The Undead Empire That Travels Through the Multiverse

The mate's estimate was not wrong, and the ship did arrive at Port Royal later in the afternoon.

However, the weather seems to be not very good. It is raining lightly at Port Royal, which inevitably makes the gentleman a little worried about whether the wedding of Governor Swann's daughter can be held as scheduled.

However, when he stepped onto the deck and looked towards Port Royal, he unexpectedly found several warships moored in the port.

"What's the matter? Why are so many warships parked in Port Royal?" The captain also appeared on the deck at this time, raising his binoculars to look at Port Royal.

When he saw through the binoculars the flags hoisted on those warships, his expression changed drastically.

"Captain?" The first mate noticed the captain's face and looked at him with concern.

"Damn it, it's the East India Company!" The captain looked at the first mate worriedly, and said to him worriedly: "The East India Company has expanded rapidly in recent years, and I didn't expect them to extend their tentacles to the New World. "

When the first mate heard that it was the East India Company, the expression on his face became ugly. They had traveled to the Indian route before, but the ports controlled by the East India Company imposed quite high taxes and other various expenses on all ships that were not owned by the company. Such expenses caused them to hand over almost 90% of their profits to the East India Company.

It is precisely because of this that the shipowner changed the business scope of the ship from the Indian route to the New World.

But I didn't expect that even in the New World, there is also the power of the East India Company, which made the captain and first mate worry about their pockets.

The gentleman on the side didn't feel much about it. Hearing them talk about the East India Company, he couldn't help sharing some news from the upper class in London: "I heard that His Majesty the King is worried that the colonial war between our country and France will lead to The country was in financial difficulty, so the East India Company was promised to extend their trading license until 1783, and in exchange the East India Company would need to borrow another million pounds from the government."

"One million pounds? How much is that..." The first mate was obviously shocked by such a huge sum.

Compared with the chief mate, the captain obviously understands the concept of one million pounds better. According to the standard of the seventh-tier battleships currently divided by the United Kingdom, although the first-tier battleships are expensive, cumbersome and slow, and the lower gun ports are stormy There are many weaknesses such as not being able to open when the time comes, little space for loading supplies, and being able to sail only in summer.

However, the largest battleship in a country is regarded as a symbol of national power, so a small number of ships are still reserved as flagships.

It costs 100,000 pounds a piece, and there are currently less than ten first-class battleships in active service in the entire Royal Navy.

As for the cheaper Tier 4 battleship, the cost is only 26,000 pounds, and the two-masted armed merchant ship under the captain's feet only costs 3,000 pounds.

One million pounds, that's enough money to build a fleet.

Although the captain and mate were worried that the East India Company would impose heavy taxes on their ship, the ship slowly sailed into Port Royal and stopped in the port.

Their ships are relatively large merchant ships with a relatively deep draft, so they only anchor in the waters of the port instead of driving to the dock to berth.

It is also for this reason that the gentleman and his daughter must take a small boat if they want to enter Port Royal.

Sitting on the rickety boat, the gentleman hugged his daughter. Although he knew that this was an inevitable and necessary process, he still criticized the inconvenience of the boat.

While the gentleman was hugging his daughter, the little girl noticed that a ship moored in the port looked very different.

Although all the sails of the ship were furled, the little girl noticed that the sails of the ship were dark red, and that the ship had a long hull and a different bow from the other ships. It looks very sharp, like a pair of open scissors.

The little girl was just about to tell her father about her discovery when there was a shock and the boat had arrived at the pier. The gentleman climbed up and took the little girl by the hand and pulled her up as well.

As a gentleman, he naturally brought his entourage with him. When the group of people converged, the gentleman covered his daughter with his coat and led her towards the outside of the pier.

According to the gentleman's plan, he should hire a carriage outside the pier, and then take them to the governor's mansion in a comfortable and qualified carriage, and then attend the wedding of Governor Swann's daughter.

In this gentleman's opinion, since Governor Swan invited friends from far away in London to attend his daughter's wedding, it will naturally fill Port Royal with a festive atmosphere. Even if it rains, Port Royal should be lively and peaceful. festive.

However, there were no carriages outside the pier, and contrary to the gentleman's expectations, the entire Port Royal seemed very depressing and deserted.

This caused the gentleman to have some bad associations, and he hurriedly asked his followers to find the carriage, but he also couldn't help but feel worried.

At this time, in the Governor's Mansion in Port Royal, William Turner, who was supposed to marry Governor Swann's daughter today, was shackled into the Governor's Office at this moment.

Of course, it was not that Governor Swan was reluctant to marry his daughter and wanted to regret the marriage, so he sent someone to arrest his son-in-law, but that William Turner and his fiancée Elizabeth Swan were both imprisoned at this moment and sentenced to hang. It was "conspiracy to release criminals convicted of treason and sentenced to death".

It was not Visby Swan, the governor of Port Royal, who ordered their arrest, but Lord Beckett, the head of the operation of the East India Company.

"Mr. William, do you want to regain your freedom?" Lord Beckett poured a glass of wine for William Turner, and asked him politely, but Lord Beckett's blood-red eyes gave people A sense of madness lurking beneath the calm.

William Turner did not accept the glass offered by Lord Beckett, although his hands had been unshackled.

He carefully looked at the office that should have belonged to his father-in-law. At this time, besides him and Lord Beckett, there were several guards, an artist who was drawing a map on the wall, and a man with his back to them. , man with three-cornered hat sitting on balcony chair.

Noticing that William Turner did not respond to him, Lord Beckett was not angry, and drank the wine in the glass on his own, and then continued: "The East India Trading Company intends to cooperate with our mutual friend Jack Sparrow Make a deal, and you'll be an agent for the East India Trading Company.

If you can help us retrieve one of Jack Sparrow's treasures, we can provide him with a privateer's license and a pardon for you and Miss Elizabeth Swan. "