Chapter 485

In the blink of an eye, two months passed.

It is July now. The hot air is distorted wantonly under the hot sun, and the outdoor temperature is rising day after day. It is not cool even on the night of sun rotation, which makes people unable to lift any energy.

Lorraine lay lazily on the sofa chair, closed her eyes and enjoyed the light or heavy finger pressure from her scalp.

Noah's fingers are attached to the magical magic. The seemingly ordinary actions will not only take away the heat, but also take away the power, making people fall into a strange and blurred space and swim away from all elements of the real world.

The long holiday continues.

In the pansy manor, Lorraine and his sailors enjoyed a rare leisure.

Fishing, barbecue, swimming, sunbathing, hunting in the woods or boating on the lake from time to time. Anyway, every plant and every creature here is the property of Drake chamber of Commerce.

For Miami, pansy is like Beverly Hills in New York. A total of 30000 acres of land has mountains and water, deep forests, narrow pure white beaches and scattered small plank roads. The plank roads can park more than ten meters long boats and only need to park such harmless yachts.

A total of more than 20 luxury houses with different styles are scattered in the corners of the manor. Some are close to the boundary, some are far away, some are regarded as the main residence, and some are occasionally used only when the owner is on vacation

Their owners, without exception, are chamber of Commerce or even big people in the town. Whether the owner is at home or not, there are responsible housekeepers who take care of them all year round.

There is also an Indian village with a population of more than 300 and three pioneer villages with a total population of more than 600.

Most of the pioneers are Drake's long-term contract, or because of illness or disability, or love rural landscape, and bring their families to settle here.

The backbone of the Indian village is the group of free people in Lusi. The Miskito tribe of Kao is not here. They do not live in service industry. Their main concentration is in the worker community of Hekou town.

These two tribes are the key to the close contact and non-interference between Lorraine and the Florida natives.

After all, Indians can't really believe in foreign whites. Only through these "albino" compatriots can they have the patience to feel the difference between Drake chamber of Commerce and other whites.

The chamber of Commerce neither regards them as monsters nor has any interest in enslaving them. The two sides only have pure commercial relations. Drake uses their scarce materials to buy manpower and some cheap raw materials, such as wood, stone, soil and so on.

During the transaction, some Indians chose to move to Lianzhen, mainly because of marriage and a few working relationships. For example, they met a suitable employer other than Drake chamber of Commerce in Miami Beach.

They further deepened the blending of Miami and the Florida Peninsula.

In a word, the development trend of Miami Lian Town should be good, right?

Stable and growing foreign immigration, a small amount of peaceful local erosion, a fair but white dominated social order, legislation and administration fully implementing Drake's values, and a rapidly prosperous regional economy.

If this state is placed in any individual colony, Lorraine dares to assert that Miami's future will be full of light, and will soon be recognized as a formal administrative unit, except in Florida

National contradiction is the first indisputable contradiction in Florida.

As the largest concentration of Indians in North America, there are hundreds of tribes and millions of Indians living here.

Powerful, they don't need to look at the white people's face and beg for help. On the contrary, since the Spanish landed in 1513, although the white people have competed for this land for nearly 300 years, they have never really become the master here, let alone carry out such large-scale development and construction as Miami.

Lorraine knew that the powers were not optimistic about the development of Miami.

Spain, the Lord of Florida recognized by the international community, has been reluctant to send mayors and tax officials to take office from St. Augustine. Even under the guidance of Lorraine, the town council has submitted three rounds of applications to the governor's office.

"Why are you so determined not to get involved with Miami?"

Lorraine muttered and changed to a more comfortable position, put his forehead against Noah's soft belly, and opened his eyes to the landing window.

The view under the French window is unique.

The sun shines through the clear glass and cuts out a square bright yellow on the carpet.

In the middle of the bright yellow, Haina and white ears lie on their sides in the same posture, like a pair of asymmetric brackets, watching Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's dream.

Languid, boneless and expressionless, Haina made of water supports heavy books, and her white ears made of water blink amber vertical pupils.

Probably after reading a page, white ears licked their paws to build the page. Haina slapped the cat's paws open, licked her fingers and turned the book to the next page.

No one is willing to break the pleasant silence. The problem is that the book is a Spanish translation, and as Lorraine knows, neither white ear nor Haina can understand the words in the book

Lorraine coughed, "Haina, aren't you hot?"

Haina borrowed her eyes from the page: "it's very warm. The sun dried ink smells good."

