"Arrive at the anchor point!"

"No. 3, No. 4 anchor, the stormtrooper goes on deck, level 3 alert, half rest!"

"Put down the assault boat!"

"The captain leaves the ship, pay attention!"

With a call, Lorraine and Henna boarded the assault boat along the rope ladder. Edley greeted the sailors to start paddling and approached the prosperous coastline of St. Croix not far away.

Henna took Lorraine's arm and looked at the harbour where the ships came and went from a distance: "Lorraine, did the Vikings discover the Viking Islands?"

Lorraine shrugged: "Unfortunately, although the Vikings arrived early in the New World, they mainly relied on the high-latitude Greenland coastline to travel between Europe and central and northern Canada, and did not involve the Caribbean."

"Then why is it called the Virgin Islands?"

"Virgin and Viking." Lorraine deliberately magnified the difference between the two words to make it easier for Henna to distinguish between them. "This island is called the Virgin Islands. It was the name given by Columbus when he first explored the Americas in 1493. The full name is St. Ursula and the 11 thousand Virgin Islands of the Sun."

"St. Ursula?"

"A Catholic saint." Lorraine recalled for a while, "In the fourth century AD, at that time, King Denotus of Dumnonia in southwestern Britain had a beautiful daughter named Ursula. She believed in Catholicism, but Conan Meridok, a pagan who was betrothed to France Amorica."

"This is a political marriage. Princess Ursula has no right to refuse, but she proposed to postpone the marriage for three years. She hopes to spend these three years on a pilgrimage to Rome. His Majesty Denotus agreed."

"After getting permission, she led ten noble virgins on the pilgrimage. Because each of these eleven noble virgins has 1,000 virgins to serve, this pilgrimage team is called Princess Ursula and 11 thousand virgins."

"Ursula and her maids soon met Pope Cereiracus and Bishop Surpakus of Ravenna in Rome. The Pope appointed her a saint and sowed God for every virgin. Blessings. So they were in danger on the way back."

"A storm took them to the Gaul port. They lost their course. Eleven ships entered the Danube through the Netherlands and went to Cologne, where they encountered the invading Hun king Attila."

"Attila wanted to occupy the saint Ursula. Ursula couldn't follow her. Including her, 11 thousand virgins were martyred together in the Huns’ camp. This is Saint Ursula and ten thousand. The story of a thousand holy virgins."

"Columbus is an erudite man. He combined this story with the saint of the sun circulated in the indigenous Peruvians to give the island a name, which is a bit of a hometown. It is a pity that his name is long and slurred, waiting for the Spanish. After being driven out of the archipelago, the British reduced the name of the archipelago to [Virgin]. That's how the Virgin Islands came."

Henna frowned tightly: "Ulsula, is that story true?"

"Do you care?" Lorraine asked in surprise.

"Um."

"Uh...then do you want it to be true or false?"

"I hope it's true." Henna said seriously. "When I was young, my father also took us to Mecca on a pilgrimage. When we returned, our ship was hit by a storm in the Mediterranean, which kept us blowing to the Republic of Venice."

"The citizens of Venice are very tolerant and don't care much about differences in beliefs; their businessmen are very hospitable, and they especially like to hire killers to solve their opponents. We spent a happy year there, and I always feel that it is a blessing from God. "

Lorraine rolled his eyes.

He originally thought that Hannah agreed with Ursula's Zhenlie, who knew...she actually only cared about the relationship between God's blessing and the storm...

God blessed them and sent their family to Venice, a hospitable place. God blessed Ursula into Attila’s barracks. Both of them are big brothers in the faith world. It's clear at a glance which is better to get along with, Henna wants to express The estimate is this.

The sky was chatted to death, Lorraine looked up at the sky awkwardly, and found that the assault boat had reached the beach in the town of St. Croix.

"We're here." Lorraine quickly turned off the subject.

He just wanted to jump off the boat, Henna grabbed him: "That story, is it true?"

Seeing that avoidance is inevitable, Lorraine can only bite the bullet and answer: "First of all, the mainstream belief in the British Isles in the fourth century was the Viking religion. People who believe in God are as rare as the current Vikings, and the story suggests Including the Dumnonia royal family at the time, at least eleven powerful noble families in this small kingdom believed in God."

"Secondly, the population of Britain in the fourth century AD was very small. If 11,000 women of school age go abroad at the same time, Dumnonia will perish if they fail."

"Third, Ursula’s pilgrimage team sailed eleven large ships, which means that even if sailors are not considered for sailing, those ships need to carry at least a thousand people. Valkyrie can’t transport a thousand people, spit. After that time, Dumnonia had this kind of shipbuilding technology, and theirs in Europe, not the Romans and Vikings."

"Fourth, the person who made this story did not do enough homework. I checked the archives of the Holy See. In the fourth century, the Pope of the Holy See was Saint Lucas, not Cereiracus."

"fifth……"

To put it right, Lorraine suddenly found that Henna's mood was a little strange.

Although it is still the cold and cold outside, but I always feel... she seems to be suppressing something.

"Henna?"

"If we help Britain take this colony, will we be good?"

"what?"

"If you want to bombard these deceptive virgins, I can assassinate the Dutch governor."

"Wait!" Lorraine made a face of seeing ghosts when Lei, "Are you angry?"

"Not angry." Henna dashed away from the front of her forehead, "I'm just thinking about business."

"Yeah?"

...

St. Croix is ​​the southernmost inhabited island of the Virgin Islands. Administratively, it belongs to the Dutch colony. It has two major export pillars: sugar and copper mines. Per capita is prosperous, business is prosperous, and the infrastructure of the town of St. Croix is ​​natural. Well built.

Her port has four plank roads and thirteen berths. The berths are all six meters deep, and the deepest seven meters ~ lightnovelpub.net~ Except for the battleship class of Valkyrie, it can basically meet any type of merchant ship and armed merchant ship. Parking demand.

It was precisely because of her infrastructure that Chuck Parker placed the offices of the American branch in the Virgin Islands and Leeward Islands on this island, which was not owned by the British, plus a repair by the Shanghai Municipal Group. In the dock, the Drake Chamber of Commerce has 22 permanent employees, 53 short-term hiring and 75 temporary hiring.

The regional manager is Van Niugel Struns, a Dutch with a strong roots, who is also responsible for the administration and operation of the trading house and the repair dock.

After landing, Lorraine and his party drove directly to the port area, and soon they came to the outside of a water tank with the Maritime Group's [Ship Anchor and Pansy] badge.

This is a large parallel sump. There are three side-by-side sump docks facing the sea. The middle is large and the two sides are small. The three docks are connected to the large land warehouse like a trident.

Nakakura is in the shape of "concave". There is a three-story red brick building in the center of the depression. Used the land that was bought.

This is the administrative office shared by the Drake Americas Chapter and the Maritime Group’s St. Croix Dockyard. Just looking at it, Lorraine knew that Chuck had chosen another one for the Chamber of Commerce who was very calculating and didn’t care much about the working environment. Regional manager.

"It really has Chuck's style..."

Lorraine mumbled gloomily, and stepped into the open door.

"Bell lived in this kind of bunker for more than half a month. When I met, I was afraid to complain to me..."

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