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But until Jin Feng's rebirth, many Europeans had not regretted it. Instead, they proudly exhibited the cultural relics plundered from other countries, proclaiming their former glory and sin!

William Smith grew up in this cultural atmosphere and highly praised pirates since childhood. After becoming an adult, he immediately took out all his savings, went out to sea to take risks, and became pirates.

Because it was the first time, he didn't run too far, but he just walked around the southern coast of the Mediterranean. However, he was very lucky and discovered a silver mine in Africa for the first time he went to sea.

Although the silver mine reserves are not very ideal, mining is extremely convenient.

There is an indigenous tribe at the foot of the mountain where the silver mine is located. Unfortunately, they are too backward. They are still dressed in animal skins, and their weapons are mainly wooden spears and stone axes. They are not pirate opponents with iron swords and armor.

William Smith not only robbed the silver mine, but also captured all the people from the tribe. The men forced them to mine, while the women were tied back and sold as slaves.

The first time he went overseas, William Smith made a lot of money, and his investment savings increased by more than ten times.

Even the second young master of the Smith family is a very considerable income.

So he became more keen on piracy, using silver mines as collateral, purchasing more and larger ships, and going further away.

In the next few years, William took his pirates to gallop back and forth on the sea, plundering tribes, and his sailing distance became farther and farther.

I have to say that William Smith was lucky. In the past few years, he not only paid off the foreign debt he borrowed from his mortgage, but also doubled his wealth, but also occupied a large area of ​​colonies on the west coast of the Red Sea and built a dock for his growing pirate fleet.

These achievements made William one of the most dazzling young people in the Smith family and even the entire Iran Islands, and also the prince charming in the minds of many noble ladies.

So William's ambition became increasingly greater and he was no longer satisfied with the backward Africa and began to look to the East.

He once caught several pirates from Central Asia in the Arabian Sea. He heard these pirates say that in the further east, there is a country that is extremely wealthy and very weak.

William also found exquisite porcelain and tea leaves from the pirates of Central Asia, as well as clothes made of silk.

William, who has been engaged in pirate activities for many years, immediately realized how huge benefits these things would bring to him once sold to Europe!

From that day on, William was full of yearning for this country.

After more than a year of planning and preparation, William began this long voyage.

Even with the captive Central Asian pirates leading the way, William still spent more than a year before finally passing through the Strait of Malacca and entering the South China Sea.

But here, they encountered Japanese pirates, and both sides fought several times at sea. In the end, William defeated Japanese pirates with a stronger ocean-going ship.

Japanese pirates were born to bully the weak and fear the strong. When they were pirates bullying others, they were all devils. Seeing that they could not beat William, they knelt on the ground and became a dog licking, and took the initiative to offer gold and silver beauties to seek cooperation.

William was just a newcomer and was not familiar with the place, so he agreed to cooperate.

After merged with the Japanese pirates, William made waves and robbed everywhere in the southern waters of Dakang.

However, at this time, Dakang was still relatively backward. Apart from tea, there was not much that William could like, so he rushed to the East China Sea by the Japanese pirates.

Then I met Zheng Chiyuan.
Chapter completed!