Pirate Kingship.

Chapter 672 Lancaster’s New Motto: Rule the World with Your Lower Body?
As Catherine activated the ultimate secret of the [Financial Holy Sword].

Byron, Violet, and the generals of the Lancastrian dynasty also followed her and looked across the channel through the legal network.

At this time, a huge main fleet was quietly floating on the sea more than ten nautical miles outside the port of Amstel in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, neither docking nor traveling far away.

Among them are dozens of huge battleships of level three or above, each with at least 74 shipborne heavy artillery, and hundreds of cruisers of level four and below.

For the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the "sea coachman" with more than 58 merchant ships of various types and a total tonnage of tons, the scale of this main fleet does not seem to be too large.

But on the entire East Coast, it can already be counted as one of the top five maritime powers.

In order to produce a third-level ship that is the largest in number in service in the Old Continent and has a perfect balance of speed, firepower and cost, it is necessary to cut down more than 2000 high-quality oak trees planted a hundred years ago for the wood alone.

Moreover, these oaks must be high-quality wood planted in private estates, along rivers, and beside roadsides. The yield rate of wild oak is extremely low, and transporting them out of the mountains is a difficult task.

Only those oak trees that fully enjoy rain and sunshine and slowly grow to a hundred years old and reach a height of more than 20 meters can produce a section of wood in the trunk that can be used to build the ribs of a warship.

It took excellent shipwrights six years to complete the construction through a series of complex processes.

The construction cost of a third-level ship in a self-owned shipyard alone reached a staggering 40,000 gold pounds, and the cost of a first-level ship that was kept in reserve was as high as 100,000 gold pounds.

If it weren't for the well-developed inland river network in the Netherlands, connecting many inland timber producing areas and the extremely developed shipbuilding industry, it would have been impossible to accumulate such a fortune.

In addition, if the voyage is a little longer and the winds and waves are a little stronger, the service life of these sailing warships will drop sharply, and they will need to be constantly updated to maintain the size of the fleet.

If teak, which is more sturdy and durable and can be used for decades, is used, the cost will need to be multiplied several times!

In normal times, the sailing fleet is a huge money-eating beast that devours the national treasury. Once war breaks out, the total number of sailing fleets is limited. If one ship is lost, there is one less ship, and it is impossible to replenish them in a short period of time.

The Old World had just emerged from the Dark Millennium, and it was already very impressive to have a professional standing army. In any case, the Dutch Navy was a strong army.

“The 80/20 rule applies in every world.

20%的业务人员创造了80%的业绩；20%的客户贡献了80%的订单；20%的国家掌握了80%的财富和军事力量。

As long as I win this battle, there will be no force in the entire Silver Continent that can resist me at sea."

Byron remembered several facts in his past life that went against common sense:

There are no more than 30 countries in the world that can produce their own bullets, only 5 countries that can independently produce fertilizers, and only 1 country that has a complete industrial chain. The tonnage of Dongda's coast guard ships alone ranks ninth among the world's navies.

The big countries see the small countries around them as their younger brothers, but when these small countries go outside, they are collectively called the "East Asian Monster House". Any country can immediately become a regional hegemon as long as it changes the map.

The same is true for the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Although the country is small, it undoubtedly has the potential to become the "Third Reich on which the sun never sets."

Of course, it should have no chance now.

boom! boom! boom!
Gunshots could be heard from time to time on these huge warships that were as big as hills, and along with the gunshots there were also many wailing sounds:

"People can never make money beyond their own cognition! Bang!"

“My friends, remember my words, do not borrow, do not borrow, do not borrow.

Borrowing for a stable and profitable business is fine, but borrowing for consumption and desire is overdrawing your future and cannot withstand any unexpected events. Bang! "

"Goodbye, tulip futures, and the fifty-fold leverage I used to get rich overnight! Bang!"

"We are all Remit people, and loan sharks are also Remit people. Why do they even cheat us? Not only loan sharks, but also contract fraud and text traps.

The risks are mine and the profits are yours.

I also want the 2800 non-Lemet slaves promised by the Creator. Will the Creator give them to me when I go to heaven? Bang! "

Without being there in person, you can never understand how desperate they are at that moment.

The worst thing is that not every speculator who has reached his dead end can still retain the most basic "rationality".

A small group of people did not commit suicide, but indiscriminately shot their colleagues on the same boat.

They lost their future because of tulip futures speculation, and they didn't want their colleagues who controlled their greed and did not get stuck in the mud to continue living well.

If they had not been trapped on the ship, but were in a city on the shore, they would have already started to indiscriminately and randomly retaliate against society.

Even the weakest first-level transcendent among them can cause great damage with a dagger.

