0401 Justice and Righteousness Never Die(1/2)
"Lt. General Scolari..."
On the Valkyrie, Scolari stood in front of Lorraine under the escort of six or seven strong sailors, quietly watching the tall, strong but respectful and gentle young man.
"I am Drake, Lorraine Yarnson Drake, Drake of Tavistock, I'm sorry to meet you in such an environment."
"Tavistock?" Scolari's eyebrows hopped, "I may have met your grandfather and an old acquaintance with your father."
"Your relationship with your ancestors makes this meeting even more helpless. I should have brought Warren Ford's coffee beans to visit you, rather than seeing my cherished elders in Africa in the smoke of gunpowder."
Lorraine waved her hand and led Scolari to the side of the side.
“The rescue at sea is underway, the good news is that not many people fall, and the bad news is that there are very limited people who survive.”
"The Dagama is nothing serious. I have someone cut off the foremast and splint and readjust the knot. She has about 6 knots left, but considering her center of gravity and the waves in the Cape of Good Hope, I sincerely suggest that you wait for the beginning of spring before considering the return of the fleet."
"The Diaz is more serious. One is the personnel. As far as I know, a major and four lieutenants died in the ascension incident of the stern building. It is not ruled out that there will be more deaths, after all, this is an unfortunate accident."
"The other is the rudder. My master inspected the Diaz, one-third of the rudder rod was in the sky, and one-third of the rudder rod sank to the bottom of the sea with the rudder. There is no Navigator-grade dock in East Africa, so you may have to drag her back to Lisbon..."
"You are going to return the ship to Portugal?"
Lorraine's words completely exceeded Scolari's expectations. He couldn't help but open his old eyes, just trying to see the traps that might be contained behind them.
"What do you want? Money? Guns? Or... pardon?"
Lorraine was silent for a long time.
"Yes, what should I want? The Majesty you are loyal to rob me of my property illegally and I take off his ship, which is fair."
"The Navigator class is an excellent warship. Although law-abiding person like me is not available, he invested into the black market and sold to the United States, which is worth at least 100,000 pounds, and can barely recover part of my losses."
"You will of course say that if I do that, if I am trampling on the dignity of Portugal, this reason cannot convince me, and my relationship with your king will not become worse, anyway."
"I'm actually very curious about the mentality of the Kingdom of Portugal when handling this dispute. You act like a barbaric tribe. The chiefs regard robbery as a means of displaying authority. The elders did not say a word, completely disregarding the sacred and inviolable civilized norms of private property."
Lorraine teased the Portuguese with her bitter words, from kings to nobles, as if no one was around.
"I have fully entrust your king's bandit behavior to the Drake Chamber of Commerce's lawyers in Bilbao."
"When they were short-stop in Gibraltar, they had filed a complaint with the Madrid Supreme Court. This note should be sent to Lisbon. I don't know if your king has a familiar lawyer or... understanding the procedure for self-defense."
Scolari's old face turned red: "Lorraine Drake, Spain is no longer the suzerain of Portugal!"
Lorraine took all the humility.
"It's really a boring country that is arrogant and sensitive," he said coldly. "I chose Madrid and have no connection with the so-called master-slave relationship in your history. I chose her just because she is the only civilized country on the Iberian Peninsula."
"In 1780, I demolished the San Carlos Fortress in Nicaragua. Last year I met Mr. Hawthorne, the governor of Cuba, in Havana, who was then Grenadal, and was my captive."
"We had a great time talking. When he introduced me to the celebrities in Havana, he also talked about his captive experience in his heart, calling me a civilized gentleman."
"It is this noble gentleman who has given me good feelings and trust in the country of Spain."
"I will let you go, because I need you to report this entire southward journey to your barbaric country and the stupid king, so that they can relax and be glad that they are not hurting a real pirate, but a civilized, well-educated legal businessman."
"Next, I will use my own strength to prove my innocence. I will send everything I have obtained to Madrid, so that the civilized people of Iberia can wash away my grievances and uphold morality."
"Justice and justice have never died, I believe it!"
"Tell your Chief about all this and ask him to choose a lawyer to respond as soon as possible. If he has never heard of the term lawyer before, ask him to hire a tutor first, preferably a tutor from a civilized country."
Lorraine finally finished speaking.
Scolari's hands trembled rapidly, his voice rising and falling due to gasping, as if he was about to quit at any time: "Lorraine Drake, have you ever thought about the anger of Portugal in such unscrupulous manner?"
"To be honest, I thought about it." Lorraine Yun smiled lightly, "I know there are eight navigators in Lisbon, and I also know that the Portuguese colonies all over the world are spreading about thirty provincial ones. After all, your sun has not yet set."
"You just thought about Drake's anger again?"
"For example, for example, a Valkyrie-level class like your feet, do you guess how many ships can we bring out?"
...
Scolari left, and Dagama, who was staggering, supported the bad-moving Dias, followed by four loyal guards who could not even be brave enough to reinforce, and embarked on the road to return with Lorraine's kindness.
Lorraine didn't go to send it.
After intimidating the old and conservative Portuguese lieutenant general, he held a meeting of all seafarers in the tactical room, closed the door, and discussed the specific plans for the next step.
