"Hey old man, I thought you forgot how to contact me."
The pirate captain with a black hat stepped lightly and danced into the king's study. He has an oblique knife scar on his face, a cowhide wine jug hanging from his waist, and the smell of alcohol has not dissipated on his body. It's hard to tell how old he is from his appearance, and he has that stubbornness typical of a pirate.
Normal people can't come to the king in tattered clothes.
The Duke of Buckingham's expression cracked for a moment: "I thought it was Charles who came to see His Majesty? Didn't you swear that you would never set foot on the mainland for the rest of your life?"
"How can this be? After all, the pirate captain in Volway's name is still me!" The pirate chief replied with a smile. He took off his black hat, which he didn't wash for a long time, and bowed to the king like a circus performer.
"You know each other?"
The king looked at the Duke of Buckingham.
"No, I don't know."
The Duke of Buckingham answered firmly.
"Oh oh oh! I knew you nobles were more hypocritical than each other, and each one was more than a lie!" The pirate captain shouted like a rooster crowing, "God my noble lord! You were still a prince back then. Time, how nice to say it! What I appreciate your freedom and fearlessness! What..."
"To shut up."
the Duke of Buckingham shouted sharply.
He started to regret it.
What has Charles been doing all these years? How could he not take good care of this neuropathy that polluted the earth? No, to be more precise, why haven't those pirates killed this guy? Knowing that he was here to meet the king, the Duke of Buckingham must have been accompanied by dozens of royal guards at the gate of the palace.
Don't let him meet the king, don't even think about stepping into the palace.
"Your Majesty, I will introduce a more suitable admiral for you, and let the guards come in and drive this nonsense guy out." The Duke of Buckingham said, raising his hand to greet the soldiers to come in.
"My God!"
The pirate captain's eyes widened, looking at the Duke of Buckingham in disbelief.
"My good brother! When you urged us to set off from Walway, what a cordial tone! You said that Legrand needs our courage and blood. Now you have cleaned up the group of rice buckets in Wugang for you, and you will Turn your face and don't recognize anyone? You will be hoisted to the mast by everyone on the boat."
All right.
Now, the king also knows where the Duke of Buckingham's dislike of this guy came from... When he used a broken gong to imitate the noble lady and complained about her lover, it was enough to pollute the hearing and vision.
It's really not something ordinary people can do to switch seamlessly between the rippling tone and the madness.
"My esteemed majesty, aren't you as ruthless as your uncle?" The pirate captain watched the guards really push the door in, and turned his attention to the king.
The king waved his hand and motioned for the guards to go out: "I thought the rumors about me should not include mercy?"
"Okay, okay." The pirate captain looked very resentful, "Another William, another Rose family... Honestly, knowing the bastards of the Rose family is definitely the biggest failure in my wise Captain Hawkins' life."
"You make me think that you should not stand here, but be with my gentlemen scientists. Now, valiant pirate captain, please tell me the old stories, while I am patient. exist."
The king interrupted the pirate captain.
"Let me tell you."
The Duke of Buckingham took over.
He really didn't want to hear a bastard talking nonsense to the king in front of him, he knew all too well about this rogue at sea.
"The royal family actually maintains a certain degree of ties to the Walway Pirates."
When they were young, the Duke of Buckingham and William III, for some reason, spent some time on the pirate ship of the Walway and met some pirates.
When the king ascended the throne at a young age, Blasey came across the sea on more than one expedition.
The most dangerous one was when the Duke of Buckingham had to face domestic rebellion and expeditionary forces at the same time, and that time he had to secretly send a letter to the pirates of Walway. After receiving a secret letter from the Duke of Buckingham, the pirates of Walway ambushed and delayed Blasey's expedition to a certain extent on the sea just like the other day.
It must be frank that, compared with the pirates of Walway, the royal fleet commander of the Legrand royal family is a piece of crap.
The Volway pirates, backed by the weapons of the Royal House of Roses, brought their experience at sea to the fullest - and of course, partly because these pirates had no limits and no chivalry, and they won the Duke of Buckingham's response to Blasey's expedition. precious time.
Since then, the royal family has surreptitiously offered some support to the Volway Pirates.
After all, the Walway pirates are not really sea monsters living in the sea, and they still need to obtain supplies from the land on a regular basis. The royal family regularly prepares supplies for them on some specific uninhabited islands. The pirates of Walway thus avoid the danger of landing to obtain supplies and being found and hunted down, and it is precisely because of this that their legends have become more and more bizarre.
In the end, he even became a ghost on the sea.
