Traveling Frog: Goofing Around in the Marvel Universe Chapter 182 I originally wanted to get along with you as ordinary people, but what I got in exchange was gunfire
Chapter 182 I originally wanted to get along with you as ordinary people, but what I got in exchange was gunfire
"I didn't expect, sister Angelica, that you are so knowledgeable about the world structure?"
Bai Ye smiled.
In fact, he also knew a little bit about this history.
The rise of the Golden Age of Piracy in the Caribbean was by no means an accident.
This is because the competition and colonial expansion among European countries in modern times began with maritime expansion.
Accompanying maritime expansion was rampant piracy. As a derivative of colonial development and maritime trade, piracy played an extremely important role from the 16th to the 18th centuries. The period from 1690 to 1730 was known as the golden age of piracy, especially
From the period after the War of Spanish Succession to the end of the 1820s, piracy was the most rampant period, manifested by an increase in the number of pirates and frequent activities.
During the Nine Years' War between England and France from 1689 to 1697 and the War of Spanish Succession from 1702 to 1713, the warring countries granted a large number of privateers to pirates. Spain gradually became unable to monopolize the American colonies. The Netherlands, Britain, and France focused on trade dominance in the Americas.
The Caribbean region has become one of the most fiercely contested regions due to its special geographical environment and mature tropical plantation economy.
Due to the complex colonial environment in the Caribbean, Britain used a large number of privateers during the war as an important armed force in the colonial waters to make up for the lack of strength of the Royal Navy in the region. After the war, the privateers were demobilized and the Royal Navy
The retirement of sailors has led to a large number of sailors becoming unemployed, and the mistreatment of sailors by merchant ships and naval ships has led to a large number of sailors turning to piracy, which has led to the proliferation of illegal piracy in the Caribbean.
——British merchants appeared in the Caribbean, not initially as pirates, but trying to break Spain's trade monopoly through smuggling trade. In 1568, John Hawkins's smuggling fleet was attacked by a Spanish convoy in the West Indies.
British merchants gave up their attempts to break Spain's trade monopoly through peaceful smuggling, openly attacked Spanish merchant ships, plundered coastal towns, and transported the stolen goods back to England to sell, becoming government-supported pirates.
——Queen Elizabeth’s support for the pirate Drake’s plundering of Spanish transport ships was a manifestation of the extraordinary measures taken by Britain for capital in the early days of mercantilism due to its longing for capital when overseas trade was frustrated. In the 19th century and the early 20th century
In overseas trade, Britain used pirates as its vanguard and mainly focused on directly plundering wealth. Throughout the century, the British did not take the establishment of colonies as its main goal.
At the same time, when the British government gained a firm foothold, it immediately began to strengthen the suppression of colonial pirates, and then strengthened the suppression of pirates through military and legislative means. The heyday of piracy in the Golden Age was also the beginning of its decline. Piracy
A tool for national colonial development has been transformed into an object of severe attack.
Angelica sighed and said:
"In fact, there are not many smart people who dare to wander on the sea. Most people are not unexpected that the British government wants to kill the donkey, but they just don't want to believe it and they are deceiving themselves!"
"The decline of the pirate profession will happen sooner or later. If you cling to the old ideas of the past, you will almost certainly die under the gunfire of the British government."
Bai Ye said with a smile: "Whatever, sister Angelica and I don't support ourselves with the little money we get from being pirates anyway. Whether pirates decline or not, let him go!"
"Of course, if sister Angelica you lose your job then, come to me and I will support you for the rest of your life!"
"If I were to ask you to support me, how low would I have to go?" Angelica rolled her eyes at Bai Ye and said, "You should use your money to support your little lover!"
"To live, you must rely on yourself!"
"Anything may betray you at any time, but only money will not betray you!"
Bai Ye looked in reverence:
"Sister Angelica, your realm is so high! In my hometown, a doctor also said this to me, you must rely on yourself! No matter you are a good person or a bad person, you can only rely on yourself in the end.
It’s up to you.”
…
night.
Under the bright moonlight, the sea surface sparkled.
The waves gently kissed the rocks, as if they were sleepy.
There is a quiet mystery hidden in the sea.
A black and dilapidated ghost ship sailed on the sea.
Under the moonlight, the laughing and playing sailors on the boat all turned into skeletons, looking mysterious and terrifying.
In the captain's room where the moonlight was not visible, an old guy with a unkempt beard and a pirate captain's hat held a green apple in his hand, put it to his mouth, and took a bite.
"Bang!"
