Chapter 100

Relying on Lorraine's will, Drake chamber of Commerce began to actively prepare for the transformation from offshore to intercontinental chamber of Commerce.

This is bound to be a complex and difficult process, and the first difficulty facing them is the Atlantic between Europe and America.

Atlantic Ocean, storm sea

Among the flagship sailors, only Lorraine, acharin and Karen have had a handful of ocean sailing experience. But none of them personally commanded the crossing operation.

In short, in the next action, everyone is at a loss.

This group of newcomers will sail on the boundless ocean for a month. The time will only be extended, not shortened.

Food, fresh water, the mental and physical health of sailors, and possible accidents along the way

In order to be responsible for their lives, they need to consider all aspects.

Lorraine's first consideration was sailors.

Class V Galen Destroyers have a full load of 250 people and a minimum load of 50 people.

The smaller the number of sailors, the stronger their endurance and the weaker their ability to deal with danger.

How many sailors should I take?

After weighing the pros and cons, Lorraine decided to choose 150 sailors to board the ship.

This quantity takes into account navigation, combat and daily repair.

The golden deer has 40 guns, excluding the bow gun and stern gun, 16 on each side, including 10 18 pounds and 6 12 pounds.

Because they are all advanced flint guns, their shooting efficiency is much higher than that of the butterfly flower, but the demand for Gunners is reduced.

The gunner demand of the 18 pound gun is 7, and the 12 pound gun is 5. Lorraine prepares 100 gunners to ensure that the single side fire can be fully opened without affecting the ship operator.

In the non combat navigation state, 150 sailors can be divided into six groups, which is enough to ensure adequate rest and rotation.

Having decided the number, Lorraine began to choose sailors.

The firearm team of the butterfly flower must be brought on board. The 50 backbone sailors once used for the hyacinth are also loyal subordinates to rely on, so there are still 60 people left

Lorraine handed over 30 places to acharin and asked him to select the backbone of gun operation. The remaining half was recruited by Karen, as long as he had ocean going experience.

Step two, food and water

Lorraine called Wang Ye directly and asked straight to the point, "there was a method of pickled vegetables in the Qing Dynasty. Would you?"

Wang also had a ghost expression on his face: "Captain, you are a native English aristocrat. How can you even know the pickles of the Qing Dynasty?"

"You don't care where I know, just tell me, yes or no?"

"I haven't done pickled radish, pickled cabbage, pickled cucumber and pickled pepper, but I know how to do it."

"After the test, prepare the whole ship for two months, in oak barrels... And green tea. Prepare a lot of green tea, not high-grade. All sailors should drink it when sailing. Lemon can also be prepared. It's a little expensive and easy to break. Prepare less..."

Wang also blinked: "Captain, are you going to let the sailors eat fast at sea?"

"These things are the bane of scurvy..." Lorraine paused and had no bottom airway. "I heard it in Cambridge."

"Cambridge scholars tell you that pickles can cure scurvy?"

"Not only pickles, but also soybeans. Bean sprouts are cultured with soybeans in water. They are good in quality and cheap."

"Cambridge scholars also know how to make bean sprouts with yellow beans? Shall I go, white skin Wenqu star?"

Lorraine was tortured by the sound of his soul and was forced to a dead end. For a moment, she became angry and scolded: "Cambridge scholars love China. Can you control it? Get out!"

Wang also ran away in despair.

He went out, Hannah came in, looked strangely at Lorraine, whose face was red, tilted her head and asked, "what is it... What kind of strange jellyfish is it?"

Lorraine was amused by Haina and her anger dissipated.

"It's all right. Why are you here?"

Haina saw that Lorraine didn't want to say, so she didn't ask. She pointed to the hall and said, "someone is looking for you."

"Where's Miss Jenna?"

"Take turns."

Lorraine shrugged. "What's that man doing here?"

"Apply."

"At this moment, apply for a job?"

"Yes, apply."

Soon, Lorraine met the candidate.

He was carrying a small suitcase, wearing a brown windbreaker and an exaggerated retro wide brimmed hat with silver ribbons and blue and green feathers.

Lorraine glanced at the resume in her hand, raised her head and looked directly at the ice blue eyes that couldn't find the slightest emotion.

"Daniel Soland?"

"Yes."

"The resume says you're a Londoner, Catholic, and your specialty is... Surgery?"

Daniel silently opened his suitcase and turned half a circle to show it to Lorraine.

The upper layer of the suitcase is bound with a medical license, which is stamped by the Royal Medical Association, showing the superb skills of the license owner.

The lower layer is a pile of bulging leather cases, which are inserted with various shiny scalpels, tweezers, clips and many strange surgical tools.

