Chapter 229

June 26, 1779, Luxi manor.

Lorraine was wearing a tuxedo and gently opened the curtains of her study with a smile.

Through the crystal landing window, he saw bell and ophy, as well as the brilliant sun and lush green grass.

"Tut Tut, Lang Cai, female appearance, poetry and painting, bell finally summoned up his courage. What kind of humiliation will he encounter?"

"McCarthy is hostile to him." Hannah habitually stands in the darkest corner of the study, playing with her broken gold sideburns. "Or, more accurately, she is a serious person, alert to everyone on board. It's hard for me to imagine a good result if you encourage bell to pursue her."

"There's no way." Lorraine made a bad smile. "Ophy is an employee. She's young and beautiful. The most troublesome thing is honesty. It's hard to suppress acharin, but her character doomed that I can't treat her like Carmen or Noah. She will take it seriously."

"It's better to be frightened." Haina added, and immediately laughed. The laughter was like a bell and the flower branches trembled.

Lorraine reluctantly turned his eyes, threw away the curtain and walked back to the desk: "do you know the news of that line?"

This was endless, but Haina took her head for granted.

After coming to the new world, Lorraine's business has produced many dark sides, including the supervision of the two sub chambers of Commerce, especially the Caribbean branch, presided over by Leonard, smuggling in New Orleans, presided over by Carmen, and pirate intelligence in charge of Katrina.

These messages will flow to Lorraine through the branch's commercial channels, but they will not pass through the branch. In the past, they all flow directly into Pierce's hands.

But as Pierce's values became more and more obvious, Lorraine began to worry that being too close to the dark side would affect the healthy growth of the little guy.

After all, the impact of knowing, understanding and handling is very different.

So when he returned to Lusi this time, Lorraine directly forced pierce to fill him with a pile of French, Spanish and Latin navigation materials on the grounds that he was lack of schoolwork, asked him to interpret count gerwaldan's navigation diary according to these materials, and officially began to learn Fleet Command.

Little Pierce is busy. He is so busy that he doesn't touch the ground. Some unimportant things will naturally be transferred to others. Haina is the one who will take over the job.

Haina is assassin. Assassin has a long history. She is best at dealing with the dark side of business for employers. It is precisely because she specializes in technology, even when dealing with paperwork for the first time, she is still familiar and can't see any astringency.

Today is her first initiative to report to Lorraine.

Lorraine glanced at the clean desk: "what to drink?"

"Tea."

"It's not tea time yet."

"Milk tea is OK, no jam and dessert."

As always, with Haina's characteristics, Lorraine got up to make tea for her. The category of tea is not important. The key is more milk and polysaccharide. It shows that taste education should start with dolls and the important value of preconceived ideas.

When the tea was ready, Haina took a sip and moaned contentedly like a kitten.

"The first is the news from the branch. Leonard was worried that we would leave Lucie, so he sent a briefing first. The details are expected to be delivered to McCarthy in a week or two."

"The colonial authorities of Britain, France and the Netherlands opened joint talks at the Royal Bishop's University of St. helonimo in Havana, with Spain, Portugal and Denmark as the middlemen. As for the topic, the main content is the order after the Caribbean naval war, which has made it clear that it will not involve the issue of North America."

"In addition, the Le Fran ç OIS tragedy was also the focus of the joint discussion. Count gerwalden of the Defense Fleet, sir Ellen De of Le Fran ç OIS, Lieutenant Colonel Nelson and captain Rashid were asked to attend the relevant topics and speak as witnesses on the night of the tragedy. Leonard attached chuck's evaluation and said that the chamber of Commerce might also be invited at the end of the joint discussion."

Lorraine smiled and nodded: "the chamber of Commerce will certainly be invited, but not as a representative of mercenaries, but as a warm-hearted businessman who cooperates with the Royal Navy in humanitarian relief, which is related to the dignity of a powerful country."

"But at that time, we probably went to Amazon to find the Crystal Skull... We'll leave a letter for chuck later to attend on behalf of the chamber of Commerce and ask him to come back with more thank-you gifts."

Haina refused to comment on the so-called skull. She drank two cups of tea and began to tell the second thing.

"Or Leonard, about last month's branch financial report and this month's prediction."

"What's the problem?"

Haina frowned and recalled for a moment: "last month, the profit of 1361 pounds was mainly due to the opening of ocean going ships in northwest Europe. Although there were not many, it also greatly improved the profits in the Caribbean. The impact in northwest Europe was less than that in the Caribbean, 4866 pounds, an increase of 8% over the previous month."

Lorraine looked at Haina strangely and said, "isn't it good for the clubs to be prosperous?"

"Of course, it's good for the performance to rise." Haina choked off the remaining milk tea. "But this month, Leonard judged that the Caribbean branch would have a major deficit because chuck Parker withdrew a lot of money."

