Chapter 416

The observers hurriedly moved their home to the sunflower.

Although the cabin there was small, even VIP guests such as observers had to travel in two, and the voyage to the South would not start until breakfast tomorrow, they moved there.

Lorraine knew they needed time to interpret the details of the treaty, including what Drake wanted, what they wanted, what Drake was willing to give them, and what they could fight for.

This is the value of the draft.

The real consultation will start with their mercenary team bleeding in Muscat. Until then, everything is vain.

Baker and Emmons never looked up.

They also have a contract, which is very different from the contract marked with clover. Their contract is called the Anglo Malaysian friendly trade agreement.

The details of the agreement include: Britain needs to build and operate five large commercial terminals for the Sultanate within 10 years, including mirbat, Sur, Matra, Suhar and kumzar. In return, Britain will preside over the tax, customs, judicial and defense arrangements of the terminal in the next 68 years;

Terminal transaction tax is the sacred and inviolable national property of the state of Sudan, which shall be settled every three years and uniformly handed over to the financial department of the government of the state of Sudan without arrears; Tariff is the pledge of construction projects. During the period of British custody of the wharf, it will be divided into five parts for win-win and mutual benefit;

Britain has the sole jurisdiction in the self built wharf area, including Sudanese nationals, who must live with reference to British laws in the jurisdiction;

In order to protect the safety and order of British businessmen, overseas Chinese and terminal management companies, Britain has the right to station no more than 74 warships or fleets in each port, and assign no more than 240 Marines. It can recruit, arm and train local police. In principle, the ratio of local police to garrison is no more than 5:1;

For the convenience of coordination, the garrisons of the five ports shall make unified calculation and coordinated dispatching, and the total number of garrisons shall not exceed 370 fleets and 1200 Marines;

5. The Hong Kong Garrison has the obligation to protect the Sultanate from the enemy of the sea, and has the obligation to assist the Sultanate in rebuilding its navy and training modern naval officers;

Britain leases the whole island of Masila from the Sultanate, including all the products and population within 300 miles of the island's coastline. The rent is 12 pounds per square mile per year for 99 years;

During the lease term, Masila island is regarded as British territory. Britain enjoys all natural rights in the mainland and enjoys the priority of one-time renewal. The renewal term is 99 years. The renewal fee can be determined by the then leaders of both parties through consultation;

The batinai region of the Sultanate shall enjoy the same right of autonomy as the riaman region, including armed, diplomatic, financial and administrative independence. The batinai governor's office shall be established. The Governor shall be determined through consultation between Britain and Malaysia. Neither party has the right to unilaterally deprive, replace and try the batinai governor, nor to adjust the existing borders of batinai in any form

Wait, wait.

The above are only some of the more eye-catching details in the whole agreement. Baker and Emmons have watched it over and over again for more than five times when Lorraine and Carmen jointly hypnotized the three observers.

Their hearts can only be awed.

This era is not without the concept of semi colony, let alone the evil existence of plundering sovereignty by power and proclaiming justice by guns.

For example, the contents of the agreement determined by Lorraine, excluding some small items related to the chamber of Commerce, most of the contents are not his original. At least in the long colonial years, Britain has implemented similar or even more hegemonic provisions in other places countless times. It can be said that it has rich experience.

But the semi colonial choice itself means that the country has no value of being completely conquered.

Most of them have strong or potential above the standard, and their representation is clear enough to let every brainy British know that adhering to King's landing will only outweigh the gains.

Because of this, Baker had never heard of a semi colonial process led by a single chamber of Commerce.

Because even the world's top chaebol chamber of Commerce, in theory, should not have the ability to defeat a sub strong country independently.

Until tonight, Baker felt real for the first time.

Known as the most powerful navy in the Arab world, the Sudanese bagala guard was completely destroyed;

The coastal fort of Matola port was completely destroyed;

The defense guard regiment stationed at Milani castle, this dry city armed force, has obviously given up its responsibilities and become a spectator or even an accomplice under Lorraine's "a cup of black tea".

In the blink of an eye, only the second regiment of the National Guard guarding the Jalali castle and the Sudanese guard guarding the Imperial Palace remained in Muscat's impregnable capital defense line, but who knows what Lorraine has prepared for them?

Drake chamber of Commerce... Lorraine is pressing his opponent's arrogant head bit by bit with his great power. He is about to press his opponent to death on the negotiation table and turn all his achievements and advantages so far into sweet and delicious fruits of victory with a piece of contract.

Baker doesn't understand why Lorraine should take out such an alliance under the city dominated by the British rather than Drake chamber of Commerce.

