In the midst of the vibrant wilderness, a four-wheeled carriage that was not spacious and comfortable was running leisurely on the gravel road that looked a little wet after the rain.

"Sir, we will arrive in Calais soon." The coachman is a well-dressed French gentleman and Alfred Barr, the trusted old butler of the "sir" in the car.

"Well." The "master" in the car is actually not that old. Alphonse de Moller was born on September 2, 1645 in the Moller Manor on the banks of the Somme River in the suburbs of Amiens, Somme Province, France.

However, in the mid-spring of 1662, Alphonse, who was less than seventeen years old, would become what others called Monsieur de Moller, naturally because he had separated from the family and established his own business.

Alphonse was born into a well-to-do squire family outside Amiens. His grandfather was once the Marquis of Somme's right-hand general. He participated in many Franco-Spanish wars. He was awarded the title of Baronet for his meritorious service and received a house with more than 200 people on the Somme River.

However, after the death of the Bourbon family, the Marquis of Somme suddenly became a marginalized figure. Considering the poor political environment, Alphonse's grandfather also gave up the opportunity to be recruited by the French royal family and turned to

He concentrated on taking care of the family business and switched to business, and began to settle in Calais. In 1640, Alphonse's grandfather and third uncle died in the religious war riots. Alphonse's father hurriedly brought his family back to the Moller Manor to settle down, and later funded Alphonse.

Fangs's second uncle Fermain de Moller went to the French colonies in Africa, and the brothers never saw each other again.

In 1642, Alphonse’s eldest brother Armand was born;

In 1645, Alphonse was born;

In 1655, Alphonse's mother died of illness;

In 1660, Alphonse's father also died of illness;

All the family assets were given to Alphonse and his brother Armand de Moller. As the eldest son, Armand inherited the knighthood, the manor and most of the family fixed assets that had inheritance disputes with his second uncle who was still alive.

, and Alphonse, the second son, inherited the 2,600 livres and other inheritance left by his mother, and shared the livres cash left by his father equally with his brother.

On Valentine's Day on February 14 this year, the eldest brother Armand successfully proposed to his cousin Miss Yvette (the daughter of Alphonse's aunt) and they got married a month later on March 14. Alphonse was also there.

It’s time to break up the business and start your own business.

But the real reason that forced Alphonse to start his own business was lack of money. Since the Bourbon royal family was keen on luxury goods and fashion, the nobles also flocked to them. In addition, the wealth of the French middle class has grown rapidly, and daily consumption has increased.

He also tried his best to compete with the court and dignitaries for power and wealth. One of its effects is that a squire's expenditure on his family marriage contract increased from only 2,500 livres in 1613 to 6,000 livres in 1644, and even today

In 1662, it had exceeded 10,000 livres (livre is the French accounting currency, translated into livre, lithium, and livre. This article takes "livre"; the actual popular currency in France in the 17th century was tourli

The exchange of currencies such as the fur, the gold Ecu, the silver Ecu, the copper sous, the gold Louis, the franc, etc. is confusing. This article selects the livre as the universal currency, 1 livre (equivalent to 8.6g of silver) = 20 sous (etc.

Priced at 22g bronze))

The income of the Mohler family is not low. The annual output of the Mohler Manor alone is more than 800 livres. In addition, the property rental, factory income, and chamber of commerce income are more than 2,000 livres. Even if the expenses are slightly larger

Some of them have a net surplus of more than 400 livres a year. You must know that the average annual income of French farmers is only 7-80 livres, and a worker only earns 100 livres. Even the high-status dragoons only earn less.

About 300 livres!

But when faced with a noble wedding that related to the family's reputation, whether it was 400 livres or 2,000 livres, they all seemed extremely small; so Armand focused on the cash that his brother Alphonse received.

According to the will left by their father, each brother received 5,600 livres in cash. Adding the savings of the past two years, Armand had more than 6,500 livres in cash on hand, but there was still a gap of up to 4,000 livres. Considering

When it comes time to reserve working capital, Armand needs to obtain at least 4,500 livres in cash from Alphonse.

After careful consideration, Armand transferred the old house in Calais, a warehouse and an anchor workshop with a total of 7,000 livres worth of fixed assets, which still had property rights disputes, to Alphonse at a price of 5,800 livres.

In exchange for 4,800 livres in cash and jewelry worth a thousand livres in his hand. This was nothing at first, but then Miss Yvette's mother and their aunt thought that Alphonse was about to come of age and already owned assets in Calais.

It was not suitable to stay at Moller Manor, so Alphonse decided on his itinerary and left Moller Manor for Calais the day after the wedding.

On the night of the wedding on March 14, that is, the night before Alphonse was about to leave the Moller Manor, some relatives and friends who had a marriage-related attitude proposed a wedding duel to Armand; Alphonse, who had drunk too much, said nothing.

Without saying anything, he went up and beat the opponent severely. However, at night, the resentful opponent was shot in the heart with a musket!

When he woke up again, Alphonse had become a modern young man from more than 400 years later. Fang Si, whose parents divorced since childhood, grew up with his grandparents who were fishermen. He chose to major in seamanship in college, relying on his hobbies and solid foundation.

Along the way, he became the second mate of an ocean-going merchant ship. At the age of thirty, he was still alone. In his spare time, he was obsessed with searching for traces of the sailing era across Europe, dreaming of participating in this era of great sailing as a trend-setter! Maybe it was fate.
Chapter completed!