"Open the window."

Under Daniel's instructions, the four assistants walked to the sides of the long row of bookshelves and shook the winches hidden behind the bookshelves.

The winch is connected to the heavy curtain of flannel, just like the big curtain of the stage, located directly behind the huge star map.

The double-layered curtain slowly retreated, revealing a strange window, exactly round, two meters in diameter, and the height between the bottom and the ground is only 50 cm, which is consistent with the overhanging height of the huge star map.

The assistants opened the curtain and walked over. The ladder frame board took off the frame of the star map, and pushed out a thin iron frame from the back of the bookcase. The frame was tied tightly with a picture of exactly the same drawing, using a thin, pure white cloth. , It is covered with stars made of metal nails.

Lorraine couldn't understand it, and asked softly: "Daniel, this is not a ceremony, is it?"

Daniel said with a cold face: "There are a lot of bookshelves that have been moved in these two years. The reference map should have been hung on the wall, but now I have to share the same place with the comparison map, so...that's it."

"Compared?"

The second shelf was rolled out. It was a transparent film on which was painted a map of the Caribbean with colored ink, overlapping the metal star map.

The dazzling sky light came in through the window, through the white cloth, through the film, and became soft, printing a corner of the Caribbean Sea and scattered black stars in Lorraine's eyes.

"Omit the argumentation process, you don't care about that anyway."

Daniel pointed to the picture and said.

"During the period of 15 tokens, we identified a total of 17 stars and 9 constellations. Through the positioning of the horoscopes, we reduced the range of the Spring of Blessing to the north and Bermuda, south to South America, west to Mexico, and east to the wind. The extent of the archipelago, in other words, we have determined that the Fountain of Agelessness is in the Caribbean Sea."

"Then there are three pieces of Blackbeard." Daniel clicked on three unrelated positions on the map.

"Any location map, whether it is a nautical chart, a map or a star chart, if it is cut into pieces, the information it expresses must increase as the number of fragments increases. A single fragment may not represent anything, but a fragment that fills the gap is A lot of information can be exposed."

"Blocks 16-18 help us identify 8 bright stars and 11 constellations. The original range is further reduced. Specifically, it is centered on Jamaica Island, the Bahamas in the north, the Albuquerque Islands in the south, and Port-au-Prince in the east. , Arrived in the Yucatan Strait in the west, which is the small sea area on the map."

"I was arguing with Professor Rittenhouse just now, because I think the existing scope can be further reduced, but this requires the teaching of professional and top-notch knowledge. But the professor feels that he has delayed the registration time by two months. From your perspective, it’s difficult to delay another two months."

The bullet suddenly fell on Lorraine.

Lorraine shrugged innocently: "Facts have proved that the professor is right. Compared to the mysterious fountain of youth, Lorraine Drake pays more attention to the Mint Committee and the First Bank, which can produce money. He is a desperate need for money."

"The enemy of science!" Daniel was emotional.

Lorraine was speechless.

He looked up at the chart in front of him. It was very detailed. Even a larger reef could see the basic shape. At first glance, it came from the top Dutch drawing technology.

"How much did this picture cost?"

"The original picture is the 1782 version of the French military navigator map. It cost nearly 7,000 pounds to get through the joints. It contains the French navy's deployment and anchor port plan in the Caribbean. If you plan to hand it over to Great Britain, I can give it to you at any time."

Lorraine felt that he was not surprised: "The original picture, that is, has been strengthened?"

"We have the best Dutch cartographers in the world, and three more." Daniel said coolly.

"Understood." Lorraine reached out and touched the picture, feeling the rough bumps of rubber and ink, "If you add a red cross to this picture..."

"The red cross is on the remaining four pictures, not surprisingly, in the Morgan family safe."

"Are you sure?" Lorraine looked at Daniel with interest. "Maybe, there is no red cross at all?"

...

Daniel wants the red cross, and this wish can only be realized by the raging Rose War.

On February 18, 1788, the United States, which had reached agreement with the Baishang Associated Press, could not wait to announce to the world that the Pirates of the Caribbean Empire had to pay for their crimes that lasted for a century.

On February 19, the U.S. Department of the Navy established the War Command at Sag Harbor, the station of the Long Island Fleet. The commander-in-chief of the U.S. Army was commanded by General George Washington. The Secretary of the Navy has commanded only 8 warships and 190 guns in his life. Admiral Davis served as the chief of the general staff. In addition, 12 army generals and 4 naval generals formed the leadership of the command.

