Half a month later.

Boom

A small merchant ship with an ordinary appearance slowly docked at the pier of Hathrafa Port.

Under the command of several pirates uniformly dressed in black uniforms, a group of young and middle-aged men filed onto the wooden plank road.

"Newly disembarked people are lining up to register. As for you, don't look around!"

The little leader of the pirates pointed at a young man in his twenties with short light blond hair and shouted.

He had seen too many different kinds of people during this period, and his good words and anger could not suppress those lawless guys.

"Sorry, when can we see the White Knight? I am his admirer. Please forgive me for my excitement at the moment."

The young man named Hawkins was not annoyed at all, and explained to the leader with a well-rested smile.

"Behave well and you will have a chance to see me."

The leader's face brightened slightly when he heard this. More than 80% of the people on this island were admirers of the leader, so he could understand the young man's mood.

During this period, the scope of influence expanded with the recruitment of pirate groups.

Almost every day, a sailing ship carrying young and strong sailing boats from all over the world docks at the dock of Hatrafa Port, continuously delivering new blood to the pirate group.

Those who can set foot on the land of Hathrafa Port have at least passed preliminary screening to ensure that the new recruits do not have malicious intentions.

During this period, there will be real-time monitoring by Seagulls under the command of Bess at any time, and the combination of medicine and witchcraft is enough to ensure that everything is foolproof.

Even if someone with evil intentions succeeds in getting on the ship, they will be sunk into the sea before entering the Hathrafa Port.

With the presence of the two wizards Ivan and Milan, the current defensive strength and means of Hatrafa Port are far different from those before.

After today's group of people registered in groups and received their clothing and equipment, there were naturally dedicated managers who assigned them accommodation and follow-up arrangements.

As more and more sailors, free pirates and even civilians join the "Dragoon Pirates", the originally vast but deserted Port of Hathrafa is gradually becoming lively.

As of today, various combat, logistics, and civilian personnel have gradually approached the 2,000 mark, and the various facilities at the port are becoming increasingly complete with sufficient manpower and financial resources.

However, as the leader of the regiment, Ivan is very clear that although his privateer fleet is growing in strength, it is far from the same number of regular navy in terms of combat effectiveness and military quality.

Take the artillery as an example. Its gunnery capabilities are not even two-thirds of those of the "Storm Cape" navy, in terms of rate of fire and accuracy.

Even if the leading personnel are similar to the original crew members of the "Conch", their personal bravery may not be any less, but how can the training mechanism in pirates be comparable to that of the Kingdom?

Coupled with their overly undisciplined nature, the gap between them and the regular army is not just about equipment.

Therefore, assembling people is only the first step. How to slowly build them into an elite team is a long way to go!

During this period, the growth of personnel has gradually reached Alvin's expectations, and recruitment conditions will be gradually tightened later to consolidate the current fundamentals.

Otherwise, no matter how many people there are, they will be just a mob.

Moreover, as the "Dragoon Pirates" successfully robbed the Santabarbia Company's slave fleet, they became famous as an emerging force.

It can be said that he has finally established a firm foothold among the powerful pirates of the Golden Sea.

The pirate group's black dragon's head flag has also been inserted into the hearts of all stakeholders around the Golden Sea.

The resulting benefit is that the cohesion and centripetal force of the members within the pirate group continue to increase, and many pirates have even taken the initiative to tattoo the black dragon head emblem on themselves in accordance with the tradition among pirates.

That's a symbol of loyalty!

Since the number of personnel has risen to a certain scale, Ivan set up a "fleet command room" based on small groups based on battleships and based on the kingdom's fleet headquarters to oversee the overall situation of the pirate group.

One is that internal management cannot always be done by oneself, but must rely on a good management system; the other is to free oneself and have more time to pursue extraordinary promotions; the third is to ensure that when Anita comes back in the future, it will be smooth

Take over this team.

The "Command Room" is mainly responsible for staff, logistics, intelligence, personnel, training, etc. Among the new members, it has recruited a rare group of experienced civilian personnel and a backbone of former navy soldiers.

The general person in charge of the command room is not any extraordinary person in the current fleet, but the owl Bess who first followed Ivan and is now no worse than any normal human being.

To put it simply, Owl has been promoted again, serving as herald, intelligence officer, confidential secretary and chief of staff part-time.

This kind of appointment is almost impossible for any human being, but for Bess, who is Alvin's familiar, there is no need to worry about usurping power.

And now Ivan, who was not short of money at all, recaptured a large number of seagulls, transformed them into spiritual bodies, and handed over the command to Bess, who used them as a public intelligence and communication network for the privateering fleet.

The Demonized Seagulls under the leadership of Bess have become an indispensable core force in Alvin's hands.

Under the command of Bess, the seagulls with an extremely wide reconnaissance range spread far and wide to continuously patrol most of the Silius colony, a small half of the New World, and the main shipping routes in the outer sea.

After summarizing and analyzing the collected information, it has been possible to independently screen personnel for the pirate group, determine robbery targets, formulate robbery plans, and transmit orders and intelligence to specific combat units.

Bass, who was born for this in the first place, can do it better than any human being!

Including the previous selection of the target of Santa Babia Company, it was actually the work of Bass.

