Chapter 405

"Manager Baker..."

When the xiangyanghua met the ship, Lorraine, accompanied by Carmen, welcomed the distinguished guests from afar, with a somewhat strange smile on her face.

"African companies are busy for the royal family. It's not easy to meet a busy man like you."

Vero Baker held out his hand to Lorraine in embarrassment.

"President Drake, seeing is better than hearing. I heard you were young. I didn't expect you to be so young."

Lorraine shook hands with him demurely, and he went to Carmen again.

"Manager Xavier, your speech in chais alley shocked the whole of London. North America will become the most economically dynamic land on the planet. What Great Britain has lost is far from a farm."

Carmen covered his face with a fan bone, smiled and stretched out his fingers for Baker to kiss.

The virtual kiss of one finger of distance shows that Baker knows the relationship between Lorraine and Carmen.

After the greeting, Baker stood up straight: "Mr. President, Ms. manager, Drake is in difficulties. I deeply sympathize with your experience and believe that integrity will eventually be rewarded."

"But you didn't say a word, Mr. manager." Carmen fired first. "When our young vice president was trapped, you didn't stand up bravely."

Embarrassment flashed from baker's face: "involuntarily, ha ha, involuntarily! Mr. President, I have to understand my difficulties. I operate in Africa on behalf of your majesty, and my every move is easy to be magnified."

"Silence will be magnified!" Carmen snapped his fan. "You have contributed to the stupidity of the Portuguese and forced us to have a head-on conflict with the navigator!"

"Well... I also heard that Lisbon sent two navigators, but since you are still well blocking the coast of Muscat Sultanate, I think most of them should be intimidated."

"It's really a threat." Lorraine laughed. "Scolari and I said I would bombard Lisbon."

Baker completely froze: "Scolari? Crusade formation commander, Portuguese Navy Lieutenant General Scolari? Have you seen him?"

Lorraine shrugged: "apart from the navigator's gold and jade, the Portuguese are on the west mountain at dusk. Facts have proved that your restraint is right. A declining empire is not worth fighting with her. I have sent the complaint to Madrid. Is it better to solve the stupid thing of Iberia or the Iberian people?"

Baker failed to respond for a long time.

After a long time, he took a deep breath: "Mr. President, my current state is not suitable for talking with you. Did you arrange a cabin for me? It's better not on your flagship."

In Lorraine's eyes, Lorraine sat down and read the text on the document word by word.

"Simply tell us the whole story." Emmons folded his fingers. "Your Chamber of commerce did something impulsive in Mombasa, which made the Portuguese Minister in London meet our majesty at Buckingham Palace with excitement."

"Because it is a time of peace and we have just ended the war with the French and the Hicks, his majesty is very concerned about the incident. He promised the minister that he would give Portugal a fair account."

Lorraine stopped to look at the document, suddenly interrupted and asked, "justice, are you sure you're not satisfied?"

"Portugal is not worthy of Great Britain's low eyebrows," Emmons smiled, "and his majesty is obviously more willing to believe in the innocence of his people than Portuguese who like to cheat in playing cards."

"However, the task has been issued after all, because it involves the profession of the Navy and is fully entrusted to the Ministry of the Navy for investigation. The Secretary of the Navy intended to summon you to London to defend yourself, but the Secretary of Commerce and the prime minister warned him that Drake chamber of commerce is the top chaebol in the kingdom of England. Your investigation needs to be careful. Any unsubstantiated insult may interfere with the economic ecology of England."

"So general Drake, our distinguished junior staff officer, stood up and took the initiative to investigate."

"I have to say that he may be the most suitable person to do this. Baron Tavistock is a noble hereditary title, and the Drake family is a legendary naval family. He himself is a highly respected figure and a senior naval official, let alone you and him. Half of the aristocratic circle in Europe knows that your brothers are insoluble."

"The Portuguese Duke praised our Majesty in the most beautiful language and invited the general to dinner after the pre Royal meeting."

Speaking of this, Emmons coughed.

"Mr. President, you may think your brother was malicious when accepting this investigation task. I can only say that you misunderstood him. Handling difficult affairs for the minister was originally the focus of the Deputy staff officer's work, which was his duty. Moreover, he has been very busy recently. He is busy handing over his duties and preparing to accept a new appointment."

"He didn't have time to rush for those trivial Portuguese. Just like this, he randomly selected me from his subordinates and asked me to come to Africa to perform his due obligations instead of him."

"Based on the above, I came. I was forced to put aside all the important work at hand, wear civilian clothes, hide in the bottom cabin and stand in front of you. Now do you believe my identity?"

