Reborn As a Pirate

　　Wearing a stiff tuxedo, Lorraine and Henna sat in the gleaming tacky living room.

　　 Opposite them is the owner of the room, Mr. Frey, a glassware merchant in Black Harbor.

　　 "Mr. Frey, sincerely thank you for accepting our request to meet in your busy schedule."

"uh-huh."

　　 "We bought a boat of exquisite glassware from the Kingdom of Norway. Although it is not handmade by a master, it has clear shapes and excellent appearance. I wonder if I can waste your time and take a look?"

"Didn't you already bring it? Not letting you take it out will probably delay me longer." Frey took out the silk scarf and slowly wiped the emeralds on his fingers, "Time is money, young sir. "

　　 "I feel the same about this."

　　 Lorraine smiled like a spring breeze, waved his hand, and asked Hina to take out the square wooden box and open it in Frey's direction.

　　 Frey glanced at the back of Hina's brown hand in disgust: "The Moor?"

　　 "She is a Coptic, sir."

　　 "Hey, it's no different."

　　 Frey didn't know that he had just walked on the line of life and death, put away the silk scarf, took out a pair of white gloves from his pocket, and carefully picked up the glass bowl in the box.

　　 This is a large bowl with curved diagonal stripes, crystal clear, blooming like flowers.

　　It has carved paintings on all four sides, including the four religious pictures of the Virgin Mary, Embracing Christ, the Son Save the Mother, and the Trinity. The carvings are dyed with colorful colors, especially the exquisite and beautiful handwork.

　　 Frey looked at it lovingly for a long time, then suddenly asked: "Young gentleman, you should be under twenty, right?"

　　 "Sixteen, sir."

　　 "When I was sixteen... At sixteen, I was still soliciting business in a relative's shop, and my father didn't want me to touch my own shop at all."

　　 Lorraine knew what Frey wanted to ask, because he had listened to similar questions many times these days.

　　He shook his head: "Sir, I am from England. It is normal for an Englishman to get on a boat at the age of thirteen or four."

"But their job is limited to interns. Perhaps the best of them can become seafarers, but they can never be the captain." Frey put down the basin and narrowed his eyes. "Young sir, I'm very curious, how can your family rest assured you? Safety at sea?"

　　 "Maybe...this is the benefit of not having a family?"

"No..." Frey groaned and scanned the side of the glass basin, one circle, two circles, and finally stopped. "The quality is good. If you have this quality, I am willing to bid 2.5 pounds for each. , How much and how much to collect."

　　 Lorraine closed the box gently, got up and left the seat: "Mr. Frey, excuse me."

　　 Frey sat upright and raised his legs: "Young people should be realistic. You don't have a permanent agreement. In Bermeo, it is not easy to find a buyer with a higher bid than mine..."

　　 "Thank you for your sincere message, goodbye."

　　...

　　 Black Port of Bermeo, Spain. On the seventeenth day of the anchor of the Attis Beauty, Lorraine still failed to sell his glass.

　　 Every black port has her unique characteristics.

　　 Cherbourg’s characteristic is chaos, and Elgin’s characteristic is order.

　　 Stavanger is as reckless and xenophobic like the Vikings, while Bermeo is like the kingdom of Spain at sunset, with an open appearance and a conservative inside.

　　 The business model of this black port made Lorraine an eye-opener.

　　 First of all, she does not set entry thresholds for merchants who communicate with other black ports. Anyone can come to Hong Kong for business and everyone can enjoy the protection of the system.

　　 Here, you don’t have to worry about buying or selling, and you don’t have to worry about the horrible things like Lorraine’s in Cherbourg.

　　 However, Bermeo, who has the most fair business environment in the black port, failed to be truly fair.

　　 Based on the tax rate of the management committee, the local business groups have established strict trade barriers and adopted completely different valuation systems for resident and tourist businesses.

Resident merchants can buy in Bermeo at low prices and sell at high prices, while enjoying lower port tax rates; while traveling merchants like Lorraine must accept parity purchases and sell at low prices, and at the same time bear higher The amount of tax.

When 　　 first entered Hong Kong, Lorraine thought it was a short-sighted method of killing chickens and eggs by the local business group. But after three consecutive applications for business qualifications were rejected, his opinion changed again.

　　 This weird secondary market is probably not the spontaneous behavior of merchants, but a premeditated government action.

