Watching the Dawn

In the cold night, Lu Yuan sat at the table on the first floor, drinking wine.

I do n’t know why. Recently I ’m fascinated by the taste of rum, maybe I really want to be a pirate. The rum smells in my blood! Hahaha! Just like this ...

On the table in front of him, there was a golden stone step worth 200,000 pesos that was the last loot! Lu Yuan labored to turn it, and the pressed table squeaked creakyly. Lu Yuan raised his head and confirmed that he had not woken up the two girls in the attic before observing.

The girls played all day, and at night they were finally tired. It was fun to climb up to Lu Yuan ’s attic together and even hear the subtle snoring. Lu Yuan once went up to see that gems and coins were everywhere, and then the two young girls who slept in between were obviously not dragons and could not feel comfortable at all. Each one was frowned, but he didn't want to open his eyes. Lu Yuan had no choice but to cast the "Mage's Hand", put them all together, and then covered them with quilts before coming down.

As for what I have seen before covering the quilt, this cannot be said, it is nothing more than pink, pink and pink. So Lu Yuan needs to drink rum to press it. Oh, I need another bottle!

After taking a bottle and blowing it, Lu Yuan focused his attention on the "stone strip" again. This piece of gold has a surname. Lu Yuan always felt that there was a big secret hidden on it, but ... he couldn't figure it out now.

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"Ballast Stone"

After Francisco Pizarro obtained the gold from the Inca Empire, for the convenience of carrying, he melted the gold products and made them into "ballast stones". The Spanish robbers knocked off the white crystals on the art treasures, pulled off the inlaid turquoise, and then threw the remaining gold into the furnace ... Countless Inca-era art works were destroyed!

The words "f. Pizarro, Conqueror of the Inca Empire" were clearly cast on the back of the ballast stone.

Each piece weighs about 150 kg)

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As Lu Yuan and everyone guessed, gold weighing hundreds of tons is not so easy to transport! Especially, Pizarro and the 160-plus people he led were almost dead. But looking at the name of this piece of gold, "ballast stone", you should know that Pizarro must have planned to ship back from South America to Europe, or at least back to the Caribbean. It is a good idea to transport gold as a "ballast stone", which looks unremarkable and guarantees the safety of navigation.

And since this piece of gold appears in Havana, it means that at least part of the gold was shipped out. This piece should be the remaining piece of gold in the carriage that Melanie came to the Governor's Palace. According to the Governor ’s habit of keeping souvenirs, this is the souvenir of that time, which was solemnly regarded as the first step, which is really meaningful!

Lu Yuan whirled a bit of gold stone, and the palm of his hand was covered with green rust, which looked very disgusting ... He went to fetch the clear water several times and couldn't clean it, but he could only perform another "magic trick". Remove rust. Perhaps it was his recent work (act) as (out) that satisfied the main god, and he responded without delay with a "zero point deduction".

Alas, the gold refining level of the Inca Empire is not high, and Pizarro was very urgent when it was smelting, mixing in a lot of impurities. Therefore, the purity of this gold stone is about 85% -95%. After so many years of oxidation, the surface is completely covered by rust!

Thinking of the rust like Xiang, Lu Yuan wiped his hands nervously. He always felt that he had encountered a similar situation before ... but he couldn't remember it at all! Even the deputy brain is not recorded.

What could it be?

Fuck fuck

The next day, when Lu Yuan tried it on in the tailor shop, and then spent hundreds of pesos to customize several sets of clothes. The sound of whistle in the street, the running of guards, the escape of hawkers, the hustle and bustle of sailors, a bustling scene.

It really is as Lu Yuan thought.

It seems that the "Qianlong" also continued to implement his plan-in order to seize the vaults of Havana, they threw everything they took from the treasure trove everywhere, and every black market was busy recycling the property of the Governor ’s Mansion, Countless gangsters, gold fingers and beggars were arrested, but unfortunately their sources were all picked up, but some had passed through many times without knowing it, so many organizations were involved to let the situation More and more confusing ...

The treasure house of the Governor ’s Mansion was opened, and the wife of the Governor ’s wife died. At least for Governor LeBron, he regarded the two as one. For both the wife of the Governor and the shield in the treasure trove meant "Pizarro's gold" to him, but both of them were lost at the most crucial time!

Therefore, under desperate circumstances, despite knowing that hope is slim, LeBron still hopes that the golden shield will appear in the pile of garbage in front of him, which is hard to collect! Unfortunately, the thief clearly knew the value of the gold shield, and he didn't even see a dross. The "ballast stone of Pizarro" was nowhere to be seen, and the thieves did not mean to use the flowers.

