Chapter 370: , I treat you as a brother

Soon, the Ministry of War came up with a relevant plan. According to this plan, before the Olympics, the Navy will first dispatch the all-steam-powered super cruiser, including the "Free Trade" and the "Uniform Market", and the "Le Havre". The steam-powered cruiser, the "Toulon" steam-powered cruiser, the "Foss" steam-powered cruiser... and other twelve warships composed of two squadrons went to the coast of North Africa to provide escorts for merchant ships of various countries.
At the same time, the French government also authorized these warships to inspect any ships they found suspicious, and if they encountered resistance, they could use force as appropriate.
In addition to the military operations, the French consuls in Barbary countries must immediately make representations to them and demand that they return the missing French crew members, ships and cargo within a time limit, and make reasonable compensation to the French.
These requirements seem very reasonable, but for the Barbary countries, these requirements are very difficult, and it can be said that they are impossible to achieve. Because first of all, they don't know whose family did it. The pirates who did this would definitely not say to it that they had attacked a French ship, and they would definitely replace the stolen ship with the flag of Spain or another small Italian country.
Of course, this is not a big problem. If you really want to investigate, you can still find out. But even if it is found out, no matter which pirate country it is, I dare not recognize it. If you don’t admit it, you can throw the pot to the next door. If you admit it, you will have to bear all the consequences yourself.
Of course, this is not the most terrible problem. The most terrible thing is that the French demanded the return of the missing crew members. The question is, where these missing crew members have gone, those Pashas would know with their heels. A group of pirates robbed a ship from a country that did not allow robbery. Anyway, they couldn't ask for a ransom. For confidentiality, of course, the easiest way was to immediately send all the crew to chat with Poseidon. So there is no need to ask, those crew members must have been killed.
But you can't go and tell the French, ah, French brother, we robbed your ship, and the people were all killed by us. What do you do? If this is the case, it would be strange if the French fleet doesn't demolish your house.
So nowadays, acknowledgment cannot be admitted, and even investigation cannot be checked—doesn’t it mean you may have done it? Nowadays, only throwing the pot on the head of the pirate country next to him is the only reluctantly feasible way.
Of course, other pirate countries will definitely throw the pot over without hesitation. In short, no one will honestly let all the pots be held on their heads. Besides, there is still an advantage in throwing the pot with each other, that is, it can make all the Barbary nations be tied together. In this way, if the French really wants to turn their faces, everyone should bear it together, at least better than oneself.
This is like fish in the sea. When encountering possible danger, they will always gather together to form a dense school of fish to fight against predators. Moreover, this strategy is generally very effective in the face of ordinary predators. However, if it is not an ordinary predator, but a trawler, then the entire school of fish will be...
France, which has initially achieved industrialization, is such a trawler. But what's more terrible is that the world of green teaching has gradually fallen behind the times at this time. The so-called lagging behind the times does not only mean that they are lagging behind in their technological level, but more importantly, because of their backwardness in science, their vision has also fallen behind. The most typical manifestation of this backwardness is that they cannot understand. I have a few catties, and I can't see the gap between myself and the advanced level. Sometimes, even if you have shown him super ability, he can't understand it. Without understanding, naturally there is no fear. Without fear, then the intimidation policy will naturally have no effect.
This is like in "Three-Body", even if the people on earth have seen the omnipresent and omniscient sophon, they still think that with their 2,400 constant-star battleships, they can resist the father of the three-body. Caring. The backwardness in basic science makes them unable to even imagine how strong their opponents are, only that they should not be much different from themselves.
The Barbary countries are almost in this state. They felt that if everyone held a group together, although they could not do the French, as long as they dare to fight, they should be able to bring considerable losses to the French, and then they should be able to get a decent result.
Therefore, in the face of the request of the French, several pirate countries have basically opened the dumping mode, and have told the French that this matter was not ours. We have no habit of attacking French ships. This must be elsewhere. The pirate did it.
While insisting that it had nothing to do with them, several pirate countries also issued warnings to their subordinate pirate ships that were preparing to go to sea, ordering them not to attack French ships.
As for the pirate ships that are already at sea and have not had time to come back, it can only be hoped that they will not do anything else.
At this time, Polina had completed the historic mission of lighting the Olympic torch, and then wandered around in Greece, played around with those heroic stories, and bought some ancient Greek artifacts that are not known to be true or false. Then he boarded the ship again and left Greece.
The "Inbrador" stopped in Naples for a while, to let Polina go ashore to relax, and secondly to add some supplies.
Polina took a group of bodyguards around in Naples and bought some ancient Roman artifacts ~ EbookFREE.me~ and some local newspapers, which she planned to use on the road to pass the time.
However, Pauline glanced at the newspaper casually, but suddenly saw a piece of news: "Barbary pirates are committing crimes wildly, and the French Navy has begun to merchant ships."
Polina saw her, and her eyes lit up. She turned her head and smiled at Berdon, who was standing aside, with a flash of gaze, "Berdon, if you can persuade the captain to let him go and beat the Barbary pirates, I will give you a little reward, how about? "
"What is the reward?" Berdon hurriedly said.
"I haven't figured it out yet." Polina smiled, she leaned over, put her arms around Berdon's shoulder, and put her mouth to the side of Berdon's earlobe. "But I said, we are such buddies, I am sure Won't keep you busy, will you?"
Berdon’s ears were a little itchy by the air blowing from Polina’s mouth, and a certain soft part of Polina seemed to have touched his arm unintentionally, and he couldn’t help it. There is something to get up.
"Miss Bonaparte," Berdon said with an effort to straighten his face, "I treat you as a brother, you can't..."