Chapter 294

After more than an hour of reporting, the meeting entered a break.

Nominally, the board of directors of the general assembly needs to discuss the proposal of northwest Europe. In fact, the annual dividend of only 35000 pounds is not even comparable to the final dividend of a round of smuggling.

We don't know whether we want to steadily improve the northwest Europe or whether the gold coins actually fall into our pockets.

This is the advantage of young people on the flagship.

Young people have a long-term vision. While everyone knows that smuggling is very profitable, they also know that it is not a long-term business.

The profit of the chamber of commerce is our long-term meal ticket. They are willing to support Lorraine's judgment if they can increase the gold content of the meal ticket.

In Lorraine's private conference room, a group of sailors spent five minutes to demonstrate the application of northwest Europe, and then switched to more interesting things.

The acharin thief looked at Karen with a smile.

"Mr. chief dispatcher, do you hear me? A powerful chamber of commerce is preparing to order two class V Galens! As a salaried executive of Haite shipyard, don't you want to do something?"

Karen looked complacent: "I'm very sorry. It's the factory that will build these two Bermuda canvas high-speed class five ships for a powerful chamber of Commerce."

The crowd was frightened.

Acharin stared: "order from the belligerent American shipyard. Are those people in northwest Europe crazy?"

"It's just a smuggling ship." Karen didn't think much of it after learning from Lorraine. "It's no big deal to build a ship in Boston, load rum and send it to St. Johns nearby. After the handover, it'll be transferred to Chanel Basque for certification."

Lorraine was also interested: "twenty six thousand is your price for Ramos? Is there no problem with the price and construction period?"

Karen nodded.

"The order compiled by Charles River should have been built almost. Although there are some differences in design, the ship materials and general structure are the same."

"The standard class 5 ship uses oak ship materials, and its parts are ready to buy. The whole ship is about 12000 pounds. In addition, there are 6000 men and equipment, including metal parts, sails, cables, naval guns, etc. Boston has output. Haite can control the price at 5000, and the rest is profit."

"Profit of ￡ 3000 per ship?"

"The price for the United States is 28000. I gave Ramos a discount. As for the market, excluding the ship load, it is about 25000, and the full allocation is about 30000."

Lorraine shrugged to understand, "what about the construction period?"

"The class V ship needs to stay in the dry dock for three months. After assembly, it will go to the wet dock to continue construction for one month and sea trial for two months. Therefore, the orders from northwest Europe can follow the orders from the US Navy and there is no need to expand the dock."

"It seems that you have considered it very carefully." Lorraine looked at the clock. "It's almost time, gentlemen and ladies, let's start the second half."

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In the second half, Lorraine, on behalf of the chamber of Commerce, first agreed to the application of northwest Europe, and then took the initiative to throw out the third topic, about the internal business of the chamber of Commerce.

In his thinking, independent and perfect business agreements should be established between divisions, including all common business projects such as raw material procurement, processing, agent transportation, trading and lending. The bottom limit is 7% of the market price, with sufficient concessions, but no excessive concessions, so as to avoid the formation of unequal business relations between divisions.

He crossed his fingers, held his chin and whispered.

"You should have a clear positioning for yourself. On the one hand, you are all subordinate branches of Drake chamber of Commerce, have common major shareholders, can share facilities and channels, and have a closer relationship than ordinary partners."

"On the other hand, you are independent individuals. You have your own board of directors and your own trade circle and trade relations."

"It is a great advantage that the new branch has the start-up funds provided by the General Chamber of Commerce and the resources of the old branch can be borrowed. Even for the growth and combat effectiveness of the new branch, the old chamber of commerce should not give assistance and care beyond the limit."

"Please always remember that you are brothers, not father and son, nor mother and son. You don't need and shouldn't be responsible for the life of the new branch."

Lorraine's words were explicit, pointing to the abnormal huge loans between northwest Europe and the Caribbean.

On the face of it, these words seem to condemn Ramos's excessive protection, but Chuck knows his selfishness and clearly feels Lorraine's dissatisfaction and warning about his forcible seizure of resources in northwest Europe.

This is a warning and the last espionage. Like the ten thousand pound reserve, Lorraine expressed his disapproval of his utilitarian principle and aggressive policy in the most tactful way

Do you really need to slow down a little?

Chuck asked himself, suddenly remembering Leonard's warning to him not long ago.

He cheered up and raised his hand: "the Caribbean has asked for the floor!"

With his narration, the injury of cotton Jack to the Caribbean branch was officially presented in front of the desk of Drake chamber of Commerce for the first time in three months.

Abnormal contact frequency and excessive economic losses all prove that cotton jack is carrying out some plans for the Caribbean branch.

Lorraine listened carefully with her head tilted. When chuck finished, she turned to see Katrina.

"Our Pirate Queen, what do you think?"

