Fox of France

Soon, the Ministry of War came up with a relevant plan. According to this plan, before the Olympic Games, the Navy will first dispatch the full steam-powered super cruiser "Free Trade", "Unified Market", and "Le Havre". The steam-powered cruiser, the steam-powered cruiser "Toulon", the steam-powered cruiser "Fauss", and two squadrons composed of twelve warships went to the coast of North Africa to provide escort for merchant ships from various countries.

At the same time, the French government also authorizes these warships to inspect any ships they find suspicious, and if they encounter resistance, they can use force as appropriate.

In addition, in order to cooperate with the military operation, the French consuls in the Barbary countries should immediately make representations to them, demanding 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 even be said that they are impossible to realize. Because first of all, they don't know whose family did it. The pirates who did this would certainly not tell the above that they had attacked a French ship, and they would definitely replace the captured ship with the flag of Spain or other small Italian countries.

Of course, this is not a big problem. If you really want to check, you can still find out. But even if it is found out, no matter which pirate country it is, it dare not admit it. If you don't admit it, you can still throw the blame to the next door. If you admit it, you have to bear all the consequences.

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 the missing crew members have gone, those pashas can figure it out with their heels. A group of pirates robbed a ship from a country that was not allowed to rob, and they couldn't ask for ransom anyway. In order to keep it secret, the easiest way was of course to send all the crew members to chat with Poseidon immediately. So there is no need to ask, those crew members must have been killed.

But you can’t go to the French and say, ah, French brothers, we robbed your ship, and we killed all the people, so let’s see what to do. If that's the case, it's no wonder the French fleet didn't demolish your house.

So nowadays, it is impossible to admit it, or even to investigate it-if it is investigated, doesn't it mean that you may have done it? Now, throwing the blame on the head of the pirate country next to it is the only barely feasible way.

Of course, other pirate countries will definitely throw the blame over without hesitation. In short, no one will honestly let all the blame be pinned on their own heads. Besides, there is still an advantage to throwing blame at each other, that is, it can tie the Barbary countries together. In this way, if the French really want to turn their backs, everyone should take care of it together, at least better than doing it alone.

This is like fish in the sea, when they encounter 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 when facing ordinary predators. However, if instead of a normal predator, a fishing trawler arrives, the entire school will be...

France, which has initially realized industrialization, is such a fishing trawler. But what is even more terrible is that the world of Green Education 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 technical level, but more importantly, because of their backwardness in science, their vision also lags behind. The most typical manifestation of this lagging behind is that they cannot understand I have a few catties and a few taels, and I can't see the gap between myself and the advanced level. Sometimes, even if you have shown him superpowers, he can't understand. Unable to understand, naturally there is no fear. Without fear, a policy of intimidation would naturally be ineffective.

It's like in "The Three-Body Problem", even though the earthlings have seen the ubiquitous and omniscient sophon, they still think that with their 2,400 star-class warships, they can resist the attack from the father of the Three-Body Problem. caring. The backwardness in basic science prevented them from even imagining how strong their opponents were, and only felt that they should be about the same as themselves.

The Barbary countries are almost in this state. They feel that if everyone sticks together, although they can't beat the French, as long as they dare to fight, they should be able to bring a lot of losses to the French, and then they should be able to get a more decent result.

Therefore, in the face of the French's request, several pirate countries have basically turned on the mode of dumping the pot, telling the French that this matter was not done by us, we have no habit of attacking French ships, this must be elsewhere Pirates 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 about to go to sea, ordering them not to attack French ships.

As for those pirate ships that are already at sea and haven't had time to come back, we can only hope that they don't make any more troubles.

At this time, Polina had completed the historic task of lighting the Olympic torch, and then wandered around Greece for a while, played around with the locations of those heroic stories, and bought some ancient Greek cultural relics that I don’t know if they are true or not. Then boarded the boat again and left Greece.

The "Imberado" stopped in Naples for a while, firstly to let Polina go ashore to relax, and secondly to replenish some living supplies.

Polina took a group of bodyguards and walked around Naples, and bought some ancient Roman cultural relics of unknown authenticity, as well as some local newspapers, intending to pass the time on the road.

However, Paulina casually glanced at the newspaper, but suddenly saw a piece of news: "Barbary pirates committed crimes like crazy, the French navy began to escort merchant ships."

When Paulina saw it, her eyes lit up immediately. She turned her head and said with a flashing smile to Beier Dong who was standing aside: "Bei Dong, if you can convince the captain to let him stop by to fight the Barbary pirates, I will give you a little reward, how about it? "

"What kind of reward is it?" Beier Dong hurriedly asked.

"I haven't figured it out yet." Polina smiled. She leaned over, put her arms around Beier Dong's shoulders, and put her mouth next to Beier Dong's earlobe and said, "But I said, we are such buddies, I'm sure It won't keep you busy, will it?"

Beldon's ears were itchy from the air blown out of Polina's mouth, and a soft part of Polina seemed to rub against his arm unintentionally, so he couldn't help but groan Get up with a little heart and mind.

"Miss Bonaparte," Belleton tried to straighten his face and said, "I treat you as a brother, you can't..."