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Spanish Colony, Port of Havana. [No pop-up novel website]
When the carriage of the Governor's Palace flew past the villa where the fire occurred a few months ago, Leblanc indifferently opened the curtains, glanced over there, and then closed the curtains again. The ruins had grown over with grass... LeBron guessed something, but never set out to confirm it. He would specifically let the carriage pass by here and take a look, just because Melanie Pizarro's figure always appeared in his dreams recently...
"We are here, sir." The secretary said respectfully outside the door.
Leblanc opened his tired eyes, strode out of the carriage, and climbed up the steps of the Governor's Palace, followed closely by the secretary.
Many people's footsteps tapped on the wooden floor of the corridor. The long line of guards following behind them is gradually decreasing. Every time they pass a guard post, two of them will separate and stand with the original guards with their muskets in hand - strengthening the guard, four people on double posts.
When they reached the governor's office, the secretary came out and stood respectfully by the door. But LeBron walked forward without stopping and disappeared at the other end of the corridor. The remaining guards stood still and completely sealed the corridor leading to that end. After watching LeBron's back disappear, the secretary entered the governor's office with a smile on his face and began to stand at the desk to handle daily affairs on behalf of the governor.
Although he could satisfy the acting governor's addiction, the secretary did not dare to sit on that chair and take a rest even if there was no one in the room.
Because he knew that he was left to handle daily affairs on behalf of the Governor precisely because he had not yet become LeBron's confidant...
When LeBron pushed open the room at the end of the corridor, there was no loud announcement from the attendant, but everyone in the room stood up and saluted.
"There's no need for this," he said, striding to the middle seat. After sitting down, everyone immediately sat down again. Although it is a military habit, most of the people in this group are not wearing military uniforms. In addition to the few people wearing navy uniforms, there were also big men wearing inferior uniforms with machetes hanging on them, who looked more like pirates. Or wear something aristocratic and gorgeous. But with a habitual smile and an attentive leaning forward, this person is more like the owner of a shop... But if you know their names, you won't find it strange.
Helena's father was in charge of the entire Spanish navy in the Caribbean. On the surface, he is LeBron's nemesis, LeBron's biggest "political enemy" all along; Hawk. The former Havana's strongest stormtrooper captain who is idle at home actually controls Havana's city defense army and is also the father of Dragon Dog; there is also the big boss in charge of LeBron's loan sharking network; the leader of the underground black forces in the Northern Caribbean; Deng Dan The story of Pirate Port is about people...
A dozen middle-aged men stood here, all looking at LeBron with burning eyes.
LeBron looked around and felt a little emotional. These people were his real team members for twenty years. Now the day has finally come when the cards are about to turn over!
"Let's start!" He gestured briefly. "The plan has to be done step by step. Let's start with the treasure fleet."
The second son of a naval commander. Helena's brother, McLaren, stepped out from behind the curtain.
Even though he was only wearing the most ordinary uniform, he looked very presentable as soon as he stood there, facing a bunch of old guys without any stage fright.
LeBron felt a little emotional that all the children from his old friend's family had become like this. There was the now-famous Dragon Dog in front of him, and there was this McLaren that he was originally not optimistic about.
After losing the Port of Trinidad, this kid sneaked out for a spin. When I came back, my whole person felt like a completely different person. McLaren first went to the military judge to receive twenty lashes, and then submitted a 100,000-word "Naval Reform Draft" to his father, the Navy Commander. Although the Navy Commander scolded him on the spot and dismissed what he wrote as worthless. But then the old guy took the "Naval Reform Draft" to show off to a few old friends and praised McLaren to no end.
So McLaren became one of his own secretaries. However, he doesn't know much about this young man's abilities. McLaren is responsible for explaining these days. It can only be regarded as quite satisfactory, and it did not bring any surprises to LeBron.
“Let’s talk about the situation of the Treasure Fleet first,” LeBlanc said. He doesn't understand the specific naval battle command, but he can understand the overall strategic situation. There are many experts in specific naval battle command here.
Wait until a dozen people are sitting upright. McLaren pulled back the curtain to reveal a picture of the Caribbean Sea that took up an entire wall. There are two blue lines marked on the chart, marking the treasure fleets in the north and south. There are also lines in seven or eight colors, representing the Spanish navy, friendly forces, enemy forces, etc. For this battle, LeBlanc assigned magicians to both the northern and southern fleets to be responsible for communications. So what is displayed on the panel now is the latest situation as of yesterday.
