Pirate Kingship.

Chapter 298: The Real Pig Killing Scheme: The Trapped Nun

A week has passed since the end of the international conference at the Pharos Lighthouse.

Rhine Confederation Colony, Brandenburg Cathedral.

Most of the religious monks who were active in the entire Bantaan Islands like scattered soldiers gathered here.

Everyone knew that once the Kingdom of Castile won, it would definitely choose the secular clergy it had trained.

But the other two winners will definitely choose them in order to maintain their independence.

The devout religious monks have holy light in their eyes and are always ready to contribute their strength and even their lives to the sacred missionary cause.

And they also have a kind, pious and loving "leader", because of her everyone is full of confidence in the future.

“Mother Teresa, the Lord is with you.”

"Good day, Sister."

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Today's collective prayer ceremony had just ended, and a group of religious monks in the auditorium all humbly greeted Teresa, who presided over the ceremony.

Even just saying one word is satisfying.

The nun lived up to her reputation of being kind, treating everyone equally regardless of whether they were mortals or extraordinary beings, elders or teenagers.

“Christine, your devotion has touched the Lord. Your spirituality has begun to flourish, and you will be awakened within three days.

I have some top-quality spices here, I will share some with you, I hope you can make greater contributions to the Lord's cause after you become a Transcendent."

A nun named Christine has been away from her family and friends to serve as a missionary overseas. She hasn't felt such care for a long time.

After taking the small bottle of spices that looked like gold powder with both hands, her eyes turned red and she thanked him repeatedly:

"Thank you for your generosity, Sister."

Theresa, who looked as delicate as a doll, had a holy light flash across her face and smiled gently at her:
"You don't need to thank me. It is the Lord's mercy that allows us to meet here. Being pious to the Lord is the best reward for me."

He turned around and told a young man next to him:

“Francis, you contracted schistosomiasis when you first arrived at the Bantaan Islands, and you have only just recovered. I will not arrange for you to do any manual labor recently.

The harbor master's wife happens to be in need of a scribe to supplement the family library, and I have agreed to take care of it for you.

I'll give you an extra allowance of one pound a month.

I hope you can study with peace of mind and become familiar with the Gospel of Creation before spiritual awakening, so that you won’t be so flustered that you won’t even be able to meet the prerequisite knowledge for becoming a priest.”

The young priest was moved to tears by the nun's thoughtfulness and bowed deeply:
“Thank you for your concern, Mother Teresa.”

Theresa was not impatient at all when surrounded by people. She even knew everyone's situation well and helped them solve their problems with great patience.

In this overseas land far away from home, give them spiritual or material encouragement and support.

With his kindness and his dwindling wallet, he warmed every religious monk who gathered there.

For the sake of her ideals, the nun is busy but happy with it.

After she was hit by her own "boomerang", her kind heart finally stopped being so evil and began to look somewhat normal.

With every person she encouraged, the holy light in Theresa's eyes became brighter.

It's like being with God.

Obviously, everyone has their own pursuits.

The nun's ambition and obsession is to exercise the power given by the Creator, spread the glory of the Creator, and ascend to heaven with glory after death.

She began her journey on board by declaring:

“The power we priests wield is over the immortal souls of men.

The value of each of us priests is greater than anything in the world, whether it is gold, silver or precious stones, even greater than the sky we see from here.

The Creator has given us power and sent us to lead people's souls into heaven.

Therefore, whether you are a mainlander or an indigenous person, you must respect and fear the messenger of the Creator, obey God according to our instructions, and let all people obey God (Chapter 192)!"

Sequence Motto of the Temple Sequence: Be with God!
The series of promotion ceremonies they perform to improve their own ranks are basically related to missionary work.

The more widely you spread the belief in the Creator, and the more devout believers, fanatics, and true believers you cultivate, the faster you will be promoted.

Their initial mission to hunt down the Wild Hunt had in fact been declared a failure. They had been in the Bantaan Islands for several months without even seeing a trace of the Wild Hunt.

This time she was ordered to take charge of colonial affairs. Even if she only had to do the dirty and tiring work for those who really had connections during the development period, she would definitely seize this opportunity.

The small goal set is to become the archbishop of this diocese and be promoted to the fifth-level legend!

