Chapter 660

Where's pierce?

Lorraine pulled his face out.

As for Pierce's complete disappearance in the early stage of the Star Island incident, he and Carmen actually found it when reading the report.

However, at that stage, Portugal and the Netherlands stirred the wind and rain on the Malay Peninsula, and the main battlefield of Britain, France and Russia was Zhanbei.

Zhan Bei is mainly diplomatic work, not Pierce's strength. So at that time, Lorraine and Carmen generally believed that pierce should have been persuaded by Eddie to stay in Chennai.

But now it seems that there is another secret in this matter?

Lorraine resisted her curiosity and asked casually, "where did you go?"

Pierce raised his eyebrows proudly: "when father Dylan asked you for advice, I studied the Star Island information provided by the East India Company in Chennai and found that the reason why Star Island can remain in the hands of the weak master of Johor is not only the mutual restraint of Portugal, Britain and the Netherlands, but also an important reason, the group of thieves in the South China Sea."

"Pure man?" Lorraine was really surprised this time.

"The pirates in the South China Sea are Chinese, but it's hard to say they are Qing people," pierce explained. "Most of them are Dan people along the coast of the Qing Dynasty, living in poverty and living on the sea."

"About a hundred years ago, the Qing Dynasty began to prohibit its nationals from going to sea... I don't know which fool made this stupid decision... In short, the Qing Dynasty did not allow its nationals to enter the sea in any way, nor did it set up a state-owned company to uniformly operate marine related businesses, so the dans who lived on the sea lost their source of livelihood."

"They turned into pirates on a large scale with villages and families as units, took the South China Sea as a hunting ground, and took other pirates, Southeast Asian maritime merchants and European merchants as prey. Because they were numerous, well-organized, and far more powerful than the national navy of the Qing Dynasty, they were collectively referred to as the South China Sea group pirates in the intelligence of the East India Company."

"There are six largest pirate groups in the South China Sea, each with hundreds of warships. According to the color of the flag, they are called the six flag gang of red, yellow, blue, white, black and purple. There are also four most prestigious pirate kings, Zheng Xilong, Shi Chaosheng, Ma Youcai and Xu Jiadong, known as the fourth uncle."

"They also have an organization similar to the maritime brotherhood, called the DanJia ancestral hall. But unlike the brotherhood without real power, the DanJia ancestral hall has great prestige among the pirates in the South China Sea. The fourth uncle established a council there to manage the pirates with a code called family law. The resulting resolutions must be obeyed by every DanJia pirate. Even if the head of the six flag Gang is called to self-determination, the head can't resist."

It can be seen that pierce has indeed done enough homework for pirates in the South China Sea. He sat at the dinner table, described the pirate world different from the Caribbean in clear language, and tried his best to interpret the eastern clan system with a model that Westerners can understand.

"The pirates in the South China Sea are deeply hostile to European businessmen. It is also possible that we are the richest of their prey. In short, their activity makes the trade route from Southeast Asia to the Qing country full of danger."

"The Portuguese tried to encircle and suppress them, and the East India Company of Britain and the Netherlands also allied with the navy of the Qing Dynasty, but they all ended in failure."

"The navy of the Qing Dynasty can only lag behind, and our armed merchant ships are not the opponent of Oriental hard sailing ships under special sea conditions such as islands, dark sand and estuaries."

"I read the battle reports of nine large-scale encirclement and suppression in recent 100 years. Although the warships of the South China Sea group and the navy of the Qing Dynasty are mainly based on Oriental hard sails, the sailors of the pirate regiment are more professional, more obedient, and their combat effectiveness and will are so strong that it is difficult to understand. Moreover, with the approach of the times, I found that they are more and more inclined to European style in ship loading and fire matching rather than Qing style."

Pierce recalled.

"Star Island is their gate. Every time Europe tries to build Star Island, they will loot South and let the construction plan die. However, they don't seem to care who gets Star Island. As long as they don't immigrate or build, they don't care about the ownership of administration. Another way of thinking, they don't seem to have a spokesman in politics."

"I tried to think about the way to defeat them, but the result was very bad. The navy of the Qing Dynasty did not threaten them, so they could escape into the Pearl River Basin at any time, and as long as they fled into or even close to the Pearl River Basin, we would have no threat to them."

"At this time, I found a complaint..."

Pierce accidentally found a complaint while reading the battle report. The complainant was Mr. piyol, an English businessman.

In 1783, Shi Chaosheng, one of the four masters of the black flag Gang, tied the meat ticket and stayed on Lantau for three months. Finally, he redeemed himself at the price of 7400 shillings and regained his freedom.