Just like what it did a few days ago, McLaren did not show off his eloquence here, but just quickly displayed the latest information received one by one, so that everyone can clearly see the latest changes.
"Ferdinando is also a mediocre person." After seeing the movement of the southern fleet, the naval commander first commented, and then pointed to the changes in the British fleet and said, "The British are too cunning. They still have three hours at most. You just have to dive into other people’s pockets.”
"What's going on with that pirate ship?" Seeing that McLaren actually added a black ship shape behind the southern fleet, a group of people suddenly became interested.
"Oh..." McLaren glanced at the information in his hand and replied. "It's the British legendary battleship 'Barbados' in disguise. It has been tracking and harassing the Southern Fleet. I speculate that they still have some preparation work that has not been completed and may need more time."
"'Barbados'..." LeBron frowned. He knew the name of this ship because it was related to the next mission. In theory, it shouldn't be anywhere. "What is the goal of the British and French forces?"
"The primary goal should be to force the fleet to surrender. Britain needs a lot of military spending to develop its navy." McLaren arranged the form of the British and French fleets. It can be seen that the British fleet is hidden on the Dundan Pirate Island, while the French fleet is heading south. Turning back midway, the southern treasure fleet was sandwiched between the south and the north. However, judging from the performance of everyone here, it is obvious that they have expected this and do not care about it.
"The secondary goal is to force the fleet to enter the port in Belize. In order to prevent Ferdinando from scuttling the treasure ship when he is desperate, if the emergency landing fails, they will choose to force Ferdinando into the port. Belize's defense strength is very average. , they can easily capture it.”
"Karkaz, the commander of the fleet on the northern front, and Ferdinando, the commander of the fleet on the southern front, are not our people..." Helena's father spoke. As the second person, when he spoke, everyone stopped. Make the move in your hand. "We need to show support, but their life and death has nothing to do with us. Our goal is..." He took out a gold coin and slapped it on the table, "Keep the gold in the Caribbean!"
LeBron nodded, agreeing with this statement. Today, he is finally determined to part ways with Spain and build a better country in the Caribbean. So, it is obviously not his choice to let the Western Emperor plunder the Caribbean Sea and let the Caribbean region's economy be depressed for another twenty years... Of course, before that, all the trash fish in the Caribbean Sea must be cleared out!
Now that they had the idea of leaving gold in the Caribbean, everyone began to come up with their own plans. The difficulty here is to pin the blame for the missing gold on the British and French, but not to let the country see that they deliberately condoned it... In order to buy more time, necessary rescue is still needed. Of course, if it fails in the end, then the gold would rather be shipped back to the country than handed over to the British. This is the bottom line! In the eyes of these people, the British were much more terrifying than the decadent Spanish royal family.
They cannot clearly separate from the Spanish mainland for the time being, and they must delay as much time as possible, otherwise there will be no need for a plan - as long as the gold is shipped to Havana, isn't it all LeBron's final decision? !
Some people proposed to set up an ambush overseas in Belize, and some people proposed to have an oriole behind the British and French coalition forces... However, these plans all have a problem, some have too many steps, some are simple and crude, and have high operability, but not Just what LeBron wants.
LeBron frowned as he listened, feeling increasingly impatient. He even felt a little sad, because even these close men were only at the level of grabbing gold to make a fortune, and did not really understand LeBron's ideals... all they thought about was how to get ahead of the British and French. How to get the gold, how to hide it, etc.
Their eyes are now fixed on the gold worth tens of billions of pesos, and they can't see anything else.
After everyone has money, the next step is to build a larger fleet, and then plan for the independence of the Caribbean colonies... For hundreds of years, everyone who wants to achieve independence has done this.
But what they can't understand is that LeBron doesn't just want gold, that piece of metal means nothing to him! What he wants is that everyone in the Caribbean knows that he has gold! Only in this way can he maintain the financial system he has been promoting! This system will run on its own for a few more years before it enters the stage of self-improvement - by then, it won't even matter whether there is gold or not! When the entire finance changes from a gold system to a credit system, this is his ideal.
