Although there were no more dozens of guns pointed at him, there were still two muskets firmly against Wang Hao's waist. Walking a little slower than two steps, Wang Hao could feel the sharpness of the bayonet mounted on the gun.

was escorted by the navy to the governor's palace with the highest level of vigilance, such a high-level treatment, for Wang Hao, he was really a little flattered.

However, when Wang Hao met the governor, he understood why the newly appointed governor of Cuba, the director of the British East India Company, was so wary of himself.

All this should have been the idea of this guy in the blue naval officer's uniform and tricorne.

"Haha, I knew it was you, James Norrington!" Wang Hao looked at Brigadier General Norrington, who was standing behind Lord Beckett's side, and let out a mocking laugh, "I knew that no one in this world would be wary of me to this extent except you!"

"Thunder Pirate, Wang Hao?" Cutler Beckett looked at Wang Hao, shook his head and said, "I must say that you are really not like the rumored fierce and cruel person." ”

Then he turned his head and said to the guard next to him, "Open the shackles." ”

"But, ......my lord," James Norrington heard this, and immediately tried to stop Lord Beckett, but Lord Lord waved his hand and stopped him.

"It's okay, I'm sure he won't hurt me."

The guards stepped forward and untied the shackles that bound Wang Hao's hands and feet, and Wang Hao moved his wrist and sat down on the opposite side of Lord Beckett's desk.

"Look, this is really a bold guy......" Wang Hao didn't have a sitting statue, the whole person hung on the back of the chair, and deliberately put his eyes on Brigadier General Norrington, and said sarcastically: "See, this is the gap between you and the real strong." So the form now is, I can sit here, and you can only stand next to you. ”

"You ......"

"Okay, Captain Wang, I didn't invite you to come and talk to my soldiers."

After a cold observation, Lord Beckett interrupted the exchange between the two, "This time I invited Captain Wang here to discuss something important with Captain Wang......

"Wow! ~This is the world map! Before Lord Beckett could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Wang Hao again.

Wang Hao stood up, walked to the wall, looked at the whole wall, a map of the world without the Australian continent and the Antarctic continent, and said: "I have to say, your drawings are quite detailed, but there is still a slight lack of completeness and details." ”

"That's the main reason I invited you here." Lord Beckett walked over with two glasses of wine in his hand, "The world is getting smaller and smaller, and there are fewer and fewer blanks on the borders of the map. Pirates, this profession will one day die out naturally, not because of the encirclement of the navy, nor because of the punishment of the gods. If you don't find your place in this new world, you're dead. Captain Wang, don't you think about your future? ”

"So, that's what you called me for? Just to hear you say something alarmist? ”

How could Wang Hao not understand the general trend of history, but if it was really like what Lord Beckett said, it would take at least tens or hundreds of years, Wang Hao knew that he might not be able to wait, so he didn't take these words to heart at all.

"The East India Company needs your services." Lord Beckett handed the wine in his hand to Wang Hao, "Of course, it is paid. You can also think of this as an exchange of benefits, where we take what we need. ”

took the wine glass, Wang Hao shook it lightly, afraid that it was poisonous, so he didn't dare to drink it, and put it back on the table. He asked, "Okay, since it's an exchange of interests, then you might as well state your conditions, and I'll see if I can agree." ”

"It's simple, you just have to answer one question from me, and in return, you'll get this."

Lord Beckett patted the box engraved with the logo of the British East India Company on the table, took out a leather-bound document from it, and shook it in front of Wang Hao's eyes. This is something that Wang Hao is not familiar with, but he has seen many times from Benjamin.

"Privateer License, you and your subordinates, for past crimes will be fully pardoned, and you will become a privateer captain hired by the British. Moreover...... The poor Swann family would also be pardoned by the magistrate and regained their freedom. ”

This was a bit unexpected by Wang Hao. In Wang Hao's impression, what can deserve Lord Beckett's attention on his body should only be David Jones's heart, plus a warship in the sky. But now Beckett doesn't care about these at all, but only wants to ask Wang Hao a question.

Stunned, Wang Hao opened his mouth and asked, "You have paid so much, just for one problem?" ”

Beckett put the privateering permit back in the wooden box, stared at Wang Hao with dead eyes, and said, "Yes, just ask one question." You answered this question, and it won't affect you in any way......"

Wang Hao suddenly noticed that the atmosphere around him was a little stagnant.

In his perception, Lord Beckett's blood flow rate at this time increased significantly, indicating that his heart was a little excited. James Norrington, standing behind him, with his hands behind his back, was probably trying to draw his weapon. And several guards next to him also clenched the muskets in their hands at the same time, always ready for an order from the commander, and shot Wang Hao to death.

"I need to know your question before I can tell you if I can answer it." What can make an old fox like Beckett excited, Wang Hao really doesn't know what it is.

Lord Beckett stared at Wang Hao, his eyes as if he wanted to swallow Wang Hao whole, "What I want to ask is, how did you make sure that your crew would not have scurvy during the ocean voyage?" Don't tell me the legendary stories, I want real and valid answers! ”

If that's the case, then all this can be explained.

Wang Hao nodded secretly in his heart.

Scurvy has always been a sharp sword hanging over the heads of all sea boys, and it will fall and take their lives at any time.

In 1519, the Portuguese navigator Magellan led an ocean-going fleet from Europe to the Pacific Ocean. Of the more than 200 people who set off at the eventual departure, only 35 survived, and more than 80% of the flotilla members died of scurvy.

In today's ocean-going voyages, scurvy is the number one killer of seafarers, and more than 60% of all crew deaths can be attributed to it.

The casualties actually caused by the actual participation in the battle were only about 10 percent.

Beginning with Europe's first seafaring expeditions in the early 15th century, it took Europe's maritime powers almost four hundred years to find an easy cure for this terrible disease.

In the early 18th century, Lord Beckett sailed more than 100 warships from England to the Caribbean, and although he was ready to do everything he could, many of them still fell ill with scurvy and were forced to stay in the center of the Atlantic forever.

However, it is worth mentioning that Zheng He's seven voyages to the West, which were 100 years earlier than the so-called "European navigators" such as Columbus and Magellan, never had a single scurvy.

Wang Hao came to this world, and after getting his own ship and recruiting his own crew, he paid special attention to this issue.

Wang Hao, who came from later generations, of course knew the causes of scurvy and the methods of treatment and prevention, as long as some lemon juice was mixed with the rum distributed by the crew every day, this so-called number one killer would no longer be a problem.

And the sailors, apart from complaining that the inferior rum was sour and bitter, they could not drink any difference at all.

This secret has always been well preserved, and because Wang Hao's crew has never been plagued by scurvy, rumors such as 'Thunder Pirates will use witchcraft to protect their sailors from disease' will come out later.

However, no matter what the outside world thought of this matter, for Lord Beckett, after careful intelligence gathering, he did find that Wang Hao had a simple way to treat and prevent scurvy.

Therefore, Lord Beckett arrested Governor Weatherby Swan and his daughter Elizabeth Swan, who were almost useless, in order to blackmail Wang Hao into telling him what he wanted.