"William, do me a favor." Governor LeBron said, rubbing his forehead in pain.

"Please tell me, sir." William, the loyal butler, bowed back behind him.

"Find a channel and spread two news! The first one, we found a huge open-pit gold mine in Brazil! The deposit is on the edge of the Amazon River. Although there are tropical forests everywhere, it is difficult to mine. The river has already done this for us! You can easily pick up pieces of dog head gold there!

Remember to pick a dangerous place and send a team to arrange it.

The second ... Governor LeBron intends to share his loan shark business ... Only accept a certain range of shares, the earnings per share is not less than 50%, the more you invest, the higher the rate of return ... Of course, this news, any People ask you, all are negative. Only select those who have a lot of money, but have no background to meet me. "

(Fake news listing and high interest rate storage are both ways to cheat money on a large scale, everyone understands, I will order it. Don't write it down.)

"Yes, sir, I will arrange it as soon as possible."

"Bring the First Fleet back quietly ... I must keep the bottom line! No matter what Morgan wants to do, I have no way out!"

Fuck fuck

It's still the noisy "Black Sail" bar.

Dressed very beautifully, even some fancy Lu Yuan pushed the door and walked in. As soon as he entered, he stood at the door and shouted loudly: "Ladies! Gentlemen! The heads of Lei Di I! Remember me !? I am Lu! My brother-in-law is looking for me! I am rich now La!"

The tavern was quiet for a little while, and then most people recognized the **** from Portugal, so they made a loud noise.

Some shouted, "Welcome! Please! Drink the best wine to celebrate!"

Some stretched out his greasy hands to touch his clothes, "I hate this dress, I must grab it! Or I can't sleep ..."

Also greet his brother-in-law, "He got up from his belly?"

Because of Lu Yuan's bragging and generosity in the past, everyone here knows that he has a big businessman as his brother-in-law!

Even though Lu Yuan came in wearing a beautiful dress, but he is as heroic as ever, he sits on the table and chairs with the light, and invites everyone to drink good wine, eat barbecue, and do n’t care about drinking with the sailor in a cup, Still squeeze the female hand. This has won more favors than before. After all, money disappears and many people have met such friends.

Then he also showed blackmail as in the past. Lu Yuan took the opportunity of drinking wine to discuss the first big business-he bought 3,000 barrels of good rum for 12 pesos per barrel! Be aware that even though Havana is one of the main rum producers, good rum is still very expensive.

The price that Lu Yuan got was not too high, even if he increased the price by 10% and sold it directly in Havana, it was no problem. This is the return of his long-term connections.

Then he found Mike, the captain of a seaboat who was also a wine friend, and a guy who always ran some strange routes (that is, he was involved with pirates and often went to and from pirate ports not marked on the map). A transportation agreement between Trinidad and Port-au-Prince.

Three thousand barrels of rum is about 330 tons, only about 17 tons, and the captain has a fast rag schooner with a cargo capacity of more than 800 dan, removing the water, food and ballast that he needs to load. In addition, more than enough to undertake this business. However, the ship was loaded with some canvases and planks for ship repair, and the load was almost the same. It might not even be able to carry its 12-pound guns.

And Lu Yuan especially emphasized that he chose Mike ’s ship because he had a big and clean captain ’s room that he had been bragging about. The main purpose of this trip to Trinidad was to transport two noble girls And then have a relationship with the mayor of Trinidad!

Moreover, he also flaunted that he would receive a thousand barrels of Cuban specialty tobacco as a "gift" in Trinidad, this is the nobility! The drunkards sighed with emotion, but did not feel there was anything unfair.

If the nobility is as hard as a businessman to do business, that seems to be the biggest unfairness ...

Fucking **** *

"Have you heard? There is a Portuguese fool ~ www.readwn.com ~ Actually want to ship those three thousand barrels of good rum to the sea! Hahaha, I laughed to death. This batch of wine is everyone It ’s been a while since I stared at it, and the guy probably did n’t think of a way to ship it out, so he shot it at a low price. It ’s a good luck, I met an injustice! ”

"Of course I heard, the news spread all over the port area! Alas, and it was Mike's ship ..."

"Also! That fool will go to Trinidad to receive a thousand barrels of the best tobacco!"

"Rice! There's a good show now! The folks at sea love these things, and those guys will be crazy!" (To be continued.)