48 Hours a Day

The visual impact of piles of gold bars stacked together is quite strong.

In addition to those responsible for carrying gold, the rest were assembled by Zhang Heng, who issued weapons, maintained order at the pier and prevented accidents.

However, before the Skull, the people on the island now know that the Cold Crow is not easy to mess with, but no one has been brainwashed by the brightly swayed gold.

Zhang Heng sent someone to notify the businesswoman Karina to vacate a warehouse and store the gold temporarily. This time the harvest was too much. If it was all distributed to the crew, safety would be a big problem. Although no one on the island now dares to be the Cold Raven, thieves and other people in the back can't wait long.

In addition to this, Zhang Heng was also reminded of the loss of 20 gold coins in the casino overnight. Although Zhang Heng did not interfere in everyone's consumption mode in principle and would not care what people would do if they got the money, he would also consider the possibility that the crew members who issued so much money in one go would be targeted.

So he intends to send some first, keep the rest of them together, set up a book of accounts that can be picked up by anyone who needs it.

After a while, Karina arrived at the pier, but Zhang Heng noticed that her face was a little ugly, but neither of them had much to say in front of the outsiders.

Until I went back to the warehouse and watched a crate of gold get shipped in, and then Zhang Heng and the businesswoman found a quiet place and said, "How's it going, I'm not on the island for a while. How's your side? ”

The smile on the latter's face was somewhat reluctant, “The situation… is not very good. ”

“Hmm?”

It had to go back two months ago, when Zhang Heng left Nassau, because the Skeleton thing finally opened the stalemate for Karina, and with the unstoppable rise of the Cold Raven, the used goods trading office gradually stabilized its heels on the island.

Not only did the captain, who had previously worked privately with Karina, recover her, but there was finally a ship other than the Cold Raven, disengaging from the Black Business Coalition and publicly expressing his willingness to establish a long-term and stable partnership with Karina.

This was undoubtedly a powerful blow to Malcolm, who wanted a complete monopoly on the Nassau black market deal, and it was just the beginning, followed by a growing number of expressions of intent to work with Karina.

This is no different for Karina, who has been blockaded by the Black Business Coalition, where the businesswoman saw hope of defeating Malcolm and the Black Business Coalition he headed, almost without thinking about signing a cooperation agreement with those pirate ships.

In order to be able to eat so much of the market share, Karina added another carrier to the two existing carriers and recruited more people, for which she invested almost all of the profits she had made on previous occasions.

But then things went completely out of her control.

Karina's biggest problem was that she didn't really have the experience of becoming a black market businessman. When she came to the island, she caught up with the change and the Black Business Coalition was set up, because her father's pre-jail partners had been split up by others. She survived in Nassau only after finding the Cold Crow and Zhang Heng promised to work with her, but she has been under pressure from the Black Business Coalition ever since.

So unlike the other black market merchants on the island, Karina has not worked with ships other than the Cold Crow, and although she has also secretly bought a shipment from other captains behind the back of the Black Merchants Union, it is basically a hammer deal, which is much more complicated to really work with.

While Karina is indeed talented in business, she also needs to learn and accumulate for unfamiliar areas. Without the pressure from Malcolm, she has plenty of time to grow, but now she's like a potato seedling, and she has to do everything she can to open the stones on top of her head.

On the other hand, the effects of Marlon's betrayal are beginning to ferment, the most trusted person around his father and the most familiar person with the whole process of her father's previous business.

When she lost his guidance and was in conflict with other businessmen, Karina had to rely on herself to find out more than she thought.

The acquisition price discussed earlier, for example, had been increased by half on the basis of the Black Merchants Union, which had been agreed to by both parties, but because the previous Black Merchants Union had opened different acquisition zones for pirate ships, pirates had found a shipment of the same quality, and according to the new pricing criteria they had not obtained more than another pirate ship that had also cooperated with Karina.

So there was some dissatisfaction, and it happened that Karina was working with other pirate captains to negotiate, because she feared that it might have an adverse effect, and Karina eventually harmonized the acquisition price to the highest standards, but that made her margin even smaller.

And that was just the beginning, because she had increased the volume of cargo, and the buyer at customs had found her obscure offer to increase her bribes, which, on the one hand, had increased her costs. Karina had thought Malcolm's people were behind it again, but when she switched to another port and found out that the same thing was happening, she realized that it was actually a diving rule for all black market traders.

She also had trouble selling the goods, causing dissatisfaction among local merchants due to large-scale shipments, which also caused two lawsuits, all of which ended up being settled, but the losses were not insignificant.

But the most serious problem was financial. Zhang Henglin gave Karina a transport boat before leaving. When the Skull was repaired, the businesswoman used it as her third transport boat, but the cost of recruiting and revamping her, along with the expansion of the warehouse and the opening of a new grocery store, forced the businesswoman to mortgage the property left by her father to raise money for the goods again.

However, from the acquisition of goods to the transport of goods to the port of the colony in search of the buyer's realization, it takes a period of time. In Karina's original calculations, the flow of funds should be within reach, but the reality is not as smooth as imagined, and the time for the pirates to return to port is out of control, sometimes during the same day, when several pirate ships sell spoils together, putting tremendous financial pressure on women traders.

A week before Zhang Heng's return, Karina's money chain had broken and two pirate ships were still unpaid. Just in the morning, the businesswoman was still trying to appease her partner. However, because she couldn't get the money on time, angry pirates smashed Karina's newly opened grocery store.