Reborn As a Pirate

"Hey, Kron, brother said that the chart book is worth a Brigantine, is it true?"

"I'm not familiar with the market price of nautical charts...but Wagenal is famous. His hand-drawn atlases say that 10,000 pounds should not be overestimated."

"Oh my god! A fully equipped Yuan Guang, an album of the same value as the Yuan Guang, 3,000 pounds of cargo and a 1,200 pounds of mixed sail Skuner... Isn't it the money we made in a battle... …Would not it be……"

The older Karen gave the little Pierce an angry look: "Why do you always get rich overnight as a privateer? The profits from plundering have never been comparable to serious operations."

"Then what business is there! Go grab it!"

"We're not pirates!" Karen slapped little Pierce on the head, and couldn't help sighing, "Looting money is easy to make, but it's not easy to make money... because as long as we lose once, we have nothing. It's..."

Southampton, Drake Chamber of Commerce headquarters, Lorraine is receiving an important guest.

His guest was Yero Mindel, the younger brother of the famous local Viscount Minder, the president of the Minder Chamber of Commerce, and the teacher and guide of Raven's voyage.

Hierro was a gentleman in his forties, with bright gray eyes, scrupulous in appearance, but very bright when he laughed, more like a Scot than an Englishman.

Originally, Lorraine couldn't afford the rigidity and rigor loved by the English, so he hit it off with Hierro and they had a good chat.

"Heroic, combative, upright and generous young man, it seems I am really old to not know that there is a young wolf in the sheepfold at Southampton."

Lorraine raised his teacup with a wry smile: "Mr. Mindell, it has only been four months since Drake established the Chamber of Commerce, and it has only been two months since he settled in Southampton. You haven't heard of it because our reputation is not obvious. Don't Belittle yourself."

"Ability has nothing to do with seniority, Mr. Drake Jr.." Hierro laughed three times, "The Drake Chamber of Commerce has just been established, so you shouldn't have joined the trade guild yet?"

A trade association is a kind of non-governmental organization spontaneously organized in the industry, and often has a president and a council responsible for coordinating internal conflicts.

Members share intelligence and information within the framework, and at the same time provide intermediary and headhunting mutual assistance, which is of great benefit to a chamber of commerce.

The problem is that joining a guild requires recommendations, and generally only accepts recommendations from founding members or the council. This means that joining a guild requires the accumulation of contacts and reputation.

Lorraine is very self-aware, and has not considered related issues so far. But according to Hierro's words, he seems to intend to become Lorraine's recommender...

Pie in the sky?

Lorraine was a little flattered, and couldn't help sitting upright: "Mr. Mindell, what do you mean..."

"The Offshore Guild is an ordinary small guild. It has been established for 37 years and has 29 members. Most of them are small and medium-sized chambers of commerce mainly engaged in offshore trade. As one of its executive directors, the Minder Chamber of Commerce happens to have the right to recommend, and hopes to recruit outstanding young People recommend to a wider stage."

"Thank you inexplicably, 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 look forward to it."

...

The naval battle that took place west of Belle Isle had a huge impact on Lorraine.

The sunken Kirk type, the burning Skuner type, blood, corpses, and skyrocketing artillery fire.

He deeply felt that the broad-bottomed merchant ships with thin hulls and weak decks could no longer adapt to the increasingly severe environment in Cantabrian.

It just so happened that he captured the Yuanguang, compared to a month ago, he finally had room to adjust.

Chamber of Commerce fleet realignment.

The First Fleet still uses the Butterfly Flower as its flagship, and the repaired Yuanguang was renamed the Cattail Flower according to the naming rules of the Chamber of Commerce.

Become the only Liao ship.

Ramos was reassigned as the captain of the Cattail Flower, and still served as the deputy admiral of the fleet.

As a result, the overall transport capacity of the First Fleet has dropped by 20%, but the firepower, speed, and response are no longer the same as before. On the premise of limited reduction in route profits, the survivability has been greatly improved.

The Attis Belle and the Beverly Merchant were transferred to the Second Fleet to increase their capacity and try to open up trade routes between Prussia and Sweden.

