0268 BEACON : Temporary mooring wall
"Shut down! Left rudder fifth degree!"
"Cable preparation, anchor preparation!"
"Dooring pilot, berth No. 14 clearance, the bow of the ship is finally corrected!"
"The angle is normal, the speed is normal, cut into the boardwalk, and prepare the boat board!"
"Flagstone, welcome to Free Boston!"
"Enter the port! Get off the anchor!"
As the anchor chains sank underwater, Jackdaw finally ended its long journey of more than ten days without any danger and stopped at Boston's busy East Coast Pier.
Boston is one of the oldest municipalities in North America.
In 1620, the Puritans who crossed the ocean established the first nearby colony, the Plymouth Colony, in the Massachusetts Bay.
Ten years later, in 1630, another group of Puritans boarded the Shawmat Peninsula.
Because of the religious management policies that were completely different from the previous pioneers, they built a new colony in the current North District of Boston, the Massachusetts Bay Colony, which was the predecessor of Boston.
The Massachusetts Bay Colony was built on the Shawmat Peninsula, connected to the mainland through a narrow isthmus, surrounded by the estuary of the Massachusetts Bay, the Back Bay and the Charles River.
Because there are three hills in the center of the jurisdiction, it was first called Sanshan City.
Later, some convincing outstanding figures appeared in the town, and the pioneers formally named the town in Boston, England, according to colonial customs.
The name of Boston was born.
In 1691, the growing Massachusetts Bay Colony merged into the Massachusetts Colony with the earlier Plymouts Colony, becoming one of Great Britain's thirteen colonies in North America. Boston became the capital of the colony and, after the United States' independence, it naturally became the state capital.
This is the holy land of the Puritans.
The original ruler John Winthrop once published a famous sermon here, titled "A Model of Christian Charity", which believed that there was a special contract between Boston and God, and was regarded as a sacred scripture by local Puritans.
They used this sermon to restrain themselves and strive to build a stable and well-structured coastal town, and founded the first public park in the United States, Boston Park, the first public elementary school, Matt School, the first public middle school, Boston Latin School, and the first public university, Harvard University.
The perfect public education system makes this town one of the most core talent export places in America, with active thinking and prosperous literary talent, and a large number of outstanding talents have emerged in all walks of life.
With the feedback from these talents, Boston has also developed rapidly and is now one of the few big cities in North America.
The entire city includes the old North District, which is a center of economic, living and administrative, and is the southern district where the largest and most prosperous trade distribution terminals in central North America are called the East Coast Terminal of the Front Bay by locals; and the American shipbuilding center, which is as famous as Baltimore, and is known as the southern terminal of the Back Bay.
The Jackdaw was docked in the front bay.
The hull stopped and the board was lowered. Lorraine stepped on the flat plank road. From a distance, she saw a tall gentleman walking straight towards him under the escort of more than a dozen soldiers.
"Is it Mr. Edward Kenway, the captain of the Jackdaw?"
Lorraine guessed the identity of the gentleman: "I am Kenway, who are you?"
"Thomas Jefferson." Jefferson gave Lorraine a standard gentlemanly salute with a gloomy face, then raised his head, "Mr. Edward Kenway, America...is guilty of you!"
...
Expected, unexpected.
The so-called prediction refers to the fact that cotton Jack indeed rejected the central reconciliation of the mainland parliament. Not only did he reject all the seemingly sincere terms of peace talks, but he also tattooed his own conditions on the forehead of the sender.
[Let the smuggler put on a woman's clothes and lick my boots clean on both knees]
So the negotiations broke down.
Jack cotton blocked all the passages he had landed in his hometown, and the American elite suffered unbearable great insults. Although Lorraine didn't care, she was still confused for a while and gloomy for a while. Finally, she told Jefferson with kindness.
"Don't care, it's not America's fault."
Human favor get.
From now on, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and the American founding father George Washington who has not seen it yet have become Lorraine's favor debtor.
But the so-called unexpected thing was that Lorraine had never expected that Jefferson would come to the dock to pick up the boat in person.
Is it just a simple guilt?
Or is it that his urgent need for this ship of arms has left him with no time to care about his reserve, and he can't even care about the most basic social distance?
How unstable is Boston?
Lorraine's mind popped up with the Boston situation statement that Adams gave him.
The city was filled with American troops, including civilian troops, continental troops, and a fleet of small sampan ships composed of six ships moored at the mouth of the Charles River.
And what about their opponents?
On land, the Canadian Colonial Army and the New England Colonial Army were eyeing Boston at an angle; on sea, the second formation of the mainland squadron was ready to implement a complete blockade on the coast at any time.
As the core battlefield of the Northern War Zone of the Independence War, the British deployed much stronger in this area than the Americans. The reason why they did not take down this key sea and land hub was just because they did not want to experience another buck Mountain-like tragic victory.
It is unblocked that Boston's peace was maintained by forts blocking the isthmus and the forts that covered the coast.
But if Boston turns against each other, fortresses and forts will become false. The Red Army uniforms will eat the Continental Army garrison stationed in the north of the city overnight, and the powerful second formation will take over the dock without any obstacles, and the American sampans wandering at the mouth of the Charles River have no way to stop them.
If... when the pier fell, the Jackdaw, which was already a little famous, was still full of arms left on the berth...
Lorraine suddenly wanted to leave.
Since the biggest bonus of this transaction has been obtained, this dangerous wall that will collapse at any time is of course the sooner you leave, the better!
Thinking of this, Lorraine smiled more and more friendly.
"Mr. Governor, Cotton Jack is a notorious pirate, and such a man is not worthy of being the center of our topic. We should talk about the distant France, the powerful dynasty is a friend of all justice and justice in the world, and now his kindness is on my ship."
Jefferson was not as happy as Lorraine thought. Although he was also very happy, his expression and tone seemed just right.
"The goodwill in this ship, Mr. Adams, mentioned in my letter, Mr. Kenway, that they have helped us a lot."
"Then let them work quickly." Lorraine bowed, "I asked the port registrant who boarded the ship, and heard that the military port at the mouth of the Charles River does not accept civilian ships to moor, right?"
Jefferson smiled and waved his hand: "You misunderstood, Mr. Kenway. This batch of goods was not prepared for the Continental Army, but was provided to the newly established Puritan escorts, so the delivery location was in the Fore Bay."
"Delivery in the former Bay where fish and dragons are mixed?" Lorraine frowned deeply. "Mr. Governor, I hope you have considered the commotion that may cause when this ship is on the shore. Is it really good to deliver in the former Bay?"
"Don't worry, Mr. Kenway, it's not the first time I've been exposed to this type of delivery." Jefferson patted Lorraine on the arm. "The Puritan Church rented a water warehouse. But because the matter suddenly happened, the cleaning of the warehouse was still in progress. Please wait for two days on the berth with your boat."
"Two days...is it?"
Chapter completed!