Pirate Kingship.

Chapter 571 If you get into trouble in the future, just don’t tell your master about it

The east coast of the Southern Continent's Beast Paradise, which is controlled by various deep-sea clans, is covered with dark clouds and surging waves.

boom! boom! boom!
The huge sound of gas explosions was like thunder that shook the sky and the sea.

People on land and on whaling ships at sea looked up at the low-hanging clouds, but they could only see a long pale blue rainbow piercing through the clouds.

Circles of white gas explosions chased after it, but they could never catch up with the rainbow light.

And the red light did not stop for a moment, as if what was chasing it was not a gas explosion ring created by itself, but a mad vicious dog.

If a bystander stands on the top of the hill, he can even feel the huge electromagnetic field above his head being released layer by layer, constantly accelerating the long rainbow.

The flying speed was getting faster and faster, coming and going inadvertently, and in the blink of an eye it reached the eastern horizon from the western horizon.

The onlookers felt an invisible force sweep over their bodies, and they couldn't help but feel a tingling sensation, and their hair all stood on end.

Crackle
The long rainbow cut through the sea of ​​clouds and crossed the Beast Paradise all the way until it reached the sea on the east coast, where it exploded with a loud bang, revealing two figures.

Byron held his sister Catherine in a princess hug, panting and sweating profusely. A strand of messy black hair on his forehead stuck to his smooth forehead covered with sweat.

The back of the shirt was soaked with cold sweat.

Even the sister, who should have been carefully protected, had her crystal shoe on her right foot blown away halfway, and before it fell to the ground it was blown to pieces by the gas explosion ring following behind her.

At this moment, the hem of the white skirt flew up, revealing a white and tender little foot with the toes painted bright rose red, which Catherine quickly stuffed into her brother's lapel.

This shows how anxious Byron was when he fled.

Before Catherine could react, she had arrived at the Rift Trench on the east coast from the Ring of Fire Mountains of the Solar Empire on the west coast.

Without asking Byron what happened, she just silently took out a handkerchief with body and rose scent from her arms and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

Byron then came to his senses and realized that he was clearly holding his sister's graceful body in his arms, with her slender waist, long legs, and perfectly plump and thick buttocks, but he didn't bother to appreciate them carefully.

He took two deep breaths while stepping on a wisp of sea breeze, allowing the divine spiritual light that had exploded to its limit to quickly flow back.

Only then, through the legal network that had been connected, the question of why Atahualpa ran away was answered.

"Huff. Sorry, it's nothing serious. Huff, it's just that my queen Violet is pregnant, and I have to go home to see her."

The queen's pregnancy was just a perfunctory excuse.

Byron was simply worried that Inti, the Sun God, who regarded the Machu Picchu Sky City as his own demigod kingdom, might be like his predecessor, the seventh-order true god Sun God and Lord of the Four Transformations Diu, and cause the southern continent to sink again because of a "carelessness"!

"The Creator only cracked slightly, but you guys are so good, you want to explode on the spot!
And it’s not just one, it’s many.”

After being embedded in the Golden Triangle in the shape of an eye, Byron's left eye gained some predictive power to see through the timeline.

The right eye sees the present, the left eye predicts the future.

[Sunstone Calendar] When predicting and deducing various possibilities for the future, there is no need to spend historical influence. Influence will only be consumed when entering the virtual timeline in person to simulate choices.

But it is enough to be used as a reference for action.

Just after Atahualpa revealed a series of confidential inside stories of the solar system, several timelines, some thick and some thin, automatically appeared in front of Byron's eyes.

There is an ending where [Sun God] Inti successfully breaks through; there is an ending where he is eaten by his descendants, which is further divided into an ending where [Death Dark Sun] wins and [Founder of the Nation] wins and ascends, or an ending where both perish;

There are also old gods and their followers who are ready to make trouble secretly, leading him to fall;

Of course, there is also the ending of a loud "boom" that ends the entire Solar Empire and blows up the Ring of Fire Mountains into the sky.
The conditions for Inti to create the big explosion were even more convenient than those of his ancient predecessor. He had made preparations in advance at the beginning of the founding of the country and established the country among the mountains.

