Breaking through the mouth of the bay, the remaining distance is Pingchuan.

Virginia and Maryland are the most important core supports of the War of Independence. The new United States has absolute support here, and it also occupies most of the land.

Especially on both sides of the Chesapeake Bay, every inch of land here is full of independence enthusiasm.

The home sampan fleet has unparalleled war bonuses in this waters. Relying on the dense coastal fortresses and limited French allies, even beasts such as the Lion dare not easily go deep into the bay to challenge the New World hillbillies. Bottom line.

In short, the first part of fifty thousand pounds is already in hand.

The Jackdaw was beaming, and Lorraine had just announced on deck that in order to celebrate the success of the first smuggling, everyone on board would receive an extra reward equivalent to one-half of the annual salary.

The sound of praise to God and the captain made Bell's heart itchy, and he hurriedly handed the wheel to the fourth helmsman on the ship, and ran to Lorraine with a smile.

"Luo...no, Captain Kenway, what is my half-year salary?"

Lorraine rolled his eyes sharply: "In my impression, you don't seem to have the problem of looking at money like life."

"You are wrong, I have been pursuing reputation." Bell took it for granted, "Why can't I desire money at the same time without affecting it?"

"It must be admitted, the reason is very good." Lorraine nodded with an exaggerated attitude, and suddenly looked at the sky, "Bell, it's still far from Baltimore right now, is it a bit wrong for you to leave the helm for this little thing?"

Bell is sharp and suspicious: "Why do I think you are changing the subject?"

"How can it be……"

Lorraine didn't finish speaking, but Karen walked over with his shoulders moving and was surprised to see the crowd forming a circle: "Did I miss something?"

Bell hurriedly said: "I'm asking our captain, what is the salary of a seaman for half a year."

"Salary? Didn't you read the contract?"

With doubts on his face, Qi turned to Lorraine.

Lorraine touched his nose awkwardly: "Because of some special reasons, Bell's last contract was forged in imitation of the long-term contract template. I lacked the middle name in Party A's signature and did not print privately... Bell had no experience in a private chamber of commerce and was perfectly fooled."

Bell said in disbelief, "You lied to me?"

"To be precise, I didn't trust you, at least that was the case at the time." Lorraine drove the fly and waved his hand, "But the unhappiness has passed. The new contract will be filled according to the signing time of the previous one, including what I told you. Including dividends, the same will not be less."

Bell was still unbelievable: "You lied to me? No! New contract...what is the salary of the real contract?"

Seeing Lorraine looking away again, Karen could only helplessly clear his throat, and explained Lorraine's accent.

"This Chamber of Commerce seamen, including food and accommodation, and the president himself, share the bright prospects of the Chamber of Commerce."

Bell was completely unbelievable: "God! I don't have a salary!"

...

Everyone knows that Bell's pursuit of salary is just an unreasonable release after death.

After all, the Drake Chamber of Commerce is no longer in the past, and the 30% dividend of the Chamber of Commerce constitutes the main part of seafarers' income.

Especially with the start of smuggling, its per capita monthly advance even exceeds the annual profits of most small chambers of commerce and some medium-sized chambers of commerce. Drake’s seamen stepped out of the middle and high-class classes and stepped up to the top of the ranks with their heads high. Receiving ranks.

This also means that once smuggling is normalized, the Drake Chamber of Commerce, with an annual income of more than £500,000, will formally enter the top chamber of commerce in terms of profit.

The sky was high and the clouds were wide and the sea was broad and bright, and the Jackdaw was sailing smoothly in the long narrow bay of Chesapeake.

This is a huge recessed bay with a span of 350 kilometers from north to south and 5 to 60 kilometers from east to west. Losing anxiety and pressure, the Jackdaw barely maintained a speed of 8 to 9 knots, and it took a whole day and a half to reach Baltimore at Bayhead. .

After motivating the crew, Lorraine locked himself in the captain's room.

He was writing a booklet about the round formation assisting defense, with advantages, disadvantages, trajectories, principles, deployments, and variants, all in no detail, and he also attached a suitable response method for the Jackdaw in every predictable situation.

This is the new defensive tactics he and Shaq have perfected together. Even if the creator is not him, he knows it no less than Shaq.

Because of talent, vision, etc., he even has the advantage in dealing with it. Now I just want to sum up the target theoretically, for him, of course, it is easy to catch.

The motivation for the booklet is simpler than the process.

This smuggling started out of grievances, and this crazy idea would emerge, the source of which was that he wanted to find Shaq uncomfortable, or simply wanted to fight.

But now that things have developed, this original intention is no longer important.

Lorraine knew very well that he would not find a more cost-effective business in the Americas. Even if he became a full-time pirate, human trafficker, or opium merchant, he would not be faster than reselling arms to earn money.

Because life is the most stable general equivalent in the world, and only in the face of war as a business, the issuer will spare no effort to invest human life in it.

Favor, flow, supply and demand, performance...

When Zuo Dao sprouted, Lorraine never expected to get stable and high orders, let alone make smuggling into a long-term business.

But since it was a coincidence, he had already made a pie with limited condiments and made himself a direct supplier and seller of the French royal family. What reason could he have to talk to himself?

Every month, after eliminating expenses, costs, and dividends, the profit that can be attributed to him is at least 30,000 pounds, which is 300,000 in ten months.

What is the value of 300,000 pounds?

Since its opening, the business chain of the Northwest Europe Branch has been roughly established, and its monthly profit benchmark is 5,000 pounds.

If you estimate the bonus of the Caribbean branch after the opening of Shanghai Ocean Shipping, it should eventually be able to climb to 7,000, that is, maintain dozens of large and small merchant ships, and the revenue barely touches a quarter of the Jackdaw smuggling guarantee.

The basic cost of a first-class battleship representing the most powerful force of the era is 100,000 pounds ~ lightnovelpub.net ~ generally no more than 150,000 when fully equipped. There are only seven ships like this in Great Britain, and in ten months, Lorraine can be equipped with two ships...hung on the wall to watch.

In any case, the monthly income of 30,000 pounds is far more profitable than the Nuggets, not to mention that it is only mid 1779. If Lorraine's memory is correct, this business will have more than one year to go.

Such a huge benefit is worth giving way to anything. For Lorraine, the immediate priority is to exhaust all means to stabilize and de-risk this trade route.

Shaq’s tactics must be cracked by the Jackdaw, not only by Lorraine, but also by Katerina, Bell, and Karen, who are included in the command sequence, to prevent accidental lineups on the ship for various reasons during the long time span. On the lack of.

In this way, writing a brochure becomes the best option at the moment.

Who said it?

Books are the ladder for mankind to earn money.

Lorraine nervously drew a gold coin in the upper right corner of the cover of the booklet, the Focas gold coin, exactly the same as the messenger when he got the first pot of gold in Heba.

When Focas's ugly beard was finished, Lorraine rubbed his wrist and walked out of the cabin and glanced at it. The bustling and deserted Baltimore Port had appeared at the end of the sea.

Two small armed ships greeted us. The top of the mainmast was fluttering with stars and stripes, but not the fifty stars that Lorraine was familiar with, but connected into a full circle, red and white ten stars, the Great United Flag .

Catalina frowned and looked for it: "Captain, the sea in Baltimore is full of Continental Army boats. We didn't prepare the white flag. It would be very troublesome to wait for inspection all the way."

Lorraine looked thoughtfully at the empty mast tip of the Jackdaw, and said softly: "Hang your rose pirate flag, the Americans are smart, they will understand."