Reborn As a Pirate

"Arrived at the anchor point!"

"No. 3 and No. 4 drop anchor, stormtroopers go on deck, level 3 alert, half rest!"

"Put down the Zodiac!"

"Captain leaves the ship, pay attention!"

With the sound of an order, Lorraine and Henna boarded the assault boat along the rope ladder, and Edley called the sailors to start paddling, and approached steadily towards the bustling coastline of St. Croix Island not far away.

Hana took Lorraine's arm and looked at the harbor where the boats came and went from a distance: "Lorraine, were the Vikings discovered the Virgin Islands?"

Lorraine shrugged: "Unfortunately, although the Vikings arrived in the New World early, they mainly relied on the high-latitude Greenland coastline to travel between Europe and north-central Canada, and did not involve the Caribbean."

"Then why is it called the Virgin Islands?"

"Virgin and Viking." Lorraine deliberately amplified the sound difference between the two words so that Henna could distinguish them, "This island is called the Virgin Islands. It was the name given by Columbus when he explored America for the second time in 1493. The full name is Saint Ursula and Eleven Thousand Virgins of the Sun Islands."

"Saint Ursula?"

"A Catholic saint." Lorraine recalled for a while, "In the fourth century A.D., Dinotus, king of Dumnonia in southwestern Britain at that time, had a beautiful daughter named Ursula. She believed in Catholicism, but Was betrothed to Conan Meredoc, the heretic of America, France."

"This is a political marriage. Princess Ursula has no right to refuse, but she proposed to postpone the marriage for three years. She hopes to use these three years to go on a pilgrimage to Rome. His Majesty Dinotus agreed."

"After obtaining permission, she led ten noble virgins on a pilgrimage. Because each of these eleven noble virgins was served by a thousand virgins, this pilgrimage team was called Princess Ursula and eleven thousand virgins."

"Ursula and her maids soon met Pope Cyrilacus and Bishop Sulpicus of Ravenna in Rome, and the Pope canonized her as a saint and sowed God to every virgin. blessing. So on the way back, they were in danger."

"A storm brought them to the port of the Gauls, and they lost their way, and eleven ships entered the Danube through the Netherlands and went as far as Cologne, where they encountered the invading Attila the Hun."

"Attila wanted to occupy the saint Ursula, but Ursula refused. Including her, eleven thousand virgins were martyred together in the camp of the Huns. This is Saint Ursula and ten thousand virgins. The story of a thousand holy virgins."

"Columbus is a knowledgeable man. He combined this story with the Virgin of the Sun circulated among the indigenous people of Peru to name the island. It's a bit like doing as the Romans do. It's a pity that the name he gave was long and awkward, waiting for the Spaniards to name it. Kicked out of the islands, the British shortened the name of the islands to [Virgins], and that's how the Virgin Islands came about."

Henna frowned tightly: "Ursula, is that story true?"

"You care?" Lorraine asked in surprise.

"Um."

"Uh... so do you want it to be true or false?"

"I hope it's true." Henna said earnestly. "When we were young, my father also took us on a pilgrimage to Mecca. When we came back, our ship encountered a storm in the Mediterranean Sea and blew us all the way to the Republic of Venice."

"The citizens of Venice are very tolerant and don't care much about differences in beliefs; their merchants are very hospitable, and they especially like to hire killers to solve their opponents. We spent a happy year there, and I always feel that it is a blessing from Allah. "

Lorraine rolled her eyes.

He originally thought that Haina recognized Ursula's Zhenlie, but who knew...she only cared about the relationship between God's blessing and the storm...

The blessing of Allah sent their family to the hospitable Venice,

God's blessing sent Ursula to Attila's barracks. Both of them are big men in the faith world. It is clear at a glance which one is better to get along with. This is probably what Hana wants to express.

The sky was chattered to death, and Lorraine looked up at the sky in embarrassment, and found that the assault boat had reached the beach in St. Croix.

"We're here." Lorraine quickly changed the subject.

He was about to jump off the boat when Hana grabbed him: "Is that story true?"

Seeing that there was no way to avoid it, Lorraine could only bite the bullet and answer: "First of all, in the fourth century, the mainstream belief in the British Isle was Viking theology, and people who believed in God were as rare as the Vikings today, and the story suggests that Including the Dumnonian royal family at that time, there were at least eleven powerful noble families in this small kingdom who believed in God."

"Secondly, the population of Britain in the fourth century AD was very small. Eleven thousand women of the right age went abroad at the same time. If Dumnonia could not handle it properly, the country would perish."

"Thirdly, Ursuline's pilgrimage team drove eleven large ships, which means that even without considering the sailors who sailed the ships, those ships needed to carry at least a thousand people. Even Valkyrie can't carry a thousand people. At that time, Dumnonia had such shipbuilding technology, theirs in Europe, not the Romans and Vikings."

"Fourth, the person who made up this story didn't do enough homework. I checked the files of the Holy See. In the fourth century, the Pope of the Holy See was St. Lucas, not Cyrilakus."

"fifth……"

Speaking positively, Lorraine suddenly found that Henna's mood was a little strange.

Although she still had that clear and cold exterior, she always felt that... she seemed to be suppressing something.

"Hina?"

"If we help Britain win this colony, will it be of any benefit to us?"

"What?"

"If you want to bombard these deceitful virgins, I can go and assassinate the governor of the Dutch."

"Wait!" Lorraine looked like he had seen a ghost, "Are you angry?"

"I'm not angry." Henna brushed the hair off her forehead coolly, "I'm just thinking about business."

"yeah?"

...

St. Croix is ​​the southernmost inhabited island of the Virgin Islands. Administratively, it belongs to the Dutch colony. It has two major export pillars, sugar and copper. The per capita wealth is prosperous, and the infrastructure of St. Croix is ​​natural. Well built.

Her port has four plank roads and thirteen berths. The berths are all six meters deep and the deepest is seven meters. Except for battleship-level ships like the Valkyrie, they can basically meet the berthing needs of any type of merchant ship and armed merchant ship.

It was precisely because of her emphasis on infrastructure that Chuck Parker placed the offices of the American Branch in the Virgin Islands and the Leeward Islands on this island that does not belong to the British. In the dock, the Drake Chamber of Commerce has 22 permanent employees, 53 short-term employees, and 75 temporary employees.

The name of the regional manager is Van Niugel Strence, a young Dutchman who is also responsible for the administration and operation of the trading house and the repair yard.

After landing, Lorraine and his party drove directly to the port area, and soon came to the outside of a water tank with the badge of the Marine Group [Anchor and Pansy].

This is a large parallel water tank. There are three side-by-side water tank docks facing the sea. The middle is large and the two sides are small. The three docks are connected to the large land middle tank like a trident.

Zhongcang is in the shape of a [concave], and there is a three-story red brick building in the middle of the depression. The purchased land was used.

This is the administrative office shared by the Drake American Branch and the St. Croix Shipyard of the Maritime Group. Just looking at it, Lorraine knew that Chuck had chosen another person for the chamber of commerce who was good at calculating and didn't care much about the working environment. District Manager.

"It's really Chuck style..."

Lorraine muttered dejectedly, and stepped into the open door.

"Bell has lived in this bunker-like place for more than half a month. When we meet, I'm afraid he won't complain to me..."

Reborn as a Pirate