The entire Ring of Fire Mountains, which brought endless gold and various precious metals to the Sons of the Sun, are full of active volcanoes formed by the squeezing of the Storm Ocean Plate and the continental plates.

I don’t know how much energy is accumulated beneath the earth’s crust.

Just use a mushroom bomb that is much smaller than the Ancient Sun God's to create an effect that is not inferior to the former.

It triggered a large-scale volcanic eruption and tore a zero-level world rift, and most of the Beast Paradise became completely Barbie Q.

For Byron, "risk" is the combination or product of the severity of the consequences and the probability of occurrence.

In this world where the law of accidents says: "If something can go wrong, no matter how small the possibility is, it will happen."

He really didn't dare to bet on when the Sun God would have an accident and how serious the consequences would be.

If you don't run now, when will you wait?
Sigh deeply in my heart:

“It doesn’t require any industrial foundation. People could make mushroom bombs by hand even in the Stone Age. But there are no corresponding operating standards and knowledge systems. This is really too dangerous.

Ignorance and arrogance are both obstacles to survival.

My eldest daughter has a better understanding of the mass-energy equation than you do, but until now she has never actually tried to make the most terrifying fireworks in the world.

My wife is really stable.

But then again, the saying 'the sun and storms are the mortal enemies of the deep sea' has been around for a long time.

Is it possible that part of the reason is that the ancient sun god was too wicked to blow up the world rift, and his followers and all kinds of weird things subconsciously want to stay away from him, so as to avoid his ashes being implicated when the world itself strikes with lightning."

Of course, these are all jokes that cannot be verified.

The most important thing is that the logbook also revealed new secrets: [Crisis of the Sun God Inti, historical influence 61, decryption density 27%].

This shows that the upper echelons of the Sun Empire are really not simple now, and the undercurrents are so turbulent that even a king is like a frightened bird.

"But Atahualpa couldn't explain the reason for this.

Even if you tell him how dangerous the matter is, it will only add to his troubles and in the end it will just be groundless worry.

Oh, that's not right. We can no longer laugh at the people of Qi now. Archaeological discoveries have shown that the Qi State was really hit by dense meteors. The Nanluoxing Village and the Beiluoxing Village still exist today.

The Southern Continent was actually blown up by the Sun God, so it is reasonable to worry that it will happen again.

The only problem is that I can run away, but Atahualpa, as a king and descendant of the sun god, can’t run away at all. No matter what happens, he will have to face it personally.”

Atahualpa could understand Byron's words, as he had felt similarly when he had his first child, but he did have something else to say:
"Your Majesty, Lord of Heaven, there is no need to be so anxious even if you have a child, right?

I'll prepare some more local specialties from the Empire of the Sun for you to take back.

Aya and her friends haven't had a chance to entertain the two of you properly yet. They were just saying that they have specially prepared a gold-making sightseeing activity at the active volcano.

Tourists are organized to jump into the magma to fish out liquid gold and silver, and they can take away all they can no matter how much they fish out.

And I also need your help with my fifth-level promotion ceremony."

When Byron and Catherine heard about the "special sightseeing projects" of Son of the Sun, they looked at each other in silence.

This is just a casual way of jumping into the lava to make money, just like sightseeing in vineyards and strawberry gardens. Do you want to listen to what you are talking about?
He waved his hand and refused.

Then when I heard that Atahualpa was planning to use the "Ponzi scheme" as a ladder to immortality, I couldn't help but admire his boldness and decisiveness.

But on second thought, now might be the best time.

The Sun God was unable to take care of himself in the face of the crisis, and his subordinate gods, led by the Dark Sun of Death and the Founder of the Nation, were caught in an internal struggle. Atahualpa himself commanded the heavy armored combined battalion to advance rapidly and expand the territory.

