Chapter 436

The war of aggression was turned into a counter insurgency war in the middle of the road, which was a strange change that no one could expect.

In view of the tension in the Caribbean, after the war, Lorraine set out to return to the Caribbean with people and things related to the lawsuit, but he left Carmen and Pierce's Secret Service fleet in Muscat.

They will preside over the next negotiations related to the chamber of Commerce and, more importantly, reap dividends.

War will produce dividends. Even if Drake chamber of commerce does not launch war for the purpose of dividends, it will still generate benefits. The difference is just how much.

This time, the core bonus is three.

First, after taking over the logistics of milaniburg, the chamber of Commerce delivered about 3000 pounds of living materials to the castle, together with the transformed war reparations. The bargaining price for the new government was 37000 pounds, twelve times the interest, and the children and the old were not deceived.

The account book was completely handed over to the African branch. Eddie can choose to recover it in 12 installments or exempt it in part or in full in the face of greater interests without reporting to the General Chamber of Commerce for approval.

The second part is zuvo port.

After the capture of Masila Island, Lorraine regarded zuwo and its surrounding 40 square kilometers of land as something in his bag. Eddie will be responsible for completing the legal procedures for the transfer of property rights. The only thing to pay attention to is to card the time of the procedures before the signing of the unequal treaty between Britain and the new government.

This is not to be afraid of the British going back.

After all, with the value of Lorraine in the Muscat war, the British colonial authorities would not create obstacles to Lorraine's control of zuvo, whether or not Vero Baker presided over the negotiations.

However, Britain has no reason to give the concession land to Drake chamber of Commerce. Taking the land from the new government can save the chamber of Commerce tens of thousands of pounds of land purchase costs.

Generally speaking, this principle is also applicable to the other three chambers of Commerce.

Unfortunately, different from the ready-made zuwo, if they want to implement welfare, they need to select a site and measure it in a strange barren land, and schedule negotiations with the team led by elamah and manzeri. The time is much more tense than Lorraine.

It is almost necessary for them to pay a certain price. As the gold owner of this gold group, all they can decide is the type of price and who will pay it.

The third dividend is the development secret agreement of batineh region, and hassadi automatically gets 35% of the operating dividend every time Drake establishes a company in batineh region.

This is also the key reason why Carmen will be left by Lorraine.

Batinai region has unique commercial value. Suhar, its capital, is guarded at the entrance of the Persian Gulf. It is an important commercial port in the Arab world. The territory is also rich in gold, iron, nickel and other mineral resources.

The secret contract allows Drake chamber of Commerce to have a certain degree of official characteristics in this area, and the loopholes deliberately left in the contract make the value of this identity unclear. The value of the secret treaty depends entirely on the greed of Drake chamber of Commerce and the independent operation ability of hassadi, or Imam forces.

Lorraine has drawn two ink lines for the development of the batineh region.

The African branch opened an exchange in Suhar, developed the Arab world trade line, subcontracted and built a heavy loading and unloading wharf with a scale of no less than 3 trestles and 10 berths.

The General Assembly asset management company prepares to establish Drake industrial and mining group in Cape Town, examines and acquires two or three high-quality industrial and mining enterprises, establishes batinay mine operation company within half a year and puts it into operation as soon as possible.

The first general manager of the industrial and mining group has been determined to be Aziz, who also holds the position of the Federation and the African branch. Lorraine promised him that after the group's assets exceed 500000 pounds and established a stable profit state, the industrial and mining group will receive the same treatment as the maritime group and become the sixth independent economy under Derek's name.

Aziz is full of energy.

After arranging these, the varkiri single ship went south, crossed the Cape of good hope, and after a short rest in Cape Town, it went straight to Gibraltar.

Lorraine met Ramos there and entrusted the representatives of Portuguese slave traders, the Sudanese mission and three friendly chambers of Commerce who boarded the ship to the Northwest Branch of Europe, which was in a lawsuit with the queen of Portugal. Only then did he officially embark on his return journey via the mid latitude route and the spring trade wind.

It was already March 21.

Valkiri has the most top transoceanic ability in this era, stable and high-speed. After 22 days of navigation, Lorraine finally returned to his own Lusi harbor.

"Enter the port coordination distance!"

"Three kilometers into the port!"

"Raise the trade union flag and dock the pilot!"

"Pilot information confirmation, clearance of inbound line, entering flagship exclusive Berth 1!"

"Sign confirmation! Valkiri, welcome home!"

"Port entry!"

