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Chapter 1255 Ask for information
The one-eyed pirate leader Jansson let go of his hand after listening to the young Netherlander's explanation: "Stinky boy, I'll wait until the day you make a fortune. If I find someone, the Huaxia people will not follow the promise." Give me tea like that, and I'll tie a big stone to your body and sink it into the Mediterranean."

"Even if the Chinese break the agreement, I, Leuter, will make up for you, Mr. Jansson, if I go bankrupt." The young Dutchman swore.

Reuter came to Algiers under the leadership of the one-eyed pirate.The old pirates are familiar faces here, and with a group of men, Algiers, a city where pirates gather, is still uninhabited for them.

There are low stone buildings made of slightly carved stones everywhere, densely packed along the mountain.Castles, temples with domes and spires stand out high above the stone houses.The gravel paths and dirt roads are narrow and winding, pirates and slaves are everywhere, as well as stalls, taverns, and hotels.

The one-eyed pirate took the pirates ashore into the local tavern, where there was a lot of noise, and there were pirates gambling money on the wooden table, surrounded by a large group of people.

These pirates have very strict rules on the ship, and they are not under the control of the captain when they arrive on the shore. They often spend a lot of time drinking and squandering the silver coins obtained from selling the booty.

"If you want to inquire about news, you still have to go to this kind of place." The one-eyed pirate led his men to occupy two round wooden tables, and soon someone served them ale.

"Captain, this is the third port we have come to. We have searched in Morocco, but we have never heard of such a person. If we continue to search aimlessly, we will have no time to get the spoils .” The pirates under him took a gulp of malt wine and were puzzled by the fact that the one-eyed pirate helped the Easterners find someone.

They pirates also want to make a living. They spend a lot of time and manpower to find people, which will delay their chance to go to sea to plunder.

"If we can't find it here, we will go to the two ports of Tunisia and Tripoli. If we still can't find it, we will give up." The one-eyed pirate said.

"We have searched all along the coast of Barbary this time, but it is rare to see men from the East being caught and sold here, right? The captives here are either blacks from North Africa or whites from Europe. We spent so much energy Help them find someone, even if we can't find them, the Easterners should give us a reward, otherwise who knows whether the person we are going to help them find is dead or alive?"

"Captain, maybe it's the Orientals who deceived us. The missing person didn't exist, and they made us make this trip for nothing." The subordinates of the one-eyed pirates complained one after another.

"Those who question my decision can leave my fleet, and I don't need anyone to tell me what to do!" The one-eyed pirate said coldly, making many people shut up.

He has a lot of followers in Morocco and other places, most of them are pirates who escaped from Europe, and they can get along well in the Ottoman Empire, and their usual behavior is very strict.

The one-eyed pirate called the people who came to the tavern and ordered a lot of fresh food that could not be eaten at sea. His men couldn't help swallowing, waiting for the meat to be served.

"Isn't this Mr. Jansson? Did you get a good price for transporting the 'trophies' to Algiers this time?" An old pirate in shabby clothes seemed to know one-eyed pirates, and he had the cheek to join them at the table.

He seemed to have not bathed for a long time, and there was a stench on his body. Even the pirates who had been wandering on the sea for a long time could not bear his stench, and showed a disgusted expression.

In the port where pirates gather, there is a group of people who are not slaves, but live the same life as slaves.They are often pirates who are old and weak and have no savings, or pirates who have been disabled in battle.They lose their ability to work and can only live like parasites in familiar ports.

However, such a group of people are familiar with almost all changes in the port because of their idleness, and selling information has become their special source of income.

"I want to ask you something. Has anyone come here recently? If you can tell me the information that satisfies me, then these two silver dollars will be yours." The one-eyed pirate patted the two Spanish silver dollars on wooden table.

The Spanish silver dollar was the hard currency used among the Barbary pirates, stronger than the currency issued by the Ottoman Empire itself.

When the old pirate saw the two silver dollars, his eyes glowed, and he stretched out his black hand to touch the two silver dollars.

But Jansson grabbed the silver dollar and prevented the old pirate from dragging it away: "Tell me, did any strange people come to Algiers this year?"

"Hey, I can't escape the big and small things in Algiers, because I often sit on the pier looking for food. If I say that nothing special happened this year, if I say the biggest catch, it is The pirates in Algiers dispatched more than a dozen Calais ships at a time, plundered a merchant ship marked with the Maltese octagonal cross on the sail, and captured dozens of members of the Knights of Malta..." The old pirate recalled the recent incident event.

The Knights of Malta is a remnant of the Crusader era, an organization that opposed the Ottoman Empire, and is now stationed on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean.

The Knights of Malta are as annoying to the Ottoman Empire as the Barbary pirates are to European countries.The Ottoman emperor organized more than 10 soldiers and auxiliary soldiers three times to besiege the Knights of Malta, which had a population of only a few thousand and was dominated by civilians. As a result, they were unable to destroy the Knights of Malta.

The Knights of Malta with the octagonal cross as its flag is like a nail in the Mediterranean, always biting the Ottoman Empire, and even organizing warships to attack Barbary pirates in the Mediterranean.

But now the one-eyed pirate Janson is not concerned with the Knights of Malta: "Is anyone with an oriental face coming to Algiers?"

The old pirate was a little puzzled: "Oriental faces? Isn't there a bunch of oriental people here?"

For Europe, the Ottoman Empire is a typical Eastern Empire.

Jansson rolled his eyes: "I mean more oriental, such as Huaxia in East India."

"The people over there...it's extremely rare. It's rare to see people from the east, unless someone kidnapped their people from the East Indies. However, arresting people from there from a long distance is not only dangerous, but also very difficult. The cost of returning is high, and it is not as easy as plundering people in Africa or the Mediterranean," said the old pirate.

"I don't want to listen to your nonsense, I just want to know if there are people from there, whether they came here as free people or slaves, if you don't want to earn these two silver coins, forget it." Yang After Song finished speaking, he wanted to put the two Spanish silver dollars back into his pocket.

"No, let me think about it carefully, it seems that there is really a strange captive..." said the old pirate.

(End of this chapter)