Reborn As a Pirate

Generally speaking, one or two nautical supplies stores can always be found in market towns of the type of ocean wharf, where charts, compasses, and some commonly used marine supplies are sold, including sextants.

However, there is no such shop in Bashiba town...

To be more precise, there is not a single real shop in the whole town, not even the sailor's favorite tavern and brothel.

This folk style...is a little too simple...

Lorraine was a little bit blind.

He docked at Bashiba, and his biggest purpose was to buy a handy sextant and a chart of the New World here.

Bridgetown must have these things, but it faces the Caribbean Sea, which is rich in pirates. Unless he has no choice, he really doesn't like to sneak in with a black eye.

Now it seems that it is necessary to drill.

After understanding these joints, Lorraine gave a wry smile, and simply wandered aimlessly.

Shopping is not shopping, and scenery is not scenery.

When he was a child, he came to America with a ship, and also docked and replenished on small islands in the Caribbean Sea. Compared with those bustling towns, Bashiba Town is not a pleasant place in his eyes.

It's just that human beings are terrestrial animals after all, even if he doesn't find what he needs, he still enjoys this down-to-earth feeling.

Lorraine began to think about the development plan of the Chamber of Commerce in the New World.

The New World...including the Caribbean Islands and the giant Americas.

For him, a privateer, the war-torn North America and the chaotic Caribbean are a paradise for entrepreneurship. In contrast, the backward South America does not have much to gain.

For the time being, he plans to establish two chapters in the Americas.

The first chapter will spread throughout the Caribbean and Central America.

Tropical crops such as coffee, sugar, tobacco, and cocoa were all suitable ocean-going commodities, and the profits were huge. What’s more, the Royal Navy of Great Britain was stationed in the New World in Kingston Port, Jamaica, backed by powerful powers, and the foundation of the Chamber of Commerce was also stronger.

It is worth establishing a second chapter in North America, where there is a sufficient population and a developed economy, which can become the main profit growth point of the chamber of commerce in the future, just like the radiation positioning of the Northwest Europe chapter.

The problem is that there is a war going on against the British.

As an Englishman, Lorraine has not yet decided whether to expand his business tentacles after North America is officially independent, or to take some risks and make some moves during the war.

Fortunately, there is no need to rush this matter.

This time he only brought 30,000 pounds. Although there are many ancient gold artifacts, the discount rate is really limited, and he can't rush to sell them.

This amount is only enough to start a branch and buy a ship, and it is not even enough to fully equip a standard destroyer of the same level as the Golden Deer.

Therefore, the first thing must be to establish the Caribbean chapter in Kingston. Only when the branch is established, can he further select business partners and form an ocean-going fleet.

As for what to do next...

According to the conventional development idea, he should, like most ocean-going businessmen, use the Golden Deer to run the business himself, taking advantage of the long distance between Europe and America to earn a huge price difference.

But he didn't want to do that.

Since winning the battle against Cantab, the Drake Chamber of Commerce has gained a firm foothold in the vast sea area of ​​Northwest Europe.

There is sufficient hematopoietic capacity there, and it is entirely possible to produce stable profits by consuming Spanish New World products.

A Golden Deer is far from enough to leverage this mature profit model. Even if Lorraine tied himself to the route, he couldn't make a qualitative change in what he got.

He felt that it was more suitable for him to take risks on the oceans of the New World, take advantage of the privileges of privateering merchants, and shorten the maturation process of the two pre-established chambers of commerce in the New World through robbery, rather than working hard and calculating carefully.

The key is, how can the pirate flag and the chamber of commerce flag be used to the extreme?

How to be like Francis,

Use the war to make a lot of money for yourself, instead of being welded in an iron cage and hanging by the Thames for an exhibition like Captain Kidd?

Don't be in a hurry, don't be lazy...

The more Lorraine thought about it, the more absorbed he was, so he found an empty alley, sat down against the conical building, and talked softly to himself.

Before he could figure it out, a burst of noise disturbed his thoughts.

"Where is that woman?"

"Front! Damn it, front! I see her, outflanking her!"

Loud shouts accompanied by the sound of debris being overturned, Lorraine stood up curiously, and saw a slender figure rushing out from the end of the alley in panic, with his head down, running straight towards Lorraine.

It was a caucasian woman, tall and slender, with slender hands and feet, and a head of red hair that was loose and wavy, showing enthusiasm.

Her dress is quite different from that of women in this era. She neither wears a hat nor a skirt. Her upper body is a pure white wide-sleeved silk shirt, and her lower body is light brown tight breeches. A knot was simply tied around the waist, which highlighted the slenderness and softness of the wasp waist.

Lorraine couldn't see her face clearly.

She ran in a panic, turning her head sometimes and bowing her head sometimes. She looked quite vigorous, and she jumped over the debris that crowded the narrow alley lightly and deftly, and rushed to Lorraine's side in a short while.

Lorraine gave up half a step as a matter of course.

Unexpectedly, this half-step gave way, but the woman saw the boots.

Only then did she realize that there was someone in front of her, and she dodged to the side subconsciously, but instead bumped into Lorraine's arms, full of fragrance.

The sound of chasing from the back alley was approaching, as if the pursuers would appear in the next second, blocking the woman who had been delayed for a while from both ends.

Lorraine's face was full of weirdness, and he stretched out his hand to straighten the woman, seeing her face clearly for the first time.

She is very young, with big and long eyes and thin and fine eyebrows.

She has large dark brown eyes, and her complexion is slightly darker, showing a light wheat color. The bridge of the nose is straight and straight, the face is round and the chin is slightly pointed, showing the softness, delicateness and charm of the facial features.

A red-haired Iberian?

It was just a face-to-face effort, and Lorraine had already recognized her race, but his doubts did not decrease, but became more than before.

Barbados is a British colony. At the moment, the British New World authorities are at war with Spain, and it seems that they are not friendly with Portugal...

With such a big background, how could an Iberian woman appear in Barbados and panic?

He tentatively asked: "Miss, you look like..."

"Don't talk, kiss me!"

"Eh?"

Seeing that Lorraine didn't respond, the woman gritted her teeth and stepped closer.

Her slender arms wrapped around Lorraine's broad back, and her palms ran along her back, directly pressing Lorraine's head, standing on tiptoe, and pressing down suddenly.

Well!

Lips and teeth... depend on each other.

Her lips were cold, delicate and soft.

The loose red hair gently scratched Lorraine's face, making his heart itch slightly. The slender figure was pressed against Lorraine's chest, and a faint fragrance lingered at the tip of her nose.

Lorraine's mind was completely blank.

hell...

This time I really saw a ghost...

There was a large audience, and the world was clear, and I was a majestic, mighty and majestic Viking man, but was eaten tofu by a little woman who was fleeing?

deficit! Eat big!