Opportunities only come to those who are prepared. If she wants to seize the opportunity, she must prepare in advance and unite every fellow traveler, just like what Byron is doing now.

In fact, there is no essential difference between winning over priests and winning over ordinary people.

According to doctrine, they cannot wear luxurious clothes or jewelry, but they must have sophisticated weapons to defend their faith, right?

We cannot indulge in enjoyment and should advocate frugality and asceticism, but we must have the finest spices required for daily practice, right?

Any first-rank attendant clergyman who goes out to preach would need at least a pure silver or even mithril cross, and an armor-piercing crossbow purchased in accordance with tradition, at the simplest configuration, right?

This is all money!

This was calculated by the [Wild Hunt Servant] Quasi-Sword Saint Herman who stayed with her for most of the day.

A transcendent monk who appears to be poor and frugal on the surface may secretly consume several times more resources and wealth than a wealthy businessman who eats meat and fish all day long.

Teresa, who often used her own money to subsidize other priests, was naturally under great financial pressure.

And this is what Byron wanted.

Click!

The door belonging to Teresa closed again, blocking the fanatical gazes of the priests outside, and the warm smile on the nun's face gradually faded.

“Wealth, spices, and various resources are only means to achieve my goals, and have never been my pursuit.

But just like a tree must go through the process of taking root, sprouting, blooming and bearing fruit, even God cannot demand no process and only bear fruit.

The prerequisite for achieving a great career is to make money first!

Money is not everything, but without money, nothing is possible."

On the surface, she pretended to continue praying in front of the silver cross, but her consciousness actively entered the virtual platform - Financial Street through a yellow diamond intermediate membership card.

This street on the line was no longer as deserted as it was when she first came here. It was bustling with at least a few thousand new people. Many people already had the decoration of a Red Diamond Junior Member on their heads, and a sense of urgency arose spontaneously.

Her mind couldn't help but reappear the words that Mr. Wednesday had said:

"As you can see, this attempt has just begun in order to test the abilities I possess, and it is still very crude.

But I believe that this place will soon become lively, and various facilities and services will gradually be improved.

Eventually it will become a financial, trade and logistics center that cannot be ignored by the entire human world.

By the way, we will also start a wealth creation movement for those who can seize the opportunity, such as you!"

Theresa had already made a solemn vow to her own empty wallet:
"I have to rely on my first-mover advantage as the No. 001 customer on Financial Street to earn a fortune to support myself in realizing my dreams."

But reality is always contrary to ideal.

She found that she had no talent for business, and the biggest business she had ever done was a monopoly on indulgences.

Even if she was given a large quantity of cheap, high-quality goods, she would have no place or people to sell them for cash.

Until Theresa discovered an excellent investment business in the financial street some time ago.

You don’t need a complicated business mind at all. You just need sufficient funds, a keen eye and the blessing of the Creator to create a “good business” that makes money with money.

That is.
"It's half past nine, the stock market is open!"

Following a call from the Financial Street, a stock exchange that had just opened in a core area suddenly lit up a phantom projection screen.

Many doors along the street opened one after another, and stockholders, er, the atmosphere group, pushed the doors open and rushed to the stock exchange.

Theresa was naturally among them.

Most of the enthusiasm in the eyes of others is just pretending, but her enthusiasm is absolutely genuine.

Relying on her petite figure, she squeezed to the front of the line and looked up to see the eight stocks displayed on the phantom projection screen:
Code 000001: Hettings Pioneer Pilot Colonial Trading Company; Code 000002: Netherlands Ocean Shipping Company; Code 0000003: Rhine Alliance vs. Bantaan Trading Co., Ltd.
A pair of eyes sparkling with gold, not without envy:
“Although buying stocks is profitable, these eight companies themselves are still the most profitable.

However, these people are really rich. Not long after the Financial Street opened, they bought premium memberships and can register and list their projects or companies in the Financial Street.

I don’t know how I can package the church I lead and list it on the stock market to raise money from all over the world.

When a victor chooses priests from our order to settle in the colony, I will give it a try, and then it will be called the 'Bantaan Cathedral Joint Stock Company'!
I have a feeling that under the leadership of Theresa, the company will be able to make a lot of money if it opens a few more peripheral sections: vegetarian food, cross peripherals, clothing, and remote prayer!"

