Chapter 1815: To show respect

When Ye Chen said he wanted to set a set of game rules for the Gulf of Aden and force those pirates to strictly play by these rules, Wan Pojun completely understood the pattern of Ye Chen's way of doing things.

It's not difficult to become the one with the hardest fist in a region, but the one with the hardest fist might not be able to make everyone act according to his will.

If one can become a rule-setter in a region and make everyone, whether willing or not, act according to his rules, then this level is clearly a notch higher.

Thus, he immediately said respectfully to Ye Chen: "Mr. Ye, your subordinate understands your meaning. I will go arrange it!"

Meanwhile, other pirates in the Gulf of Aden were all in a state of panic, unable to live a single day in peace.

Almost all pirate organization leaders, without exception, recalled all their speedboats from the sea.

Because they were afraid that some speedboat would accidentally provoke the Wanlong Palace again, so at this time, they would rather stop all looting than leave any hidden dangers.

And after they recalled the speedboats, they didn't even dare to leave the speedboats at the pier or beach, but used tractors to drag them directly to the center of the camp, strictly protecting them, fearing that if they were not careful, they would be wiped out by the Wanlong Palace in one pot.

Subsequently, many leaders quietly held a secret meeting to discuss countermeasures for the next steps.

At the meeting, someone said: "In my opinion, during this period, everyone should temporarily stop hijacking merchant ships. If we accidentally provoke the Wanlong Palace again, that would really be a devastating disaster!"

Someone sighed helplessly: "But we can't just sit and eat our savings with all our subordinates! In order to maintain the normal operation of the organization, everyone will inevitably have to continue their old business in the future!"

Someone else said: "In that case, there is a very serious problem in front of us. Everyone can do their old business, but we must never provoke the Wanlong Palace again. These people are too damn cruel; just because of such a small matter, they directly killed Bader. How can they be so brutal? They don't give a single chance at all!"

Someone asked back: "If we still want to eat this bowl of rice in the future, we must continue to hijack merchant ships. I am certainly willing to avoid these stars of disaster from the Wanlong Palace, but how do we avoid them when we actually operate? I can't let my subordinates ask if it's escorted by the Wanlong Palace before hijacking a ship, right? If everyone says it's escorted by the Wanlong Palace, then what the hell are we doing?"

The pirate leader who sighed earlier nodded and said: "This is a big problem. If the Wanlong Palace really monopolizes all the escort business, that's clearly not giving everyone a way to live. In that case, I think we might as well fight them to the death! However, if the Wanlong Palace hasn't monopolized this business, then we must have a way to verify which ships are escorted by the Wanlong Palace. As long as they are ships escorted by the Wanlong Palace, we just stay far away from them! What does everyone think?"

The pirate leader who raised the question agreed and said: "So for this matter, we must find a way to get in touch with the Wanlong Palace, first express our respect for them, and then strive to reach a non-aggression treaty with them. In the future, we won't touch ships escorted by the Wanlong Palace, right? What does everyone think?"

The words of this pirate leader immediately triggered strong agreement from everyone.

Facing the existence of the Wanlong Palace, which was like a killing god, they all knew they couldn't afford to provoke them, so they all hoped to reach an appeasement policy with the Wanlong Palace.

However, although a consensus was reached on the idea, how to contact the Wanlong Palace became the most headache-inducing problem for them right now.

After all, a top mercenary organization like the Wanlong Palace wasn't something anyone could find the key person for with a phone call.

And just when this group of people didn't know what to do, the Wanlong Palace released another announcement to the outside world: starting today, the booking channel for the Wanlong Palace's Gulf of Aden escort service is officially opened. All shipowners who want to cooperate with the Wanlong Palace can contact the Wanlong Palace through the booking email address left by the Wanlong Palace.

At the very least, they could send a request for a face-to-face talk to the Wanlong Palace through this email address. If the Wanlong Palace agreed, wouldn't there be room for maneuver?

Thus, multiple pirate leaders immediately recommended the one with the highest cultural level among them to contact the Wanlong Palace through this email address.

And ever since this email address was released, Wan Pojun had been personally watching the trends of this email address.

He knew that the idea Ye Chen came up with was a good way to kill two birds with one stone.

Not only could it be used to see how interested major shipping companies were in the Wanlong Palace's escorts, but it could also be used to establish contact with those pirates.

However, what he didn't expect was that less than 10 minutes after the email address was released, it received tens of thousands of emails.

These emails came from netizens all over the world, using different languages from all over the world to express almost the same meaning, which was to express support and gratitude for the Wanlong Palace's actions in the Gulf of Aden.

Wan Pojun didn't expect the enthusiasm of global netizens to be so high. Seeing the speed at which the emails were coming in, he was already overwhelmed, so he immediately gathered a team of dozens of people to help him quickly review these emails.

Besides tens of thousands of thank-you letters, they screened out dozens of emails sent by shipping companies from various countries around the world.

