Chapter 683 Pirates!
The mayor Bervar was elected by drawing votes.
His competitor back then was a fish seller.
The fish seller obviously did not have as much connection with the banker Bervar.
Berval spent money to buy a Tale in St. Martin, saying that the fish seller always sold dead fish to others and was short of weight.
The merchant association in St. Martin City also suspended the license of the fish seller, and banned him from doing fish trading until the facts were found out.
In order to ensure fairness and justice, the so-called joint investigation team specially found two parliamentarians from the British Empire for supervision and verification.
It took half a year for these two MPs to arrive at St. Martin Island, which took them half a year to eat, drink, and have fun all the way.
At that time, the fish seller had gone bankrupt, so where would he have the energy to run for the mayor?
The subsequent investigation naturally ended in a hurry, because there was no evidence that the fish seller sold dead fish that were sick, and there was no evidence that the fish seller was short of weight.
However, the words of the people melt gold and destroy bones.
The power of public opinion has been formed. Even if the investigation results come out, no one dares to buy fish in the fish seller's store.
Berval was elected the first mayor of St. Martin without any suspense, and it was a lifetime.
The process of pursuing rights corrupts people, and all kinds of despicable tricks will be used with all their strength without any scruples.
This is also the essence of the electoral system.
The original intention of the electoral system is good, so that everyone can enjoy the right to choose.
But the problem is that most of the citizens of St. Martin don’t understand why they chose.
They just read in the newspaper that fish sellers sell fish that died of illness, so they no longer choose fish sellers.
They don't care about the truth. They are like confused flocks of sheep, and are easily led by people who control public opinion.
Therefore, the originally beautiful electoral system has evolved into a battlefield where human show is the lowest limit, with all kinds of slander, all kinds of rumors and slander, only what you can't imagine, and nothing they can't do.
After Bovar was elected, the first thing he did was to rebuild a huge Royal Bank and hire skilled craftsmen to create a huge steel vault.
Today's opening ceremony is for the opening ceremony of this new Royal Bank.
Berval will show and introduce his new vault in front of all the "citizens", so that the citizens can deposit all their money into his bank, and when he has the money, he can continue to lend.
The celebrities of St. Martin City received an invitation from Mayor Berval, and all of them were here. Even the Brigadier General of Port St. Martin, Filet, put down his work and brought a team of soldiers to watch the ceremony.
After the celebrities were all seated, Mayor Boval walked to the door of the Royal Bank with joy and said with excitement: "Welcome to all the guests! You are the real masters of St. Martin! St. Martin is very honored because of your existence!"
The citizens below all applauded happily.
Mayor Boval is right. These colonists are indeed the real owners of this small island in South America. Thinking about their army landed on this island 100 years ago, killing all the native South Americans who dared to resist, and selling the remaining native South Americans as slaves. On St. Martin's Island 100 years later, no one resisted them, so they naturally became the real owners here.
Westerners' colonization of America has been considered completely successful. It is not only a conquest by force, but also a conquest of culture. Therefore, Westerners are becoming more and more arrogant. They believe that they are the best race, and other races are inferior races that should be ruled by them.
Of course, when the West wanted to use this set of colonization of the Americas in ancient Eastern countries, it found that it was completely unworkable.
At that time, although the ancient Eastern Kingdoms were poor and 40 million people could not even create a decent weapon, the resilience of the ancient Eastern Kingdoms was beyond the reach of Western colonists.
Although some traitors were born in this process, and many young traitors were born to have not been liquidated, this nation has more heroes than traitors.
If there are too many traitors, the nation will be over.
With more heroes, no matter how violently the Western powers suppress it, they cannot destroy this nation.
Therefore, a nation without heroes is destruction.
When a nation does not worship its own heroes, but instead worships the heroes created by the West, this nation is already very dangerous.
America is a nation lacking heroes. Native Americans thought that if they surrender to Western powers, they could survive and enjoy cooking.
However, that is the dish boil of Westerners. Westerners only regard the colonized as dogs. What dish does the dog need to cook?
Mayor Boval looked around proudly until the applause stopped.
"Today, we gathered to celebrate the completion of the Royal Bank of St. Martin!"
"As a professional, I proudly tell you that this bank is the most solid bank in the entire Caribbean Sea. Its degree of firmness can even be comparable to that of Royal Bank of Lundun!"
Mayor Boval waved his hand, and the two waiters immediately opened the bank's door and saw a huge steel treasure house two meters square, which was placed in the bank hall.
All the citizens present made a marvelous sound, and they had never seen such a heavy safe.
Mayor Boval looked at the surprised expression on everyone's faces with great pleasure, "...Our vault! It's five feet thick! No gun can destroy it!"
"With this bank, the city of St. Martin has entered the ranks of modernization! You can safely and boldly store your money in the treasure house of the Royal Bank of St. Martin!"
"No one! No army! Even the devil! Don't try to steal a piece of gold from the Royal Bank of St. Martin!"
Mayor Boval has outstanding eloquence and a very generous tone.
The citizens below were deeply infected and applauded vigorously.
Mayor Boval took out a tedious key from his waist and showed it to everyone, "This is the only key in the vault! It is under the control of your mayor, namely me, Boval Lawrence!"
"Now, I'll show you how rich and safe the Royal Bank of St. Martin is!"
As he said that, he handed over the keys to the waiter beside him.
The waiter took the key and walked to the vault, unscrewing the complicated door lock vigorously.
The vault slowly opened, and Berval waited proudly for the surprise expressions of the citizens.
But... the citizens all widened their eyes, and several female citizens even covered their mouths and exclaimed.
Boval was slightly stunned and then looked into the vault.
A sloppy guy in tattered pirate clothes was lying on the partition of the vault, sleeping soundly. He was still holding a bottle of unfinished rum in his hand, and beside him were filled with golden bars and gold coins.
"Pirates!" shouted in the crowd.
Chapter completed!