Pirate Kingship.

Chapter 347: Destroying the Mountains and Temples, Integrating the Empire

Everything Byron did some time ago was mainly to prepare for fishing in the New World:
"Two copies of the Covenant between Man and God were made, one for Mammon the Worm of Greed and the other for Lilith the Mother of Creation, allowing them to pull each other.
The debt-based shares of the "Bantaan Cathedral Joint Stock Company" that Sister Teresa was still planning would eat up the power of the religious order little by little and tempt them to fall;
The nuns and a group of commoners in the Kingdom's central star court, who were extremely short of money in order to maintain a decent life, were dragged into the stock market and trapped;
The online financial street, which is unique in the world in terms of business efficiency, integrates a large amount of manpower, goods, resources, intelligence, and money from the Old Continent, the Bantaan Islands, and the edge of the world.
Use the "Genetics" technology to invest in the Bloodthirsty Cult. Every day that passes, the equity ratio will increase by one point. It is not far away to replace the "Leech Lady" as the high priest.
Use the technology of "Modern Medicine" to invest in the Skinning Church. Two days ago, [Fairy] Rigrael has completed the third level promotion and started to take action. Good news should come soon.
In addition, there is the thickest one, which is the [Golden Law] built on the basis of nearly 500 city-states of the two indigenous empires and a population of 13 million!"

The threads of interests and contracts were twisted into a rope, which was much more complex and stronger than the one they had built in Anchor Bay.

This is the confidence that gave Byron the courage to challenge an old god and save people from his belly.

Opportunities only favor those who are prepared. There is no point in setting out to explore the New World before you are well prepared, and you may easily get yourself involved if you are not careful.

So, he pretended to be a loyal minister, poisoned the money, and used the opportunity of bribery to pull a bunch of royalists onto the "fishing boat" as fishing lines.

On the other side, loud slogans of "Embrace civilization, break blood sacrifice!" have resounded throughout the entire Yucatan Island.

The "church armies" of the two empires have already begun to divide their forces into two groups, one in the south and one in the north, to cut down mountains and destroy temples against other stubborn resistance elements, under the banner of [Lord of the Kingdom of Heaven]: "Break old conventions, eliminate bad habits, spread civilization, and establish new trends."

The other city-states initially thought it was a normal war of glory for the purpose of hunting sacrifices, but they suffered a great loss all of a sudden.

Byron followed suit and first applied the church's concept of "the sword and the cross go hand in hand, military conquest and spiritual conquest, and both hands must be strong" to the Yucatan Island.

Moreover, it was not just about launching the "Kartari" to violently annex those city-states, but also adding relatively mild economic warfare tactics.

Those who convert will be given resources and various military equipment support, while those who resist stubbornly will have their material supplies and all external trade cut off, kicking them back to the Neolithic Age.

Without them having to do anything, they would have gradually perished under the attack of the harsh living environment, evil spirits, monsters and nearby city-states.

Then naturally there will be "kind-hearted people doing recycling business" to take over the city-state's heritage.

Snapped!
After Byron sent away the Kingdom envoys who were overjoyed as if they had picked up a great bargain, he snapped his fingers again and summoned his head maid Shirley:

"Owner."

Byron pointed at the bodies of the Lancastrians and ordered:

"When you go to deliver supplies to the Blue Dragon King today, don't forget to send these thousands of useless corpses to the edge of the world and hand them over to our branch manager."

Shirley responded respectfully:

"Yes, Master."

These corpses can only be buried in the territory, and they take up space and delay real estate development. But once they fall into the hands of my cousin Edward, the [Lich], they all become excellent laborers.

Zombies, skeletons, corpse dolls... there is always one that suits them.

Moreover, they all appear to be Lancastrians, which makes Edward feel very friendly and will surely make him more motivated to work.

Byron couldn't help but give himself thirty-two likes for his thoughtfulness.

Then he shouted softly: "Leave the body!"

[Execution in a Dream] was activated, and a brilliant colorful light shot out from the top of the head. In a flash, it crossed thousands of miles under the protection of the legal network and arrived at the twelve-story pyramid in Tayapan.

The border maze that had been opened here a long time ago did not cause any obstacles to him.

At this time, the statue in the temple on top of the tower had been replaced at the speed of light, and it was exactly the appearance of the indigenous young man he had transformed into before.

One of the two high-backed chairs at the feet of the statue was already occupied by someone.