It is just as the saying goes: A brave man is angry and draws his sword against the stronger one; a cowardly man is angry and draws his sword against the weaker one.

In fact, when the tulip bubble just collapsed, Lord Protector Cromwell realized that the situation was not good and decisively ordered the fleet to leave the port.

He blocked the news of the collapse of the domestic tulip market and used the authority of the "Duke of the Protectorate" to temporarily cut off the legal network.

Order the entire fleet to enter a wartime state and strictly prohibit any means of external communication.

However, his order was still a step too late.

Because Cromwell and his organizations were the first to suffer the brunt of the tulip bubble and suffered heavy losses.

As the president of the Remit Free Masons Association and a big banker, he only slightly focused on his own organization and personal interests, and had temporarily forgotten about the navy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Even though he had already used his position to place a large number of his confidants in the fleet, they were considered his own troops under his control.

Of course, this choice didn't surprise anyone.

This has always been a matter of course for the Remit people, who have not been assimilated by other tribes even after living together with them for thousands of years.

But even his first thought was to block the news.

With the undercurrent of flow driven by Byron and Catherine, there is no way to plug the loophole, and what is coming will still come.

When Cromwell learned that the news had spread throughout the fleet, the chaos had spread to every warship, and the command system was on the verge of collapse, he still couldn't help but turn pale and even feel a chill down his spine.

“Lord, why did the thunder explode at this time?
It's only the end of October, the winter trading days have just begun, and the bulbs won't be put back into the ground until February next year, so there's still at least three months of growth. Why is there such a rush? There's no reason.

The Amstel, the East Coast financial center, and the entire banking system of the Remites are going to be destroyed.”

Cromwell knew the best way to recover the losses at this time.

But I couldn't bring myself to settle all the futures contracts with my own money.

Not to mention whether he and other bankers who control the economic and political lifeline of the country have the financial resources to plug this huge hole for the country.

The premise for rescuing the market is that there is still hope for the market to rebound and that other buyers can continue to be found.

But once he realized that there was a powerful mysterious force behind the bulbs, he knew that the tulip market would never exist again.

A banker will never do a business that loses money. Confidence is more precious than gold. No one will have confidence in the price increase of tulips in the future.

So, his final order was:
"Supervisory team, go quickly and suppress all the troublemakers.

In addition, I promised the fleet lieutenant colonel and above that I would forgive their debts and settle their futures contracts.

Guard your own warships, clean them up and re-promote the lower-level officers to restore combat effectiveness as quickly as possible."

Now that the Holy Silver Empire's Royal Fleet with the legendary battleship [Immaculate Conception] as its flagship has entered the North Sea, there is also the invincible fleet that has never been defeated behind it.

The Duke of Protector of the Country decisively chose the "cheaper" solution.

As long as we bribe a few people, we can find loopholes and weaknesses and defeat this powder keg-like team one by one.

The attendant hesitated:
"Sir, most of the junior officers are from us, the Remit people."

The Duke of Protectorate frowned:
“The Remites who don’t care about the overall situation are not my kind.

Go and pass on the order."

Unfortunately, as soon as Cromwell's order was issued, his ears were suddenly filled with the pleasant sound of flowing gold coins.

Wow.
Turning his head, he saw that all the cities and towns in the entire Netherlands Kingdom behind him, as long as they were covered by the tax system, were rising with an illusory golden light.

In the spiritual vision, it merged into a huge and majestic golden torrent, rushing rapidly towards the port where he was.

"what happened?!"

This fifth-order legendary banker of the Gold and Yuan sequence, who is also the Minister of Finance of the Netherlands, sensed the power of this golden torrent at the first moment.

But it is hard to resist the call of the [Queen of Finance] and the [financial] priesthood in her hands.

When the golden torrent passed by him, it immediately swept away the Minister of Finance, who was in charge of financial power.

When Cromwell opened his eyes again, the world before him had completely changed.

When he saw the very familiar scenery around him, his eyes suddenly widened.

This turned out to be the online financial street that he had visited many times before!
Even Cromwell himself is the supreme VIP here.

Don't get me wrong, he didn't do that to support his competitor. He made the top-up purchases just to gain insight into how this mysterious space works, and then open his own online trading platform.

He and the Free Masons had already come up with a project plan.

They have huge offline banks, investment institutions, a wide range of trading companies, and close relationships with the church.

They can fully utilize their offline advantages, spend money to grab users, provide large subsidies, hire girls who are as pretty as fairies in the lake to serve as customer service representatives, provide customers with refund-only services, and find big-name artists who are in the hall of fame to promote themselves, and so on.