The old guy only took a bite of the apple and threw it to the ground angrily:
"Damn Jack Sparrow! Now I can't even taste my favorite apple. It's all because of you, the bastard, that I've become this human, ghost-like situation!"
This old guy is naturally Hector Barbossa, one of the nine pirate kings. He was originally the king of the Caspian Sea. However, the sea area where he lived was so miserable because it could even be said to be just a lake.
So he went to Jack's father, but within a few years Jack's father retired and became the custodian of the code. Barbossa followed Jack and became the first mate of the pirate ship Black Pearl. Later, he became the keeper of the code.
Rebellion, drove away Captain Jack Sparrow, and became the captain of the Black Pearl.
"Captain, we found a merchant ship ahead, and we have another prey coming."
A skeleton came over and reported excitedly to Barbossa.
"Yeah?"
Barbossa walked out of the cabin. Under the moonlight, the flesh on his face turned into a skeleton, making him look extremely ferocious. But he obviously didn't care about this. He took out the telescope he carried with him and looked towards the sea.
Look from a distance.
"Sure enough, another prey has come to visit, and it is such a big merchant ship. There must be a lot of valuable things on board!"
Barbossa's previously depressed mood was instantly gone. He was full of energy and said with a wave of his hand:
"Brothers, catch up with us, we are going to get rich again!"
The Black Pearl they were riding on was the fastest ship in the Caribbean. The entire ship had a reasonable structural design. Its streamlined hull and huge power made it extremely fast. There were several cannons on the ship with powerful firepower.
Few merchant ships can compete with them.
——The Black Pearl, formerly known as the Bad Girl, is a trading ship owned by the East India Trading Company led by the British Lord Becket. Jack was appointed captain of the ship and ordered to transport a cargo from Africa. But Jack discovered that this
A batch of so-called "cargo" were actually African slaves. Out of a sense of justice, Jack freed them all. For this reason, Jack was branded with a "p" symbolizing pirates by Beckett himself and was sent to a Turkish prison, while the bad guys
The girl was also destroyed and sunk into the sea on Beckett's order.
After being expelled, Jack was determined to find his ship. So he found Davy Jones, the captain of the "Flying Dutchman", and asked Jones to save his ship, on the condition that after Jack became the captain again, he would not return to the ship until the 13th year.
, Jones will own Jack's soul for 100 years (100 years of service on the Flying Dutchman). Jones agreed, and helped Jack rescue the bad girl, and hung up the black sail and renamed it the "Black Pearl".
Jack went to Port Ta and recruited a crew. This crew was looking for Cortez's legendary treasure. After bargaining, Jack agreed to divide the treasure equally with the crew. But Jack's first mate Barbossa persuaded him that he should
Share the location of the treasure with everyone. Jack agreed. So on the night he revealed the location of the treasure, the crew, led by Barbossa, launched a riot, dismissed Jack from his position as captain, and abandoned him.
To a desert island.
After the riot, the crew, led by Barbossa, found the mysterious treasure and divided it up. Soon, the crew squandered the wealth on eating, drinking and indulgence. But they soon discovered that the gold
In fact, they were under a spell. The crew were turned into the living dead, and the pirates who became the living dead were tortured. They could not satisfy any of their desires: the food was tasteless, the wine tasted like white water, and even the food on the sea
Even the sea breeze cannot be felt. On a moonlit night, the moonlight will reveal their true colors: broken clothes, nearly disintegrated skeletons, and remaining muscles. Even the Black Pearl is affected: although the Black Pearl itself is not
Cursed, but due to the influence of its crew, the Black Pearl is always surrounded by a mysterious mist.
"Hey, yes, captain!"
The crew members on the Black Pearl made strange screams and drove the Black Pearl to chase the merchant ship ahead.
I have to say that the Black Pearl was really fast. After the merchant ship was discovered, it was quickly overtaken by the Black Pearl.
"First knock out their guarding power!"
Barbossa ordered:
"Shoot me!"
The first mate of the Black Pearl stood on the bow of the ship and roared at the crew driving the cannon:
"Fire, fire!"
"Boom boom boom——!"
From the Black Pearl, one shell after another, with a roaring sound that broke through the sky, burst into flames on the merchant ship in the dark night.
"Yo ho!"
The skeletons on the Black Pearl made excited sounds one by one.
On the merchant ship that was suddenly caught off guard, the guards also felt that they were taking action. They all picked up their weapons and prepared to fight the pirates.
The musketeers and swordsmen stood on the deck, and the gunners took their positions. A big battle was about to begin.