But it was Catherine, who was wearing a red dress, a pair of crystal high heels, and her bright golden hair was tied up high with a jewel hairpin.

There was nothing serious happening at the International Port, but Tayapan was in a state of disrepair after an incident, so Byron had no choice but to ask his virtuous wife to come over and support him.

And Catherine's appearance was different.

After completing the first initiation ceremony of the forbidden book "Dragon Crown" and truly merging with the mithril dragon soul in his body, two small golden dragon horns appeared on his smooth forehead.

Her skin turned into a healthy wheat color, and her already perfect figure became even hotter. Her pair of long, honey-colored legs under her skirt looked round and strong.

Every time he raised his hands and moved his feet, he exuded a powerful aura that was enough to shock people. It was the dragon's might that emanated from his bones!

You know, even just an ordinary "dragon dung potion" can scare away powerful sea monsters. Catherine is now on the path to becoming a real dragon.

It has a natural suppressive power over almost all the beast spirit warriors in "The Book of Beast Families" (Volume 1).

When a group of indigenous extraordinary people faced her, they would be afraid before the battle even started.

She was also regarded by the natives as the spokesperson of the divine power of the Lord of Heaven, and was the supreme ruler of the city-state together with Byron, the favorite.

Byron landed next to Catherine and admired this beautiful girl who had transformed into a native dragon.

I think if she returns to Hattings now, she should be able to compete with Elizabeth Woodville, the most beautiful woman in the Channel Islands, in terms of beauty.

If the opponent does not have the ability of the title, and only considers the foundation of beauty, it is highly likely that she will not be able to beat Catherine, who has been blessed with the blood of the Night Demon and the Mithril Dragon.

The latter's beauty has completely surpassed the scope of mortals.

'I just hope that the queen doesn't have a relic called the [Magic Mirror], and doesn't have nothing else to do but ask the other party who is the most beautiful woman in the kingdom.

Otherwise Catherine might be in danger.'

Until the girl's face was slightly flushed, he coughed lightly:
"Sister, how do you feel now?"

Catherine smiled sweetly:
“I feel great now, I’d say I’ve never felt better than now.

The side effect of the Mithril Dragon's 'greed for money' was random, but it was the same to me as if it had nothing. This black magic is simply my destiny.

Moreover, perhaps because of the strong mystical connection between the supernatural source and dragons on the Yucatan Island, I am now obviously more compatible with the power of the Golden Rule.

I used to feel like there was a layer between us, but now I feel like I can breathe as one with the legal network around me.

Every time the border expands, every time a law node is added, the sense of control becomes stronger, and this feeling is intoxicating."

She raised her hand and waved it, and countless golden numbers appeared around her, dancing with them, and faintly transformed into a brilliant sword above her head:

"Use gold as the sword's tip, silver as the sword's blade, credit as the sword's spine, finance as the sword's handle, finance as the sword's scabbard, and products as the counterweight.

It is governed by market rules, implemented by power, law and force, with "investment" as the cut, "consumption" as the thrust, and "export" as the cut.

No one can stop him when he thrusts forward; nothing can stop him when he raises his sword high up; nothing can stop him when he presses his sword downward.

The gold and silver flowing in the territory are numbers, they are sword moves! "This [Supreme Art] can kill a country. Under the sword, there is a three-dimensional map of the entire Yucatan Island.

Every move Catherine made here was responded by tremendous resources and manpower, bringing one city-state after another under her control.

After half a year of preparation by [Father of Medicine] and "Monopoly Rights", they have roughly established a network of beliefs and trade on the Island of Yucatan.

At this time, it sank and extended to city-states at an astonishing speed, incorporating them into the network of the Golden Empire.

With each node that lit up on the border map, the brother and sister could clearly feel the [Golden Law] around them becoming stronger.

"According to the current speed, by the end of next year, we should be able to take over the Yucatan Island, which has an area of ​​2.3 million square kilometers and is ten times the size of the Kingdom of Hastings.

A true sacred golden empire has been established."

Both of their eyes were filled with uncontrollable excitement.

Of course, it is not impossible to assimilate gradually through economic colonization.

But if there is a more effective and direct vertical ruling model, and it is voluntarily delivered to you by a group of devout believers, why not accept it?
The reason why the Castilian colonization 1.0 model backfired was because they were too rough and ruthless in their work and never treated the indigenous people as human beings.

This naturally leads to repeated hostility and hatred.

