Excited, calm down, calm down, excited
The noisy welcome lasted for several hours. When everything was back on track, it was already after the dinner with the moon hanging high.
At nine o''clock in the evening, pierce and Dylan, who had been freshly washed, met and walked into Lorraine''s study side by side in their new dresses.
Lorraine is waiting for them. Except Lorraine, Carmen, bell, Katrina, Karen and fafuna are all there. All they do is listen to the official report on the two-year super expedition of the secret service fleet.
Such a grand show makes pierce and old Dylan obviously cramped.
Lorraine walked to the bar with a smile, picked out two glasses of celebration champagne, and delivered it to them by hand.
Cluck! The bottom of the cup makes a crisp noise when it touches the tea table.
Lorraine reached out and pinched Pierce''s arm and said, "it''s dark and strong, but it doesn''t seem to be very long. Why?"
Pierce''s face turned red: "long... Long!"
"Long?"
"Yes!"
"How much longer?"
"One... One inch."
"An inch a year?"
"An inch in all..."
"An inch?"
"Almost..." pierce blushed. "Really! Really only a little..."
Carmen had beautiful eyes and said with a smile, "he really grew tall. When he walked, he was 5 feet, 7 inches and a half (about 172 cm). Now he is a little more than 5 feet, 8 inches (about 174 cm). He is a real man."
A kind laugh
Probably kind? Anyway, except for fafuna, everyone laughed happily, with cramped, nervous and strange people they hadn''t seen in two years.
Lorraine patted pierce on the shoulder and sat back in his seat: "let''s go, report."
"Yes, Mr. President!"
Pierce answered simply, and without hesitation used his position and honorific title, which means that his state is back.
"In November 1785, that is, 24 months ago, because of their poor performance in the Miami exercise, all the secret service formation except Zog Cao, faramin snapps and Sharon yatis were asked to escort the trans ocean fleet of the American chapter to Europe..."
In November two years ago, Lorraine arranged a direct fleet civil war for commercial display in Miami development. Pierce''s Secret Service formation was against fafuna''s first formation.
In that public exercise, pierce won the final victory with his superb shooting skills and the ruling strength of the lady, but in the process, fafuna''s command and tactics once completely suppressed the secret service formation, and pierce lost two deputy admirals in succession.
This battle made pierce lose face. Especially against the background of the first formation with relatively weak ship hardware and inferior treatment of crew, Lorraine was extremely disappointed by the combat desire and response of the secret service formation.
In the form of semi punishment, the secret service formation was suspended from vacation and took the place of the second formation to participate in the transatlantic escort mission of the American Chamber of Commerce.
After more than 20 days of smooth sailing, the transoceanic fleet arrived in Spain, and pierce received a strange and enthusiastic welcome. Before he could figure it out, Ramos, President of the European Chamber of Commerce, gave the order.
[secret service formation to Southampton for repair and preparation, waiting for the next order of the direct fleet]
As a result, pierce had to take the fleet to Southampton. Foolishly, he waited for more than two months. He was also arranged to have a high-intensity short-term study with his sailors at Plymouth sea school and under Sir Leighton for one and a half months.
Until early March 1786, Ramos finally solved the mystery. With Lorraine''s authorization order, he ordered the direct fleet to Gibraltar immediately to join the Mediterranean trade operation of the European Chamber of Commerce.
Mediterranean trade operation
In Lorraine''s study, pierce held the glass and looked nostalgic.
"On March 16, we anchored in Gibraltar and received SIR tayer, vice president of the European chapter, accompanied by Mr. Artest, the new commander of the Mediterranean caravan. Incidentally, the reason why Artest took office was that his last commander died."
Sir Taye is an elite talent whom Ramos met in the 1784 Portuguese incident. Although he has the title of Baron, he is an excellent businessman with credibility and means because of his family''s decline.
He had a deep friendship with the rotaseri chamber of Commerce, which firmly stood on Drake''s side in the Portuguese incident, and made a voice in the case of Lorraine suing the queen of Portugal. In fact, his friendship with Ramos was settled in the Madrid court.
Ramos is not the kind of strong general to open up territory. Especially after Eddie established his own door in Africa, this crucial work for the European Chamber of Commerce once stagnated.
The think tank suggested him to find partners in the Mediterranean region. Ramos felt justified and put forward the development intention of cooperative M & A at the 1785 meeting, which was recognized and authorized by the board of directors of the General Chamber of Commerce.
