New tufts of parchment were spread out on the desk of the Earl of Galves, with the wine glass pressed on the top edge and the pocket watch on the bottom edge.

　　The pocket watch has the French signature of [Edward Kenway] Dragon Feifengwu on the left hand, and the English swash of [Alexander Hamilton] on the right hand. The handwriting is as beautiful as it is.

　　 It's just that there is no one behind the desk. Lorraine is drinking wine on the sofa, Carmen sits dignifiedly by the side, and the earl is standing by the window, watching the construction site in the distance, his eyes wandering.

　　 "Kenway..."

"I am here."

　　 "Do you know why the Yankees agreed to this price?"

　　 "How much I know part of it."

"Tell me."

　　 Lorraine put down his glass, stood up and cleared his throat.

　　 "First of all, blockade." He said softly, "I don't know whether the earl took over all the business to Baltimore or the British blockade is really effective. In short, judging from the terminal situation, the number of smuggling ships in Baltimore is very small."

　　 "Your guess is actually correct." The earl said something that surprised Lorraine. "Baltimore is the designated port of the Continental Army. We are indeed the only one engaged in maritime trade with the Continental Army."

　　 "But Chesapeake Bay is not Baltimore Bay. There are many ports in Virginia and Maryland, especially Norfolk, Virginia and Annapolis, Maryland. The scale of transactions is no smaller than Baltimore."

　　 "State militia?"

　　 "Maryland has the reputation of an old front state, and Virginia is the core theater. Both states have a very large demand for arms and militias, and they are regions that are really fighting hard for the founding of the nation."

"So I understand the behavior of the British." Lorraine solved a doubt, "Baltimore, Annapolis, Norfolk, and the small ports for private smuggling. We have many friends, but I guess Except for us, other trade lines are still the traditional model of subcontracting distribution, fighting each other."

　　 "If there are many smuggling ships, the formations will be more powerful in assisting defense, and the visible gains will attract more and more attention from the British, just like carrion placed there, jackals will always be attracted to stop."

The earl smiled: "It seems that the first reason is established, the blockade. The Americans think that we have suffered a huge loss before you have the chance to enter. After all, the losses of Maryland and Virginia are real, and the ship sank into the water, God. There is no way to know where she wanted to go."

"Then, ambition." Lorraine stretched out his second finger. "Each contract can arm a standard grenadier regiment, build four, and the Continental Army has the strength to organize battles. Ten is enough to lead the line. The Liehe militia launched a series of campaigns similar to Clinton's southward operation, which helped to establish the prestige of the Continental Army."

"Since you can see this, you can certainly see the needs of France." The earl looked back at Lorraine, "The United States and France are friends, good friends. We helped them stand up and taught them to walk, but if It's possible, we just hope that they won't learn it for a lifetime."

"But children always have to learn to walk." Lorraine looked back, "Before they learned to walk, they had already learned to talk and had the ability to express their own wishes. If France didn't want to teach him to walk, he would Time to find new friends."

　　Earl's eyes were sharp.

　　 "Edward Kenway, you are a well-informed little person. Could it be that in some sneaky place, you have heard rumors that we have never heard of? Spain? Portugal? Denmark? Or the Netherlands?"

　　 "Why can't it be England?"

　　 Lorraine was totally unaffected by the earl, and even seemed to be more relaxed.

　　 He walked back to the sofa, picked up the wine glass on the coffee table, and shook the ice inside.

　　 "Carmen, do you know the history of the War of Independence?"

　　Carmen never hesitated in such a key.

"In 1773, Bostonian Samuel Adams violently poured tea; in 1974, the Continental Congress was held in Philadelphia; in 1975, Lexington shots, and the militia officially clashed with the British army; a few months later, the second Continental Congress The "Declaration of Independence" was issued and the United States of America was established..."

　　 "Enough is enough."

　　 Lorraine smiled and patted Carmen on the shoulder, turned back lazily, and looked at the earl for the second time.

　　 "France is always overconfident, but he doesn't know the root of America's rebellion against Britain. This war is like an adolescent child rebelling against his father. No matter how fierce the dispute is, the father is still the father."

　　 "Earl, please recall this war, violence, quarrel, violence, and leaving home as objectively as possible. Does the whole process look like a family drama?"

"It's okay for France to blend in when that kid is wandering. It's okay to give him a club and teach him to fight. However, children who cannot survive on their own will always miss home. When he misses home, he will forget when he ran away. I'm not happy, forget my father's determination, humble and beg for mercy."