In the complaint, he strongly condemned the incompetence and arrogance of the Security Department of the East India Company, praised the trustworthiness and hospitality of the Dan pirates, and said that [uncle Chaosheng Shi is the most sincere and polite gentleman I know in the Qing Dynasty and a real Oriental gentleman].

Incidentally, Mr. piyol is a national expert in the Qing Dynasty. He has devoted himself to porcelain for 13 years, specialized in Cantonese level 8, and even complained in both Chinese and English.

"I began to guess that the confrontation between the pirates in the South China Sea and European businessmen might be due to the lack of communication." Pierce said with his chin. "After all, the Qing Dynasty was very closed. Not many European pioneers knew Chinese and fewer were willing to communicate with pirates."

Lorraine's nature was caught, and he crossed his legs with interest: "so you went to find Shi Chaosheng?"

Pierce shrugged: "Drake is different from other Europeans. Our president is qingguotong, our board of directors has Wang Ye, and there are three younger sisters on my ship."

"So I took a lady to Lantau, hung a pirate flag, fought a friendly simulation war with the red flag, black flag and purple flag all the way, and finally met uncle Shi Chaosheng in Qiongshan county (now Haikou) on QiongYa road."

"Did you persuade him to give up Xingdao and open the air route?"

"No," pierce grinned. "I persuaded him to see you."

"Oh..." ʘ̅дʘ̅ ๑)!!! "Ha

……

It's past 12 o'clock.

The debriefing meeting had already ended, but pierce didn't follow others out of the restaurant. The lights in the restaurant were still on, and the brightly lit room was particularly dark against the porch and courtyard.

Sharon Attis stood like a shadow in the corner of the courtyard, wringing her skirt and blushing.

"Teacher..."

"Poor little Sharon." Carmen mercifully stroked Sharon's flaxen hair, as if looking at her own green. "Pierce went out for two years and was with sister Xiao day and night, but you were left by me, always... Dealing with those boring numbers."

"No, sir..." Sharon hung her head low. "Even when she was on the boat, my cousin liked to be with my three younger sisters..."

"Men are like this."

Carmen's hand slipped from his hair, his slender fingertips slid across his face, hooked the tip of his chin, and squeezed Sharon's palm along his shoulder.

"Brave, simple, they always know what they want, and can easily cut the obstacles in front of the section, like a knife." she smiled, not like a smile. "Men like beautiful knives, which is natural."

"But I also like my cousin, very much..." Sharon retorted bravely. She took three deep breaths in a short sentence. Finally, she could summon up the courage to face Carmen.

Her eyes are so bright and frighteningly bright, like the stars in the sky, that people are unconsciously attracted.

Carmen squeezed Sharon's hand hard. He just squeezed it and released it immediately.

Sharon's disappointed expression was clear. She just wanted to say something, but suddenly she was hugged by Carmen.

Carmen held little Sharon tightly, like his cherished daughter. She put her hand around her back, pressed Sharon's head and pushed her ears to her lips.

"The mouth is a tool for persuading people," she said. "I've always taught you how to convince others with words, expressions, actions and even charm. But there's only one thing that you can't do even if you're good at words."

"You can never convince a man to choose you between two beloved women. You can't even know whether he loves you more. You try your best to guess your relationship with him, but love is not an account book. It's all self deception!"

Sharon felt that her strength had been evacuated by Carmen's malice. If Carmen hadn't held her too tight and held her too hard, she suspected that she couldn't stand at all and had already knelt on the ground and cried.

"What about me... Teacher...?"

"You're sure you love Pierce, aren't you?"

"Well..."

"You're sure you can't stand it, can you?"

"Yes."

"You're sure you're ready for a showdown. You won't regret even if you lose, will you?"

"Yes!"

"Then fight." Carmen opened Sharon with a smile. "I told you the way. Now that you're ready, fight."

Sharon's face was so red that her courage melted like being taken away by the night wind, and she couldn't stay in her body at all.

"But... But..."

Carmen carefully arranged every wrinkle and mess on Sharon's skirt, then clapped her hands and stepped back one step, two steps and three steps.

"I'm not even afraid of losing. What's terrible?"

Sharon was stunned, her confused eyes lit up, brighter and brighter.

"Well." she nodded, pinched her skirt, nodded and bent her knees, "teacher, I'm leaving."

She ran quickly, brushed past Carmen, and soon ran into the night. She couldn't see the shadow again.

"They've all grown up..." Carmen whispered, stretched out his finger and gently printed it on his lips. "It's a lie to say that when you grow up, you will become brave. I knew it long ago..."

"How envious..."