Chapter 132

Late at night, the streets of New Orleans are full of people and bright lights. All kinds of noise and song and dance noise are transmitted to the port area through the night sky. It not only shows vitality, but also makes people who want to pursue peace easily feel bored.

This is the unique style of French people.

The French built the city and branded every brick and tile of it with the label of instant fun. Even after being ruled by the Spanish for ten years, this label has not been reduced at all.

Unfortunately, Lorraine tonight is just the wave of people who are eager to seek peace.

He sat on the forecastle deck, looking at the street view, full of confusion.

The basic market in North America seems to be a little too big.

The chamber of Commerce in Jamaica Island, which is about to start smuggling, two identities and two disputes, is now accidentally stained with the treasure of the pirate Emperor

He is confident to face most of the situation.

But after all, they are all desperate things. No one can guarantee that they will be able to do it forever. So he was eager to empty himself and make his mind as clear as possible. At least he wanted to understand the priority of everything.

Only in this way, when the crisis really comes, he will not fall into confusion and miss the key to breaking the game.

However, New Orleans does not seem to intend to give him this opportunity.

This city

"As annoying as acharin."

He murmured gloomily and lay on his back with his hands, just leaning against a pair of straight and soft legs.

Only Haina can appear behind him silently.

Lorraine straightened up and patted the empty seat beside him: "when did you come?"

"Just now." Haina answered, opened her arms, gently covered Lorraine's shoulder with the blanket, and sat down obediently.

Lorraine put on a grateful smile: "the sailors have gone away?"

"Most of the newly boarded stragglers have gone, but they don't have much money. It's estimated that they won't stay long. The old people stay on the ship. They know the importance and won't waste their energy before doing business... Oh, except acharin."

"It sounds like he's the only one who looks like a real pirate." Lorraine pouted.

"We are businessmen." Haina's head tilted and naturally occupied Lorraine's shoulder. "Why wade in the muddy water of the pirate king?"

"Because we need ships." Lorraine smiled. "These two charts are like cheese on a mousetrap, which can attract pirates to us. Most of their cars are suitable Ocean Express ships, which coincides with our needs."

"Never thought of being an emperor?"

"For the time being, we can't spare any time." Lorraine sighed helplessly. "And it can be seen that Katrina's understanding of this matter is very limited. Based on the current intelligence, we have little possibility to break the conspiracy."

"Conspiracy?"

"Don't you think it's strange that Henry Morgan hid his millions of pounds in an uninhabited secret cave and selflessly let out the throne of the pirate emperor and didn't allow his offspring to touch it?"

"What's strange?"

"First, is he a saint?" Lorraine asked, "no, because a saint won't become a pirate."

"Second, has he ever regarded himself as a pirate? No, his arrangement of his life is almost the same as that of Francis. I am the descendant of Francis, so I know that even in the era known as the pirate king, Francis has never regarded himself as a pirate, just like us."

Haina frowned: "is there anything else?"

"Third, pavlomus almost touched the throne of the pirate emperor, but at the most critical time, his last opponent disappeared. The remaining charts did not appear in the world until two years after his death. I guess his heritage should have been divided at that time, and the six new pirate kings were again in the Caribbean and tended to be stable. It was a coincidence."

"Do you think someone is manipulating the process of seizing Guangxi and doesn't want the new emperor to appear in the Caribbean?"

"Maybe."

"Who?"

"The biggest suspect is the maritime brotherhood." Lorraine played with his fingers and cleared his mind by communicating with Haina. "The pirate Empire referred to the ancient system of the Roman Empire. Only when there is no emperor can the Senate have the authority of leaders. The Brotherhood has reason to do so and should be able to do so."

"What about the Morgan family?"

"It's hard to judge. From a rational analysis, a rich family who has washed their hands in a golden basin has no reason to be the behind the scenes of the pirate empire. But we know nothing about this family and are not familiar with the maritime brotherhood. Everything is just wishful thinking. No matter how much we think, it has no reference significance."

"Also..."

"In short, let's put down the bits and pieces about pirates first." Lorraine stretched his waist and pointed his middle finger at New Orleans. "This is our stage. I care more about the way of smuggling than the dirty pirate empire."

