Chapter 665-Richest Man in the World
Translator: ryangohsf
Editor: Nora
Ouyang Shuo's words made the atmosphere among the Spanish Squadron rather weird.
The Spanish Lords had also noticed that their troops were looking at them with weird expressions. If they made them charge to fight the enemy now, it would instantly cause an uproar.
Even the adventure gamemode players were feeling uneasy.
After all, in the prior galleon retreating operation, the players and sailors had an intense conflict. Their relationship was like a rubber band pulled tight; a little more exertion, and it would break.
Now, with Shanhai City supporting them, who knows what these natives would do.
"Cough, guys let’s quickly pay the money and leave. I do not want to stay at this stupid place for any longer." Pepe looked at the Lord players; his glance contained a hint of warning.
"Forget it; let's end it like this!"
Observing the situation, the Lord players had no choice but to compromise; however, bitterness filled their eyes.
At this moment, a majestic scene occurred.
The voyage squadron set up a payment station to the north. Any boat that wanted to pass, regardless of their identity as player or NPC, would have to pay 200 gold per person.
However, when the turn of navy general Alvaro arrived, he was stopped.
"What is it? Do you all want to go back on your words?"
The following Lord's face sunk as he spoke in an unhappy tone.
During this country war, the ones that had lost the most were these Lord gamemode players. Not only did they lose the cannons and warships they had spent so much on; they even had to leave behind troops based on their monetary situation; they could only bring away their elites.
This pent-up anger was too hard to swallow. However, in this situation, they had no choice but to bow their heads. If they truly fought, the first to disagree would be the adventure gamemode players.
The Lord who had spoken was Casillas, the second-best Lord in Spain and also the strongest Lord along the coast. Alvaro was a general under him.
"Other people can pass but this old general cannot," said the guard as he pointed at Alvaro.
"Why?"
"The Lord said to invite the old general to the voyage squadron as a guest."
"Do not go too far!"
Casillas felt furious when he heard these words. Even a fool would not believe such a stupid reason like ‘inviting him as a guest’. Shanhai City obviously wanted to keep Alvaro.
"These are the instructions from the Lord; we are just following them." The soldiers did not budge.
"You!" Casillas's rage turned into laughter, "Good! Ask the Lianzhou Lord to speak to me."
"The Lord is temporarily not seeing guests." The guard stuck to his instructions.
The situation dragged on like this.
The guards did not let them go, but he did not forcefully snatch the man either. Facing the shouts of Casillas, they acted like they heard none of it. They were like iron guards, not budging no matter what.
With that, the people queuing behind could only wait.
As the matter dragged on, they were naturally unhappy too.
Since they could not see Ouyang Shuo, the other players could only try to persuade him to take a step back, "Forget it, since it has already reached this stage, why are you still doing this? He will just be a guest and will return in a few days."
"That's right. People are inviting you so nicely; do not reject it."
In truth, these words were incredibly fake. The Spanish actions were just like the phrase, ‘You dying is better than I dying.’
The players only cared about escaping from this place. As for the loses of others, how would they bother? They would only grumble about Casillas being incorrigible and wasting their time.
Casilla's face flushed red, and he gritted his teeth. Even with his upbringing, he was on the verge of exploding. Alvaro was the best general in Spain, the trump card of trump cards, so how would he give this general up so easily?
The longer this dragged on, the more annoyed and triggered the other players grew. At the later stages, it was not only the normal players; even the guild leaders stepped out to try and convince him.
"Forget it. We have lost this time; we are under their mercy."
"That's right. China has an old phrase, ‘If we do not bear the small things, it'll mess up the big plans. Since they want to keep him, your actions will not make a difference."
"What if their patience runs dry, and they decide to forcefully keep us here? We would be in trouble then."
Each attempt at persuading him was like knives stabbing into his chest, making him spit blood, "Shameless, really shameless!"
Casillas's hatred toward his brothers even exceeded his hatred toward Ouyang Shuo.
What kind of people in the world were hated the most? They do not know what you have been through and how much stick you have eaten, just trying to convince you to, ‘Be more magnanimous.’
