Yang Song, the one-eyed pirate leader, heard the young Dutchman's explanation and then let go: "You guy, I have a habit. I will talk about it when you make a fortune in the future. If I find someone, the Chinese will not give me tea as promised, I will tie a big stone on your body and sank into the Mediterranean."

"Even if the Chinese violate the agreement, I, Reit, will compensate you for your money." The young Dutchman swore.

Leder came to Algiers with one-eyed pirates. The old pirates were familiar here and brought a group of subordinates. The city where pirates gathered in Algiers was still in a state of no one.

There are low stone buildings made of slightly carved stones everywhere, densely packed along the mountain. The castle and temples with dome towers stand tall above the stone houses, which are particularly eye-catching. The gravel paths and dirt roads are long and winding, and there are pirates and slaves everywhere, as well as stalls, taverns, and hostels.

The one-eyed pirates brought the pirates ashore into the local tavern. There was a lot of noise inside. There were pirates gambling on wooden tables, surrounded by a large group of people.

These pirates have strict rules on ships, and they are not controlled by the captain when they arrive on the shore. They often spend all their money and spend all the silver coins they get from selling spoils.

"If you want to find out the news, you still have to go to such a place." The one-eyed pirate and his men occupied two log tables, and someone soon brought them ale.

"Captain, this is the third port we have come to. We have searched in Morocco, but we have never heard of such a person. If we continue to search aimlessly, we will not have time to obtain the spoils." The pirates under us picked up the ale and drank it all, puzzled by the one-eyed pirate helping the Oriental people find people.

Their pirates also have to make a living. They spend a lot of time and manpower to find people, which will delay their chances of going to sea to rob.

"If we can't find it here, we will go to Tunisia and Tripoli two ports. If we can't find it, we will give up." said the one-eyed pirate.

"We have looked for all the Barbary coasts this time, but we rarely see men from the East being caught and sold, right? The prisoners here are either black people from North Africa or white people from Europe. We spend so much energy to help them find people. Even if we can't find them, the Eastern people should also give us a reward, otherwise who knows whether the person we are going to find them is dead or alive?"

"Captain, maybe they orientals deceived us, and there was no missing person at all, and we even made a trip in vain." The subordinates of the one-eyed pirate complained one after another.

"People who question my decision can leave my fleet. I don't need anyone to point fingers at me!" said the one-eyed pirate coldly, causing many people to shut up.

He has many followers in Morocco and other places, most of whom are pirates who escaped from Europe, and they are able to make peace with the Ottoman Empire and do everything they usually do very harshly.

The one-eyed pirate called the people from the tavern and ordered a lot of fresh food that they could not eat at sea. His men couldn't help swallowing and waiting for the meat to be served.

"Isn't this Lord Yangsong? This time I shipped the 'trophy' to Algiers. Has it sold for a good price?" An old pirate in rags seemed to know a one-eyed pirate and came to their table with shameless face.

He seemed to have not taken a bath for a long time, and there was a stinking smell on his body. Even the pirates who had been wandering on the sea for a long time could not bear his stinking smell, and showed a disgusting expression.

Among the ports where pirates gather, there is a group of people who are not slaves, but live a life of having a meal without a meal like slaves. They are often old, weak, and without savings, or pirates who are disabled in battle. They lose their ability to work and can only live like parasites in familiar ports.

However, such a group of people are familiar with almost all the changes in the port because they are idle, and selling intelligence has become the source of their special income.

"Inquiry into you about something. Is there any strange person here recently? If you can tell me the information that satisfies me, then these two silver dollars will be yours." The one-eyed pirate slapped two Spanish silver dollars on the wooden table.

Spanish silver dollars are hard currency used in Barbary pirates, and are stronger than the currency issued by the Ottoman Empire itself.

When the old pirate saw two silver dollars, his eyes glowed, and he stretched out his black hand to touch the two silver dollars.

But Yang Song grabbed the silver dollar and prevented the old pirate from dragging the silver dollar away: "Tell me, has there been any strange people coming to Algiers this year?"

"Hey, Algiers' big and small things can't escape my ears, because I often sit on the docks for food. If you want to say that nothing special happened this year, if the biggest capture is that the pirates in Algiers dispatched more than ten Calais ships at a time, robbed a merchant ship with the Malta octagonal cross on their sails, and caught dozens of people from the Knights of Malta..." The old pirate recalled the recent big events.

The Knights of Malta are a remnant of the Crusader era, an organization that opposes the Ottoman Empire. They are now stationed on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean.

To the Ottoman Empire, the Knights of Malta were as annoying as the Barbarian pirates to the European countries. The Ottoman Emperor once organized more than 100,000 soldiers and auxiliary soldiers to siege only a few thousand people. The Knights of Malta, which were mainly civilians, were unable to destroy the Knights of Malta.

The Knights of Malta, with the Octagonal Cross as the flag, were like a nail in the Mediterranean, always biting the Ottoman Empire and even organizing warships to attack the Barbary pirates in the Mediterranean.

But now the one-eyed pirate Yansong is not concerned with the matter of the Knights of Malta: "Where are people with Eastern Constellations coming to Algiers?"

The old pirate was a little confused: "Oriental Kong? Isn't this a bunch of Eastern people?"

For Europe, the Ottoman Empire was a typical Eastern empire.

Yang Song rolled his eyes: "I mean more eastern, such as China far away in East India."

"People over there... this is extremely rare. They rarely see people in the east unless someone picks up their people in the East Indies. However, catching people from afar is not only dangerous, but also the cost of transporting them back is very high. It is not as easy as plundering people in Africa or the Mediterranean." said the old pirate.

"I don't want to listen to you so much nonsense. I just want to know if there are people from there, whether they are free people or slaves. If you don't want to earn these two silver coins, then forget it." After Yangsong said that, he wanted to put the two Spanish silver dollars back into his pocket.
Chapter completed!