Pirate Kingship.

Chapter 164: Tayaxing, King Byron!
During the Age of Discovery, the first to reap the benefits of monopoly was the maritime overlord, the Kingdom of Castile.

Beatrice, who almost sat on the throne of the Queen of the Golden Empire, once said:
"This sea belongs only to Castile. The other countries, such as the Hettings, the Iris, the Netherlands, and the Rhine Alliance, are just a group of hyenas who want to share the carrion of their prey.

Once we have taken over both empires in one fell swoop through the blood sacrifice of the Azik people to the Lord of the Flayer, we will drive them all out of Bantaan."

This shows how determined they are to maintain their monopoly position.

This group of pioneers, who were the first to try something new, used the massive amount of holy relics in their hands, which were similar to the [First Overseas Development Order], to be the first to find the Bantaan Islands, where honey and milk flowed.

Starting from a hundred years ago, for quite a long period of time, it completely monopolized the overseas routes of the "First Gyre" and Bantaan's supply channels.

In addition to countless real gold and silver, they also repeatedly earned large trade surpluses between the indigenous people and the countries of the Old World.

Naturally, all the countries in the Old World were jealous of their gold and silver income, precious spices and other overseas specialties.

They must find ways to bypass this black-hearted middleman who preys on the natives and breaks his monopoly.

In order to maintain its monopoly rights, the Kingdom of Castile has prepared to implement a comprehensive blockade and embargo on the First Circumference Belt.

There is no problem with local development, but if a merchant ship is found transporting prohibited goods, they will be confiscated immediately.

This means relying on the "Invincible Fleet" in hand to implement a monopoly of force.

Some people say that monopoly will bring various harms, but that is only because the person who says this is not a monopolist himself.

If there is an opportunity to achieve a monopoly, who would refuse the chance to easily make excess profits?

Wow.
Several unbreakable golden anchor chains emerged from the air and suddenly pierced through a golden page contract written in Common and Tanya.

The seals stamped by representatives from all parties lit up one after another.

"Then, the franchise contract between Pioneer Navigation and Taya Empire is established!"

The written contract is secondary. The invisible chain has already connected the spiritual islands of the Taino people along the sea of ​​their collective subconsciousness.

The two great shamans and the prince who had regained consciousness all felt their anchors suddenly tighten.

Even though I didn't join the [Stairs of Glory] like the people of the Old World, I felt as if I was anchored by the Silver Law, and my spirituality was clearly more solid.

"Huh, the strength of the contract is so high? It even strengthened my anchor."

"Me too. Ever since I was promoted to the third level in black magic, the whispers that I had always heard around me have obviously weakened a lot.

My spirituality is rising again towards divinity.”

They just thought that Byron used some kind of strange prop from the Inquisition sequence.

However, he had no idea that the young man and woman in front of him would be the heir and regent of the mysterious side of the Bantaan Islands Golden Empire.

They have just been put on the legal network of the Golden Empire.

You know, through that unprecedented grand blood sacrifice ceremony, the Azik Empire had already connected all the Taino tribes in the Bantaan Islands into a whole.

[Golden Law] The more city-states and citizens you anchor, the deeper your rule over them will be, and the stronger the power of the law network will be!

Byron looked at the surprised and delighted indigenous leaders, with an unfathomable smile on his face:

“Those fallen Azkians and [Conquistador] Cortes have made outstanding contributions to me.

The Taino people have their own national conditions here.

The Bantaan Islands are not protected by the [Silver Law] and are filled with strong source tides, and are full of forbidden areas where no one is allowed to enter.

Guardian spirits, totem poles, and even the tallest thirteen-story pyramid still have very limited protection ranges and cannot form a large safe zone at all.

A city-state with a city as its core is their only option at present.

The city-states on the vast land of Yucatan Island are divided into unconnected points by the even more vast primitive jungle and restricted areas.

If you want to unite all the Taino people and build a golden empire, you must rely on the unified [Golden Law].

Use a huge legal net to connect the scattered points into lines, into a net, and finally build a spiritual dam to protect the entire ethnic group.

Only then can we replicate a spiritual continent as vast as the Old World.

This franchise contract is the starting point for the Golden Empire to expand its territory.”

The contract stipulates:

All city-states that receive assistance from Byron will voluntarily invite the Pioneer Pilot Colonial Company to set up branches or representative offices in their city-states.

Giving them exclusive monopoly rights over merchants from the Old World.

The transactions include: buying ironware, swords, guns, ships, textiles, and fertilizers from the Old World; selling spices, gold, silver, minerals, herbs, and furs from Bantaan.
In fact, it is equivalent to each state outsourcing its "Ministry of Commerce" to them.

