Chapter 135: Privateers

Madara walked over to the only remaining large rock and with a gesture, the Yama knife stuck next to the rock fell into his hand. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"That's it?"

The cat fairy squatted on the big rock, her eyes full of regret.

She hadn't seen it yet, and the battle was over.

"Ahh

Madara re-hung the Yama knife on his waist, "That guy has reached the limit, and if he continues to fight, he will have to die!" ”

"The so-called Seven Martial Seas are not very good!" Yan Luodao said with a smile: "In the water, the fishman is originally the home field, and it can exert two hundred percent of its strength!" We didn't even use one percent of our strength, and we gave up a pair of hands! Who would have thought that even if it was like this, he would lose so quickly! ”

Madara looked at the direction where Jinping disappeared in the distance, and said, "It's not bad!" Our strength has already surpassed this world too much, no matter how much we suppress the strength level, the basic attributes will not change! ”

"What are the Seven Martial Seas?"

Mao Xiaoxian was not interested in the strength of Madara and Yama Dao, but was a little curious about the Seven Martial Seas that Yama Dao said.

"This one! It's a long story! We talk as we go. ”

Madara heard Cat Fairy's question, retracted his gaze, and reached out to pick up Cat Fairy on the big rock.

"Huh? Where are you going? ”

Cat Fairy jumped onto Madara's shoulder and looked at him in surprise.

Boomer, who had reoccupied Madara's arm on the side, also looked curious.

"Look at the excitement!"

Madara walked outside the Sea Forest.

Not long after the group left, the patrol soldiers on Fish-Man Island finally arrived at the Sea Forest.

"It's ...... Sea Forest? ”

A seahorse merfolk soldier stared blankly at the almost flattened sea forest around him, unable to believe his eyes.

"What just happened?"

Another Seahorse Merfolk soldier looked terrified.

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Madara and his party walked in the direction of the port of Fish-Man Island, and on the way he began to tell Cat Xiaoxian about the history of the formation of the Seven Martial Seas under the king.

"Historically, from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, the great powers of Europe used all means at their disposal in order to compete for supremacy at sea, including privateering by using pirates to attack the ships of other countries. Pirate ships carrying out such missions are generally referred to as 'privateers' and have 'privateering permits' issued by the government and can attack or plunder all ships of other countries at any time.

Of course, most of the privateers are mainly attacking merchant ships, after all, other ships have little oil and water to fish, and some powerful privateers can even directly attack warships. If necessary, privateers were also requisitioned as warships to participate in combat. Privateers are sometimes referred to as armed civilian vessels, meaning that they are authorized by the state to own armed civilian vessels. In fact, the government temporarily co-opted the pirates, and then let the pirates be used as cannon fodder, and achieved the ultimate goal of depleting and destroying the enemy's strength by feeding the war with war.

The British at that time believed that the use of such privateers to trouble the enemy, attack the enemy, and destroy the enemy's maritime trade lines was the most effective and cheapest way. In fact, the rise of Britain did have a private jet to blame. Many people believe that Britain started with a group of pirates, and it can even be said that the whole of Britain is a large group of pirates, and Queen Elizabeth I is the largest pirate leader.

As a result of the huge gains from privateers, more and more countries are beginning to follow suit, relying on privateer licenses to strengthen their naval forces. Without spending a lot of money, the country can have an extra sea force that can attack the enemy's merchant ships out of thin air, and build up its own maritime armed forces without much effort, and at the same time train a large number of excellent sailors and officers. So at that time, privateers were generally considered to be part of the country's maritime armed forces.

Governments all declare their opposition to pirates on the surface, but behind the scenes, they recruit pirates for their own use. For quite a long time, pirates were a kind of addition to the country's naval power. For example, a privateer captain who was hailed as a hero in England was often the number one pirate wanted by Spain.

The captains and crew of privateers include pirates, but they are not limited to pirates. Privateer permits often state who are enemies, who are allies, and how to distribute the looted property. Therefore, the goods obtained by privateers attacking enemy ships are usually auctioned at designated places. Its income is owned by the captain, crew and authorizing State in a proportionate. At that time, many captains and crew members who were not originally pirates also accepted privateer licenses and became members of the privateer group because of their interests.