"A lot?"

"The total amount was 15000 pounds, of which 8300 pounds were paid to the levisler dock and 3900 pounds to the Naval Logistics Office of the Royal port, which was the cost of repairing the ship without any problem. However, Parker also paid 1000 pounds to a wood carving artist named Earl Weiss, 1500 pounds to director Stanley of the port authority, and 300 pounds for non business banquets. It was found that he was also a relevant personnel of the port authority, And they haven't been posted. "

"Woodcarving artist and port authority?" Lorraine felt his chin and thought for a long time. Suddenly, he laughed bitterly. "I guess what he's going to do."

"Why?"

"Modify the bow image and remove the side number, mast number and other marks. If I guess well, he also plans to make up a batch of ship transaction records and complete the entry registration of new ships at the same time."

Haina tilted her head and wondered, "what's the purpose of this?"

"Of course, it is to turn those French warships into second-hand ships with clear origins, take the words of sinking in the war report, and prevent the emergence of pragmatists with trade rights in their hands and lack of gentlemanly demeanor in Fort France."

"Superfluous?"

"It's not unnecessary."

"Do you think it will be useful?"

"The known can't cheat, but the unknown doesn't care." Lorraine disdained. "It's just a great country... Chuck's behavior provides a good excuse for Fort France. After the fierce battle, the Defense Fleet was destroyed by the Halloween fleet with seven warships, rather than packed and carried away by a mere 100 light guns."

Haina suddenly realized: "it sounds like a good favor."

"From a business point of view, it's perfect, but..."

"But?"

"Chuck's business style has always been self-confident, sharp and decisive, which is good, but sometimes he thinks too much about timing and cost performance, so that it's easy to put himself in a desperate position."

"Just like this time, including the golden deer, we brought back five ships, all of which are valuable ocean going ships. Among them, the golden deer and totem need major repair, or the golden deer and the Andes need additional firepower."

"However, the economic situation of the Caribbean branch is actually not good, because the establishment time is still short and the early stage ships are insufficient, and the reserve fund has been tight."

"What's more, chuck has never stopped expanding. At this stage, the Caribbean branch is more like a hollow big box. It depends on chuck's business skills to maintain profits and losses."

"So the problem came." Lorraine drew a circle on his desk. "Last month, Ramos wrote that chuck borrowed 20000 pounds from the European Northwest branch when communicating with oceangoing, which shows that his reserve is insufficient. At least compared with his development plan, cash has become a weak constraint."

"At this time, his safest means should be to give priority to putting the new ships with low servicing cost into operation and maintaining and supplying them in batches and times."

"But he wants to sell well to me, so he can't delay the golden deer; he doesn't want to miss the rare opportunity to sell well to France, so he adds a lot of non transactional expenses; the most troublesome thing is that he also wants to open the Caribbean branch's own ocean channel in one step. As a result, the repair of the totem and the supply of the Andes have to be carried out simultaneously."

"15000 pounds is a huge sum of money for the current Caribbean branch, which is equivalent to draining his reserves again. The lack of cash means that the chamber of Commerce will lose flexibility, stability and anti risk ability will become weak, so that it can't stand a little storm."

Haina didn't understand this very well, but just looking at Lorraine's expression, she knew that everything was important.

"Are you going to intervene?"

"If only I could intervene." Lorraine helplessly spread his hand. "I promised him that I would only send someone to supervise the accounts and not interfere in the specific operation. Of course, I can break the contract, but I have to risk chuck's centrifugation. At this stage, the gains outweigh the losses."

"It's a good way to prepare a part of the secret reserve fund at Leonard's, but unfortunately chuck has no money and I have no money. The investment of New Orleans and leloran has finally become a ship. Our cash has run out and is only half as much as chuck."

"What about ancient gold?"

"The conversion of ancient gold into money requires a specific time and environment. The Caribbean is not Europe. There are few auctions of sufficient specifications here in a year, and we can participate in... Probably none."

"That is to say, you are baffled by money?"

The expression and tone were clearly discussing serious matters, but Lorraine clearly listened to Haina's teasing.

He glared at Haina fiercely: "Oh, the descendants of niold will never be helpless! It's just... At the end of June, when will the damn smuggling be ready?"

"In fact, the third thing I want to tell you..." Hannah playfully took out a private letter with rose print from her arms, "Carmen's letter."

Lorraine's eyes lit up: "ready to continue?"

"This batch of goods had been put into warehouse and counted three days ago. The letter arrived this morning. Carmen urged us to go quickly."

Lorraine almost cheered.

He rejoiced for a moment, thought for a moment, and then hesitated again.

Hannah came over and hugged him gently. "Bel Judea?"

"Smuggling, fight with Shaq..." Lorraine whispered in Haina's arms. "Should I take him or not?"