Chapter 257 Pirates seek the country
When he thought of the possible consequences, even Yian couldn't help but fight a cold war.
Fortunately, I didn't think about changing the route temporarily, so I landed on the island as planned.
"Tell me well!" Yian also sat down and said, "What's going on on this island? Since you are on a mission and are waiting for me on this island, how could you get involved in the battle on this island? Also, what about Hu Tao and Yardi? They didn't follow you, or were they separated from you?"
Kona Nayi originally wanted to tell the story, but at this moment, Zike and the others found this room, and Kona Nayi could only shut up for the time being.
"Captain, there are no other living people in the village!" Zike reported to Ian, and then looked at Konanayi curiously.
Ian also knew what they were thinking, so he introduced: "This is Kona Nai, my companion. In the holy land Mary Choa, I could only know the navy's movements with their help."
When Zike heard this, he immediately respected Kona Nayi. In fact, when he escaped with Yian, Zike and the others found that Yian was contacting someone through the phone bug. At that time, he guessed that Yian might have a companion, but he didn't expect to meet him here. After all, Kona Nayi was also their benefactor.
Through the conversation, Kona Nayi also knew that this was Yian's crew, so she nodded to them, saying hello.
Everyone sat down around Kona Nai and listened to her story. In fact, let alone Yian, everyone was confused about the situation on the island.
"Watao, and Yardie, and I landed on this island a month ago!" Konayi said: "To count it, it should be half a month after the Salamis incident. After arriving at this island, we were originally living in the city and waiting for you, but later something happened. We saved a man who was chased by pirates and came to this village under his guidance."
"Save people?" Yian said in confusion: "Is there any connection with this matter today?"
"Listen to me!" Konanayi said: "It's nothing to save people, but we only realized afterwards that this man was a miner who escaped from the mine."
As Kona Nai's story was told, Yian and the others gradually understood what was going on.
It turns out that this island is a well-known gem country in the New World, producing some rubies and emeralds. Although the output is not large, it also makes the people on this island live a wealthy life.
The island has not a large population. Because gems are produced, it is basically miners. This small country was originally one of the world government franchises, but because it is in the middle of the new world, there are no naval stations here.
However, what is unexpected is that about eight years ago, a big pirate suddenly came to this island. He actually launched a sneak attack with his pirate group, rushed into the palace, and killed the king of this country!
Needless to say, the big pirate plotted to seize the country and took the position of king.
Originally, this kind of thing was absolutely not allowed by the world government. At that time, the world government considered to send a navy to capture the pirate. But unexpectedly, the pirate king actually went to Mary Qiaoa. After returning, he became the king of this country with justification. Although the world government did not make any statement, it did not send the navy to come again, which was equivalent to acquiescence.
Such a reversal really makes the people of this island unable to understand. Although they know that the pirate king may have reached an agreement with the world government, they are powerless because they don’t know the details.
After all, the country established in this island is too short. It is not a thousand-year-old country like Alabastan. The royal family has become deeply rooted in the minds of the people. For ordinary people, in fact, they don’t care so much about who is the king. The other party has force and cannot resist. Then it is okay to obey him, as long as it does not disturb the lives of the people.
However, who knew that shortly after the pirate king came to power, he announced that all the veins on the island were nationalized and that all the miners on the island must serve the country.
He sent people to capture adult men on the island in a large manner, and used them as miners, and then distributed them to mine caves to dig for ore.
Losing personal freedom, the people who are regarded as miners on the island have greatly increased their working hours every day. Not to mention the heavy physical labor, the rewards they received in the end are pitifully less than before. Moreover, even if the work is completed, these miners are not allowed to return home, but are concentrated and taken care of.
This is actually no different from being a slave...
After a long time, the people stopped doing it, so they wanted to resist. As a result, the pirate king actually bribed many pirate groups to serve him and used pirates to suppress these miners.
This situation lasted for eight years. All the people arrested and went to mine were tortured to the point of being human. During this period, some miners also escaped from the sea and wanted to seek help from the navy. However, some were caught up and intercepted by the pirates. Occasionally, some of them really escaped. Even if they looked for the navy, they were still shirked by the navy and ignored them.