He now has popularity and power, and no one is watching over him from above. This is the time when royal power is at its highest, so it is easy for him to do whatever he wants.

No one could stop him even if he tried to pilot a "Ponzi scheme" nationwide.

“A Ponzi scheme is also known as a pyramid scheme and a multi-level marketing scheme.

Use the money from new investors to pay interest and short-term returns to old investors in order to create an illusion and defraud more money, commonly known as robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Use the game of Pass the Parcel to turn other people's money into your own.

The real winners are only the scammers at the top of the pyramid."

Stepping onto this immortal ladder, which is related to the solar realm but is clearly different from that of the ancestors, is equivalent to changing one's job from a "natural god" to a "personal god."

It is hard to say which one is stronger or weaker between the two, but they each have their own advantages and disadvantages.

Natural gods often represent a certain natural phenomenon, and the upper limit will not change after a thousand or ten thousand years.

The existence of personal gods is entirely based on the imagination of intelligent races. The stronger the intelligent race, the deeper their understanding and application of a certain field, and the more rapidly personal gods can improve their strength.

The Byron family [King of the Wild Hunt], [Queen of War], and [Queen of Finance] are all the latter, or in other words, they are composite gods that are mainly "personal gods" but also possess the powers of both "natural gods" and "personal gods."

In contrast, natural gods never have to worry about the extinction of the concepts and rules they anchor. As long as the world exists, natural laws will exist.

However, if intelligent races can no longer understand this subjective concept, the personal gods corresponding to the fields and priesthoods will gradually die out. Even if they do not disappear, their power will be greatly weakened.

For example: Financial power can call the shots in today’s commercial society and is omnipotent; money speaks and truth remains silent.

But once mankind regresses to the primitive age of slash-and-burn agriculture and loses the exchange currency and financial attributes of socialization, the "Queen of Finance" will also plummet in power.

Therefore, the main force that hopes that mankind can survive the flood in a collective mode is the "personal gods" and those fifth-level legends of equivalent status.

Atahualpa's change of route was also a good thing for Byron's camp.

So he nodded silently to Catherine.

The latter, as the "Queen of Finance", absorbed all of Byron's knowledge of economics through the repeated reconciliation of "everything into one" among the three of them.

In terms of vision, practical operation, experience, knowledge reserves, and the scale of assets under management, this God of Finance is undoubtedly the number one in the material world!

A little guidance would have saved Atahualpa many years of detours.

After a little thought, he designed a suitable ascension ceremony according to the Immortal Stairway he had chosen.

Taking over Byron's communications, he gave advice to the young king:
“Your Majesty Atahualpa, you should have learned enough lessons from the defeat of the Rat Kingdom.

An annualized interest rate of 25% may be able to quickly attract funds, but the game of passing the parcel cannot last long and is likely to attract the hatred of most people. This is not how the leek-cutting sword technique is used.

[Banker] In most cases, they will not take the initiative to come to the front desk. It is best for you to implement your plan secretly so that you can enjoy the dividends in the long run.

So I suggest you use the pyramid scheme model to issue government bonds. "

Atahualpa chewed on this word again and again:

"National debt?"

In the traditional financial market, it is regarded as a synonym for a gilt-edged bond and a risk-free bond.

But it depends on who plays the game. We are not afraid of no good things, but we are afraid of no good people.

Catherine had a sweet voice, but her words were like the devil's whisper:
“Establish your own private Imperial Central Reserve Bank and formulate the Imperial Reserve Law to grant it corresponding financial and fiscal management powers.

You hide yourself behind the scenes, absorb relevant powerful figures to build a huge community of interests, such as the 'Imperial Reserve Committee', and then share the profits with them.

Then, using national credit and tax guarantees, an appropriate interest rate is agreed upon to issue government bonds to the powerful, wealthy people, other city-states, and tribes on the continent.

Interest rates and the amount of government bond issuance can be adjusted regularly and flexibly, making it easier to implement various monetary and fiscal policies.
In this way, the process of gold continuously entering your account is the process of your continuous promotion as a banker. It may take less than one or two years for you to soar to the sky and become a legend."

