The ministers, upon hearing this, immediately showered the King, the Queen, and now the Crown Prince with compliments once more.
They all remembered that it was the Crown Prince himself who had proposed this cost-free plan to tackle piracy, and now it indeed began to show initial signs of success.
Joseph, intrigued, took the report from the Marquis of Castries and started to read it, quickly discovering that it was an American named Charles who had obtained intelligence on the pirates from Algiers, enabling the successful ambush.
When he saw Charles mention that his information might have come from a former Tunisian Pasha named Eunice, he couldn't help but narrow his eyes.
A former "Crown Prince" of Tunisia, still influential there? If this were true, perhaps his North African plan needed some adjustments.