Three days later, Senbawood led a lightning fleet to escort a transport fleet of more than 800 merchant ships and cargo ships to Cape Romany, and asked to see Lorist as soon as possible.

"Your Highness, this is the list of materials and personnel carried by the transport fleet. There are 843 large and medium-sized merchant ships and freight ships in total. Among them, 103 large ocean-going merchant ships transport more than 100,000 new recruits forced by the Commercial Alliance in the southern provinces of Greater 6, all of whom are young and strong. More than 500 ships carry food, and most of the remaining military supplies are various. By the way, there are 38 large freight merchant ships carrying nearly 100,000 barrels of green vine paste..." Senbawood reported in detail.

Lorist was stunned. Why did the Commercial Alliance transport so much green vine paste? These 100,000 barrels are almost the total output of the Roman Empire in one year. I picked up the list of supplies handed over by Senbawood and looked at it. It recorded that the Double-Headed Dragon Chamber of Commerce bought the production of green vine paste from the Roman Empire for a year at a price of 30% higher than the market price, and also swept the inventory.

Strangely, what did the Double-Headed Dragon Chamber of Commerce need so much green vine paste? Lorist only thought for a while and understood. Three years of continuous bloody battles have turned the Mana Hill Plain into ruins. The Double-Headed Dragon Chamber of Commerce bought so much green vine paste from the Roman Empire, which is probably for the reconstruction of the Mana Hill Plain. Perhaps these green vine paste can be used to build the defense facilities and destroyed walls of the fortress cities that have been recaptured by the Commercial Alliance.

A bucket of green vine glue is a portion of 100 kilograms, and a hundred thousand barrels is a portion of 10 million kilograms. With these green vine glue as a binder, Lorist's idea in the past two days can be perfectly realized. This is really a pillow when he was sleepy, which made Lorist very happy.

"Very good, I'm lacking in manpower and labor." Lorist said to Senbawood with satisfaction: "Let the 100,000 recruits get off the ship and go to the shore to do things for me. Now they have become prisoners of our Norton family and don't have to go to the Plain of Manechurch to die. Tell them that as long as they serve five years of labor, they can be free to send them home. By the way, remove the 100,000 barrels of green vine paste and pile it onto the shore."

"Uh? Your Highness, don't we transport these 100,000 barrels of green vine paste to the family territory?" Compared to the 100,000 young and strong prisoners, Senbawood valued more the supplies, which may be related to his early experience as a pirate, focusing on wealth rather than life.

"Come with me." Lorist did not answer, but took Sambawood out of the captain's room and came to the deck.

"Seeing it, I'm going to build a city here to build a level. This will be the starting point for our Norton family to control the Golden Coastline in the Sunny Sea," said Lorist.

Simbalwood looked at it for a long time with her bull eyes open. She was rippling waves. Yes, she looked at Lorist's fingers again. It was the Romany Cape standing on the cliff. Could it be that Lorist wanted to build a castle on the cliff? Simbalwood was puzzled...

Unresponsive, Lorist turned his head and saw that Sembawood looked like he knew where he was going. He was so amused and crying: "Where are you looking at? I want to build a city not on a cliff, but on this reef area."

It turned out that Lorist had the idea of ​​using waste, using broken ships to sink into the reef area and form a circle of embankments, and then build a circle of city walls and fortresses on it. Put bronze cannons to control the Golden Sea Road from the southern waters to the Zangjin Bay. At the same time, the family's North Sea Fleet has a supply base and foothold in the sunny waters.

Senbawood suddenly realized and admired her. This was simply a matter of nothing. The castle fortress was built in the reef area, and the coast was cliffs and could not be conquered from the 6th route. And at sea, what kind of warships can be used to attack castle fortresses with bronze artillery? As Lorist said, this was equivalent to controlling the throat of the sea transportation line of the Commercial Alliance. This knife was so cruel and painful that it was inserted.

"Your Highness is wise..." Senbawood patted his forehead: "I never thought there would be such an incredible way. After building castle fortresses and levels here, the sea tolls our family receives every year will become a huge income. No smuggling ship can escape the taxes and fees collected by our family. Your Highness, can I ask for this income to expand the family fleet?"