In June 1785, Ramos and tayer signed an M & a agreement in Paris. In August, the European branch and the French tayer chamber of Commerce launched the M & A case. The tayer chamber of Commerce fully included the price of 50000 pounds in cash, 200000 pounds in real estate and 10% of the shares of the European branch into the European branch. Sir tayer served as the vice president of the branch and the manager of the Mediterranean region.
With the help of Sir tayer, the European chapter did have a strong momentum in the Mediterranean for some time. The trading terminals with trade licenses spread across both sides of the Mediterranean and all the way to Alexandria, Egypt.
However, the good times did not last long. Drake''s rapid development aroused the dissatisfaction of Ottoman in Turkey. At the instigation of this * * * power, the Barbary pirates in North Africa began to carry out targeted attacks on Drake''s trading fleet.
It was in January 1786, when Ramos and Sir tayer were worried about Barbary''s politicians and pirates, pierce came
……
Barbary pirates, including three pirate organizations in Algiers, Tunisia and Tripoli, cover the Mediterranean coast between the kingdom of Morocco and Egypt. The leader called [Pasha], a pirate organization with a complete political structure, which is also called [Barbary Kingdom] by the European Union.
The kingdom of Barbary has a glorious pirate history. In the 15th century, the legendary pirate king, red beard, Barbarosa heiredding, fought against the two empires of holy Rome and Spain alone. It was so famous that it was called "hell evil ghost" by Europe at that time.
After the death of heireddin, the unified Barbary was divided into three. There were no new legends, but it still played an important role in the Mediterranean order.
They call themselves magistrates of the Mediterranean, and their way of maintaining maritime security is... To collect protection fees.
Every chamber of commerce operating in the Mediterranean must take the initiative to register and pay taxes to the three Pasha. Generally, one of the three is to hold the tax payment certificate and have unimpeded access in the Mediterranean.
Of course, the white people who claim to be the Lord of the world are full of complaints about such a situation, but the Barbary pirates have become stronger and more difficult than they were in the past since their decline. The Mediterranean fleet of Spain, France, Great Britain and holy Rome can not destroy them. Once small Mediterranean businessmen are found to have evaded taxes, their ships are often destroyed and people die.
People under the eaves have to bow their heads.
Sir tayer, who has been living in the Mediterranean for half his life, knows that kids are difficult to deal with. Drake also pays taxes in the Mediterranean. Because of his large size, he even got a preferential certificate of 20% tax discount issued by Pasha, Tunisia
Sir Terje missed only one thing, that is, in the south of European and African trade, the glory of Venetian businessmen is no longer. Now, the volume of Drake is too large for the Mediterranean.
Even if the Mediterranean trade development is only a part of the business of the European Chamber of commerce under the General Chamber of Commerce, which is far from expanding to the all-round settlement of maritime groups and industrial and mining groups, it still has a great impact on the Mediterranean trade order.
The first is the Turkish businessmen who occupy a strong position in the Mediterranean, especially in the eastern Mediterranean.
With strong capital and strong appeal, Drake chamber of Commerce and its European allies entered the eastern Mediterranean market on a large scale, squeezing the profit space of Turkish businessmen and seizing their trade share.
They regarded it as another invasion of God''s faith against Allah''s faith. The commercial war quickly escalated into a naval war, which turned into a fierce pursuit of Turkish businessmen led by Drake in just a few months.
This situation is not surprising.
Although the European Chamber of commerce does not have a large number of class 5 and above warships like the American Chamber of Commerce, and the fleet is mostly an inland sea structure with brig and brigantin as the main force and skuna as the main force, the ships of Turkish businessmen are also similar, which is determined by the Mediterranean environment.
Under similar conditions, the Drake high-speed ship has an overwhelming advantage over the Arab ship system, which has been proved as early as Muscat in 1784.
What''s more, Drake has a long contract sailor employment mode and a mature talent training system. The sailor''s quality is professional and good at fighting. It has reached the second-class Navy as a whole, and some subjects have even reached the average level of the first-class Navy.
People, people can''t, ships, ships can''t. Turkish businessmen have found their powerful motherland. Their powerful motherland also feels that they need to teach these new Europeans a lesson and let them know who is the overlord of the Mediterranean.
The Barbary pirates with Turkey as the patriarch took over the task of teaching businessmen.
The pirates politely issued a joint espionage to Sir Terje, asking Drake to pay heavy taxes to Tunisia, Algiers and Tripoli at the same time, otherwise Drake''s right to sail in the Mediterranean will be cancelled.
The negotiations broke down.
The commercial war in the eastern Mediterranean shifted to the west, and the opponent of the war changed from Europe vs Turkey to Drake vs Barbary.
For a while, Drake chamber of Commerce fought hard on the whole line, and the road of Commerce and trade was almost cut off!