Time flickered, and the border was crossed in five days.

Boston is as calm as ever, but in the eyes of the discerning person, it seems that only the calm that flows like an oil slick on the surface is left.

In the water storage of the Haight dockyard, several sailors are carrying several long cargo boxes onto a beautifully decorated carriage under the command of Katarina.

It was Jefferson's personal carriage.

Jefferson would meet with Lorraine several times a day these days, nominally to persuade Lorraine to give up his claim for the Saints, but in fact to secretly send the remaining arms into the Saints' arsenal little by little through the opportunity to travel back and forth between the water warehouse and Mount Copp.

This was Lorraine's idea.

The cause of the night in the front bay was the munitions, and although it was the slaves who attacked the Jackdaw and ended up being angered by Lorraine, Lorraine never gave up his guard against the other two militias for a moment.

The white man who had been stabbed to death by Henna five days earlier for following Bell further confirmed Lorraine's suspicions.

There was nothing real on the white man's body that could prove his identity, and the only identification and proof of work were forged, but there was no trace of forgery in terms of workmanship.

With such conclusive evidence, Jefferson could only admit to Lorraine that there were indeed pro-British nationalists in Boston.

The pro-British People's Army was the Sons of Liberty who had made great contributions to the United States in the early days of the war.

She's Paul. Revere's true protagonist of the Midnight Ride, who fought in the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the Battle of Bunker Hill and the Siege of Boston, has been rebuilt twice and expanded three times.

The Sons of Liberty developed into a unique and powerful legion in Boston, and the Sons of Liberty had owned four of the city's seven regiments before the Saints were built.

However, no matter how glorious the team is, it cannot control the shift of its position.

Behind the sons of liberty are the capitalists of the Southern District, and most of the generals in the army are from the United Trade Union, and their identities and families are inextricably linked to the manufacturing field.

They represented Boston's wealthy capitalists, who resisted most resolutely in the vigorous anti-tax movement. It was because of this determination that Boston was restored.

In the early days of the Reconquest, the capitalists here did receive a brief founding dividend thanks to the haste of the British and the hasty efforts of the American government.

But soon, in response to the war, the United States issued higher tax bills than the British; The cut off from land and sea transportation has put Boston's manufacturing industry into a slump.

The capitalists soon discovered that independence might not be so rosy, especially for Boston's South Side, which relied heavily on transportation.

Their industry may not survive the war at all......

And they who have lost their industry and are not engaged in production may not survive the victory of the war......

The sons of liberty, who had resisted the most resolutely, were the first to waver, and the British, who had always been obsessed with Boston, soon extended an olive branch and opened Boston to transportation on a limited basis.

Things got out of hand, and by the time the leaders of the United States reacted, the state capital had completely lost control of the Sons of Liberty.

Boston is at stake, Massachusetts is at stake, Connecticut and Rhode Island are at stake, and the entire Northern Front is at stake!

This is the main reason why Jefferson went to the north alone, the Saints Regiment was urgently established, the Continental Army broke the conventional armed civilian army, Lorraine received an order to transport north, and the Jackdaw was humiliated in Front Bay, in the final analysis, it was all because of this reason.

Even the group of armed slaves who hide their heads and tails are very likely to be the result of the connivance and support of the capitalists in the Southern District!

"All in all, my concerns are justified, aren't they?"

In the reception room of the water warehouse, Lorraine stirred the black tea in front of her, and brought up the old things with a smile.

Jefferson didn't know what expression to use to deal with the banter, so he tirelessly pulled the shutters and looked through the window at the slow and orderly loading of the truck.

"Kenway, how many days are left to ship?"

"Caterina has taken stock and if you continue to maintain your current efficiency, there will probably be three days left."

"Three days ......"

After getting acquainted, Jefferson's expression was much richer, and the newly unlocked content included...... Abandon.

"It takes eight days for 14,500 guns to be delivered, and although I have not handled much of the arms trade, I have heard and seen it unprecedentedly."

"Who's to blame for this? My Governor? Should we complain about the security of Boston, the slackness of the Saints, or the tyranny of the United States to force the good into prostitution? ”

"Verbal gains don't help foster friendship, Kenway." Jefferson glanced at Lorraine helplessly, "How's the third-party policing purge in the state capital going?" ”

"There are few people and there are few profits, and the temporary sheriffs don't seem to be too motivated."

"But the offer was made by a third party itself."

"It's as if the Massachusetts state government is offering a higher budget."

Lorraine took a sip of tea and sat upright.

"Since the accidental harvest of that body five days ago, my people have been at an impasse. The other party was very cautious, and the spies did not have anything meaningful on them, even if I hung him on the stone stall in the back bay, they did not give a reaction. ”

"Could it be that the hanging place is too remote?"

"After all, it's white, and I can't hang him on the spire of the old North Church."

"It's really a real problem." Jefferson shrugged his shoulders and sat comfortably, "Kenway, Mr. Haight came to me yesterday and asked you to abandon your plan to buy the shipyard. ”

His unannounced change of subject made Lorraine stunned for a moment.

"America's suggestion?"

Jefferson spread his hands and expressed his innocence: "Purely private, in fact, both the government and I welcome a powerful person like you to take over the Haight Shipyard and prevent the only first-class dockyard in the United States from remaining abandoned." ”

"Then there's no problem." Lorraine's expression softened, "My social counselor, Miss Carmen, told me that today would be the final negotiation. In other words, whether the acquisition is successful or not, you will not fail Mr. Haite. ”

"That's ...... That's great. ”

……

In the conference room of the office building of the Haidt Shipyard, the fifth round of formal negotiations for the acquisition of the Haight Shipyard in Boston by the Kenway Business Group in New Orleans has reached its climax.

On the shipyard side, the representative is the full owner of the shipyard, the general manager of the shipyard, Emond. Haidt and the head of the design team, the well-known sailing designer Joshua in the New World. Humphreys.

The representative of the Kenway Chamber of Commerce is the general manager of the group, Edward. Mr. Kenway's discretionary trustees, Ms. Carmen, Assistant to the General Manager, and Mr. Karen, Chief Maintenance Officer of the Merchant Group.

Well......

The names of Carmen and Clen were improvised, and even the so-called "New Orleans Kenway Merchant Group" was a temporary product, without any thought, purely during the first negotiation.

The fact is that the white man who was stabbed to death by Henna five days ago completely shifted Lorraine's focus from work, and the acquisition became basically a one-man show for Carmen.

To make her claims more credible, she needs a formal and loud business name.

The effect was obvious, and Carmen dominated the pace of the room with her keen sense of economics and the pride of knowing nothing about the shipyard in front of three of the world's top professionals in the room.

In the first four negotiations, she squeezed Haight little by little, figured out the current situation of the shipyard little by little, and even used tears as a weapon to force Haight to agree to her access to all the account books of the shipyard in the first five years.

Anyway, the account books of the past three years are very thin.

Know yourself and know your opponent, and you will not lose a hundred battles.

Today is Carmen's chosen decisive day, and she will make a second offer to Haidt, and then, take the sovereignty of the shipyard.