Reborn As a Pirate

Bow correction! Right rudder 3, rudder 2...left rudder 2, vertical!

Access the traction cable!

Start steam traction, abandon the rudder, and sail with traction!

Valkyrie back up!

The water gate in the poop! The traction is stable, and the ship's attitude is stable!

The first stage is in place, ready to enter the dry dock, and the crew is parked!

Lift the mast!

The dry dock is ready, the traction is started, and it goes through the dock!

The traction is stable, the ship posture is stable, Valkyrie enters the dock!

Lower the gate, pump the drainage equipment and warm up the car!

Pumping starts!

Accompanied by the roar of the rumbling steam pump, the two-hour storage operation finally came to an end.

Half an hour later, the side pier came out of the water, and the Valkyrie was suspended in the air under the support of the side pier and the keel pier, and then it officially docked.

This is Miami. To be more specific, it is Jackdaw Town in the Miami area. More precisely, it is located in Jackdaw Town. It is affiliated to the Asset Management Company of the General Assembly and operated by the Maritime Group. .

Around the middle of 1783, when Lorraine bought the Miami area, he passed a non-profit development plan code-named [Future] at the enlarged meeting of the board of directors. It is expected to spend a total of 5 million pounds in 30 years. To establish the leading position of Drake's business empire in the future maritime field.

The core components of this plan are the Ship Development Research Center at the foot of Lorraine and the University of Miami, which is upgraded from the advanced class of the Chamber of Commerce School and will start recruiting students from all over the world next year, pointing to technology and talents respectively.

The start-up ship development center consists of seven research laboratories, including the two major ship design research laboratories of the Flying Shear project and the Fearless project named by Lorraine, the sail power research laboratory of the Flying Shear Project, and the Fearless Project. Metal ship material research room, new naval gun research room, steam power research room and automatic fire control research room.

The center is also equipped with three unconventional and highly mechanized manufacturing docks of 80 meters, 60 meters and 30 meters.

The No. 1 dock that Valkyrie entered is the 80-meter level.

There are also two 120-meter and 200-meter-level buildings in the plan. Not surprisingly, they will be completed within 15 years according to the scientific research progress of the laboratory.

After pumping the water, the Valkyrie sailors disembarked with a smile on their faces, and soon gathered in groups of three or four, and walked out shoulder to shoulder.

Acharin was at the front of everyone, and Lorraine, Karen, Henna and Noah were at the end.

Before jumping off the boat, Lorraine glanced back at the port side of Valkyrie: Although I have seen it several times, but every time I look at it, my heart still beats wildly.

Keren naturally pointed to the most conspicuous one among the large craters and said: In the same position, the first 32-pound shell pierced the armor, the second 32-pound shell damaged the shell, and then another 18-pound shell Hit the bull's-eye... If eighteen pounds had been exchanged for twenty-four pounds, our powder pods would have been perforated without accident.

It will definitely penetrate, and in all likelihood it will ignite the gunpowder...

Thank God we escaped!

Lorraine patted Karen's arm: How about it, is there a corresponding reinforcement draft?

Prepare to install a part of the metal endoskeleton, with steel cables to enhance the safety of the artillery and gun carriage.

How many steel cables can stop the cannon from tipping over?

No, the best it can do is to prevent the barrel from running around, and it's completely useless against the forty-eight-pound mortar. If it wants to penetrate the bulkhead, it only needs to launch itself.

What an inspiring speech... Lorraine said with emotion, How long will it take to complete the repairs?

It will only take 30 days to restore it to its original state, but it will take 90 days if it needs to be modified accordingly.

90 days... That means you won't be able to go to sea for three full months. The holiday is really long... Lorraine sighed, Hina, can you feel your heart beat?

Yes. Hana replied without hesitation, Only the dead will not beat.

...

Off the dock is Drake's Miami.

Because he is well aware of the future scale of Miami, Lorraine boldly applied a functional town planning when designing the town.