"Er... Then why turn the page?"

"If a page is dried for a long time, the taste will be weak."

This explanation is really impeccable

Lorraine patted Noah's hand and sat up. "Haina, do you think the Indians will attack us?"

"Attack?" Haina thought for a moment. "There are seven Indian tribes within 100 kilometers. Miskito has sorted out their intelligence. A total of 74 people are qualified to be patriarchs. As long as they are killed, these tribes will fall apart."

"Meow!"

Lorraine was so moved: "Noah, what do you think?"

"Miami is very friendly to Indians..." Noah bowed her head, not as powerful as white ears. "If the Roma meet such neighbors, we will enthusiastically perform songs and dances for them."

"But when we leave, we may borrow some money from them... Just a little, you know, the Roma don't want much..."

Lorraine understood for a while. "You mean Indians might want more?"

"I don't know." Noah's head dropped lower. "But just as no one wants to trust the Roma, you won't really trust the Indians, will you?"

"Really..."

Lorraine's doubts were solved. Noah was right in his words. The root of all problems was the word trust.

Spaniards, Indians and Lorraine, as the core three parties affecting the development of Miami, are unwilling to give real trust to the other two parties.

The Spaniards do not believe that Miami can develop steadily without interference, and that Lorraine will truly and completely hand over Miami's power.

Lorraine did not believe that the greed of the Spanish would stop at administrative power and a small amount of taxes, nor did he believe that the Indians would always be as secure as they are now.

The Indian situation is similar.

They probably have been waiting for Spain to kick Lorraine off the "puppet on the table", or Lorraine took the initiative to tear off the mask of kindness and hypocrisy.

The awkward tripartite relationship leads to the fact that the main position of the town hall of Miami Lian Town has been vacant. Without the mayor of the town with official background, of course, she can not be upgraded from a private black port to a real "town".

This is not good news

Although in the short term, the business model of black port can allow Drake chamber of Commerce to enjoy the rich taxes and other benefits in Miami, looking at the whole history of big navigation, which black port has a shelf life of more than 30 years?

On bourgeoisia's shortsightedness and weakness.

Lorraine suddenly thought of this specious slogan that he often heard in the last life.

Shortsightedness and weakness are defects. They are not so much congenital defects of the bourgeoisie as inherent defects of the human species.

Because man is a profit seeking creature, small profit is wealth, medium profit is name, and great profit is righteousness. Businessmen are based on small profits, so shortsightedness and weakness are particularly obvious in businessmen.

Businessmen are eager to pursue profits. They live because of profits and are accompanied by profits.

They are very vulnerable to temptation and go astray. Under the current social background, they are very easy to break through the bottom line and rules for immediate interests in the absence of constraints.

Such as looting, smuggling and selling stolen goods.

Those who go against the mainstream will come to an end. Most people understand this truth. However, the nature of capital is doomed that businessmen will be tempted. Cities and towns purely operated by businessmen will gradually deflect to the wrong development path until criminals become the mainstream and cities and towns come to an end.

Regularization is the only right way for commercial towns to prosper for a long time.

Join a country and introduce the mandatory constraints and legal concepts of the country, which will become the shackles of businessmen and citizens.

At first glance, Lorraine will lose a lot, including administrative power, legislative power and some taxes.

But Miami will become a legal place, and Drake's foundation can prosper for a long time.

Lorraine patted her face.

"Spain is unwilling to enter Miami. On the one hand, it is not optimistic about the development of Miami and does not want to stimulate the Indians. On the other hand, it is because Miami develops too fast and Drake chamber of Commerce has too strong control over Lianzhen."

"Then let Britain take over the administration of Miami... No, Spain will go crazy."

"If Miami is completely handed over to Spain and the chamber of commerce becomes residents and guests... It won't work. I'm not a big wrongdoer."

"Then continue to maintain the status quo... It's nothing in recent years. If it exceeds 10 years, it will be bad for the development of Miami."

"When on earth can the United States free up its hands to clean up Florida?"

"Really not... How about Jianguo?"

Speaking of this, Lorraine picked up Noah's little hand and slapped himself, frightening Noah

But Lorraine kept talking to himself.

"In the 18th century, we sought the founding of a nation in North America... Although Spain is much easier to bully than Britain, Miami is far worse than the thirteen states, and the Drake chamber of commerce is not as good as the continental Parliament."

"Nothing. Do you still have to talk to the Spanish?"

"Carmen... Calculate the time. Should she come back?"