Fortunately, Lorraine gave him a private hint in advance.

He waited patiently until the three excited observers were finished, and then he found Lorraine enjoying the wind alone on the deck of the stern cabin surrounded by the distant fire.

"Mr. President..."

Lorraine turned back and nodded to baker with a silent smile. "Across the sea, if I said I really didn't expect such a tragic scene to happen, do you believe it?"

"If you want to be trusted, I'm willing to go against my heart," Baker said, which was completely different from the merchant's answer.

"It seems that you also think this fire is against humanity..." Lorraine smiled bitterly. "Those who cry in the sea of fire are not soldiers, not warriors, nor do they have the ability to cross the sea to threaten me. Burning them does not shake the Sudan's determination to resist... In short, I have no reason not to show mercy on them."

"But I did not rehearse this treacherous and cunning conspiracy."

"When I released the second prince, I never thought I could push Muscat to this point. Even at that time, I knew nothing about Muscat. The purpose of releasing the second prince was to find traitors among the Omani people. Then I found them and bought Mirani castle through them."

"On the other side, the loyal Prince did not accept my temptation and took my perfunctory as true. The combination of the two is the purgatory in front of us."

Baker suddenly didn't know what to say.

He vaguely felt that what Lorraine said was true. Although true sounded more false than false, as Lorraine said, he had no reason not to show cheap kindness to civilians.

He tried to calm down: "Mr. President, the omniscient Lord knows the goodness in your heart..."

"First, there is no goodness in my heart, at least not to this country; second, my lord neither knows everything nor cares about these trifles." Lorraine waved his hand. "Has Mr. manager read our draft agreement?"

"I've seen it five times." since Lorraine didn't have the leisure to continue talking about heavy topics, Baker naturally followed suit and immediately turned to business, "I'm very confused."

"Wondering what?"

"Reason, or motive." Baker said bluntly, "Great Britain can't give you more than a country that is not poor or weak. Why do you want to give up the current good situation, take yourself off the position of leader, and be willing to be the foil of Great Britain. Patriotic?"

Lorraine laughed: "patriotism is really a universal word. He explained everything that should be explained at once."

"What's your reason..."

"You're right. My only reason is patriotism," Lorraine said in a joking voice. "Portugal slandered me, so there was this war. Up to now, both you and those interesting observers seem to have forgotten the cause of the war, that is, the Muscat Sultanate sheltered Portuguese pirates."

"Those pirates still remain in gaelir. My people have sneaked in and know that governor Fernandez of Mombasa has negotiated several times to ask gaelir to hand over the Portuguese asylum, but gaelir refused. Why? Because the whole Sudanese country still remembers the cause of the war. Those Portuguese are the target and only belong to the winner of the war."

"Because of this, this war actually has a strange ecology. Both sides of a normal war should have their own justice, but this time, I am the only justice."

"What's the use of justice?" Lorraine shrugged. "It's no use. It can neither change the essence of my aggressor, nor bind me to give up my determination to pursue interests. In the final analysis, it has only one disturbing effect, that is, because of the existence of justice and evil, the Sultanate can't change its course in the process of war and use these Portuguese to reach reconciliation with me."

"The war must go on until one side is defeated and loses everything, both for me and Sudan." at this point, Lorraine stamped his foot sadly: "it's a pity that you're not good at military. Maybe you should talk to Colonel Emmons."

Baker was stunned. "Why did you suddenly mention Colonel Emmons?"

"Because he will tell you the truth of this war and the weakness and weakness of Drake chamber of commerce under the cover of rapid progress."

"You should have heard my conversation with the observers. I told them that I would bombard Muscat for 45 days. Why? Drake has always advocated the principle of benefit sharing. Here is only the second. The root cause of arranging long-time bombardment is that I can't do anything except bombardment until I have enough reinforcements."

"The Sudanese guard has 2000 well-equipped people; Jalali castle has 30 heavy guns enough to cover more than half of the city and 1500 well-trained soldiers; Milani castle has another 1500 people as prison. No one knows how long my purchase can lure them... But only 880 people who have landed can I transfer to the land."

"I've played my cards." Lorraine grinned. "If I want to be a winner of the war, I can only tempt you with greater interests. After all, in this vast primitive continent, only you are qualified to let my dear motherland uphold limited justice for me on the premise of no loss."

"Tonight's conversation should be over."

"Dear Mr. Vero Baker, please tell me whether it was a gold axe, a silver axe or a murderous iron axe that you fell in this bay?"