Three Hundred and Ninety-Five Years of the Chamber of Commerce

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In 1781, George Washington, the commander-in-chief of the American Continental Army, led an army to besiege the main force of the British army in Yorktown.

French Vice Admiral François Joseph Paul de Grasse began planning a decisive sea battle.

He integrated the French Caribbean Fleet with a total of 32 battleships to blockade the Chesapeake Bay and cut off the logistics channel of the British army in Yorktown.

It was time for the British Continental Squadron to undergo drastic changes. The former admiral of the fleet, Rear Admiral Shaq Francis Drake, was implicated in the impeachment case and stepped down hastily.

Rear Admiral Graves took over, supported a total of 19 battleships with the first and second formations of the squadron and the British mainland, and was ordered to enter the Chesapeake to break the French logistical blockade.

The two sides engaged in battle on September 5th. Rear Admiral Graves made a mistake in command, causing one-third of the warships to fail to enter the battlefield. The avant-garde unit was under fire, and the [HMS Terror] was seriously injured and abandoned (sunk and not captured). .

On September 10, France was supported by another 8 battleships, Major General Graves was forced to give up the battle, and the Chesapeake Bay naval battle ended.

On October 13, General Charles Cornwallis commanded the surrender of the British Army in Yorktown, and the War of Independence came to an end.

After the Battle of Yorktown, the War of Independence was nothing but a war of words on the diplomatic field, until the signing of the Treaty of Paris on September 3, 1783, and the war ended with the victory of the United States.

Lorraine withdrew from the French smuggling sequence in June 1781, and Edward Kenway disappeared in July of the same year.

There is no way of knowing whether the French went to the East Coast to search for the behind-the-scenes hero of the War of Independence who was carrying a huge sum of money, but Lorraine knew that the properties under the Kenway Merchant Group were still secretly monitored by unknown people until 1783.

It's a pity that the monitors are doomed to find no clues.

The Dow has changed hands seven times in just one year, and was finally bought by a sailboat collector named Foss Carter at an underground auction in Elgin at a high price of 13,000 pounds. Now it is in the collection. In a private dock in Plymouth, right next to the Artis Beauty.

Haight Shipyard was sold to Drake Marine Group.

The Maritime Group is a super-large shipping group that rose recently after 1780. It was formerly a small private dock on St. Dyna Island, Bermuda.

After being acquired by Drake,

She acquired 23 Bermuda private docks within two months and established a maritime group.

In 1781, she acquired the Boston Haight Shipyard at the cost of 30% shares and 75,000 pounds in cash. In 1783, after the signing of the "Paris Treaty", she publicly acquired the Baltimore Lorist Shipbuilding Company with similar treatment.

After the completion of the merger and acquisition, Maritime Group has become a company with two first-level docks, one third-level dock, five fourth-level docks, sixteen fifth-level docks, and 42 sixth-level docks, integrating design, manufacturing, maintenance, and forestry. In one body, the super shipbuilding group with total assets exceeding one million pounds ranks first in the New World and twelfth in the world in terms of overall scale.

And gathering the essence of thought from the three high-speed bases of Boston, Bermuda and Baltimore, she has become the pioneer of the world's most cutting-edge high-speed sailing boats.

In February 1784, the 15-meter-class Sloop-type experimental ship [Sea Phantom] set a speed record of 22.5 knots during the voyage from Boston to Port of St. Dyna, which almost marked the early birth of the clipper ship.

Dowmark and Haight Shipyard were the only things that Kenway left to Lorraine. Other than that, the remaining properties were all sold into the free market after several cautious handovers.

The seller is the shadow of Drake, and the buyer has nothing to do with Drake. Even if the trackers have all-hands and eyes, they will never be able to find out the relationship between Lorraine and Edward Kenway on these dead things.

Lorraine Anason Drake is just a shining new star who made his fortune in pirate wars and rapidly rose in the business district of England like his ancestors.

The Drake Chamber of 1784 is so powerful.

With the General Chamber of Commerce Asset Management Company as the core, the entire Chamber of Commerce has four major branch groups: the European Branch (formerly Northwest Europe Branch), the American Branch (formerly the Caribbean Branch), the African Branch and the Maritime Group.

Headquartered in St. Dyna, Bermuda, the Maritime Group is the group with the largest independent assets, with a market value of more than 1 million pounds. In 1783, the total turnover exceeded 150,000 pounds and the profit was 63,000 pounds.

Headquartered in Southampton, England, the European Branch is the earliest and most profitable mainstay of the chamber of commerce. In recent years, Ramos has been busy reducing the proportion of property leases and purchasing self-owned properties. The market value is second only to the Maritime Group at 700,000 pounds. In 1783, the total turnover was 220,000 yuan and the profit was 79,000 yuan.

The headquarters of the American branch has been relocated several times. It was in Kingston, Jamaica in 1780, and moved to Port St. George, Bermuda in 1781. After the signing of the Paris Peace Treaty, it was quickly transferred to New York, the United States. With his special connections, he received a series of preferential treatment in the early days of the founding of the United States.

