Reborn As a Pirate

Spaniards have shallow knowledge and are always obsessed with immediate short-term profits, without seeing the long-term future.

This is probably one of the originators of world-class regional black.

Lorraine felt that Carmen would definitely not like this sentence, but it didn't matter, he just borrowed a Spanish "goodbye" at the right time to see off the guests, and used it to convey a small and insignificant message to Hamilton, the US government and Philadelphia .

The Baishanglianshe is not those high-minded Philadelphia gift bags, nor are they those small businessmen who are entitled to get whatever they want in the United States.

They are chaebols, one of the business guilds with the weakest political background and the strongest economic strength in the world. The vague long-term future cannot perfuse them. If you want to cooperate, please show real sincerity.

This is a real blackmail.

Because the sea eats people.

In the age of sails, things like shipwrecks, dead people, lost ships, and grounding on the rocks happened almost every month and every week for a chamber of commerce like the Drake Chamber of Commerce that had hundreds of merchant ships under its name.

Ships are consumables, and people are also consumables. All losses incurred during the voyage are classified into one category on the books, called logistics losses.

Logistics loss is a comprehensive concept, which will be affected by ship status, sailor ability, route, weather, international situation, chamber of commerce prestige and even the most unpredictable luck.

Therefore, fighting is never superfluous for the Chamber of Commerce in this era. The value of the record is not only in the capture, but the meaning of victory is never in the victory itself.

Take the Drake Chamber of Commerce as an example. In 1785, its logistics loss rate was 18.8%, which was 5.7% lower than that of Lorraine's allies in the Council of Light, and 16% lower than the average value of the Hundred Chambers of Commerce.

Bai Qi's bad name played a huge role in this issue. Of the 18.8%, the loss caused by pirates was only 7.3%. Other than him, even the Prundit Chamber of Commerce, which has the best relationship with pirates, this part It also reached 12%.

In the battle of Rust, Lorraine wiped out Cotton Jack and Henry the Hound at a very small cost, and Old Dukov and the mysterious Oriental Chamber of Commerce jointly wiped out the Viking pirate group.

Even without counting the gains from that battle itself, the logistics attrition rate of the Drake Chamber of Commerce dropped by 1.6% in 1786, further decreased by 2.2% in 1787, and finally reached an incredible 15%.

In 1787, the three major trade branches of the Drake Chamber of Commerce in Europe, Africa, and the United States had a total annual trade volume of 1.85 million pounds, 3.8% equivalent to 70,300 pounds, even if this value was not all contributed by the two pirate kings, cotton and hounds, Lorraine's gains also far exceeded what he paid in that battle.

In the same way, it can be proved that Lorraine's battle on Governor's Island will also be profitable.

Blackbeard's death will add a bloody halo to pansies for many years to come, at least in the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean, where Pirates of the Caribbean are also the mainstay, that white flag will keep the most daring pirates away.

On this issue, the Americans owe neither Lorraine nor the Baishang Association.

The battle of Wai Rust still looks like an accident caused by greed, but on Governor's Island, Hamilton is just a trophy, and Baishanglianshe is the chess player Canaanli wants to fight against.

So……

Why is Lorraine blackmailing the United States at this juncture?

Quite simply, interest.

The revolving door project symbolizes the economic lifeline of the United States. As long as possible, she is unwilling to lose even 1% of the equity.

But the reality is that America is impoverished,

Not only is there no ability to control 100%, even 51% is wishful thinking.

Under such circumstances, for the time being, it seems that the Philadelphia Li, which is of one heart and one mind, is the first choice of the United States. Business groups with economic strength and no political background, such as the Baishang Association and Canaan Li, are the second choice. Those with unclear backgrounds FITs and businessmen are the third choice, and France and the United Kingdom are their worst choices.

The equity situation before the war between Baishanglianshe and Canaanli was the most favorable for the United States. The only fly in the ointment may be that Baishanglianshe owns too much, so that it will cause some hidden dangers in the future.

However, the United States is powerless to prevent the Canaanites from declaring war on the Baishang Association, nor can it stop the association from fighting. To make matters worse, this battle directly exposed the penetration and threat of the Canaanite Rite to the Philadelphia Rite.

Tongxin and Tongde disappeared. Philadelphia Li chose to fight back between himself and the United States. Canaan Li was kicked out of the game. In the crucial second choice, Baishanglianshe suddenly had no opponent.