As a reward, Ivan has even taught it the Tree of Life meditation method of the "Activation School" and accepted it as the leader of the school to become a true alien wizard apprentice.

One day, when it becomes a formal wizard, it is not completely impossible to use basic "transformation" to directly transform into a human being.

During this period, in addition to the construction of intelligence networks and internal functional departments.

Under the leadership of Alvin and Milan, they also set up a large-scale mystery barrier in the Hatrafa Port based on the natural conditions of the "Misty Sea" Shipwreck Bay.

Although it only has a few limited abilities such as concealment, shielding presence, and divination and countermeasures, the host does not need to have a high extraordinary level, as long as sufficient ritual materials are available.

But covering the entire Hathrafa Port is undoubtedly a huge project, and just accurately calibrating the magic array within such a huge range is already a big problem.

However, with the help of Milan as the main assistant, Ivan, and two apprentices as Bess and Calvin, it still took about a week to complete successfully.

Thick white fog spread for more than ten kilometers, adding another natural barrier to the Hathrafa Port in addition to the scattered rocks.

Without the guidance of the Seagull Messenger, no one except third-level magicians or above can pass smoothly.

"So now, the pirate group has a little sense of security!"

In a three-story stone building, a privateer fleet temporary headquarters that was newly built at a miraculous speed, Ivan put down the documents in his hands and stretched greatly.

As for why it is a temporary command headquarters?

Because groundbreaking has begun on a medium-sized bastion on the other side, which is the real fleet headquarters.

Obviously, even if the defensive measures are achieved to this extent, Ivan still feels that they are not enough.

"Alas! There are too many enemies, and there is really no way out!"

Even though he had suppressed the restless "adventurer's blood" in his body, he still had to use the most radical methods to do several major things during this period.

Ivan also clearly saw the hidden dangers behind the several limelights during this period. Although he became famous, he and his "Dragoon Pirates" must have become a thorn in the side of the Silius people.

So Alvin is ready to take a break for a while, return to his status as Commodore, and cool down the pirate group.

At least at this stage, no one can ignore the possible threat of the Silius people, especially the illegitimate children who were killed happily but had to consider the consequences. Ahem, but it shouldn't be a big problem.

Even a vice-admiral and captain cannot just drive a "quasi-legendary battleship" out to seek personal revenge without authorization.

so.

Although his strength needs to grow a little bit, "Gou" can do it from morning to night, from the outside to the inside, from head to toe.

At least the Khathrafa Port has been hidden from all levels, and it is almost impossible to find its traces whether through manual investigation or divination.

Moreover, Ivan has set up secret ports among the tens of thousands of islands in the Golden Sea, so that pirate ships do not have to return here after plundering them. : :

He has a complete biological communication network in his hands. No matter how finely divided the team is, there is no need to worry about losing control.

In particular, the various "trophies" captured last time also require his apparent identity as a brigadier general to handle them personally.

In the last battle, a total of one "Ship Statue·Lucky Gold Coin", a fifth-level ship "Oar", and eight two-masted mixed-sail slave ships were harvested.

As well as nearly 3,200 slaves, their value at normal market prices has exceeded 180,000 gold lions, and they are also the most valuable part of the "trophies".

The harvest of the fleet's collective plunder has exceeded the sum of gold and silver from the last Golden Post Road, but in the hands of Ivan, the fate of these Anuma people may usher in a turning point.

Of course, Irvine cannot be bothered to be a human rights defender or a vanguard of the abolitionist movement.

The real role of slaves is to plunder wealth at the lowest cost. As long as this source of wealth continues to exist efficiently, slavery will not be actively abolished by slave owners.

Only when industrialization develops vigorously will this situation begin to slowly change, and the significance of the continued existence of slavery will gradually weaken.

When the money-making ability of slavery based on the plantation economy gradually decreased, and even when it was far behind the industry, there was the soil for the complete abolition of slavery.

So this is not a question of human rights or concepts, but an economics question!

Even in Alvin's previous life, during the turbulent Bald Eagle Civil War.

Even the initial idea of ​​the Northern Commander was not to completely abolish slavery, but rather to not continue to expand the scale of slavery.

Behind the seemingly high-sounding reason for liberating slaves, there are actually deeper economic factors, which are the opposition between northern capitalist industry and commerce and the southern plantation economy.

The outcome of the war also determines where that country's future economic model will ultimately go.

Moreover, although Alvin has a bottom line, he is not a philanthropist. What benefit does it do to him to liberate them directly?

but.

He wouldn't just sell them like livestock.

Anyway, the entire tribe is finished, and it is impossible to send them back. So we can simply refer to the indentured slavery system of the Nemanstrians and have all the slaves who were kidnapped sign a contract.

The normal term of an indentured slave is four to seven years. In order to prevent the fellow Nemansters from becoming unbalanced in the future, Ivan very generously gave these Anuma people the auspicious number eight!

As long as they work for eight years, they will be free.

Although he could not interfere with his treatment during these eight years, he could ensure the execution of the contract by using his official position as brigadier general and deputy commander of the New World Garrison.

Of course, the price of a limited-term indentured slave will obviously be at a discount compared to the original price, but the income from this cost-free transaction is already substantial enough.

Besides, if he didn’t have the official channel of the regiment leader, who could a group of pirates sell so many slaves to?
Chapter completed!