Even if a series of personalized services still cannot compete with the Financial Street, they can still use the ultimate killer move to urge the church to find a way to disconnect the online Financial Street. The content of the plan only flashed through his mind, and another question fell into his mind:

"Isn't this the territory of Mr. Wednesday and Ms. Friday? Why am I dragged here?"

What came here was not his real body, but only his consciousness. The national finances of the Netherlands constituted his new body.

The financial representation of a country is similar to the national personality represented by the "King's Army", both of which are some kind of animal. The Kingdom of the Netherlands is the white spoonbill.

At this time, Cromwell transformed into a half-human, half-bird white spoonbill with a wingspan of several dozen meters.

call--!
The next moment, a strong wind suddenly blew across the entire cross-shaped financial street, and the clouds above dispersed, revealing many towering pyramids suspended in the sky.

A gorgeous, capable and elegant figure in a red dress, holding a golden holy sword in her hand, walked down the stairs in the void.

The majestic golden light behind her was ten times more powerful than that of the Netherlands, and at the girl's feet it formed the most gorgeous skirt in the world.

It instantly attracted the attention of everyone on the financial street.

"Is that the owner of Financial Street [Ms. Friday]?"

“No, I saw this face at the International Port before.

That is the Queen of the North Sea Empire, the [Queen of Finance], the [Mithril Dragon], and the [Flower of the North] Catherine Lancaster!"

"Ms. Friday is actually the Queen of Finance? How is this possible? When the Financial Street first appeared, she was still a low-sequence second-level Mithril Knight."

Buzz.
The Financial Street was frequented by a large number of extraordinary people from morning to night. It was not until today that they finally saw who the mysterious "Ms. Friday" was, and the whole Financial Street was in an uproar.

But the facts are before our eyes and cannot be doubted.

Although the reputation of the "Queen of Finance" was very loud in the past, she was always regarded as a vassal of the Pirate Emperor Saint Byron.

Today, the image has changed drastically.

Who doesn’t know that the online financial street that connects almost every extraordinary person is a huge financial empire that is no less powerful than any country in the real world?
The influence even transcends independent countries and reaches every corner of the Silver Continent with extraordinary people.

The two titles of "Queen of Finance" and "Ms. Friday" were combined into one, and Catherine instantly became one of the most influential figures in the entire Silver Continent and even the world.

It also made countless neutral forces caught between the Orthodox Alliance and the Protestant Alliance suddenly see the situation clearly.

At the beginning, Byron broke through the restriction of the country of Hastings and conquered the five countries of the Bay People, relying on Queen [Queen of War] Violet's strong claims on the three countries of Anchor Bay and Evernight Peninsula;

Then they established the Holy Golden Empire in the Bantaan Islands, established diplomatic relations with various countries, firmly controlled the throat of the southern continent, and relied on the [Financial Queen] Catherine of the Holy Golden Empire to manage various precious resources and financial businesses.

A few days ago, the Desert Empire of the East Continent announced a change of dynasty. Everyone was shocked to find that even the most beautiful woman in the world had become the "royal lover" of His Majesty Saint Byron, and even gave birth to two children for him.

Two queens and one lover, three women each managing a large empire, and they are the top forces in the three continents.

In addition to the online financial empire, he has a strong presence both online and offline. If it weren’t for the triple crown on the Pope’s head, it would be hard to say who is the boss of the material world.

I don’t know how many people are jealous to the point of going crazy.

“The North Sea Empire has revealed its cards one after another, and who knows how many more cards are left to be revealed.

Everyone said that the Habsburg royal family of the Holy Silver Empire ruled the world with their lower bodies and would never shed blood if they could get married.

In fact, the people who truly rule the world with their lower bodies should be your Lancaster royal family!"

At this moment, even if someone told them that there was a fourth woman named Lancaster on the West Coast where there was still a power vacuum, they would definitely not have any doubts.

Even though there was no woman in power in the Zoroastrian Empire and the Star-Moon Empire.

Catherine ignored what the people below were thinking. She pointed her sword at Cromwell, who was integrated with the national finances, and shouted out the opening remarks that had been prepared for several years:

"I have a sword, with a gold blade, a silver blade, credit as the spine, finance as the hilt, finance as the 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.

This kind of sword can thrust forward without being blocked by anyone; it can be lifted high up and nothing can stop it; it can be pressed downward and be invincible.

Please try your sword, Lord Cromwell!
The North Sea Empire's finances versus the Netherlands's finances, let's have a fair fight."

At this moment, "The supreme art can destroy a country!" is no longer the ambition and bragging of my childhood.

Catherine condensed her financial resources into a real holy sword, which could be used to kill people, and could also personify the finances of other countries to fight, and literally kill the financial systems and industries of other countries with one sword.

