Chapter 25 Cooperation

"Steel Islands, father, this is not..." Prince Riku was about to say something, but King Liku glanced at him, and the words that followed were swallowed.

"The Iron Isles, only 35 nautical miles away, were once part of the Dresrhodes, and did Dolder introduce the two of them to the bridge that connects the Dlesrodz to the Greenbit?" King Riku followed the prince's words.

"I have introduced it, but I haven't seen it on the spot for the time being." Lily touched her sharp corner and said.

"Haha, Dodd should have said that the bridge was made of steel, and Dresrouse was once famous for its fine steel extraction and forging." King Liku said with a slight sigh.

"And 50 years ago, the Steel Islands were occupied by pirates, because the Steel Islands were only used by our country as mines, so they did not belong to our country in name, and therefore, although our country is a member of the world government, there is no way for the navy to come forward to recapture it."

"So you want us to help you get it back?" Kaido asked, rubbing his chin.

"Yes and no." King Liku shook his head, "The geographical location of the Steel Islands is quite special, because of the distribution of the islands, the islands are surrounded by whirlpools that do not disperse all year round, and there are only two waterways, one in and one out. "

"And what do you want?" Lily asked, there is no free lunch in this world, and King Liku can't bother to help the two of them find a place for their relatives.

"Development needs money, whether it's the two future pirates, or the Dresloze." King Riku pointed at Kaido and Lily, and then backhanded at his feet.

"I hope to reach a cooperation with the two of you, the Steel Islands have changed hands frequently over the years, and now there is a group of 170 million Bailey pirates, once the two of them receive the Steel Islands, I will send someone to the island to mine ore, and then the two will divide the accounts of what they sell." King Riku instructed his men to get wanted warrants while introducing his thoughts.

"Since you said that this place is easy to defend and difficult to attack, why did it change hands several times later, doesn't His Majesty feel a little contradictory?" Lily keenly spotted the loophole in the king's words and asked.

"On this point," King Liku coughed, blushing a little in embarrassment, "Because Dresrouse is close to the Red Earth Continent, and there are some rookie pirates entrenched here, these pirates often do not stop developing their territory, but plunder and leave, so the pirates who occupy there are generally active on the central island, and the external gap is generally rarely guarded, the only exception is 20 years ago when there is a one called ' Bloody Fingers' George's guy was going to run with his heart, but I heard that there was infighting, and this George was drowned, and then where was the dealer took turns. "

"Then why not send Dreslodz's army over." Kaido asked, since according to King Liku's intentions, the pirates here are becoming more and more stretched, and they can take the opportunity to occupy it back.

"Uhhh King Riku choked suddenly.

"Mr. Kaido, do you know, Dreslod has not had a king's army for a long time, it's not that I don't want to, it's that there is really no extra funds, and the only thing that can be used as a combat force is the Protector Army." Seeing his father's embarrassment, Prince Riku stepped forward to explain.

"Huh?" Kaido thought about many reasons, but the only thing he didn't expect was that he had no money.

"Over the years, for some reason, the collection of heavenly gold has become more and more, and Dresloze has become more and more impoverished because of the loss of its main source of income, and it is really impossible to afford the military expenses of the king's army." King Liku's face flushed with embarrassment, the kingdom is indeed out of money, otherwise he wouldn't have found Kaido and Lily to cooperate, although he felt that the two of them were not bad when he drank last night, but no matter how he said it, these two people were also pirates with wanted warrants, if he had money, he could either form an army by himself or spend money to find mercenaries, but the deficit for 22 consecutive years really forced King Liku to have no moves, so he could only make this decision, I hope I can succeed.

"Okay." Kaido took a sip of the black tea in front of him, and put it down again in an instant, this thing was too sweet, "In that case, let's talk about account sharing." "

"Well, yes." King Liku hesitated for a moment, did he talk about splitting the account before he conquered the Steel Islands? But after thinking about it for a moment, it's good that I didn't talk about it, otherwise when the time comes, I will be even more uncomfortable if the other party sits on the ground and starts the price.

