June 26, 1779, Tooth buyer Lucy Manor.

Lorraine wore a tuxedo and gently opened the curtains of her study with a smile.

Through the crystal floor-to-ceiling windows, he saw Bell and Aoife, as well as the bright sunshine and lush green meadows.

"Tut-tut, talented, feminine, poetic, picturesque, Bell finally mustered up the courage. He mustered up his courage...... What kind of humiliation will it be? ”

"McCarthy was hostile to him." Henna habitually stood in the darkest corner of the study, boredomly playing with her broken gold sideburns, "or more accurately, she's a serious person, wary of everyone on board." It's hard for me to imagine a good outcome when you woo Bell to pursue her. ”

"I can't help it." Lorraine made a wicked smile, "Aoiffe is an employee, young and beautiful, and the most troublesome thing is honesty. It's hard to suppress Acharin's attack on her, but her character is doomed that I can't treat her like Carmen or Noah, she will take it seriously. ”

"It's better to be frightened." Henna added a mouthful, and immediately began to laugh, laughing like a bell, and the flowers trembled slightly.

Lorraine rolled her eyes helplessly, dropped the curtain and walked back to the desk: "Is there any news about your line?" ”

There was no beginning or end to this, but Henna nodded her head for granted.

After arriving in the New World, Lorraine's business has produced many dark sides, including the supervision of the two branches of commerce led by Leonard, especially the Caribbean chapter, the New Orleans smuggling led by Carmen, and the pirate intelligence directed by Katerina.

This news would flow to Lorraine through the chapter's commercial channels, but not through the chapter, and would have gone directly to Pierce.

But as Pierce's values became more and more apparent, Lorraine began to worry that getting too close to the dark side would affect the healthy growth of the little one.

After all, knowing, understanding and doing it yourself have a very different impact.

So this time, when he returned to Lucy, Lorraine forcibly stuffed him with a bunch of French, Spanish, and Latin navigation materials on the grounds that Pierce was lacking in his studies, and asked him to interpret the navigation diary of the Count of Gevodin against these materials, and officially began to learn fleet command.

Little Pierce is busy, so busy that his feet don't touch the ground, and some inconsequential things will naturally be transferred to others, and it is Henna who takes over the work.

Henna is Assasin, Assasin has a long history, and what she is best at is dealing with the dark side of the business for her employer, and because of her specialization in art, even if it is the first time to deal with paperwork, she still does it with ease, and she can't see the slightest jerky.

Today was the first time she had taken the initiative to report to Lorraine.

Lorraine glanced at the clean desk: "What to drink?" ”

"Tea."

"It's not tea time yet."

"Milk tea is fine, no jam and snacks."

As always, Henna characteristics, Lorraine got up to make tea for her, the category of tea is not important, the key is more milk, polysaccharides, which shows that taste education should start from the doll, the important value of preconceived ideas.

When the tea was ready, Henna took a sip and let out a kitten-like moan in satisfaction.

"The first one was the news of the chapter, and Leonard was worried that we would leave Lucy, so he sent a briefing first, and the details were expected to reach McCarthy in a week or two."

The British, French, and Dutch colonial authorities opened talks at the Royal Episcopal University of San Jellon Nemo in Havana, with Spain, Portugal, and Denmark as intermediaries. As for the topic, the main content is the post-war order in the Caribbean, and it has been made clear that the North American issue will not be involved. ”

In addition, the Le François tragedy was also the focus of this joint discussion. Earl Gevodon of the Defence Fleet, Sir Arrond of Le François, Lieutenant Colonel Nelson and Captain Rashid were asked to attend and speak on the night of the tragedy. Leonard attached Chuck's assessment, saying that at the end of the talks, the Chamber of Commerce may also be invited. ”

Lorraine smiled and nodded: "The Chamber of Commerce will definitely be invited, but not as a representative of mercenaries, but as an enthusiastic businessman who cooperates with the Royal Navy in carrying out humanitarian rescue, it is related to the dignity of a strong country." ”

"But by that time we probably had gone to Amazon to find the crystal skull...... Later, I will leave a letter for Chuck, asking him to attend on behalf of the Chamber of Commerce, and return with more thank-you gifts. ”

Henna was noncommittal about the alleged skull, took two sips of tea, and began to narrate the second event.

"It's Leonard, about last month's chapter earnings report and this month's prediction."

"Questions?"

Henna frowned and recalled for a moment: "Last month, the profit was 1,361 pounds, mainly because the ocean-going ships in northwest Europe began to sail, although it was not much, but it also made the profits of the Caribbean have been greatly improved. The north-west of Europe was not as affected as the Caribbean, at 4,866 pounds, an increase of 8% from the previous month. ”

Lorraine looked at Henna strangely and said, "Isn't it nice that the chapters are thriving?" ”

"Of course it's good that the performance is up." Henna took a sip of the rest of the milk tea, "But this month, Leonard judged that the Caribbean chapter would run a major deficit because of Chuck. Parker withdrew a large sum of money. ”

"A lot of money?"

