Li Ran did not let Lexington announce the matter of formulating the Nemesis plan for the time being, after all, the ship-watching ceremony was about to be held, and this matter was an important matter that Li Ran had to consider first.

After all, Li Ran still cares a lot about the Royal Ark.

Especially after learning about the strength of the legendary ship girl, he had to pay attention to all the foreign aid that could help him.

What's more, there is one more thing he must figure out besides venturing into the uncharted seas and finding New Orleans.

Li Ran looked at the empty office, Lexington and the others went out to train, and he was inevitably a little uneasy.

He pulled out the pocket watch that Pachina had given him from the drawer.

When I opened my pocket watch, I saw the photo of myself and my sister, and I found that I still couldn't remember it.

In his memory, the memories of himself and his sister were so far away that he didn't even know when this photo was taken.

"When?"

Li Ran rubbed the pocket watch, and then looked at the hour hand on it that had stopped turning, and he still didn't have the slightest clue in his head.

"Knock Knock Knock ......"

The knock on the door sounded softly at this time, Li Ran had to come back to his senses, he closed the pocket watch, and then put it back in the drawer, and then said:

"Please come in. ”

Li Ran buried his head, so he didn't see who came in, he listened to the sound of the door being closed, and then looked up, only to see Pachina's face almost against his own.

"Ahh

Li Ran didn't know how to describe how he felt now, how did this guy get in? Isn't there a prestige and a sea of peace downstairs?

"Darling, aren't you surprised? Hee-hee, those guys are still too lax?"

Pachina's smile was a little dangerous, and then he took a small step back, looked at Li Ran calmly, and then continued:

"Darling, you're in danger. ”

Li Ran felt that his back was already soaked in cold sweat, and he pretended to be calm and said:

"Who the hell are you?"

"Hmm, Darling really doesn't remember?" Pachina tilted his head, then gently played with his ID hair, and said with some resentment:

"Your Royal Highness Princess, Darling doesn't remember either, do you? I've always been a servant of Her Royal Highness the Princess, and of course, it also belongs to Darling. ”

There was a little charming smile, but it revealed that Li Ran felt a little faster heartbeat, but he quickly calmed down, this guy's style of acting has always been weird, if it is really the same as the previous few times, then she probably didn't come here to catch up, so he said calmly:

"What do you want to say?"

"You're so cold, Darling. ”

“……”

The silence made Pachina a little helpless, she sighed and said:

"Darling, I'm here just to tell you that Her Royal Highness is in danger. ”

"Your Royal Highness the Princess?" Li Ran frowned, he flashed a trace of speculation in disbelief, and then said:

"You can't be talking about my sister, right?"

"Hmm?" said Pachina, pouting, then gently brushing the scattered gray hair around his ear, and then said noncommittally:

"What do you think? This is something that only makes sense if you think about it? But, Darling, the unknown is looming, and the danger is just around the corner, well, that's all I can say. ”

"Admiral, are you there?" There was a sound of footsteps outside, and then the voice of prestige, which made Li Ran suddenly nervous, after all, this guy named Pachina, he still didn't understand whether the other party was an enemy or a friend, if the other party killed him because of danger, then he couldn't resist at all.

"Well, it looks like Darling's head maid is here, that's it for today, bye-bye, Darling. ”

Pachina said, and then kissed Li Ran on the face with lightning speed, and then jumped down from the window very cleanly, and disappeared into the forest in a few ups and downs.

"Admiral?" Prestige knocked on the door.

"Ah, is it prestige? Li Ran touched his cheek, his gaze had to be withdrawn from the window, and he pretended to be nonchalant and said.

"Admiral, who did you seem to have heard talking to just now?" Prestige entered the room, and then keenly smelled a strange aroma, and looked at Li Ran with a strange face.

"Ah, maybe you're too tired and have a delusion. ”

Li Ran saw the appearance of prestige's nose twitching slightly, he had to quickly change the topic, I don't know why, he always felt that he shouldn't tell them about himself and Pachina, so he just asked:

"Is there something urgent?"

It is a little strange for the prestige to look at his admiral, but the excellent maid chief will not ask about his master's private affairs, this is a necessary maid quality, the master can have secrets, but the excellent maid chief can't be curious, so she nodded and said:

"It's about the purchase of the transformation core, and most of the sisters in the port area have reached the point where they can be transformed, so just now the secretary ship sent me a message and asked me to tell the admiral to prepare the transformation core as soon as possible. ”

"Oh, that's it, I know, by the way, how much liquidity do we have in the port area?"

"More than one million, after deducting the usual maintenance, there are about 700,000 that can be misappropriated. ”

"Ah, so much, when did you get so much money?"

"The Admiral has never bothered about the financial affairs, of course I don't know, in fact, after our port area owned the three islands, the taxes collected from the maritime merchants alone have been hundreds of thousands of dollars in a few months. ”

"Taxes?"

"Alas, Admiral, you have a snack on your rank of major general, although the rank of Admiral does not have much military power, but there are economic rights, especially the right to set and collect taxes on your own, haven't you paid attention to it at all?"

"I'm sorry, I really didn't pay attention, but why is there so much money?

"Well, I should say that they are quite rich, and the Admiral doesn't think those maritime merchants only have a few ships, right?"

Li Ran nodded, which made Prestige sigh deeply, and then she explained briefly:

"Admiral, I've been chatting with the secretary ship these days, and I found out that the so-called Chamber of Commerce is richer than we expected, and the Admiral should still remember the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce of Admiral Bai Nuoyan, Helena's intelligence has some property assessments of this bankrupt Chamber of Commerce.

From her analysis, I learned that only real estate worth hundreds of millions, working capital of more than 3 million can call themselves chambers of commerce, and the world's marine trade is 300%~500% windfall profits, not twice as much as we guessed, therefore, other town guards charge as much as 10% of the toll tax on the maritime merchants in the sea areas under their jurisdiction in the past, but we only set a 5% toll tax. ”

Li Ran was stunned when he heard this, he knew that the maritime merchants were rich, but what he didn't expect was that the maritime merchants were so rich, and he suddenly had so much money, but he never paid attention to it, he sighed:

"Then let's do it, don't be stingy with the cost of transforming the core, just leave some spare funds, we must seize the time, improve everyone's combat power as soon as possible, by the way, if the resources are not enough, try to buy some." ”

"Admiral, in fact, if 700,000 yuan buys the transformation core, it will only be fifty or sixty. ”

The words of prestige shattered Li Ran's illusion of "I am also a rich man now", and his face fell:

"So you mean, we're still poor?"

Prestige nodded.

Li Ran was so depressed that he was about to vomit blood, he never dreamed that Admiral turned out to be such a heavy kryptonite profession.

"That's still going to have to be spent, so buy whatever transformation cores you can buy first, especially Lexington and Saratoga. ”

"Well, then I'll contact Emden and them, they used to be mercenaries, so they should know more about these things. ”

"Good work. ”

Li Ran nodded, and then watched the prestige leave the office, he took a deep breath, looked at the documents on the desktop, and sighed:

"I really didn't expect that the work of the Admiral would not be easy. ”