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Port Lusi, Jamaica, is the home port of the fleet directly under Drake General Chamber of Commerce and the seat of Drake General Chamber of Commerce.

This port witnessed the development and growth of Drake chamber of Commerce.

Back in 1778, when Lorraine first arrived in Luxi, there were only three private ports and a crude fishing port with three plank roads and six berths in the whole harbor.

After more than six years of acquisition and construction, it has become a prosperous place.

The three kilometer long coastline is separated by a reef belt.

On the west side, with Luxi manor as the center and an 800 meter long beach, nine stone plank roads of different sizes and a total of 27 berths are built. It is the exclusive wharf of the fleet directly under the General Chamber of Commerce.

Attached to Luxi town on the east side, there are 12 stone docks with a total of 43 berths. It is Luxi commercial port operated by Drake chamber of Commerce.

71 chambers of Commerce from seven countries have set up exchanges here. The continuous warehouses have occupied almost all the plantations near the sea except Lusi manor, with an annual cargo throughput of more than 700000 pounds, creating a lot of taxes for the colonial authorities of Jamaica.

Luxi has become a dazzling pearl in the Caribbean Sea and the most prosperous town in Jamaica except Kingston and montgombe. Even in terms of tax making capacity, she surpassed montgombe the year before last and became Jamaica's thick purse second only to Kingston.

Drake chamber of Commerce showed amazing strength in the operation of this port. Lorraine spent a lot of money to buy land and expand the port, but was not in a hurry to recover the cost.

The operation here refers to the public wharf. It is free to enter the port and cheap to spend the night. It also provides well functioning port services, fair commodity valuation and high compensation security guarantee.

The wharf also has complete ship repair and maintenance services. Everyone knows that Drake maritime group is the strongest shipbuilding giant in the new world.

The cost of operating the terminal in this way is obviously huge. There are nearly 100 port employees in the whole terminal alone. The salary, security and huge initial investment are not enough to use only the limited income.

Some people speculate that the dock profits of Drake chamber of commerce mainly come from the operation subsidies given by the colonial authorities, which are rumored to be as high as 10% of the annual transaction tax.

But in any case, Lorraine has really provided tangible benefits to businessmen in the Caribbean Sea. Coupled with the strong influence of the hundred business associations, it should prosper and become more and more prosperous.

In 1784, the transaction tax of Luxi town climbed up to 50000 pounds for the first time. The whole town residents enjoyed the dividends of the port. The port area alone provided more than 500 jobs for the town.

The mayor suggested that Lorraine run for district Councillor. After much thinking, Lorraine refused to run in person, but recommended Leonard, who was elected with a high support rate of 84% in last year's re-election.

There is no doubt that Drake chamber of Commerce has become an integral part of Luxi town. Lorraine Drake is their pride, and Luxi manor in the northwest corner of the town has become a resort in the hearts of the villagers.

Lorraine raised them, Lorraine sheltered them.

And today, their patron saint is back!

Although the weather beaten golden deer was replaced by valkiri that the townspeople had never seen before, the tricolor Corydalis chamber of Commerce flag, which was exclusive to Lorraine and wore a rose laurel, clearly told everyone that Lorraine was on the world's unique armored ship!

Valkiri glided across the open sea outside the commercial port.

"Look, look, it's president Drake's boat. He changed the boat!"

"He finally changed boats?!"

"Three color pansy on a white background, with a pirate crown on the edge of the pattern, and one of the seven roses... It is really the flagship of President Drake, and there is no second pirate flag on a white background in the whole Caribbean!"

"His new ship is so big... Hell, it can't be a first-class ship?"

"How can it be a first-class ship! The president is a law-abiding pirate gentleman. Don't you see that she has only one gun cabin!"

"Ah... That is... Level 4?"

"It must be level Four, level Four in iron armor! I just don't understand. Isn't Leeward Islands still fighting? Why did the president suddenly change his flagship and come back..."

"You're talking about the AP fleet's crusade against Derek?"

"What else? I've been fighting for months..."

"Last October, I swore. Now in April, the two sides have been entangled at sea except that Christmas has been suspended for a month. I heard that more and more forces are involved, including Blackbeard's fleet."

"Won't it become the third war of association?"

"Who knows? The big businessmen of the associated press are on the front line. How much safer are the routes in the Caribbean than before? War is war. We have Drake!"

"Yes, we have Drake!"

"Long live Drake!"

"Long live Lucie!"

"Long live the baishang associated press!"

"Long live!"