Relying on Lorraine's will, the Drake Chamber of Commerce began to actively prepare for the transformation from offshore to intercontinental chamber of commerce.

It will be a complicated and difficult process, and the first hurdle before them is the Atlantic Ocean between Europe and the Americas.

Atlantic, Storm Sea......

Of the flagship's seafarers, only Lorraine, Acharin and Clen had a handful of seagoing experience. But none of the three of them had personally commanded the crossing.

To put it simply, in the next action, everyone is at a loss.

This group of newcomers will sail on the boundless ocean for a month, and the time will only be extended, not shortened.

The food, the fresh water, the mental and physical health of the sailors, the unexpected situations that may arise along the way, and the ......

In order to take responsibility for their own lives, they need to take into account all aspects.

Lorraine first considered sailors.

The full load of the fifth class Galen destroyer is 250 people, and the minimum load is 50 people.

The fewer the number of sailors, the greater their endurance and at the same time the weaker their ability to deal with danger.

How many sailors should I bring?

After weighing the pros and cons, Lorraine decided to pick 150 sailors aboard.

This amount takes into account sailing, combat, and daily repair.

The Golden Deer had 40 guns, excluding the bow and stern guns, 16 on each side, of which 10 were 18-pounders and 6 were 12-pounder.

Because they are all advanced flintlock guns, their shooting efficiency is much higher than that of the Butterfly Flower, but the demand for gunners has decreased.

The eighteen-pounder gunner requirement was seven, the twelve-pounder gun was five, and Lorraine had 100 gunners to ensure that in the event of an engagement, the single-port fire could be fired at full speed without affecting the manpower of the ship.

In non-combat sailing, the 150 sailors can be divided into six groups, which is enough to ensure adequate rest and rotation.

The number was decided, and Lorraine began to select sailors.

The Butterfly Flower's musket team had to be brought aboard, and the 50 backbone sailors who had been used for the Hyacinth were also loyal subordinates to rely on, so there were 60 men left......

Lorraine gave 30 places to Yacharin, and asked him to select the backbone of the gunner, and the remaining half was recruited by Karen as long as he had experience at sea.

Step 2: Food and water......

Luo Lin called Wang Ye directly and asked straight to the point: "There is a way to pickle vegetables in the Qing Kingdom, will you?" ”

Wang Ye also had a ghostly expression on his face: "Captain, you are a native of England, how come you even know the kimchi of the Qing Dynasty?" ”

"You don't care where I know, just tell me, yes, or won't?"

"Pickled radish, pickled cabbage, pickled cucumber, pickled pepper, although I haven't done it, I know how to do it."

"Tested out, prepared for the whole ship for two months, and put it in oak barrels...... There is also green tea, which should be prepared in large quantities, not high-grade, and should be drunk by all sailors when sailing. Lemons can also be prepared a little, that thing is a bit expensive, and easy to break, prepare less ......"

Wang also blinked: "Captain, you plan to let the sailors eat fast at sea?" ”

"These things are the nemesis of scurvy...... Lorraine paused, unsure, "I've heard it in Cambridge." ”

"Scholars in Cambridge told you that pickles can cure scurvy?"

"It's not just pickles, it's soybeans. Soak soybeans in water to grow bean sprouts, which is good and cheap. ”

"Cambridge scholars still know how to sprout beans from soybeans? Shall I go, Baipi Wenqu Xing? ”

Lorraine was forced into a dead end by the soul torture, and for a while she became angry and angry, and looked up to the sky and angrily reprimanded: "Cambridge scholars love China, can you manage it?" Get lost! ”

The king also ran away.

He went out, and Henna came in, looked at Lorraine, who was flushed, strangely, tilted her head and asked, "What do you mean......?" What kind of strange sea stinger is it? ”

Lorraine was amused by Henna, and all her temperament was gone.

"It's okay, why are you here?"

Henna didn't want to say anything when she saw Lorraine, so she didn't ask, and pointed to the foyer and said, "Someone is looking for you." ”

"Where's Miss Zhenna?"

"Rotation."

Lorraine shrugged: "What is that man doing here?" ”

"Apply for the job."

"At this moment, apply?"

"Yes, apply."

After a while, Lorraine met the man who had come to apply.

He carried a small suitcase, wore a brown trench coat, and wore an exaggerated retro wide-brimmed hat with a silver ribbon tied around it with blue and green feathers.

Lorraine glanced at the resume in his hand, raised his head, and looked directly at the pair of ice blue eyes that could not find the slightest emotion.

"Daniel. Soland? ”

"Yes."

"The CV says you're Londoner, Catholic, and specialised...... Surgical Medicine? ”

Daniel silently opened the small suitcase he was carrying, turned around and showed it to Lorraine.

On the top of the suitcase is a medical license with the seal of the Royal Medical Society, showing the skill of the owner.

On the lower level is a bulging stack of leather sleeves filled with shiny scalpels, tweezers, clips, and a host of strange surgical tools.