The membership levels of Financial Street are mainly divided into: Red Diamond, Yellow Diamond, and Green Diamond, which can also be simply understood as junior, intermediate, and senior members.

When you reach the senior membership level, you will be eligible to use this online platform to raise funds for your own business or project, share risks, and receive dividends.

Moreover, this shareholding operation model is not something very new. Theresa already had an idea about it in her mind.

During the early days of the Age of Discovery, merchants with limited financial resources often needed to look for partners and investors in order to raise funds for business activities.

Especially high-return, high-risk business activities such as ocean shipping.

In order to facilitate fund-raising and risk diversification, they distributed the shares of an ocean trade to different investors according to the amount of capital contribution, and the investors shared the profits and risks of the enterprise through their capital contribution.

Today, the stock trading market here has simply expanded this model, adding the attribute of being tradable to stocks.

Anyone who uses money to buy a stock becomes a shareholder of the company, and trading the stock is the stock market.

By using your own identity to create a unique account in the Financial Street, you can buy and sell at will, and you can cash out at any time without having to wait for several months of shipping cycles to recover the funds.

Of course, it also inevitably turns normal business activities into a naked speculative market.

Theresa didn't care about speculation or not, she just knew that this thing could make money quickly.

After observing others for a few days, I saw that more and more people were participating, and each of them was making a lot of money.

After hearing winning tips such as "buy high and sell low" and "sell high and buy low" from several members, he finally couldn't help but get involved himself.

She also knew about the "good guy" operation of the Vanguard Colonial Trading Company to purchase merchant ships. Even if she had some friendship with the [Sea Hunter], she would still not buy any of them.

Instead, he followed the "insider" grapevine and purchased code 0000003: Rhein Alliance vs. Bantaan Trading AG.

On the first day, he invested all his hard-earned savings.

I listened to the advice and had a full meal. After I bought it, the price of the product really went up sharply that day.
Because of the good news, the company undertook the transportation business of the first batch of silver from the Rhine Alliance Volcanic Silver Mine (Chapter 69), and the stock price rose by 20% in a single day (the stock market has just opened and there is no upper or lower limit).

The next day, according to the principle of "chasing rising and selling falling", she and a group of stock friends she knew continued to invest.

All the public funds from the sale of indulgences over the past few months, as well as the savings of [Armed Priest] Brandon and Quasi-Sword Saint Hermann, were invested.

As expected, the share price continued to rise.

By the third day, which was yesterday, she could no longer withstand the encouragement of several stockholders and the increasing financial pressure on her.

He used all the public funds of the order in the account that he was temporarily managing to put it on the line.

He even borrowed the highest leverage of twice that is available to intermediate members from the exchange, ready to go all in!
According to the expected increase, the interest generated by the principal alone would be enough for her, a third-level transcendent, to work for twenty years without eating or drinking.

As long as I win this time, I will have everything.

In the heat of the moment, I completely forgot the exchange's slogan: "The stock market is risky, invest with caution."

Just keep your eyes open and wait for the trend chart to update.

At the floor-to-ceiling window on the top floor of the exchange, Mr. Wednesday and Ms. Friday, who had a panoramic view of all of this, each clinked their red wine glasses together.

Catherine looked at her brother who was "grumbling" and bubbling with evil intentions, and her eyes, which had quietly turned into golden vertical pupils, were filled with admiration:
"The rehearsal for the pig-killing plate went well. You are going to get rich, Monopoly!"

Byron smiled and replied:

"You're going to get rich, too, little rich girl!"

“Although this is just a virtual rehearsal without the company’s authorization to issue shares, everything else is real, and the market will react to both good and bad news.

Both the staff and the atmosphere group played their roles as themselves, and even Theresa's earnings from the past few days were subsidies paid out of our own pockets.

What you spend every day is real money.

However, if you lose money, you can earn it again, but if you lose your conscience, you can’t.”

The brother and sister, who personally mobilized thousands of extras and directed a great show, smiled at each other and said in unison:

"Then you can earn more. Hehehe."

"Now, it is time to let Sister Sister know the dangers of the world and the cruelty of the financial market.

Come on, teach her a lesson!"

(End of this chapter)