"Very clear." Lorraine digested for a while, put down the papers and knocked on the table. "So, do you have anything to gain these days?"

"Harvest, that's what's interesting."

Emmons came closer, his eyes shining.

"In 1781, your Chamber of Commerce purchased a shipyard, Boston Haite shipyard. This shipyard is unknown to the island of Great Britain, but because of my last job, I was very familiar with her."

"This shipyard belonged to a Spanish woman named Donna linca before 1780. This woman served a notorious pirate. Have you heard of Edward kenvi?"

Lorraine thought and nodded, "a smuggler. I've heard of him among pirates."

"I almost forgot that you are still a pirate king who specializes in killing pirates!" Emmons praised in an exaggerated tone. "Edward KENWAY, he is the most popular evil in Great Britain in recent ten years. His smuggling has murdered thousands of distinguished Englishmen, and even led to our failure in the new world to a great extent!"

Lorraine raised his eyebrows: "if he was really so... Evil, why would he be allowed to go unpunished?"

"He is very cunning." Emmons said, "his industry is protected, such as the hight shipyard. He has a plan for his actions. He seems to have a reliable eye liner in the Navy. What's more, his boat is too fast for us to catch him."

"Anyway, I was ordered by the general to follow him in the new world, so I know some special things that the whole navy department doesn't know."

Emmons smiled mysteriously: "Mr. President, when you purchased Haite shipyard, did you find anything special in her warehouse?"

"Special?" Lorraine stamped the planks under his feet. "I guess valkiri is that special thing."

"No, no, no! Big ships are big ships, and the list of non civilian ships is distinguished according to the guns. As long as the guns are no more than 60, even if you make the ship 100 meters long, it's your freedom. I mean, some 32 pound long-range ships with guns stamped with the seal of the French Royal gun factory."

Lorraine couldn't help narrowing her eyes.

Emmons continued to say excitedly, "I have a secret message. Edward kenvi, the demon of the new world, once bought at least 50 32 pound guns from his evil partner, galvis, the Earl of France. The French said that they had a whole ship of heavy guns sunk into the sea because of the storm, but I know that kenvi had those guns."

"It sounds like... This seems to be a past that is not easy to track." Lorraine seemed to insert words absently, and his slow tone made it impossible to distinguish his mood. "The story of four years ago, the distant new world, the flow of military industry in France, a noble count and a disappeared criminal..."

"In this way, in order to wash away the pitfalls and grievances suffered by the chamber of Commerce, I am willing to fund a thousand pounds. Please dig those guns out of the legendary seabed."

Emmons was stunned: "sorry, what did you say?"

"A thousand pounds, give me my innocence."

Emmons blinked: "but it seems that I should report this kind of news to the Admiralty and ask them to transfer more people for more detailed investigation..."

"Two thousand pounds." Lorraine tapped Shaq's stamp twice with his finger. "Before everything comes out, don't make a big fuss, lest your ability to work be questioned."

Emmons was still very embarrassed: "however, this investigation is very difficult. Thirty two pounds are strictly prohibited non civilian firearms. For non professionals, it looks like an 18 pound legal cannon..."

"Three thousand pounds." Lorraine knocked on the stamp for the third time. "The investigation can be carried out slowly. Anyway, the kingdom of Portugal will not perish in a short time. Although the king was stupid, he didn't seem to be short-lived."

"As you said, this matter is also related to diplomatic relations..."

"Four thousand pounds."

"You forgot to calculate your Majesty's attention to this matter..."

"Five thousand pounds."

Emmons finally hesitated.

He stood up and paced back and forth in the narrow Cabin: "are you really going to help me five thousand pounds to dig deep into this secret?"

"Sincere."

"When can I get the money?"

"Someone will connect with you in 10 minutes. You will specify the time, place and receiver."

Emmons thought again: "Mr. President, you should understand that I can't delay the investigation report indefinitely. In fact, the best state is that I can submit a sufficiently detailed preliminary report before the end of this incident."

"I have a full set of copies of the sea trial documents of valkiri and the lady on hand. The original is sailing in the Atlantic Ocean. I think having these, together with your next field inspection, should be enough to form a detailed report. It's also good for me. After all, the whereabouts of those guns have nothing to do with me. I just want to be innocent."

"Sure enough, communication is the best way to solve the problem!" Emmons happily extended his hand to Lorraine. "Mr. President, where is your fleet going next? Field inspection. I hope to see the live firing of Shipborne guns."

"You'll see it." Lorraine got up and shook hands with Emmons. "I've found the shooting range. Muscat has beautiful scenery, pleasant climate, and is located in a desolate place, which has nothing to do with the civilized world. If you shoot there, you can watch it as long as you want."