"Hey, Karen, is it true that the chart book is worth a brigantine?"

    "I''m not familiar with the market price of charts... But Wagner is famous. He painted the atlas himself and said that 10000 pounds should not be overestimated."

    "Oh, my God! The fully equipped high beam, the atlas of the same value as the high beam, 3000 pounds of cargo and a 1200 pound mixed sail scuna... Isn''t it... Isn''t it..."

    Big Karen gave little pierce a bad look: "when you are a privateer, why can you always get rich overnight? The profits of looting are never comparable to that of serious business."

    "What kind of business do you do? Grab it!"

    "We''re not pirates!" Karen slapped little pierce on the head and couldn''t help sighing. "It''s easy to make money by robbing, but it''s not easy to make money... Because as long as we lose once, we''ll have nothing..."

    Lorraine is receiving an important guest at Drake chamber of Commerce headquarters in Southampton.

    His guest is Jero minder, the cousin of the local celebrity Viscount minder, the president of minder chamber of Commerce, and also the teacher and guide of Raven navigation.

    Jero is a gentleman in his forties. He has a pair of gray bright eyes. Although he looks meticulous, he is ridiculously bright. He is not an Englishman, but a Scotsman.

    Lorraine could not afford the rigid and rigorous love of the English people. He fell in love with Jero at first sight and had a good talk.

    "Brave, good at fighting, honest and generous young man, it seems that I''m really old. I don''t know that a young wolf has been trapped in the sheep pen in Southampton."

    Lorraine raised her teacup with a bitter smile: "Mr. Mindell, Drake has only established a chamber of Commerce for four months, and settled in Southampton for two months. You haven''t heard that it''s because we don''t have a good reputation. Don''t belittle ourselves."

    "Ability has nothing to do with seniority, little Mr. Drake." yello laughed three times. "Drake chamber of Commerce has just been established, and should not have joined the trade association?"

    The trade association is a non-governmental organization spontaneously organized in the industry, often with a president and Council responsible for coordinating internal contradictions.

    Members share intelligence and information within the framework, and provide intermediaries and headhunters for mutual assistance, which is of great help to a chamber of Commerce.

    The problem is that joining a guild requires recommendation, and generally only the recommendation of founding members or the Council is accepted, which is doomed that joining a guild requires the accumulation of contacts and reputation. This system can only add to the icing on the cake and is unable to help in the snow.

    Lorraine is very self-aware and has not considered relevant issues so far. However, according to Jero, he seems to want to be Lorraine''s recommender

    Pie in the sky?

    Lorraine was flattered and couldn''t help sitting upright: "Mr. minder, you mean..."

    "The offshore association is an ordinary small association. It has been established for 37 years and has 29 members. Most of them are small and medium-sized chambers of Commerce specializing in offshore trade. As one of its executive directors, minder chamber of Commerce happens to have the right to recommend and hope to recommend excellent young people to a broader stage."

    "Thank you, my sir." Lorraine bowed deeply.

    "Wait for my good news, young man. It will take about a month to introduce you to the president and other directors."

    "I''m looking forward to it."

    ……

    The naval battle in the west of Baylor Island brought great touch to Lorraine.

    Sunken Kirk, burning skuna, blood, corpses and sky high gunfire.

    He deeply felt that the wide bottom merchant ship with thin hull and weak deck could not adapt to the increasingly severe environment of Cantabrian.

    It happened that he captured the high beam. Compared with a month ago, he finally had room for adjustment.

    Readjust the chamber of Commerce fleet.

    The first fleet still takes the butterfly flower as its flagship, and the repaired high beam is renamed the cattail flower according to the naming rules of the chamber of Commerce, becoming the only Liao ship.

    Ramos was transferred to captain of the cattail flower and still served as deputy admiral of the fleet.

    As a result, the overall capacity of the first fleet has been sharply reduced by 20%, but the firepower, speed and response are no longer the same as in the past. On the premise of limited reduction of route profits, the survivability has been greatly improved.

    The Artemis beauty and the Beverly merchant were sent to the second fleet to increase transport capacity and try to open trade routes between Prussia and Sweden.

    Lorraine also officially established the British mainland transit fleet.

    He bought a brand-new double mast mixed sail scuna, named siren, and renamed Mermaid singing mermaid to form a team.