In addition, the Vanguard Colonial Trading Company also has the right to build fortresses on the land designated by the relevant parties to protect its own warehouses.
Appoint full-power governors in the local area, recruit soldiers, and carry out further cooperation with local rulers in many aspects.

Moreover, Byron also held in his hand a pioneering order issued by Governor Hastings (Chapter 134).

All the land he opened up was nominally a colony of Hattings, protected by the kingdom and the House of York.

Compared to the Castile Kingdom, which was accustomed to murder, arson, and genocide, they had embarked on a completely different path. Byron put away the page of the contract and smiled:
"The major city-states have entrusted their economic power and even some of their governance and defense powers to the Vanguard Colonial Company. We have achieved de facto armed economic colonization.

Wouldn't it be easy to support our agents in the economically backward city-states and build a shadow empire equivalent to the emperor?
This land will also become a perfect stage for Catherine to display her supreme skills!

The more city-states that sign contracts in the future, the more powerful my Golden Law will be and the wider its coverage will be.

In addition, the Aztec Emperor [Conqueror] Cortes in the north has begun to reintegrate his supporters.

I just want to ask, who else?

Even if the Castilians and the pirate king [Ocean Throne]'s men want this east-west route, they have to open their eyes and see who will win in the end!"

As soon as the golden light in front of him faded away, Byron found that several indigenous leaders opposite were still looking at him eagerly.

He knew that they were still waiting for him to come up with a way to treat the Taino people on a large scale.

So he didn't keep the secret any longer and reached out to the great shaman Yiekotel of Chichen Itza:

"Great Shaman, please give me Crystal Skull No. 8."

The latter did not hesitate any longer and carefully took the crystal skull off the cane.

Because the message that Byron asked Geronimo to take back at the beginning was that he needed to borrow this holy relic to completely eliminate the plague.

But before handing it to him, the Great Shaman said very solemnly:

“Mr. Byron, just as there are good and bad people among the Taino, there are also good and bad people among the outsiders.

The confrontation between divinity and animality is endless from beginning to end and has nothing to do with a person's skin color.

You have helped Chichen Itza overcome dangers several times, proving that you are our true friend and even more trustworthy than many nobles in the city-state.

I might as well tell you a big secret about these crystal skulls.

You may not know this, but the Taya Empire had been in decline for hundreds of years before outsiders arrived in the Bantaan Islands.

Eventually, with the civil strife in the royal city, the Taya Empire completely collapsed, and the thirteen crystal skulls enshrined in the thirteen-story pyramid were scattered and lost.

There are only three skulls still preserved in the Taya city-state, one for each of our three major city-states.

However, due to the lack of inheritance, even the ancient epics that could activate them have not been passed down."

What this means is that Skull No. 8 cannot truly play the role of a holy relic.

Then he changed the subject and continued:

“However, the last great shaman once left behind a prophecy.

If someone can gather all thirteen crystal skulls in the future, he will become the new emperor of the empire.

Because once all thirteen crystal skulls are collected, they will reveal to us the secrets of the past and the future through the mouth of skull number three [the Corn God], which symbolizes life and abundance and is the only one that can speak.

Eliminate the conflict and reunite the Taya Empire."

The voice just fell.

A new record appeared in the logbook: [Secret: The secret of the thirteen crystal skulls of the Taya Empire, historical influence 29, decryption density 15%].

Byron's eyes suddenly lit up.

He clearly remembered that the logbook once said:
“Thirteen crystal skulls have been the product of thousands of years of blood sacrifices, gathering the knowledge contained in countless sacrifices and embodying the essence of the entire Taya civilization.

A single crystal skull is a [Second Level Holy Relic] whose influence is limited to one city or one place.

But once someone can gather all thirteen, they can enhance each other and reach the level of a zero-level relic.

Please keep up the good work, Captain, and try to collect all thirteen crystal skulls as soon as possible to become the successor of the Taya civilization."

The reason why the collective subconscious of the Old World can be integrated into one is due to the common belief of all countries and groups in the Creator.

Apparently this once glorious ancient civilization had tried similar methods.

Using thirteen crystal skulls, which are also thirteen great kings of the past, as the medium, through the inheritance of civilization and blood sacrifice, all tribes within the entire empire are united into a whole.

Unfortunately, it failed in the end.

“Although the material civilization of the Taya Empire had not even entered the Bronze Age, it had not even invented the wheel.

But the level of evolution of the extraordinary civilization is only slightly inferior to that of the Old World.

I will set a small goal first, to collect thirteen crystal skulls and bring warmth to all Taino people.

And according to legend, it will be the talking skull number three that will reveal the future in the end?
Then I firmly believe that what the third brother will shout out at that time will be: Tayaxing, King Byron!

The feeling of the Taya civilization using the mouth of an alien species to reveal destiny is really like the cry of a fox. "

(End of this chapter)