After stating their identities, these shipping companies all hoped to consult on the specific details of the Wanlong Palace's escorts, especially the costs and cooperation models.

Wan Pojun had people count the contact information of these shipping companies, and at the same time had people reply to them, informing them that the Wanlong Palace would soon launch the price and model details of the escort service, and would notify all shipping companies at the first opportunity.

One hour after the announcement was released, the number of thank-you emails received by the Wanlong Palace had already reached hundreds of thousands.

And among them, there was also an email sent to the Wanlong Palace by someone claiming to be the leader of the "Puntland Guard".

In the email, this leader of the "Puntland Guard" expressed full respect to the Wanlong Palace and hoped to have the opportunity to represent all pirate organizations in the Gulf of Aden to have a face-to-face talk with the Wanlong Palace.

Wan Pojun then had people reply to him with the coordinates of a small uninhabited island in southern Oman, as well as a time of 6:00 PM that afternoon.

The other side immediately understood and replied again, indicating that they would arrive at the designated location on time.

Subsequently, the Wanlong Palace dispatched a five-star battle general, carrying several armed personnel, to travel to the uninhabited island by helicopter from their temporary base in Oman.

When the leader of the "Puntland Guard" arrived at the uninhabited island by speedboat, several armed soldiers of the Wanlong Palace had already been waiting there for a long time.

They thoroughly checked that the other side was not carrying any recording or video equipment before taking the other side to the depths of the uninhabited island to meet that five-star battle general of the Wanlong Palace.

Upon meeting, the leader of the Puntland Guard said very respectfully: "Hello, sir. My name is Sheikh, and I am the person in charge of the Puntland Guard..."

That five-star battle general of the Wanlong Palace said expressionlessly: "I don't care who you are. I only want to know, as a pirate, you actually dare to take the initiative to make an appointment to see us; what ulterior motives do you have?"

Sheikh hurriedly said: "The Wanlong Palace's reputation is well-known abroad. Other organization leaders and I have always had great respect for the Wanlong Palace, and we also very much welcome the Wanlong Palace to the Gulf of Aden. The reason I wanted to make an appointment to see you is because we want to negotiate friendly with the Wanlong Palace to see how we can coexist peacefully in the Gulf of Aden in the future..."

That five-star battle general said coldly: "We, the Wanlong Palace, will not conduct any form of cooperation with pirate organizations like you! You are not worthy!"

Sheikh, upon hearing this, felt his heart go cold instantly.

If the Wanlong Palace had this attitude, they were really forcing them onto a dead end.

Just at this moment, that five-star battle general added: "However, what I can tell you is that we in the Wanlong Palace have many businesses, and the number of ships coming and going in the Gulf of Aden is huge, and the demand for escorts is also very large. Therefore, we can cover at most 50% to 60% of it. As long as you people don't oppose the Wanlong Palace from now on, we can spare you!"

Sheikh, hearing this, felt his heart, which had been cold, instantly boil again!

He looked at that five-star battle general and asked excitedly: "Is what you said true?! As long as we don't oppose the Wanlong Palace, you and the Wanlong Palace can really spare us?!"

That five-star battle general asked him back: "Do you think I have any need to joke with you?!"

Sheikh hurriedly accompanied with a smile: "I didn't mean that... I believe that you and the Wanlong Palace are both people who keep their word and do what they say!"

As he spoke, he remembered a very critical question and hurriedly said: "I don't know if you can inform us of the information of the ships escorted by the Wanlong Palace in time in the future, so we can make a distinction and avoid accidental injury..."

The five-star battle general said with disgust: "Do you think that we, the dignified Wanlong Palace, would maintain some kind of communication and contact with pirates like you?"

"Yes, yes, yes..." Sheikh hurriedly said: "The Wanlong Palace is a top mercenary organization; naturally, it disdains to be associated with pirates like us..."

After saying this, he said awkwardly: "But... but if we can't distinguish which ship is escorted by the Wanlong Palace, it won't be easy for us to avoid them in time..."

The five-star battle general said coldly: "We will soon launch a website to put all our armed escort businesses on the website, and at the same time, we will also publish the information of the ships we escort to the whole society on the website."

Sheikh, hearing this, said excitedly: "Great! Great! When the time comes, we will definitely pay attention to this website! Strictly make a distinction! We will never interfere with any ship escorted by the Wanlong Palace! We will not violate each other!"

The five-star battle general immediately scolded coldly: "What non-violation? Do you think I came here today to negotiate conditions and cooperation with you?"

"No, no..." Sheikh hurriedly explained: "I didn't mean that. Please don't be angry, sir... How could the Wanlong Palace cooperate with low-class pirates like us... I mean, to show respect for the Wanlong Palace, we will definitely keep a respectful distance from ships escorted by the Wanlong Palace in the future!" ===== CHAPTER 1816 =====