Chapter 122 The confession of the pirate chief
After the interrogation, the former British Royal Navy Major Officer Brom, Mad ran to another pirate ship headed by Schalhuda and interrogated the pirate leader Drake with Schalhuda. However, Mad and the others were not as favorable to this pirate leader as Brom. The interrogation site was in the bottom cabin.
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"Yoshida Asano? Oh! That's a fool! Shida's talented fool!" After hearing Mad's question, Drake, the tall pirate who had been wearing underwear, said this.
"Idiot? Humph, I think you are a fool! You actually dare to come to Manchuria to act wildly... If I had known that you were the pirate leader, I would have cut you with one knife!" Looking at Drake's neck, Shahrhuda touched the knife with some regret.
"In fact, you don't have to be so polite!...If I had known that it would have fallen to where I am today, I would have had a gun hidden on my body!" Although there were no weapons on my body and several Manchu men were guarding me, Drake still responded with a proud and outspoken response to Sharhuda. It seemed that he wanted to prove with facts that he had said that he was not afraid to fight desperately.
"I seem to have heard of the name Drake somewhere!" Mad suddenly said again.
"Ha! Have you really heard of the name Drake? It's so great!" Drake shouted happily and pointed at Mad and laughed loudly: "I didn't expect that Drake's reputation, who defeated the Spanish "Invincible Fleet", even Chinese people far away in the East know! It's not a loss for me to change it to this name..." Before he finished asking, Drake's face suddenly turned depressed: "But, I am embarrassing to this name today..."
"I think you've made a mistake! I just remembered that the one I've heard of should be called 'Dics', a seller of fried chicken wings, not a pirate!" Made said again.
"..." Drake was stunned. Schalhuda laughed wildly.
"Okay! Let's talk about what you did..." Made winked at Sharhuda, and Sharhuda immediately signaled his subordinates to take out the "power of iron and fire" - a soldering iron. Due to the limitations of time and place, China's profound torture culture is really difficult to fully display in front of this pirate.
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"Who is Asano Yoshida? How did you attract him?" Ma Dexian asked.
"That guy is a family member of the Asano family in Japan. He is a fool who can't extricate himself from fantasy! I met him when I pretended to be a Dutch to do business in Japan last year. I originally wanted to make a few more money with his identity, but he was a useless guy. He could not help me with anything except getting money from me. He also brags about great ambitions all day... As far as I know, he would tell him his great ambitions at least three times a day... This time I gave him money and asked him to recruit three thousand people, but he only recruited more than one thousand. If I hadn't found a few small groups of pirates, I wouldn't have even been able to raise two thousand people this time... He would have been corruption by him!" Drake said hatefully.
"What power does the Asano family have in Japan?"
"Daming! A powerful daimyo! It seems that he can rank among the top in Japan..." Drake said, slapped his head.
"Daming? Hehe, I'm posting this..." I was worried that the Qing Dynasty and Japan had a good relationship! Now... Alas, it's still difficult to promote anything. A child from a branch still has to borrow money from outsiders all day long, so it's unlikely that it will play any role. Ma De shook his head secretly.
"Where did you become a pirate before?" Mad asked again.
"In the Luzon area, I occasionally go to Sumatra for a walk. Although I really want to be a great pirate like Drake, with my strength, it is actually difficult to rob a larger fleet! So, I have always been very careful in doing things!" Drake said with his chest straight.
"Are you careful in your work? If you are careful, you will not be discovered by our people!" Shahrhuda smiled contemptuously.
"I can't blame me! I originally wanted to take people ashore and leave those Japanese and turn back! But before I could speak to Asano Yoshida, you were already here. This is my bad luck!" Drake defended himself.
"Since that Asano Yoshida is a noble family, why did he come to our country to cause trouble with you?" Ma De asked again.
"It seems you don't understand Japan!" Drake used his hand to tidy up his hairstyle and said, "I have been in Japan for a long time in business, so I know very well about the Japanese mentality..."
