As a mature naval commander like Dai Lin, after taking over the maritime battlefield in the Western Theater, his abilities were indeed different from those of Li De, Andel and others who became monks halfway.
The grand fleet includes 32 battleships and 50 cruisers and frigates. Under the command of Dai Lin, it can be said that the entire sea area is under the control of Dai Lin.
However, Dai Lin did not rush to attack the main island of Kezan. Instead, he created several smaller-scale naval battles in the nearby waters. Dai Lin's purpose was to lock down Kezan little by little. In his own words and Li De's words,
It is planned to take half a year or even longer to deal with the Kezan goblins.
On Kezan Island, the trade kings also fell into anxiety due to the arrival of the Kul Tiras fleet.
Grizlik knew that what he feared most had happened. He failed to capture the Vast Sea Protector, leaving Kul Tiras' fleet with a fulcrum in Kalimdor. The Kozan fleet now had to deal with a more powerful enemy.
However, at this critical juncture, none of the trade kings took the lead in taking a stand and convened a meeting of six kings to decide on the next step.
After all, the six trade kings have now become five. Childros died at the "hands of Li De", and now the Bilgewater Cartel is leaderless. The meeting of the Six Kings cannot be held until Bilgewater has a new speaker.
In fact, the five kings have not thought about dividing the rust water, but the volume of the rust water cannot be digested in three or two days.
There are powerful enemies outside, and even goblins know that there must be no civil strife. The best way to deal with it is to let a new talker appear in Bilgewater as soon as possible to complete the smooth transition.
It is not realistic to directly carve up the Bilgewater Cartel, but when it comes to choosing new talkers, the five trade kings have different ideas. The trade kings have mutual interests that are so intertwined that they may be friends one day, but they may be friends tomorrow.
Maybe an enemy.
On the issue of selecting Newspeakers, the trade princes with whom they were close friends in private all came to the opposite side. Hotsand and Gigvondt each supported a promising old trade prince, but Mogul this time.
Rarely, he did not express his position.
The competition between the two veteran trade princes is still very fierce. Even if there are foreign enemies and the battle is limited to a certain range by the kings, the two sides still appear to be at war with each other.
What these two strong contenders didn't expect was that in this battle for talkers, the final winner was Grizlik and Rudolfons who joined forces to nominate a young man:
In the northern part of Kezan Island, within the sphere of influence of the Bilgewater Cartel, in Childros' former palace.
In the bedroom, a small and exquisite young goblin woman with a curvy figure was sitting on the edge of the bed, dressed in black, crying. And next to her sat a goblin who was also dressed in black, with a handsome appearance but a cunning look in his eyebrows.
man.
Gallywix gently held his wife's shoulders and comforted her warmly:
"Laura, don't worry, when I become the trade king, I will definitely avenge my father!"
Gallywix promised emphatically, and Childros' daughter Laura Rustwater held her husband's hand in emotion.
"I believe you will, my dear, but can you really successfully take the position of Trade King?"
Laura was a little worried. Although she could inherit all of Childrose's property, in the culture of goblin society, if a person inherits his parents' inheritance, he must use 30% of the inheritance to hold a funeral.
To express my sorrow and respect for my parents.
As for the remaining inheritance, several princes in the chaebol who are eyeing them will definitely find ways to organize Gallywix to control them.
But Gallywix is confident:
"Dear, don't worry. I have the support of the Trade King, but you must keep it secret until we get control of the situation."
Laura had absolute trust in her husband, so she hugged Gallywix with peace of mind.
"I understand, I will all rely on you from now on. The Bilgewater Cartel is named after our family's surname, and it must not fall into the hands of outsiders!"
Laura was crying when she said this. Gallywix hugged Laura tightly and closed his eyes as if he felt sorry for his wife.
But in fact, only he knew it best. What he was thinking about at this time was the pistol that sank to the bottom of the sea.
After comforting his wife, Gallywix straightened his clothes to make them look more upright.
He ordered the servants to help Laura, who was extremely sad, while Gallywix went downstairs first. Today was the day of Childros' funeral.
It was at this funeral that the princes of the plutocrats came together to force Gallywix and asked him and Laura to hand over the scepter and key representing the speaker. They also wanted Childrose's inheritance to be deposited in the palace.
in the trust fund they established.
The reasons given by these princes were to make better use of them, to complete Childros' unfinished business during his lifetime, and to take better care of Laura.
Gallywix sneered at this statement. They just wanted to kick Childros' heir out first, and then compete internally to remove the trade king?
"I'm sorry, we won't hand over the scepter, keys and inheritance. We, as a couple, have decided to take care of our father's inheritance on our own.
The Bilgewater Cartel is temporarily managed by myself: Gallywix Bilgewater.