……

Early the next morning, Lorraine spilled all the available hands because he needed information.

There were many people and great power. In less than two days, the business situation in New Orleans spread out in front of him.

The city has four specialties, sugar and leather goods are exported to Europe, and grain is a necessity in the West Indies.

But if you consider profits, these three specialties can't compare with guns.

This is the paradise of guns.

In the market, you can find the Yeager short barrel line bore gun produced by the local gunner, the double barrel smooth bore gun with huge caliber, the Kenta baseline long bore rifle known as the king of shotguns, and even the pepper bottle pistol with great reputation and low practicability in Europe. It is dizzying to see many kinds.

Acharin bought himself two exquisite four barrel pepper pistols.

This kind of gun is the predecessor of the later revolver. It can fill four lead bullets at a time and strike fire in turn by rotating the barrel. It is known as the fastest gun in the world.

Unfortunately, its ignition rate has always been a huge problem.

Although the gunner swore to acharin that the pepper bottle made by him could reach a firing rate of more than 85%, acharin tested 100 shots, only 70 shots were successfully fired, and the longest continuous fire was up to 7 times.

In terms of reliability, it's not enough to trust life, but acharin likes it.

Pierce also gained. He bought two Kentucky long rifles for himself.

This rifle originated from the Yeager short barrel rifled gun, because rifling is applied in the barrel, and the effective range is up to 300 meters, far exceeding the range of more than 100 meters for maritime commuting.

But also because of rifling, the air tightness of this gun is very poor.

In order to ensure the firing rate, the special paper shell bullets often choose heavy oil paper in material, and the diameter is slightly larger than the barrel. During loading, the bullets need to be pressed in place bit by bit with the help of a small hammer.

This defect greatly affects its firing efficiency.

Pierce's rate of fire is stable at two shots per minute using the maritime commuter, but it takes about three to five minutes to load one shot using Kentucky.

The speed of fire is so slow that even if it is far beyond the range, it is still not as practical as maritime commuting most of the time.

But pierce has a need.

For the sake of confidentiality, all the maritime commutes were left at Lucie manor. On this premise, it is better to have a gun than not.

In addition, Lorraine also inquired about the French chalville flint rifle in the market.

This rifle was finalized in 1777. It is the most advanced flint rifle in active service in continental Europe. All data are ahead of the brown bass rifle in Britain.

More importantly, it is not only the standard equipment of the French army in active service, but also the main battle firearm with the largest number of equipment in the U.S. Continental Army.

This is a key message, because under the pressure of Britain, France has never provided this new weapon to Americans. The only way for Americans to obtain them is smuggling.

The French played a brilliant political trick.

It was an internal affair for the peaceful French mainland to send arms to the colonial army in a state of war. Because the colonial army had no authorization to trade arms, Britain could not blame this behavior.

Similarly, * * * * is also an internal issue. The colonial French sold their guns to smugglers, but the British still couldn't control them.

As for why the smuggling scale is as large as more than 100000, the French army still has enough arms to fight

People are the most powerful country in the mainland, with strong industrial strength. Can't people be stupid and have more money?

I'm silly and proud. Can you control it?

In short, chalville style is now one of the most cost-effective commodities in arms smuggling in the new world. It not only has sufficient supply and huge flow, but also brings its own buyers for each order.

The only problem Lorraine needs to solve is how to get it.

As we all know, there is only one supply point for this kind of gun in New Orleans, that is, the French barracks stationed in the northern suburbs of the city. All orders are there. Lorraine, who is determined to smuggle, can't miss him.

After sorting out the information, Lorraine poked his head out of the mountain of paper.

"Tomorrow I'm going to the French barracks. Carmen will accompany me. By the way, what's the name of their supreme commander?"

"Count galvis, Bernardo de galvis," Carmen replied quickly.

"Is it an earl?" Lorraine frowned. "A distinguished French Earl smuggled into the Spanish port... Is the news right?"

"It must be true that four reports mentioned this at the same time, one of which was Karen's."

"So blatant, there will be no secret..."