"That's it. I've even thought of a good idea. We can cast three to five prototype cannons. They don't need to be shot to explode, because I'm still sure of selling it." Alphonse was gloomy. He smiled and said: "We have British privateer friends, we can entrust them to sell these treasures to pirates."

"Damn! You devil! I don't allow you to do this!" Yasuo stood up and refuted Alphonse loudly: "Destroying pirates is God's business. You can't ruin my reputation! This is a cannon made by me. If it explodes casually in the hands of pirates, who will recognize Master Yasuo in the future? And if they don’t explode, the ghosts on the ships that were sunk by artillery will also come to trouble Master Yasuo! ”

"I've seen through you. You're actually unwilling to pay just a little reputation to eliminate pirates!" Alphonse criticized Yasuo plausibly.

"You damn devil, you shouldn't be called Alphonse. I suggest you be called Master Abagon. It's just a few cannons and a mere 2,000 livres. Can't you afford it?" Yasuo shouted. Complain.

"Well, how about I sell them to you for just one thousand livres?" Alphonse replied lazily: "After all, every excellent 18-pounder can be sold on the black market for 1,500 or even It’s 2,000 livres.”

"Then I hope the wise Lord Moller can introduce our respectable British friend to me. I will remember to erase any marks on it to ensure that others will not cause trouble for you." Yasuo's attitude instantly became a hundred. Eighty degree turn.

"It seems that our Master Yasuo is not afraid of the evil spirit coming to his door again?" Bardis said sarcastically.

"Then I will use the money from selling the artillery to buy bottles of good wine and pay tribute to the wronged souls one by one." Yasuo straightened his tie and replied confidently.

Badis rolled his eyes, damn, am I in league with the devil? Alas, no wonder I am so poor, because I still have a noble soul; and let alone their souls, even their moral integrity has been sold to the devil...< /p>

"While Ann hasn't come back yet, I decided to finalize the new contract for you two, especially Badis. You must not disclose your income to Ann, you know?" Alphonse said seriously.

"Why...why? I heard from Yasuo that she is also one of the partners." Badis replied.

"Because I'm afraid she'll fall in love with you! Is it okay if I like her? But she doesn't like me, so I can't make her poor, nor can I make her rich, let alone let her discover rich people of my age." Ah. Fang Si replied seriously.

"Pfft!" Yasuo couldn't help laughing. Seeing Alphonse looking at him sinisterly, and seeing Badis looking over, he coughed and said, "That's true, Badis, An The young lady was burdened with debts of several thousand livres due to family reasons, so she worked for Alphonse. However, after Alphonse gave her a high salary, she quickly paid off half of the debt and even became a He was ready to leave here as soon as his debts were paid off. Alphonse was very sad, you know? But Miss An still abandoned him and is still discussing business in the Netherlands. If it happened, Alphonse might be lost forever. Miss An is married, so Alphonse decided to deduct her salary and delay time. After Miss An accepted him, he could even use half of his wealth as a betrothal gift! Yes, by then I will become Miss An's godfather and replace her Take care of this aspect of the business."

As for Yasuo's smuggling of private goods, Alphonse only took it as a joke, but Badis seemed to take it seriously. He nodded and said: "I understand, but I hope this period will not be too long, because I am not a person."

A person who is good at lying."

"Are you looking down on Alphonse? What a charming young man he is, young, handsome, rich and wise. He is much better than my son. Just a thousand livres embarrassed my son.

, it also embarrassed me, and I had to sell off my assets to raise funds for the wedding. Look at Alphonse again, he made me decent money, and now as long as I am willing, I can marry myself a beautiful noble lady at any time.

!" Yasuo held up his boss without restraint.

"That's it." Alphonse, who had planned to discount Yasuo's contract because he had brought in private goods just now, saw that Yasuo was flattering him without restraint, so he decided that it would be more appropriate to stick to the established contract: "Let's talk first.

Yasuo, because I am about to get investment soon, I have reserved a share quota of 30,000 livres for Yasuo, of which you have to figure out a way for 20,000 livres by yourself, and the other 10,000 livres will be directly used as your special contract.

It will be paid to you as an annual salary. The current rapid-fire artillery will give you a commission of 5 sous per artillery according to the original contract, but the city defense cannon can only give you 3 sous, and the hypothetical 16-pounder long-range gun will be 8 livres.

, the undeveloped 16-pound short-range rapid-fire gun is 5 livres."

"Alphonse, this is the happiest thing I heard today, even more than the 1,000 livres you sold all the sample guns to me!" Yasuo almost jumped up with joy, while Buddy next to him

Si was also stunned. The annual salary was 10,000 livres? Did he hear wrongly or was Alphonse crazy?

"And Badis, your share is 20,000, but you probably can't handle this. I plan to make a three-year contract, which is 3,000 livres, 5,000 livres and 7,000 livres, and another 5,000 livres."

