Mumbai is an archipelago of 7 small islands and hence also known as the Seven Islands of Mumbai.

On December 23, 1534, the Portuguese acquired the islands from Gujarat Sultan Bahadur 61, on which they built ports and settlements for hundreds of years.

However, until 1651, the permanent population here was less than 10,000, and the floating population was only 5,000.

Most of these migrants are sailors from all over the world, or adventurers, and of course, merchants from all over the world.

They all came for the cotton, muslin, pepper, sugar, leather, indigo.

In 1625, 221,500 pieces of cotton cloth were shipped from here to Europe, and by the mid-17th century, the trade had skyrocketed, as cotton fabrics were not only lighter than woollen fabrics, but also cheaper.

At one time, India controlled 1/4 of the world's textile trade.

Indian cotton cloth is a sought-after commodity in this time and space.

Piracy is the second oldest profession in the sea, after fisherman, and this production and plunder have always developed one after another.

With the development of trade in the northern Indian Ocean, pirates from all over the world also came here.

Add to that the rampant Arab and Persian pirates, as well as the Indian pirates, and the seas have always been chaotic.

In this situation, at the beginning of the seventeenth century, the Portuguese East India Company had cracked down hard, although it had a certain effect, but the pirates could not be swept away, but only reached a balanced relationship between wolves and sheep.

The members of the pirates were as motley as the sailors on a merchant ship: Europeans, blacks, Persians, Arabs, people from the Indian continent, people from Southeast Asia, and even people from the Ming continent.

After the rise of the Dutch peddlers, they also developed their presence on the west coast of mainland India, squeezing the Portuguese for a period of time.

The piracy grew again.

The Portuguese could only seek self-protection at this time, but the Dutch tried every possible way to destroy the power of the Portuguese, and even did not hesitate to collude with pirates to eat Portuguese merchant ships on the sea.

If it weren't for the arrival of the Han and Tang groups, the Portuguese would have been shrinking, and even on June 23, 1661, when Princess Catherine of Portugal married King Charles II of England, she gave the islands of Bombay to England as a dowry.

There is a layer of meaning in this to let the British and Dutch forces fight.

Later, in September 1668, the islands were subleased to the British East India Company for £10 a year.

The British East India Company built a deep-water port on the east coast of the island, which served as their first port of call on the South Asian subcontinent until they later swallowed India.

This was changed by the arrival of the Han and Tang cliques, who indirectly eliminated the Dutch power on the west coast of India.

The Portuguese East India Company suddenly felt better, and they increased their efforts to deal with the pirates, and for a time they had some results.

This space-time pirate is recognized by everyone as a criminal, and if he is caught, he will definitely be hanged on the dock.

But it is already an open secret that European governments and large corporations have privately raised some pirate gangs that obey their own arrangements, and this is already an open secret, and it belongs to the category of you know.

The taverns at the Bombay Pier were full of sailors, almost everyone was smoking pipes, and the house was full of smoke.

The smell of smoke, alcohol, curry, and sweat from some sailors mixed together and it was quite unpleasant.

Robben 61 Pig and his brother Russ 61 Pig were listening to a big guy bragging.

That guy's name was Charles, and he had been to the city of Geranza in Taiwan, and he had seen a lot of amazing things.

Huge iron boats, huge lampposts, a big road as flat as a table, and a big iron cart that can walk on its own.

He took out a beautiful glass bottle, held it high, and said, "The wine in this tavern is ten times better than the wine in this tavern, is there anything you want to taste?!" ”

Russ 61 Pig had just seen him drink from the mouth of the bottle a few times, and he had seen him laughing with his mouth open, and his mouth was a mouthful of rotten teeth, and he seemed to be able to smell the foul smell of the guy's mouth.

Someone really took a black pottery cup to taste it, Charles poured a little stingy, the man drank it in one gulp, and licked his blackened lips with his tongue, and said, "Charles, I believe you a little, this is good wine, can you give me some more?" ”

Charles smirked: "No, amorous Matthew, you must know that old Olson has a sale, and if he knew that I was selling less wine, he would have killed me." ”

Old Olson, the owner of the tavern, was now standing behind the bar, wearing a big dirty apron, and was wiping the black clay cup with a rag of illegible color, and when he had finished polishing one, he put it on the bar.

The bar was full of flies, and old Olson sometimes got annoyed, so he slapped the countertop with the rag.

The amorous Matthew shouted and said, "Olson, do you have that kind of wine from Charles?!" ”

Old Olson looked up, and Russ 61 Pig saw it, and it was a face that had been battered by vicissitudes.

Old Mr. Olson shouted, "Four pesos for a cup!" ”

Half a rial, that's too expensive! Everyone sighed.

The amorous Matthew shrugged his shoulders and said to the crowd, "Do you know why old Olson has such a beautiful daughter? ”

Charles asked nonchalantly, "Why?" ”

"Because God knows he loves money."

Charles, like everyone else, is confused, what does liking money have to do with having a beautiful daughter?

The amorous Matthew ignored them, and he shouted, "If you can get your precious daughter to bring me a drink, I'll buy one!" ”

As if he hadn't heard him, Old Olson spat on the ground and continued to wipe his glass.

"Okay, two glasses, I'll give you a drink!"

Old Olson immediately shouted at the back room with the curtain hanging: "Lucia, go and send a glass of wine to the amorous Matthew!" ”

"Okay, later!"

