Document No.: (1779) General Chamber of Commerce Board No. VIII

Drafting: Lorraine. Arnason. Drake

Argument: Henna. Yesla, Carmen. Xavier, Acharin. Desai, Katerina. Dipo

Auditor: Pierce. Artis

Record: Noah. Sara

Correction: Clen. Scott, Wang Ye, Daniel. Soland

Confidentiality level: Top secret [Judgment is burned, only the index table of contents is retained]

Operation Codename: [Recapture Joan of Arc]......

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[Recapture Joan of Arc] is the first super-large development plan after the Chamber of Commerce entered the Americas, and the design is far more complex than last year's Cantabic Decisive Battle, and even the manpower, material resources and money invested in the early stage are not the same.

Even so, it is still a high-risk investment.

Lorraine's ultimate goal is to get involved in the arms smuggling industry in North America, and to step beyond the early accumulation and slow growth steps, directly into the harvest stage, and become the group of people who sit at the table and share the cake.

This means that Lorraine needs to establish herself as a privileged class in the crony belt.

At the heart of arms smuggling in North America is the Charvail rifle, the sole supplier of the Charvail rifle is the Kingdom of France, the first-level agent is the Louisiana colonial government, and the second-level agent is the trade chamber with the background of the French elite.

Before the Battle of New Orleans began, these chambers of commerce constituted an ironclad privileged class in the smuggling chain, a link between the Louisiana colonial government and a first-class agent, but with the authority of Count Galvis, they were not enough to interfere in the division of goods among the magnates.

The first-level agent is just a false name, and the second-level agent is the god who really controls the source of goods.

However, the peculiar development of the defense war led to a miraculous turn in the entrenched class structure.

Under the pressure of all sides, the Count keenly grasped the only straw in his hand, and together with the Baton Rouge Legion, seized the smuggled goods that belonged to the magnates.

The old pyramid collapsed, the new pyramid was not yet built, and in this transitional period, the count and the legion became the only two distributors of goods, replacing the original first-class and second-class agents, as the absolute interlocutors of smuggling.

How long will this period last?

In Lorraine's view, there are two signs of its end. One, the Count died; Both, the war ended.

When this period is over, the new pyramid structure will be quickly rebuilt, and the foundation will remain the same, with the only difference being that as long as the Count survives, he will naturally become one of the "new" secondary suppliers, and the one who has a huge voice.

This is the theoretical basis of the entire operation design, and Piaget has the opportunity to reap long-term and huge returns.

However, Piaget is not the kind of entrepreneurial youth who is looking for financing at all.

The Battle of New Orleans was not far from over, and the Earl had been doing the wrath of the heavens, but he had not been assassinated.

This shows that although there are many people who want the Earl's life, most of them have concerns.

This concern is either an illusory aristocratic dignity, or a conventional law of behavior among nobles, or simply a lack of investment, so that the assassination operation cannot take shape for a long time.

So Lorraine sacrificed Acharin.

Acharin and Daniel, each in their own right, concocted a false shadow of a French nobleman with ill will towards the count.

This shadow blatantly launched a reward for the earl in the old tavern, on the one hand, to clearly mark the price of the earl's life and give the reference standard for those who came after, and on the other hand, to put the contradiction between the earl and the original vested interest group on the surface, tear off the disguise, so that there is no room for fornication between the two sides.

Caterina participated in this drama on behalf of Lorraine, which not only cleared Lorraine's suspicions, but also provided an opportunity for Lorraine to contact the Count and participate in the assassination.

The next step was to make this unorganized and undisciplined clumsy assassination a real threat to the Count.

Count Galvez was the powerful governor of the colony, skilled at leading troops, and on his honeymoon with the elite Baton Rouge Legion.

Even if there is an absolute reason to assassinate him, the prediction of the success rate of the assassination will still extinguish the impulse of most people to act.

Lorraine needed to make everyone feel that assassinating the Count was an easy thing to do.

He and Henna settled in the woods outside the barracks on the day of the plan, and spent three full days figuring out the Count's movements and the pattern of the guards.

Then, Henna marked the earl's car, and Pierce fired a precise shot from a hundred and fifty meters away, severing the connection between the count and the guards, creating excellent conditions for the killers and setting up the most realistic stage for Lorraine's next heroic act of saving you.

After this series of operations, the Earl will really hover between life and death for a long time, and even if he survives in the end, those who care will see that this noble genius commander has been driven to a dead end by a group of improvised thugs.

No one cares if this assassination is successful or failing.

There is no shortage of thugs in New Orleans, and there is no shortage of warriors in the world who dare to sacrifice their lives for wealth. As long as the price-performance ratio is right, there will be a steady stream of people running to the dragon's lair behind Lorraine, dreaming of becoming the lone hero who slays the evil dragon and becomes famous.

Lorraine used this assassination to open Pandora's box, which contained the Count's life, and Lorraine was outside the box, and the only thing to pay attention to was to carefully hold the box, so as not to let the Count really die, or suffer the heavy damage of not being able to continue to command the war.

Will this investment be successful?

Or rather......

"Will the Count die?" Hiding at the edge of the woods, Lorraine muttered involuntarily.

Karen lying beside him was stunned for a moment: "Captain, what did you just say?" ”

"It's been twenty minutes, and I'm wondering if the Count will die on the way."

"Huh?"

"Haven't you thought about it?" Lorraine raised her hand and pointed to the road, "New Orleans is built on a swamp, and the road is in horribly poor condition. The Count is racing on such broken roads in an unmanned mad carriage, just like the thunderstorm in which we drive a rudderless Slop into the Atlantic, and it is only natural that the car will be wrecked and killed. ”

"But isn't Yezra protecting him from the sidelines?"

"Henna hid in the woods, traveling parallel to the carriage." Lorraine drew two lines on the trunk, one straight and one twisted, "You see, she had to chase four wheels on two legs, and she traveled much longer than a carriage. Not to mention the problem of whether you can catch up or not, even if you keep following the left? What if the Count died when the car overturned? Or maybe he survived the crash, and Henna was able to get out of the woods and meet him in advance? ”

"But you insisted on arranging for Yezra to follow the carriage......"

"Henna followed the carriage so that she could inform us of the accident in time. She is the backhand, not the first. ”

Karen's mind was obviously a little unable to turn around, and he stammered for a long time, and asked cautiously: "That...... If...... And when the Count died? ”

"From today until the end of the war, the Count will be assassinated countless times. Without God's providence, he would have died at any time. He's dead, and we're going to lose all of our investment, including the bounty we left in the old tavern, the double-barreled shotgun you have, and the ugly antique cross that Carmen bought. ”

"That's all?"

"Or else? Whether the count is dead or alive, the smuggling does not stop. Even if the smuggling stops, and we drive the Jackdaw back to Lucy, and say that the Jackdaw was stolen during the Mayan expedition, who can doubt us? ”

"Uh...... Could it be that this is what the king also said about "being invincible"? ”

"Undefeated?" Lorraine couldn't help laughing, "Your language talent is enviable, but defeat is defeat, how can there be no defeat." It's just that we have plenty of money now, and we can afford to lose this game. ”