I will help you advance cash for livres, which means that not only will you work for me for the next three years, but you will also owe me 5,000 livres, so you will not have a fixed salary. In terms of commission, you are currently involved

The development of the 18-pound long-range gun, so I will give you a commission of 6 livres for each artillery piece. Of course, if you can sell it yourself, you can also get a 5% sales commission." Alphonse smiled. <

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"I can also sell it myself." Yasuo interrupted: "Let me have a three-year contract, so I don't have to think of a solution."

"Are you sincerely requesting me?" Alphonse asked.

"Yes." Yasuo replied.

"Well, let's go by Badis's quota. The three-year contract is 3,000, 5,000 and 7,000 livres respectively. The other 5,000 livres will be paid in advance. The commission will still be 1 livre for the rapid-fire cannon and 10 livre for the city defense cannon.

Each sous, 8 livres for an 18-pound long-range gun, 5 livres for a short-range rapid-fire cannon, and another 5% commission on sales." Alphonse nodded.

"Why did the salary drop so much?" Yasuo complained loudly.

"Excellent sales do not deserve a high fixed salary, that's the case with Ann." Alphonse replied.

"If you were willing to provide sales with a high fixed salary, maybe you would have captured Miss An's heart long ago..." Yasuo curled his lips.

"What?" Alphonse narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Oh, I said 10,000 livres is quite good, but other than that, please just think I'm farting." Yasuo replied without any baggage.

"Be careful to brush your teeth on weekdays. Sometimes bad breath is an easy thing to offend." Alphonse hummed, then looked at Badis and said: "Badis, do you have a problem? Of course, if you

If you are in urgent need of cash, you can give up your share, and I will still directly pay your annual salary and share according to the contract."

"No problem, I don't have anything to spend money on right now." Badis replied without hesitation. Although he can't see the money yet, once the investment is successful, he can make a lot of money just from the annual share.
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"A wise choice, because I promise to realize annual dividends of at least 12% for my investment. In other words, for every 10,000 livres, I can distribute 100 livres every month. This is a shareholder dividend that will never be discounted in addition to salary.

Alphonse smiled.

"Really? Then I can still get 300 livres in dividends every month?" Yasuo felt like he would wake up laughing when he went to bed tonight.

"Yes." Alphonse nodded: "I'll give you a suggestion, don't be so happy that you can't sleep and drink as much as you can. If you die, it's none of your business. I won't pay dividends and annual salary to a dead person."

"You can rest assured, I will live a long life for Liver!" Yasuo replied without hesitation.

On the leeward side of the Soya Islands, there are 15 armed merchant ships of the Hawkins family hidden here. They have already received reliable information that a treasure ship carrying more than 200,000 pounds of silver will pass through here in the past few days. If it is normal,

They certainly would not dare to directly intercept such a behemoth on the Atlantic route, but since the French produced a rapid-fire cannon and successfully opened fire on a Spanish treasure ship, the Hawkins family naturally had a new strategy of their own.

Especially some time ago, they received the third batch of 60 rapid-fire cannons. Now with up to 180 rapid-fire cannons, they have seen the 200,000 pounds of silver waving at them!

"Captain, what a bad thing, a Spanish convoy has passed by!" At this time, at dawn, a land-based lookout on the island sent a semaphore, indicating that a Spanish convoy was passing by within sight.

At that point in time, a convoy came to the Atlantic route, which meant that the news about the treasure ship was accurate, and the other party also came to escort the treasure ship!

"Have you discovered us?" Christopher Meinings, wearing captain's uniform, asked as he walked out of the captain's room holding a long copper telescope.

"Definitely not. Although their masts are high, they can't see us on the leeward side, but they must have found a small island here." The first mate replied without hesitation.

"Well, how many ships are there in the convoy?" Christopher Menings asked again.

"A medium-sized frigate, I'm not sure which one it is, and there are two Clarks and two Caravels." the first officer replied.

"How much do the Spaniards look down on us? They actually think that a mere medium-sized frigate can ward off evil?" Christopher Meinings sneered and said: "Send two sloops and spread them out to both sides.

When the treasure ship arrives, they will be responsible for leading away the two scunas."

"Yes, Captain." the first mate replied.

"Go ahead and keep an eye on the sea. I'm going to force the treasure ship to the island. This time it's not just the treasure, but I also want the ship." Christopher Meinings looked at the rapid-fire cannons on the side of the ship and believed they could do it.

Allow yourself to capture a Spanish galleon that was almost undamaged.

"Yes!" the first mate responded and left, leaving Christopher Menings looking at the sea, wondering what he was thinking...

Time passed very quickly, and it was already noon in the blink of an eye, and there was still no outline of any ship on the sea. At the same time, it passed very slowly. On this desolate and almost desperate sea, Christopher Menings said over and over again

The sailors were asked to clean the deck, clean the cannons, check the gunpowder, tie the knots and polish the swords, but they were still waiting in a panic, because a full 7 hours had passed. Even if it was crawling, the Spanish galleon should be moving at least
Chapter completed!