Of course, all three of them knew it.

If this thing is handled well, it will lead to national debt; if it is handled poorly, it will lead to chain collapse and financial bomb. The destructive power can penetrate into the lives of every ordinary person and may be even more terrifying than the consequences caused by mushroom bombs.

Huh?
Why do I feel like these people from the Empire of the Sun have a natural affinity with bombs?
“The key point is that you can hide the pyramid scheme in normal state fundraising, which makes it more secretive.

If your ancestors wanted to use you as firewood, you could always detonate the huge imperial debt.

That is to say, the larger the Solar Empire's national debt, the safer you are."

Catherine did not hide any traps in her words, and she made the means, tools and consequences clear.

Atahualpa's eyes lit up when he heard this and he scratched his ears and cheeks excitedly.

He discovered that after the change of [Queen of Finance], not only would he have a very high chance of being promoted to a fifth-order pseudo-god smoothly without any trouble, he could even obtain an amulet to counter those ancestors.

All the defrauded money was deposited into an absolutely safe offshore account in the online financial street. Even if you kill him, you can't get the money back.

If the ancestors dared to eat him and his queen, sisters, and children, the worst that could happen was that they would take the entire Sun Empire with them to death.

This is another "strategic balancer"!
I couldn't help but express my gratitude to Byron and Catherine:
"Okay, okay, this is good. If we send in professionals to carefully maintain it, it won't be a problem to keep this system running for a hundred years.

You will definitely get a share of the money I collect. I will calculate it and I will guarantee you a satisfactory share ratio."

In fact, no matter who thinks up or uses such means, it is difficult to say that anyone is a good person, and it is very easy to affect a large number of innocent people.

If the situation in the Empire of the Sun wasn't so special, they wouldn't have given Atahualpa such a powerful weapon.

Of course, in reality, Catherine didn't even use one percent of her skills.

The tulip financial bubble, the subprime mortgage crisis, the periodic flooding of paper money, and many more bombs.

Atahualpa, who has just started working as a banker, is just like looking at the sky from the mouth of a well when he looks at Catherine. Once he becomes a professional, he will be able to watch the sun and the moon like fireflies.

Byron accepted his tuition generously, but also made a serious request:
“I can send a few absolutely inhumane [bankers] to help you.

But the request is not high. In the future, when you use this skill to cause trouble, just don't tell your master and your master's wife about it."

Even if Byron had seen the new secret, solving it would have considerable historical influence.

But until he has the ability to intervene in the crisis caused by the Sun God Inti and is not afraid of Him suddenly exploding, Byron's true body will never come to the Sun Empire again.

If possible, he would still like to win over this natural enemy of the deep sea, who is also his natural ally.

But that would have to wait until we return from the East Continent, assuming that Inti hasn't exploded by then.

The Kingdom of Iris, the Palace of Maplestory and White Dew.

Bang!
[Chameleon] Jacqueline helped her mother Meganella into a luxurious carriage and angrily closed the door.

Before the carriage started to leave the palace, he couldn't help but complain:

"Mom, my uncle is really too much.

As soon as we got the regency, we couldn't wait to deprive you of the position of colonial governor and replace you with our own people.

I have completely forgotten that if it were not for your relationship with your cousin, most of the interests of the colony would have been taken away by the protectorate of the Kingdom of Castile.

This time, my grandfather was seriously ill and we were not allowed to visit him.

Is he worried that you might threaten his power? You are such a villain! "

Meganilla, who was sitting opposite her, also had an unhappy expression on her face, and it was obvious that she was not happy with her brother, Louis XI.

Her father, Charles VII, the victorious king who won the Hundred Years' War and regained the country, is already seventy years old this year, making him a very rare centenarian.

But the illness eventually found him.

My health has been deteriorating since the beginning of winter last year. I fell ill and haven't gotten much better since the summer. It's likely that I won't be able to survive until the next winter.

