Reborn As a Pirate

On July 7, 1788, Lorraine had returned to Miami.

Just after afternoon tea, he drove around a village in a carriage and stopped at Daniel's Solander Village.

Solander Manor is very different from other manors. There are no leisure and entertainment facilities such as gardening, horse farms, lake tours, and churches.

There is a hospital here, a real hospital, which treats trauma. It is larger than the two largest hospitals in downtown Miami combined. It can treat up to 57 people. Most of the time, the bed occupancy rate exceeds 50%.

There is a mass hall here. The mass hall is a church facility that is much rarer than a chapel. The priest will come here only when there is a dead person in the hospital.

There is a slaughterhouse here, because the first aid course at the University of Miami does not provide practical operations and dissections, Daniel often brings his students here to teach them don't be afraid of blood and screams in the way of horror movies.

There is also a Palace of Wisdom, which is the main building of the entire Soland Manor, including the medicine field, the alchemy experiment hall, the astronomical observation hall and the library.

When he was not at sea, Solander lived in the library and the study of the alchemy laboratory at random most of the time, but Lorraine's purpose today was not there, but in the hemispherical astronomical observatory located on the high ground.

Back in 1779, Lorraine obtained a large amount of authoritative Fountain of Youth information through the aborted sea-seeking operation, and Daniel was able to start his research on the Pirate King's token at the Jackdaw Manor on Little Cayman Island.

Legend has it that Henry Morgan buried his treasure worth millions of pounds in the Fountain of Youth, and drew the direction of the Fountain of Youth on parchment, dividing it into 22 parts.

21 copies correspond to the seven pirate kings, and the last and most core one is kept in the Morgan family, waiting for the appearance of the second emperor who unifies the seven kings.

However, no one knows whether this legend is true or not.

Because even Pavlomy, the most successful pirate after Morgan, who is now referred to as the Black Baron Pavlomy I, has only 18 tokens collected, and there is no information to suspect that he is related to the Fountain of Youth.

Now Lorraine also has 18 tokens.

Closer to home, when Daniel started the token research work, Lorraine had only 5 leftover pictures, and only 2 of them were connected, and the rest were scattered and independent pieces.

In order to cooperate with Daniel's research, Lorraine invited three master cartographers from the Netherlands to conduct research on those fragmented maps at his own expense.

The result is very strange. Judging from the visible points, lines and graphics, the chart left by Henry Morgan is the closest to the sea chart, but there is no piece of sea area data that can correspond to it one-to-one.

Lorraine and others suspected that the generational difference in cartographic level caused the large deformation of the scattered charts.

This situation was very common between 1650 and 1750. The famous Pos de Calais in the history of cartography has receded by nearly 70 kilometers in a century. There is actually no change in geography, and only the surveying and mapping technology has been upgraded.

Only Daniel disagreed.

He believes that these chaotic points, lines, and planes are a kind of multi-image encryption method that confuses the public.

There may be several pictures on the Pirate King's token at the same time. They may all be true, or only one is true. The real picture points to the direction of the Fountain of Youth, while the fake pictures are all graffiti and misleading.

Considering that Henry Morgan did not receive higher education in his life, even after being rich, it was still difficult to get in touch with the top experts and scholars at that time. Daniel believes that the elements that make up the final picture...those real pictures and fake pictures should not be deceptive .

Because map deception is an extremely advanced craft, as a bachelor of the Royal Society of Alchemy and the highest-ranking elite in the entire Drake Chamber of Commerce in the scientific community, he has enough qualifications to say this.

Scientists are activists.

Daniel acted, carried Lorraine behind his back, and decomposed the points, lines, and planes on the nautical chart in a way of permutation and combination. Finally, in 1780, he found two images that were similar to the real starry sky in the broken layer that only adopted points. , Constellations whose real location similarity exceeds 80%.

The secret of Morgan's treasure has been revealed at this point, and they have two options: A, a severely deformed sea chart; B, a star map from a hundred years ago.

Since then, the Drake Chamber of Commerce has set up a special fund to support astronomers in the New World. Including David Rittenhouse, Drake has funded 16 astronomers affiliated to the Philosophical Society in the past 8 years. Spending more than 5,000 pounds, 5 of them obtained notable research results, and 3 became professors of astronomy and navigation at the University of Miami.

David Rittenhouse is one of the three, and the most accomplished of them all.

This kind of investment is inherently inefficient, the number of tokens is too small, and there are too many blanks in the map. The research on Morgan's treasure has been deadlocked for a long time. Until 1786, Lorraine got the tokens of the Black Prince in Grand Bahama one after another. , and collected another 7 in Outer Rust.

The number of tokens he possessed suddenly reached 15, which allowed him to lock 9 constellations and 17 high-brightness stars, and officially ruled out the option of charts.

Everything is progressing smoothly, and solving Henry Morgan's puzzle seems to be a certainty, and it can be achieved at any time.

Thinking of this, Lorraine pushed open the door of Tianmen Hall.

There are a total of 6 white coats in the planetarium, which are scattered around the three-meter-long large telescope. The museum is filled with dense bookshelves and display panels. , a super large star map with a length and width of two meters.

This is a 100% restored and enlarged version of the star map layer in the Pirate King's keepsake. The stars and constellations that have been locked in recent years have been specially marked with special colors for comparison with other star positions.

Lorraine saw David Rittenhouse, arguing with Daniel about something.

Lorraine walked over curiously, looked at it for a long time, listened to it for a while, and finally couldn't help but said: Dear Professor Rittenhouse, I thought you had gone to New York.

Only then did Rittenhouse realize that Lorraine was standing behind him, and he shrugged helplessly: It's my job to decipher Blackbeard's token, Mr. Chairman, not the New York Mint Commission.

Lorraine rolled his eyes: I hope you haven't forgotten that you will become the first director of the United States Mint. In the Mint Committee, the director is generally regarded as the second person.

Who cares what number it is! Rittenhouse grinned his big yellow teeth. Currency issuance is an economic issue, and minting is a technical issue. I am only responsible for technical issues. As for economics... obviously every gentleman there They are much more professional than me.”

However, the most important reason why you were selected was your unprofessionalism. Lorraine couldn't help but laugh, Professor, when you take office, including becoming the president of the bank in the future, you will find that your colleagues will often quarrel.

Arguing? Like me and Professor Solander?

Just like you and Daniel, quarreling. Lorraine nodded, Remember, you don't need to express your position in a hurry. When the quarrel is over, they will come to lobby you, and you only need to make a decision based on your first impression of likes and dislikes Whoever you help, you will become a competent bureau chief and governor.

Rittenhouse raised his eyebrows in different places: You said that you want me to stand in line with my heart, not Mr. Chuck Parker?

You need to be neutral. Lorraine replied seriously, The more neutral you are, the more secure our money will be. Never forget that you are free, and no one, including Chuck, can order you.

Aha...I'm suddenly looking forward to New York.

I promise, she is worthy of your expectation.

Lorraine clapped her hands.

Okay, Daniel, and professors, let me hear what you have learned, and see what discoveries the 18 tokens have brought us. It is worth asking Professor Rittenhouse to release the pigeons of the United States...