Chapter 236 Broken Capital Chain

The visual impact of piles of gold bars stacked together is quite strong.

In addition to the people responsible for transporting the gold, Zhang Heng also gathered the remaining people together, distributed weapons, and maintained order at the dock to prevent accidents.

But with the Skeleton incident in the past, everyone on the island now knows that the people on the Jackdaw are not easy to mess with, but no one is dazzled by the bright gold.

Zhang Heng sent someone to notify the businesswoman Karina and asked her to free up a warehouse to temporarily store gold. The harvest this time was too much. If they were all distributed to the crew, safety would become a big problem. Although on the surface no one on the island dares to embarrass the Jackdaw's people, behind the scenes thieves and thieves can't wait.

In addition, the previous incident of a crew member losing 20 gold coins in a casino in one night also reminded Zhang Heng. Although Zhang Heng does not interfere with everyone's consumption methods in principle, nor does he care about everyone's money after they get it. What to do, but you will also consider the possibility that the crew of the Jackdaw will be targeted for distributing so much money at once.

So he planned to distribute part of it first, and keep the rest in a unified manner, creating an account book so that people in need can withdraw it at any time.

After a while, Karina also led people to the pier, but Zhang Heng noticed that her face was a little ugly, but it was difficult for the two of them to say anything in front of outsiders.

After returning to the warehouse and watching boxes of gold being transported in, Zhang Heng and the businesswoman found a secluded place and said, "How are you, how are you doing while I'm not on the island? "

The smile on the latter's face was a little forced, "The situation... is not very good."

"Um?"

Things have to go back to two months ago, when Zhang Heng left Nassau. Because of the Skull incident, Karina finally broke the deadlock. With the unstoppable rise of the Jackdaw, Second-hand goods trading offices are also gradually establishing a firm foothold on the island.

Not only did the captain who had previously cooperated with Karina in private recover her, but finally a ship other than the Jackdaw broke away from the Black Merchant Alliance and publicly expressed its willingness to establish a long-term and stable cooperative relationship with Karina.

This was undoubtedly a powerful blow to Malcolm, who wanted to completely monopolize Nassau's black market transactions, and this was just the beginning. Later, more and more people expressed their intention to cooperate with Karina.

This was like rain from heaven for Karina, who had been blocked by the Black Merchant Alliance. The businesswoman saw the hope of defeating Malcolm and the Black Merchant Alliance led by him, and signed a cooperation agreement with those pirate ships almost without thinking.

In order to capture so much market share, Karina added another transport ship to the original two transport ships, and also recruited more manpower. For this reason, she almost doubled her previous profits. All the profits were invested.

However, what happened next was completely out of her control.

Karina's biggest problem is that she actually has no real experience in being a black marketeer. When she came to the island, she caught up with the changes and the Black Business Alliance was about to be established, because all her father's partners before he was imprisoned had been divided up by others. , until she found the Jackdaw and Zhang Heng agreed to cooperate with her, she survived in Nassau, but since then she has been facing pressure from the Black Business Alliance.

Therefore, unlike other black market merchants on the island, Karina has not cooperated with ships other than the Jackdaw. Although she has secretly purchased a batch of goods from other captains behind the back of the Black Merchant Alliance before, basically all It's a one-shot deal, but actual cooperation is much more complicated than that.

Although Karina is indeed talented in business, she also needs to learn and accumulate in unfamiliar fields. Without the pressure brought by Malcolm, she would have enough time to grow, but now she is like A potato seedling must use all its strength to push through the rocks pressing on its head.

On the other hand, the impact of Ma Long's betrayal also began to unfold. The latter was the most trusted person around his father and the person most familiar with the entire process of her father's previous business.

Without his guidance and in opposition to other businessmen, Karina could only rely on herself to explore. Only then did she discover that there were more problems than she had imagined.

For example, the previously discussed acquisition price was based on the Black Merchant Alliance plus half a percent. This price was originally recognized by both parties, but because the Black Merchant Alliance had previously offered different acquisition ranges to each pirate ship, some pirates found that the same A batch of high-quality goods, but according to the new pricing standards, they did not get as much as another pirate ship that also cooperated with Karina.

This caused dissatisfaction among some people, and it happened to be the time when Karina was negotiating with other pirate captains to cooperate. Because she was worried about the possible adverse effects, Karina finally unified the purchase price according to the highest standards, but in this way As soon as she comes, her profit margin will be even smaller.

And this was just the beginning, because she increased the volume of freight, and the bribed person at the customs found her and vaguely proposed to increase the bribe, which also increased her costs on the one hand. Karina originally She thought it was Malcolm's people who were causing trouble again, but when she moved to another port and found that she was facing the same thing, she realized that this was actually an unspoken rule that all black marketeers would face.

In addition, she also encountered trouble when selling goods. Large-scale shipments aroused dissatisfaction from local merchants, and she also got into two lawsuits. Although they were settled with money in the end, the losses were not small.

But the most serious problem is the funding. Before Zhang Heng left, he gave Karina a transport ship. After the Skeleton was repaired, the businesswoman used it as the third transport ship, but she still needed to recruit manpower and modify it. , coupled with the expansion of the warehouse and the opening of a new grocery store, when it came time to purchase goods from pirates, the businesswoman had to mortgage the property left by her father again to raise payment for the goods.

However, it takes a cycle from acquiring the goods to transporting the goods to the colony's port to find buyers for cash. In Karina's original calculations, the flow of funds should be sufficient, but the reality is not as smooth as imagined. , and the time when pirates return to port is also uncontrollable. Sometimes there will be several pirate ships selling loot together on the same day, which also puts huge financial pressure on female businessmen.

Karina's capital chain had been broken a week before Zhang Heng came back, and she still owed two pirate ships unpaid payments. Just in the morning, the businesswoman was still trying to appease her partners, but because she could not receive the money on time, Angry pirates destroyed Karina's new grocery store.