"Looks like you're well prepared." Lorraine sighed with emotion and continued to look through her resume, "You have excellent medical skills, but you say in your resume that you are not a doctor...... You're a shaver? ”

Daniel coolly pulled a razor from his trench coat, opened it with a shake of his hand, and pulled a beautiful knife flower.

"It is inconvenient to bathe on the way to the sea, and the hair of sailors is easy to breed fleas. To deal with this blood-sucking little thing, you'll need a shaver. ”

"You still know I'm going to ...... ocean," Lorraine rubbed her eyebrows and flipped to the third page of her complicated resume, "The versatile Mr. Soland, in addition to being a surgeon and shaver, is also an alchemist?" ”

"The second alchemist of the Flamel faction, my spiritual guide is Henry. Moore, the introductory book is Soul Immortality. ”

"No mentorship?"

"After the death of the last sage, I don't think there will be an alchemist in this world who is good enough to be my mentor."

"Good." Lorraine closed his resume and looked with interest at the candidate in front of him, who was not enough to describe him as arrogant, "Mr. Soland, judging from your resume, you are extremely good, and you have also had a two-year overseas experience, and you have been to Africa. If you are as good as you, why should you apply for a job at the Drake Chamber of Commerce? ”

"Azot and the Fifth Element." Daniel whispered, "I've searched through all the alchemical texts I can find, and there is good reason to think that these two treasures are hidden somewhere in Africa or the Americas. I'm in Africa empty-handed, and you're on your way to the Americas, restless, adventurous. ”

"Sounds like you know me well......" Lorraine felt a thick grotesqueness and couldn't help asking, "Who introduced you to me?" ”

"Billy. Sir Leighton, I have been his personal physician and hairdresser, and in a recent letter he mentioned you to me. ”

"Sir Leighton?" Lorraine was surprised for a long time, and suddenly laughed, "Doctor Daniel. Mr. Soland, congratulations, you have been accepted. ”

Lorraine's cheerfulness was completely unexpected by Daniel, and he raised an eyebrow: "You don't plan to verify my professional skills?" ”

"No, you don't. The person who can be valued by my mentor must be the dragon and phoenix among people, and I trust his vision. ”

……

On January 4, 1779, the Anglo-French post-war negotiations and the first Cantabrian fair trade salon were held in the Town Hall Auditorium in Southampton.

The English dominated the proceedings, and the French were defeated and eventually abandoned the Desai Chamber of Commerce.

The participants unanimously agreed that the Desai Chamber of Commerce must bear full responsibility for the Cantabrian dispute, which lasted for nearly half a year.

He was required to pay a total of £68,000 in compensation to the damaged English Chamber of Commerce. The Drake Chamber of Commerce received three thousand pounds of it, and the Mindel Chamber received more, including two of the three Brigentines captured, and an indemnity of four thousand pounds in total.

This is a huge amount of money, and the payout time must be long.

But Lorraine wasn't worried that the Desai Chamber of Commerce wouldn't pay enough.

Because behind the Chamber of Commerce is the Viscount Desai of Porto, even for the sake of the vanity and face of the nobles, he has to grit his teeth and scrape together all the money until he goes bankrupt and the statement is swept away.

The first Salon Forum was also a complete success, resulting in a public agreement known as the Southampton Offshore Traders Compact.

The treaty states that the Cantabrian route is a route shared by all offshore chambers of commerce, and that merchant ships of any nationality should be treated fairly and impartially on the route.

All privateering acts will be regarded as a provocation to the commercial covenant, and will be spurned and condemned by all the glorious and disgraceful members of the Sharon, headed by the Offshore Guild of England.

In Lorraine's opinion, the only valuable words in this treaty are the sentence "headed by the English Offshore Guild".

With this free advertisement, as a permanent member of the Offshore Chamber of Commerce, the Drake Chamber of Commerce will be invincible in the trade of the entire northwestern Europe.

After five days and seven discussions, Lorraine officially handed over operations to the north-west of Europe and returned to Plymouth with his seamen.

On 12 January 1779, the renovated Golden Tag slowly sailed out of the sea trial site at the Birea dockyard and drifted with the waves into the wide expanse of Plymouth Bay.

"Pickles, soybeans, green tea, lemon, brown bread, pastrami and laying hen. Enough fresh water for two months, and a full fifty barrels of wine......"

"Two rolls of sails, five thousand meters of rope, enough medicine and consumables, ammunition and gold pounds......"

"150 loyal and well-trained sailors, eighteen pounds of heavy guns, skilled seamen......"

"Caribbean, I'm ready to ......"

Lorraine slowly opened her eyes, holding the antlers of the bow of the ship, and stood upright in the bow of the ship against the wind.

He wore a trench coat with a red belt on a black background, and the heavy trench coat hunted and hunted.

He wears a tricorne hat inlaid with tortoiseshell pansies, and the colorful cockade shines brightly.

He turned back to his seamen and shouted, "Ready to conquer the sea!" You ...... Landlubbers! ”

"Oooo

"Target the Caribbean! Golden Deer, sail and set sail! ”

[Volume 2, The Privateer of the Northern Sea...... ENDS】