"What are you doing as a Dutch guy?" asked Schalhuda.
"Your Excellency, I am a British pirate. Do I have to use the name of my own country to sell dirt? I am also patriotic..." Drake raised his head and "justice".
"Since you are patriotic, why don't you do your best to help Brom implement his plan? You have to change the money to hire 5,000 people to hire 3,000 people?" Made smiled sarcastically.
"Patriotism also comes at a price..." Drake still raised his head, as if what he said was "natural".
"Hmph, if you have a chance, you are a traitor!" Shahrhuda snorted disdainfully.
"This is normal in the West! Their kings can be invited from other countries... The national rebellion is even more ordinary!" Made explained to Sharhuda, but he felt ashamed in his heart. He seemed to be a little "rebellious" now, but fortunately, it was the tribe that he "rebelled" rather than the entire nation! Moreover, he did not do anything to sorry to the Han people.
"I protest! You can't insult us..." Drake pointed at Mad and wanted to express some opinions, but Schalhuda suddenly smashed a thud with a sword, and then hesitated and said nothing. The saying "A hero will not suffer a loss in front of us" does not just mean Chinese people.
"Great Mr. Pirate, what is the mentality of the Japanese? I'm very curious about it!..." After picking up the long handle of the soldering iron and playing for a while, Mad asked Drake again.
"...Their upper class likes to accept your Chinese things very much, but their civilians hate you China very much! Among their people, there have always been many voices who want to annex your China... We have to admit that they are really a dream-loving nation!" Drake replied. In his opinion, it is really just a fool to annex China with Japan's national strength.
"Nonsense! Japan has long been vain to my Qing Dynasty. Do you have any evidence that they want to annex my Qing Dynasty? I warn you, don't provoke discord here!" Shahrhuda glared at Drake and said loudly.
"Why am I talking nonsense? I have watched a drama in Japan called "The Battle of the National Family", which fantasized that Japanese samurai drove into Nanjing and established a Japanese country on your Chinese land. Every time this drama was staged in Japan, there were crowds of viewers!...Isn't this proven? Moreover, this time I went to Japan to recruit people to Manchuria to rob, and more than 2,000 people came at once. If I hadn't had this mentality, would I be so easy to recruit people? However, according to the national strength of your China and Japan, their performance can only be said to be a manifestation of dreaming." Drake shrugged and said.
"No, they are not dreaming, nor are they dreaming nations. They are a group of wolves, a group of wolves who know how to endure!..." Although Made was still smiling, Drake and Schalhuda both saw the fierce murderous intent in his eyes.
"Sir..." Shaerhuda didn't know why Made suddenly showed such an expression, and didn't know what to do for a moment.
"Tell me everything this guy said just now, and no word is allowed to be missed!... and the case file that was interrogated by Brom just now was submitted to Beijing!"
"Zhe!" Looking at Mad's scary face, Sharhuda did not dare to neglect and immediately turned around to do it.
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"Drake!" When Schalhuda walked out of the cabin, Mad walked towards Drake with a smile.
"What do you want to do?..." Drake asked Mad unconsciously, shrinking backwards.
"Nothing! I just want to tell you that you have no chance to become a great pirate. Because you provoke and intend to invade our country, you are dead on this charge!"
"No, you can't do this!... You haven't tried me yet, I haven't found a lawyer yet... My charge is just robbery, at most it will be locked up for decades!" Drake shouted. He wanted to pounce on Mad, but was held tightly by several big men around him, and could only struggle.
"Robbery? Tsk tsk, Drake, you probably don't understand yet! In China, robbing officials with weapons is also a death sentence!" Ma De said with a smile again.
"No, no, no, it's impossible, it's impossible! This is not in accordance with the rules... I am a foreigner, you cannot use your laws to condemn me!" Drake shouted.
"Damn, I originally wanted to give you a clear path, but I dared to propose 'diplomacy immunity' in front of me? Come on, block his mouth and you will not be allowed to eat for three days!" Ma De turned around and left the cabin in anger.
Chapter completed!