After discovering this situation, the people on the island finally became desperate. They knew that the navy could no longer rely on themselves and could only rely on themselves. So in the secret, the miners began to secretly unite, intending to launch an uprising to overthrow the pirate king.
Kona Nayi and the others didn't understand the situation, so they chose to board the island at such a time. The man they rescued was actually one of the leaders who organized the miners to revolt!
The reason why he was hunted by the pirates was because there were traitors inside the organization, and he was exposed!
He and dozens of miners found something wrong, so they killed the guard and ran out. However, when they were passing through the city, they were caught up by the pirates hired by the king and fought fiercely in the city. The rest were dead, and he was seriously injured. He was discovered by Kona Nayi and the others and rescued him. Kona Nayi escorted him back to the village of this secret stronghold, leaving Hu Tao and Yardi, who continued to wait for Ian in the city.
As a revolutionary army, Kona Nayi was sympathetic about the experiences of these miners, so he was willing to help them in the best of his ability.
However, it was a coincidence that the man she saved was unconscious for three days. It was during these three days that the pirate king was also ready and began to launch a bloody suppression of these miners who wanted to resist him.
Time happened to be last night!
Due to the betrayal of the informant, all the hiding places of the rebel miners were exposed. The Pirate King hired a large number of different pirate groups as his thugs and began to attack these hiding places. These miners were originally just ordinary people, with pitifully few weapons in their hands. How could they be extremely vicious? The opponents of the pirates who had been fighting on the sea for a long time? So after a while of resistance, the miners' front collapsed.
Originally, if the pirate king had a little conscience, he would just arrest the person again. However, because the pirate king had an injustice, he was always very alert. The occurrence of such an uprising and resistance incident made him very angry, so he ordered all the miners involved in the uprising to be killed.
So the first tragedy on the island happened, and the crazy pirates faithfully carried out the orders of their employers and launched a massacre against the miners on the island.
Thousands of miners, regardless of the distinction, were listed as targets of massacre. Although the miners resisted vigorously, they still could not defeat the pirates who had complete weapons and possessed cannons, finally had to fight and retreat, trying to retreat to the sea and escape.
As a result, when they first went out to sea, they met the pirates who followed, and then the two sides started another fierce battle at sea.
This time it was even more miserable. Naval battles were common for the pirates. Although the miners gritted their teeth and killed many pirates because they had no way out, they were still wiped out...
This is how things happened. The village where Kona Nayi is located is one of the secret hiding places of miners, which also attracted the pursuit of pirates. Although Kona Nayi also helped the miners resist these pirates, she was helpless and outnumbered. In the end, she was caught off guard and was chopped down to the ground by a pirate from behind...
If Yian had come one or two hours later, Kona Nayi would have died of excessive blood loss.
Listening to her story, Yian and the others were silent all the time.
It was not until the end that Ian frowned and asked, "Strange, can this pirate king bribe the world government and let them indulge here without any hesitation?"
"Yes, if the gems produced on this island are really of such great benefit, wouldn't it cause the Four Emperors to be moved?" Zike also asked.
When Kona Nayi was just talking, Yian interrupted and asked a few questions. He learned that the pirate king here was actually a big pirate with a bounty of up to 340 million, but it seemed that he had nothing to do with the Four Emperors Pirates, and this island was not the jurisdiction of any Four Emperors.
This is what Yian thinks is the strangest thing. In other words, a place that can produce gems will attract the covetousness of the Four Emperors, right? No pirates will be unable to get over money.
"I've asked the miners here!" Konanayi shook her head and said, "In fact, there are very few gem veins on this island. After so many years of mining, it has almost been sold out."
"Then why do you still imprison these miners and let them mine?" Yian asked in confusion.
"Because the pirate king doesn't seem to be a gem mine!" Konanayi groped on her body for a while, took out a small white crystal, and said, "What he wants seems to be this thing!"
Chapter completed!