Lorist was stunned: "Sembawood, I have ordered the Niujiao Bay Shipyard to build ten lightning warships again, and are preparing to expand the North Sea Fleet's lightning warships to twenty-four, and at the same time reduce those large armed warships, and redesign and manufacture a new type of large ocean-going armed transport warships with a small number of bronze artillery as a supply transport ship for lightning warships. But what does the sea toll you just mentioned mean?"

When she heard that Lorist had ordered the construction of ten new lightning warships and developed a new type of ocean-going armed transport ship, Senbawood was overjoyed and quickly explained: "Your Highness, the sea tolls are actually a disguised tax. In the past, the Invincible Fleet was the maritime overlord of the southern waters. All family ships and private ships sailing in the southern waters had to pay a fee to the Invincible Fleet to obtain a permit to do business in coastal countries along the Sunshine Sea and the Gold Coastline. Otherwise, the Invincible Fleet would be sunk or confiscated in the name of pirates or smuggling ships. As far as I know, the annual fee for a large ocean-going merchant ship is twenty-five goldfords."

"Ah? Didn't it say that the Chicked Chamber of Commerce is the maritime overlord in the southern waters? How could it become an invincible fleet?" Lorist asked. The information submitted by Tager clearly stated that the Chicked Chamber of Commerce was the Chicked Chamber of Commerce. Why did Senbawood say it differently?

"Your Highness, it's not wrong to say that the Chikde Chamber is the maritime overlord in the southern waters, because the Invincible Fleet is a shareholding system, the Chikde Chamber of Commerce accounts for 40% of its profits, and the remaining 60% belong to the other six chambers of commerce in the Commercial Alliance. However, after the destruction of our family, his shares in the Invincible Fleet were swallowed up by the Double-Headed Dragon Chamber of Commerce.

On the surface, the Invincible Fleet is the overlord of the Southern Seas. It can do whatever it wants in the Southern Seas in the name of the Commercial Alliance. The countries along the Gold Coastline can only swallow their anger if they are afraid of the power of the Commercial Alliance. The Chickard Chamber of Commerce secretly controlled the Invincible Fleet and at the same time monopolized several productions of the Southern countries with relatively large profits. Their Chamber of Commerce's maritime merchant fleet and armed fleet are also the largest in addition to the Invincible Fleet.

Even the ports and docks of some coastal countries fell into the hands of the Chicked Chamber of Commerce. It can be said that the Chicked Chamber of Commerce weaved a large maritime trading network in the coastal countries in the southern part of the Greater Six. Only those businesses they look down on will become the profits that the aristocratic fleets and private ship owners of coastal countries compete to grab. Therefore, it is not wrong to call the Chicked Chamber of Commerce the overlord of the southern waters." Senbawood explained that the Invincible Fleet and the Chicked Chamber of Commerce have always been his focus.

"Oh, so that's it." Lorist understood that the Invincible Fleet was called the maritime overlord because of its force, while the Chickard Chamber of Commerce was called the maritime overlord because of its comprehensive strength: "Well, Sembarwood, you just said that after building a castle fortress here, you can collect huge maritime tolls? What if those merchant ships don't come..."

"Haha, Your Highness, don't worry." Senbawood was happy: "If those merchant ships circulate in the southern waters of the Great Six, they will not make any profit at all. Only by transporting the southern production of the Great Six to the Tibetan Bay and selling it to the merchants of Morient City can they be sold at a price, because the merchants of Morient City will sell these things to the central and northern parts. Then they acquire specialties from the central and northern parts to the southern part of the Great Six through these merchant ships. After deducting costs, a merchant ship can earn at least a hundred Jinfudes, and it is enough to run once a year."

"That's it, but why are you so clear? Could it be that you are doing such a business in private?" Lorist looked at Senbawood suspiciously.

Sembawood Khan came down: "Your Highness, I didn't do any business in private. These were told by the private owners when I went to receive the transport fleet. They helped me a lot and stopped the invincible fleet from sending the escorts on their ships to the ship to escort the ship to destroy the transport supplies, and handed the transport fleet to me intact. I asked them what reward they wanted, and they said they wanted to come and see His Highness."

Lorist was intrigued: "What do they want to see me?"

