Infinite Movie World

Chapter 337 The Queen's Law

Governor Swan was speechless for a moment.

What Beckett said was correct. Originally, the Caribbean Sea had been cleared by Brigadier General James, and there were almost no pirates left. However, since the Black Pearl bombarded Port Royal, the pirate trend in the Caribbean Sea has been blowing again.

Many pirate ships hung the unique black sails of the Black Pearl, imitating the Black Pearl, and robbed passing merchant ships.

And many private smuggling ships also deliberately disguised themselves as pirate ships to avoid tax collection by the English customs.

The income of the English Empire in the Caribbean Sea has dropped by more than half!

This old-fashioned empire has a small land area and cannot create huge wealth locally. It is born entirely by ocean trade, tariffs, and plunder.

Without these three pillars, this empire, which is known as the sun never sets, will soon be sundown.

Because of this, they pay special attention to the situation in the Caribbean Sea.

This time, they sent Lord Beckett, who has always been known for his cruelty.

Speaking of this Lord Cutler Beckett, he himself does not have any prominent family background. When he was a teenager, he worked for a shipyard. When he became an adult, he just caught up with the first wave of great sailing. Opportunity, joined the notorious Dongindu Trading Company.

He worked extremely hard in the East Yindu Trading Company, often doing "dirty work" that others were unwilling to do, such as selling black slaves, Chinese labor, robbing merchant ships from other countries, and so on.

The Queen of England's first privateer licenses were issued to Beckett.

A private plunder license is signed in the name of the law. As long as you have this certificate, you can plunder anywhere in the world, and of course you cannot rob your own country's property.

Moreover, once robbed, the English Empire will protect the looters in the name of the country.

The more you rob, the richer you are, and the richer you are, the more status you have in the English Empire.

It took Beckett only three years to become a director of the East Indus Trading Company from an ordinary ship repairing seaman, and he also won the title of Lord conferred by the queen himself, becoming a true nobleman.

This country is a robber country from the bottom of its heart. No matter how civilized it looks, it can't hide their crime of plundering the world and their arrogance after starting from plundering.

Their arrogance is that he can rob you, but you cannot rob them.

It is legal for them to plunder you, but it is illegal for you to fight back, and you will be sanctioned.

They feel that the world is theirs, and the rules have to be set by them, and once the rules they set are not in their interests, they have to change the rules until they know that they are in their best interests.

After Beckett became a lord, he naturally wanted to open up more sources of income for the English Empire, but now the profits in the Caribbean Sea have been greatly reduced, so he came to supervise in person.

His power is not only much higher than that of Commodore James Norrington, who has left Port Royal, but also much higher than that of Governor Swan.

Governor Swan does not have a title, so he can only be regarded as a commoner in front of Beckett.

But in fact, the ancestors of Governor Swann were aristocratic families, but the family background was declining day by day, and they could not afford to raise a castle or pay the taxes of the nobles, so the title was not passed down. Overseas Governor only.

For most of the children of aristocratic families, it is a shameful thing to leave their homeland and go overseas to leave their hometown, but for the sake of livelihood, Governor Swan can only accept it.

Now, compared with Beckett, who was born as a commoner, but is now a nobleman, Governor Swan is full of sadness.

Beckett can become a lord by killing people and selling a few ships of black slaves, but he is full of talents and well-educated, but he can only be an overseas governor, and he has to obey Beckett.

This taste is really uncomfortable.

Governor Swan tried his best to suppress the reluctance in his heart, and said in a low voice: "Beckett... Your lord, this Will is the son-in-law of the officer, and today is also the big day for him to marry my daughter. Come in, arrest him without asking any questions, this really... makes me, the governor, very embarrassed."

Governor Swann is also someone who has worked in Port Royal for more than 10 years. This face still needs to be contested.

Beckett said coldly: "Your face is bigger, or the queen's law is bigger?"

Governor Swan quickly bowed his head and said, "Naturally, it is the Queen's law."

"Will!" At this time, Elizabeth in a gorgeous wedding dress hurried in.

Will said quickly: "Elizabeth! I'm fine!"

Elizabeth threw herself into Will's arms, "What the hell is going on? Why did they arrest you? Isn't the previous incident over?"

"You are Miss Swann, right?" Beckett said with a sneer, "I am following the queen's decree to arrest the criminal who released the pirate captain. This is an arrest warrant."

As he spoke, Beckett took out a handwritten note.

Governor Swan took a look and was taken aback, "This...why is the name on it Elizabeth Swan?"

Beckett smiled faintly, "Oh? That's because I took the wrong one. There are two copies of the handbook, one for Miss Elizabeth and the other for Will, because both of them committed the crime of piracy."

"What?! This is nonsense!" Governor Swan's hands trembled angrily, "My daughter, how could she be a pirate? She has never been robbed, she is a victim of the Black Pearl incident!"

Beckett said coldly: "The law is the law, come here, handcuff Miss Elizabeth too."

Several tall soldiers immediately rushed up and tied Elizabeth's hands.

Will yelled angrily: "You are not allowed to touch her! You are not allowed to touch her!"

Governor Swan said tremblingly: "My lord, I can give you whatever you want, please, let my daughter go, she really has nothing to do with pirates."

Beckett sneered and said, "Whether it matters or not, she knows in her heart."

"However, we are all serving the English Empire, so can't we negotiate first?" Governor Swan clenched his fists and said.

Beckett sneered and said, "The queen's laws cannot be negotiated. Come on, put Miss Elizabeth in prison first. As for Mr. Will, bring him to the command room. I want to interrogate the whereabouts of the pirates first."

"Yes!"

The soldiers immediately escorted Will and Elizabeth to different directions.

"Elizabeth!"

"Will—"

The scene where the two parted was really tragic.

Xufeng pulled the hood, hid in the crowd and watched silently, but didn't make a move.

There were at least 500 soldiers on the scene, all of whom were close to level 30, plus Beckett and his deputy Mather, it was absolutely impossible for Xufeng to rescue both Elizabeth and Will.

Anyway, the two were just arrested, and their lives would not be in danger for the time being, so Xufeng patiently waited for the opportunity.

(End of this chapter)