After the establishment of the New York headquarters, its total market value jumped to 400,000 pounds. In 1783, the total turnover was 290,000 pounds and the profit was 120,000 pounds. With the support of the relaxed business environment and low production costs in North America, although the overall strength is still not as good as the European branch, Chuck Parker's ability to create profits has already left Ramos Piddick far behind.

The last is Carmen Xavier, the general manager of the General Association Asset Management Company established in 1782.

Over the years of the development of the Chamber of Commerce, Lorraine has been unable to accurately position the role of the General Chamber of Commerce in the entire group. She does not have a trading function, and she has been closer to a name for a long time, an establishment for temporary deployment of the direct fleet, or Substitutes the underlying framework for the division of interests in Lorraine.

Until the huge smuggling bonus poured into the chamber of commerce, after several years of ultra-high-speed development, the value of the general chamber of commerce has finally been reflected, that is, the management of wholly-owned assets and the audit of the property of the branch.

The Asset Management Company of the Federation consists of four departments: fixed asset management, accounting and auditing, chamber of commerce schools and direct fleet.

At the beginning of its establishment, the Fixed Assets Management Division owned the entire island of Bermuda, a total of 26 berths on the coast of Lucie, Jamaica, the entire island of Little Cayman, and two estates in Lucie and Crow's Nest.

In March 1783, Lorraine bought the mouth of the Miami River from the Indians for a thousand brown bess rifles and five thousand barrels of rum. In July, the deal was extended to the coast of the Bay of Biscay in North America, including all islands and land 300 kilometers west of the coastline.

The total cost of completing these acquisitions was only 30,000 pounds, and the Indians also generously presented West Palm Island, which has special significance to Lorraine, which means that it is equivalent to most of Miami and the entire city of West Palm Beach in later generations. The land has become Lorraine's private property rights.

Considering the future development momentum of the United States, this transaction has been fully and formally reported in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Spain, which has influence on the Florida Peninsula. , Lorraine spent nearly 50,000 pounds...

Taking Miami was about building the foundations for a future Drake Chamber.

Adjacent to the Strait of Florida, it is an important export of the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico to North America and the Atlantic Ocean. It is not only a strategic location for trade in North America and the Caribbean, but also an important fulcrum for pirate wars.

Combining the Bermuda St. Dana Island and Jamaica Port Lucie, which Lorraine previously purchased and built, his fleet can form a comprehensive and tight double-team against the Bahamas, the confidant of the Pirates of the Caribbean, in the vast sea area, for future wars, and wars Afterwards, the development of the chamber of commerce will play an immeasurable role.

Because of this, the construction of the Miami area began from the beginning of the land purchase.

The focus of the first phase of construction is Miami Town in the estuary area, including the future Drake Business School, the anchor port directly under the Fleet Headquarters, the Ship Development Research Center, the sailor community and the Drake Estuary Manor. It is planned to form a 5,000-1 Residential scale of 10,000 people.

The second phase of construction will focus on the Bay of Biscay, which focuses on defense and commerce, including coastal defense forts on Biscay Island, coastal fortresses on Virginia Island, bridges, commercial ports, docks, warehouses and trade centers on the inner side.

Because of the abundant funds, these constructions are also carried out at the same time, and the cycle is still four years.

Another core department of asset management companies is the direct fleet.

From the beginning of its establishment, Lorraine's direct fleet has implemented a mode of temporary deployment from its affiliated branches based on war needs.

The advantage of this model is that it is cheap and saves a lot of extra maintenance costs. At the same time, with the prestige of Lorraine, it is also enough to use those warships that are temporarily transferred.

However, with the continuation and expansion of the pirate war, this "direct subordinate model without direct subordinate" began to affect the operation of the American branch more and more, and the change was imminent, and the opportunity for change was the establishment of the Maritime Group.

Lorraine has its own shipyard, and has a reliable and cheap channel to acquire cutting-edge ships. Those high-speed warships that were born for pirate warfare have been continuously rolled out of the dock, completely replacing the status of dispatched ships with stable speed and reliable combat effectiveness. .

The newly-born direct fleet takes the Golden Deer as its flagship, and consists of six tier-5 high-speed destroyers, ten tier-6 Brigantine-type frigates, and eight tier-6 Brigantine-type communication ships. One, the main anchor port is located in Port Lucie, Jamaica.

Valkyrie has not yet been placed in the direct fleet because her delivery has been delayed.

From the perspective of construction planning, she should have been delivered at the end of 1783, and all external sea trials had been completed in July 1783.

However, after the full firepower was installed on St. Dyna Island, she stumbled in the subsequent internal sea trials.

The center of gravity of the ship is unstable, and the saturation shelling stalls...

It took Karen and most of the elites of the Maritime Group five months to find the problem, and another five months to refit the deck layout and sails with new technologies, increasing the Valkyrie's high speed and low speed by 1 knot respectively. And 0.5 knots, the second round of internal sea trials did not begin until late July 1784, a year after the completion of external sea trials.

At that time, the Noble Lady, which was started two years late, had already anchored from St. George's Port to Africa with Pierce and the gang of boys who would only cause trouble.

However, misfortune is a blessing, and it is precisely because of the delayed delivery of Valkyrie that Lorraine was able to escape from the quagmire of the pirate war and came to Europe to preside over the funeral for Sir Garman...

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