Chapter 18: Getting Rich Overnight
The dozen or so pirates who boarded the freighter were undoubtedly quite experienced in hijacking, and they controlled all the crew members of the freighter in just a few minutes through the continuous firing of warnings.
Dozens of crew members of the freighter were driven to the deck of the ship to squat, and the two pirates entered the wheelhouse, turning off the location sonar, radio, and the ship's positioning system to prevent the ship's position from being located by satellites.
The hijacking went smoothly without the intervention of an international escort group, and then under the protection of five speedboats, the freighter left its original course and slowly moved towards the Blue Shark Pirate base.
If the hijacking goes well, it means that the pirates will have money, so everyone is very excited along the way, and some even hum a little tune.
"Come to Jiang Lin! To become a qualified pirate, you have to learn to drive a speedboat, which is the most basic thing! ”
Kenny is the helmsman on the dinghy and is responsible for driving the speedboat, and when he sees Jiang Lin sitting on the boat with nothing to do, he beckons Jiang Lin to come over and learn to drive the speedboat.
Jiang Lin was born in the army special forces, and he really didn't understand how to drive a speedboat, but after living in the army for so many years, Jiang Lin always understood one truth - if he didn't study, he would be eliminated.
Indeed, the competition in the troops is much greater than imagined, and the level of equipment in the troops is changing with each passing day, so if you want not to be discharged, you must learn, and only by meeting the needs of the times can you go further and further.
The habit of learning was well retained by Jiang Lin, so Kenny asked Jiang Lin to learn to drive a speedboat, and Jiang Lin readily agreed.
Speedboat driving is very simple, Kenny only talked about it twice, Jiang Lin basically learned it, but the operation is still relatively unfamiliar, but it would be good to use it more.
Smoothly returning to the base, the members of the freighter were driven down and sent to the prison where Jiang Lin had stayed before.
Everything is going very well, and there is nothing to do with Jiang Lin and them in the future, and it is Duke and Brad who are responsible for communicating with the new home and Poe national government to ask for ransom.
After discussion, Duke and Brad decided to demand $10 million from the governments of Singapore and Poland, and the money must be transferred to the designated account of the Blue Shark Pirate Regiment within a week.
As soon as the news broke, it immediately caused an uproar in the international community, and of course, Singapore and Poe, as the countries concerned, have the right to make independent decisions.
After all, dozens of crew members were hijacked by Blue Shark, and if Blue Shark tore up the ticket, then the governments of Singapore and Pow would not be able to account to the people, but if the governments of Singapore and Po paid the ransom, it would undoubtedly encourage the arrogance of all pirate gangs and reduce the influence of Singapore and Poe in the world.
Negotiators from Singapore and Poe conducted secret negotiations with Bullard on the high seas of the Indian Ocean, and finally decided to pay a ransom of $5 million for the hostages and cargo taken by the Blue Shark.
In the following days, the funds were in place, and dozens of crew members and freighters were sent to the high seas of the Indian Ocean by the Blue Shark Pirate Regiment, and after the Blue Shark members completed their evacuation, the Singapore and Pose governments were notified that a perfect hijacking was successfully completed.
However, the news released by the governments of Xinjia and Po is that the navies of the Xinjia and Po governments had a fierce confrontation with the Blue Shark Pirate Group on the high seas of the Indian Ocean, and finally the Blue Shark Pirate Group was forced to unconditionally release the new crew members and materials that were hijacked, and the hijacking incident was successfully resolved.
As for the retaliatory actions of Singapore and Poe? That's simply impossible, after all, the Blue Shark Pirate Ship's means of transportation is a speedboat, the target is small, the speed of action is fast, and it is on an incomparably vast ocean, which is basically nowhere to be found, who would invest huge financial and material resources to retaliate against an organization that can't even be traced?
The Blue Shark members were excited to see that they would get their money, but Duke and Brad were not happy at this time.
The reason why Blue Shark was able to hijack the freighter this time was because of the news of the Tiger Pirate Regiment, which was more than three hundred nautical miles west of the Blue Shark pirate base.
Of course, the Tiger Pirate Group did not provide information for free, according to the negotiation between Duke and Tiger, this time the Blue Shark should pay one-tenth of the ransom to the Tiger Pirate Ship, the problem is here, the Blue Shark to the new home, the Poe national government asked for 10 million US dollars, but the Singapore and Poe national governments gave the ransom is 5 million, and the blue shark, which is short of funds, can't afford it at all, so he reluctantly agreed to the 5 million ransom.
Although Xinjia and Poe claimed that they did not give money, everyone is a peer, who doesn't know the Tao? So although Blue Shark has always emphasized that the ransom is only five million, the Tiger Pirates don't care so much, Blue Shark asks for 10 million dollars, and according to one-tenth of the calculation, Tiger should take 1 million dollars.
However, the blue shark that only got five million dollars had to pay three million dollars to Blake, an arms dealer in Indonesian waters, so the blue shark was only left with two million dollars in the end, and one million had to be given to the Tiger Pirates, and Duke and Brad were of course unwilling.
In fact, a few years ago, the Blue Shark Pirate Regiment and the Tiger Pirate Regiment were about the same size, but because the base of the Blue Shark was in the waters near Indonesia, and the base of the Tiger Pirate Regiment was located in the far sea, relatively speaking, the Tiger Pirate Regiment suffered much less blows, and until now, the Tiger Pirate Regiment still has a scale of nearly one hundred and fifty people.
Give a million to the Tiger Pirates? The flesh pain is unwilling to give, in the face of more than a hundred Tiger pirate members, the Blue Shark Pirate Group with less than 60 people has no chance of winning, what can the Blue Shark do?
Now the members of the Blue Shark Pirates are still immersed in a festive atmosphere, five million US dollars, pay off the debt, in addition to daily expenses, roughly calculated, each person can also share 20,000 US dollars, this is not open in March, open for three years, one vote is successful, the Blue Shark Pirates are facing the financial problem solved.
The happy pirates don't see Duke and Brad behind their hearts, and they don't realize that the crisis is coming.
And this hijacking of the freighter, it completely subverted Jiang Lin's perception of pirates, since joining the Blue Shark, he only saw the poverty of the Blue Shark, but he didn't expect that because of the success of one vote, the Blue Shark Pirate Group would collectively make a fortune, what if it robbed a few more ships? Isn't that going to be rich? It seems that staying in the blue shark is also a good choice, and a novel idea quietly breeds in Jiang Lin's heart......
At night, the 20,000 dollars made it less lonely, and all the pirate members fell asleep sweetly.
At seven o'clock in the morning, the sound of the horn of the emergency assembly broke the silence in Blue Shark Harbor again, and all the members quickly woke up, grabbed their weapons and rushed off the ship, only to see Duke and Brad standing on the beach with gloomy faces.
Seeing Duke waving at them, all the Blue Shark members were stunned, and they all felt a trace of unease, because every time Duke was so dignified, it meant that something was going to happen, something big.