Chapter 671

"Captain, 10 o'clock, long island is visible!"

Under the guidance of the lookout, Lorraine pushed the mirror to move smoothly to 10 o'clock, and then slowly lifted it up until the lush coastline came into view.

The distance is about 42 kilometers. The result of the calculation jumped out of his mind.

The current speed is 7 knots, the wind is calm and the view is good. Valkiri is 42 kilometers away from the central coastline of Long Island, and it will take about 5 hours to reach New York.

On December 12, 1787, valkiri arrived in New York.

New York is the heart of the United States. As the festival approaches, there are still a large number of merchant ships on the busy inbound and outbound routes, and there are more than 10 in the field of vision alone.

You know, the Christmas holiday is the off-season of shipping. In order to make time for their sailors and excellent sailors, most chambers of Commerce have taken the initiative to close down their business scale.

New York port can still maintain such a large flow at this time, which shows its daily prosperity. No wonder chuck Parker, President of the American chapter, has claimed more than once that New York has more potential than Miami and may become London in the new world in the near future.

Ironically, Lorraine, who has the memory of later generations, thinks chuck is talking nonsense, and others without the memory of later generations also think chuck is talking nonsense. The meaning of the two nonsense is different, but the blow to chuck is not much different.

Fortunately, the blow did not prevent chuck from making a heavy bet on New York.

Last year, he worked hard at the branch board meeting to win a flat land adjacent to upper New York Bay in Brooklyn town on Long Island at a high price of 40000 pounds, covering an area of 1500 acres (about 6 square kilometers).

He plans to build a drake shipping center integrating wharf, dock, storage, freight and bulk trade there. The project plan has been sent to Carmen's information management company. It is expected that the construction will take five years and cost 120000 pounds.

Lorraine was supportive of the project.

Although the impression is that Brooklyn in the future is only the lower urban area of Greater New York, the land won by chuck is close to New York port. Once completed, it can be regarded as an extension of New York port or a better extension of supporting facilities. There is no need to worry about the prospect of the project.

The main obstacle to this investment is money.

The promise of the revolving door plan will be fulfilled in the near future. 70% of the Treasury of the asset management company has been sealed, let alone Lorraine wants to increase the pursuit investment, with an amount of up to 240000.

The capital chain of the association has been very tight. One of Carmen's trips to the north this time is to negotiate with chuck, either press the shipping center project to two years later, or stage the investment by stages, and the initial capital injection shall not exceed 30000.

It is conceivable that chuck will not be satisfied

If his mind was heavier, he might touch the old scar of "New World London", which made him mistakenly think that the board of directors of the general assembly was not interested in the project.

Would you like Carmen to be frank? After all, chuck is not only the president of the American chapter, but also Lorraine's agent in the United States. He is responsible for the dollar and the first bank project.

His priorities should be understandable. Even if he didn't understand, Carmen was able to convince him to understand.

Lorraine was thinking, and Karen grunted up the platform.

"Captain, look at 3 o'clock. It's about 20 kilometers away."

"Left and right?" Lorraine asked in silence.

"Uh... 16 to 24 kilometers?"

Lorraine happily decided to find it herself.

Karen's professional ability in lookout was so poor that he didn't look like a professional sailor. In fact, even during the period of the Artemis beauty, which was extremely short of manpower, Lorraine didn't try to let the three big and five thick Germanic men enter the lookout sequence.

It's the same this time. Karen appeared on the mast to accompany his wife to find the whale. Judging from his tone, he probably hit it. As for why he had to watch with Lorraine

Lorraine is ready to make complaints about it.

He soon found the "whale" 20 kilometers away. It was two slender warships, one large and one small, all black. They were chopping waves and chopping waves on the open sea, conducting tactical maneuver exercises.

"Constitution number and..."

"USS Maryland," Karen said firmly, "was delivered to the U.S. Navy together with the Constitution in July this year, which is the last batch of orders in 86."

"If I remember correctly, she should have joined the Baltimore fleet as the flagship together with two other brigantines. I don't know why she came to Long Island and started mobile training with the long island fleet flagship constitution..."

"General military mobilization..." Lorraine perfunctorily.

In fact, he also knew that his reason was untenable.

Because the Maryland has been established for only five months, the US Navy Department will admit that its earlier arrangements are inappropriate.

What's more, the sea drill was still going on near Christmas, which was almost tantamount to announcing that the two flagship ships of Long Island and Baltimore gave up their Christmas holiday.

What reason can persuade the sailors on board to give up their holidays? All Lorraine could think of was war. If the United States really has a combat plan in preparation, the reason why the Maryland appeared on Long Island is very clear. It can only be a military build-up.

"The Maryland..." he whispered, put down his goggles and stared at the two ship shadows wandering in the sky. "If it is really a build-up, the saga port should gather all the high-speed warships."

"But who is their goal? Can't even care about Christmas. Is Shaq going to invade New York?"

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In the evening, valkiri finally drove into Drake's exclusive berth at the mouth of the East River and near new port in New York. Chuck and old Leonard met at the wharf hand in hand and reported quietly when they saw Lorraine.

"Chairman, there are guests waiting for you. They have been waiting at the headquarters for half a day."

"Guest?" Lorraine frowned. "America? Or association?"

"Association."

Lorraine smiled and shook his head: "really, I'm still so old. Those old things..."

"How many people in the world have the opportunity to participate in a business plan worth 10 million pounds?" Chuck said indifferently. "Chairman, is my shipping center plan going to be postponed?"

"Did you guess?"

"I guessed when I heard that Secretary Hamilton was going to have a showdown at the Christmas dinner." he said, "considering that the promised stock capital should be fulfilled, I have asked the exchanges to concentrate their capital in New York. After removing the budget for next year, the total amount that can be transferred to the general assembly is 140000 pounds, and the limit is 270000 pounds."

"Carmen has enough cash." Lorraine waved his hand. "This year's dividends have been paid. Not to mention, just like you spend money on land in Brooklyn, don't underestimate the land price in Miami."

"I see. Send the cash back to the exchanges after Christmas." Chuck didn't say much. "Does the chairman want to meet the guests right away?"

"Go at once." Lorraine reluctantly stretched his waist. "Although he wants to see Pierce's wedding place first, if he doesn't see them immediately, those old people will talk about death..."