"What can France get? Hate!" Lorraine raised his hand and raised his glass to the sky. "Father hates France for instigating the child, and the child hates France's coquettishness. Friends in the neighborhood will only think that France is stupid and stupid when watching this joke. There is no cure!"

"There is only one way to prevent that child from going home, make him strong, make him independent, and let him remember the teacher of France, and replace his father's image in his heart. What's more, we can stir his desires and make him miss his father. His property makes him feel that everything should belong to him." First posted https://https://

"Desire! Desire is the original sin, and even the Lord and the Father can't erase it from people's hearts. Once it takes root and sprouts, there is no room for family love to look back. Only both hatred and jealousy can carry through them. This! What France should pursue!"

　　 The study was terribly quiet.

　　 Lorraine didn't speak, Carmen didn't smile, the count walked back to the desk with a gloomy expression, silent, watching the new contract on the table.

　　 "You... is this the reason you dare to sign a new contract?"

　　 "No." Lorraine replied naturally, "My purpose is to make money. Everything before that is just gossip."

　　 "Can gossip and talk deceive people's hearts?"

　　 Lorraine laughed.

　　 He knew that the earl was about to agree, and only one foot was missing right now, with this foot to push everything that had been accumulated before, and to push the earl’s shame and patriotism together.

　　 He said softly, "Earl, it's wrong."

"wrong?"

　　 "It is not my words that deceive people's hearts, but your patriotism."

　　 "Patriotic... Bewitched?"

"Is it weird?" Lorraine beckoned and asked Carmen to refill him with the wine. "I guess you are hesitating, hesitating how to send today's idleness to your majesty's desk and let him understand your loyalty. Your kindness, of course, also has the ability."噺⒏⑴祌文Full text is the fastest んττρs:/м.χ八㈠zщ.còм/

"Yes……"

　　 "Let me guess again, you may be frustrated to find that there is no suitable passage around you. The only thing you can rely on seems to be the queen, and the queen..."

　　 "Queen...what?"

"That lady is very good, intelligent, beautiful, educated, has a wrist, and has a good family, which guarantees her political weight. However, you don't want to rely too much on her. The crony is just helpless. If possible, You still want to be the pillar of a certain political association and use your talents instead of the trust of the owner to work for the country."

　　 The earl felt his mouth dry and bitter. He wanted to stop Lorraine from speaking, and he wanted to know what Lorraine wanted to say.

　　 He drank the wine on the desk in one gulp, letting the spicy slip through his mouth: "I think so, am I right?"

　　 "It's not a question of right or wrong. It's just the same question. Joan must have thought about it back then."

"The saint... Your lord?" The earl heard Joan from Lorraine for the second time. The conversation was completely different from the last time, representing a completely different meaning. "You mean, I will be as lonely as the saint. Die."

　　 "The end of political career should be the same to some extent?" Lorraine leaned down on the sofa, "You, life is finally satisfactory, but I have forgotten who brought you Ruyi."

　　 Earl woke up suddenly!

Yes.

　　 At that time, he used the huge price of offending the whole of France in exchange for the support of the queen, such an important matter, he actually forgot.

　　 Bernardo de Galves, the first Earl of Louisiana~lightnovelpub.net~Member of the first French parliament, a rising political star during the Louis XVI period.

　　His image has long been determined. None of them has anything to do with integrity, nor can they remove the queen's mark.

　　 He chose this by himself, he had no regrets when he chose, but now he almost forgets everything.

　　 Queen Mary is his support, not the king, loyalty to the queen is loyalty, not France.

　　What does that queen need?

　　 Want France to flourish? In her mind, France was probably unfailing.

　　 Do you want His Majesty Louis to be prestigious? In her heart, her husband was probably grand originally.

　　 The earl met Queen Mary, and although the chat didn't last long, he was sure that she thought so.

　　 The lady of Habsburg is by no means stupid, but her life has always been out of touch with the world, and has been out of touch for many years, she will never be able to sink back to the world...

　　 She only needs money!

　　Earl glanced at the contract and asked softly: "This is the gift you prepared for me?"

　　 "Gifts or stairs, who knows? Anyway, I only want goods."

　　 "Someone will bring the goods you need, tell me now, is this a gift?"

　　 Lorraine didn't seem to hear the earl's words, and only whispered like talking to himself.

　　 "For the queen who loves money, smuggling should be very important? Here are her agents and distributors, but in her heart, who is more trustworthy..."