Chapter 52: The Rift

William has been floating on the sea with the Redbeard Pirates for a few days, and even the newcomers who have just boarded the ship can feel the oppressive atmosphere on the ship, not to mention him who has experienced pirates. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

In addition to their own sailboats, there is no one of the same kind on the vast sea, which makes people have a sense of loneliness from the world, the daily heavy work, the salty sea breeze, and the boring scenery increase the depression in the hearts of the crew, and the atmosphere on the whole ship is like a powder keg about to ignite, and a little friction will cause a big conflict.

At this time, either rely on the captain's prestige to appease the crew, or find an outlet.

Barbarossa apparently knew this, and in addition to increasing the number of deck patrols per day, he also drove the pirate ship to the main channel and wandered around all day, hoping to wait for some prey.

On this day, William was helping to clean the deck when he heard the pirates in the fight suddenly shouting.

Many pirates on the deck subconsciously looked at Wangdou, and William also put his hand on the pergola and looked up, and saw the lean pirate in Wangdou excitedly pointing in the direction of the side of the ship, and shouting to the many pirates looking down at him: "There's a ship over there!"

Vice-Captain Reis, who was also on deck, climbed to the other mast without saying a word, and he was as large and strong as a bear, but he climbed as swift as an ape, and he grabbed the mast and the cable, and climbed up to the mast in three or five strokes.

William looked at the slightly swaying mast, and was really worried that Lacey would break the mast.

When Lacey came to the mast watchtower, he took out a monocular from his bosom, looked in the direction where the lean pirate had been looking, and after looking at it for a while, he shouted to the pirates below, "Go and inform the captain!"

Although he didn't name himself, William turned around and ran to the stern of the boat when he heard this.

Reis, who was above, nodded in satisfaction, and then grabbed a cable in one hand, and the whole person jumped out of the bucket, his body swung twice in the air, and his hands staggered down one after another, and he landed firmly on the deck.

At this time, the navigator Hayreddin, who was patrolling the cabin, also went to the deck when he heard the news, and he also took a pair of monoculars and walked to the side of the ship, where the pirates avoided for fear of angering the most grumpy high-ranking on the ship.

Compared to Hyreddin, the crew was obviously closer to Lacey, and several old pirates left Hayreddin's side, gathered around Lacey, and asked, "Deputy Captain, what kind of ship is it?"

"Merchant marine. Lacey grinned.

A crowd cheered.

On the other side, William trotted all the way to the captain's quarters, and just knocked twice, the door was opened from the inside with a "creak", and Barbarossa's big head with a three-cornered hat poked out from behind the door, looked at William and said, "What's wrong?"

William pretended to be excited: "Captain, someone on the foredeck has spotted a ship. ”

Barbarossa had already come out of the house, nodded when she heard this, greeted William, and strode towards the front deck.

On the way out, Barbarossa asked coldly, "I heard that you had some minor conflicts with Chloe a few days ago?"

It was not out of William's expectation that Barbarossa knew about this, and he deliberately said it to be ready to be heard by the other party, but at this time he made an embarrassed look on his face

"You are all companions on the same ship, do not hold grudges against each other. Barbarossa said, "There may be a naval battle next, you are in good hands, go to the cabin for a while to protect him, don't let him run around so as not to get hurt, and the two of you will also take this opportunity to strengthen your relationship." ”

William's heart moved, but his face showed an unclear and unwilling look, just in the front aisle, Hutcherson, who was wearing a red rosacea, turned out, and Barbarossa also stopped him and asked him to go with William to "protect" Chloe.

Hutcherson is an old pirate, and when he heard this, he directly dragged William, who was still pretending to be ignorant, and went to find Chloe together.

William muttered something indistinctly, as if complaining that the captain would not let him participate in the naval battle, and sneered in his heart.

"Redbeard" Barbarossa's survival mode is very close to the system originally conceived by William.

That is, relying on the trading companies on land, providing intelligence support, using the force of the pirates to carry out savage strikes against competitors, and then the trading companies digest the stolen goods, turn them into logistical supplies, and then support the pirates to continue fighting.

William's smuggling network was originally built for this purpose, and smuggling is also an illegal business, which can sell contraband such as alcohol, and of course, it can also sell goods looted by pirates.

Barbarossa's model was even larger than William had originally envisioned, with his associates on shore not only providing intelligence, but also directing official forces to provide assistance, and the Navy had recently been involved.

But the Redbeard Barbarossa's mode of survival has a fatal wound compared to what William conceived.

William intended to build a system in which he wanted to maintain absolute dominance, and when he first talked to Sherlock about the smuggling business, he preferred to take a two-pronged attitude than let go.

And "Redbeard" Barbarossa obviously does not have absolute dominance in his own system, and his accomplices may be an alliance at most, which can be seen from Chloe, Barbarossa and others are alienated from him, but even if he is so annoying, Barbarossa and Reis and others still do not embarrass him too much, which is obviously not the face of Chloe himself, but the face of the forces he represents.

Although this alliance model of pulling people together will develop faster and become more powerful than the centralized system favored by William, in William's eyes, it only looks bloated.

People in the same camp, people from different forces have their own interests and concerns, and the forces represented by Chloe want to sell stolen goods, provide intelligence, and provide logistical support for the Redbeard Pirates, so it is natural that they should share their share of the spoils.

And Barbarossa and other pirates obviously want to plunder this kind of "windfall" at this time, why should they divide the other side of the force that seems to have nothing to do?

Barbarossa's statement that William and Chloe should enhance their relationship is pure nonsense, and the real purpose is obvious, that is, to watch Chloe, restrict his movements, and wait for Barbarossa and others to clean up the battlefield, and then let Chloe go over to count the "spoils".

Two people with their own interests, belonging to different teams, without strong external pressure, can unite as one, unite as one, do not think about themselves, and move forward, William has never seen a few in his previous life, on the contrary, he often sees cases of cooperation breaking down into the courts.

It was a very unreliable thing to negotiate rules and agreements with pirates, and William knew that this was certainly not the first time that Barbarossa had done this, because when he and Hutcherson found Clowe, they didn't need to speak, and the young man already had a look of helplessness on his face, obviously familiar with the situation.

In the past, Alcatio basically turned a blind eye to Barbarossa's rogue tactics to prevent unpleasant quarrels between allies, and although the two occasionally disagreed on the distribution of interests, they were far from disagreeing, let alone rifting.

It's a pity that now there are more ill-intentioned characters in the Redbeard Pirates.

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