"My idea is to divide fifty-fifty, we are responsible for mining and smelting, I also have sales channels here, I can sell directly, and the two provide the venue and shelter on the way, this is my reserve price, what do you think." King Liku did not hesitate to throw out the reserve price directly, there was no beating around the bush at all, he really can't afford to wait now, he just handed over the heavenly gold before, and now the treasury is empty, today's lunch is squeezed out raw, but once this plan is successful, as long as he tightens his belt for a few months, the treasury will not be a problem, and Deleslodes has not completely given up the smelting industry over the years, and the market has always been there, but the ore imported from other places needs to spend extra money, and the freight back and forth makes the kingdom a little unbearable, In addition, the sea is not very peaceful, and from time to time it is robbed and sunk, which is quite fatal.

Hearing King Liku's words, Kaido and Lily were stunned at the same time, how could anyone guarantee the reserve price as soon as they came up, but the two thought about it for a while, this condition is completely acceptable, the ore dug out needs to be smelted, and the smelted steel needs to be sold, but they won't do all this, although Kaido knows some black market trading, but the black market doesn't need so much raw ore, this is not a sword that has been made, and not all places can smelt ore.

"Okay, we're basically agreeing to the offer, but we'd like to change it a bit." Lily spoke on behalf of the two, "We want the miners from you to work as our employees, and we can even pay them, but we want some of our profits to be a real weapon. "This is Kaido's idea, pure steel is much cheaper than weapons, the price of a 10-pound steel is less than half of a five-pound steel knife, especially after seeing that group of honor guards, although the quality of the personnel is not good, but the equipment is good, Kaido wants some weapons, in addition to arming himself, he can also go to the black market to sell at a high price, as for that salary, it should be the benefit of transfer.

"Of course you can, although there are no simple famous swords and famous swords in my country, but high-quality mass-produced swords are not a problem for my country." King Riku smiled at once, and he understood what Lily and Kaido meant.

"So, do I need to sign a contract?" Lily asked.

"Of course, of course." King Liku stood up and informed the guards, summoned a few more important ministers, and the two sides conducted a small ceremony, and signed the name on the contract, this matter cannot be known to too many people, although many countries are cooperating with pirates, and even the armies of some countries are pirates, but this kind of thing can never be put on the table to say, this is about the face of the world government, Although the author expressed doubts about whether the world government has such a thing.

After signing the contract, King Liku was ready to invite everyone to dinner again, but suddenly remembered that the treasury seemed to have no food left, fortunately, at this time, as a minister, Sir Amber saw the dilemma of King Liku, and took the initiative to take the banquet, which saved the extremely embarrassing King Liku, after the banquet, King Liku took Sir Ambo's hand and asked him to hand over the bill to him, and when the treasury was full, he must pay back the money.

During the night, Lily and Kaido returned to the tavern, and the two of them took out the information given by King Riku and began to read it.

I don't know if I don't know, I was shocked when I saw it, this steel archipelago contains 3 large islands, 44 small islands, 115 large and small ore veins, including, iron ore, copper ore, aluminum frame, tin ore, and even some precious metal veins, according to intelligence, when the people of Dressrouse were driven out, they blew up the mine, because the island changed hands frequently, the pirates on the island were not able to mine the mining veins, and the current ore veins were not a big problem to mine for hundreds of thousands of years.

In addition to the introduction of the island, there is also an introduction to the pirates on the island now, "Cheese Cream Pirates", the head of the group cheeseman - Andepo, with a bounty of 100 million Bailey, and the deputy leader, the cream man - Dehabo, with a bounty of 70 million Bailey.

"Cheeseman and Cream Man?" Kaido touched his chin, "It should be the ability to do it, otherwise there would be no such strange nickname." "

"Looks like we're lucky, neither of these things seem to be very heat-resistant." Lily smiled.

"Hello, yes, we're really lucky, Hello."