Pirate Kingship.

Chapter 195: Blood and Fire: Cause of Death: Accidental Fire Extinguishment

At the same time, a mixed ocean-going fleet had arrived at the end of the first circulation belt and was about to enter the Bantaan Sea.

A three-masted merchant ship flying the flag of the Bloody Cross of Hattings. It looked completely inconspicuous from the outside, but inside it was heavily guarded with a sentry every three steps and every five steps.

The legal network covers the entire ship, leaving no blind spots untouched.

A large number of elite armed personnel in uniform had sharp eyes and never let down their guard even on the sea, which showed how elite they were.

Everyone carried a sword and a gun, equipped with the most sophisticated sabers in the Kingdom of Hattings, as well as the latest model of Charleville 1470 flintlock rifle.

It can be said that they are armed to the teeth.

Even the most ordinary sailors on the ship are much stronger than those on other merchant ships, which shows how rich they are!

This is none other than the Royal Tax Inspectorate of the Realm, headed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Motto: "The greatest crime a criminal can commit is tax evasion!"

Due to the love-hate relationship with the Iris Kingdom in the past, the war devoured the kingdom's finances like a money-eating beast.

Byron's eighth ancestor, King John, the Lost King, changed his demand for his nobles from service to providing a variety of additional heavy taxes for the country.

This change caused the nobles to join hands and force him to sign the Magna Carta under the King's Law on June 1215, 6 of the Silver Age.

One of the main purposes was to reduce the king's power to levy taxes.

Everyone knows that "tax" is the money that the country and the king can control, and it is a real representation of national strength.

The Lancasters were always thinking about taking back this power.

Kings of all dynasties secretly supported Protestantism, suppressed theocracy, and consolidated royal power.

Although he had no power to increase taxes internally, he established a professional team of tax officials while firmly controlling the Royal Navy, the king's private army.

The Royal Tax Inspection Bureau was equipped with armed personnel to collect taxes on land, commodity transactions, trade and imports, striving to collect every penny that should be collected.

During the reign of Henry V, when the royal power was at its peak, the power of this team also reached its peak.

It even has its own armed inspection team, prisons, courts, lawyers, and intelligence departments. It can go head-to-head with any noble family in the country.

During this period, he naturally fought numerous open and covert battles with the aristocratic parliament and various forces.

If things continue like this, maybe one day we will see a scene like this:
"I will solve the cases that the Inquisition cannot solve, I will kill the people that the Inquisition dare not kill, and I will take care of the things that the Inquisition dare not intervene.

In a word, I will take care of what the court can handle, and I will take care even more of what the court cannot handle. I will execute first and report later. This is a special permission from the royal power!
This is the tax collector, is that clear enough?"

Handsome!
Byron's statement that "the only things inevitable are death and taxes" also has a fine tradition.

After the White Rose York family seized the crown, they let their heads follow their butts and naturally inherited the system that they had strongly opposed in the past.

Even under the leadership of the Earl of Warwick, there is a tendency for them to surpass their predecessors.

"cheers!"

"For our hard work during this month's ocean voyage, and for the bright future that is about to come."

In the best officers' cabin in the stern building, seven or eight powerful tax officials were sitting around a table.

There are only one or two [Law Masters] and [Treasure Hunters] among them, and the rest are all [Golden Eyes] and [Treasure Guardians] who are the most sensitive to money in the Gold Yuan Sequence.

With his unparalleled sense of money and numbers, Jinyuan Sequence can switch seamlessly between the banking industry and the tax department.

Better than many [lawyers] who have the deepest knowledge of dogma and tax law.

Once they are allowed to take action, even the ancestral money jar that has been buried in the yard for decades can be dug out.

These tax collectors live a life of luxury most of the time. Even though they enjoy the best living conditions on the ship, they hate such long ocean journeys.

At this time, we are finally about to leave the first circulation belt, and everyone is in high spirits.

“Haha, who said that the support called by those idiots of the Newman family must be on their side?
It's just a dog raised by Your Majesty.

The amount of money embezzled this time is huge, and the evidence is irrefutable. Once the sword of Damocles falls, they will surely die."

"That's right. The battle between the Kingdom of Castile and the Star-Moon Empire is a losing battle. This is a great opportunity for us, Hettings, to emerge as a new force.

It's such a waste to give such a wonderful place as Jamestown to such an upstart.

[Kingmaker] Your Excellency promised that as long as we overthrow the Newman brothers who are loyal to His Majesty Edward, everything they have will be handed over to us to manage.

I believe the colonial people have long been looking forward to an honest governor.

Gentlemen, we must not betray the trust of His Excellency the Kingmaker."

"That's right. His Majesty Edward is still too young. He can't handle this overwhelming wealth. No, it's the storm. Let us take it on behalf of the Newman brothers."