"It seems that you are well prepared." Lorraine sighed and continued to look through her resume. "You have excellent medical skills, but in your resume you say you don't work as a doctor... You're a barber?"

Daniel coolly took out a razor from his windbreaker, shook his hand, opened it and pulled a beautiful flower.

"It's inconvenient to take a bath on the way to the ocean. Sailors' hair is easy to breed fleas. You need a barber to deal with this small blood sucking thing."

"You also know I want to go ocean..." Lorraine rubbed her eyebrows and turned the complex resume to the third page. "Mr. Soland, a versatile man, is not only a surgeon and a barber, but also an alchemist?"

"The second alchemist of Flamel school, my spiritual mentor is Henry Moore, and the introductory book is immortal soul."

"No teacher?"

"After the death of the last sage, I don't think there are enough alchemists in the world to be my mentor."

"Very good." Lorraine closed her resume and looked at the candidate in front of her with great interest. "Mr. Soland, from your resume, you are very excellent, and you have a two-year sea experience and have gone to Africa. If you are excellent, why do you want to apply for the Drake chamber of commerce?"

"Azot and the fifth element," Daniel whispered, "I've searched all the alchemy classics I can find. There's good reason to think that these two treasures are hidden somewhere in Africa or America. I'm returning empty handed in Africa, and you're going to America, restless and adventurous."

"It sounds like you know me very well..." Lorraine felt a strong strangeness and couldn't help asking, "who introduced you to me?"

"Sir Billy Leighton, I was his personal doctor and barber. In a recent letter, he mentioned you to me."

"Sir Leighton?" Lorraine was surprised for a long time and suddenly smiled. "Congratulations, doctor, Mr. Daniel Soland. You have been admitted."

Lorraine's cheerfulness was completely beyond Daniel's expectation. He raised his eyebrow and said, "don't you intend to verify my professional skills?"

"No need. The person who can be valued by my mentor must be the dragon and Phoenix among people. I trust his vision."

……

On January 4, 1779, the Anglo French post-war negotiation conference and the first Cantabrian fair trade salon were held in the auditorium of the city hall of Southampton.

The Englishmen who occupied the absolute general trend dominated the whole process of the conference. The French defeated thousands of miles and finally abandoned the Desai chamber of Commerce.

All participants agreed that Desai chamber of commerce must bear full responsibility for the Cantabrian dispute that lasted nearly half a year.

He needs to pay a total of 68000 pounds to the damaged English Chamber of Commerce. Drake's chamber of Commerce received three thousand pounds, and Mindell's chamber of Commerce received more, including two of the three brigantines captured, and a total compensation of four thousand pounds.

This is a huge sum of money, and the compensation time must be long.

But Lorraine was not worried that the Desai chamber of Commerce would not pay enough money.

Because behind the chamber of commerce is the Viscount Desai of Porto. Even for the vanity and face of the nobility, he had to bite his teeth and scrape up all the money until he lost his wealth and his reputation.

The first salon forum was also a complete success, forming a public agreement called the Southampton offshore trade treaty.

According to the trade agreement, the Cantabrian route is shared by all offshore chambers of Commerce, and merchant ships of any nationality should enjoy fair and just treatment on the route.

All acts of privation will be regarded as a provocation to the commercial agreement, and will be despised and condemned by all Sharon members with glory and shame, led by the English offshore Association.

In Lorraine's opinion, the only valuable words of this contract are those [headed by the English offshore Association].

With this free advertisement, as a permanent member of the offshore chamber of Commerce, Drake chamber of Commerce will be invincible in the trade of the whole northwest Europe.

After five days and seven discussions, the meeting ended successfully. Lorraine officially handed over the business of northwest Europe and returned to Plymouth with his sailors.

On January 12, 1779, the newly repaired golden deer slowly sailed out of the sea test site of the piraia dock and drifted into the broad Plymouth Bay with the waves.

"Pickles, soybeans, green tea, lemon, black bread, smoked beef and laying hens. Fresh water enough for two months and 50 barrels of wine..."

"Two rolls of sails, five thousand meters of sail rope, enough medicine and consumables, ammunition and gold pounds..."

"150 loyal and well-trained sailors, 18 pound heavy guns, sailors with unique skills..."

"Caribbean, I'm ready..."

Lorraine slowly opened his eyes, holding the antlers of the bow, standing upright in the bow against the wind.

He wore a windbreaker with red bands on a black background, and his heavy windbreaker made a sound of hunting.

He wore a triangular hat inlaid with hawksbill tricolor pansy, and his colorful Hat Badge glittered.

He turned back and shouted to his sailors, "are you ready to conquer the sea! You... Land ducks!"

"Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!"

"Target the Caribbean! Golden deer, set sail, set sail!"

[Volume II, privateers in the North Sea... End]