There are so many things to do to restore reputation, not to mention that the key to reputation is not reputation, but allies, cards, and how much pressure can Lorraine bring to Portugal to make them surrender in front of a small chamber of commerce.
The difficulty here can be imagined, and the difficulty of the meeting is self-evident.
Before we could discuss the reason, the aisle suddenly remembered the scattered running of Dongdongdong. The cabin door was pushed open roughly. Pierce took his sailors to pant and stood outside the cabin door. As soon as he saw Lorraine, he began to scream.
"Brother! Uh... Brother, did we just let that old Portuguese dog run away so easily?"
Lorraine didn't take his words at all, but just stopped discussing and stretched out her chin with interest.
"Tsk tsk tsk, I thought it was the Portuguese who had fought back, but I didn't expect that it was the great Admiral Attis."
Pierce was so scared that he took a step back halfway, and a silver light flashed in front of him.
In the cold light, several silver tarots and two red velvet flying knives poked around the door frame in no particular order, wrapped Pierce in the middle, and used the hatch as the edge to form a perfect irregular symmetry.
Pierce's legs were weak. If it weren't for Xiao Sanmei's support, he would have sat on the ground just now.
His voice began to float: "Sister Henna, Sister Noya, it's wrong for me not to knock on the door..."
"Of course it's wrong for you not to knock on the door."
Lorraine slapped her hands with a smile. Yacharin shook her sleeves, untied a colorful whip from her waist with super lewd legs, and held it in front of Lorraine with both hands.
Lorraine shook a whip flower... bang!
Pierce swallowed heavily: "Brother, brother, captain, president, chairman! Everything is easy to discuss!"
"Before coming, Mr. Ramos Piddick, President of the European Branch, and nearly ten shareholders of the General Chamber of Commerce made solemn demands to the Chairman, boy, you are missing a strong whip."
"But...my crew members are all..." Pierce replied in tears.
Lorraine hesitated.
Pierce's team members are indeed a problem, because the young man in the rebellious period still needs some face.
Carmen suddenly interrupted, "Sir, if I remember correctly, your salary is still the case that the General Chamber of Commerce is in the process of resettlement. There is no independent branch under Yatis. Moreover, although Vice President Yatis has signed a special equity sharing contract with some of you, considering that the Secret Service Fleet has not made any profit yet..."
Freemanny raised his hand high: "Dear and beautiful Manager Xavier, where can we get our basic salary for these months?"
"The flagship accounting room is on the bottom of the stern floor."
"Goodbye!"
Hulala, the brave seaman left halfway. Pierce looked at the remaining half with gratitude, especially the honest Kao, who was the only one who stayed in the senior class.
At this time, he heard a series of thunderous laughter, it was Lef.
"Captain, the stormtrooper has suffered several fractures recently, and I just don't have sword-practice accompanying me..."
Kao's face suddenly turned pale, and he raised his hand: "Dear and beautiful Manager Xavier, we didn't hear clearly just now, where is the place to receive the salary?"
"The flagship accounting room is on the bottom of the stern floor."
"Goodbye!"
Was ala, Pierce found pitifully that only Xiao Sanmei was left behind him, and Bai Er, who came to watch the fun.
"Three sisters..."
"Three sisters."
Two men called for a woman at the same time, one was Pierce and the other was a strange-tongued Wang Ye.
Wang Ye's fingers circled on the conference table, and his tongue was spinning in his mouth.
"Before you joined the chamber of commerce, I told my senior sister that there is no girl in this world who loves people more than you. Do you still remember the day before the noble lady left Hong Kong? You see my playing Ye Di in my hometown, and I promised me that I would learn Jiangxi dialect in three months to comfort my homesickness..."
Xiao Sanmei's face suddenly turned pale!
Although Wang Ye couldn't understand a word about Pierce in Chinese, it did not prevent him from feeling that the scene in front of him seemed familiar.
He had a very bad premonition: "San Sister, are you..."
"I'm sorry, young master! I suddenly remembered that I promised my mother that I would send my salary to my house on time to raise my seven younger brothers and four younger sisters! So..."
Before he finished speaking, Xiao Sanmei covered her face and ran away.
Only white ears remain behind Pierce.
He blinked his eyes and looked at the empty aisle, his head circling back and forth as if it was rusted.
"Brother, no matter what, can I make my death clear..."
"It turns out that you don't know why the Navigator class of the Portuguese town suddenly became your enemy."
"It must be because of the size of the lady..."
"And you also overlooked why Valkyrie and I arrived on the same day as the Navigator, and rescued you just right."
"Did..." Pierce's face finally looked ugly, "I... still got into trouble?"
"Armed invasion of Mombasa, attack Portuguese warships for no reason, and military blockade of ports of neutral countries. You have done a lot of things, and the Drake Chamber of Commerce has gained a lot of goodwill for this, and the greatest goodwill..."
"The Drake Chamber of Commerce was characterized by Lisbon as a Pirate Chamber of Commerce. Portugal ended its commercial dealings with me. As long as the Portuguese Kingdom is controlled, Drake's industry is confiscated, and it will directly lose 70,000 pounds, and indirect losses are countless." Lorraine shook her whip and "Please raise her butt, I said, you are missing a whip."
To be continued...