Chapter 237

Business competition is no less cruel than a real war.

Malcolm is very clear where Karina's weakness is. This time, he changed her aggressive posture and began to give in. The bait he threw out is something that the businesswoman can't refuse.

If Karina wants to develop, she can't only rely on the Jackdaw. Whether it's the establishment of a second-hand goods trading office or the private trading with the pirate ships belonging to the black merchant alliance, the purpose is to deal with Malcolm's blockade on her. Therefore, this ready-made opportunity is in front of her, and she has no reason to retreat.

In fact, if you give Karina another half a year, with her learning ability, she can solve most of the problems she meets now, so as to turn a loss into a win, but Malcolm obviously won't give her this time.

"How much money are you short of now?" Zhang Heng asked.

"It will take at least 700 gold coins for the business to run again, but I don't know what the point is to continue. Our losses are very serious. In the past, the business didn't make much money, but now Now every day, every hour, every minute, we are losing money. " Karina's voice rarely reveals a trace of depression and exhaustion.

Recently, it's also the most difficult time for her business on the island. What's more terrible is that although she has been running around all day, she can't see the hope of turning losses into profits. The problems that Karina has encountered are various, because the speed of expansion is too fast, the talent reserve and capital reserve can't keep up with each other, and the original market can't accommodate so many shipments, so the Customs has to increase The price, the resistance of local businesses, these are not short-term solutions.

"The 800 gold coins I promised you to invest in the future can be given to you now. In addition, I can lend you another 200 gold coins. " Zhang Heng Dao, after this voyage, the Jackdaw returned with a full load. Zhang Heng roughly calculated that as the captain and the first group of Yuan eldest brothers, he could probably get an income of about 1200 gold coins, which is undoubtedly a huge sum of money.

Even if he quit now and buy two farms or plantations on the island, he can still live comfortably. However, considering that Roger wood will take the fleet to recover Nassau in a few years, Zhang Heng does not want to place his life and death on the kindness of others.

Roger wood, the first governor of Nassau in history, eventually pardoned most of the pirates on the island after he led the fleet to occupy Nassau. However, in Zhang Heng's current situation, once the British troops went to the island, he would not be able to die well. With the Scarborough, he has killed two naval warships. Now his pirate ship, jackdaw, was also robbed from the Navy and participated in the Annie war Before the king revenge shelled Charleston, it also killed Walden, the top commander of British forces in the Caribbean.

Now that black beard Tiki is missing, black Prince Sam is dead, and Hornig is retired, Zhang Heng and his jackdaw have become the most powerful pirates on the island.

If Nassau is really won by Roger wood, considering that Nassau's development needs a lot of young and strong labor, other people may be able to save their lives, but Zhang Heng must be the first group to be cleaned up. As long as Roger wood is not stupid, he will surely use his head to set an example to others.

Therefore, although Zhang Heng has completed the main task, he can't have a holiday, and now he is not alone. As the captain of the jackdaw, his people all point to him to eat. He has to take care of Annie. If Kalina didn't have his support, there would have been no suspense about the competition between him and Malcolm.

At this point, it's hard for him to be alone or retreat.

"But in return, my share will be increased by another 10%." Zhang Heng continued with a pause.

"There's nothing wrong with it, but are you sure you want to continue? At least there's no profit hope in the short term."

"What if we get rid of Malcolm's external threat?" Zhang Heng asked.

Considering the huge income brought by this voyage, the crew of jackdaw should have a long period of fatigue, so it should be a long time before the next voyage. After the legendary World War I, jackdaw's position in Nassau was basically established.

Zhang Heng has enough time and energy to deal with the final opponents - black business alliance and Malcolm.

Although the results show that Karina's business situation is very poor during this period of time, she has indeed completed the previous strategic arrangement, which has brought external pressure to the black business alliance. No matter whether Malcolm takes the initiative to make the concession now, it is an indisputable fact that it has resulted in the large-scale expansion of the second-hand goods trading office.

There may not be no doubt within the black business alliance, but Malcolm is strong enough to be sure that he can afford it and Karina can't.

However, with Zhang Heng coming back with a large amount of gold, the situation is completely different. On the other hand, the black merchant alliance has lost five powerful pirate ships, especially the black Prince Sam and his Vader, which undoubtedly has a great impact on the black merchant alliance.

Malcolm may not be much better off than Karina.

In the early days of the establishment of the black merchant alliance, the purchase prices offered to the pirate ships were very favorable, which was the time when the profits were the lowest. Now the number of powerful pirate ships on hand has dropped sharply. It can be predicted that the valuable booty will also decrease in the future, which will also aggravate the internal conflicts of the black merchant alliance.Zhang Heng later had a secret meeting with the black Gladiator raeli. The meeting place was still in smoked fish lane.

The latter also gained a lot during this period. With Leah as an insider, Malcolm's study has almost no secrets. Leah uses the opportunity of cleaning the room to turn over the letters in the study silently. In order to avoid making a fuss, Leah does not bring out those letters this time, but selects useful information from them and writes it down in notes after going back I'll get someone to take the notes to raeli.

Zhang Heng took over the notes and looked through them. He did see some interesting information on them. In addition, there are many Leah's impressions and analysis of Malcolm, which is helpful for a comprehensive understanding of Malcolm. However, the news about Kalina's father Fagin is still the only one in the previous letter.

Although it can be confirmed from that letter that Malcolm's family did have contacts with count Slote, who framed Fagan, it is difficult to make charges against him for lack of substantive content. On the contrary, there was a letter before that that, Malcolm had quietly invested in a member of Whitehall, and the latter and Raymond's son-in-law were political enemies.

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