After patiently listening to Tegler's words, William's face was completely darkened.
Although the ** war led by the Continental Congress a few years ago turned into a bubble under the joint efforts of Britain and Prussia, this does not mean that the people in these colonies have given up the hope of **, on the contrary, the defeat of the war in North America has made some half-hearted people break away from the Continental Congress, and the rest of the people are veritable radicals.
One might ask why Britain and Prussia have not completely eradicated these remnants.
In fact, it is not that William does not want to completely eradicate these remnants, but that William can't.
In the peak period of its influence, the Continental Congress not only affected the thirteen states of North America, but even its influence radiated to the whole of North America and Central America, and in its heyday, the number of troops exceeded 40,000.
After banishing the remnants of the Continental Congress into the depths of the North American continent, the British did not take any further action against them, after all, the situation at that time was that although the Continental Congress had failed, the French were still competing with the British for world supremacy around the world.
In this context, seeing that the Continental Parliament was no longer a concern, the elites of the British House of Commons naturally celebrated, except for leaving a part of the army to guard against the resurgence of those remnants and maintain law and order, the British transferred nearly half of their troops from the North American theater to support other theaters.
The British were left alone in North America, and it was impossible for the two Prussian divisions to destroy the Continental Congress, since the Prussian colonies were divided among the British, and most of the inhabitants of these colonies were supportive and sympathetic to the Continental Congress.
No matter how bad the Continental Congress is, it also has thousands of troops, and the new base of the Continental Congress is the wilderness deep in the North American continent.
Under such circumstances, Prussia would need at least 20,000 troops to completely exterminate these fellows, but if both divisions were to be sent, what would happen to the colony that had just been captured with great difficulty!
So this matter was dragged down.
As Prussia increased its immigration to the North American colonies, the original colonies no longer had enough room to survive.
Therefore, the colony had to continue to expand westward.
The large number of colonies helped Prussia's economy to take off, and it is important to know that Prussia and the North American colonies were in a sense very complementary.
In Prussia, for geographical reasons, most of the areas north of Potsdam belong to traditional agricultural and animal husbandry areas, where most of these areas are cultivated rye, wheat, potatoes, etc., and livestock is based on raising dairy cows and pigs.
The plants grown near Brandenburg are mainly vegetables, but because Prussia has gradually begun to industrialize in recent years, it is in the vicinity of Brandenburg.
Countless factories and workshops are sprawling, which has led to a considerable part of the arable land being turned into factories.
As for the area south of Brandenburg, because it is a mountainous area with a wide valley, more barley is cultivated.
The main areas of agriculture in East Prussia are animal husbandry and poultry breeding.
In recent years, with the continuous expansion of Prussia's territory, the increase in the population under the control of the state, and the great impact of traditional manor cultivation due to the emancipation of serfs, Prussia's grain production has not increased significantly.
Even because of the emancipation of those serfs, the relationship between the former serf owners and serfs became complicated, and in some areas there was a decrease in food production.
In North America, because of its geographical location, coupled with the prevalence of black slavery and the development of animal husbandry, the annual grain production of the Prussian colonies can even feed the local population in large quantities in addition to self-sufficiency, and the bumper harvest of cotton, tobacco, coffee and other economic plants can contribute a large amount of tax revenue to the Prussian treasury every year.
Prussia supported the expansion of the North American colonies, but in terms of whether to send reinforcements to the North American army.
Most of the officials in Prussia were in the negative.
The smoke of gunpowder over the European continent could be seen even by the blind, and at this time, some officers in the Prussian army, led by Ferdinand, thought that the eighteen divisions of Prussia itself were particularly inadequate, and how could they send reinforcements to North America, unless William could expand the army to more than 200,000 men before he could consider sending reinforcements to North America.
The colony expanded, the population grew, but Bruneke's army was still too small, and the strength of the two divisions needed to protect a colony equivalent to four layers of Prussia proper, which also made Bruneke feel helpless.
"Tegler.
Don't you have any good news to tell me?
” William, who was a little big in his head, rubbed his brows and asked Tegler, hearing William's words, Tegler was agitated and then quickly said: "Your Majesty, there is still good news, with a series of operations by the British in the Caribbean and the Atlantic Seas, the pirates who were once active in these waters have been hit hard, which not only makes our merchant ships safer in the Atlantic.
At the same time, some of the cornered pirates surrendered to us, and although these pirates were undisciplined, they all had a lot of experience in naval warfare, which I think should be good news."
"How many pirates?"
Tegler wiped the sweat from his head and said: "There were probably more than 200 people" For pirates.
William was very unhappy in his heart, or this psychology can be regarded as a common problem of rulers, after all, these pirates who live on the sea and rely on robbing past merchant ships to survive are undoubtedly the destroyers of the system, but with their skilled and experienced manpower, these pirates are as slippery as loaches, which is very annoying.
