Chapter 704

"Open the window."

Under Daniel's instruction, the four assistants went to both sides of the long row of bookshelves and shook the winch hidden behind the bookshelves.

The winch connects the heavy curtain of flannel, just like the curtain of the stage, right behind the huge star map.

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

As like as two peas and a curtain of the stars, the assistant drew the curtain and took off a picture frame from the star chart. From behind the bookshelf, they pushed out a thin iron frame, and the edges of the frame were closely tied to a map of the same kind, and the thin white cloth was covered with metal nails.

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

Daniel has a cold face: "there are a lot of bookshelves moved in in the past two years. Originally, the reference map should be hung on the wall. Now we have to share a place with the comparison map, so... That's it."

"Comparison?"

The second shelf is a transparent film. On it, the chart of the Caribbean is painted in color ink, which overlaps with the metal star map.

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

"Omit the process of argument. You don't care about that anyway."

Daniel pointed to the picture.

"During the period of 15 keepsakes, we confirmed a total of 17 stars and 9 constellations. Through the positioning of astrology, we reduced the scope of the fountain of youth to the north and Bermuda, South America, Mexico in the West and Windward Islands in the East. In other words, we determined that the fountain of youth is in the Caribbean."

"Then there are three pieces of Blackbeard." Daniel points three unrelated positions on the picture.

"If you cut any location map, whether it's a chart, map or star map, its information will increase with the increase of the number of fragments. A single fragment may not represent anything, but a fragment filling the vacancy can expose a lot of information."

"Blocks 16-18 help us identify 8 bright stars and 11 constellations, and the original scope is further reduced. Specifically, it takes Jamaica island as the center, the Bahamas in the north, Albuquerque islands in the south, Port au Prince in the East and Yucatan Strait in the west, that is, this small sea area on the map."

"I argued with Professor Rittenhouse just now, because I think the existing scope can be further reduced, but it needs to teach professional and top-notch knowledge. But the professor thinks he has delayed the check-in time by two months. From your point of view, it is difficult to delay another two months."

The bullet suddenly turned on Lorraine.

Lorraine shrugged innocently: "the facts have proved that the professor is right. Lorraine Drake pays more attention to the mint Committee and the first bank that can produce money than the mysterious fountain of youth. He is a dead man who wants money."

"The enemy of science!" Daniel showed his emotion.

Lorraine was speechless.

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

"How much did this picture cost?"

"The original picture is the 1782 version of the French military sea and air chart. It cost nearly 7000 pounds to get through the joint. It contains the French Navy's defense and anchor port planning in the Caribbean. If you plan to give it to Great Britain, I can give it to you at any time."

Lorraine felt that he was not surprised: "the original picture, that is, strengthened?"

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

"I see." Lorraine reached out and touched the picture, feeling the rough bumps of rubber and ink, "if you add a red fork to this picture..."

"The red fork is on the remaining four pictures. No accident, it's in the Morgan family safe."

"Are you sure?" Lorraine looked at Daniel with interest. "Maybe there's no red fork at all?"

……

Daniel wants the red fork, which can only be realized by the rose war in full swing.

On February 18, 1788, the United States reached an agreement with the associated press of Commerce, and could not wait to announce to the world that the pirate empire of the Caribbean needed to pay the price for their crimes that lasted for a hundred years.

On February 19, the U.S. Department of the Navy established the war headquarters in sarge port, the garrison of the long island fleet. General George Washington, the commander-in-chief of the U.S. Army, served as the commander-in-chief. Admiral Davis, who had only commanded eight warships and a total of 190 guns in his life, served as the chief of general staff. In addition, 12 army generals and 4 Navy generals jointly formed the leadership of the headquarters.

On February 20, the eloquent Mr. James Madison, in his capacity as the first spokesman of the headquarters, called on the businessmen bullied by pirates to stand up and participate in this just cause.

The declaration became a famous joke in a short time.

For five days, no one responded to the declaration. On the sixth day, the first businessman ran to the call office and cried and complained that his ship was robbed by pirates on the route from New York to Baltimore because of the incompetence of the United States

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

On the seventh day, that is, February 27, the fleet of the permanent member of the hundred business association and the Dutch prendet chamber of Commerce suddenly appeared in the sea of ZAG port, with a full 32 ships, led by three class IV ships with reduced caliber, including five first generation gods and seven high-speed French destroyers.

Until then, the real smell of gunpowder finally began to float on the sea of the new world

On March 1, a total of 7 chambers of Commerce and 16 armed merchant ships were listed.

On March 2, a total of 30 armed merchant ships from 16 chambers of Commerce of the 100 business association were listed.

On March 3, Drake's direct fleet arrived at zag port. The flagship of the fleet was valkiri, Tidu Bel judia, deputy Tidu Katrina dipo and pierce Yates, and the first tactical commander fafuna hangi.

On March 4, the first fleet other than the hundred business associations joined the war sequence. It was a combined fleet of 12 Baltimore chambers of Commerce, with a total of 19 ships.

On March 16, the Boston combined fleet arrived at port.

On March 19, a total of 27 armed merchant ships of the New York joint fleet arrived late, becoming the third chamber of commerce joint fleet to respond to the call of the motherland

A major event that shocked the new world took place on March 26.

The associated press of Commerce held a banquet at its headquarters, Moro castle, Cuba, and invited general Devis, chief of general staff of the American rose war, to attend.

At the banquet, count comsesan, executive director of the association, publicly criticized the adverse impact of pirates on Caribbean Trade and reiterated the original intention of the hundred business association.

He announced that, in addition to fully supporting the member chambers of Commerce to join the American Crusade army in the form of employment, the 100 business association will unconditionally open all the terminals and docks of the association to the Crusade fleet during the war, and provide all the materials needed for the war to the United States at a price 20% lower than the market price.

As soon as this remark was made, there was an uproar.

A good man estimated the value of this promise, and the final conclusion was... 100000 pounds!

The hundred Merchants Association is crazy. These businessmen are crazy!

On April 7, a mysterious mob broke into Moro castle at night. On the same day, Havana Leviathan manor, where count concesan lived, was bloodwashed.

Nassau's maritime brotherhood claimed responsibility for the two atrocities three days later, but count concesan was alive and the pirates' counterattack fell in the air.

A week after the skeleton counterattack, on April 13, the United States Long Island fleet and a total of 294 hired ships swore at saga port on Long Island.

General Washington, commander in chief, announced the establishment of a joint fleet land command on West Palm Beach Island owned by the Drake chamber of Commerce, and the establishment of Crusade fleet anchor ports in St. Dana, Miami, Lusi, Havana and Port au Prince.

Lieutenant general Lingus, commander of the long island fleet, took up the post of General Commander of the Crusade fleet and commander of the headquarters fleet; Van Royle prenditt, the fleet commander of prenditt chamber of Commerce and once served as Lorraine's deputy in the first war of association, took up the post of deputy commander and led the first sub fleet.

Bell Judea and IL VI dukov became the third and seventh fleet captains on behalf of Drake chamber of Commerce and dukov chamber of Commerce respectively. Count konsesan took the post of deputy chief of general staff, and Karen Scott was appointed Chief Logistics Officer of the Crusade fleet.

On the same day, the fleet set sail!