Although the State supports such predatory piracy, the ostensible justification for privateering authorization is not to encourage robbery, but to seek justice, for example, when a merchant's goods are robbed by another country's ships and he has no way to obtain compensation through legal or diplomatic means, in order to recover his losses, the government issues him a permit to be armed, allowing him to go to sea to obtain goods from other countries' merchant ships. This kind of correspondence from the government or the Chamber of Commerce is still used internationally.

Nature's robbership is the biggest root cause of the birth of privateers! ”

Madara finished telling the brief history of the privateer, and when he saw the blank expression of the cat fairy, he smiled: "I didn't understand!" ”

"What a mess!"

The cat fairy tilted her little head, confused.

She asked what was the Seven Martial Seas, but Madara told a bunch of what a privateer was.

"Madara-sama means that the privateer is the Seven Martial Seas!"

Boomer listened with relish, and said his understanding, then looked back at Madara, "Am I right?" Madara-sama! ”

"The captain of the privateer is the prototype of the Seven Martial Seas of His Majesty, and the two basically mean the same thing." Madara nodded in agreement with Boomer's statement.

"What! It's a bunch of pirates! The cat fairy suddenly realized.

"Legal pirates!" Madara laughed.

"How simple it is for you to say that it is a bunch of pirates! I can't say anything long-winded! Cat Xiaoxian heard Madara admit that he was right, and glared at him angrily.

Just when Mao Xiaoxian thought that the story about the Seven Martial Seas of His Majesty was over, Yama Dao, who had not spoken all this time, suddenly spoke.

"Xiaoxian, the privateer mentioned in the body is an explanation of the Seven Martial Seas, not the only one, I think the historical story he said is not the real King Seven Martial Seas, the real King Seven Martial Seas is actually a very sad story! The story contains dreams, hopes, helplessness, and sadness. ”

"What's the story?"

Mao Xiaoxian looked at Yama Dao in surprise.

Boomer was also a little surprised, Madara had already said very clearly about the Seven Martial Seas, and she couldn't guess what kind of explanation the Seven Martial Seas would have.

"According to legend, the first batch of kings and seven martial seas came from the Mongolian navy, and there were seven people in the Mongolian navy, six of whom couldn't swim, three boats, two in the museum, and the most important thing was that they didn't have the sea!" Yama Dao said seriously and seriously.

"Are you stupid! What kind of navy is no sea? "The cat fairy wittily discovered the loophole in the words of the Yama Dao.

"Not necessarily!" Yan Luodao coughed lightly, "They can swim in their dreams, referred to as sleepwalking!" ”

"This is good! Not only the origin of the Seven Martial Seas, but also the origin of sleepwalking! Madara laughed.

"Madara-sama has a point!" What Madara said, Boomer basically agreed.

"There's a reason for you big-headed ghost!"

Mao Xiaoxian finally reacted, and it was obvious that Yan Luo Dao was talking nonsense again.

"The story doesn't end there!" Yan Luodao continued: "As I just said, this story contains dreams, hopes, helplessness, and sadness. ”

"Their greatest hope and only dream is to one day earn enough money and then go to see the real sea!"

Yan Luodao said and sighed, "It's really inspirational! ”

"Hah!"

Mao Xiaoxian laughed dryly, and was really powerless to complain.

"Little Immortal, do you feel that the Mongolian Seven Martial Seas are very weak!" Madara laughed.

"It's too weak!"

"In fact, the real combat effectiveness of the Mongolian Seven Martial Seas is reflected in the aspect of deterrence!"

"Deterrence?" Cat Xiaoxian looked at Madara in surprise, "What do you mean?" ”

When the battle began, the Mongol Seven Warrior Seas would exchange their pity for the enemy's sympathy, and in the face of the enemy's warships and carriers, they would say, "Are you willing to fight?" Do you want to do it? We only have this one boat, and we are about to enter the museum, and there are seven people on board, and six of them can't swim! ”

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