Bai Ye was in his room, doing something shy with Duke Zhou's daughter, when he was suddenly woken up by a "crackling" sound.
He rubbed his eyes, yawned, and walked out of his room:
"What's going on? You're making so much noise this late at night that you can't let anyone sleep? My neighbors have to go to work tomorrow!"
But see.
Angelica in the arm room had already walked out of her room, looked at the approaching ship in the distance, looked solemn, and said:
"Bai Ye, we are in big trouble this time!"
"watt?"
Bai Ye yawned again.
"The merchant ship we chose to take this time encountered pirates!" Angelica said: "With the configuration of this merchant ship, if we encounter ordinary pirates, it will be nothing, but what we encountered is probably the Black Pearl.
Number!"
"What happened to the Black Pearl?" Bai Ye looked at the ghost ship in the distance and said unconvinced: "Their ship is not as big as ours at first glance!"
Angelica couldn't laugh or cry, and said: "Baiye, when it comes to the combat effectiveness of ships, it's not about who can beat the weak! The Black Pearl is a magical ship, the fastest ship on the sea, and it is also very energetic.
Fierce, and more importantly..."
Bai Ye: "What is it?"
Angelica: "The crew members above are all immortal and cannot be killed at all. They are undead wandering on the sea!"
"Combined with various advantages, the Black Pearl has even destroyed many sailing battleships of the Navy. What's more, the ship we are traveling on is just a merchant ship. So do you think this merchant ship has the possibility of defeating the opponent?"
"Is it so scary?" Bai Ye said, "Then what should we do? Can we escape before the pirate ship approaches?"
Angelica sighed and said:
"It's probably too late. How could the Black Pearl be so fast!"
Look at Baiye.
Sure enough, I saw that the Black Pearl, which was still some distance away before, was now very close.
Aboard the Black Pearl.
Barbossa drew out his long knife and ordered:
"Everyone, prepare for the battle!"
"The captain has given orders, all crew members, prepare for boarding battle."
As the shouts spread, all the crew members of the Black Pearl were eager to try.
"Brothers, kill them all, take away all the treasures, kill them!"
Barbossa roared.
Hearing this, all the pirates fell into extreme excitement and screamed.
After a round of musketry, the crew of the Black Pearl charged into the merchant ship.
"What's going on? They are all skeletons!"
"Ahhhhh, ghost!"
After the guards on the merchant ship came into contact with the crew of the Black Pearl, their morale immediately dropped. After all, not many normal people can calm down and fight a group of skeletons.
Moreover, Barbossa and his group of skeletons are immortal and cannot be hacked or killed.
The bullets would go right through their bodies, the knives would chop off their heads, and they could still pick them up and put them on their necks.
In the midst of this chaos, Angelica held a sword in one hand and held Bai Ye in the other, heading in the same direction as the merchant ship.
When boarding the merchant ship, Angelica had already checked the information, the general structure of the merchant ship, and the tenders on the ship.
There was absolutely no need for her and Bai Ye to fight the Black Pearl because of this merchant ship. They could just escape in a small boat.
only.
I don't know if Angelica is too beautiful or Bai Ye is dressed too cleanly, but they still attracted the attention of the crew of the Black Pearl.
Five or six skeletons holding knives and guns, smiling maliciously, surrounded Angelica and Bai Ye.
Angelica also had to temporarily let go of Bai Ye's hand and prepared to fight. She said:
"Bai Ye, you have to pay attention to yourself, be careful not to die!"
"Go on, cut that pretty boy into eight pieces for me, and take that pretty girl back. Although we can't use it, it's good to just leave it for fun!"
A group of skeletons laughed obscenely.
A cold light flashed in Angelica's eyes. She held a long sword and took the lead in launching an attack. She rushed forward with a single step and slashed down with the long sword, blowing off a skeleton's head.
The skeletons were shocked. The woman in front of them seemed not easy to deal with, so they hurriedly faced the enemy.
There was a skeleton who saw that Angelica was too powerful and was a little timid. When he turned his eyes, he saw Bai Ye, and his heart suddenly moved. He smiled cruelly, avoided Angelica, and shot Bai Ye with a shot.
Kill the man who is with this woman and see if this woman can continue to be so powerful.
"Whoosh——!"
A lead bullet came towards me.
Bai Ye sighed:
"I originally wanted to get along with you as an ordinary person, but I didn't expect that what I got in exchange was gunfire..."
He stretched out a hand and caught the lead bullet that had reached his face between his fingers:
"I'm not pretending anymore, I'm showing my cards right, I'm actually a wizard!"