"They were imprisoned by the Sword of Damocles of His Excellency the King Maker. They must be trembling with fear right now, hahahaha."

The tax officials' superior status also cultivated their arrogant character.

As a result, the two pirate generals who were very close to the Newman family in the intelligence were not taken seriously at all.

They specifically traveled with two warships of the Inquisition.

The ship full of mid-sequence extraordinary beings and holy relics would naturally make all invaders die miserably. Even if the suspected fourth-level [Blue Hair] Barbarossa Hailding came in person, he would not be able to hurt them at all.

With a legal network in place, it is even more impossible to be breached from the inside.

But at this moment, the treasure hunter suddenly moved his nose and asked in confusion:

"Do you smell any blood?

It seems to have a bit of strange alchemical gunpowder smell."

Following the smell, he gradually crawled to the floor.

Everyone's eyes followed him and gradually fell to his feet. They were all shocked:
"Alchemical gunpowder.???"

In the cabin just below the poop.

[Falcon] Alvin made a deep-sea jump here, and then disguised himself as a crew member and quietly boarded the ship. He has been lurking for a day.

At this time, a glass bottle filled with blood-red liquid was placed on the ground.

A little more liquid spilled onto the ground.

As soon as it came into contact with the air, it began to roll and bubble violently, emitting a red sticky mist and became extremely unstable.

"Violet still needs to continue to improve this 'Song of Blood and Fire'.

If Mr. Falcon hadn't been so fearless, I wouldn't have dared to use such a dangerous thing if my real body was here."

This is the assassination tool that Byron commissioned Violet to make.

The core is the [Gunpowder Formula·Kiss of Flame] which she has used many times and is more expensive than gold.

It has mediocre power by itself, but if eaten by various animals, it will produce a unique reaction with their flesh and blood, turning into a terrifyingly powerful incendiary or explosive substance.

But this time, they didn't use ordinary animal flesh and blood.

Rather, it is all the [Transmuted Blood] (Chapter 176) of the Barbary Pirate Level Frogman that Byron had refined using the Holy Grail of Blood!

It is equivalent to making a third-level transcendent into an alchemical bomb, and then repeatedly purifying it to obtain the best quality.

Even Violet, the master craftsman, lamented that she had never made such a luxurious work of art in her life.

And named it the ultimate art - Song of Blood and Fire!
Byron himself tried every means to distance himself from the matter.

Naturally, he would not drag Violet into the water, so he took this "big firework" and sneaked onto the inspection team's boat alone.

He then took out a signal gun that was commonly used on ships sailing at night, pointed it at the glass bottle, and attached a delay device provided by Violet.

Set the time to ten seconds.

Then he slipped out of the porthole like a fish.

He dived into the water and joined the man-eating shark that had been waiting here, and instantly fled underwater for his life.

"False tax avoidance: researching tax laws, falsifying accounts, arguing with tax collectors, and hiring lawyers to debate in court.

The real tax avoidance is: "

Boom——! ! !
With a loud bang that shook the earth.

The tax officials who had just noticed something was wrong had no time to react before the look of astonishment on their faces was forever frozen.

The blazing shock wave spread out in all directions, centered on the "Song of Blood and Fire".

Both the ship's planks and human bodies were torn to pieces in an instant and turned into ashes in the high temperature in an instant.

Even the iron cannons equipped on the ship were swept up by countless fire dragons. As they were blown high into the sky, signs of burning and melting appeared.

In the eyes of the onlookers, they only saw a black and red cloud of fire rising into the sky.

Even the explosion of an ammunition depot was far less spectacular than this.

Byron, who was fleeing, did not notice that in his logbook [Secret: Prophecy, Kingship, and the Prophecy of Racial Revival of the God of the Wild Hunt, Woden, Historical Influence 69]:
“In the Imperial Age, the Bay People were still chasing wild deer in the forests of the Evernight Peninsula. Hundreds of years later, they will be chasing the entire Silver Continent.

They conquered the continent by force, but were conquered by pagan beliefs. The glory of the Beidiwan people sank into the deepest part of the ocean.

But one day it will be reawakened by blood and fire!
My right eye will witness everything.”

The written records quietly emerged, but without advancing any deciphering, they disappeared again.

call out!call out!call out!
Many extraordinary people from the nearby sailboats rushed onto the deck and looked over here.

Especially the two strongest Inquisition warships in the entire fleet.

The leading [Corona Priest] took out a holy relic that looked like a crystal ball and placed it in front of his eyes, aiming it at the fire dragon that was rising into the sky.

After carefully studying it for a long time, he muttered to himself with a dark face:

"The divination result: everyone died. The cause of death was an accidental discharge of a flare?!"

(End of this chapter)