Chapter 380

South African style is not an ordinary hotel.

It uses a small lake on the outskirts of Cape Town to build eight villas for viewing the lake, with independent courtyards, auxiliary buildings, shared churches and a large venue for concerts, auctions or banquets.

Obviously, money may not be as useful here as in other places. It is non-profit. Except for distinguished guests of African companies, it is difficult for civilians to get admission permission here.

"Maybe we should build such a villa..."

Inadvertently plagiarizing the ideological achievements of others, pierce and freemanny swayed all the way to Villa 6 in a carriage.

As the pilot said, villa 6 is built on the lake, but what the pilot didn't say is that all the villas here are built on the lake, and No. 6 is not a special one.

Pierce and freemanny got out of the car, rang the doorbell and the servant answered.

Soon, pierce saw a gentleman in a tuxedo with a tiger back and a bear waist open the door, then step back three meters, and looked at him without saying a word.

The scene was embarrassed.

Pierce touched his nose: "well, I knew that not every Nordic was as talkative as Mr. Eriksson..."

He adjusted his dress: "pierce Yates, please convey to Mr. Logan that we are here."

"Go upstairs and turn left." on June 3, my letter left port from Cape Town and arrived at Lusi on the 28th. Your secret service fleet left port from St. George on July 6, arrived at Southampton on August 2, left on the 5th and arrived in Gibraltar on the 12th. I thought you would bring my things in early September, but now it's the 27th. "

"You've been delayed for at least 20 days. Accordingly, the African branch lost about 1000 pounds. I need a reason to convince me."

At the beginning, pierce simply pulled off his disguise by picking the corners of his eyes.

"There's no reason." he raised his chin. "Mr. Logan, the chairman also said that anything could happen at sea. My trip of 4000 kilometers and 20 days should be an acceptable error, you know, I know."

Eddie laughed disdainfully: "the maritime group has gathered intelligence to build a fleet of new sharp ships. The slowest ship in your hand has reached 14 knots and a delay of 20 days. Is this the limit of the ability of the son of the cobbler?"

"It seems that you have a lot of dissatisfaction with me." pierce also laughed, "Let me guess, the old people of Elgin had been entrusted with important tasks. Brother Ramos was widely respected throughout northwest Europe. Last year, he even got the invitation of the Duke of Edinburgh to attend his new year's ball. Sister Carmen mainly handled the administration instead of her brother. She was dignified in the chamber of Commerce, and her signature almost had the effect of her brother. Even I, a young boy, had to When it comes to the command of the independent fleet, only you have wasted so many years and only now can you see the dawn of your career. "

"You hate me and I don't like you. Sister Carmen knows that. But she still arranged us together. Have you ever thought about why?"

"In my opinion, what she wants to see may not be my ability to lead a fleet, but whether you can be qualified as a qualified sub president and cooperate normally with brother Ramos, brother Karen, and Mr. Parker and father Leonard."

Eddie raised his eyebrows: "are you threatening me? Are you implying that if I don't give you a high rating, the General Chamber of Commerce will label me as incompetent and eventually drive me out of the African chapter I founded?"

"Everything is possible." pierce grinned. "But one thing is worth correcting. I don't need you to deliberately raise my evaluation. Brother and sister Carmen are not fools. There is no difference between deliberate praise and deliberate bad evaluation in their eyes. They are all evidence of your incompetence."

"Let's get down to business first."

Pierce cocked up his legs. Freemanny immediately handed over a suitcase, opened it and faced Eddie.

"In the box are the documents you want, including the establishment license of the African branch, the share planning of the African branch, and the start-up funds and merchant ships you are looking forward to."

Eddie drew out the share plan along with the introduction: "5%... Sure enough, in the eyes of the chairman, I still..."

"Pierce whistled: "Since you insist... Your vice president and governor will be selected by the General Chamber of Commerce and will report to you before November 15. The starting capital is 20000 pounds, which is in my lady, and you can send someone to count and put it into storage today. There are eight merchant ships shunted to Africa, which are stopping in Gibraltar, including one brig, three brigantines, four mixed sail scuna, and two brigantines It is a 16 door cutting-edge ship at the same level as the xiangyanghua, with a maximum speed of 18 knots. "

In Eddie's eyes, these accessories are still very generous, with higher treatment than in the Caribbean a few years ago, and they are equipped with ocean going and offshore ships at the beginning, but the number is

He looked at pierce discontentedly: "the African branch will certainly not accumulate merchant ships as quickly as in northwest Europe and the Caribbean. Is this number less?"

"The General Chamber of Commerce has only so much equipment for you."

Pierce rubbed his fingers at freemanny, took another document from the latter's hand and threw it at Eddie's desk.

"However, I have other options here. It is full of two bages, two Briggs, five brigantines and a non-standard 36 meter Galen. It is 50 to 70% new, wounded, less than half of the shipborne firepower, and the maintenance is very poor."

Eddie was stunned for a long time: "where did you... Get these ships?"

"My trip was delayed by 20 days, mainly because I spent 23 days in Cape Verde and destroyed a pirate group with 16 ships. God bless that there were no Gunners on their ships, otherwise I might stay there longer."

"Ten... Sixteen ships?"

"Sixteen ships, more than 2000 people, these ships in my hand were not sunk at that time. Because most of them were injured, they couldn't follow me south. They could only be saved at the wharf in Dakar..."

"You earned 20 points for your evaluation." Eddie put ten sea ships into his safe, changed out a sheepskin roll and threw it in front of Pierce. "The remaining 20 points are here. Mr. Baker, general manager of African company, has a little request for us about the most important partner of the branch in the future..."