Paris, France, as the morning light splashes on the earth, Paris begins to become noisy. The rivers bring smelly sea fish to Paris. When walking on the city streets in the morning, you must hold an umbrella and wear high heels, because you said
There might be unknown liquids, solids falling from the sky, or you might step on those dirty things everywhere.
In Paris, which was famous for its romance in later generations, at this moment, like all cities in Europe, it was extremely dirty and smelly everywhere. Even the palace of King Louis XII of France was no better.
A large-scale cocktail party was just held last night, and the palace was filled with the stench of the upper class. In the past year or so, Louis XII has shared an extremely huge wealth by pretending to be a pirate.
A large number of treasure ships and colonial strongholds were plundered by pirates, and eventually the wealth entered the pockets of King Henry VII of England, King Louis XII of France, and King Manuel I of Portugal.
The continuous influx of wealth also allows them to hold various cocktail parties from time to time to celebrate this wise choice.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty~"
When Louis XII was sleeping with several ladies in his arms, a minister rushed into Louis XII's bedroom in a hurry, looked at the messy scene, and continued to shout.
"What's up?"
Louis XII woke up in a daze with a headache. The wine from the Ming Empire was indeed more heady than the European wine. He drank too much last night, and his head hurt a bit.:.
"Your Majesty, news has just arrived that Marseille was looted by pirates. The entire Port of Marseille was completely looted. Except for the houses, almost everything in the city was looted. Not even a mouse was spared.
."
The minister said anxiously.
"pirate?"
"Aren't the pirates one of our own?"
"How could you loot the port of Marseille?"
"What?"
"Port of Marseille?"
Louis XII, who was originally in a daze, suddenly woke up completely. Regardless of his naked appearance, he stood up from the bed.
"You mean the port of Marseille was looted?"
Louis XII asked again.
"Yes, it's the Port of Marseille. It was completely looted. Not even a mouse was missing in the city."
The minister solemnly replied again.
"Where did the pirates come from who dared to loot the port of Marseille? There are hundreds of thousands of people in Marseille, and there are thousands of defenders. How could it be possible that it would be looted?"
Louis XII was completely dumbfounded. Marseille is a big city. A city of hundreds of thousands of people is definitely a big city in Europe. However, a big city with thousands of defenders and hundreds of thousands of people was actually said to have been looted.
It's clean, who would believe it?
"Your Majesty, this is the fact~"
The minister replied helplessly.
"Check it out for me. Investigate this matter thoroughly. Marseille, where hundreds of thousands of people were looted, is absolutely impossible without any clues or rumors. We must find out."
"What kind of pirate can have such ability? This is definitely not a pirate."
"Is it the Ottoman Empire?"
The first thing Louis XII thought of was the Ottoman Empire, and only the Ottoman Empire had always regarded pirates as its navy, with extremely powerful pirate groups and the habit of looting coastal areas of the Mediterranean.
"Yes~"
The minister took the order and hurriedly began to investigate the matter.
After a few days, things finally took shape.
"Your Majesty, according to the results of our investigations from various parties, it was not the Ottoman Empire that looted the port of Marseille, but the Spanish and Japanese people."
"We have merchants who saw a large number of slave-trading merchant ships passing by in Port Said, Egypt. The slaves on these ships only docked in Port Said, Egypt, and were quickly transported to the East through the Egyptian canal."
"In addition, there are some people hiding in Marseille Port. After they came out, they also said that among the people who looted Marseille Port this time, there were Oriental faces, but they were somewhat different from the Ming people. They were generally shorter in stature and used weapons.
Among them is a Japanese samurai sword."
"We also learned from Spain that a large number of ships have been transferred from West Africa to North Africa recently. After the sacking of Marseille, Spanish colonies across North Africa received some cargo ships full of slaves, and they all arrived quickly
The transfer was carried out secretly."
The minister responsible for investigating the Port of Marseille approached Louis XII and reported the investigation.
"Spain and Japanese?"
When Louis XII heard this, he immediately fell silent.
