Chapter 186 The terrifying

Upon hearing this, the ministers immediately complimented the king and queen again, but this time they also brought the crown prince with them.

They all still remembered that it was His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who originally proposed this plan to combat pirates without spending any money, and now it has finally begun to bear fruit.

Joseph took the report from the Marquis of Castries and read it with great interest, and soon discovered that it was an American named Charles who obtained information about the pirates from Algiers and was able to successfully complete the ambush.

He narrowed his eyes when he saw Charles mention that his information might have come from a former Tunisian pasha named Yunis.

A "Crown Prince" of Tunisia's former dynasty is still very influential in Tunisia. If this is true, maybe his North Africa plan will need to be changed.

Previously, he had always planned to follow the historical trend and first attack the pirate strongholds on the north coast of Algiers, and then start to eliminate pirates throughout Algiers. Another identity of the Barbary pirates is that they are the navies of various North African countries. They are closely connected with their powerful people. After the pirates are wiped out, it will basically turn over the entire country.

But now it seems that Tunisia has a better grasp!

After the cabinet meeting ended, Joseph immediately found the Marquis of Castries and asked him to send an order to the United Fleet to summon the American named Charles to come to Paris.

Although the Minister of the Navy was a little surprised, he agreed immediately.

Then Joseph approached Fouche and asked him to speed up the construction of intelligence networks in Algiers and Tunisia.

…

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, two medium-sized sailboats with the words "Gemini Trading Company" printed on their hulls were driving seemingly casually on the sea.

The cargo on the ship had long been unloaded in the Far East, but nothing was bought, so the ship was very light, resulting in extremely fast speed.

After the two ships sailed straight west for a week, they turned around and sailed more than ten nautical miles south, then turned around and sailed east again with full sail.

If you read their navigation records for more than a month, you can find that they are constantly wandering in the nearby waters, seemingly searching for something.

On the armed merchant ship "Grumpy", Captain Fraut drew a few strokes on the nautical chart and looked at his first mate: "If we can't find it 100 nautical miles south, we can only go to Badawi." resupply and then return to Europe.”

At this moment, the lookout's excited shout came from the communication tube on the side: "Land! It's land! 25 nautical miles from east to south!"

Fraut hurriedly checked the chart carefully and confirmed that there was no discovered island at the location mentioned by the lookout. He immediately picked up the telescope excitedly and ran up to the bow deck in a few steps.

Sure enough, not long after, a dark gray island with mottled green patches appeared in his telescope.

He was excited, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was right, there really is an island here!

In the following period, Fraut led the crew to find a suitable shelter, built a forward base on the island, and planted the fleur-de-lis flag representing the King of France.

Five days later, they found the first batch of aborigines on the island. After some difficult communication with gestures, they hired nearly a hundred aborigines for the price of one glass ball per person per month and began to excavate everywhere on the island. Visible crunchy rocks.

The captain of the "Long Organ" watched the crew and aborigines move the rocks into the cabin, and asked Fraut: "Are you sure this is the kind of stone the Crown Prince wants?"

The latter nodded: "There is only this island in this sea area, it can't be wrong."

"Okay then. But finally we have discovered a new territory, there should be a lot of bonuses."

"I hope so." Fraut looked at the sea in the distance, "But the location of this island was pointed out by the crown prince. We are just here to confirm. Oh, he even knows the name of the island. What is it called?"

"It seems to be 'Nauru'."

"Yes, it's Nauru. What a strange name."

As more Nauru Aboriginal people heard the news and came to dig stones, it took only more than ten days for hundreds of Aboriginal people to fill the cargo holds of two armed merchant ships with a displacement of nearly 500 tons.

Fraut left more than a dozen sailors to guard the station and ordered the two ships to raise sails and return to Europe.

…

The hot July is coming.

France, in a small village 30 miles north of Berry.

Gazka leaned on the roof, took a piece of wood from his wife who was standing below, moved it to the last hole with difficulty, made a gesture, found a nail and nailed it hard.

The entire roof was covered with "patches". Just buying these wooden boards cost Gaizka a full 1 livre and 7 sous.

Gazka looked at the chicken coop not far away. Most of it had collapsed, which reminded him of the horrific disaster three days ago.

It was still a clear sky at that time, and he and Blanche from the same village were "taking care" of the newly purchased water pump for the parish. Suddenly, he felt something hit his shoulder hard, and the pain made him grin. When he turned around, he found There was a big bruise on his shoulder.

He thought it was the naughty children in the village who did it, and immediately looked around angrily. He didn't see any children yet, but he saw Blanche scream "Ouch" and fall to the ground with his head in his arms.

"What's wrong with you?" Gaizka hurriedly stepped forward to help him up, and was surprised to see a bloody mouth on his forehead, and in the soil next to him, there was a fist-sized "glass ball" stained with blood.

Gazka picked up the "glass ball", and a cold air suddenly penetrated into his palm. Only then did he realize that it was actually an ice ball.

Immediately, the sound of heavy objects hitting the ground began to be heard nearby.

Blanche, who was half-upturned, suddenly pointed to the air and shouted: "Heaven! Hide quickly, this thing fell from the sky!"

Fortunately, a wooden shed had already been set up over the water pump, and the two of them hurriedly got in.

Soon, the surrounding "Puff" sounds began to merge into one, and the wooden shed above their heads made a terrifying "Bang Bang" sound, as if there was a devil outside who wanted to smash them to death with a hammer.

The terrifying "hammer" hammered for nearly 40 minutes before gradually stopping. Gazka saw that even the thick wooden boards on the top of the wooden shed had been smashed with several cracks.

He suddenly remembered something, pushed open the door of the wooden shed, and froze on the spot.

The originally lush wheat fields had now turned into flat ground. The nearly mature wheat was smashed to pieces by countless fist-sized hailstones and mixed with ice and muddy water.

Nearly half of the trees in the distance were hung with broken branches and leaves, as if they had been ravaged by a mad giant. You could even see the flattened corpse of a beast lying in a pool of blood on the ground.

"No, don't, God bless..." Gaizka murmured in a trembling voice, ignoring the ice balls on the floor, and stumbled back to his home.

"Annette! Are you okay?!"

The next moment, he saw his wife, whose face was covered with blood, walking out of the house with two children in her arms, looking frightened.