Entering the Bay of Biscay and crossing the Island of Biscay, the estuary town, the core of Lian Township, is located on the beach at the mouth of the Miami River.

She faces Virginia Island across the sea, with a pure white, rococo-style city hall in the center, surrounded by garden markets, estuary churches, town councils, and a labor square that is expected to be used as a future general union.

These four completed core buildings are located in the southeast and northwest of the city hall, and together with the other four rectangular plots that are still vacant, the town is divided into three horizontal and three vertical [well] shapes.

Now, three communities have been completed in Hekou Town. Relying on the research centers, universities and docks that were put into operation ahead of schedule, the population of Hekou Town exceeded 2,000 at the beginning of the year, and welcomed its first local newborn in March.

Going north along the coast, 18 kilometers away from Hekou Town is a college town with the University of Miami as its core. There are two major colleges. The Chamber's significant Drake Chamber Museum is also located in this culturally rich town.

Continue north along the coast from College Town, and another 20 kilometers is Jackdaw Town, where Lorraine is now.

This is already the middle section of the Bay of Biscay, where the garrison of the first fleet directly under the fleet, the anchor port, and the ship development research center are all settled here, so this is also regarded as the most important place for Lianzhen.

There is another important component of Jackdaw Town, which is located 5 kilometers north of the town, on a beautiful seashore with the back of the lake and the sea, which is called the Pansy Manor.

Almost all the high-level dignitaries of the Drake Chamber of Commerce have built their own mansions there, each with a vast area and different styles, occasionally dotted with ranches and farms run by the Chamber of Commerce, and the old Drake who doesn’t like the cramped town The village where they gather is full of vitality among the rolling grass hills.

Even Township also has an important component, Miami Beach.

Miami Beach is the outline of the eastern edge of the Bay of Biscay, a large and flat flooded sandbar.

It is a commercial port in the Miami area, where the General Chamber of Commerce built a giant port with 37 plank roads and 116 large and medium-sized berths.

After more than two years of warm-up development, it has become one of the most prosperous commercial hubs connecting North America and the Caribbean.

Jackdaw Town Guben, College Town Peiyuan, Hekou Town Yangxin, and Miami Beach Jinyi have only been developed for two years, and the Miami area has shown the vigorous momentum of the foundation of the chamber of commerce.

The conditions here are unique.

The golden route, easy to defend and difficult to attack, no big powers to watch, even the Indians scattered all over the land of Florida, regarded as obstacles to conquest, in the eyes of Lorraine, who has no political intentions, are just a group of simple, strong and cheap labor.

It's no secret that bad wine, flour, and old guns are the main contributors to Miami's success!

The carriage creaked to the front with lazy steps, Adler opened the door, and Lorraine helped Noah into the carriage.

He turned to look at Henna, stroked his chest and made an inviting gesture.

Henna gently took Lorraine's hand: Three months, what do you want to do?

Think about doing nothing. Lorraine grimaced. Since we went to Europe in October last year, we have been floating on the sea for eight full months, just taking advantage of Valkyrie's overhaul to slow down.

Such a beautiful lady, may I invite you to accompany me to visit this beautiful and peaceful town of Lianzhen?

Lorraine was looking forward to a soft-spoken It's an honor, who knew that Henna stepped into the carriage and sat next to Nuoya.

Let's go shopping, what about Noah?

Uh... Lorraine hesitated for a long time, Actually, I invited Nuoya not long ago...

The carriage door snapped shut.

Henna's cold voice came from the closed carriage: Let's go, Pansy Manor.

The hired carriage didn't know who Lorraine was at all, and when he heard the order, he whipped the horse.

The carriage is gone...

The gentle summer sea breeze was blowing Lorraine's temples, and Lorraine stood in the center of a bunch of sightlines who feared that the world would not be chaotic...

I saw a wild ghost! Even if Carmen isn't here, I still can't escape the proposition!!!