Chapter 190 Demonstration

Honig was an elderly man, and it was already late when he returned to the fortress after dealing with last night's affairs, but he opened his eyes again not long after lying down.

Perhaps because they know that they don't have much time left, the elderly will always cherish every day left.

Honig got dressed, put on his three-cornered hat, and ate the hot breakfast his men had just brought back from town, and his mood gradually improved.

Especially when he climbed the city wall according to the old practice, overlooking the city of Nassau under his feet, he felt a sense of satisfaction in his heart.

Nassau had no governor recognized by England, and the closest thing on the island was Honig, who assumed part of the governor's duties, who occupied forts and batteries and controlled the island's coastal defence.

What he said to Black Prince Sam last night was of course just angry words. In fact, he is quite satisfied with his current situation. He had been planning his retirement life a long time ago, although he was still very famous at that time, and Fraser also called the two most powerful captains in Nassau, but their skills are not as good as before. Years of pirate career brought him not only wealth, but also various hidden diseases, especially rheumatism, which tortured his knees For a long time.

So eight years ago, Honig decided to leave the sea, took people to snatch this place, and lived another life since then.

He made an agreement with the parliament that he and his men would defend Nassau and maintain the daily order here, and the merchants on the island would pay him a coastal defense maintenance fee on a regular basis.

This maintenance fee is not much, and it is almost negligible compared with the ongoing trade on the island, but the advantage is that there are a lot of people paying the fee, so it is a very considerable income together.

Even if it wasn't as good as when he went to sea as a pirate, the difference was not much. More importantly, he didn't need to take any risks, and he didn't need to go to sea again, which also avoided the deterioration of rheumatism.

However, Honig also has his troubles. He and his crew are far away from the dangerous and unpredictable sea, and they can live a life where they can sit and make money. Staying in the fortress, their bodies began to rust, and more importantly, they lacked fresh blood.

When you were a pirate, although you would lose manpower after each battle, new recruits would come in afterwards. This is actually a survival of the fittest mechanism, where unqualified old men are replaced by better new recruits.

But now on land, those who follow Honig are all the old faces on the previous ship. Even if these people start to become lazy, it is impossible for Honig to fire them with the previous friendship. Rookies with stronger combat effectiveness, and even if they hired newcomers Honig, they couldn't trust them like the old people.

Fortunately, with his previous reputation, other people on the island have not noticed the degradation of their strength for the time being, but Honig knows very well that the fighting power of his group is not even half of what it was when they first landed. left.

Since he can take the fort from others, others can also take it from him when he is weakened.

The more it is at such a time, the more he needs to show his tough side, so last night when the Skeleton bombarded the beach in Nassau, Honig led his people there at the first time. When facing the young and strong Wilton, even though he concealed it well, he still felt a little bit of difficulty.

Fortunately, in the end Wilton still chose to make concessions, promising not to cause trouble in Nassau, and Honig also took advantage of the opportunity to express that he would not pursue the former's previous behavior of bombarding Nassau.

As for the damage to Karina's interests, it was out of Honig's consideration. Everyone knew that the days of the businesswoman on the island were coming to an end.

Honig originally thought that the matter had come to a happy ending, but he didn't expect that Zhang Heng would attack Wilton's ship moored at the port without hesitation in order to stand out for Karina after he came back, further intensifying the conflict.

At this point, the situation began to slide in the direction that Honig least wanted to see, especially when the black prince Sam also got involved, if a large-scale conflict broke out between the two sides, and he was unable to control the situation, there would soon be His weakness was noticed by caring people, so he opened his mouth to warn Zhang Heng.

Honig saw that Wilton and his group were just passing by and would not stay in Nassau for too long. The best result is for everyone to spend this time peacefully together.

But things did not develop in the direction he expected.

Honig was sitting on the chair which he had taken from a governor's study during a coastal raid and which had always been one of his few favorite Let him recall the glorious years when he dominated the Qihai.

He was enjoying the rare tranquility and peace on the top of the wall, but he found that there was another group of people gathered on the beach last night, densely surrounded there, and it seemed that there were more people than last night.

Honig frowned, "What happened again?"

Behind him, a bald man with a shy belly shrugged. The latter was the helmsman on his ship and one of the smartest people in this sea area, but now he has been completely reduced to a drunkard, and his genius has just dawned. He got drunk again, hiccupped and said, "Who knows, maybe there are fishing boats selling seafood."

"I've seen fishing boats selling seafood, Domingo, I'm sure that's not tmd fishing boats selling seafood, send someone to find out what happened in that damn place, we are in a sensitive period now, I don't want to see accidents happen again gone."

"As you wish." Domingo walked out staggeringly, and Honig couldn't help but sighed as he watched the latter's fat and out-of-shape back.

Half an hour later, the person in charge of investigating the news ran back in a panic, and shouted before entering the gate, "Wilton, Wilton!!!"

Honig now feels a headache when he hears this name, "Did that guy come up with something again?"

"No, Wilton is dead!" The news brought back by the people who went to the beach to investigate made Honig a little unbelievable.

He couldn't imagine how Wilton, who had two pirate ships, more than two hundred men, and was also very strong, suddenly died suddenly after only one night, but then Honig heard something that made him even more angry. unbelievable thing.

"Not only Wilton, but also his men were found dead on the boat this morning. Most of them had their throats slit. As for Wilton...his body was thrown on the beach, It's where he executed the sailor of the Breeze, and his stomach was cut open."