As for the real trade king, he can only be selected after killing the king's murderer, Reed Victory."
Gallywix said expressionlessly, but the princes obviously didn't take him seriously. They even seemed to be humiliated when they heard him openly suffixing himself with the surname "Bilgewater".
"Bah! You're just a slave who eats soft food. Do you really think of yourself as a person? Who here doesn't know you? You're just a gangster from Copper Coin Street."
Prince Gazlok, who was supported by Steamwheedle, said disdainfully, while Tokaraz, another prince supported by Zigfund, was even more angry.
"How can you speak here? Is there anyone here who doesn't have a net worth of more than 500,000 gold coins? Let me tell you, let's use the traditional method of counting property! Whoever has more property will be qualified to become a trade king."
It's a pity that Tokaraz's words were not recognized by everyone.
Because if they really use the method of announcing their assets, they must strictly follow the evaluation standards, but then none of them can become a trade king.
This must be said to be the cleverness of the trade kings. They stand at the top of the food chain and have many ways to limit the property of their subordinates to less than 1 million gold coins.
Just like Tokaraz, the richest person present, his long-term wealth fluctuates around 950,000, but when King Bilgewater was still alive, it was obvious that he could no longer limit him.
"Huh, according to property, right? Don't forget that I am the son-in-law of King Bilgewater, and the inheritance will be the joint property of our husband and wife!"
Gallywix retorted tit for tat. He had worked hard to get to this point, how could he allow the results to be stolen by others?
"Oh, joint property, right? Excluding funeral expenses and gift tax, I want to see how much money you have at your disposal?"
Tokaraz snorted, in his eyes Gallywix was a clown.
If we really want to find any progress among goblins, it would be that they recognize "fair individual struggle."
Thirty percent of the funeral expenses is strong evidence that a large amount of money should be spent back to the market for consumption.
In addition, during the notarization process, a considerable part of the inheritance and gift of property must be used to build public facilities in Kezan.
To put it bluntly, goblin society is using every means to prevent other people's property from becoming your property. If you want to have money, work hard to find ways to earn it yourself.
This kind of mechanism is actually conducive to the stability of the goblin social class. Otherwise, there would be a ridiculous situation where a few goblins come together to form a trade king.
Gallywix took it indifferently and slowly listed his personal property and donated property. This included cash, real estate and stocks held.
After all this calculation, Gallywix now actually owns more than 900,000 gold coins! He is not far away from being a trade king!
Although most of them must have been donated property, Gallywix also worked hard over the years and accumulated nearly three hundred thousand gold coins.
In this way, Gallywix was almost the same as Gazrock and Tokaraz, which made these powerful princes so nervous that they did not hesitate to use the strictest standards in order to suppress him.
"Don't be proud, but even if you only have more than 900,000 yuan, you can't be a trade king!"
Gallywix spread his hands confidently.
"Who said this is all? I recently had an engineering deal with King Raedor Vons, and King Raedor Vons still has the balance of fifty thousand gold coins that he has not paid to me."
If what Gallywix said is true, then with these 50,000 gold coins, his wealth really exceeds one million!
Gazlock and others thought quickly. They were all smart people and they quickly came up with a solution.
"But your identity is not enough to become a trade king. Your identity is not even a trade prince. You must confirm your identity step by step in order!"
After Gazlok finished speaking, Tokaraz continued.
"Yes, yes! If I remember correctly, your current status is the 'Chairman of the Copper Coin Street Joint Enterprise', which is on the same level as the trading giant."
Everyone immediately understood that now that King Bilgewater was dead, it would be much faster to accumulate wealth without anyone to suppress them.
In other words, they used an insufficient identity level to lengthen Gallywix's identity authentication process.
And in this process, they can definitely do a few business deals, and their net worth will definitely exceed one million before Gallywix completes the identity verification.
It's a pity that Gallywix has reached this point long ago.
"Sorry, I have been the senior advisor of the Tinker Guild for a long time. In terms of level, I am a trade pro, and I will be certified to become a trade king."
Gallywix's arrogant appearance gave several princes a risky idea. Why not just kill this guy by force?
However, at this moment, an army suddenly broke into the Bilgewater Cartel's meeting place! Their banner was actually to give Gallywix the final payment.
What makes people nervous is that after giving away the money, this group of people actually stayed at the venue and stood behind Gallywix. The meaning need not be obvious.
Someone recognized that the one-eyed leader of this unit was the most powerful officer under Gryzlik!
It is obvious that he has the support of the two great kings, Grizzlik and Radolfons, and everything from his property to his identity is justified.
In the end, Gallywix succeeded in becoming the trade king of the Bilgewater Cartel by relying on "negotiations that did not involve the blood of a single person"!
This despicable guy at heart, relying on conspiracy and tricks, finally officially entered the stage of history!