Where has Pierce gone?

Lorraine? Pulling her face out from another place.

Regarding Pierce's complete disappearance in the early stage of the Sing Tao incident, he and Carmen actually discovered it while reading the report.

However, at that stage, Portugal and the Netherlands were mainly stirring up the wind and rain on the Malay Peninsula, and the main battlefield between Britain, France and Russia was in the predicament.

Zhanbei was mainly diplomatic work, not Pierce's strength. So at that time, Lorraine and Carmen generally believed that Pierce should have been persuaded by Eddie to stay in Chennai.

But now it seems that there is something else in this matter?

Lorraine conserved her curiosity and asked casually: "Where were you?"

Pierce raised his eyebrows proudly: "When Dad Dylan asked you for advice, I studied the Sing Tao information provided by the East India Company in Chennai and found that the reason why Sing Tao can remain in the hands of this weak owner of Johor is that in addition to the mutual restraint between Portugal, Britain and the Netherlands, there is another important reason, the South China Sea pirates."

"Qing people?" Lorraine was really surprised this time.

"The pirates in the South China Sea are Chinese, but it is hard to say they are Qing people." Pierce explained, "Most of them are gangsters along the Qing coast. They live in poverty and make a living by the sea."

"The Qing Dynasty began to ban people from going to sea about a hundred years ago... I don't know which fool made this stupid decision... In short, the Qing Dynasty did not allow people to enter the ocean in any way, nor did it form a state-owned company to operate the business related to the ocean. The gangsters who make their living by the sea have lost their source of livelihood."

"They changed their careers on a large scale to pirates based on villages and families, and used the South China Sea as hunting grounds, and regarded other pirates, Southeast Asian maritime merchants and European merchants as prey. Because of their large number, strict organization, and combat effectiveness far exceeds that of the Qing national navy, the East India Company collectively referred to them as the South China Sea pirates in the intelligence of the East India Company."

"There are six largest pirate groups in the South China Sea, each with hundreds of warships. According to the color of the hanging flag, they are called the Red, Yellow, Blue, White, Black, and Purple Six Flags. There are also four most prestigious pirate kings, Zheng Xilong, Shi Chaosheng, Ma Youcai, and Xu Jiadong, who are called the Fourth Master."

"They also have an organization similar to the Marine Brotherhood, called the Chan Family Ancestral Hall. But unlike the Brotherhood without real power, the Chan Family Ancestral Hall is very prestigious among the pirates in the South China Sea. The Fourth Master formed a council there and used a code called Family Law to manage the pirates. The resolutions arising from each Chan Family must obey. Even if the leader of the Six Flags Gang was asked to slaughter himself, the leader could not resist."

It can be seen that Pierce did do his homework for the South China Sea pirates. He sat on the dining table, telling the pirate world in clear language, and doing his best to interpret the Eastern clan system with models that Westerners can understand.

"The South China Sea pirates have deep hostility towards European merchants, and it is also possible that we are the richest of their prey. In short, their activity makes the trade route from Southeast Asia to the Qing Dynasty full of dangers."

"The Portuguese tried to encircle them, and the East India Company of Britain and the Netherlands also joined forces with the Qing navy, but they all ended in failure."

"The Qing navy can only drag our arms, and our armed merchant ships are no match for the hard sailboats in the east under special sea conditions such as archipelago, dark sand, and estuaries."

"I have reviewed the battle reports of nine large-scale encirclements and suppression in nearly a hundred years. Although the warships of the South China Sea pirates and the Qing navy are mainly Eastern hard sails, the sailors of the pirate regiment are more professional and obedient, and their combat power and fighting will are so strong that it is difficult to understand. And as the age approaches, I found that they are increasingly favoring European styles in ship suits and fire matching, rather than Qing styles."

Pierce recalled.

"Sing Tao is their gate. Every time Europe tries to build Sing Tao, they will go south and rob the construction plan, leaving the construction plan dead. However, they don't seem to care who gets Sing Tao. As long as they don't immigrate or build, they don't care about the administrative ownership. If they change their thinking, they don't seem to have a political spokesperson."

"I tried to consider a way to defeat them, but the result was bad. The Qing navy did not threaten them, so they could escape into the Pearl River Basin at any time, and as long as they escaped into or even approached the Pearl River Basin, we would no longer threaten them."

"At this moment, I found a complaint..."

While reviewing the battle report, Pierce accidentally found a complaint, the accuser was Mr. Pierre, a businessman from England.

In 1783, the gentleman was tied up with meat tickets by Shi Chaosheng, one of the four great masters of the Black Flag Gang. He stayed on Lantau Island for three months, and finally redeemed for a price of 7,400 shillings and regained his freedom.