    The captain, Carlo Merlin, a 62 year old captain recommended by Jero, is a Southampton seaman, steady and experienced.

    This fleet will be fully responsible for cargo transshipment in Edinburgh, Southampton and Cardiff, improve the business efficiency of the first and second fleets, and strive to obtain Ireland''s trade qualification and open up the Dublin market.

    The adjustment of the chamber of commerce is coming to an end, and Carmen, who contacted Porto, also received an echo.

    As acharin said, Desai chamber of Commerce intends to redeem people.

    However, they objected to Lorraine''s proposal to bear the pension for the wounded and dead sailors and pay a total ransom of 1760 pounds to the Mindell chamber of Commerce, and proposed to have an interview with Lorraine.

    Proper bargaining is a reasonable requirement among the aristocrats, not to mention that the other Party allows Drake chamber of Commerce to choose the place of negotiation.

    Instead of Lorraine, Carmen chose Guernsey island on the Dover Strait as the negotiating place.

    This island is close to the coastline of France and is also the imperial dependency of King George III. it receives the protection of the Royal Navy, but there is no permanent army. It is indeed a suitable place for negotiations between the two sides.

    Three days later, they will meet at Sir cod''s seaside castle on a cliff in the west of the island and have a friendly consultation on whether Mr. acharin Desai should be identified as a pirate or a noble.

    Three days passed in a flash. The first fleet sailed to the West Bank wharf of Guernsey and headed head-on with a huge Galen ship.

    It is a standard Navy class V destroyer, 40 meters long and 10 meters wide, with a main mast of 28 meters high and full cross sail.

    This may be the most familiar ship type in the world. Because of the sea operation, the HMS successor, which he served for half a year, was a class 5 destroyer.

    Two watertight tanks, one gun deck and one main deck.

    Bounded by the main deck, the forecastle is two floors down and one floor up, and the poop is three floors down and three floors up.

    Total number of decks, seven floors.

    According to the data, she has only one more watertight cabin and one more upper deck than brigantin, but the combat effectiveness of both sides is very different.

    She is not a merchant ship, not a high-speed ship, but a real warship that has lived only for the battlefield since its construction.

    Most of the expensive ship materials at the military level are elm, oak, oak or teak. The century old wood is selected. The wood is dense and thick, which not only has strong waterproof effect, but also has enough toughness to resist shelling.

    The two-layer watertight cabin brings it strong load-bearing and balance capacity.

    The gun deck is equipped with 20 18 pound long-range guns, the main deck is equipped with 12 12 pound long-range guns, the stern gun is double-layer, two up and four down, all of which are 12 pound short guns, and two bow guns, which are divided into left and right. They are 12 pound medium guns with strong pursuit performance.

    Lorraine saw the bow of the ship under the inclined mast between the two bow guns. It was a tall reindeer with long horns like a tree fork, which immediately corresponded to Carmen''s intelligence.

    She is the former retired class 5 destroyer of the French navy, the reindeer, the guardian magic weapon of the Desai chamber of Commerce, and the flagship of the first fleet of the chamber of Commerce

    The sailors of the butterfly stood silently behind Lorraine and watched the huge warship with all its claws and teeth pass by. They took the first step and anchored into port.

    Karen''s voice was a little hoarse.

    "Desai... Are those French going to send the baby to Cantabrian?"

    "We wiped out their third fleet. The rabbits were in a hurry. It''s not strange to choose to bite."

    "But..." Karen took a deep breath. "Captain, the nine pound gun can''t penetrate her hull, while the eighteen pound gun only needs one shot to make a big hole in our thickest sideboard... How to fight?"

    "This is not something we need to consider." Lorraine''s voice was low. "Unlike other chambers of Commerce, merchant ships have completely withdrawn from Cantabrian. Destroyers are fully loaded with sails, with a maximum speed of 10 knots and 2 knots against the wind. Generally speaking, she can''t catch up with the first fleet of our all high-speed ships."

    "Only... Run?"

    "For the time being, it''s the only way." Lorraine stared at the sinking sail on the sea level. "The maximum 250 passengers are two meters higher than brigantin. Just these two points, she can''t compete with our family. Courage... Also takes time."