We have fought to the Arctic Circle, and you want me to inherit the throne?

As it turned out, Fu Liang's worries were completely unnecessary. The pirates' desire to surrender was as sincere as it could be.

Pirates are an illegal and evil organization, but they desire order more than anyone else.

After all, if there is no order, no caravans and civilians, they will not be able to plunder spoils and will lose their way of survival.

Most of the members of this group of pirates were laborers from Portugal, with a small number of black and white subraces.

Most people were unwilling to be honest laborers, so they robbed merchant ships and went out to sea as pirates, doing business with no capital.

These guys are like maggots on the tarsal bone. They can only survive by nomadic plundering on the sea and are difficult to clean up.

They were also very smart. They only plundered the civilians of Luzon and never attacked the Portuguese.

Alvaro would turn a blind eye to them, and even secretly protect them, asking them to help him do some shameful things.

Then, Li Che came with his fleet.

As soon as they arrived in this sea area, they came face to face with a group of pirates. A fierce bombardment scared them so much that they ran away with their tails between their legs.

The pirates thought they could get rid of this powerful fleet, but within two days, Luzon fell...

After the Fengtian Army took control of Luzon, this group of pirates disappeared and dared not come ashore to plunder again. They had been drifting on the sea for a month.

The water and food on the boat have run out. If they are not replenished, they will probably start eating black people.

There was no choice but to muster up the courage to surrender.

The pirates had a total of four warships, two of which were relatively well preserved, and the other two were in tatters and could barely float on the water.

The entire pirate group consisted of only more than 800 people, which was pitifully small. They were dressed in rags and looked like a group of refugees.

The pirates were escorted to the deck of the Dingyuan and made to kneel in a row.

As soon as Li Che walked over, he smelled a pungent stench of sour food.

He couldn't help but frown. The appearance of these pirates was very different from the big pirates he had imagined.

"Who is the leader?" Li Che asked.

The pirates looked at each other, no one understood.

Li Che glanced behind him and saw the pirate who was captured first hiding in the crowd with evasive eyes. He immediately said sternly: "Come out and translate!"

Seeing that he couldn't escape, the pirate had no choice but to stand up.

Seeing their own traitor appear, the pirates were immediately excited, and many of them stood up and cursed loudly.

The navy soldiers would not tolerate their bad habits. They took off their muskets and hit them with the butts. There was constant wailing on the deck.

Li Che pulled him to his side and said, "Why are you panicking? They are here to surrender too. According to the order of priority, you are their senior. It's not certain who will be in charge of whom in the future!"

The pirate suddenly understood and became proud.

Pointing at a middle-aged man with a long beard, he shouted, "Your Highness, that's him! His name is Roger, and he's the leader of the pirate group!"

Seeing that he could not escape, the middle-aged man stood up and glared at the pirate.

Then he looked at Li Che with a flattering smile, took off his hat gracefully, and bowed with one hand on his chest: "Respected General Dongfang, Roger salutes you."

Li Che was also amused by his name: "So your name is Roger? Pirate King?"

Roger's face turned pale with fear: "I dare not, I dare not."

One Piece? That's really giving him too much credit.

A truly powerful pirate group has thousands of members, dozens of warships, and can dominate an area of ​​the sea.

For example, Chen Zuyi, a famous pirate in the Ming Dynasty, once occupied Malacca for more than ten years. He was one of the leaders of the largest pirate groups in the world. At its peak, he had more than 10,000 members under his command, and his activities were carried out in Japan, the South China Sea and other places.

Over a period of more than ten years, his pirate ships plundered more than 10,000 ships and captured more than 50 coastal towns. Some countries in Southeast Asia even paid tribute to him!

In the end, he provoked Zheng He's fleet and was captured by Zheng He and escorted back to the court. Zhu Di ordered him to be beheaded in front of envoys from various countries.

Compared to this big pirate, Roger's pirate group of several hundred people couldn't even put together a cannon, it was like playing house.

"Roger, right? I heard you were robbing property and looting civilians in Luzon. I didn't go looking for you, so how dare you come to me?"

After hearing the pirate's translation and Li Che calling himself the king, Roger's expression became more complicated.

At the same time as he was panicking, there was also a hint of ecstasy that he couldn't conceal!

King! This young fleet leader is actually a king!

In Europe, where bloodline theory is highly valued, the appeal of a king is astonishing.

After all, they do not have the idea of ​​"Are kings, princes, generals, and ministers born of different species?", and their loyalty to the royal family is engraved in their bones.

Roger knew that he was in danger of death today, but he was also lucky. If he could handle it well, he would be able to reach the sky in one step.

Being able to board the ship of a powerful king is much more promising than being a mere pirate, right?!

As for the fact that Li Che is not the king of the Western world, but the king of a mysterious Eastern country, who cares about that?

Since the day they became pirates, they gave up the idea of ​​returning home and were destined to wander the sea for the rest of their lives.

Roger's mind raced, and he calmly came to a conclusion.

This king seemed to be of a kind nature, so he rebuked himself for plundering civilians instead of offending himself.

For a benevolent master, it is natural to please him.

After figuring it out, Roger's expression immediately changed: "Your Highness, although we were plundering, we never killed innocent people. We only took their money and did not harm their lives!"

"Besides, we were all ostracized by the Portuguese army. We had no other choice but to go to sea and become pirates."

Li Che looked at the pirate beside him, who hesitated for a moment and nodded.

What Roger said was not wrong. These pirates really would not kill people easily, or it could be said that many pirates would not kill people at will.

Although the pirates were doing a business with no capital, wealth did not appear out of thin air. What they did was to take wealth from others.

These people were the source of their goods. If they killed all of them, or were too brutal and scared everyone into running inland, the pirates would not be able to rob anything and would be doomed.

Therefore, Roger never took advantage of the situation. Sometimes he would only take some property from the civilians, leaving some for them to meet their basic living needs, and wait to take it next time.

Li Che was naturally aware of the activities of this group of pirates, but he didn't care. Instead, he showed an expression of interest.

These pirates robbed people from Luzon. At that time, Luzon was not under their control, so what did it have to do with them?

On the contrary, recruiting them would be more meaningful to Li Che.

After all, the team that helped Li Che make his fortune was a group of criminals, and he was good at dealing with this group of criminals.

A group of experienced sailors who also know Latin and are familiar with the customs and practices of Europe are simply the perfect "Feng Xie Army"!

When the Fengtian Army reaches Europe, this group of people will immediately transform into European traitors and guides, and contribute to the blitzkrieg on their hometown!