Chapter 220: The Lord Arrives
Listening to Lord Beckett's words, Ian Mather nodded and gestured to the guard standing at the door.
I heard a rattling of chains outside the door, and four people with shackles were pushed in.
"Lord Beckett, prisoners are here!"
Beckett looked at the four people in front of him, smiled, and said in a gorgeous tone: "Remove the shackles." ”
"Cutler Beckett! You've always been a bastard! Who gave you the right to detain a prince of the kingdom, a nobleman of England! ”
Governor Swan struggled and shouted at Lord Beckett with anger on his face.
"Actually, it's Lord Beckett now!" Beckett stroked the ring on his finger and said proudly.
Noticing the ring on Lord Beckett's finger that symbolized his noble status, Governor Swan paused for a moment, and then continued: "Whether you are Lord or not, although Port Royal no longer exists, we are still under the jurisdiction of Her Majesty's Governor in Port Royal!" And none of us have committed a crime, so you have no reason and no right to arrest us! ”
"Actually, I have!" Lord Beckett turned to look at Ian Mather, "Mr. Mather? ”
Ian Mather opened a folder and pulled out a stack of papers, and Lord Beckett picked through them, took two of them, and said, "I have the authority to arrest Elizabeth Swan and William Turner on ...... charges The conspiracy to release a death row prisoner who has violated the laws of the Empire, and the important criminal wanted by the Empire, the 'Thunder Pirate' Wang Hao, has a very close past! ”
He took another one out of it, looked at it, and continued: "Mr. James Rowington, Commodore and Commander of the Navy in Port Royal, has been in poor command and has caused a series of losses to the Port Royal Navy, and Port Royal has been harassed by pirates as a result. In addition, as an accomplice in the release of the pirates, you will be removed from all positions and arrested. ”
Picking up the last one, Lord Beckett said with a hypocritical smile on his face and in a light tone: "As for you, Mr. Weatherby Swan, the Governor of Port Royal, who has governed Port Royal for many years but still has no effect, and piracy in the Caribbean is still rampant. You can be thankful that Port Royal has become a base camp for pirates. If it was really a punishment from the gods, Her Majesty lost a precious city. Then you, Mr. Weatherby Swan, must be the culprit! You were likewise removed from all positions and arrested. ”
"Humph......!"
After listening to Beckett's words, Governor Swan sneered and said disdainfully: "These are simply charges made up by yourself!" So that's why you assassinated the two captains I hired one after another and imprisoned the four of us? Just to keep me from returning to London, from asking Her Majesty to plead guilty in person! ”
"Anyway, we met again today. Ah, and the rest of them, we're just getting to know each other today. ”
Lord Beckett's ruse was punctured, but his face did not change at all.
He turned his head to look at his loyal dogs, "Mather, take them down and divide them apart." If there is a wise man among them, I think that wise man will have something to explain to me. ”
"Yes!" Ian Mather instructed the soldiers to put the four men back in shackles, and pushed and shoved them out of the room.
After a while, Ian Mather returned, still holding a small wooden box in his hand.
Placing the box on the table, Ian Mather asked, "With all due respect, Your Excellency, if you want to get the Thunder Pirates' secrets, then that William Turner would be a good messenger. Why did you choose to keep them in prison? ”
Lord Beckett withdrew his gaze from staring at the world map, placed it on the wooden box that Ian Mather had brought back, and said, "No, I don't need any of them to be messengers, I naturally have someone who can help me contact the Thunder Pirates." But then again, Mr. Mather, what is it? ”
"It's a gadget that the soldiers found while searching Elizabeth Swan's personal belongings, and I personally think it's interesting."
Ian Mather said, opening the lid of the box, revealing a crystal clear skull inside.
"Well, it's a very interesting gadget."
Lord Beckett took out the crystal skull, held it in his hand, and looked at it carefully.
After a long time, Beckett withdrew his gaze and put the crystal skull back into the wooden box, a dangerous smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "It seems that Miss Swan has really given me a nice gift......
At the same time, Lord Beckett's blockade of Havana, coupled with the extreme backwardness of the means of transmitting information, caused Wang Hao to still not receive any news.
He could only sense that something was wrong lately, but he didn't know what was wrong.
Therefore, Wang Hao decided that he would not go to sea for a period of time recently, so he would stay in Nassau honestly, so as not to find him when he was in need.
After paying each sailor an additional settling-in fee, Wang Hao rushed into the room and used the materials he had obtained some time ago to study the refining of magic weapons.
Sure enough, it didn't take long for an expected person to appear, Benjamin Hornigold.
In the tavern of gunpowder and the sea, Benjamin was the only one in the tavern, and he was so drunk that even his breath was full of the smell of alcohol. He shouted at Wang Hao: "Wang, what do you think is a pirate?" ”
"A bunch of filthy reptiles......"
"That's right, a bunch of filthy reptiles!" Benjamin, with a frustrated face, echoed loudly: "A bunch of vampires, parasites, a bunch of cowardly, cowardly, incompetent losers, born losers......"
"Benjamin, you're drunk......" Wang Hao said comfortingly.
"No, I know exactly what I'm doing!"
Benjamin took another sip and said, "Do you feel that the world is getting smaller?" It took Columbus 72 days to cross the Atlantic from Europe to the Caribbean, and then people finally found a suitable route, but it would take more than three months to reach safely! ”
"But now? It now takes less than two months to cross the Atlantic, and you can carry more cargo than ever before! ”
"The Black Pearl, the fastest ship at sea. Hmph, I'm afraid that in a few years, this title will be replaced by a new type of warship! ”
Babbling some words that may not even be able to understand himself, Benjamin finally took out a letter from his arms and told Wang Hao: "The boat is parked at the dock and waiting, and someone will contact you when you go." ”