Chapter Five Hundred and Twenty Nine Pirates Legends
James Hockley, who was pinned by two strong men, finally became a little more honest, and his expressions and actions were no longer as exaggerated as he had just gotten on the boat.
"Who are you and why do you follow us?"
As the captain, Frank first asked this person of unknown origin.
At sea, the captain is usually the biggest. The decision made by the captain will not explicitly oppose the captain's resolution even if there is a higher status on the ship.
After all, during the sailing process, the captain is the most professional and experienced one. If he relies on his noble status to command blindly, it will easily cause serious consequences.
So John had no intention of rushing to come forward, of course Frank did not dare to let His Royal Highness come to interrogate the man in person.
The man who was escorted showed a smile and said, "Great Your Highness, Honorable Mr. Captain, introduce myself, I am an adventurer, a sailor on the sea, descendant of the navigator Todd Hockley, this time
He came to seek investment from the respected Crown Prince!”
Obviously this person knows the identity of the Red Dragon Maharaja and the people on the ship.
"oh?"
John, who originally thought that this was a fool, became interested after hearing this.
He waved his hand to signal the two crew members to let go of the man, and then asked:
"I'm a little curious. Are you an inventor? Are there any projects you want to invest in?"
James Hawkley, who was free, pretended to organize his messed-up dress, but the red-brown skin and messy hair he showed off all year round was not like an elite gentleman in the upper class, but instead looked a bit inappropriate.
He saw him bowing solemnly and presenting a court ceremony with confidence:
"Your Highness, maybe you don't know me, the unknown, but when it comes to my great-grandfather, Todd Hockley, you must know."
John remembered that this person had mentioned this name before, but he didn't care at that time. Looking back now, there was indeed such a name in his memory, and that person was a little bit big and small in the history of the New World.
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"You mean Todd Hockley, the navigator in the small town of Hockley on the East Coast?"
James Hawkley immediately smiled.
"That's right, that's a town named after my great-grandfather's surname!"
From his surname, we can see that this is a typical descendant of Brooke's exile. After Brooke seized the ownership of the colony on the eastern coast of the North mainland from Emsdan, he thieved some thieves because of the scarcity of personnel in developing colonies.
Exiled to the New World with prisoners and proletarians who were not in the death row.
Therefore, there is a saying that the White Eagle Federation was a country established by exiles and criminals on the Old Continent. In order to beautify itself, the White Eagle Federation said that they were the descendants of the first Puritans who arrived at the New Continent by boat.
In fact, the statement from the outside world is completely accurate.
Because according to records, Brooke, who first started the industrial revolution, began to develop industries such as textiles and coal and iron very early. Factory and workshops needed a lot of labor, and there was a shortage of people everywhere. They would not allow too many people to cross the sea to the New World.
During that period, only criminals who were regarded as unstable factors were exiled to the New World.
Therefore, unlike traditional colonial countries such as Sbania and Porduga. As a rising star, Brooke actually only a very small number of Puritans who were unwilling to be persecuted to go to the New World by boat survived and successfully settled and took root in the New World. The rest
The vast majority of the colonial population are basically exiled criminals.
In order to beautify its ancestors, as early as the War of Independence 70 years ago, the White Eagle Federation regarded itself as the descendants of the Puritans and established the Puritans among the Protestant religion as the federal state religion.
Speaking of Todd Hockley, later records say that he was a great navigator, and in fact there are some Federalists who beautify themselves.
Because the world's well-known navigator comes either from Porduga, the first major sailing country to eat crabs, or from the empires such as Spania, Emsdan, Venice, and Brook. They also come out of countries and regions such as the first day's undestined empire.
Many well-known navigators.
Only when history is short and its foundation is completely unparalleled as the White Eagle Federation in the Old Continent, so the young man's grandfather Todd Hockley caught up with a good opportunity to gain such a reputation.
In fact, Todd Hockley is just a lucky pirate.
Pirates, this is also the most classic impression of Brooks in the eyes of many foreigners.
The emergence of privateer warrants set a bad start for the voyage and made the Brook Pirates a target that all countries hated, but it also created the foundation of Brook's later becoming the world's first naval power and the empire that will never set.
It was the pirates trained back then that laid the foundation of the Royal Navy and also attacked the trade development of hostile countries.
However, pirates are pirates. After the group of pirates were recruited, there were naturally free pirates who did not want to be restricted. These pirates lack order and do not obey the management of the Brook Kingdom. Of course, they are also the existence Brook wants to attack.
So Todd Hockley, the second lieutenant of the pirate ship, was caught by Brook soldiers for drunken and indulging after a robbery. Todd Hockley, who was arrested as a pirate, was originally going to be hanged, but then
The Governor of the Colonial New World repeatedly urged the Lenburg authorities to ask for people, and the manpower was urgently needed to develop the colonial economy, so in the end, the old Hockley was exiled by the Brook authorities to New Emsdan, the land of Franklin's predecessor at that time.
Old Hawkley, exiled to the New World, has gained a new life. With his superb navigation skills, he has won the favor of a businessman. He started from a sailor in his old business and started a business of smuggling when working for people, step by step
After accumulating and creating your own wealth, of course, you must also make extra money by your old business. Then, after a few years, you bought your own smuggling fleet and became a well-known smuggling tycoon in the New World colonial circle.
Then this man caught up with the War of Independence. Because he successfully bet on the White Eagle Federation, he assisted a lot of manpower and material resources during the war, and received a lot of preferential treatment after the war and was qualified to become a member of the federal upper class.
But unexpectedly, the legendary pirate actually chose to give up his huge family business. After buying some property for his wife and children in the federal government, he sold most of the smuggling ships and smuggling channels, creating a large expedition.
The ship successfully transformed into a well-known navigator and explorer of the White Eagle Federation.
It was just the last time I went out to sea. Todd Hockley and his famous expedition ship, Neptune, never returned. In the past few decades, a ship had vaguely seen a ghost ship suspected to be Neptune in the depths of the sea, but most of them were rumors.
, there is no real record. Therefore, it adds a bit of mystery to the legendary pirate and explorer's legend.
Looking back on the story of the characters in the old paper pile, John did not blame himself for not thinking about it at first, because Todd Hawkley's active era was more than sixty years ago, and the last few articles recorded his news reports.
That was also forty years ago.
Since then, Hodley's name is only mentioned occasionally when people think of this legend, but it is not very famous. Compared with the moving legends such as the pirate kings and their treasures from the Old World, Todd Hodley only
He is just an ordinary missing voyager.
John knew this because he went to some salons and banquets with Klaus during his time at Rodriguez College. When he was studying, he only learned about it when someone talked and discussed it.
Now that the descendants of this famous legendary figure in the White Eagle Federation are looking for investment, John is really interested in hearing what he will say.