The visual impact of stacks of gold bars stacked on top of each other is quite strong.

In addition to the people who were responsible for carrying the gold, the rest of the people were also gathered together by Zhang Heng, and weapons were distributed to maintain order at the dock to prevent accidents.

However, there was the matter of the Skull in the past, and now the island knew that the people of the Jackdaw were not easy to mess with, but no one was carried away by the bright gold.

Zhang Heng sent someone to inform the businesswoman Karina, asking her to vacate a warehouse to store gold temporarily, this time the harvest is too much, if all are distributed to the crew, safety will become a big problem, although no one on the island dares to embarrass the people of the Jackdaw now, but the thieves and thieves behind the scenes have long been unable to wait.

In addition, the previous incident of a crew member losing 20 gold coins in a night in the casino also reminded Zhang Heng, although Zhang Heng does not interfere with everyone's consumption method in principle, and does not care what everyone does after they get the money, but will also consider the possibility of the crew of the Jackdaw being targeted by someone who distributes so much money at one time.

Therefore, he planned to issue a part of it first, and keep the remaining part in a unified manner, and establish an account book that could be withdrawn at any time by those who needed it.

After a while, Karina also led people to the dock, but Zhang Heng noticed that her face was a little unsightly, but the two of them couldn't say anything in front of outsiders.

It wasn't until he returned to the warehouse and watched boxes of gold being transported in that Zhang Heng and the businesswoman found a secluded place and said, "How is it, are you okay during my absence on the island?" ”

The smile on the latter's face was a little reluctant, "The situation ...... Not very good. ”

"Huh?"

Things have to go back to two months ago, when Zhang Heng left Nassau, because of the matter of the Skull, it finally opened the deadlock for Karina, and with the unstoppable rise of the Jackdaw, the second-hand goods trading office is gradually gaining a foothold on the island.

Not only did the captain who had previously cooperated with Karina find her, but also finally a ship other than the Jackdaw, broke away from the Black Merchant Alliance, and publicly expressed his willingness to establish a long-term and stable cooperative relationship with Karina.

This was a powerful blow to Malcolm, who wanted to completely monopolize the black market trade in Nassau, and this was just the beginning, and more and more people expressed their intention to cooperate with Karina.

Seeing the hope of defeating Malcolm and the Black Merchants Alliance, the businesswoman signed a cooperation agreement with the pirate ships almost without thinking.

In order to be able to eat so much market share, Karina added another carrier to the original two carriers, and also recruited more people, for which she invested almost all the profits she had earned in the previous few times.

However, things went completely out of her control.

Karina's biggest problem is that she doesn't really have the experience of becoming a black marketeer, she caught up with the change when she went to the island, and the black merchant alliance was ready to be established, because her father's partners before he was imprisoned had been divided up by others, until he found the Jackdaw, Zhang Heng agreed to cooperate with her, so that she survived in Nassau, but since then she has been facing pressure from the black merchant alliance.

Therefore, Karina, unlike other black marketeers on the island, has not cooperated with ships other than the Jackdaw, although she has also secretly purchased a batch of goods from other captains behind the back of the Black Merchants Alliance, but it is basically a one-shot deal, and the real cooperation is much more complicated than this.

Karina is indeed gifted in business, but she also needs to learn and accumulate in unfamiliar areas, and without the pressure brought by Malcolm, she would have had enough time to grow, but now she is like a potato seedling, and she must use all her strength to open the stones that are pressed on her head.

On the other hand, the impact of Marlon's betrayal, who was the most trusted person around his father and the most familiar with the entire process of her father's previous business, began to ferment.

Without his guidance and in opposition to other businessmen, Karina is left to figure it out on her own, only to discover that there are more problems than she had imagined.

For example, the purchase price discussed before was added by half on the basis of the Black Merchant Alliance, and this price was originally agreed by both parties, but because the Black Merchant Alliance had offered different acquisition ranges to each pirate ship before, some pirates found a batch of goods of the same quality, but according to the new pricing standard, they did not get as much as another pirate ship that also cooperated with Karina.

This caused some people to be dissatisfied, and it happened to be when Karina was negotiating with other pirate captains, and because of the fear of possible adverse effects, Karina finally agreed on the purchase price according to the highest standards, but in this way, her profit margin was even smaller.

And this is just the beginning, because she increased the volume of freight, and the people who were bought by the customs side found her and vaguely proposed to increase the bribe, which also increased her cost on the one hand, Karina originally thought that Malcolm's people were making trouble behind her back, but when she changed to another port and found that she was facing the same thing, she realized that this was actually the unspoken rule that all black market merchants would face.

In addition, she also ran into trouble when selling goods, and large-scale shipments caused dissatisfaction among local merchants, for which she also got into two lawsuits, although they were settled in the end, but the loss was not small.

But the most serious problem is the financial problem, Zhang Heng gave Karina a transport ship before leaving, and after the repair of the Skull was completed, the businesswoman used it as the third transport ship, but the cost of recruitment and renovation still needs to be paid by her, plus the expansion of the warehouse and the newly opened grocery store, and when it came to buying goods from the pirates, the businesswoman had to re-mortgage the property left by her father to raise money.

However, from the purchase of goods, to the delivery of goods to the colony's port to find a buyer to realize, this takes a cycle, in Karina's original calculation, the flow of funds should be in time, but the reality is not as smooth as imagined, and the time for the pirates to return to the port is also uncontrollable, sometimes there will be several pirate ships in the same day to sell the loot together, but also to the businesswoman brought huge financial pressure.

A week before Zhang Heng returned, Karina's capital chain had been broken, and she owed two pirate ships that had not been paid, and the businesswoman was still trying to appease her partner in the morning, but because she couldn't get the money on time, an angry pirate smashed Karina's newly opened grocery store.