With the opening of new shipping routes, the seafaring trade flourished, and the discovery of the New World accompanied the expansion of colonies, leaving ships laden with gold, silver, jewelry, and other goods to cruise around the world, and the competing interests and colonial ambitions of nations provided the greatest breeding ground for piracy.
And the real attention of pirates comes from one person, a woman who has dedicated her life to the country and has never even married, and this woman is Queen Elizabeth, the generation of heroes who created the centuries-old hegemony of the British Empire.
Elizabeth's morale, the emerging Britain relied on the colonies of the New World to embark on the path of rapid development, but there was always a lingering haze hanging over the British on the road to the rise of Britain, and this haze was the Spaniards.
As the first empire to establish colonies in the New World, Spain was the world's most powerful empire at that time, with an invincible fleet of more than 100 warships and more than 3,000 cannons built with a lot of money to cross the Atlantic and Mediterranean.
And in 1587, Queen Elizabeth executed Mary, a Catholic.
Then the Pope issued an edict, calling on the countries of the world to believe in God to wage holy war against Britain, and as the most powerful country in the Catholic world at that time, Spain was naturally the first to bear the brunt, as soon as it received the Pope's edict, Spain immediately declared war on Britain and then sent the Armada to England.
In the English Channel, Spain and Great Britain began an unprecedented naval battle.
In this naval battle, the British fleet, which had been weak, was suddenly helped by a support force composed of pirates in the middle of the battle.
The British then defeated the Spaniards in a naval battle, which made Britain famous and laid a solid foundation for its rise.
Speaking of these pirates, we have to mention another very strange thing, this thing is called the privateering license, and it is this privateering license that helps Elizabeth mobilize a large number of pirates to help her defeat the Spaniards.
The so-called privateer license refers to an official document authorizing a private person to legally attack, capture, and rob enemy merchant ships during war.
Of course, half of these looted merchant ships had to be handed over to the state, and the remaining half was the looter's own.
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But even so, there are still countless people who are willing to take it, after all, it is still very promising to engage in the robbery industry under the protection of the state.
Of course, not all ships can be robbed by those who have obtained permits, for example, ships from their own country and those of friendly countries cannot be looted, otherwise if someone files a complaint, not only will the privateer license be revoked.
Even the person himself will be declared a pirate to kill.
It is undeniable that pirates who beg for a living on the sea all year round are indeed very tough.
However, as the piracy community grew, it was seen as a threat to the interests of all countries, so under the unanimous agreement of the countries, those who engaged in robbery without a privateer license were punished by the pirate mouth, regardless of the purpose.
With the intensification of encirclement and suppression, the scope of piracy's survival is also shrinking, and this year happened to be the British government once again organized a large-scale crackdown on pirates.
The pirates of the Caribbean had a serious existential crisis, which is why there were examples of surrender to the Prussians.
It was not the first time that Prussia had contact with pirates, but the surrender of so many pirates was a big headache for Bruneke, but Bruineke did not kill all the pirates like the British, and considering that the Prussian navy was developing, these pirates might be of some use in the future.
Brunec therefore accepted the surrender of the pirates, but with great care.
"Well, Tegler, that's good news.
However, it is not a solution for these pirates to stay in the New World, so he sent an order to Bruneke to send all these pirates back to the mainland, and then let Mehard pick and choose whether there are any eye-catching ones!
” Although William said good news in his mouth, his face was unimpressed, and Teegler was naturally a little anxious when he saw William's performance.
The previous two pieces of news must have made William's mood very bad, and if he can't make amends, I'm afraid it will affect his image in His Majesty's heart.
As the call for the colonial minister to join the cabinet grew, Teegler believed that he would definitely enter the Prussian cabinet in the near future, and now if he lost William's favor, I am afraid that he would not see the day when he would not see the scenery!
Thinking about it, Tegler said: "Your Majesty, I have another piece of good news here, of course, it has something to do with pirates!"
Hearing Teregg mention pirates again, William was unhappy, to be honest, it may have been influenced by his previous life, although William has not seen real pirates in the current era, but look at the pirate images in the popular Caribbean pirates on the screen, William has a very different sense of pirates!
"If you have anything, you can tell it all together!"
"So, Your Majesty, do you know Captain Kidd?"
Teegler cautiously asked William, who was stunned when he heard Captain Kidd.
Although he didn't like the pirate William very much, William had heard of Captain Kidd's fame, so William asked rhetorically: "I've heard of this Captain Kidd you're talking about, but what does it have to do with the good news?"
"Your Majesty, since you've heard of this Kidd ship, you should have heard the story of this pirate's treasure!"
Hearing the treasure, William, who was originally full of indifference, immediately pricked up his ears, you must know that the worst thing for William now is money, and since it can be called a treasure, there must be a lot of money, as the so-called wealth is moving, William is no exception!