Cape of Good Hope.
Black sea water, bright red reefs and groups of black cormorants lined up on the rocks, stretched their long necks and looked mockingly at the busy humans on the sea.
This is the southwest end of Africa and the intersection of the ocean and the ocean. The cold current from the South and the warm current from the East converge here and merge into constant gales and waves all year round.
Lorraine once warned pierce that crossing the Cape of good hope must be before winter.
Because in winter, the Cape of good hope sea area will become a boiling iron pot. Under the strong westerly wind, killing waves 15 to 20 meters high can be seen everywhere. Even with valkiri's physique, it is difficult to protect yourself in the face of such a natural disaster.
Fortunately, today's Cape of good hope is commendable calm, calm and beautiful.
The soft breeze blows the sea, and tiny waves strove the Cape rocks, and the large waves of water are reduced to a white foam, like a winter coat for the Cape.
Pierce stood on the highest yard and looked regretfully at the boundless sea in the northeast.
That's the Indian Ocean.
Once you cross the Cape of good hope and go eastward along the continuous coastline, you will soon see the beautiful Madagascar, followed by the Red Sea opened up by God when Moses went out of Egypt, the West Asia where the holy city Jerusalem is located, the rich subcontinent and the East Indies where Xingluo is at sea.
Then came the sea of China, Wang Ye's hometown, where the Qing Dynasty, which was larger than the whole of Europe, was located.
In those days, DIAS, da Gama and countless great navigators entered the East through this gate. Now this gate is close in front of us, but pierce can't cross it immediately.
Because he still has a task. The destination of the task is Cape Town, which is not far northwest of the Cape of good hope. The Cape of good hope is a road sign. However, after finding the road sign, he needs to retreat rather than move forward.
"Forget it, the Indian Ocean won't run away anyway. Eddie Logan made a general comment on this trip. It's related to his future. It's better to put the highest priority."
After self admonishing for a long time, pierce finally closed his mind.
Holding the mast and lowering his head, he shouted to his deck, "turn around the fleet and sail to the northwest. Let's go to Cape Town and build the African branch!"
"Flag order down!" Turner's order was immediately sounded on the deck, "order of commander, target Cape Town. Turn the buoy into the flagship, turn around, line up! Set sail!"
"Turn the ship around!"
"Lady, turn around!"
"Buoy flag mast!"
"Close the main sail, make two sails, turn the sail!"
"Roll alert! Fixed body, right full rudder!"
In the ship operation orders one after another, Lei's thick baritone is particularly conspicuous, which easily suppresses the rest of the noise, making people feel that the ship's roll is particularly fierce.
Even though he knew it was an illusion, Adria still grasped the rope on his waist.
He was only a few meters away from Pierce. Standing at the nearest distance, he deflated his mouth discontentedly: "Tidu, we are all in the Indian Ocean. Do we really have to go for a walk?"
"Oh! This time we acted alone, and the contracts signed to you were all for probation. Whether you can become a regular depends on the final comprehensive evaluation. Do you remember the proportion of evaluation?"
"Er... Dad 30, performance 30, and Mr. Logan in northwest Europe..."
"Yes, Eddie Logan scored 40 points." pierce kicked his boots angrily. "When the chamber of commerce just started, he had two hearts for his brother and was taken away from the command of the fleet. Not to mention, even the specific business behavior of the branch was only the right to advise. As the vice president of the branch, he and Leonard's father didn't seem to be performing the same job at all."
"He has performed well in recent years. President pidic is not a strong general to open up territory. Thanks to his efforts, northwest Europe opened up the whole Baltic Sea, successfully expanded its business to Gibraltar and began to march into the Mediterranean."
"At last year's annual meeting, my brother said at the ball that Eddie Logan had the ability to steer a branch, which basically represented the lifting of the sanctions on his infidelity. So at the beginning of this year, he submitted two development plans, one for the Mediterranean in northwest Europe and the other for the African development plan. In March, he won the majority approval at the board meeting."
All Training Majors of Drake chamber of commerce school list the economic courses as compulsory courses. As the top students in the advanced class, Adria's understanding of business processes and market concepts is enough to meet the unclear requirements of "knowledgeable people", even if her strengths are not in business.
So he immediately heard Pierce's implication.
"March... It's almost October now. Aren't we the advance team of the General Assembly?"
"Advance? We're just in charge of finishing up." pierce dragged a long voice and lost his interest, "Eddie Logan has been appointed as the president of the African branch. In the past six months, he has prepared all the official procedures, determined the residence of the Cape Town Branch, signed the lease and purchase intention of the water warehouse, cargo warehouse and berth, and became a guest of Lovey Baker, the general manager of the African company. It is said that even the upstream manufacturers have colluded with more than ten companies and vowed to guarantee the African branch Can make money from the first day of listing. "
"But the finishing is the finishing... After all, the start-up funds and ships of the new branch are in our hands. Eddie Logan can't do anything without us."
Adria rolled his eyes: "do you mean that we are pinching his life door, and he is also pinching our life door?"
"This is almost certainly the work of sister Carmen. She is best at making everyone uncomfortable with fairness and justice." pierce murmured to herself, touching his chin. "But she certainly didn't think we could incorporate a big pirate when we delivered the goods."
"I'm going to do a business with Eddie Logan. I think one point per mast should be a reasonable price for the ten broken ships left after the original Praia revenge army was sunk by us."
Adria was very impressed for a moment: "Lieutenant, isn't that cheating?"
"President Logan clearly has the freedom not to accept it. How can it be called cheating! And we left the ship at the dock in Dakar. This transaction is doomed to be only money before goods."
"He first gave me his share, and then arranged for someone to pick up the boat in Dakar. The two things will be separated by at least a month. As long as no one complains, my brother won't connect them together."
"Er... Long live the governor..."
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The secret service fleet arrived in Cape Town.
According to some provisions in the executive minutes of the chamber of commerce school on entering the public wharf, the lady of Yates and the future first anchored at the anchor point outside the port, and pierce transferred to the freshman code to lead the first batch of xiangyanghua into the port.
With the tricolor pansy flag of the chamber of Commerce, they were not subject to any inventory. They soon berthed at the reserved berth No. 6 under the guidance of the pilot. Pierce got off the ship first and popped a shilling at the pilot from a distance.
"Beautiful flag, sir."
The pilot naturally put the shilling in his pocket and replied with a Stinky Face: "Cape Town is not a small fishing village, sir. We have at least four berths to dock the big ship you left off the sea."
Pierce was offended and could only laugh helplessly: "nothing is absolute, sir. My elders have always taught me to go out and not add trouble to my friends."
The pilot shrugged his shoulders, spread his hands and made a whocars expression: "Sir, are you Drake chamber of Commerce in Southampton?"
"Obviously."
"Drake's crew can go to the South African style hotel in the north of the town, which is the VIP guest house of the African company. President Logan of your Chamber of commerce is in villa 6 near the lake, which is arranged by general manager Baker."
"Thank you for saving me a lot of trouble." pierce popped another shilling, twisted his head and said to fremanny behind him, "rent a carriage and let's meet brother Eddie."
"Yes, Lieutenant..."