"This island is called Waijust, located at the mouth of the Eastern Gulf of Massachusetts Bay. It is the outermost island on the Just Islands. The private territory of the Morgan family in Boston, where the sheltered villa is located."

"In 1688, after the death of Pirate Emperor Henry Morgan, the second generation of Morgan moved to Boston and bought the island. Legend has it that he provided services to the pirates through the secret dock on the island, while receiving top stolen goods and making profits by reselling."

"But this statement has never been confirmed. The Morgan Family Travel industry is well documented. Although it is not as rich as your Drake Chamber, it also has annual profits of more than one hundred thousand pounds."

"Houwan Shipyard is the core of the industry of the Morgan family, with an annual output value of more than 400,000 pounds, and its net profit in the past three years has also been more than 50,000 pounds."

Leshid's introduction ended here, and Cron stumbled in a rare way.

"Is the output value of 400,000 and the net profit of 50,000 pounds a little low for an old shipyard that mainly supplies ship materials by its own forest farm?"

Leshid glared at him angrily: "Before 1783, Boston's average profit exceeded 30%. If you are so familiar with your business rivals, don't you know why their profit margins are falling?"

"Uh...is it because of us?"

"It's the Maritime Group." Leshid breathed a sigh of relief. "Since the Maritime Group launched the Clippers above the 13th Festival, the shipbuilding industry in Houwan and the entire New World have been impacted."

"They can do two things. The first is to increase investment in design and launch high-speed ship types that can compete with you; the second is to reduce the price of shipbuilding. Even if the new ship type cannot surpass you in data, it must surpass you in cost-effectiveness."

Lorraine rolled her eyes straight after hearing this.

"Please organize your wording before speaking. We are not disturbing the shipping market."

"After all, the core business of the Drake Chamber of Commerce is marine trade. We have never lowered the ship price. Even new ship types that have passed the sea trial will be given priority to preheating at Baishang Cooperative, because freight dividends are what I like."

"I know, I know, the shipbuilding industry in the New World is no match for you at all. Thank you for leaving them room for survival." Leshid impatiently poked the chart, "Back to the point, the focus today is on sheltering villas."

"Like you, the Morgan family was able to rule Houwan because of the shipyard. Their ancestors were role models for the illegal people, and as descendants, their wealth and honor were not clean."

"In 1714, the third generation of Morgan built a sheltered villa in Outer Just. At the ceremony of the manor's completion, he successfully organized a high-standard underground auction."

"The auction sold a total of 16 items, with a transaction amount of 1.02 million pounds. Morgan took 10%, and made a full 100,000 pounds in just one day. Three years later, in 1717, the third generation of Morgan, who tasted the sweetness, organized the second auction, with 22 items sold and a transaction amount of 1.27 million."

"After that time, the Shelter Villa Auction became the core industry of the Morgan family, held every three years, and only twenty-four invitations were distributed at a time. With the reputation of the Morgan family and the unique structure of the Shelter Villa, the identity of the buyer and seller was most properly protected, and there was never a precedent for leaks."

Lorraine unexpectedly raised her eyelids: "Never?"

“Never.”

"That is, everything can be sold there and everything can be bought from there, right?"

"Yes." Leshide Zheng pointed, "The world's highest-standard and most secret underground auction, the Shelter Villa Auction, where we are going, this year is the 25th, and it will be held on July 20."

"July 20th..." Lorraine pondered for a moment, "Are there 35 days left, have you received the invitation?"

"What a joke! Didn't your brother say that it's your job to bring me into the venue."

“Not even an invitation letter?”

"There are only 24 pictures in total." Leshid stretched out his hands and opened them in front of Lorraine. "Do you think it's possible for a low-key tutor to get that kind of thing?"

"Low-key...family...teacher..."

Leshid proudly raised his chest, and this action made Katerina and Yacharin at the chart lit up at the same time.

Yacharin was just about to ask a question, but after half a year, Bell, who entered the decision-making circle again, suddenly said: "I can't understand what kind of items are there in this underground auction that will attract the attention of the Navy headquarters. Is it a legendary evidence of the overlord who can dominate the seven seas by offering them? Or a nautical chart leading to the Great Western Continent?"

"It's the design drawing." Lesheed looked at Lorraine, and he didn't whisper until Lorraine nodded, "The complete design drawing of the standard 1770 French third-class battleship, the French Navy's active main battleship, the Navy Department received news that it will definitely appear in this year's lot catalog."

Flat ground...thunder!

If the most core secret of a warship is, it must be her complete design drawing.

Unlike ordinary shipbuilding design drawings, complete design drawings include first drafts, revisions, fluids, sailing and balance tests, designer manuscripts and possibly several internal sea trial reports.

These things are real treasures. In the hands of high-level designers, they can easily restore the design ideas of a ship or even a type of ship to figure out the value and function of each component on a ship.

In particular, the Furious is a standard 1770 French warship.

As the world's best third-class battleship design, the standard 1770 French is the parent of all mainstream maritime power third-class battleships.

Almost all new third-class battleships were designed based on it, but because no complete design drawing has been leaked so far, the stealing troops from various countries are still stuck in the salvage of sinking ships and the analysis of captive ships, and lack key design ideas. Therefore, French ships are still unique in the performance of the final ship.

The value of this design drawing will never be lower than any French national treasure in today's world. To be more precise, it is one of the national treasures and deserves it!

Bell opened his mouth in shock: "The complete design...how is it possible that the French are crazy?"

"It's probably crazy, poor." Lorraine shrugged helplessly after learning the details two hours earlier than his crew. "In the War of Independence, or North American riots, France supported the American Revolution, including sending troops and smuggling."

"France has undertaken the offense and defense of most of the land fronts and almost all of the sea fronts. It has paid a huge price in five years, but has not demanded corresponding returns."

"They are selfless because the Americans can't afford it and the British don't want to give it."

"His Majesty Louis, who is fraternal, has probably considered the profits of smuggling, but what he could not have imagined was that most of the profits on this line were divided up by the powerful and powerful, and the treasury was not enough to make ends meet. France's financial difficulties were greater than those of Britain and the United States.

"After the war, the wise Queen Mary believed that peace had come. Compared to protecting the expenses of the corrupt army, she hoped to use limited finances on the blade, such as the gorgeous palaces, her jewelry and the locks that His Majesty Louis loved."

"France's military expenditure was heavily misappropriated, and the situation in the navy and the army was similar. But the queen did one less thing. She was too kind to be unwilling to disarmament."

"In short, the extra army needs to support itself with limited military expenditure, and all kinds of strange things will happen. These things include not limited to charging special taxes at the base, proactively seeking sponsorship from local chaebols, loss of expensive weapons during low-intensity training, and unexplained base fires."

"Three months ago, an accidental fire broke out at Cherbourg Naval Base, killing 7 people, injuring 62 people and missing 3 people. The fire spread to the base archives room, and a small number of confidential files were burned, including the design drawings of the Furious."

"One and a half months ago, it was reported that a genius painter painted the burnt design while sleepwalking and decided to auction it in the Shelter Villa."

"The above is all the news received by the Admiralty." Lorraine dragged a long voice, "I heard that our intelligence officer had the honor to see some sleepwalking manuscripts of the painter. He commented that the dream was done very well, the painter's drawing level was comparable to that of a professional designer, and he also thoughtfully used the painting paper. It looked like it had been sealed in the archives for several years, and it was very valuable for collection."

Bell opened his mouth wide: "Why is the painter's level so high?"

"Who said no..." Lorraine pursed, "It would be a pity to dream of design drawings at such a high level. It would be great if she dreamed of Mona Lisa..."
Chapter completed!