Although Louis XI was still the crown prince, he had already begun to act as regent. Since last winter, he had almost completely taken over the royal power and implemented a series of targeted adjustments.

At the beginning, Byron said to this illegitimate daughter of Richard VII, the cousin of his father Prince Thorenberg, and his aunt Meganella:
“The most important thing about being a governor is making money.

If you don't make money and I don't make money, how can Commissioner Phillips make money? How can we make progress?

You are the youngest daughter. If you take more advantage of the old man, he will just turn a blind eye.

When your brother takes over in the future, you won’t be able to pull him out even if you want to.”

Now it has come true.

Meganilla was recalled by Louis XI from the lucrative colonies and openly replaced with a male favorite with whom he had an ambiguous relationship.

Now even visiting my seriously ill old father is not allowed.

When they first met, Louis XI did not conceal his disgust and aversion towards women at all.

This almost pissed off Jacqueline, the wild-tempered "Chameleon" who was always committing murder and arson with her cousin.

Jacqueline liked girls and Louis XI liked handsome boys. The two had no "business" conflicts, but they disliked each other.

Byron has recently written several battle songs tailor-made for her and Meganilla. Both mother and daughter are only one step away from becoming fourth-level heroes. Now, they may be able to fight against fourth-level heroes with their original songs.

Fortunately, Meganila held him back and no trouble happened.

“Humph, my cousin’s biological grandmother is Princess Iris, and she also has the strong claim to Iris.

Together with his uncle Louis, they are the last two living male descendants of the Valois dynasty of Iris.

Now that troubled times have arrived, I think it would be better to give the throne directly to my cousin than to hand it over to my uncle who loves men but cannot have children and wait for the dynasty to die out."

Although Richard VII had fourteen legitimate children and three illegitimate daughters, including his illegitimate sons, most of them unfortunately died at a young age.

The only male royal member with the surname Valois was Louis XI.

Byron's grandfather Henry V, the Hammer of Iris, and his uncle Henry VI, the Mad King, both served as the Iris Kings for several years.

It can be said to be of pure origin.

There were countless marriages between Hastings nobles and Iris nobles, and many even held titles from both countries.

Therefore, there is no problem for Byron to be the king of the Iris Kingdom in terms of identity, legality, or bloodline.

Moreover, the Iris Kingdom occupies the most prosperous land in the entire continent, has a population of nearly 20 million, and has always been one of the economic centers of the continent.

There is a saying that goes: King Hastings who does not pursue the Iris Territory is not a good king. The Hundred Years' War between the two countries is essentially a battle for succession and the throne.

The mother and daughter looked at each other as they spoke, and suddenly felt that there was a lot of potential in this matter, so they lowered their voices:

"We'll talk about it when we get back."

And in the Elysee Palace in another corner of the royal capital.

An agile figure sneaked out of the palace while Louis XI was in Fontebleau Palace, gathering his confidants to plot to strangle the "Poor Knights" whose headquarters was in the Iris Kingdom.

It was the "traitor" who walked with a limp.

If he had encountered such a big event in the past, he would have definitely joined in the fun.

Add a few strokes to the "History of the Silver Continent" to make the development of events more bizarre and tortuous, and to consume the power of all parties on the continent and the power of the Silver Law to the maximum extent.

But now, all his power and magic were suppressed by the torn "divine side", and he could only use his own spiritual realm.

It was a great irony for him that as a "traitor", he could only use the power that originally belonged to human beings.

But as soon as he opened the "History of the Silver Continent", the "divine side" with an overflowing sense of justice couldn't wait to write himself to death.

Only on the matter of not being stabbed did the two personalities reach a rare consensus on escape.

The "rapist" looked at the gradually receding Elysee and shuddered again. He subconsciously touched his buttocks, and his handsome face was distorted:
"Louis XI! I will definitely get back at you for all the humiliation I've suffered during this period, with interest."

Then he turned and disappeared into an alley.

But he didn't notice that a raven had quietly followed him.

(End of this chapter)