In fact, he has already guessed this matter. The most likely person is the Ottoman Empire. However, the pirates of the Ottoman Empire are now mainly active in the eastern Mediterranean. They looted Italy, Venice, and the Balkans. They rarely enter the Western Mediterranean now.
Because the Spanish navy is constantly patrolling the Aegean Sea and Sicily, and the Ming Empire's Mediterranean fleet also patrols various places from time to time, and will not let go of pirates when they encounter them.
The rest are naturally the Spaniards. Louis XII would not believe that any pirates were capable of attacking the Port of Marseille. He knew very well about the pirates that were rampant now. They were all regular armies from several countries.
It is absolutely impossible for them to come and loot their own Marseille port by pretending to do so.
It's just that he didn't expect that the Japanese people would also participate. This Japanese country has never had any sense of existence in the far east. That is to say, it recently had colonies in West Africa. Everyone paid attention to the Japanese countries after they looted their colonies.
"Spain, Japan~"
Louis XII's eyes were blood red and his fists were clenched.
The Spaniards and Japanese were so ruthless that they attacked the Port of Marseille directly. They were able to completely loot such a huge city.
The key is that now this is tantamount to treating others with their own medicine. You are using pirates to loot their colonies and treasure ships, and they are directly attacking your local ports and cities.
If the Port of Marseille can be looted cleanly, then other ports can also be looted cleanly. Today is the Port of Marseille, tomorrow is Nice, and later is Montpellier. It won’t take long for the coastal areas of France to be looted.
No one dares to live there anymore.
Maybe in the future, like the prairie people, they will go deep into the inland areas to harvest grass and valleys, and the whole of France will be treated like leeks, and wave after wave will be sold as slaves to the East.
"Call the troops immediately to the Spanish border and await orders at any time."
"Call the Spanish ambassador to come and ask questions~"
Louis XII walked around angrily, thinking about countermeasures.
Soon, Harvey, the Spanish ambassador to France, came to the palace.
"Dear Your Majesty the King, do you know why you summoned me?"
Harvey also already knew about what happened in Marseille, and also knew that it was done by the Spaniards and the Japanese together, but he still asked about Louis XII with a smile.
"whats the matter?"
"Don't you Spaniards still know this in your heart?"
Louis XII looked at Harvey in front of him. He wanted to chop him into pieces, and looked straight at him with scarlet eyes.
"I don't understand what your Majesty is talking about~"
Harvey naturally looked like he didn't know anything.
"The port of Marseille was completely looted. Isn't this done by you Spaniards?"
"Your Majesty the King, we in Spain have never engaged in piracy. Pirates are very rampant now. Our Spanish colonial strongholds and treasure ships are often robbed. These pirates are powerful and it is possible to rob the Port of Marseille. This is absolutely impossible.
What we Spaniards do must be pirates."
Harvey naturally vetoed it and blamed it on the pirates.
Aren't you looking for an excuse to say you are a pirate?
Now Marseille is also being plundered by pirates. Although both parties know it well, they will make you angry to death.
"You~"
Louis XII was so angry that he couldn't speak, and pointed at Harvey.
"Haha, Your Majesty, if there is nothing else, I will leave first."
Looking at Louis XII's appearance, Harvey immediately laughed happily.
I asked you to pretend to be pirates, and now we will pretend to be pirates too, to see if you can still keep your composure.
Watching Harvey leave with a smile, Louis XII looked extremely ugly.
This is because a mute cannot tell how hard it is to eat Coptis chinensis.
The Spaniards blamed the pirates for everything.
Even though he knew that it was done by Spain, there was nothing he could do about it, just like the Spaniards knew that those pirates were actually created by a coalition of several countries.
As long as everyone doesn't admit it, the Spaniards have nothing to do with you and can't find an excuse to deal with you. Pirates have always existed, and sometimes they are very rampant.
From Vikings to Vikings, to English pirates, Ottoman pirates, North African pirates, etc., the Iberian Peninsula has always been plundered by pirates, as have France, Italy, etc.
As long as you don't admit it, no one can do anything to you. Even if you know what you did, you can only scold your mother. Otherwise, you will chase the pirates like crazy at sea and vent your anger. We will provide you with the fastest update of Daming Sea King.
