Chapter 42

The city hall of Plymouth is a small light brown building with classical style. Its history can be traced back to 1439. It is the first building to lay the foundation after Plymouth was founded and named.

The building witnessed the glorious history of Plymouth, including Francis Drake's two global trips in 1557 and 1580, the Royal Navy's defeat of the Spanish invincible fleet in 1588, the new world trip of the Mayflower in 1620, and the Puritan Revolution that changed English history and overthrew the monarchy since 1640.

The commerce department in charge of the registration and preparation of the chamber of commerce is on the east of the third floor of the small building, facing the direction of the red lighthouse of Devon port.

Deputy director Victor Wesley received Lorraine. On his desk, there was a picture album, which opened in the middle, displaying two flags, one black and one white.

The white is the flag of the chamber of Commerce, with the St. George's cross of England as the bottom. In the middle is a delicate three-color Viola, mainly purple, bright yellow in the middle circle and snow-white in the core.

The black is the pirate flag, with a plain black background. There is a pure white skeleton in the middle. The eye socket of the skeleton is burning a different color of fire. The left eye is purple and the right eye is yellow. The X-shaped cross is harpoon and oar.

Mr. Wesley rummaged through the letter of introduction on the table

"Roy chamber of Commerce, stika chamber of Commerce, elmind chamber of Commerce... Mr. Drake has a wide range of friends in business, but the law does not force the national monopoly, does it?"

Lorraine nodded slightly: "it's not easy for small business groups to make a living. They basically sell what they catch. Thank Mr. Wesley for his understanding."

"A gentleman's recommendation... Viscount rod Scheer, the chief executive of Marilyn, kayas ledis, and the councillor of Marilyn, Carl piddick." he frowned. "Is Mr. Drake Scottish?"

"I'm English, and I'm a native of Devon."

"A Devonshire gentleman who can be recognized by the Scots..." Mr. Wesley's expression was much more friendly. "Devonshire is proud of you."

"Thank you for your compliment."

"You have the basic conditions for the establishment of a chamber of Commerce. I'm sure you can't help it with a deposit of one thousand pounds." Mr. Wesley folded all his letters and showed the flag on the picture book. "Mr. Drake..."

"You said."

"You're your own man. I'm just abrupt." he took a breath. "Do you have any misunderstanding about the chamber of Commerce? You know, we're businessmen, not pirates."

Lorraine picked up her suitcase, took out her privatisation permit and laid it in front of Mr. Wesley.

"Sir, what I want to register is not an ordinary chamber of Commerce, but a private chamber of Commerce."

"Privation... This is..." Mr. Wesley's eyes widened. "You're Drake of the Drake family!"

"As an abandoned son, I'm not proud of my family." Lorraine tapped the glass of the looting certificate. "Sir, I'm only proud of my great ancestors."

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Drake chamber of Commerce was officially established.

Mr. Wesley used the fastest speed to handle the original and duplicate of the chamber of commerce license, ship and artillery trading license, trade license of the kingdom of England and other licenses for Lorraine, and noted the chamber of commerce information, flag and privation license.

This means that from today on, Drake's privatisation license no longer represents Lorraine alone, and the scope of authorization is extended to the entire fleet under the jurisdiction of Drake chamber of Commerce.

Lorraine expressed his gratitude to Mr. Wesley in a reserved manner. After walking out of the city hall with him, he could no longer bear the impulse of his heart and drove straight to selport, the largest civilian port in Plymouth.

At the ship exchange in selport, he met Karen who came here first and asked, "I hope you have selected a new flagship for the chamber of Commerce in this day and a half."

"In fact, I may have done better than expected..." big Karen touched the tip of his nose and looked shy.

He took Lorraine into the reception hall of the exchange and handed Lorraine two sets of deeds.

There are two brigantin type double mast mixed sail fast ships in total, one is 12 years old and the other is 15 years old. The selected ship materials are Canadian fir, which has excellent performance in civil ships and is famous for its high quality and low price.

They were originally the property of a colonial chamber of Commerce. Due to the influence of the war of independence, the operation of the chamber of Commerce had financial difficulties. The original owner reluctantly gave up his love and chose to sell the ship.

Karen has gone to the dock to check the real ship. Although the ship is old, the performance of the ship remains very complete because of proper maintenance. Just a simple care is enough to cope with any situation at sea.

They were packaged for sale, and the price of the package was... 3700 pounds.

The price was a little scary. Lorraine wondered why he could hit the good luck.

Until the time of placing the order, Karen paid 4000 pounds to the trader without changing his face. After the title deed was officially transferred to the chamber of Commerce, she whispered to Lorraine.

"Every trader has some unique inventory. They will never appear on the trading board in the hall. I knew this when I was an apprentice in port Devon."

Lorraine suddenly realized.

Two brigantines were officially delivered. The young was named the butterfly flower and the old was named the lucky grass.

At this time, the chamber of Commerce had 6800 pounds left, and Lorraine did not blink. He directly purchased 20 guns for the butterfly flower according to the standard configuration, at a total cost of 5300 pounds.

The rest of the money could not be moved any more. The lucky grass sent the empty ship north and collected all the six pound medium guns in Elgin as temporary fire on board.

After a whole week of such preparation, the two majestic brittingen and the Artemis beauty hung a brand-new pansy flag and returned to Elgin along the tortuous coastline of the British island. At the Drake trade office, the first shareholders' meeting after the establishment of the chamber of Commerce was held.

Haina, Karen, Noah, pierce, Ramos, Eddie and Carmen are all the shareholders of the new chamber of Commerce, each dressed up to attend.

"My dear friends, the Drake General Chamber of Commerce and the North European sub chamber of Commerce have been established."

Applause thundered.

A group of young people, the oldest Eddie is 29 years old and the youngest Pierce is 10 years old. From this moment, they have their own real industry. From then on, they have separated from the black merchant class and become the real marine merchants of this era.

Lorraine raised a glass to them. The blue cocktail was as deep as the sea and swayed gently in the goblet, like waves.

"Our chamber of commerce is still very weak for the time being. 1500 pounds in cash, two brigantines, four Kirks and less than 4000 pounds in stock."

"These things symbolize wealth in Elgin, but in the world of businessmen... They are not worth mentioning."

"But we are young!" Lorraine suddenly smiled. "Young people, dreams are enough. What do you want money for?"

Everyone burst into laughter and raised their glasses.

Karen's voice was particularly loud in the crowd. He shouted, "pay tribute to our poor young people!"

"Salute our great dream!"

"Salute our governor!"

"Cheers!"