Katrina got up, went to the conference table and asked the Indian Maid outside the door to get the full picture of the Caribbean Sea.

She drew a circle on the chart.

"The pirate king has his own hunting area, and cotton Jack's hunting area is in the Bahamas."

"The northern coastline of Cuba island and Hispaniola island is his southern boundary, and the continental shelf of the Bahamas is his northern edge."

"So the early raids can be regarded as his hunting behavior in the hunting area. His motivation is normal. From the perspective of pirates, his behavior is also normal."

"But the Strait of Anegada..."

Katrina poked heavily at the border between the Virgin Islands and the Leeward Islands.

"The Virgin Islands and Leeward Islands are the hunting areas of hound Henry VI, and the heirs of this title are similar to their title, aggressive and difficult."

A group of people reached their heads and nodded frequently.

"By implication, cotton Jack crossed the line?"

"He crossed the line from the attack on Lieutenant Cortez." Katrina nervously knocked on the thin wooden strip on her hand. "If he had not made a deal with the hound, this behavior would have undoubtedly touched the authority of another pirate king."

"What are the consequences of doing so?"

"Compensation and apology, the most serious is war, a war between the pirate king and the pirate king!"

"So, he has a deep resentment against us." Lorraine smiled inexplicably. "Chuck, what do you think?"

Chuck took a deep breath: "as Ms. Katrina said, war!"

His suggestion was beyond everyone's expectation. Even Leonard had never heard of any clues.

Only he knew why he would suddenly change his course in a few days.

Before coming to the annual meeting, he had a long talk with Sir Parker at the Parker's Christmas dinner.

Sir Parker affirmed his ideas and achievements in developing the Caribbean branch, but on the issue of cotton jack, sir Parker gave more radical suggestions than Leonard.

Sir said Lorraine was a rare pure privateer in this era.

Looking at the development track and organizational structure of Drake chamber of Commerce, it is obvious that he hates small business operations, and the overall focus is completely biased towards looting and invasion.

Lorraine's essence is piracy, and he also adheres to the traditional thinking of privation. Business is only an incidental thing in his consciousness to feed violence. It will never become a dominant position, nor has it ever occupied a dominant position.

The cotton Jack wrongly challenged Lorraine's dignity, especially the retaliatory massacre in December, which has brought the relationship between the two sides to the point of immortality.

The only solution to this incident is war. If chuck doesn't do it, Lorraine is likely to kick chuck away and change someone who is willing to war to command the Caribbean branch.

Since then, chuck has understood his position.

He cleared his throat and solemnly said, "the Caribbean chapter has far stronger combat power than most pirate groups. Drake chamber of Commerce has the chairman and the hero of Le Francois. With the weak Halloween fleet alone, it has destroyed the French Atlantic Defense Fleet."

"We will win! In a short time, we will use the head of cotton Jack to publicize our majesty to the Caribbean World. From then on, the petals of Pansy will be embroidered with the crown of Shanghai pirate king, and the pirates will flee wherever our ship goes!"

"Passionate speech..." Lorraine lazily took over, "chuck, how much power are you going to invest in a pirate regiment?"

"All!" Chuck's fist waved heavily in the air. "The whole Caribbean branch will act under the command of the golden deer until cotton Jack surrendered or gave his head!"

"Well... Let's do what you want." Lorraine thought for a while. "I'll go to Turtle Island to declare war, and then... Golden deer, Cyclops, three eyed crow, and then draw the Eros (formerly Jupiter) into the General Chamber of Commerce. That's enough."

The excited chuck is stupid

"Dong... Chairman, I inquired. Cotton Jack's pirate regiment has at least seven or eight ships..."

"War is not an economic account. The pirate king is very busy and will not always take all the ships. The Vulcan mountain (formerly Andes) is not as useful as you think in the pirate war. Two Briggs and rain frog are good, but the Caribbean branch has its own business to do. There can be no escort near the sea and no cargo hold in the ocean."

"But four against eight is too..."

Lorraine waved to interrupt chuck's advice, smiled and said, "business is your field, and war is my specialty. That's it. Leonard and Orvis lent me more ships and needed a suitable captain. Some of my sailors are not enough."

"Yes..."

Lorraine leaned against the back of the chair for a comfortable seat, and glanced across the audience with ease: "ladies and gentlemen, the internal contract between northwest Europe and the Caribbean should be determined as soon as possible, and strive to be fair and meticulous, because it is likely to become a template for the future of the chamber of Commerce. Apart from these, is there any other topic?"

"Let the chairman arrange."

"If it's up to me... Please work hard and try to give me a bonus next year. It doesn't matter how much. Then, please enjoy the dinner of the annual meeting. I heard that miss ofey racked her brains for the arrangement of dishes."

The room was full of laughter.

In the laughter, Lorraine clapped his hands: "break up the meeting and let's get together again next year."