Byron was different. As a favored one of the Lord of Heaven, he was actively welcomed by the believers into the ruling system of the indigenous people.

Perhaps the so-called divine personhood is just an empty shell.

However, as long as they could gradually devour the two empires' combined 500 city-states, tens of millions of people, and countless natural spirits, they would surely deserve the title.

After Catherine moved into the center, she immediately established a system to digest the conquered territory and defined the levels according to the population and strength of the city-states.

Below the royal capital are the state level, city level, and town level.

Then arrange a group of administrative officials to implement a unified administrative system and a legal system applicable to all city-states.

Inventory of assets, measurement of land, household registration.
It just so happened that the Lancaster Party had a large number of well-educated administrative officials who even had rich experience in governance, so doing this kind of thing was a piece of cake.

There are no major changes in other areas for the time being, and the culture of mathematics, astronomy, architecture, art, etc. has all been preserved.

One branch is not spring, a hundred flowers bloom in spring and the garden is full.

What Byron was thinking about from beginning to end was the relationship between the two collective subconscious seas of the indigenous people and the Old World, which was like a catamaran anchoring each other to increase stability.

Rather than a relationship where one swallows up the other, the Golden Empire must have a certain degree of independence.

Of course, the main reason is that he is still just a small character in the Old Continent and his words don’t count at all. This is in his best interest.

In addition, among the decrees that did not involve drastic reforms, the most important thing was to open up channels for advancement for all indigenous citizens, just like what was done in the pirate group!

Anyone who has made meritorious contributions can awaken their spirituality with the help of the city-state and become a true transcendent, instead of being only the nobles who are qualified to achieve transcendence as before.

This somewhat radical "enrollment expansion" policy will definitely harm the interests of some vested interests, especially the upper nobility and shamans.

Even if one uses the belief in the Lord of Heaven to pressure people, it cannot be completely eliminated.

But Byron also simultaneously offered the possibility for many existing extraordinary people to take a step further - the anchor quota of the [Golden Law].

As time goes by, the golden law built around thirteen crystal skulls and a group of guardian spirits with only divinity left will become more and more solid.

In addition to the seventeen vacancies for the [King's Right Hand], the other positions are sufficient to provide a possibility for those third-order transcendents who have reached the critical point but dare not advance to the next level to walk on two legs.

As long as they get Byron's approval and permission to anchor the legal network, they don't need to worry about stability issues.

If you can deal with the extraordinary people, you can deal with the entire city-state.

Now everyone from top to bottom went crazy.

"My Lord is Most High!"

"Whoever stands in the way will die!"

Now, Byron represents the fundamental interests of all indigenous extraordinary people. He is invincible and no one can stop him.

With red dates in one hand and a big stick in the other, the resistance of other indigenous city-states was not as strong as imagined.

Now, the colonies of various countries are watching the fire from the sidelines, thinking that this War of Honor and Crown will be the same as the previous ones, with bloody killings and then returning to the same old state.

They had no idea that a "Holy Gold Empire" to rival the Holy Silver Empire had already taken shape, gradually condensing the original scattered city-states into a new whole.

Byron looked at the territory that was expanding bit by bit, and at the indigenous warriors who were fighting for their own hegemony and were willing to die, with a burning gaze in his eyes:

"Why is it easier for the most primitive human societies to mobilize all the people?

A great man once said, Civilize the mind and brutalize the body.

This barbarity is the answer.

Losing humanity means losing a lot; losing animality means losing everything.

A person can be hypocritical and can be a saint in words, but in actions, he must be a pragmatic barbarian.

Once you lose this barbarism, sooner or later you will lose everything.

As long as material resources are not unlimited and we have to plunder to gain living space, barbarism will definitely be the last guarantee.

I am a pirate who believes in 'brute force is better than hard work', and everyone is a pirate."

The indigenous Taino people, who still retain their barbaric habits, and the Northern Bay people are the best soldiers.

Once he transforms these barbaric population resources into qualified workers, farmers, and soldiers, and then arms them with civilized weapons, they will become the most powerful wave of colonists.

“The people with the most violence make the rules, which is the meta-rule of all rules!
The native population of Hattings is only 8 million. Once I have control over these 13 million barbarians.

One day, my rules will be the rules.”

At this time, Catherine suddenly reminded him:
"Byron, the ridge farming technology you taught the city-state is about to be implemented."

(End of this chapter)