shouted.

During this period of time, he has seen too many people of all kinds, and he can't restrain those lawless guys with a good voice.

"Sorry, when can we see the White Knight? I am his admirer, please forgive my excitement at the moment."

The young man named Hawkins was not annoyed at all, and explained to the leader with a well-trained smile.

"Behave well, you will have a chance to see."

The leader's face paled when he heard the words, more than 80% of the people on this island are admirers of the leader, he can still understand the mood of the young people.

During this period of time, the scope of influence expanded with the recruitment of the pirate group.

Almost every day at the pier of Hartrafa Port, a sailing ship carrying young and strong sailboats from all over the world docked, continuously sending new blood to the pirate group.

These personnel who can set foot on the land of Hartrafa Port have passed at least the initial screening to ensure that the newcomers will not have malicious intentions.

During this period, there will be real-time monitoring by the seagulls under the command of Bess at any time, and the combination of medicine and witchcraft is enough to be foolproof.

Even if someone with bad intentions manages to get on board the ship, they will be sunk into the sea ahead of time before they enter Hartrafa Port.

With the presence of two wizards, Aiwen and Milan, the defense strength and means of Hartrafa Port are now far from the original.

Today, this group of people registered in groups, and after receiving their clothing and equipment, there will naturally be dedicated managers who will allocate accommodation and follow-up arrangements for them.

As more and more sailors, free pirates and even civilians joined the "Dragon Cavalry Pirates", Hartrafa Port, which was originally a vast but uninhabited area, gradually became lively at this time.

As of today, various combat, logistics, and civilian personnel have gradually approached the 2,000 mark, and various facilities on the port are also becoming more and more perfect with sufficient manpower and financial resources.

However, as the head of the regiment, Aiwen is very clear that although his privateer fleet is growing in momentum, compared with the same number of regular navies, it is far behind in terms of combat effectiveness and military quality.

Take artillery as an example, the gun handling ability is not even two-thirds of that of the "Storm Horn" navy, no matter in terms of rate of fire or accuracy.

Even the head personnel among them are similar to the crew members on the "Conch", maybe their personal bravery is not inferior, but how can the training mechanism among pirates be comparable to that of the kingdom?

Coupled with the nature of being too loose, the gap between them and the regular army is not just as simple as equipment.

So gathering people is only the first step, but how to gradually build them into an elite is a long way to go!

During this period of time, the growth of personnel has gradually reached Ivan's expectations, and the recruitment conditions will be gradually tightened later, and the current basic situation will be consolidated.

Otherwise, no matter how many people there are, they are just mobs.

Moreover, as the "Dragon Cavalry Pirates" successfully robbed the Santa Babia Company's slave fleet, it has become famous as an emerging force.

It can be regarded as finally gaining a firm foothold in the group of pirates who are as strong as forests in the Golden Sea.

The black dragon head flag of the pirate group has also been inserted into the hearts of all stakeholders around the Golden Sea.

The resulting benefit is that the cohesion and centripetal force of the members of the pirate group continue to improve, and even many pirates have taken the initiative to tattoo the black dragon head emblem on themselves in accordance with the tradition of pirates.

That's a sign of loyalty!

In view of the fact that the number of personnel has risen to a certain scale, Aiwen set up a "fleet command room" that takes care of the overall situation of the pirate regiment by referring to the kingdom's fleet headquarters on a small group of battleships.

One is that the internal management cannot always be done by oneself, but a good management system is required; the other is to free oneself and have more time to pursue extraordinary promotion; the third is to ensure that when Anita returns in the future, the Take over this fleet.

The "command room" is mainly responsible for staff, logistics, intelligence, personnel, training, etc., among the newly joined members, a group of extremely rare experienced civilian personnel and the backbone of former naval soldiers were drawn.

The chief person in charge of the command room is not any Transcendent in the current fleet, but the owl Bess who was the first to follow Ivan and is now no worse than any normal human being.

To put it simply, Owl has been promoted again, serving as a herald, intelligence officer, confidential secretary and chief of staff.

It is almost impossible to place this kind of appointment on any human being, but for Bess, who is Aiwen's familiar, there is no need to worry about usurping power at all.

Moreover, Aiwen, who is not short of money at all, has recaptured a large number of seagulls, and after performing spiritual transformation, he handed over the command to Bess as a public intelligence and communication network strategy for the privateer fleet.

The demonized seagulls led by Bess have become an indispensable core force in Ivan's hands.

Under the command of Bess, the seagulls with an extremely wide detection range spread far and wide to continuously patrol most of the Sirius colony, a small half of the new continent, and the main routes of the open sea.

After summarizing and analyzing the collected information, they have been able to autonomously screen personnel for the pirate regiment, determine looting targets, formulate looting plans, and deliver orders and intelligence to specific combat units.

Bess, who was born for this in the beginning, is better than any human being!

Including the selection of the previous goal of Santa Babia Company, it was actually also made by Bess.

As a reward, Aiwen even taught it the tree of life meditation method of the "Activation School", and accepted it as the head of the school to become a real heterogeneous wizard apprentice.

One day when it advances to an official wizard, it is not impossible to use the basic "transfiguration" to directly transform into a human.

During this period, in addition to the construction of intelligence networks and internal functional departments.

