The reshuffle of the board of directors at Boston's Haight Shipyard ended with the men's joy and the women's snickering.

The official signing ceremony took place that night. Mr. Haidt signed and stamped the contract in triplicate, solemnly handing over 90% of the shares of the shipyard and the full set of original deeds to Caterina.

No one expressed any doubts about the representatives of the Kenway Business Group.

Everybody can understand, Edward. Kenway was just a smuggler with no prestige or industry, and because of his active performance during this time, he still had a large bounty in England.

Such a person is not fit to become the new chairman of the Hait shipyard. Especially in the current situation of Boston's instability, avoiding him can avoid the risk of being confiscated by the British when Boston falls.

On the other hand, Caterina's other identity, Donner. Linka is different.

As a complete and innocent Spaniard, she has the sacrosanct right of private property throughout the civilized world, a God-given right to the faithful, which no one can arbitrarily take away.

Donald. In this way, Linka became the new chairman of the board of directors of Haidt Shipyard, in which he nominally had an absolute majority stake.

She appointed Aemond on the spot. Haight is the general manager of the shipyard, and Joshua. Humphreys is the master of the design department, and Clen is the director of the shipyard.

After the personnel decision, she announced that she would entrust Haite to act as the board of directors for the day-to-day affairs, retaining only one veto and leaving it to Clen as her agent.

As a representative of the management, Karen was required to attend at the shipyard at least 15 days every six months, and the main job was to review projects worth more than £10,000 to ensure that the interests of the management were not harmed.

As a master craftsman trained in the Plymouth Naval Dockyard, one of the world's leading shipyards, and with a wealth of sailing experience, he is well suited to this position.

Of course, he can also arbitrarily transfer the shipyard's arbitrary decisions and make judgments during his absence, but if the preparatory period has been completed, it will not be suspended in principle.

Karen's role is like the last gate of the dam, which should be regarded as a special compromise during the period of mutual trust.

Haidt saw Lorraine's sincerity in this, and Lorraine could also restrain the whims of this nerve knife from excessively consuming his property, and even if there was some loss of control, he could choose whether to stop the loss in time.

In order to increase the trust of both parties, these terms were all written into Haidt's employment contract with Karen, and Karen became the first part-time worker in Lorraine's team to publicly receive two salaries.

Everyone was happy, and as Carmen said, no one was hurt by this cheap acquisition.

Thomas. Jefferson, Paul. Revere and Haight's best friend, Robert. General Smith was invited as a guest of honor to the board reorganization ceremony and the small banquet that followed.

In order to congratulate his friend on his escape from the gloom, General Smith stuffed the construction order of a standard fifth-class ship directly into Haidt's hands within his authority, and Revere took advantage of the situation, seized the money bag, and offered to buy two more communication boats for the Saints.

Jefferson was also generous, and at Lorraine's suggestion, he ordered a Bermudan Slupp with a custom-built cabin, completely unequipped with firepower, and could be piloted by two sailors, just to satisfy his whimsical fishing whims.

The nascent Haight shipyard was suddenly jam-packed with orders, and the ships were standard structures that could be built as soon as the drawings were made, given sufficient manpower.

The joy went up the next level, and in the midst of the staggered cups and plates, Lorraine and Jefferson gathered together with their glasses.

"Just looking at Mr. Haight's embarrassed expression yesterday, I really can't imagine that he would be so happy to sell the shipyard." Jefferson smiled and congratulated Lorraine.

"Because he wants to work, and he doesn't want to stillborn that new ship." Lorraine replied, "Speaking of which, Mr. Governor, it seems that the top executives of America don't need to work much. ”

"I'm working." Jefferson retorted with a smile, "I'm now the patrol representative of the Continental Army, and it's my job to socialize." If you can't see the governor of Massachusetts here in Virginia, you won't be able to see me easily. ”

"Oh, I'm so honored then......"

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The next day, when the road sign was launched, Bell yelled and drove her into the registration dock of the Back Bay Port Authority. Under Linka's name.

On the eighth day of the Jackdaw's scrapping, the Road Marker officially became Edward. Kenway's second-generation smuggling flagship.

Having a ship meant that Lorraine and his gang had a way out of Boston at any time.

But Lorraine was not satisfied with this safety, and Yacharin and Caterina ordered a full cabin of liquor at the Boston Rum Distillery as employees of the Haight shipyard, and sent the order with a serial number to provide a second solid insurance for Lorraine's returnees.

At the same time, in the shipyard, Lorraine also brought a big surprise to Haidt.

The £19,000 purchase of the metal was in Haidt's personal purchase, and the £10,000 start-up capital belonged to the shipyard.

Lorraine smiled and asked the boxes of gold coins in simple wooden boxes to be carried into the conference room, and said to Haight calmly: "Although the shipyard has no lucrative orders for the time being, except for the destroyers of the Charles River formation, since the dockyard is empty, the shipbuilders have no reason to let the orders backlog. Go for it, my general manager sir. ”

Haight was so moved that she almost cried.

But even at this time, he remembered the details of the acquisition contract.

"Mr. Kenway, may I take the liberty of asking, what about Ms. Linka, who signed yesterday?"

"Linka?" Lorraine didn't react for a moment.

"Downer. Ms. Linka. Although she is only the nominal owner of the shipyard, from a procedural point of view, I think it is better to have her present to make things like the delivery of administrative funds formal. ”

"Uh......"

This well-intentioned suggestion really choked Lorraine.

Technically, as soon as she returned to the water warehouse last night, Caterina had already transferred a significant share of the shipyard to the Drake Chamber of Commerce.

It's just that the two copies of the transfer contract are now in Lorraine's luggage, and they have not been made public in any form, and it is impossible for them to be disclosed to anyone outside of Lorraine's team before the end of the Revolutionary War, including Haight.

It can only be said that Haight is really an honest man in this world who is about to become extinct......

Lorraine scratched her hair in embarrassment: "This question...... Actually, Ms. Linka ...... Caterina doesn't like professional communication, and you know, boring design arguments can make time difficult for the layman. ”

"Design ...... Debate? ”

Clen, who had been prepared for a long time, unfolded the full set of new ship design drawings with a bang, and the detailed and wonderful ink lines were re-displayed in front of the designer after many days, which made Haight and Humphreys, who had been called to the meeting, have a certain idea in their hearts.

Don't......

Lorraine propped the table with her palms on the drawing in front of her and stood up.

"This is the blueprint of the new ship, and after I got it last night, I had a serious discussion with Cron, Bell and Acharin for a long time."

"There is no doubt that this is a real masterpiece, and it lives up to the name of the pocket battleship you call it."

"But the design idea of the pocket battleship is still a battleship, and only in the battle line can many of her design features be brought into play, which is of no value to us!"

"We are smugglers, outlaws, loners. Our living environment at sea is closer to that of pirates than to armies, so she needs to be modified to meet our needs. ”

"Approach, short-handed, fast, flexible, sturdy, powerful! Cost is not her problem, she deserves to be a legendary ship, a sea monster that makes her opponents tremble when she appears alone! ”

"She needs to be a ship that cuts through the times, a unique ...... Battlecruisers! ”