Infinite Movie World

Chapter 369 The Essence of the Empire
The next morning.

As soon as the sky lightened slightly, Governor Swan was roughly woken up by the guards who were guarding him, and he was forcibly lifted out of the prison and brought to the command room.

Lord Beckett was neatly dressed and was playing with a beautiful long sword in his hand.

And Beckett's deputy, Mather, stood aside with a cold face.

"The governor is here." The two guards threw Governor Swan to the ground, then saluted and turned to leave.

Governor Swan cursed secretly, and stood up with difficulty.

His current appearance is really horrible.

He was originally a civil servant, and he was well-clothed and well-fed every day. How could he have suffered such a crime?
In just a few days of detention, he has already made him look bad. There is no wool curly wig on his head, the hand-embroidered coat has also been stripped off, and the rings on his fingers have been taken away, leaving only one to represent himself. The ring of the seal of status.

Although the situation was a bit miserable, Governor Swan still stood tall.

He said coldly to Beckett: "I am the legal overseas governor of the English Empire. You have no right to imprison me like this before the parliament has tried me! My governor's rights are granted by Her Majesty the Queen. You insult me ​​like this. It is an insult to Her Majesty's authority!"

Beckett smiled faintly, and continued to play with the saber in his hand.

"This sword is really beautiful, especially the sword box, I'm afraid it's worth more than the sword itself?"

Beckett said with a faint smile: "You have spent so much money and thought to build all this, just to win over Brigadier General James, oh sorry, it's the former Brigadier General, you want to win him over to be your son-in-law, right?"

Governor Swan said coldly: "This is my private matter."

Beckett said with a smile: "It's a pity that James didn't live up to it. He didn't win Elizabeth's heart. A good girl like Elizabeth was actually abducted by a pirate, which made Elizabeth a pirate too. And you let Elizabeth go, you It also violated the king's law."

Governor Swan said coldly: "I know, so according to the procedure, you should send me back to London and let the parliamentary court judge me, instead of putting a person of status like me in a dirty prison. Hmph, I will definitely report this matter to the council!"

Beckett smiled and said: "Governor Swan, I know you are very angry now, and I also know that although you are not a nobleman, your ancestors are quite influential in London and Parliament. Existence, once I send you back to London according to the procedure, you will unite with the people in the parliament to deal with me and pull me down as a lord who came from a commoner, right? Haha, don’t deny it, politics has always been A war of exclusion, you are the real noble class, noble children, and me, even if I can be promoted to a duke in the future, you will not look at me. Your class is full of arrogance to the common people, you just want to Hold power in your own hands, but refuse to give civilians a little chance."

Governor Swan said with a sneer: "Don't you know how you climbed to the position of Lord?"

Beckett said lightly: "Of course it depends on my own efforts."

"You sell opium, black slaves, and plunder foreign people. Your position as a lord was forged by the blood of others!" Governor Swan loudly accused.

Beckett was not angry, but smiled and said: "Tsk tsk, what a sanctimonious remark, Governor Swan, seeing your appearance, I have already thought of the group of gentlemen sitting in the parliament in London. How despised."

He shrugged and put the water-breaking sword back into the scabbard, "You can continue to despise me, but don't forget that the reason why you can do nothing is to sit peacefully in the council and drink tea. That's because there are people like me. You enjoy the wealth, money, and capital I brought to you, and you still call me an executioner. Don't you think that you have double standards? All double-standard people, It's either stupid or arrogant, and most of the time, stupid and arrogant go hand in hand."

"I am now a lord, which proves that the queen recognizes me, and the queen needs more of me, for her, for the British Empire to search for wealth in the world, and to fight potential enemies. Some countries have a history greater than ours The English Empire is even longer. If you study their history carefully, you will find that they are actually stronger than us. However, the Age of Discovery created a natural opportunity for our island-type country. Once When those countries wake up, our chances will be gone. Therefore, we must take advantage of this time to plunder them, attack them, and let them exterminate their species. If they cannot exterminate their species, then we must also prevent them from turning over in the next 500 years. .”

"When all our potential enemies are weakened by us, our British Empire can become a real empire on which the sun never sets."

"...No." Governor Swan frowned and shook his head, "Our country should not be like this. We...we..."

Beckett smiled faintly, "No wonder you have been the governor of Port Royal for more than ten years, but you haven't improved because your vision is limited. There are only so many resources in this world, and whoever can grab them first will win." Whoever owns it, and whoever owns resources and wealth is a powerful empire, and whoever has the right to speak."

"But, in this case, isn't our Great Britain Empire making enemies all over the world?" Governor Swan said with a frown.

"Haha!" Beckett laughed loudly: "Make enemies? Don't you have no enemies if you are not strong? No, as a country, you will always have enemies. When you are not strong, someone will take the opportunity to bully you. You Want to rely on politeness and negotiation to avoid enemies? This is a joke. The relationship between people can still maintain a civilized state, but the relationship between countries is naked oppression. We are strong and we have the right to speak , As for those areas that were plundered and colonized by us... Don't worry, as long as our rule there can last for 100 years, then after 100 years, those descendants in the colonized areas will be attached to our strength, and they will even Forget about your ancestors."

Governor Swan was speechless for a while.

He didn't think people like Beckett were right, but he did feel that his vision and cognition were not as good as Beckett's.

Beckett was able to rise from a commoner status to become a director of the East Indus Trading Company and a lord conferred by the queen, without any real skills, it was impossible.

(End of this chapter)