Three pirate ships and a merchant ship sailed recklessly in the sea, the waves were broken, and the seagulls flew in the sky.

On the deep blue sea, merchant ships coming and going are moving intensively, and merchant ships of different tonnages and colors are moving slowly, telling the gift of the sea to them.

"Slow down a little and the Portuguese won't be able to catch up anymore!" Standing on the deck in the wind, the masked pirate leader said casually.

"Yes, Boss!" The pirate on the side agreed very interestingly.

Looking at the harbor slowly protruding in front of him, Drake took off his mask and spread his long brown hair, revealing a pair of black and white eyes.

With slender eyebrows and a short beard on his chin, he has a very soft complexion, like a innocent and harmless boy next door, which makes people unconsciously feel good.

The young man's name is Francis. Drake is a famous pirate in the entire sea area in the past three years, and there are as many as three pirate ships under his command.

As Drake stared at the harbor ahead, his lips twitched, not knowing what he was muttering.

At this time, a man with a musket on his back suddenly walked beside him, with a scruffy beard, he stared at the gradually clear harbor like Drake, and sighed: "Francis, after this vote, do you have any plans for the future?" ”

"What else, keep going! I'm going to be England's biggest pirate! The king of pirates! ”

Drake looked at the undulating sea, a sudden burst of blood appeared on his face, opened his hands, and said excitedly.

"And you? My dear Captain, Your Excellency! Drake asked, looking at his captain.

"What about me! I'm ready to go home! With a hint of bitterness on his face, the captain said with a smile:

"You also know, I have a few sons in my hometown, a wife who keeps quarreling, and I came out with you to make money to support my family!"

The wrinkles on his face suddenly stretched out at this time, like a blooming chrysanthemum, unconsciously revealing some warmth.

"In the past three years, I have also saved some money, and I am ready to go home to buy dozens of acres of land, and then send my son to study, if there is an official in the future, it will be God blessed!"

Seeing his captain with an expectant expression and a look of longing, Drake persuaded with some sinister feelings:

"Barton, you can do it with me for a while! There aren't many people I trust, and you're one of them! ”

"No, you know, Drake, my wife is still waiting for me to go back! Moreover, pirates are still too dangerous! Captain Patton shook his head and refused.

"Do you just want to go back with just the money? Go back as a pirate and tell your son: 'Hey! I rely on the money I made to be a pirate to get you to study! Do you still have any dignity like this? What will your neighbors think of you? ”

Drake looked at his capable captain, and still persuaded him that an experienced captain was very important to pirates.

"Dignity? They are all pirates, how can they have dignity like nobles! ”

"How do you know that we won't be nobles?" Drake smiled at this time and said proudly.

"Look, what is this?" With that, Drake took out a piece of parchment written in English and handed it to Captain Patton.

Captain Patton's eyes froze, and he took the parchment and looked at it carefully:

"To all the people: All the citizens of the United Kingdom, who have the courage and perseverance to defy the odds, may come before His Majesty the King to receive a letter of appointment and go to a wild land not attached to any Christian nation, and to occupy and expel the heathens.

Whether it is an island or a town, the territory they occupy will be given a person from His Majesty the King, and a knighthood will be considered as appropriate!

If you fail to occupy it, but discover an unknown territory for our king, you will also receive a reward and a knighthood! ”

Captain Patton looked at the parchment, then at Drake, who looked expectantly, and asked in surprise:

"You want to go to the New World?"

"No, I want to find the unknown! The New World has been discovered by the Spaniards, and I don't have the heart to build a colony! The sea is my life! ”

Drake shook his head, opened a pair of black and white eyes, and said.

"Barton, the only way to gain the most is to find unknown and undiscovered lands for His Majesty! Sir? A baron, or a count, is possible! ”

"Baron or something, forget it! I'm so happy to get a jazz! There was a sudden look of anticipation in Barton's eyes, then dimmed again.

"And the unknown land, how can it be so easy to discover!"

"If you don't try, how do you know it's impossible?" Drake said with a smirk, then looked at the sea ahead.

And Barton looked at Drake with a confident face, and for some reason, he suddenly had some words from the young pirate leader.

At the beginning of 1564, in January, His Majesty issued only three privateer permits, and by June thirty.

In half a year, His Majesty the King issued nearly a hundred privateer licenses at once, that is, pirates with justified robbery. It has reached a hundred, and the total number of people has reached more than 10,000.

During this period, it was the Portuguese who were the first to be affected.

A large number of Oriental trading ships were looted by pirates, causing heavy losses to the Portuguese merchants.

What makes the Portuguese government unhappy is that after the gold ship in the Americas was robbed, the Portuguese government and royal family, who spent money lavishly, were anxious.

In half a year, the loss of the royal family alone reached 500,000 Durt, which made it unbearable for the Portuguese royal family.

"Enrique, what's the matter with the English?" Queen Mother Catherine, the grandmother of the current King Sebastian I of Portugal, frowned at this time and asked about the same ruling Cardinal Enrique.

"Dear Queen Mother, I don't know the specific situation. But I sent for the King of England, but he said that it was an act of piracy and had nothing to do with England! ”

Archbishop Enrique, the fifty-two-year-old regent and uncle of the current king, also frowned and said softly.

"It's just a mouthful of lies, without the protection of the English, those pirates would have been wiped out by the navy long ago, where is the time when they are rampant!"

The wrinkled queen mother was full of anger, and then looked at her brother-in-law, and said directly and loudly:

"This is a provocation against our Portugal and we must retaliate with a tooth for a tooth!"