Senbawood grabbed his head and said a little embarrassedly: "Your Highness, logically speaking, the merchant ships of these private ship owners were requisitioned by the Invincible Fleet and the Chickard Chamber of Commerce, joined the transport fleet of the Commercial Alliance, and now become our prisoners. They should be all captured and spoiled by our family. But those private ship owners wanted to see you for their merchant ships, begging you to return those merchant ships to them. Although they helped our family a lot and stopped the shipwrecking action, this credit reward was enough for them to reward them with more than ten golden blessings, and there was no need to return those merchant ships to them..."

"I'll be gone," Lorist said, touching his chin, "Agree with their request, and let them return the ship to them after they have finished delivering the supplies."

"But Your Highness, these are more than 300 large and medium-sized merchant ships and freight ships, worth a lot of money..." Senbawood was a little reluctant.

"Give them back. The transport fleet has more than 800 ships. Even if we return these more than 300 ships, we still have nearly 500 ships. What we lack now is not ships, but sailors and crew members who drive these ships. In the short term, we will not be able to recruit enough trusted sailors. What's more, this is also an opportunity for our family."

Lorist said in contemplation: "Aren't our family unable to open up trade routes to coastal countries along the Golden Coast in the Sunny Sea? Perhaps this will be a good opportunity.

In the past, the trade routes leading to the southern waters were monopolized by the Cheekde Chamber of Commerce and the Peterson Chamber of Commerce of the Commercial Alliance, making the goods produced in our family territory a production and procurement point for these two chambers of commerce, and now they have cut off transactions.

This time, these private ship owners will transport supplies to Shilovas Island, let them visit the display of our family goods, and let them purchase them freely. Perhaps the goods produced in our family territory will be sold to the countries in the south of Greater 6 through these private ship owners..."

"Yes, Your Highness, I will follow your instructions." Senbawood understood what Lorist meant.

"Well, if Shilovas Island can also become a fulcrum of the Golden Sea Road, the castle fortress level set up here may really bring great benefits to our family. By the end of the year, I will check it out. If the amount is huge, I can consider expanding the North Sword Fleet into three squadrons, twelve lightning warships plus twelve new large ocean-sea armed transport ships, and twenty-four new squadrons composed of medium-sized fast armed warships equipped with artillery, which is enough for you to traverse the north and south seas." Lorist promised.

"Thank you, Your Highness..." Senbawood's mouth broke into his ears with joy.

But then Lorist said seriously: "Sembawood, your task is very heavy. First, you hand over all the stormtroopers at sea to the jurisdiction of Schwart. He needs to take care of the 100,000 young and strong prisoners on the shore. Secondly, you will take ten lightning warships to escort the Firebird Legion of the Kingdom of Chigda and the captive sailors of the Invincible Fleet, and more than 300 private merchant ships to transport supplies to Shilovas Island. I have ordered Baron Kamora to go to Shilovas Island to receive these prisoners of war and supplies.

The remaining transport fleets and warships of the Invincible Fleet will be taken to the Port of Yametrin and the Stone Legion to meet the Guards Legion. And after you send the prisoners and supplies to Shilovas Island, you will come back here. First, supervise the project to fill the reefs here and control the ocean surface. Second, gradually transport these 100,000 young and strong prisoners to Sidra Province, the Duke of Kenmes' family territory, and go ashore from Platinum Beach to Yungshandra Province. The family needs this 100,000 labor... "

"But, your highness, don't you still attack Zangjin Bay and capture Morient City?" Senbawood was anxious. It sounded like Lorist had excluded the North Sea Fleet.

Sure enough, Lorist shook his head: "There is no need to attack the Zangjin Bay. Look at the warships and transport fleets of the Invincible Fleet we seized this time. We can use them to enter Zangjin Bay and capture the city of Morient."

Well, it is safer to enter Zangjin Bay as an invincible fleet, and it is harder for the enemy to be prepared for. If a lightning strikes a warship appears, it will alarm the enemy and make the enemy more vigilant and strictly prevent. Senbawood quickly figured out this point.

"Okay, Your Highness, I will definitely complete the task." Senbawood said dejectedly.

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Chapter completed!