On the fifth day after Tunisia was blocked by the United Fleet, after the pirates had suffered a painful ideological struggle, they finally agreed to pay a protection fee of 1 million taels of silver to the United Fleet in exchange for Tunisia's security.

Pasha of Tunisia was asked to sign an unequal treaty with the tripartite coalition on the ironclad ship.

Because Algier Pasha surrendered there, Pasha of Tunisia was not worried that the Joint Fleet would detain or kill him by signing an unequal treaty.

Even so, he boarded the ironclad ship with a nervous mood, and what awaited him was the senior executives of a group of joint fleets.

In the eyes of Pasha in Tunisia, these guys are jackals who eat people and don’t spit bones. They came to Tunisia to ask for 1 million taels of silver just after the battle of the sea!

Pasha, Tunisia, limped to the seat at the negotiating table with her legs disabled due to the naval battle.

Sun Xu, Sir Pennington and others all noticed the lameness of Pasha in Tunisia.

"This leg was injured when fighting you not long ago. I can only guarantee that the pirates under our Tunisia will not rob your ships and merchants. The Barbary pirates who are active beyond our Tunisia will not listen to me." Pasha of Tunisia said to the group of jackals in front of him as if he had accepted his fate.

"Murat in Algiers has signed the same treaty as us, and there will be Tripoli and Cairo next." Sun Xu said.

"It seems that you are planning to blackmail all the major strongholds in North Africa." Pasha of Tunisia understood the other party's intentions and couldn't help but twitch.

Algiers, Tunisia, Tripoli, and Cairo, every stronghold where pirates gathered extorts 1 million taels of silver. The four strongholds combined can get 4 million taels of silver!

Black is more profitable than being a real pirate!

"The winner is the king, and the loser is the enemy, there is nothing to say." The officers of the Fourth Fleet put on cold faces.

"Then you specially confronted the Imperial Fleet in the Tunisian Strait to destroy our foreign aid..." Pasha of Tunisia suddenly seemed to have realized something.

If they knew the true intentions of the Joint Fleet, then the Imperial Fleet might not have adopted such a strategy.

The Imperial Fleet can completely avoid fighting and use guerrilla tactics to threaten the joint fleet. If the Fourth Fleet is concerned about the Imperial Fleet launching an attack, it will be unable to let go of Tunisia and other places.

"It's too late to come now. Remember your failure today, act carefully according to the treaty. If the treaty is violated, we will completely destroy Tunisia next time." Sun Xu waved his hand and asked a soldier to put away the treaty in triplicate.

There is no matter in the unequal treaty of the Knights of the Hospital. The Chinese merchant ships and British merchant ships protected by the treaty. As for the Knights of the Hospital, they and the Barbary Pirates were feuds that hated and attacked each other, so they did not want to negotiate.

"Come here, I'll send this Lord Pasha away and give him a box of tea. If he thinks it's delicious, he might become our tea distributor in Tunisia." Sun Xu said to his soldiers.

When he left, Pasha, who had signed the unequal treaty, also received a box of tea as a "gift", and he smiled bitterly.

This box of tea is worth 1 million taels of silver, which is too expensive.

After Pasha in Tunisia left, the three forces began to divide the 1 million taels of silver that they were about to obtain.

"Our Fourth Fleet has the most powerful force. You have no objection to the division of 50%, right? The second is the Royal Fleet. You divide 30%. The Knights also contribute, and they also provide us with a port for winter, and the remaining 20% ​​are for you." Sun Xu, as the commander-in-chief of the Joint Fleet, said to his allies.

"No objection." replied the Royal Navy and the Knights of the Hospital.

The pirates in Tunisia wanted to let the joint fleet leave immediately and lift the blockade of the Venetian waters. The pirates quickly lost all their money to collect treasures and goods worth 1 million taels of silver, and even used slaves, ships, and tobacco to pay off their debts.

For compensation for non-cash silver, the Joint Fleet gave a valuation, reducing its value as much as possible, among which the slaves used to repay were only 10 taels of silver per person.

Despite this, the pirates were still happy to use the slaves they squeezed to pay off their debts, and handed over more than 2,000 slaves in total. The big part of the debt repayment was the goods they plundered from merchant ships traveling to the Mediterranean, and there were silk, gems, and carmine pigments from China.

These products surprised Li Jinde slightly.

Although he had never seen any records that Chinese merchants with names and surnames came to Europe before him, Chinese products were so popular in Europe.

It took some effort to transport large amounts of gold, silver and cargo from the city of Tunisia to the ships of the Combined Fleet.

The Joint Fleet did not trust the pirates in Tunisia. Their ships did not want to enter the shelling range of the coastal defense artillery in Tunisia, but instead allowed the pirates to drive their own pirate ships to compensate gold, silver and treasures, and goods from various countries were continuously transported to warships.

"The war is indeed more profitable than ordinary business." The Netherlands businessman Leyt survived the naval battle. When he saw the Barbary pirates who were acting violent in the Mediterranean, he was extremely shocked.

"Reit, are you interested in joining our Fourth Fleet? What's the best thing to do as a businessman? A real man should conquer the sea." Zheng Zhibao spared no effort to recruit Reit.

"Be a naval soldier..." Reit, who had participated in the naval battle, recalled the naval battle and found that he was a little excited.

"Captain, the commander has ordered that we will go to Tripoli and Cairo next!" the adjutant said to Zheng Zhibao.

The flag for departure was already hung on the battleship Shu Han.

"You think about it again...we are ready to set off! This time all our crew members have made great contributions, and there will be rewards when they return to the local area!" Zheng Zhibao shouted the crew members on the deck to prepare to set sail.

After the Joint Fleet extorted Tunisian pirates, they ran east along the North African coast.

The pirates in Algiers were compensated 1.1 million taels, and the pirates in Tunisia were compensated 1 million taels. Tripoli did not want to compensate for high protection fees, but after the joint fleet bombarded the turret in Tripoli for three days and three nights, the pirates whose psychological defenses gradually collapsed handed over 1.3 million taels of gold and silver and supplies for the Imperial Fleet here.
Chapter completed!