"Sail! Five degrees on the left rudder!"

"The rope is ready, the anchor is ready!"

"Dock pilots, clear space at berth 14 and final revision of the bow!"

"The angle is normal, the speed is normal, cut into the plank road, the ship board is ready!"

"Semaphore, welcome to Free Boston!"

"Enter the port! Drop the anchor!"

As the anchor's chain crashed and sank underwater, the Jackdaw finally ended a long and unpredictable journey of more than ten days and stopped at Boston's busy east coast pier.

Boston is one of the oldest municipalities in North America.

In 1620, the Pilgrims who crossed the ocean established the first colony in the vicinity of Massachusetts Bay, the Plymouth Colony.

Ten years later, in 1630, another group of Puritans landed on the Saumat Peninsula.

Because of a completely different religious management policy from the previous pioneers, they built a new colony in what is now the North District of Boston, the Massachusetts Bay Colony, which was the predecessor of Boston.

The Massachusetts Bay Colony was built on the Shaomat Peninsula, connected to the mainland by a narrow isthmus, surrounded by the mouth of the Massachusetts Bay, Back Bay, and the Charles River.

Since there are three hills in the center of the jurisdiction, she was first called the city of three mountains.

Later, some convincing and outstanding people appeared in the town. According to colonial practices, the pioneers officially named the town with their hometown of Boston, England.

The name of Boston was born from this.

In 1691, the growing Massachusetts Bay Colony merged with the earlier Plymouth Colony into the Massachusetts Colony, becoming one of the 13 colonies of Great Britain in North America. Boston became the capital of the colony, and after the independence of the United States, it naturally became the state. House.

This is a holy place for the Puritans.

The original ruler John Winthrop once published a famous sermon here, entitled "A Model of Christian Charity". He believed that there was a special contract between Boston and God, which was enshrined by the local Puritans. Holy scripture.

They used this sermon to restrain themselves, and focused on building an orderly and well-structured seaside town, and founded the first public park in the United States, Boston Common, the first public elementary school Matt School, and the first public middle school Boston Latin School. Harvard University, the first public university.

The perfect public education system has made this town one of the core talent export places in the United States, with active thinking and prosperous culture, and a large number of outstanding talents have emerged in all walks of life.

With the back-feeding of these talents, Boston has also developed rapidly, and is now one of the few big cities in North America.

The entire city includes the northern district of the old district where the largest population of citizens live, as the economic, living and administrative center; the southern district of the US manufacturing center, where a large number of factories and workers gather; the largest and most prosperous commercial terminal in central North America, is The East Coast Docklands known as the Front Bay; and the National Shipbuilding Center of Baltimore, also known as the Southern Docklands in Back Bay.

The Jackdaw was moored in Front Bay.

The hull was stationary, the plank was lowered, and Lorraine stepped on the flat plank road. From a distance, he saw a tall gentleman walking straight towards him under the **** of a dozen soldiers.

"Is it Mr. Edward Kenway, the captain of the Jackdaw?"

Lorraine guessed the identity of the gentleman: "I'm Kenway, may I ask you?"

"Thomas Jefferson." Jefferson gave Lorraine a standard gentleman's salute with a gloomy expression, then raised his head, "Mr. Edward Kenway, America...I am ashamed of you!"

...

As expected, unexpected.

The so-called expected, it means that Jack Cotton really rejected the central reconciliation of the Continental Congress. Not only denied all Lorraine's seemingly sincere peace talks, but also tattooed his conditions on the sender's forehead.

[Let the smuggler put on women’s clothes and kneel on my knees to clean my boots]

So the negotiation broke down.

Cotton Jack blocked all the passages to land in his hometown, and the American elite suffered a huge and unbearable humiliation. Although Lorraine didn't care, he was still confused for a while and gloomy for a while, and finally told Jefferson in a friendly manner.

"Don't mind, it's not America's fault."

Favor get.

From now on, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington, the father of the United States, who has never seen the above, have all become Lorraine’s debtors.

The so-called unexpected, Lorraine did not expect Jefferson to personally come to the dock to pick up the ship.

Is it just pure guilt?

Or is it that his urgent need for the ship’s armaments has left him no time to take care of his reservations, even the most basic social distance?

How unstable is Boston?

Lorraine's mind jumped out of the Boston fact sheet that Adams gave him.

The city was packed with American troops, including the militia, the Continental Army, and a fleet of six small sampans moored at the mouth of the Charles River.

And their opponent?

On land, the Canadian Colonial Army and the New England Colonial Army are staring at Boston at an angle; on the sea, the Second Formation of the Continental Squadron is ready to implement a complete blockade of the coast at any time.

As the core battlefield of the Northern Theater of the War of Independence, the British deployed in this area are far more powerful than the Americans. The reason why they did not take this key sea and land hub was because they did not want to experience another Bunker Hill-style tragedy. victory.

To put it bluntly, the peace in Boston is maintained by the fortresses blocking the isthmus and the fortresses all over the coast.

But if Boston turns, the fort and the fort will become imaginary. The Red Army uniform will eat up the Continental Army garrison stationed in the north of the city overnight, and the powerful Second Formation will take over the lower pier without any hindrance. The American sampan wandering at the mouth of the Charles River has no stopping power at all.

If... when the dock fell, the somewhat famous Jackdaw was still full of arms and left on the berth...

Lorraine suddenly wanted to leave.

Now that the biggest dividend of this transaction has been obtained, this dangerous wall that will fall at any time, of course, the sooner you leave, the better!

Thinking of this, Lorraine smiled more intimately.

"Mr. Governor, Jack Cotton is a notorious pirate. Such a person is not worthy of being the center of our topic. We should talk about the distant France. That powerful dynasty is a friend of all justice and justice in the world. Now, his goodwill is here. On my boat."

Jefferson was not as pleased as Lorraine thought. Although he was also very happy, the expression and tone of voice seemed to be just right~lightnovelpub.net~Mr. Adams mentioned the kindness of the ship in the letter to me. Mr. Kenway, they were right. Our cause is very helpful. "

"Then let them come into play quickly." Lorraine bowed. "I asked the registrar who boarded the ship. I heard that the military port at the mouth of the Charles River does not accept civilian ships, right?"

Jefferson smiled and waved his hand: "You misunderstood, Mr. Kenway. This shipment was not prepared for the Continental Army, but was provided to the newly formed Puritan parish guards, so the delivery location was in the front bay. "

"Delivery in Qianwan, a mixed bag of fish and dragons?" Lorraine frowned. "Mr. Governor, I hope you have considered the commotion that this ship may cause when things go ashore. Is it really good to deliver goods in Qianwan?"

"Don't worry, Mr. Kenway, it's not the first time I have come into contact with this type of delivery." Jefferson patted Lorraine's arm. "The Church of the Qing Dynasty rented a water tank. But because of a sudden incident, the warehouse is still being cleaned. In the process, I have to trouble you and your ship to wait for two days at the berth."

"Two days...really?"

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