The pirate business is a big deal in the West since ancient times, there are naturally unwritten rules in the pirate rivers and lakes, and the income of pirates of different natures in different regions varies greatly, so let's see how much Captain Sparrow, Captain Kidd, and Redbeard can share.
It is not an exaggeration to say that piracy is the most important industry in the history of the West. As early as Greco-Roman times, piracy was very popular. Ancient Greek men had two sources of income, one was farming, and the ancient Greeks despised doing business, and farming was considered a legitimate trade; The second is robbery, the citizens of the ancient Greek city-states robbed at leisure, the money robbed on the side of the road, the rich and skilled drove ships to rob the merchant ships of other city-states and nationalities.
In the classical period, the pirates were extremely powerful, robbing more than 400 cities all year round, chatting and laughing with Alexander, using Julius Caesar as a meat ticket, and pit Spartacus. Medieval Vikings looted more than 60 million gold and silver coins, occupying large estates in Britain, Ireland, France, and Russia.
In the late 16th and early 17th centuries, pirates bought and sold the British treasury and contributed 2.5 million pounds of income, which is the financial income of the United Kingdom for more than eight years, bringing back 13 million pounds of wealth to England with a family of 17 million pounds. The piracy industry is also a pillar industry in places such as North Africa, and a quarter of Algeria's national gdp is provided by pirates. Because the impact of the pirate business on Western countries is too great, the rules of the sea are naturally indispensable, and the robbery and dividend system is the top priority.
The rules of the Pirates of North Africa were that Bey or the Governor took the designated spoils directly, and the captured ships belonged to them; Half of the remaining spoils went to the shipowners and military governors who invested, which was also necessary for people like Redbeard, who repeatedly borrowed musketeers from the Ottoman Empire; The other half is distributed to the entire crew and soldiers according to the head. The specific distribution criteria were 3 for each officer on board, 2 for technicians such as gunners and helmsmen, 1 for soldiers and crews in the Middle East, and 1-third for Christian slaves.
The sharing of booty among pirates in North Africa was very formal, and there were officially designated documents in the sea to draft documents and notarize them. Redbeard himself was the governor of Algeria, and the large ships seized by the pirates in North Africa naturally killed him, and the pirates would immediately send the ships back to Algiers; The boat was also sent back to Algiers under the supervision of a jury of 1 Moorish lieutenant and 1 Moorish. Red beard shared more than one-tenth of all pirate trades in Algeria in the first half of the 16th century, and his annual income accounted for three to five percent of Algeria's national product.
Our acquaintance, Captain Sparrow, represented free pirates in the Caribbean, and according to the rules of the sea at the time, Captain Sparrow did not actually save much money. Because the dividend agreement between the pirates of the Caribbean was divided equally according to the number of heads, the pirate captain took a double share, "the captain and the helmsman should each receive a double share in the division of the spoils, the gunner and the captain of the sailors each got a part and a half, the other leaders each got a quarter of the share, and the unofficial personnel each received a share."
The extra share of the Pirates of the Caribbean captain is the risk and technical dividend, and the captain is the supreme commander in wartime; The helmsman was the chief magistrate of the Pirates of the Caribbean ship, responsible for whipping the crew and handling the day-to-day affairs, and was chosen by the crew to balance the captain. If the pirate ship is compared to a joint stock company, the pirate ship captain is the CEO responsible for profit, and the helmsman is the chairman of the supervisory board.
The most successful raid of the Western Free Pirates in history occurred on April 26, 1721, the successful one was the English pirate Taylor, the bitter lord was the Portuguese "Lady of Good Hope" (this is not the strongest harvest of Western pirates, just free pirates) The total value of the loot was 1 million pounds, and the members of the two pirate ships each distributed an average of 4,000 pounds of loot, and Taylor alone received 8,000 pounds. Because of this dividend system, the captain of the ship in the Western pirate story often kills with his cronies, artificially multi-penny.
Captain Kidd is actually the captain of the armed privateer ship, he is the captain of the privateer, and he has reached an investment dividend agreement before going to sea. According to the agreement, "Bellomon was responsible for raising four-fifths of the entire cost (£6,000) from four anonymous patrons of the nobility. Together, Livingston and Kidd were responsible for raising the balance of the fifth. As was customary, each stolen stolen property must first be handed over to the king for ten percent. The remaining ninety percent were divided into three portions—sixty-one percent to Belomon's patrons behind the scenes, fifteen percent to Kidd and Livingston, and only twenty-five percent to the sailors on board—sixty percent under the contract for the normal arming of civilian ships. Stolen goods cannot be divided during the voyage to the sea, and can only be divided after the judgment of the Maritime Court. If the stolen goods are not available, the patrons' money is paid off by Kidd and Livingston. ”
Despite the mutiny on Kidd's ship and the crew engaged in free looting, the crew still distributed a dividend to Kidd according to the spoils of forty people. Kidd's skills were not great, but he had a lot of wealth in dividends, getting "1,111 ounces of gold, 2,253 ounces of silver, 1 pound of precious stones, 57 pockets of sugar (sugar was valuable at the time), 41 bales of groceries", just the gold wine was worth more than 4,000 pounds, and the booty was not much different from Captain Taylor.
In general, among the pirates of the 17th and 18th centuries in the West, the pirate captains of the Caribbean had the least dividend, but the starting point was also the lowest, as long as they could fool the crew to follow them to do the pirates, and the free pirate captains were all self-made; North African pirates, especially Red Beard, have the most dividends, and they are rich and enemy pirates, and there are only a few pirate kings like Red Beard; Captain Kidd is poor in skill, and dividends are also very objective according to the rules of the privateer ship, and the captain of the privateer ship is the life of the Western pirates.