Thank you for changing the cover for me. Thank you, the original cover is really frustrated.

Just as the pirates who rescued the Xiaodao Club were holding high rewards and various bans to show off their daily drunkenness in Guangzhou City, Zhao Kuo was already summoning the "cat" in their eyes.

Guangzhou Governor's Office.

As Zhao Kuo, the new "leigo" of imperialism, laughed loudly from the back hall, seeing that there were no ashtrays, Dajinfang Davidson threw the cigar in his hand into the vase on the coffee table, put out the military uniform, and stood upright in front of the seat.

"Davidson, my dear Davidson." Zhao Kuo walked out of the back hall, smiling charmingly, didn't even look at his own seat, and just gave it out to hold Davidson's hand.

Weisen held the sword in one hand, knocked his heel, saluted, and then showed his big gold teeth and shook hands with the "His Majesty".

"Please sit. I heard that your ship easily sent three demon-clearing warships into the sea. What a warrior." Zhao Kuo took off Davidson's powerful hand and turned around and sat down.

"Your Majesty, that's nothing! Their ships are not worthy of combat power. Killing these junk ships is not considered a warrior." Davidson seemed very arrogant.

"Oh hehe." Zhao Kuo smiled and said, "No matter what, you are the number one hero in my rescue of my comrades. I heard you last time that you want a medal, and I will give it to you now." After saying that, a servant slammed his fingers and came out carefully with the medal.

Davidson stood up again, but after looking at the servant's hand, he blinked his confusion and asked Zhao Kuo: "Dear Your Majesty, are you sure this is the medal you are going to send me?"

Zhao Kuo turned his head and looked at the golden object, and smiled and said, "Of course it's a medal, although it looks a bit like a dish."

In fact, this thing was a dish a few days ago.

This plate was Zhao Kuocong, who said seriously.

"Ba. Thank you, Your Majesty the Emperor of the Song Dynasty! I feel so glory!" Davidson immediately raised his neck and saluted.

Zhao Kuo nodded and placed the wooden bracket that the plate originally brought to the coffee table next to Davidson.

"Your Majesty, what is this?" Davidson asked in confusion.

"The bracket for this medal is for you. Everything is in Chinese style. Please sit down." Zhao Kuo smiled thornyly.

Davidson sat down and fiddled with the huge "dorse". The exquisite patterns and pure gold texture on it showed that this was not only a symbol of heroism, but also directly equal to a pile of treasures. He couldn't help but feel excited and thought to himself: "It may not be a bad thing if the dorse is big, it would be even better if it looks like a washbasin next time."

"Puchi." The maid who came to serve Davidson was complacent when she saw the foreigner's neck with a plate hanging around her neck. She held back her laughter, but she still snorted.

Zhao Kuo gave the maid a blank look and said to himself: "You fucking smile, this guy can kill three Qing army warships alone, and the 250-ton behemoth disappeared from the ocean. Can you?"

Thinking of this, Zhao Kuo showed a charming smile on his face and said, "Mr. Davidson, let's talk about the serious matters now. Your country's consul is trying hard to eliminate piracy, and he recommended you to me. You said that you have expressed your wish to serve the Song Dynasty."

Davidson said, "Yes, I read the last naval operation in the newspaper, and I realized that His Majesty is so great, he is a defender of the Far East Christians and free business..."

"You fucked you went there in person! You rushed in front! You actually admired me after reading the newspaper? Who is this?" Zhao Kuo was dumbfounded for a while and said with a forced smile: "Please continue talking."

"In view of the fact that Your Majesty has no naval, I have expressed my wish to the Consul and other gentlemen to serve you. I am willing to fight as the pioneer of the Song Dynasty Navy." Davidson said in a deep voice.

"It's the British guy who doesn't want to pay the bounty to the pirates anymore! He threw the burden here!" Zhao Kuo thought resentful.

In Zhao Kuo's history, from the late 18th century, the British Navy was invincible on the three oceans of the world with its overwhelming advantage. It held maritime hegemony for 150 years, making great contributions to Britain's British Empire, whose colony area was 150 times greater than its local area.

1815 marked the end of the battle for maritime power in the sailing era. Britain became the undisputed ruler on the ocean, using this maritime rule, strong financial strength and the predecessor of the industrial revolution, its own aggressive commercial policies, and maintaining the balance of European power, and fighting when everything would pose a threat to British maritime authority.

