Chapter 109

No matter where you want to get a foothold, the first thing to do is to understand there.

And this is what Zhang Heng has been busy with in recent days. He has visited every corner of Nassau city and had a variety of happy or unhappy exchanges with fishermen in the market, drunkards in pubs, prostitutes in the street, black merchants in the stock exchange and, of course, pirates everywhere in the city.

In order to make the process easier, he had to spend another 19 Silver Pesos, but it was worth the money. In return, he basically found out the situation in Nassau.

Many people regard pirates as a group of villains, hooligans, uncivilized barbarians separated from civilized society. In a sense, there is no problem with this secular view. Few people who will become pirates are clean, so people will naturally think that a city run by pirates is full of chaos and crime.

But as far as Zhang Heng is concerned, I'm afraid this statement is biased.

Indeed, it's hard to expect thousands of energetic pirates who can drink, fight and stay in the same city. That's why Nassau is always very lively every day. But if you want to watch it more carefully, you can not only focus on the street fighting or the jealousy in front of the brothel, or Maybe we can see the order through the chaos.

About sixty-three years ago, the first group of European immigrants set foot on the land and built a fortress and city here. In memory of King Charles, they initially called it Charles Town. However, the residents of the island soon found that the honest land reclamation and fishing were far from taking advantage of the bad weather to lure the ships to run into the rocks and then rob the property As a result, most of the men on the island began to engage in piracy activities, and gradually, they were no longer satisfied with waiting for the ship to hit the rocks, but took the initiative to attack.

At the same time, because of the unique geographical environment of the Bahamas, it also attracts the attention of other pirates. The large and small islands here can help them hide and avoid the pursuit of warships. The pirates plunder around the Caribbean, and objectively need a base for supply and sale of stolen goods.

Nassau was born in this context. The name comes from a British Prince, but ironically, it has finally become a pirate kingdom.

After years of continuous development, Nassau has formed a unique business system.

The pirates plundered the goods and sold them to the black merchants on the island. These black merchants transported the stolen goods to Charleston, New York, Boston and other ports through their own relations, making them become legal commodities and enjoying super high profits without any risk.

This is the largest business on the island, and other businesses are basically based on this. For example, the Guildhall, casinos and pubs earn the silver coins distributed by the pirates, while the appraisers are responsible for evaluating the value of the booty snatched by the pirates. Some intelligence dealers sell the merchant ship information they get in the pubs, while the fishermen and villains here are the natural products of the sailors In addition, some bold arms dealers and slavers are also active here.

Nassau does not have a nominal ruler. It is a parliament like organization responsible for maintaining order. It is composed of all kinds of people, including black merchants, captains of pirate ships, and big landlords on the island They run the city together.

Zhang Heng speculated that the criterion for building power in the main task should be to join the island's parliament, which is not easy. The big landlords can be ruled out first. These guys are basically the first group of people to come to the island, with their own plantations and private armed forces. For him, who has only 20 Silver Pesos, this is not very realistic .

It's obviously more difficult to become a black merchant. It's almost impossible for the freighters carrying stolen goods to swagger through the customs without any background in the upper class. In fact, many black merchants on the island have many families behind them. They use their family's power to travel in the governor's office and customs of the colony, bribe the officials there, and make smuggling legal This is not something ordinary people can do.

Therefore, in this circle, it seems that only the way to become the captain of a pirate ship has certain maneuverability.

But it's also not simple. Not to mention the famous pirates in history, even in this era, the unknown people who can command a whole ship and let the unruly pirates obey their orders. Zhang Heng knows that he still has a lot to learn.

He was not in a hurry. Although he had a lot to learn, he had plenty of time.

Four days later, the sea lion summoned all the crew to go out to sea again to start her journey. This was the first time Zhang Heng set foot on this warship. The three masted sailboat that once belonged to Fraser was one of the best pirate ships in Nassau harbor. It had 32 guns, including 24 9-pound guns and 8 12 pound guns. It had pressure on the prey Inverted firepower advantage.

This time they were informed that they were going to ransack a Dutch supply ship and a Spanish merchant ship.

Zhang Heng performed very well in the battle. He successfully saved three companions with a short musket, which made him further accepted by the pirates. Unlike Marvin, Zhang Heng did not escape after joining the sea lion. On the contrary, he rented a house in Nassau instead of sleeping in a hotel. It seems that he is ready to stay.Zhang Heng has learned from other sailors that Owen is the best pirate on the ship.

Owen used to be a promising young officer, but he offended his immediate superior because of something, so the latter sent him to the most dangerous place to complete an impossible task. In a rage, Owen killed his immediate superior, and then he had no choice but to leave his hometown and run to Nassau to become a pirate.

Unlike most pirates, Owen has a very upright character and retains part of his style in Naval School, which makes him feel out of place at the beginning. But once the pirates understand his character, they are willing to make friends with him, especially when fighting, he always rushes to the front and wins the favor of many people.

When the old boatswain died, the pirates elected Owen as the new boatswain.

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