On February 20th, the eloquent Mr. James Madison, as the first spokesperson of the headquarters, issued a call to the entire New World, calling on businessmen bullied by pirates to stand up and participate in this just cause. .

This declaration became a famous joke in not a short time.

For 5 days, no one responded to the declaration. On the 6th day, the first businessman ran to the recruiting place, crying and complaining that because of the incompetence of the United States, his ship was robbed by pirates on the route from New York to Baltimore...

It took God 7 days to create the world, and the embarrassment of the Americans lasted 7 days.

On the 7th day, February 27, the fleet of the Dutch Prundit Chamber of Commerce, a permanent member of the Hundred Chamber of Commerce, suddenly appeared on the sea in the port of Sag. There were 32 ships, led by three lower-caliber fourth-class ships. It also includes 5 first-generation samurai and 7 high-speed French destroyers.

Until then, the real smell of gunpowder finally began to drift on the surface of the New World...

On March 1, 16 armed merchant ships from 7 chambers of commerce from the Hundred Chambers of Commerce were listed.

On March 2, a total of 30 armed merchant ships from 16 chambers of commerce of the Baishang Associated Press were listed.

On March 3, Drake’s direct fleet arrived at Sag Harbor, the fleet’s flagship Valkyrie, Admiral Bell Judea, Deputy Admiral Catalina Debo, Pierce Attis, and First Tactical Chief Fave Na Han Ji.

On March 4, the first fleet other than the Hundred Chambers of Commerce joined the battle sequence. It was a combined fleet of 12 chambers of commerce in Baltimore, with a total of 19 ships.

On March 16, the Boston United Fleet arrived at Hong Kong.

On March 19, a total of 27 armed merchant ships from the New York Joint Fleet arrived late, becoming the third chamber of commerce joint fleet that responded to the call of the motherland...

On March 26, an event that shocked the New World took place.

Baishang Associated Press held a banquet at its headquarters, Morro Castle, Cuba, and invited General Davis, Chief of Staff of the American Rose Warfare to attend ~lightnovelpub.net~ At the banquet, the Executive Director of the Association, Count Conceicao, made a public announcement. Criticized the bad influence of pirates on Caribbean trade and reiterated the original intention of Baishang Associated Press.

He announced that in addition to fully supporting the member chambers of commerce to join the American crusades through employment, the Baishang Associated Press will unconditionally open all the docks and docks owned by the association to the crusade fleet during the war, and will provide them to the United States at a price 20% lower than the market price. Provide all the materials needed for the war.

As soon as this remark came out, public opinion was in an uproar.

Someone who has something good estimated the value of this promise, and the final conclusion is... 100,000 pounds!

The Hundred Chamber of Commerce is crazy, this group of businessmen is crazy!

On April 7, a mysterious mob rushed to Morro Castle at night. On the same day, the Havana Leviathan Manor where Count Conceicao lived was bloodbathed.

Nassau's Sea Brotherhood claimed responsibility for these two atrocities three days later, but the Earl of Conceicao was alive, and the pirates' counterattack fell in the open.

One week after the Skeletons counterattacked, on April 13, the American Long Island Fleet and a total of 294 hired ships sweared in Sag Harbor, Long Island.

The commander-in-chief, General Washington, announced the establishment of a joint fleet land command on West Palm Beach, owned by the Drake Chamber of Commerce, and the establishment of crusade fleet anchor ports in St. Dina, Miami, Lucy, Havana, and Port-au-Prince.

Lieutenant General Lingoes, Admiral of the Long Island Fleet, was appointed as the admiral of the Crusade Fleet and the admiral of the main fleet; the Admiral of the Prundit Chamber of Commerce and Van Royle Prundit, who served as Lorraine’s deputy in the first war of association, was appointed. The deputy admiral, while leading the first squadron.

Bell Judea and Il Vi Dukov represented the Drake Chamber of Commerce and Dukov Chamber of Commerce as Admiral of the 3rd and 7th Squadrons respectively. Count Conceicao assumed the position of Deputy Chief of Staff, and Karen Scott was appointed. As the chief logistics officer of the crusade fleet.

On the same day, the fleet set sail!