Ever since, the United States was forced to become the direct opponent of the Baishang Association.

The United States does not want the BCC to hold a greater shareholding, so facing the gap left by the Canaanite ceremony, she assigns the biggest cake risk to the Bank of England, which is the worst choice.

The Baishang Association certainly does not have the strength to compete for interests with the Bank of England, but their advantages in the early stage are huge, and even the remaining ones are enough to meet their needs.

According to the resolution of the twenty-seventh plenary meeting of the Illumination Council, Lorraine offered the United States three conditions:

A. The U.S. government went bankrupt under the high debt crisis;

B. The US government handed over its economic lifeline to the UK;

C. 2.4%.

The United States finally chose C.

On February 3, 1788, the Navy Department of the Confederate States of America announced [Due to personal health reasons, the former Admiral Robert Smith of the Long Island Fleet of the United States resigned from his current position and various positions, and retired from active service to return to his hometown to recuperate. His post will be taken over by Lieutenant General Lingus, the former Deputy Chief of Staff of the Department of the Navy, and this order will take effect immediately].

Robert Smith is the main proponent of [Operation Rose Wither], the best friend and political ally of the Democratic standard bearer, Virginia Governor Thomas Jefferson, and a senior American student of the Philadelphia Ceremony.

But the reasons for his loss of power in this incident were none of the above.

For a long time, he has played the role of the opponent of the BCC among the insiders of the revolving door plan. He insisted that Baishanglianshe was a group of profit-seeking villains, not worthy of being regarded as a collaborator, but only suitable as a handy tool that was thrown away after use.

So he was discarded cleanly, and he was honored to be the first olive branch that the United States handed to the Baishang Association.

Then, on the 10th day after Mr. Smith was discharged from the army, that is, on February 13, Washington sent a very high-level negotiating team to Mercury Manor.

Benjamin Franklin, the leader of the negotiating team, and Alexander Hamilton, the deputy leader, have a total of 9 members, all of whom are promising officials with dual identities of the American government and Philadelphia Remyson.

The two sides launched a three-day negotiation in the lake center meeting room of the manor. Not only did they reach a series of secret agreements, but they also formed an undisclosed official memorandum, which was signed by Mr. Franklin and Conceisang, the executive chairman of Baishang Association. The Earl signed the documents separately.

The memorandum stipulates that the Baishang Association must fully support the U.S. Navy's "Operation Rose Wither", organize a mercenary fleet of no less than 100 ships, and provide anchor ports, supplies, logistics, maintenance and medical treatment for the crusade fleet.

The United States needs to provide Baishanglianshe with at least one deputy admiral, two squadron admirals, a deputy chief of staff and a general logistics officer in the crusade fleet.

Valkyrie, the general flagship of the fleet directly under the Drake Chamber of Commerce, must participate in the battle, and Lorraine Anason Drake, the admiral of the fleet directly under the Drake Chamber of Commerce, is not allowed to participate in the battle.

In addition, on the issue of pre-purchasing shares of the First Bank of America, the 9.5% publicly promised by the United States will be cashed in three parts.

The chamber of commerce with the largest scale of participation and the chamber of commerce with the largest supply of logistics each received 1% of the pre-order shares. The former was captured by the Plundit chamber of commerce with 32 ships participating in the battle, and the latter was handed over to Drake without dispute.

50% of the remaining 7.5% will be divided equally between all participating chambers of commerce according to the proportion of participation in the battle, and the other 50% will be shared equally among the top 20 chambers of commerce according to the evaluation of military achievements.

These two parts are not limited to the Baishang Association, but in the evaluation of military exploits, the Baishang Association enjoys the same priority.

Finally, the United States proposed to repurchase 1% of the shares at the current market value every year within 20 years after the listing of the First Bank, a total of 20%.

This point is not aimed at the Baishang Association, which has the largest shareholding, including the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce and the Bank of England.

After the internal consultation, Count Conceicao also expressed his approval on behalf of the association, and agreed to write this article into the memorandum.

In this way, the final game is over.

After two months of intense preparations, on April 17, 1788, the American Crusade Fleet with a total of 294 ships set sail at the Sag anchor port of the Long Island Fleet. The American Rose War, also known as the third war of association...

The curtain opens!