"Magnanimity your sister!"
In real life, lightning would strike these people.
Casillas was facing such people. He wanted to fight till the end and drag these people down to hell with him.
Regretfully, he was still a rational person.
As a Lord, he had to warn himself not to be rash; he could not let his emotions dictate him. If he made enemies with them, he would not be able to survive in Spain.
He was bound to lose here.
"Lianzhou Lord, I'm not finished with you!"
Casillas threw down these words and left without turning his head.
The person involved in the issue, Alvaro, did not even speak a single word from start to finish. It was like no one had bothered to ask him for his opinion.
When he saw his Lord turn around and rush off furiously, Alvaro sighed. Under the guidance of the guards, he walked toward Dragon Head.
Peace and order resumed.
At 2 PM, everything finally cleared up.
Final calculations put the numbers at 30 thousand players and four thousand NPCs paying the gold. Ouyang Shuo's redemption gold amounted to a terrifying seven million.
Undoubtedly, this was the biggest fortune that Shanhai City had ever obtained. The two million gold he spent in Atlantis did not seem like much now.
Ouyang Shuo calculated the funds in his storage bag and found that he was the world's richest person. He had a full eight million gold in his storage bag.
Apart from that, there was another set of gold from the trading profits.
Before setting off, they had acquired 500 thousand gold worth of various resources. In Xingzhou Port, they had also bought a batch of peppers and spices. After passing through the Mediterranean they had sold basically all of the items.
After a six times profit, their total trading income reached 3.5 million gold. Of this sum, they spent 500 thousand on purchasing local products.
After the final calculations, Ouyang Shuo had a total of 11 million gold in his storage bag.
If he announced his gold count, it was unlikely that anybody would believe him.
The more terrifying part was that his money-making journey was not over yet.
Who knows how much wealth he would have amassed when this journey ends. No wonder people said that a voyage was a crazy money-making journey.
When Spain was at its most prosperous period, thousands of Galleons traveled across the globe and shipped countless gold back to Spain.
When England controlled the seas, it swept up a large portion of the world's wealth.
It seems like Shanhai City was following their path.
Apart from the redemption money, there were also 23 Spanish Galleons. Moreover, each one had 20 Spanish cannons. Apart from that, there were 36 Carracks, each equipped with 10 cannons.
In terms of Spanish cannons alone, they had acquired 800 of them.
Apart from the current cannons, when this matter ended, Ouyang Shuo was going to send the frogmen to scour for cannons at the bottom of the ocean.
This was the big part. After all, there would be no less than five thousand. These cannons were all built with the power of the Spanish nation but now it was theirs.
"War brings wealth, war really brings wealth!" Ouyang Shuo muttered.
Apart from the warships and cannons, there were the soldiers that the Lords had abandoned; Shanhai City accepted them all. Even pirates could change sides, so Ouyang Shuo obviously would not mind the Spanish joining him.
The final tabulations put the numbers at around 56 thousand soldiers and around 20 thousand sailors.
It was the same as saying that with suitable warships, Shanhai City could build another half a squadron.
This batch of sailors and soldiers were the real reason behind Ouyang Shuo putting in so much effort for this plan. To him, money would always be there to earn. On the other hand, a true navy was an insurance.
Crushing the Spanish Invincible Squadron was the best chance for the Shanhai City Navy to gain a footing in the Mediterranean. Wasn’t this batch of people the most precious treasure?
Ouyang Shuo did not think that the Spanish would back down after eating such a loss.
He would plan a series of operations to control their revenge and restore order in the Mediterranean, allowing the Shanhai City military to gain the recognition of the other countries.
This was difficult, but Ouyang Shuo was confident.
Currently, he did not simply have one good card but several in his hands. As for how to use them all, Ouyang Shuo still needed to carefully plan to avoid mess ups.
Before this, Ouyang Shuo still needed to meet one person.
Whether or not his plan could smoothly succeed relied on whether this stubborn old man cooperated or not. If he managed to make Alvaro surrender, he would have mostly succeeded.
Obviously, this was not going to be an easy matter.