The visual impact brought by piles of gold bars piled together is quite strong.
Except for those who were responsible for moving the gold, Zhang Heng gathered the rest of the people together and distributed weapons to maintain order at the pier to prevent accidents from happening.
However, with the matter of the Skeleton, everyone on the island now knows that the people of the Jackdaw are not easy to mess with, but no one is dazzled by the bright gold.
Zhang Heng sent someone to inform the businesswoman Karina, and asked her to vacate a warehouse to temporarily store gold. This time, the harvest was too much. If all of them were distributed to the crew, security would become a big problem. Although no one on the island dares to embarrass the people of the Jackdaw on the surface, thieves and thieves behind the scenes can't wait.
In addition, Zhang Heng was reminded of the fact that a crew member lost 20 gold coins overnight in a casino. What to do, but also consider the possibility that the crew of the Jackdaw will be targeted by distributing so much money at once.
So he plans to send a part first, and keep the remaining part in a unified way to create an account book, and those who need it can withdraw it at any time.
After a while, Karina also led people to the pier, but Zhang Heng noticed that her face was a bit ugly, but the two of them couldn't say anything in front of outsiders.
After returning to the warehouse and seeing crates of gold being transported in, Zhang Heng and the businesswoman found a secluded place and asked, "How about it, are you okay with me while I'm not on the island? "
The smile on the latter's face was a bit forced, "The situation...is not very good."
"Um?"
Things have to go back to two months ago, when Zhang Heng left Nassau, because of the Skull, finally broke Karina's long-standing stalemate, with the unstoppable rise of the Jackdaw, Second-hand goods trading offices are also gradually gaining a foothold on the island.
Not only did the captain who had worked with Karina in private find her back, but finally some ships other than the Jackdaw broke away from the Black Merchant Alliance and publicly expressed their willingness to establish a long-term and stable cooperative relationship with Karina.
This is undoubtedly a powerful blow to Malcolm who wants to completely monopolize the black market transactions in Nassau, and this is just the beginning, and then more and more people expressed their intention to cooperate with Karina.
This was like rain from heaven to Karina, who had been blocked by the Black Merchants Alliance. Seeing the hope of defeating Malcolm and the Black Merchants Alliance led by him, the businesswoman signed a cooperation agreement with those pirate ships almost without thinking.
In order to be able to eat so much market share, Karina added another transport ship on the basis of the original two transport ships, and also recruited more manpower. For this reason, she almost lost the previous few times. All the profits are put into it.
However, what happened afterwards was completely out of her control.
Karina’s biggest problem is that she has no real experience as a black market merchant. When she went to the island to catch up with the changes, the Black Merchants Alliance was about to be established, because her father’s partners before being imprisoned had been divided up by others. , until he found the Jackdaw, and Zhang Heng agreed to cooperate with her, which allowed her to survive in Nassau, but she has been facing pressure from the Black Merchants Alliance since then.
Therefore, Karina, unlike other black market merchants on the island, has never cooperated with ships other than the Jackdaw. It's a one-shot deal, but the actual cooperation is much more complicated than this.
Although Karina is indeed very talented in business, she also needs to learn and accumulate in unfamiliar fields. Without the pressure brought by Malcolm, she would have enough time to grow, but now she is like A potato seedling must use all its strength to push away the stones on its head.
On the other hand, the influence of Ma Long's betrayal also began to ferment gradually. The latter was the most trusted person around his father and the person who was most familiar with the entire process of her father's previous business.
Losing his guidance and being in a confrontation with other businessmen, Karina could only rely on herself to explore. Only then did she discover that there were many more problems than she had imagined.
For example, the purchase price discussed before was to add half of the price on the basis of the black merchant alliance. A batch of high-quality goods, according to the new pricing standard, what they got was not as much as the other pirate ship that also cooperated with Karina.
So this caused dissatisfaction among some people, and it happened that Karina was negotiating with other pirate captains at the time, because she was worried that it might bring adverse effects, Karina finally unified the purchase price according to the highest standard, but this As soon as she came, her profit margin was even smaller.
And this is just the beginning, because she increased the cargo volume, and the people who were bribed at the customs found her and secretly proposed to increase the bribe, which also increased her cost on the one hand. Karina originally She thought it was Malcolm's people who were playing tricks behind her back again, but when she changed to another port and found that she was facing the same thing, she realized that this was actually an unspoken rule that all black market traders would face.
In addition, she also encountered troubles when selling goods. The large-scale shipments caused dissatisfaction with local merchants, and she also got into two lawsuits for this. Although they were settled with money in the end, the losses were not small.
However, the most serious problem is the funding. Zhang Heng gave Karina a transport ship before leaving. After the repair of the Skull is completed, the businesswoman will use it as the third transport ship, but the cost of recruiting manpower and renovation needs her In addition to the expansion of the warehouse and the newly opened grocery store, the businesswoman had to re-mortgage the property left by her father to raise money for the goods when she bought the goods from the pirates.
However, it takes a period of time from the purchase of goods to the delivery of the goods to the port of the colony to find a buyer for cash. According to Karina's original calculation, the flow of funds should be in time, but the reality is not as smooth as imagined. , and the time for the pirates to return to Hong Kong is also uncontrollable. Sometimes several pirate ships will sell their loot together on the same day, which also brings huge financial pressure to the businesswoman.
A week before Zhang Heng came back, Karina's capital chain was broken, and she still owed two pirate ships the payment. In the morning, the businesswoman was still trying to appease her partner, but because she couldn't get the money on time, Some angry pirates smashed Karina's new grocery store.