Ibrahim Casati, nicknamed the "Red Sail Thief", is the famous Ottoman captain of the private ship, and to put it bluntly, the official pirate. Forty-four years old, a staunch and devout believer, devoted his life to the struggle against the Spaniards.

Five years earlier, near Mallad, he had single-handedly planned an attack on the Spanish crown prince, and it had almost succeeded.

Of course, the fortunate and distinguished lad was so drunk the day before that he did not stay on his flagship, but fell asleep on the supply ship, and thus narrowly escaped the doom of dying at the bottom of the sea after the flagship was sunk.

Last year, during an attack on the Spanish merchant fleet, this old boy was attacked by a convoy that was quietly following behind, and as a result, he was seriously injured and has been lying in Alexander's house to recuperate.

I became intrigued by the identity of this guy. Of course, I need to get to know him first and give myself a good reason to believe that he can do it with the nickname Red Sail Thief.

So, my people went to his house one night to conduct field research, and in order to get to know each other more clearly, we also invited him back to give a lecture.

Of course, he personally left a letter to his family, saying that he was going to do something earth-shattering, and let his family pray for him and see what he did!

In this world where men are inferior to women, the female relatives of the family naturally dare not say nothing about the man's great career, so they can only let him go out of the mountain again without curing his illness.

When Ibrahim Kasati, the red sail thief, saw me, he was very tough, saying that I was offending the dignity of their lord and that I would be punished by heaven and so on.

I politely talked to him about my thoughts, "I'm going to do a big deal!" ”

"Let the Spaniards hurt for two years!"

Ibrahim Kasatti couldn't agree more with my idea, finally changing his attitude towards me and showing his willingness to support my great action.

However, he also wondered, I have the ability to get him out unknowingly, and it shouldn't be difficult to complete this deal independently, but why should I look for him?

I smiled and said to him, "Great warrior, I have to borrow something from you to complete this deal!"

Ibrahim Casati patted his chest with pride: "In order to fight the cause of the Spaniards, as long as I have it, I will lend it to you!"

Then he asked me, "What are you going to borrow?" I didn't take anything with me when I came out! ”

I smiled and said, "No! You brought it! ”

Under Ibrahim Casati's inexplicable gaze, I said slowly: "What I want to borrow is your neck!"

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King Philip II of Spain was so happy that he never backed down on the wars with the Ottomans, France, and England, so the army expanded every year, and the resulting military spending naturally increased every year.

This made many Spanish high-level people feel dissatisfied, especially in the past two years, with the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, which has greatly affected Spain's gold and silver transportation in the New World, and exacerbated this dissatisfaction.

In the past two years, the Spanish royal family has repeatedly borrowed money to meet royal expenses and military spending. Since the beginning of this year, the Spanish royal family has borrowed money again, and we are currently looking at the last one, about 300,000 gold coins.

Coming to complete the handover of the loan was the Vice-Chancellor of Finance, Jagerka, who led a fleet of five warships and about 1,500 sailors, which was a force to be reckoned with in the Mediterranean, and it should be said that it was foolproof.

In mid-March, the vampires of Jagierka and Bank of Istanbul completed the loan agreement, and their warships sailed out of the Black Sea for Seville.

When he went out to sea, the wind was calm, and Jagerka also felt comfortable. But when we reached the north of Crete, something suddenly appeared on the sea ahead!

The two fleets exchanged fire in the narrow strait, and one of them was beaten badly by the other, and the crying father and mother fled towards the north. The one chasing after him seemed to be a pirate, with a mixed fleet of ships but a vicious appearance.

Jagerka frowned, these damn pirates! If it weren't for the fact that I didn't have time to compare with you now, I would have arrested you and gone back to ask for credit!

Thinking of this, Giagierka ordered to adjust the course and sail in a southeasterly direction, bypassing the eastern side of Crete, and returning to Seville, or Barcelona, or any Spanish port as fast as possible.

They tried their best to dodge the ships fleeing in front of them, not wanting to participate in this circle of right and wrong, but not only intentionally or unintentionally, the ships that escaped seemed to be thinking of their own direction!

Jagierka was a little angry, why was the commander of this fleet so ignorant? Why do you have to get together?

He immediately ordered: "Tell them that if they get any closer, we will open fire!"

The men immediately signaled to the small boats that rushed over, who knew if the small boats were too scared, and they fled crookedly, not to mention, some of the small boats actually started to catch fire because of the shelling!

And in a panic, they actually accelerated more and more in the direction of their own fleet!

Jagerka was a man who cherished his reputation, and when he saw the ships rushing towards him, he was unable to make up his mind to disperse them.

As a result, those little captains drove straight in and quickly rushed around the fleet!

"Coax"! Nearly eight or nine small boats were on fire at the same time! Without hesitation, he rushed headlong into the four warships in front and behind Jagerka! And the few sailors on the boat all chose to jump into the sea at the moment before the impact!