In other words, it was the ocean global police of that era.

But not long ago, the elder brother ate it.

The rampant pirates in North Africa have seriously affected the interests of major powers around the world. When the Americans and Russians first began to discuss how to combat North African pirates, the elder brother had already fought.

The eldest brother is the eldest brother.

British general Ksmouth led a fleet, demanding that Algiers stop piracy and imprison Christians, and launched an attack, and launched close combat with the help of Dutch ships, knocked down port fortifications, burned the opponent's fleet, and bombarded the city at sea. Algiers quickly surrendered, but the British army also suffered heavy casualties, accounting for 16% of the total casualties.

But this still did not solve the rampant piracy problem, and it was not until the French Army completely occupied Algiers' land in 1830.

Pirates in the Far East are as rampant now, but this place is larger than Algiers and farther away from Algiers. And there is such a large empire (the Qing Dynasty) that it will not be as easy as Algiers. It is even more difficult to solve the problem of pirates in the riots and trade.

The British carried forward the spirit of the world police and found that this kind of thing was not easy to deal with, and it was simply thankless. Just think about the Somali Black Hawks Falling and Somali Pirates in the later generations.

British authorities hope to find a "good dog" to rulers who are both capable and familiar with the local situation, get rid of pirates, and end the game of hide-and-seek between the British Navy and Chinese local pirates.

Zhao Kuo is the best choice.

France directly stated that it could borrow money to buy French warships for him, but Zhao Kuo politely declined. Where did he have the money to buy that kind of thing, the most expensive weapon!

"I have a lot of people in my family to raise; foreign guns and cannons are all loans and mortgaged with tariffs! I have to buy warships, but I have no money! Besides, what did I buy them? The Qing Yao doesn't even have a navy. Of course, if you give them away for free, then that's another matter." Zhao Kuo complained to the consuls of various countries who strictly ordered him to wipe out pirates.

It’s not that Zhao Kuo didn’t want to destroy the pirates, but of course this was just an excuse during the negotiations. His real intention was to use the hands of the great powers to clear the pirates during this period. Because pirates were really a big concern in the coastal areas of Guangdong and Fujian, and he had no money to eliminate the pirates.

Pirates and others harassed maritime trade and reduced commercial prosperity. For Zhao Kuo, who only had the security of the sea and had relied on money (re-export goods were smuggled by Manchu Qing Dynasty), it was because the hyena came to the lion's territory to grab food. Zhao Kuo was not the Qing Dynasty. There was a nest of snakes and rats, and the soldiers and thieves were all in one family. He could not suppress the bandits. He could only tolerate who could not tolerate it!

If you can count the money yourself if you can use the money from other people (the great powers).

Now his main strategy is on land: first pacify the entire territory of Guangdong, improve grassroots control institutions such as the peasant association, eliminate the remnants of the Qing Dynasty, and then reorganize the army again, preparing to fight with the Hunan Army that will rise immediately. This army organized by the "Confucian elite" using the "worst Confucian dregs" - nepotism - but at this time, the strongest in this continent, the Taiping Army is not an opponent, let alone the Song army, which is the core of the Taiping Army, which is a superstitious core of the Taiping Army, politics and religion. If the army is not consolidated, it is definitely not an opponent of the Hunan Army. After all, there are not even "patriotic" intellectual youths who burned Caojialou these days, because there is not even the concept of "country", and there are illiterate people everywhere!

Therefore, the money and energy are all focused on the army, so there is no way to care about the ocean.

But his foreign masters did not make him so well. "The scoundrels who are profit-oriented" (Zhao Kuo's private words) did not give him any breath. Before he could sit firmly in the Governor Ye Mingchen's house, foreigners asked him to clear the scourge of the ocean to ensure business.

Davidson, a bounty hunter who volunteered to join the "Song Dynasty Navy", urged him to come.

There are more volunteers because the British authorities no longer want to pay the pirates' heads. The reason is simple: new people have appeared along the coast of Guangzhou, and we should "cooperate" with him instead of interfering in the affairs. I believe that as a local ruler, he will be more efficient.

This is equivalent to threatening Zhao Kuo: Do ​​you care about the affairs of the ocean? Do you care? I don’t care! Let’s see who will cry!

