Trevor Collins

pilgrimage but you also have the grand mughal's fortune or at least a large swath of it is on these ships and so he's pissed off he knows because of the survivors that it was some english dude that was tearing up the town so he immediately goes to england and now you have two great powers sitting here going what are we going to do about this yeah

In fact, he then, in his outrage, and rightfully so, arrested several high-profile members of the English East India Company as he believed that they themselves were conspiring against him.

As you know, maybe even from Pirates of the Caribbean, the East India Company was a trading company moving spice and tea and other goods, and they themselves were essentially an empire to their own right in the area.

This immediately spurred on the political intrigue and England's like, we got to figure this out.

Fearing that their trade agreements were at risk, the company, the East India Company, decided to compensate the Mughals for what was stolen.

And so they basically say, OK, how much did you lose?

Here's the damages.

In addition, they vowed to bring the pirates to justice.

And then, of course, the search ensued.

And so this is actually again, I'm glad you mentioned the movie, but like it's why you have tensions between the East India Company and pirates.

There is literal factual history within that.

And it's why that guy, the short king, who is actually like the good guy, bad guy.

Yeah, because he's like capitalist king of East India Trading Company.

He's branding pirates.

And so they can never escape who they are.

Right.

So anyway,

They pay reparations, and they themselves are going, we're going to find these guys.

And I think at this point, you know, they're they're making so much money controlling the world and the trade routes that I'm sure it's not even about the money anymore.

Yes, it is, of course.