In the accusation, he strongly condemned the incompetence and arrogance of the security department of the East India Company, and praised the trustworthiness and hospitality of the pirates of the Han family, saying that [Master Chaosheng. Mr. Shi is the most sincere and polite gentleman I knew in the Qing Dynasty, and a true oriental gentleman].

By the way, Mr. Pierre is a Qing Guotong, who has been focusing on porcelain for thirteen years, and is professional in Cantonese Level 8, and even the accusations are both Chinese and English.

"I began to guess that the opposition between the pirates in the South China Sea and European merchants may be due to lack of communication." Pierce said with his chin, "After all, the Qing Dynasty is very closed. There are not many people who know Chinese among the European pioneers, and even fewer people are willing to communicate with pirates."

Lorraine was caught in nature, and she crossed her legs with interest: "So you went to find Shi Chaosheng?"

Pierce shrugged: "Drake is different from other Europeans. Our president is Qing Guotong. Our board of directors has Wang Ye. I have three sisters on my boat."

"So I took the noble lady to Lantau Island, hung the pirate flag, and fought a simulated battle with the red flag, the black flag and the purple flag, and finally met Mr. Shi Chaosheng in Qiongshan County (now Haikou) on Qiongya Road."

"Have you convinced him to give up Xingdao and open the route?"

"No." Pierce grinned, "I convinced him to come and see you."

"Oh..." (??????)!!! "Ha?????"

...

It's past 12 o'clock.

The report meeting was clearly over, but Pierce did not walk out of the restaurant with the others. The lights in the restaurant were still on, and the brightly lit rooms were particularly dark against the suspension corridor and the courtyard.

Sharon Yatis stood in the corner of the courtyard like a shadow, twisting the corner of his skirt, and his face was flushed.

"teacher……"

"Poor little Sharon." Carmen stroked Sharon's flax-colored hair pity, as if he was looking at his youthfulness. "Pearce has been out for two years and has been with Xiao Sanmei every day, but you are left by me and have been... dealing with those boring numbers."

"No, teacher..." Sharon lowered his head, "Even when he was on the boat, my cousin liked to be with his third sister..."

"This is how men are."

Carmen's hand slid off his hair, his slender fingertips slid across his face, curled over the tip of his chin, and followed his shoulders, and kept holding Sharon's palm.

"Brave, just do you know what they want, and they can easily cut off the obstacles in front of them, like a knife." She smiled, not like a laugh, "Men like beautiful knives, which is born."

"But I like my cousin too, I like it very much..." Sharon bravely retorted, and took three deep breaths in a short sentence until finally, he finally got the courage to face Carmen's eyes.

Her eyes were so bright and brisk, like the stars in the sky, which made people unconsciously attracted.

Carmen squeezed Sharon's hand hard, and then let go.

Sharon's disappointed expression was innocent and just about to say something, he was suddenly hugged by Carmen.

Carmen hugged little Sharon tightly, as if he was holding his cherished daughter. Her hands wrapped around her back, pressed Sharon's head, and drove her ears to her lips.

"The mouth is a tool to convince people," she said. "I have always taught you how to use words to convince others, using words, expressions, movements, and even charm. But there is only one thing that you can't do even if you are good at talking."

"You can never convince a man to choose you among two beloved women, and you can't even know if he loves you more. You exhaust all your energy and intelligence to guess your relationship with him, but love is not an account book, and it's all self-deception!"

Sharon felt that all the power was taken away by Carmen's viciousness. If Carmen had not been too tight and too hard, she suspected that she would not be able to stand at all and had already kneeled on the ground and cried.

"What should I do...teacher...?"

"Are you sure you love Pierce, right?"

"Um……"

"Are you sure you can't stand it anymore, right?"

"Um."

"You are sure you are ready to showdown and you won't regret losing, right?"

"Um!"

"Then go and fight." Carmen let go of Sharon and smiled like a flower. "I've told you the solution long ago. Since you are ready, go and fight."

Sharon's face was so red that he dripped blood, and the courage he mustered up was melting as if he was taken away by the night wind, and it could not be kept in his body at all.

"But...but..."

Carmen carefully sorted out every wrinkle on Sharon's skirt, every bit messy, and then clapped his hands and took a step back, two steps, and three steps.

"I'm not afraid of losing anymore, what else is there to be scary?"

Sharon stood there, his confused eyes lit up little by little, getting brighter and brighter.

"Yeah." She nodded, pinched her skirt, nodded, and bent her knees, "Teacher, I'm leaving."

She ran away, passed by Carmen, and soon ran into the night, and could no longer see any shadows.

"I've grown up..." Carmen murmured, stretched out his finger and gently printed it on his lips. "Whatever you say will become brave when you grow up, this sentence is obviously a lie, I knew it long ago..."

"I really envious..."
Chapter completed!