　　 Its purpose is to forcibly achieve a trade surplus through obscure administrative interventions, while finding dumped exports for Spanish goods, and slowing down the outflow of domestic gold and silver reserves.

　　 This kind of rounding is very likely to occur in Spain

　　 The once powerful kingdom of Spain is already the yellow flower of tomorrow.

The royal family was extravagant and politically conservative. As the leader of the great nautical era, she failed to cultivate a solid and reliable middle class in this unparalleled geographical discovery. As a result, the market had poor hematopoietic capacity and passed the dividends of colonial reclamation. After the period, the economy showed a trend of substantial recession.

　　 On the one hand, the people are distressed and the domestic purchasing power is weak. On the other hand, the increasingly mature colonies continue to ship products back to the country and pile them in warehouses.

　　 Under the intertwining of the contradictions between the two parties, the Spanish market shows a strange surplus of overseas products that are in short supply throughout Europe.

　　 That's why a black port like Bermeo will appear.

In the shrewd abacus of the Spaniards, they never thought of accepting products from other countries through these offshore black ports. They only wanted to use the capacity of black market merchants to sell the colonial goods accumulated in the country. The better.

　　 After thinking about this, Lorraine completely abandoned his plan to change the port.

　　 The entire black port of Caybes Bay is like this.

　　 It's not just black ports, maybe even the regular ports in Spain are like this. Otherwise, why would a super large port like Bilbao break down so fast, so fast that people will be caught off guard?

　　 Isn't this... trouble me!

　　 Walking out of Mr. Frey's exchange with Henna, Lorraine put down his disguise and rubbed his eyebrows tiredly.

　　 "Henna, which one is this?"

"ten."

　　 "The highest asking price was two pounds and twelve shillings, and the lowest asking price was one pound and sixteen shillings. Are these Spanish businessmen so good at doing business? Are they too good at doing business? Or are they not good at doing business?"

　　 The two walked happily, walked to a small square, and casually found a bench to sit down.

　　 Lorraine is in a dilemma.

　　On the one hand, overseas commodities are the most important part of the triangular trade ring designed by Lorraine. It can ensure the diversity of the Chamber of Commerce's products and help Lorraine to quickly accumulate contacts.

　　 Spain is desperate to sell foreign goods in the special market environment that he absolutely cannot give up.

On the other hand, accepting an unequal treaty against travel merchants would greatly slow down his accumulation of wealth, and even ruin his good start in Scotland and Norway, and ultimately end his life in the small trading circle of black market merchants. inside.

　　 The best way to solve this dilemma is to obtain Bermeo's business qualifications.

　　 He has already inquired clearly that the Bermeo Black Port Management Committee is composed of seven gentlemen, and must be approved by four gentlemen at the same time before the application for business in the country can be approved. UU reading www.uukanshu. com

　　 Lorraine is unfamiliar here, and it is as difficult to achieve this condition in a short time.

　　 Fortunately, he has another way out, Viscount Alfonso.

　　 Viscount is a member of the seven-member management committee. He has a grand reputation and a strong influence on other committee members. Only with his help can Lorraine be able to open up Bermeo's situation.

but…

　　 "The two parties are not relatives, and the Viscount is often not in Hong Kong. How can I get on the line with him?" Lorraine thought wholeheartedly, without any distractions, and unconsciously said what was in his heart.

　　Haina raised her eyebrows: "You can find out his home address. I will kidnap his child in disguise. Then you will save people in front of him and beat me away. In this way, friendship is established."

　　 Lorraine was dumbfounded: "Such a deliberate script, are you a fool as a Viscount?"

　　 "It can be done a little bit more seriously." Henna was murderous, "For example, when saving, I will poke a few holes in you to bleed more. Out of guilt, the Viscount is not easy to doubt."

　　 "You...are you serious?"

　　 Henna is very serious.

　　 She has been fed up with anger these few days, and she wants to poke transparent holes in people, so she can't do anything about it.

　　 Lorraine saw it, dumbfounded.

　　 He swallowed hard, his eyes wandering, and suddenly saw a dozen colorful dome caravans driving at the end of the square, circling and occupying a corner of the square.

　　Gospel from heaven!

　　 Lorraine was ecstatic, and changed the subject in a panic: "Look, Henna, there are gypsies here!"

　　Death silence...

　　Henna looked at him coldly, and said every word in a round tone: "You are a Gypsy! Your whole family are all Gypsies!"