There was a nice sound of promise coming from the back room.

The amorous Matthew pulled out a silver rial, kissed it, and said a proverb in Portuguese: "Quemdárecebe!" (Giving will be rewarded)! ”

Then he flicked his thumb, and the silver coin flew some distance in the air and landed exactly into the hands of old Olson, who gave a rare smile.

Everyone watched with admiration at the beautiful arc of the silver coin in the air.

Charles felt that he had been left out, he touched his sleeve for a long time, and with a "snap" he slapped something on the oily table, and said, "This is their silver coin, look how beautiful it is!" ”

The amorous Matthew immediately picked it up and looked at it, it was really beautiful.

"You blow it, it still buzzes, it's amazing!"

"How do you blow it?"

"I'll do it, you won't, haha."

The amorous Matthew shook his head boredly, and threw it to Charles again, saying, "It's less than a rial—but its beauty makes it worth it." ”

Charles took the coin upright, blew it hard, and then put it in the ear of the amorous Matthew, who grinned wide, showed more rotten teeth, smiled, and said, "Hear that?" ”

Russ 61 Pig also heard a buzz.

At this time, Charles said proudly: "They have five silver coins like this in exchange for one of their gold coins, and the gold coins you have never seen are more beautiful." ”

The amorous Matthew said thoughtfully, "Do you mean that they have a one-to-five exchange of gold and silver?" ”

Charles was even more proud, he wiped the shitch from the corner of his eye, and said, "Haha, Mr. Nelson also wanted to exchange more of their gold at first, and it would be three times the benefit when he returned to Europe, one to fifteen, but he didn't do it, because if he had bought their products with this gold and brought them back to Europe, it would have been thirty times the profit, or more—didn't you hear that he had earned fifteen times the profit from the earth kings not long ago?" Of course, I also made a small amount of money, but unfortunately, sailors could not always carry more cargo. ”

The amorous Matthew sighed and said another Portuguese proverb: "N?oponhao carronafrentedoboi!" (Don't put the cart before the horse). Mr. Nelson was a clever big businessman. ”

Russ 61 Pig didn't care what the men were saying, he had been quietly paying attention to the dirty curtain in the back room.

There, there is the most beautiful woman in the world, his sister Lucia.

At this time, the curtain moved, and Sister Lucia really came out.

She was of mixed Portuguese and Indian descent, with brown skin and brown hair, and two strange hair ornaments tied to her hair, which I heard were also from the city of Gelanza, Taiwan, and a beautiful rose was inserted.

No, that crimson rose wasn't as pretty as she was - her eyes could speak.

Old Olson took a bottle of wine and poured a glass for the amorous Matthew, who had wanted to pour himself a glass, after all, he had invited it, but he put the bottle back again.

Sister Lucia lightly picked up the glass and walked over to the amorous Matthew.

She had a charming smile, the roses suddenly faded, and she walked as if she were dancing flamenco—

There was a whistle throughout the tavern, but Sister Lucia was unmoved, and that charming smile had already charmed everyone.

She walked briskly over to Matthew and put the wine on the table.

Russ 61 Pig immediately smelled another scent that he had never smelled before.

The amorous Matthew tried to slap her ass when she turned around, but Sister Lucia deftly dodged it, and the long purple dress took on a beautiful shape.

Sister Lucia slapped the amorous Matthew in the face, as if it had scratched his eye.

The amorous Matthew immediately covered his eyes and shouted, "It's over, God, I'm blind!" Oamorécego！ (Love can blind people)"

Sister Lucia smiled, and the whole tavern seemed to light up!

The men in the tavern laughed insolently.

Brother Robben 61 Pig said: "The fight is getting lighter and lighter! ”

Everyone laughed again.

At this time, Russ 61 Pig suddenly felt a chill, he looked back, a man in a short cloak, a wide-brimmed hat, and a two-handed sword at his waist walked in, he had a beautiful two beards, but Russ 61 Pig felt that he looked like a grim reaper.

He glanced at the tavern and shouted, "There is a good messenger, a sailor, a rial a day to sea, and if you want to go, you will go to Criss Bay tomorrow morning, where you will see recruits!" ”

With that, he pinched the brim of his wide-brimmed hat reservedly, turned and went out.

The tavern fell silent.

This is a good salary, and a normal sailor has only six to eight riyals a month.

But everybody knows what that salary means, Chris Bay, that's the land of Achisha 61 Nuren Nahar.

Everyone here knows that she is a Persian, the daughter of a sea thief.

She was a natural pirate, and since she was a child, she followed her father to "learn the honor of pirates", learning swordsmanship, and swordsmanship.

Later, her father encountered fierce resistance from his opponent during a robbery, and he was unfortunately seriously injured, and finally died in her arms after hearing that he had talked to her a lot.

After that, a power struggle broke out in her pirate gang.

Azhisha 61 Nuren Nahar fought against several opponents, and finally subdued the thieves one by one and inherited his father's business.

At the same time, she lost her right eye because she was wounded in the face during that fight, and her swordsmanship and magnanimity are said to have forgiven the reckless thieves she had subdued.

But since that fight, no one has seen her, and I have heard that she can't bear to see discarded animals, and always raises them herself, which may be her kind side.

Legend has it that she was as beautiful as the daughter of old Olson, but that was just a rumor and no one could see it.

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There is a phenomenon that has always troubled me, why do people who watch piracy prefer to talk about national righteousness and blame others?