The harvest of Colonel Wang Ding's operation was enormous.

In total, they captured more than 4,700 pirates and rescued more than 50 non-pirates...... The entire town was swept away.

Colonel Wang Ding unceremoniously gathered all the wood in the town and burned all the dead bodies with him!

The billowing black smoke can be seen dozens of miles away......

The merchant's goods were recovered, except for some that had been ruined.

Some of the stolen goods accumulated by the pirates counted as the basic cost of the operation.

It took them three batches and two months to transport the captives and merchandise to Liberty Island.

The pirates were placed on a separate island in the Liberty Islands, where they smashed limestone and struvite stones, and learned how to make coke and lime and cement, bricks, and pottery.

The guards who watched over them would pick out some of the good behavers from among them and then go to other islands to do some light work or learn some skills, such as growing crops and vegetables.

The development and construction of the Free Islands is comprehensive, so the labor required is also diverse.

In fact, their intangible gains may be even greater.

At that time, their crackdown on pirates had a great impact on the coastal cities of the European region!

Previously, the Barbary pirates continued to attack countries and merchant ships along the Mediterranean coast, and they could be said to dominate the eastern part of the Mediterranean.

They hated the whites of Europe, massacred, kidnapped Christians, and sold them to the Middle East as "white slaves", and once a pirate invaded the southern part of Italy, beheaded more than 5,000 inhabitants, and plundered the remaining 6,000 people.

The navies of various countries in Europe have fought back, but the pirates are scheming and good at guerrillas, and they land when the situation is not good, and the navies and armies of various countries are basically divided and do not form a joint force, so most of them have returned in vain.

This barbaric raiding has been going on for decades, with pirates gaining great wealth and white people in Europe suffering heavy losses.

Tens of thousands of European inhabitants were taken into slavery, a large number of coastal villages were abandoned, and trade in the eastern Mediterranean was severely hit.

The Federal Empire on Liberty Island did not want to cross paths with them...... Even people like Said were borrowed to buy slaves from them.

However, they plundered the ships of the Imperial merchants, and even dared to take the citizens of the Empire as hostages to blackmail!

This is a breakthrough in the bottom line of the Federal Imperial Army!

The Imperial Navy and Army overseas are always at the service of the citizens of the Empire......

On that occasion, although they only eliminated a large force of pirates, because the operation was clean and clean, and it was a net strike, a completely devastating strike, so the news spread quickly among the major ports on the Mediterranean coast!

Many maritime merchants cheered the action on Liberty Island, and of course they wanted the eastern Mediterranean to be safe and secure for them to trade and trade.

At that time, Colonel Wang Ding and the Governor of Xiao Er had a serious discussion, and they agreed that when the Imperial Navy was first established, it was a complete and absolute blow to pirates, and there was no room for negotiation at all...... It was a wise decision!

The existence of evil must not be tolerated, even if it seems to have nothing to do with one's own interests at first, and if you indulge in their existence, you will sooner or later hurt yourself.

They may have been a little short-sighted at first......

As a result, the Imperial Navy changed its low profile and turned the suppression of pirates in the east into a regular operation...... It is difficult to exterminate the pirates formed over the decades in a short period of time, and on the long Barbary coast, I really don't know how many pirates will secretly covet it.

However, they started by fighting the big pirates, and the more famous they were, the more they struck first!

In this way, the fame of the Imperial Navy grew, and the warships with the blue flag of the merchant character always made the pirates scatter.

Their characteristic schooners are far faster and easier to move than the cross-sailed galleys of the Mediterranean...... As long as they can spot the pirate ship, they will basically not be able to escape.

Of course, it is still difficult to distinguish between pirates and maritime merchants in this time and space, and even if two merchant ships of maritime merchants inadvertently meet, one of the stronger ones will rob the weaker one!

The warships of the Imperial Navy also have to intercept them and take their time to sift through them.

It all takes time and effort...... Therefore, the Imperial Navy has always been so busy in recent years!

In contrast, the Imperial Army is much more idle...... When the pirate ships saw their warships fleeing, it was only an imagination for them to gather and attack the Liberty Islands.

Therefore, Colonel Wang Ding had an idea, and he wanted to develop the Imperial Army into a navy...... They don't need five-masted warships, and they don't need specialized naval weapons...... Judging from their current army equipment, it is enough to kill the navy of any country in the European region in seconds!

Pirates, that's the meat in the bowl and the vegetables in the pot!

A three-masted seagoing ship is enough...... The newly established shipyard on Liberty Island can build a three-masted merchant ship that can be used as an armed merchant ship!

However, Liberty Island could not exist without the Imperial Army...... Therefore, Colonel Wang Ding hit the idea on the Scottish laborers sent by Li Ao.

Unlike the slaves purchased by Liberty Island, they were far more enthusiastic about their work than slaves.

They also differed from the hired English craftsmen in that they had little expertise in the various trades.

They were even more different from those pirate captives...... Character and loyalty are more reassuring.

The Governor of the Second Junior said at the time: "...... It's almost starting from scratch, and there's no better candidate? ”

Colonel Wang Ding smiled and said, "For the Imperial Navy, loyalty and obedience to orders are better than any conditions...... Give me three months and I'll turn them into qualified sea patrol auxiliaries! ”

The two of them have already decided that as long as it is the line from Liberty Island to the coastal ports in the European region, they will carry out sea patrols, and they must make several important sea routes into commercial golden sea routes that are 100% free of pirates!

The Governor of the Second Junior agreed to Colonel Wang Ding's request and left him to select qualified Scottish youths.

There should be no shortage of such labor in the future, and the Kingdom of Scotland should be able to provide it steadily, because they really have no other goods to come up with.

William Wallace's service in the Imperial Army had given him an insight into how the Empire used the labor of Korea and Japan, and he must have imitated such a deal.

In addition, the commercial district of Liberty Island in the London area slowly began to play its commercial role as construction progressed.

The streets are straight and clean, making it easy to transport goods, and the street lamps erected on both sides keep it bright at night.

The coal produced in the Kingdom of England is of excellent quality, and the lighting system was designed without the use of kerosene gas lamps, but with gas.

That's a lot of money...... That commercial area can be lit up all night long.

The technicians who built the business district also ordered iron pipes from blacksmiths in the London area to transport the gas, and lead pipes were used only in critical places, which in turn reduced costs.

The blacksmiths of the Kingdom of England were fairly good at crafting airtight iron pipes.

Merchants on Liberty Island use Liberty Island as a storage place and the business district of the London area as their own...... In this time and space, after all, it is a very famous commercial city in the whole of Europe.