Four battleships without gold coins!

In order to facilitate the handling, all the gold coins were loaded on the second ship, followed by the flagship and the first ship, and the third and fourth ships were escorted behind.

As a result, under this collision, all the battleships except the second ship were hit! The violent explosion of the small boat caused several boats to flood violently! The deck was scorched by the flames that had been thrown up!

Fire and water were merciless, and several Spanish warships were immediately thrown into chaos! They desperately wanted to escape from the fire and hurry up to repair the ship, and they had already thrown out the clouds what Jagerkar called the order to "protect the transport ship at all costs"!

Especially when they saw that there seemed to be more small boats rushing up behind them, they began to scatter and flee, leaving the second ship with all the gold coins and fleeing for their lives.

In fact, this can't be completely blamed on Jagerka, he is a civil official, and he is not known for leading troops to fight, after encountering such a situation, if he is a military general with high prestige, I am afraid that he would have ordered someone to open fire and defend it a long time ago, and it would not be like this.

Or even though it has been hit hard, it can immediately organize a counterattack under the prestige, so as not to collapse like this. But civilian officials, how to say it, civilian officials have their own civilian role, but definitely not on the battlefield!

Jagerka shouted desperately, trying to get a few ships to protect the transport. But at this point, who listens to him? They all started to fight on their own!

The isolated No. 2 ship suddenly ran out of ideas, and their captain made a rather wrong decision at this time - to speed up and escape!

If the No. 2 ship took the initiative to move closer to other ships, then the other party would not immediately start grabbing it because of the large number of people here, but as soon as they ran like this, they immediately took the initiative to isolate themselves!

In terms of running fast, can their big ships be fast enough to cross the pirate's spinnaker? Before he could run two nautical miles, he was caught up by large and small pirate ships, and forcibly boarded the ship!

On the one hand, the momentum was like a rainbow and robbery, and on the other hand, they were frightened and anxious to flee for their lives, and within a moment, the three hundred Spanish navy on board were driven into the sea by countless pirates covered with black turbans, and the second ship completely fell into the hands of pirates!

Under the watchful gaze of Jagierka, the rampant pirates marched towards Alexander, carrying a shipload of gold coins.

Jagerka's lips trembled and he ordered, repair the ship on the spot, and pursue it with all his might! If he goes back like this, he has no other way but to apologize with death, it is better to take advantage of the pirates' urgency to share the spoils, and how much can be recovered.

They pursued all the way to Alexandria, but they did not think that the pirates seemed to have expected them to pursue, and outside Alexandria, they disguised themselves as merchant ships and once again inflicted heavy losses on the Spaniards with the same fireship tactics as they had been the first time!

The Spaniards were terrified, Giaggerka was mad - what kind of pirate was this!

But they were beaten twice and almost jumped into the water to escape, this time they really didn't dare to go up to provoke again, so they could only return to Spain with their tails between their legs, hoping to solve the matter through national power.

As for how the pirates divided and sold the spoils, Jagerka did not know, only that when he returned to Madrid, he was immediately dismissed from his post and left to be dismissed.

Naturally, the Spanish crown refused to swallow the bitter fruit, and Philip II ordered a thorough investigation and handed the matter over to the commander-in-chief of the armada, de Guzmán.

The old fox was also very shrewd, and he thought that it was a royal affair at this time, and suggested that the cabinet should raise the manpower to settle the matter.

Spanish Foreign Minister Ricardo is also an old slippery head, and while he is trying his best to investigate the matter, he elevates the matter to the level of a diplomatic accident, openly and secretly accusing the Ottoman Empire of being a prisoner and stealing himself.

Naturally, the Ottomans refused to admit this crime, and they also sent people to investigate this time thoroughly. As a result, the spearhead of both sides was pointed at the veteran pirate Ibrahim Kasati!

Both found out that this guy mysteriously disappeared before the robbery, but left a letter from home, saying that he was going to do something big.

After the pirates, they did sail the fleet back to Alexandria, the hometown of Ibrahim Casati.

All the ships involved in the robbery, including the poor No. 2, were sold in Alexandria.

The whereabouts of Ibrahim Kasati and his family are unknown, but in the cellar of his house, the two sides dug up nearly 10,000 brand-new Istanbul Bank gold coins!

In this way, the two sides began to argue with each other, and Spain believed that Ibrahim Casati was an Ottoman national and that Osmans were responsible. Ottoman, on the other hand, believed that this was a personal act and had nothing to do with the state!

As a result, both sides began to claim their rights through diplomatic channels, and there was a lot of arguing.

But this matter is doomed to be fruitless after all. One percent of the gold coins had been secretly shipped to Venice, and another percent had been sent to Alfred the Elder's estate in Nice, France.

The remaining nearly eighty percent were divided into many times and shipped to England and the new continent respectively.

The whole Mediterranean is talking - who the hell did this vote? Of course Ibrahim Kasati!