Chapter 164 Contradictions

Those were two black slaves. They should have been working for a long time. They were covered in sweat, and the pit was dug very deep by them. So they put the shovel aside, and put the two slaves on one side. A dead body was thrown down.

Zhang Heng recognized that the two corpses were the two people who performed the wrestling on the stage before. Among them, the guy with the scar on his left face was already dead, while the other one seemed to be breathing weakly even though his face was covered in blood.

The two black slaves picked up the shovel on one side again, and started filling the soil back into the pit with a blank expression. They seemed to have noticed the movement here, and the man who looked like a supervisor came over and lifted his pants.

"What's the matter, everyone?"

"That guy should still be alive." Zhang Heng pointed to the pit.

"Oh, the bridge of his nose has been broken, and one eye is also blind, so he won't be able to perform wrestling in the future, and it's just a waste of food to keep him alive, and the injury is too serious, and it will take a lot of medicine to cure it Fee, so Mr. Malcolm ordered me to deal with it directly." The supervisor said.

"Since you don't want him anymore, you might as well give him to me."

The overseer rolled his eyes, and the next moment a money bag flew into his hand. He opened it and counted it, and found that there were twenty silver coins inside. He couldn't help being overjoyed, and without any hesitation, he said, "From now on He is yours, sir."

After speaking, he looked at the two black slaves who were standing still, "What are you still doing, move people to this gentleman's carriage."

However, this time the two black slaves stood there without moving, looking at each other.

The overseer's face suddenly sank, and he raised the whip in his hand.

A look of fear flashed in the eyes of the two black slaves, obviously recalling some bad memories, so they finally moved again, and lifted the half-buried black gladiator in the pit into the carriage hired by Billy.

Annie and Billy didn't think much about it, they just thought that Zhang Heng saved the other party just because he was pitiful, especially the latter, who was still thinking about what Malcolm said that night, and looked a little worried on the way back to the city.

"The Black Merchants Alliance seems to be preparing to attack Karina, what should we do?"

"What do you think?"

"I don't like that guy." Annie snorted coldly, and said bluntly, "His theory of order may be very popular in the colonies, but this is Nassau, the City of Liberty, and we are not those black people in his manor. Slave, at his mercy."

Billy smiled wryly, "That's what I said, but now the Black Merchants Alliance is indeed very powerful on the island. The powerful pirates in Nassau are all on their side, and there are probably only some small pirates who support us. I know those guys very well. Although there are a lot of them, their role is limited, and we can't count on them at critical times. Once Karina can't hold on, we will lose the only channel for monetization. At that time, there is no other way but to bow to the alliance. There are two options."

"So we can't abandon her to cooperate with the Black Merchants Alliance now." Zhang Heng finally said, "Malcolm's ambition is not that simple. He founded the Black Merchants Alliance not only to establish a unified standard trading system , increase profits, and want to use this to control the pirates on the island. If he really succeeds, it will only be a matter of his words who will be the captain of each ship in the future. By then, there will be no one on the entire island. against him again."

Zhang Heng paused, then continued, "Actually, the Black Merchants Alliance is not without weaknesses. We always regard it as a whole to make it look scary, but in fact its internal structure is not as strong as we imagined. , the core of the black business alliance is Raymond and Malcolm, of which Raymond is the oldest and most powerful black market businessman on the island.

"Because of his presence, all the black market merchants on the island can be gathered together, and finally a relatively satisfactory distribution plan can be discussed, but Raymond is already old. Although he is the president of the Black Merchants Alliance, in fact He only participated in the work of building the system and adjusting contradictions. Malcolm, the number two person, is the actual power holder. However, he rose too fast in Nassau and offended many people in the middle. Raymond's prestige must be drawn upon."

Billy's heart moved, "Is there any conflict between the two of them?"

"I don't know." Zhang Heng said bluntly.

"ha?"

"As the first and second figures of the Black Merchants Alliance, the two of them must maintain a harmonious relationship at least on the surface, but outsiders can't know what happens in private, but according to the news I have learned these days, Raymond I've known Malcolm since before he came to the island."

"So their relationship should be very good." Billy smiled wryly.

"No, I think it's the opposite. Malcolm and Raymond are both very successful businessmen. At their level, they seldom act emotionally. Seeing Malcolm tonight basically confirmed my previous guess about him. He He is an extremely rational and confident person. Although he does not like us and thinks that we have brought trouble to the Black Merchants Alliance, he does not show any disgust in his words, and in order to eliminate the negative impact we brought as soon as possible, he is willing to choose Regardless of previous suspicions, for the same reason, he seldom considers the impact of friendship when dealing with a matter, so it is impossible for him and Raymond to have done something sorry for each other during the years of getting along. What we have to do is Find them."

"You want to drive a wedge between Malcolm and Raymond and stir up conflict between them?"

"To deal with a giant like the Black Merchants Alliance, it is difficult to break it from the outside, but as I said before, they are not monolithic internally. Once the relationship between Raymond and Malcolm deteriorates, the Black Merchants Alliance will lose The stability that depends on it, but it’s not enough, in addition to creating internal chaos, we must also maintain enough aggressiveness externally to accelerate its disintegration.”

Zhang Heng said, "I will talk to Karina about this matter when she returns to the island, but the most important thing right now is how to separate Raymond and Malcolm."

Billy thought for a while, "The things you said, if they really exist, must be absolute secrets to the two of them. It may be difficult for outsiders to find out, or should we just find a way to create conflicts between them?"

"This is also a solution, but I don't want to use it unless it is absolutely necessary. Raymond and Malcolm are very smart people. If something is deliberately created, it is easy for them to see through it at a glance, and it may be self-defeating."