Codex Pirates

Chapter 222 Little Reporter Big News

Yossarian Heller was angry because William was able to have what he is today. It can be said that he and Colonel Roy "had the greatest credit", that is, they helped William avoid the fate of being included in the bounty at the beginning, and later the rats helped .

Under Louise's questioning, Yossarian Heller basically told all the deeds of William that he knew. He boarded a big pirate group alone at the age of eighteen, killed the original captain, and successfully annexed the whole world. He then colluded with local naval officials to evade capture, befriended the ministers of the kingdom to launder the stolen money and his identity, entered the kingdom's army at the right time, and eventually became a high-ranking official who controlled the military and political power of a country.

Some places, such as the information about collusion with local naval officers, because it involves Roy, Yossarian Heller said very vaguely, he only said that William colluded with rats, and there are some places, such as the specific information about William after he entered the kingdom’s army. As, and before boarding the ship of the Redbeard Pirates, I didn't know much about trade and smuggling because I didn't personally participate and understand it. I only know that William has now become the consul of the Kingdom of Navia.

This official position was established by William himself. Yossarian Heller doesn't know much about it, but he does know that William is now in the Kingdom of Navia with almost one person under one person and over ten thousand people. The substance fell into the hands of William.

Laura Louise took out a notebook at some point and kept recording something in it.

"You said he was only 18 years old when he annexed a pirate group with a bounty of nearly 20 million Baileys?" After Yossarian Heller finished speaking, Louise paused for a moment, and then she put the notebook In the series of contents mentioned above, words related to age are circled separately.

Yossarian Heller nodded.

Like the original vulture editor-in-chief of "Donghai Daily", Louise's keen intuition as a journalist also told her that age is a huge topic.

Being able to kill the former captain shows that he has enough strength and can safely annex a large pirate group, which shows that he has enough skills, and he is only eighteen years old. Although he is in the Chambord Islands, Louise has seen or heard about it. There are countless pirate rookies, but rookies with such scheming at this age are still rare. The most important thing is that he was born in the East China Sea, and now he has almost stolen the power of a country.

Moreover, the point that interests Louise the most is——

"He didn't plunder?" Louise finally showed surprise, "Why did he do that? And where did he get the funds to support the ship and people?"

Louise is very clear that the reason why everyone shouts to beat the pirates is because they are a bunch of non-productive groups, but the daily consumption of various resources by a ship of strong armed personnel is not a small number. So we can only plunder those hard-working local people.

Are there aliens among pirates? Of course there are, but they are also a minority, because the nature of the pirate group cannot be changed. They rely on the looted materials and funds to maintain their "freedom" and a chic life.

The Chambord Islands where Louise is located is the place where you can most witness the ugliness of this group, because one of the main suppliers of "commodities" in the slave auction here is the pirate group.

Some of the "commodities" they sold to the auction house were civilians captured by the pirates, and some were simply colleagues captured by the pirates after they merged.

All this is for money.

"They specialize in attacking other pirates in the surrounding area, and make a living by robbing them. In addition, they seem to be doing some business." Yossarian Heller's words were not clear.

However, Louise still recorded this matter, and she had already become curious.

"A righteous thief?" Louise murmured to herself.

Yossarian Heller heard the words, but said disdainfully: "It's all about buying people's hearts."

Louise didn't care, and asked again: "Then how old is he now?"

"Twenty-two years old."

Twenty-two-year-old robber, Louise wrote a sentence in her notebook.

Unexpectedly, Yossarian Heller added: "But he became a high-ranking member of the kingdom two years ago."

twenty years old.

Louise stopped writing, looked up at Yossarian Heller in surprise, "You mean, it took him two years to become a king from a pirate?"

"He's not yet a king." Yossarian Heller corrected.

"According to your description, he is not a king, but he is almost the same," Louise lowered her head again, sketched in her notes, and said casually, "He has controlled this country for two years? The people in that country are really Poor, you must often be harassed by pirates."

Yossarian Heller's expression became a little unnatural. Unexpectedly, Louise just raised her head to capture his expression.

"What's wrong?" Louise asked strangely.

"It's nothing." Yossarian Heller concealed it.

Louise knew that Yossarian Heller was lying, but she didn't point it out, because the news had aroused her interest, and she decided to investigate it herself.

Look at these selling points, the young captain who became a big pirate at the age of 18, the self-made thief at the age of 20, the country controlled by pirates for two years...

Especially when all this happened in the East China Sea!

...

"What happened in the East China Sea?" In the editor's office, the chubby editor-in-chief cut his nails slowly, "Do you think all this is credible? And what the navy captain said was unclear, the key point It’s also vague, maybe it’s just pure enmity, just because Donghai is Roger’s hometown, so being a pirate is worthy of our investigation and publication?”

"Also, what he reported was a high-ranking official from a member country of the World Government, and there is no real evidence. We are the World Economic News, not a third-rate newspaper in any place. Only real 'news', not gossip, are worthy of our publication. In the newspaper, do you understand?"

Louise protested: "That's why I'm going to investigate for myself to see whether everything the navy captain said is true or not, and whether there is any exaggeration, editor-in-chief, please trust my intuition, if this news is true, absolutely It's going to be big news."

"The news of the great route is qualified to be called big news," the editor-in-chief disagreed, "because the eyes of the whole world are focused on this place, Donghai? Ha ha."

"That's the problem! Because the whole world thinks Donghai is insignificant!" Louise said happily.

In William's previous life, John Bogart, the editorial director of the New York Sun in the 1870s, once explained news as "it is not news that a dog bites a man, but it is news that a man bites a dog."

In a word, it is said: strange.

Only novel news can attract people's attention.

No matter how many big pirates appear on the great route, it is hard to be surprised anymore, because this is a "normal phenomenon", but the East China Sea, which was originally inconspicuous and shaped by the world government and navy as a model of peace, suddenly appeared like this A thief coming, this kind of contrast will definitely arouse the curiosity of others.

That's newsworthy!

It was also the fundamental reason why Laura Louise agreed to see Yossarian Heller and was willing to listen to such a navy captain's seemingly unreasonable accusation against a high-level kingdom.

She is a small reporter, and if she wants to get ahead in a big newspaper like World Economic News that gathers talents from the entire industry, she must rely on big news!