This will be especially effective for those economies that are already bleeding and suffering from all kinds of damage.

As he spoke, the North Sea Empire's finances transformed into a golden light that enveloped her body.

Ouch——!
With a loud dragon roar, a golden dragon hundreds of meters long, holding a hundred-meter-long sword, chopped down on the white spoonbill that Cromwell had transformed into.

"You call this a fair fight? Shameless!"

The [Duke of the Protectorate] almost vomited blood when he heard Catherine's shameless words, which he had learned from some scoundrel.

The opponent's golden dragon was shining brightly, while he, the white ibis, was covered with wounds and bleeding profusely.

This means that the kingdom is still bleeding after being hit hard by the tulip bubble.

Even when the East Coast Financial Center was intact, it might not be able to defeat the North Sea Empire, let alone now?

What made him most angry was that the blood flowing from his body was constantly flowing into the national treasury behind the other party.

There is no need to guess who was the mastermind behind the "tulip bubble" anymore.

He also realized that if he was killed by the other party at this moment, the tragic consequences would definitely not be something he could bear.

"Oh, Lancaster, damn you--!"

A financial holy sword also appeared in Cromwell's claws, but compared to the one in Catherine's hand, it was only a small dagger.

Even on the battlefield, few people would use a dagger against a two-handed heavy sword. No matter how shabby it was, at least they would use a swift sword, which was enough to make people despair.

The two streams of light collided with a loud bang.

Catherine uses the [Supreme Art] in conjunction with the [Mind Dragon's Nest] (digital modeling):
"It can break the boundary between matter and information, just like the followers of the Sleeping God can freely travel between dreams and reality, and freely switch the state of real matter."

Everything about the two countries' finances began to be digitized, formalized, and statisticized, flowing past her eyes like a waterfall.

The sword in his hand flashed and hit Cromwell's weakest point. The small dagger and one of his claws flew into the air and turned into a golden light stream that gathered behind Catherine.

The next two moves followed one after another, and the sharp holy sword of finance chopped the white ibis, the embodiment of Dutch finance, into eight pieces and devoured it all in the blink of an eye.

[Swordsmanship Secret: Cyclical Financial Crisis! ]

There are three moves in total: [raising interest rates], [bottom fishing], and [lowering interest rates].

It is essentially not much different from the bursting of the tulip bubble.

They have seen through the nature of the financial tide harvesting countries:

"The first step is to raise the interest rate, so that the world will withdraw money and return it to the North Sea Empire, and assets around the world will generally fall or even go bankrupt;
The second step is for the major financial groups under the empire to take action and buy up high-quality "non-performing assets" from all over the world at extremely low prices;
The third step is to cut interest rates and release more money, so that the value of assets around the world will rise again, but the owners have changed. "

As long as they can always maintain their financial and military strengths, this set of processes will continue to work, sucking blood from all over the world to nourish themselves and become the most powerful "Night Demon Emperor"!
Fake capitalists: exploiting employees, providing benefits, and acting as foreign agents.

Real capitalists: plunder foreign countries to feed themselves, benefit the entire country, and let all citizens enjoy the dividends created abroad.

"Do not--!"

Cromwell, whose real body was still in the fleet, opened his eyes again, suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, and his breath also weakened.

But he forced himself to raise his head and look in the direction of the Kingdom of the Netherlands behind him.

A sharp wail of a white ibis came from the collective subconscious, and then there was complete silence.

Then a lion's roar representing the North Sea Empire resounded in everyone's ears, and the country's finances changed hands.

This sword was equivalent to establishing the most stringent outsourcing contract between the two parties. The financial system of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, including the central bank, was outsourced to Catherine and the North Sea Empire.

We have all heard of contracting land and orchards, but who has ever heard of contracting a country?
I heard about it now.

The Netherlands lost all its economic lifelines, including clothing, food, housing, transportation, taxation, customs, coinage, etc., and became a semi-feudal and semi-colonial country.

This is: "The winner takes all, the loser eats dust!"

In the international power system, wealth is the basis of all national power.

In order to enhance their own power, each country is trying to acquire more wealth.

As the mystical ownership of national finances changed, all Dutch citizens who relied on this system had to change accordingly.

Although it is not a change of dynasty, it is not far off.

What's even more amazing is that after becoming the host, the first decree Catherine issued in the legal network was:
"Vanguard Colonial Trading Company and Vanguard Bank will honor individual futures contracts at the lower paper price, excluding institutions."

Most of the individuals are Dutch civilians, while the institutions are all Remitians.

Use the latter's money to settle the former's account, and in the end the whole kingdom will have to thank them.

(End of this chapter)