The small fleet sailed across the rolling waves. Frigid winds from the Odin Icefield whipped up waves several yards high, smashing heavily against the hulls. The triangular sails billowed full with wind, driving the heavy vessels to tear through the sea as they sped toward Marseille Port.
On the deck of the leading ship, Long Cheng handed a thick stack of gold notes to Madam Ross.
The gold notes in Lin Qi's possession had all been issued under the Longshan Family's name at the banks of the various great families, and thus bore the Longshan Family's secret marks. Madam Ross could not be allowed to use such notes, as that would undoubtedly expose the inexplicable, unspoken connection between the Longshan Family and the Black Tiger Family.
Meanwhile, Long Cheng had led the Vias Commercial Federation's allied forces from Green Forest Province all the way into the Caesar Empire. The Green Forest Duke's legions had plundered countless nobles, great and small, along the way. The gold notes seized from them ranged from hundreds of thousands to millions, even tens of millions. Added together, the spoils from several hundred noble families had left Long Cheng with an enormous fortune.
Gathering these gold notes together into a vast fortune worth over a hundred million, Long Cheng handed them to Madam Ross.
Madam Ross gazed at the gold notes in her hand with satisfaction—naturally, as the Western Continent's greatest slave trader, she possessed ample wealth, but no one ever complained of having too much money. Blackbeard had "abandoned" her, so naturally she was entitled to squeeze a little more benefit from Blackbeard's clansmen.
A mere hundred million gold coins? Madam Ross even felt that ever since Blackbeard had gotten his hands on her when she was sixteen, that sum was not nearly enough to