Soon, the War Department came up with a relevant plan, according to which before the Olympic Games, the Navy would first dispatch the all-steam-powered supercruisers "Free Trade" and "Unified Market", the steam-powered cruiser "Le Havre", the steam-powered cruiser "Toulon", and the steam-powered cruiser "Foss...... Two detachments of 12 warships went to the coast of North Africa to escort merchant ships from various countries.

At the same time, the French government also authorized these warships to inspect any ships they found suspicious, and to use force as appropriate if they encountered resistance.

In addition, as a co-ordination to the military action, the French consuls in the Barbary countries were to make immediate representations to them demanding that they return the missing French crew, as well as the ships and cargo, within a time limit, and that they make reasonable compensation to the French.

These demands may seem very reasonable, but for the Barbary countries they are difficult, if not impossible, to achieve. Because first of all, they don't know whose family did it. The pirates who did this would not have told them that they had attacked a French ship, and they would certainly have put the captured ship under the flag of Spain or some other small Italian country.

Of course, this is not a big problem, if you really want to check, you can still find out. But even if it is found out, no matter which pirate country it is, it will not dare to admit it. If you don't admit it, you can also throw the pot next door, and if you admit it, you will have to bear all the consequences.

Of course, this is not the most fatal problem, the most fatal thing is that the French demand the return of the missing crew members. The question is, where are these missing crew members, those Pasha think about it with their hind heels. A group of pirates robbed the ships of countries that were not allowed to be robbed, and they couldn't ask for ransom anyway, so for the sake of secrecy, the easiest way was, of course, to send all the crew members to chat with Poseidon at once. So don't ask, those crew members must have been killed.

But you can't go and say to the French, Ah, French brothers, we robbed that ship of yours, and we killed all the people, see what to do. If that's the case, it's no wonder that the French fleet doesn't tear down your house.

So now, you can't admit it, and you can't even check it - if you check it, doesn't it mean that you may have done it? Now the only way to do this is to throw a pot on the head of the pirate nation next to it.

Of course, the other pirate nations will definitely not hesitate to throw the pot over, in short, no one will honestly let all the pot be held on their head. Besides, there is still an advantage to dumping each other, that is, it can tie up the Barbary countries. In this way, if the French really want to turn their faces, everyone will bear it together, at least better than themselves.

It's like a fish in the sea, when they encounter possible danger, they will always gather together to form a dense school of fish to fight the predators. And this strategy, in general, is very effective in the face of ordinary predators. However, if it is not an ordinary predator, but a trawler, the whole school of fish will be ......

France, which has already achieved initial industrialization, is such a trawler. But what's worse is that the green world has gradually fallen behind the times at this time. The so-called backwardness of the times does not only mean that they are lagging behind in their technological level, but more importantly, because of their scientific backwardness, their vision is also lagging behind, and the most typical manifestation of this backwardness is that they can't understand how many catties and taels they have, and they can't see the gap between themselves and the advanced level. Sometimes, even if you have shown him super powers, he will not understand. If you can't understand it, you naturally don't have to be afraid. If there is no fear, then the policy of intimidation will naturally be ineffective.

This is just like in "The Three-Body Problem", even if the earthlings have seen the omnipresent and omniscient Zhizi, they still think that with their 2,400 stellar-class warships, they can resist the love from the Three-Body Father. The backwardness in basic science makes them unable to even imagine how strong their opponents are, and they only feel that they should be about the same as themselves.

The Barbary countries are in much the same state. They felt that if everyone held together, although they could not defeat the French, as long as they dared to fight, they should be able to bring a lot of losses to the French, and then they should be able to get a more decent result.

Therefore, in the face of the demands of the French, several pirate countries basically started the mode of throwing the blame, and told the French that we did not do this matter, we have no habit of attacking French ships, and this must have been done by pirates from other places.

While insisting that it had nothing to do with them, several pirate nations also issued warnings to their subordinate pirate ships that were preparing to go to sea, ordering them not to attack French ships again.

As for the pirate ships that are already at sea and haven't had time to come back, we can only hope that they don't make any more troubles.

By this time, Polina had completed the historic task of lighting the Olympic torch, and then wandered around Greece for a while, playing in the locations of those heroic stories, buying some ancient Greek artifacts that I don't know if they were true or not, and then got on the boat again and left Greece.

The "Imperatora" stopped in Naples for a while, firstly, to let Polyna go ashore to relax, and secondly, to replenish a little bit of daily necessities.

With a group of bodyguards, Polina walked around Naples, buying some ancient Roman artifacts that I don't know if they were real or fake, as well as some local newspapers, planning to pass the time on the way.

However, Polina casually glanced at the newspaper, and suddenly saw a piece of news: "Barbary pirates are crazy to commit crimes, and the French navy has begun to escort merchant ships".

When Polina saw this, her eyes lit up. She turned her head and smiled at Beldon, who was standing aside, with a flickering smile in her eyes, "Beldon, if you can convince the captain to let him stop by to fight the Barbary pirates, I'll give you a little reward, how about it?" ”

"What the hell is the reward?" Beldon hurried.

"I haven't figured it out yet." Polina smiled, she leaned over, put her arm around Beldon's shoulder, put her mouth next to Beldon's earlobe and said, "But I said, we're such buddies, I'm sure I won't let you be busy in vain, will I?" ”

Beldon's ears were tickled by the breath blowing from Polina's mouth, and a soft part of Paulina seemed to rub against his arm unintentionally, which made him feel a little uneasy.

"Miss Bonaparte," said Belton, with all his mighty countenance, "I regard you as a brother, and you can't ......."