In return for mutual benefit, the pirates of Walway also provided the royal family with some intelligence they had observed at sea, and the Duke of Buckingham succeeded in capturing some overseas spies from other countries.
To a certain extent, the pirates of Volway are also a shadow blade of the Rose family along the coast. Although not so obedient.
However, after all, the conspiracy of the royal family and pirates is not a good reputation, and it is not good.
Previously, the Duke of Buckingham did not explain this matter to the king due to other considerations. It was not until this time that the Duke of Buckingham saw the king's plan to reform the military system, plus the matter of the Five Harbors Alliance, that he thought of letting them appear in the king's field of vision.
After listening to the words of the Duke of Buckingham, the king was thoughtful.
If so, it makes sense why the Duke of Buckingham was able to get in touch with the pirates of the Volway, who had disappeared on the sea.
The royal family and pirates maintained cooperation, and the king did not care about it at all.
"My dear old man, how did it come to your mouth? Our great friendship is only cold cooperation! Are we helping you time and time again just for those supplies? I want to tell Charles these words of you, it's too people. Sad!" the pirate captain sighed.
The Duke of Buckingham tried to throw him out again.
"Well, sir," said the king mildly, "I believe that you are indeed helping Legrand out of sincere friendship. I will not insult your noble character, and I will order people to stop going to the island later. Delivering supplies, the post of general will also be reconsidered."
"Wait, Your Majesty." The pirate captain was serious. "Noble spirit is for knights. For pirates like us, please continue to insult our character with gold coins."
"I want to talk to this gentleman alone for a while." The king turned his head to the Duke of Buckingham
"Although I strongly disapprove, your will will always be mine." The Duke of Buckingham gave a warning glance at the pirate captain, "I will let Charles come as soon as possible."
"You are so ruthless."
The pirate captain muttered.
Only the king and the pirate captain were left in the study. The king did not speak, but looked at the pirate captain calmly.
"Damn." The pirate captain sighed helplessly, "You and William are so similar... To be honest, you are very different from the legends, you are so sharp, Your Majesty."
"I'm glad my uncle has a real friend."
The king gave a faint smile.
The king could see that the insane pirate captain unexpectedly took his friendship with the Duke of Buckingham and William III to heart, and the reason why he was willing to break his oath and set foot on land was probably not just for the sake of Materials provided by the royal family.
It was this friendship that made the pirate captain seem reluctant to discuss matters of real interest with his nephew in the presence of the Duke of Buckingham, so he kept talking nonsense.
"Unfortunately, as you can see, he doesn't seem to think so."
The pirate captain complained.
"This is something you need to reflect on yourself," said the king bluntly.
"You are the third interesting person I have met recently—and the most interesting one." The pirate captain said with emotion, "The Rose family is really talented."
"I'm a little curious about who are the first two you mentioned?"
"Your chemist, they are figuring out how to use limited-power artillery at sea," said the pirate captain tentatively. "If they were on my ship, I would certainly be willing to serve them with my butter and spirits. , they will be the best gunners."
"Oh, that won't work, sir," replied the king. "Allow me to remind you of one thing. You are now an admiral of the Rose Royal Family."
"what?!"
The pirate captain widened his eyes and pointed at himself.
"Aren't you kidding me? Am I not enough to discredit you in the Pirates of Volway?"
"No." The king laughed briskly. "On the contrary, you have given me more confidence in the Pirates of Volway."
The pirate captain's expression went blank for a moment.
The king put his fingers together, and he looked at the pirate captain with interest: "Before I saw you, I might have believed that you really came for that letter of appointment. But after seeing you, I had to overthrow it. This realization—if you really wanted to, you could have been a general in my father's time."
"So… "
The king smiled.
"Let me guess, why are you willing to appear in Kossoya when you obviously don't need a naval officer?"
"You're in a little trouble."
said the king softly.
His icy blue eyes seemed to penetrate everything.
"A bit of trouble that maybe only I can solve."
The pirate captain was silent for a moment, then became angry: "I'm going to kill those bastards who talk nonsense and spread rumors! Who told me that you are an incompetent tyrant! Are their eyes all thrown into the abyss trench? Or do they have no brains at all?"
"Be quiet, sir."
The king put his hand on the back of the chair.
"Now, tell me, what trouble did you have."
The author has something to say: ps: In history, Britain has often appointed pirates to participate in foreign wars. In fact, there were very few Royal Navy battleships participating in the British-Spanish War in 1588, accounting for only 18%. Pirate ships became an important force in this war. Drake commanded the Royal Navy ship Vengeance, Hawkins commanded the Victory, Martin Frobisher commanded the Triumph... The pirates did a much better job than the Royal Fleet. cough