"The total amount of £15,000, of which £8,300 was paid to the Levisler dockyard and £3,900 to the Naval Logistics Service at Port Royal, was the cost of repairing the ship without any problems. But in addition, Parker also paid homage to a man named Earl. The woodcarvers of Weiss paid £1,000, the Port Authority Stanley Director £1,500, and the business banquet cost £300. ”

"Wood carvers and port authorities?" Lorraine touched her chin and thought for a long time, then suddenly smiled bitterly, "I guessed what he was going to do." ”

"What?"

"Revise the bow image, remove the gunwale, mast and other markings, and if my guess is correct, he plans to fabricate a batch of ship transaction records in the air, and at the same time complete the registration of new ships in port."

Henna tilted her head in confusion: "The purpose of this?" ”

"Of course, it is to turn those French warships into second-hand ships with clear origins, and to sit on the rhetoric of sinking them in actual combat reports, and by the way to prevent the emergence of pragmatists in Fort-de-France who hold the right to trade and lack gentlemanly manners."

"Too much?"

"It's not too much."

"Do you think it will be useful?"

"Those who know can't be fooled, but those who don't know don't care." Lorraine sighed disdainfully, "It's just a big country...... Chuck's actions gave Fort-de-France a good excuse that the defense fleet had been wiped out by the Halloween fleet of seven ships after a hard battle, rather than being carried away by a mere hundred light guns. ”

Henna suddenly realized: "Sounds like a good favor." ”

"Naturally perfect from a business point of view, but ......"

"But?"

"Chuck's style of doing business has always been confident, sharp, and decisive, which is good, but sometimes it's so much about timing and value for money that it's easy to put yourself in a desperate position."

"Just like this time, including the Golden Deer, we brought back a total of five ships, and all of them were valuable ocean-going ships. Among them, the Golden Deer and the Totem need to be overhauled, or the Golden Deer, and the Andes need to replenish their firepower. ”

"But the economic situation of the Caribbean chapter is actually not good, because the establishment time is still short, the early stage of the ship is insufficient, the reserve has been tight."

"What's more, Chuck has never stopped expanding, and the Caribbean branch at this stage is more like a hollow box, relying on Chuck's business skills to maintain profits and losses."

"And so the problem becomes." Lorraine drew a circle on her desk, "Last month, Ramos wrote that Chuck had borrowed 20,000 pounds from the Northwest European branch when he was communicating with the ocean, which shows that his reserves are insufficient, at least compared to his development plan, cash has become a weak link in the constraints. ”

"At this time, his safest means should be to give priority to putting new ships with low maintenance costs into operation, and repair and replenish them in batches and times."

"But he wants to sell it to me, so he can't delay the Golden Deer; He didn't want to miss the rare opportunity to sell well to France, so he added a lot of non-transactional expenses; The most troublesome thing is that he also wants to open the Caribbean Branch's own ocean-going channels in one step, and the result is that even the repair of the Totem and the replenishment of the Andean have to be carried out simultaneously. ”

"£15,000 is a huge sum of money for the current Caribbean chapter, and it is equivalent to squeezing out his reserves once again. The lack of cash means that the chamber loses its resilience and weakens its stability and resilience to the slightest storm. ”

Henna didn't know much about this, but just by looking at Lorraine's expression, she knew that the stakes were high.

"Are you going to intervene?"

"If only I could intervene." Lorraine spread his hands helplessly, "I promised him that he would only send someone to supervise the accounts and not interfere in the specific operation." Of course, I could break the contract, but I had to risk Chuck's centrifugation, and at this stage, the gains outweighed the losses. ”

"It's a good idea to have some secret money at Leonard's, but unfortunately Chuck doesn't have the money, and I don't have the money. New Orleans and Leloland's inputs eventually turned into boats, and we ran out of cash, and Chuck was only half a pound and eight taels. ”

"What about ancient gold?"

"The transformation of ancient gold into money took place at a certain time and in a specific environment. The Caribbean is not Europe, and it is rare to have a few auctions a year here, and we can participate...... Probably not one. ”

"In other words, you are actually stumped by money?"

That expression, that tone, was obviously discussing serious matters, but Lorraine clearly heard Henna's teasing.

He glared at Henna viciously, "Ah, the descendants of Niold will never be helpless one day!" It's just that...... It's the end of June, when will the damn smuggling be ready? ”

"Actually, the third thing I'm going to tell you ......" Henna playfully pulled out a rose-stamped private message from her bosom, "Carmen's letter." ”

Lorraine's eyes lit up suddenly: "Ready to continue?" ”

"This batch of goods has been fully warehoused and counted three days ago, and the letter arrived this morning, and Carmen urged us to hurry up."

Lorraine almost cheered.

He was happy for a while, thought for a while, and then hesitated.

Henna walked over and hugged him gently: "Bell. Judea? ”

"Smuggling, fight Shaq......" Lorraine whispered as she leaned into Henna's arms, "should I take him with me?" ”