Chapter 68: Robbery is technical work
And it is also necessary to stop the Dragon Alliance's death-defying behavior, and at the same time control the entire robbery process in their own hands to serve the business activities of the Shuntong Chamber of Commerce.
So Da Liang said to Zi Ling: "Princess Zi Ling, robbery is also a technical job.
A city does not store large amounts of gold in its vaults. Just like we go to Jiangcheng, the money earned here will be spent from the other side, our wealth is a constant circulation of various materials, these materials are the real wealth and very dispersed. Gold coins are only a small part of the wealth, and they are also scattered, and when we need them, we need to transfer them from the tax authorities and the commercial departments everywhere, and even pledge some goods to exchange funds from the hands of merchants.
Therefore, if you directly rob the city, the harvest on the gold coins is very small, and more is a variety of valuable materials.
However, the transportation of these materials is very difficult, and the number of dragons determines how much you can't take with you, so you need the cooperation of a large number of low-level troops. And attacking the city will definitely cause the death of the low-level army, and the wealth obtained by one carelessness may not be able to offset the loss of the army. Therefore, unless there is enough intelligence to prove that a city is concentrating gold or hoarding high-value goods, do not attack a well-defended city lightly.
There is also the issue of traffic and handling of stolen goods.
Robbery on land relies on land transportation, and the army's mobilization of goods becomes very troublesome, not only is the transportation capacity limited by the terrain called roads, but also the whereabouts are easily exposed, and once surrounded, there will also be losses.
This is not the case with marine robbery, where the stolen goods are loaded onto merchant ships and pulled away, and they can disappear without a trace after sailing for more than a dozen nautical miles. Merchant ships stockpiled more cargo than the convoys of land merchants, and seafaring merchants did not sell low-value goods. We grabbed it once at sea, and we got more than we did ten or twenty times on land.
Another point is not to reveal your dragon identity and control the frequency of robberies.
At this time, the Overworld is a cake for the good camp and the evil camp to fight over, and if it is revealed that we are looting for wealth here, it will touch the interests of the good camp and the evil camp, arouse their vigilance and prompt them to work together against us.
Therefore, when robbing, we should try to keep our identity as secret as possible.
The purple dragon appears in the form of a magic mage and changes to his iconic blue and white magic robes, disguised as an ordinary mage. The Crystal Dragon also appears to be in a small form, and transforms into a heavily armored terrain dragon by camouflaging Dafa and wearing armor.
Poison Dragon......"
When Da Liang talked about the poisonous dragon, he thought that the poisonous dragon clan still has only one dragon, which is the patriarch Amber.
At this meeting, Amber also took the form of a poisonous dragon. She stands like a human, resembling a lizardman, but taller than a lizardman. Dressed in amber armor on the outside, with a thick tail behind him. The overall image is like a mercenary who is both offensive and defensive, unruly and very focused.
When she heard Da Liang mention herself, Amber said to Princess Ziling: "Your Royal Highness, please allow me to participate in this robbery team, I want to do my best to earn a part of the commission for the future Poison Dragon Clan." ”
Princess Ziling nodded: "This plan of Earl Da Liang is very good, and these tasks are also what our three dragon clans are good at, I decided to mobilize the forces of the three dragon clans to form this robbery team, and the task of leading this team will be handed over to Amber you." ”
Amber is very grateful to the purple spirit for her arrangement.
Although this robbery team is formed by three dragon clans, but the poison dragon clan is the only one, when the time comes to rob and share the spoils, the poison dragon clan must have a very small share, and Princess Ziling cannot deliberately favor the poison dragon clan in the distribution, which will cause the dissatisfaction of the purple dragon clan and the crystal dragon. However, if the leader of the party is Amber, then Amber can use this status to share some more wealth.
If the Poison Dragons want to be strong, they need money.
"Thank you, Your Highness Princess."
After receiving Amber's thanks, Zi Ling asked Da Liang, "Now please explain to us what the protection fee is?" Why don't we rob those boats by paying these 'protection fees', so that we can make a lot less money. ”
Several other dragon representatives agreed.
Da Liang smiled and explained to the junior bandits, "The overworld ocean is very large, and there are many ships sailing on the sea. Even if you keep robbing, you will not be able to grab one-ten-thousandth of the number of merchant ships, far from reaching it. But once your prestige is heard across the ocean, the maritime merchants will fear you, and they will not even need you to do it yourself, only a pirate flag will be needed to make them surrender.
There is a somewhat famous group of pirates under my name, called the White Fang Pirates. It has hundreds of warships and thousands of merchant ships of all kinds.
My plan was for this dragon robbery team to work with my White Fang Pirate Regiment and raid the sea in the name of the White Fang Pirates. When the reputation of the White Fang Pirates is intimidating to all the Maritime Merchants, we can collect protection money on all merchant ships that encounter the White Fang Pirates in exchange for our promise not to attack them.
10% of the total value of the goods, most maritime merchants will use this money to buy a peace.
This protection fee doesn't seem to be as much as grabbing an entire ship, but my White Fang Pirate Regiment is a hundred times the size of your Dragon Robbery Team, and we only need to use your prestige to rob a hundredfold ship and get ten times the profit, and there is no outbreak of fighting. All you have to do is sail with my boat, blow the sea breeze, eat the seafood, and count your share of the coins.
And when my fleet expands to a thousandfold of yours, we will gain even more.
Isn't this kind of robbery simpler, more convenient, and more efficient than your ship-by-ship robbery? ”
When Sidney returns with the main force of the Blackfire Fleet, the looted wealth can support Da Liang's acquisition of shares in Yingshi Virtual Bank. This made Da Liang clearly realize how correct his original goal of becoming a pirate was.
But being a pirate also depends on strength, and without Joyce's large fleet in front, Sidney would not be able to follow behind so smoothly and drink soup and eat meat. Now that Joyce has returned to Shangjiang and ascended the throne as king, it is naturally impossible for him to go to sea to rob again, so Da Liang can only look at the dividends of robbery.
However, this cooperation with the Three Dragons allowed Da Liang to see the money of being a pirate again.
Da Liang's White Fang Pirate Regiment has Brady's right of way, and can sail the oceans at a relatively fast speed. As long as this robbery team composed of 15th-order dragons joins the White Fang Pirate Regiment, and with absolute strength, it has a reputation that makes all maritime merchants and pirates fearful, Da Liang dares to set up cards to collect protection fees on the main shipping lanes of the oceans.
The money and the dragon clan split the account fifty-fifty.
Without too much looting, without attacking cities, and without the limited influence of peaceful looting, it would not have triggered a joint encirclement and suppression of coastal cities, nor would it have attracted too much attention from the good camp and the evil camp.
This business can go on forever.