Lorraine also formally established the British mainland transshipment fleet.

He bought a brand-new two-masted mixed-sail Schooner, named it the Siren, and renamed the Mermaid Song to the Mermaid, and formed a team together.

The admiral is the 62-year-old captain Carlo Merlin recommended by Hierro, a native Southampton seaman, steady and experienced.

This fleet will be fully responsible for the transshipment of goods in Edinburgh, Southampton and Cardiff, improve the efficiency of the first and second fleets, and at the same time focus on obtaining Irish trade qualifications and opening up the Dublin market.

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

As Yacharin said, the Desai Chamber of Commerce intends to redeem people.

However, they had some objections to Lorraine's proposal to bear the compensation for the injured and dead sailors and pay the Minder Chamber of Commerce a total of 1,760 pounds of ransom for the construction of a Kirk, and proposed to interview Lorraine.

Appropriate bargaining is a reasonable requirement among nobles, not to mention that the other party allows the Drake Chamber of Commerce to choose the negotiation location.

Carmen made the decision on behalf of Lorraine, and chose Guernsey on the Strait of Dover as the negotiation site on the spot.

This small island is close to the coastline of France, and it is also the imperial domain of King George III. It receives the protection of the Royal Navy, but it does not have a permanent army. It is indeed a suitable place for negotiations between the two parties.

Three days later, they will meet at the seaside castle belonging to Lord Codd on a cliff in the west of the island, and start a friendly negotiation on whether Mr. Acharyn Desai should be identified as a pirate or an aristocrat.

Three days passed in the blink of an eye, and the First Fleet sailed to Guernsey's west coast pier, where it came face to face with a gigantic Galenic ship.

It was a standard fifth-tier destroyer of the Navy, 40 meters long, 10 meters wide, with a mainmast height of 28 meters, and a full sail.

This may be the type of ship that Lorraine is most familiar with in the world, because the HMS Heir, which he served for half a year, was a fifth-tier destroyer.

Two watertight compartments, a gun deck, and a main deck.

With the main deck as the boundary, 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 only has one more watertight compartment and one upper deck than Brigantine, but the combat effectiveness of the two sides is vastly different.

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

Most of the expensive military-grade ship materials are elm, oak, oak or teak, which are 100-year-old wood. The wood is dense and thick, which not only has a strong waterproof effect, but also has enough toughness to resist shelling.

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

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 guns are double-layered, 2 upper and 4 lower, all are 12-pound short guns, and the bow guns are 2, arranged on the left and right. It is a 12-pounder medium gun with excellent pursuit performance.

Lorraine saw the figure of the bow under the splint among the two bow guns. It was a high-spirited reindeer with tree-like horns, which immediately corresponded to Carmen's information.

She is the Reindeer, the retired fifth-tier destroyer of the former French Navy, the housekeeper of the Desai Chamber of Commerce, the flagship of the Chamber of Commerce's first fleet...

The sailors of the Butterfly stood silently behind Lorraine, watching the huge battleship with all its minions passing by, taking the first step and mooring into the port.

Karen's voice was hoarse.

"Desai... are those Frenchmen going to send the babysitter to Cantabrian?"

"We wiped out their third fleet. The rabbit is in a hurry. It's not surprising that it chooses to bite people."

"But..." Karen took a deep breath, "Captain, the nine-pound gun can't penetrate her hull, but the eighteen-pound gun only needs one shot to make a big hole in our thickest side... …how to spell?"

"This is not something we need to consider." Lorraine said in a low voice, "We are different from other chambers of commerce. Merchant ships have completely withdrawn from Cantabrian. Destroyers are fully equipped with sails, with a maximum speed of 10 knots and a headwind of 2 knots. Generally speaking , she can't catch up with our first fleet of all high-speed ships."

"Only... to run?"

"That's the only thing for now." Lorraine stared at the shadow of the sail that was sinking on the sea level, "The maximum crew of 250 people is two meters higher than Brigantine's side height. Just for these two points, she is not our family. It can be formidable. Bravery... also takes time."