The first mate's estimate was not wrong, and the ship did arrive in Port Royal later in the afternoon.
However, the weather does not seem to be very good. It is raining lightly in Port Royal, which makes the gentleman a little worried whether the wedding of Governor Swann's daughter can be held as scheduled.
However, when he stepped onto the deck and looked towards Port Royal, he unexpectedly found several warships moored in the port.
"What's going on? Why are there so many warships parked in Port Royal?" The captain also appeared on the deck at this time, raising his binoculars and looking at Port Royal.
When he saw clearly the flags hanging on the warships through the telescope, his expression suddenly changed.
"Captain?" The first mate noticed the captain's face and quickly looked at him with concern.
"Damn it, it's the East India Company!" The captain looked at the first mate worriedly and said to him worriedly: "The East India Company has expanded rapidly in the past few years. I didn't expect that they would extend their tentacles to the new world.
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When the first mate heard that it was the East India Company, the expression on his face became ugly. They had traveled to India before, but the ports controlled by the East India Company levied quite high taxes and other various measures on all ships that were not owned by the company.
This expense led them to hand over almost 90% of their profits to the East India Company.
It is precisely because of this that the shipowner changed the business scope of this ship from Indian routes to the New World.
However, they did not expect that the East India Company would also have power even in the New World, which made the captain and first mate worried about their own money bags.
The gentlemen on the side didn't feel much about this. Hearing them talk about the East India Company, they couldn't help but share some news from London's upper class: "I heard that His Majesty the King is worried that the colonial war between our country and France will lead to
The country was in financial difficulty, so the East India Company was promised to extend their trading license until 1783, and in exchange the East India Company needed to borrow another million pounds from the government."
"One million pounds? How much is that..." The first mate was obviously shocked by such a huge sum of money.
Compared with the first mate, the captain obviously understands the concept of one million pounds better. According to the current standards of the British seven-tier battleships, although the first-tier battleships are expensive to build, they are heavy and slow, and the lower gun ports are in trouble.
It cannot be opened at any time, has little space for loading supplies, and can only be sailed in the summer.
However, the largest warship in a country is regarded as a symbol of national power, so a small number are still retained as flagships.
Its cost is one hundred thousand pounds a piece, and there are currently less than ten first-class battleships in active service in the entire British Royal Navy.
As for the cheaper fourth-level battleship, the cost is only 26,000 pounds, and the two-masted armed merchant ship under the captain's feet only costs 3,000 pounds.
One million pounds, that's enough money to build a fleet.
Although the captain and first mate were worried that the East India Company would impose heavy taxes on their ship, the ship slowly sailed into Port Royal and parked in the harbor.
Their ship is a relatively large commercial ship with a relatively deep draft, so it only anchors in the waters of the port instead of driving to the pier and parking at the berth.
For this reason, the gentleman and his daughter had to take a boat if they wanted to enter Port Royal.
Sitting on the rickety boat, the gentleman hugged his daughter. Although he knew that this was an inevitable and necessary process, he still criticized the inconvenience of the boat.
While the gentleman was hugging his daughter, the little girl noticed that a ship moored in the harbor looked particularly different.
Although all the sails of the ship were stowed, the little girl still noticed that the sails of the ship were dark red, and the hull of the ship was very long, and the bow was different from other ships.
It looks very sharp, like a pair of open scissors.
Just as the little girl was about to tell her father about her discovery, there was a shock. The boat had arrived at the pier of the pier. The gentleman climbed aboard and then took the little girl's hand and pulled her aboard.
As a gentleman, he naturally brought his entourage with him. When the group of people gathered, the gentleman covered his daughter with his coat and led her towards the outside of the pier.
According to the gentleman's plan, he should hire a carriage outside the dock, and then take them to the Governor's Palace in a comfortable and worthy carriage, and then attend the wedding of Governor Swann's daughter.
In this gentleman's view, since Governor Swann has invited friends from as far away as London to attend his daughter's wedding, it will naturally fill Port Royal with a festive atmosphere. Even if it rains, Port Royal should still be lively and lively.
Festive.
However, there were no carriages outside the pier, and contrary to the gentleman's expectations, the entire Port Royal seemed very depressed and deserted.
This made the gentleman have some bad thoughts. While he hurriedly asked his entourage to find the carriage, he couldn't help but feel worried.
At this time, in the Governor's Mansion in Port Royal, William Turner, who was supposed to marry Governor Swann's daughter today, was being escorted into the Governor's office with shackles on his hands.
This is of course not because Governor Swan was reluctant to marry his daughter and wanted to regret the marriage, so he sent people to arrest his son-in-law. It was because William Turner and his fiancée Elizabeth Swan were both imprisoned at this moment and sentenced to hanging.
"Conspiracy to release criminals convicted of treason and sentenced to death."
The person who ordered their capture was not Visby Swann, the governor of Port Royal, but Lord Becket, the person in charge of the East India Company's operation.
"Mr. William, do you want to be free again?" Lord Beckett poured a glass of wine for William Turner and asked him politely, but Lord Beckett's blood-red eyes gave people
There is a sense of madness lurking beneath the calm.
William Turner did not accept the glass of wine offered by Lord Becket, even though the shackles had been removed from his hands.
He looked carefully at the office that was supposed to belong to his father-in-law. At this time, in addition to him and Lord Beckett, there were several guards and a painter who was drawing a map on the wall, as well as a man with his back to them.
, a man wearing a three-cornered hat sitting on a balcony chair.
Noticing that William Turner did not respond to him, Lord Beckett was not angry and drank the wine in the cup. Then he continued: "The East India Trading Company intends to cooperate with our common friend Jack Sparrow.
Make a deal and you will become an agent for the East India Trading Company.
As long as you can help us retrieve a treasure from Jack Sparrow, we can provide him with a privateering license and a pardon for you and Miss Elizabeth Swann."