Can Zhao Kuo lose the ocean? Because he was a rebel, his business and materials were almost entirely connected to the ocean, and his former Qing Dynasty territory was smuggling trade. Even if Xianfeng killed him, he would not admit that Guangdong was a country. Without the ocean, if the land fails again, he would die less than anyone else.

This is the unbearable thing about facing pirates.

So Zhao Kuo could only start a Song Dynasty thief team - specifically to wipe out pirates and protect marine trade. To put it nicely, but now all the money is only 5 fast-sentence ships and dozens of sampans. It is okay to kill pirates who dare to come to the Guangzhou port, but the problem is that pirates will not come to your nest to rob.

Just now, Zhao Kuo just hugged Britain yesterday, and the French minister just finished crying, and today volunteer Davidson was sent over.

"Your Majesty, I am very happy to serve Your Majesty. But I need a reward of no less than the same position as the Royal Navy in the UK, and my sailors and soldiers also need it." Davidson offered directly.

"Don't worry, I can't treat you badly. I welcome mercenaries." Hearing this, Zhao Kuo breathed a sigh of relief. He was afraid that Davidson would count the price of "hiring a murderer" in Fujian as a weekly salary. He could not afford such expensive mercenaries even if he went bankrupt. Fortunately, Davidson was easy to talk to, and the wholesale price and retail price were calculated very clearly.

As for the British officer, he was so proud that he was given a captain Davidson a salary.

"Your Majesty, I also ask to join the Song army." Davidson stood up excitedly: "I saw the newspaper saying that Your Majesty took the risk of launching an expedition and rescue for his compatriots to get rid of the slavery of the Qing Dynasty to fight for freedom. I admire Your Majesty very much. I want to help Your Majesty win the war to get rid of the slavery of the Qing Dynasty."

"Have you watched too much of "Lawrence of Arabia"? Or are you addicted to "Anna and the King"?" Zhao Kuo said a lot, thinking it would be fine - if a foreign mercenary comes, he can not only help him work, but also be a meat shield - he smiled and said, "You can join my army, but you have to become a nationality in the Song Dynasty, huh?"

Weisen nodded: "Your Majesty agrees, I have another request."

"I'm sorry, but I'm not bad." Zhao Kuo pretended to pick up a cup of tea.

"I ask Your Majesty to appoint my Royal Admiral of the Song Dynasty!" Davidson said seriously: "Because my ship is the most powerful in the army."

"Bang!" Zhao Kuo's tea bowl fell to the ground, and the tea bowl cover rolled out a long time. He stared at Davidson, stunned for a long time before he said in a humiliating voice that seemed to be humiliating, "Royal Navy? It sounds so nice... But, I don't have a navy at all. I only have a coastal pirate team, all of which are small wooden gunships and sampans, and the highest position is just a captain of the pirate team..."

"There will be the Navy. Your Majesty, Guangdong is near the sea and has developed sea transportation. You won't want the Navy!" Davidson roared with his big gold teeth, and the golden plate on his chest jingled when he touched his buttons. He waved his hand angrily and shouted: "Without the ocean, there will be no Song Dynasty! Please agree with my request, I will not disappoint Your Majesty! Otherwise, I don't want my people and ships to work just for theft, what is the difference between this and what I did for the British Empire before?!"

"Damn it! There is nothing different from the hair!" Zhao Kuo took out a handkerchief from his arms and wiped the tea that had just been poured on his mouth. He stared at the monster for a long time, and finally sighed: "General, please, General, I agree."

Then he raised his hand to Davidson and said weakly: "But you have to know that I only plan to get the captain's salary for this position; the whole team, well, if this is the navy, you are the only one who is the equivalent of my army brigade commander, and as an admiral, you may directly command the soldiers to scrub the deck. Isn't it a bit, this, that, are you...?"

"No problem! I accept it! My Majesty! There will be soldiers! There will be some among them! There will be some major generals! There will be everything! "Davidson finally got this position, which immediately made him the first admiral of the legendary figure - the Far East Emperor.

"You, a small team leader called himself Admiral, won't you blush?" Zhao Kuo looked at the cheerful foreigner with a frown.

The first admiral of Haisong was born, and he was a British friend who became a member of the Song Dynasty. Although the "Admiral" in this prominent position could only command seventeen or eight small boats, do the captain's work and take the captain's money.

However, except for the overwhelming surprise of foreign newspapers, there was no surprise within the army, because the Song Dynasty still inherited the military system of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and no one knew what this admiral was doing.
Chapter completed!