Under the leadership of Aiwen and Milan, they also set up a large-scale myth lock enchantment in Hartrafa Port with reference to the natural conditions of the "Mist Sea" Shipwreck Bay.

Although it only has a few limited abilities such as concealment, shielding the sense of presence, and divination countermeasures, the host does not need to have a high extraordinary level, as long as there are sufficient ritual materials.

But covering the entire Hartrafa Port is undoubtedly a huge project, and it is already a big problem to accurately calibrate the array of spells in such a huge range.

However, with the help of Milan as the main Ivan, and with the assistance of the two apprentices, Beth and Calvin, it took about a week to complete it smoothly.

The dense white mist spread out for more than ten kilometers, adding another natural danger to Hartrafa Port beyond the scattered reefs.

Without the leadership of the Seagull Messenger, no one can pass smoothly except for the transcendents of the third-level legal system.

"Until now, the pirate group has a sense of security!"

In a three-story stone building, which was also newly built at a miraculous speed, the temporary headquarters of the privateer fleet, Aiwen put down the documents in his hand and stretched his waist.

As for why it is a temporary headquarters?

Because on the other side, a medium-sized four-cornered bastion has already begun to break ground, and there will be the real fleet headquarters in the future.

Obviously, even if the defensive measures have been achieved to this extent, Aiwen still doesn't think it's enough.

"Hey! There are too many enemies, there is really no way!"

Even though he had suppressed the restless "adventurer's blood" in his body, he still had to use the most radical method to do a few major things during this period.

Aiwen also clearly saw the hidden dangers behind several times of being in the limelight during this period. Although he has gained fame, he and his "Dragon Cavalry Pirates" must have become thorns in the eyes of the Cyrus people.

So Aiwen is ready to take a break for a while, return to his Commodore status, and cool down the pirate group.

"You're looking for the White Knight, what have you got to do with me, Irving Garriott?"

At least at this stage, no one can ignore the threat that the Cyrus may bring, especially an illegitimate child who was happy to kill but had to consider the consequences at that time, ahem, but it should not be a big problem.

Even the lieutenant captain can't just drive the "quasi-legendary battleship" out to avenge his personal revenge without authorization.

so.

Although one's own strength needs to be improved a little bit, "gou" can go from morning to night, from outside to inside, from head to toe

At least this port of Hartrafa has been hidden from various levels, and it is almost impossible to find its trace no matter whether it is manual investigation or divination.

Moreover, Aiwen has also set up hidden ports among the tens of thousands of islands in the Golden Sea, so there is no need for pirate ships to return here after looting.

He has a complete biological communication network in his hands, no matter how finely divided the team is, he doesn't have to worry about getting out of control.

In particular, the various "trophies" seized last time also need to be disposed of personally as a Brigadier General.

In the last battle, a total of one "Captain Statue·Lucky Gold Coin", one fifth-class ship "Shaker", and eight two-masted slave ships with mixed sails were harvested.

As well as nearly 3,200 slaves, according to the normal market price, their value has exceeded 180,000 golden lions, and they are also the most valuable part of the "trophy".

The harvest of the fleet's collective plunder has exceeded the sum of the gold and silver of the last golden post road, but the fate of these Anuma people in Aiwen's hands may usher in a turning point.

Of course, it is impossible for Aiwen to work hard to be a human rights defender and act as the vanguard of the abolitionist movement.

The real role of slaves is to plunder wealth at the lowest cost. As long as this source of wealth continues to exist efficiently, slavery will not be actively abolished by slave owners.

Only when industrialization flourishes will this situation begin to slowly change, and the significance of slavery's continued existence will gradually weaken.

When the profitability of slavery based on the plantation economy gradually decreased, and it was even far away from the industry, there was soil for the complete abolition of slavery.

So this is not a question of human rights and ideas, but an economic question!

Even in Aiwen's previous life, during the turbulent Bald Eagle Civil War.

Even the original idea of ​​the Northern Commander was not to completely abolish slavery, but to not continue to expand the scale of slavery.

Behind the seemingly high-sounding reason for emancipating slaves, there are actually deeper economic factors, which are the opposition between capitalist industry and commerce in the north and the plantation economy in the south.

Otherwise, more than 600,000 people were killed or injured in the north and the south, just to liberate the slaves, wouldn't it be too ridiculous?

The outcome of the war really determines the future economic model of that country and where it will eventually go.

Besides, although Aiwen has a bottom line, he is not doing charity. What good does it do him to liberate them directly?

but.

He wouldn't just sell them as livestock.

Anyway, the entire tribe was finished, and it was impossible to send them back. They simply referred to the indentured slave system of the Nemansters and asked all the kidnapped slaves to sign a contract.

The normal term of contract slaves is four to seven years. In order to prevent the unbalanced hearts of fellow Nemanster people in the future, Aiwen generously gave these Anuma people an auspicious number-eight!

Give them freedom as long as they work for eight years.

Although he could not interfere with the treatment during these eight years, he could guarantee the execution of the contract by using his status as the brigadier general of the New World Garrison on the surface.

Of course, the price of contracted slaves with a time limit is obviously a discount compared to the original price, but the income is already rich enough for this no-cost business.

Besides, if there is no official channel for the leader of the regiment, who can a group of pirates sell so many slaves to?

"So it's still officials and bandits, and the money is coming soon!"