Looking at the serious expression of the lieutenant colonel, Fang Lang knew that his chance had come.

"Okay, then I'll tell you that a place can hire a ship that dares to travel to Brazil. Now it should be able to transfer three ships of about 5,000 tons, but I estimate the freight may be very expensive. After all, there are German submarines everywhere on the route now." Fang Lang said of course the three freighters he had just purchased from Brigadier General Jackson.

Originally, he was planning to use these three boats to return to Brazil to get goods for sale. Now, it would be better to go to Brazil without empty ships. Originally, Fang Lang could have the ship go to New York to purchase goods and transport them to Italy, but New York Port is now transporting military supplies, and it is difficult for civilian ships to find berths.

The most important reason is that Fang Lang's uncle Yang Zong runs a small private workshop-style cigarette factory in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and the business has never been very good.

At this time, Fang Lang wanted to invest in his uncle's cigarette factory, expand his business scale, and develop the cigarette factory through this rare opportunity. As an important production area of ​​tobacco, the procurement cost and labor cost are very low, so the cost of purchasing cigarettes in Brazil is lower than in New York. Fang Lang has no reason not to take care of his own business.

Here I will introduce Fang Lang’s mother’s family. My grandfather’s father is Fang Lang’s grandfather, who is a survivor of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom who came to Brazil with Fang Lang’s great-grandfather. His ancestral home is Hunan, but my grandfather got married late and had a daughter Yang Xiuer and his son Yang Zong. It is obvious that Yang Xiuer is Fang Lang’s mother.

The old man bought land like his great master in his early years. When his grandfather was young, he didn't want to be tied to the land, so he started doing business and bought tobacco in the Chinese planting area to resell it. Later, after hearing who was fooling him, he bought a small cigarette equipment and opened a cigarette factory. However, the cigarettes in the cigarette factory had no characteristics, so they were half dead. When it was passed to my uncle, my uncle wanted to sell the cigarette factory many times, but because no one took over and the staff working in the factory were all old people in the factory, it was difficult to cut off everyone's livelihood, and it became the current state of being useless.

Uncle Yang Zong married a Portuguese wife and gave birth to two sons, but he didn't want to take over his uncle's cigarette factory. His eldest son Yang Qian is now a small clerk in the Sao Paulo Municipal Government. He wants to go on a career, but he is unwilling to go home to face the half-dead cigarette factory. His youngest son Yang Kun is still studying in college. In Fang Lang's impression, Yang Kun is also not interested in the cigarette factory at home, but wants to be a teacher.

So Fang Lang considered going back to buy the factory or investing in shares, and continued to let his uncle manage it, so that his grandfather's home business would disappear, and when it grows bigger, see if the two cousins ​​have any ideas to help manage it.

Lieutenant Colonel Graham heard Fang Lang say that there were ships that could be hired for Brazil routes. He was so excited that he hurriedly said, "Money is a small problem, we pay US dollars. Let's go to the other party's company to talk now!"

Unfortunately, Fang Lang had not greeted Mr. Coburn in advance and had not received the ship, so he definitely could not take him over right now. He could only shirk his mind: "Sir, don't worry first. Colonel Attilio Parisi just asked me to go to the US Navy to go through the ship handover procedures, so I have to go and receive the ship first. Let's do this! I'll order a table in the Cantina restaurant tonight, and invite the other party to come with you, and eat and chat?"

Lieutenant Colonel Graham was helpless when he heard that Fang Lang had a mission. After all, the military order was like a mountain. At the same time, he said to Fang Lang that he would invite the other party to dinner at the famous Cantina restaurant in Naples tonight, so he hurriedly said: "Of course it's okay. Don't worry about this kind of entertainment for business. You don't need to treat you. Just serve as the entertainment fee for our logistics department. I will arrange my adjutant to make a reservation immediately and we will see you in the evening!"

Fang Lang didn't expect that in Brazil at this time, there was also a saying of catering entertainment fees. Of course, he would not mind being able to use public funds from the Brazilian government to eat and drink.

"Okay, sir, then we'll see you in the evening!" After that, Fang Lang stopped staying and seized the time to escape. Even though the room was much warmer than outside, he was unwilling to continue staying in this room full of odor.

After leaving Lieutenant Colonel Graham's office, Fang Lang did not go directly to find Brigadier General Jackson to receive the ship, but first went to the Global Trade office building and brought Mr. Coburn and the three Italian captains and first mates he recruited. Then he entered the US Navy camp again and found Brigadier Jackson.

After introducing Brigadier General Jackson to Mr. Coburn, he came to the berth of the ship together. At this time, four large transport ships were parked on the berth. Judging from the construction style of the ship, three of them should have been made by German shipyards and one was made by Italian shipyards.

It is obvious that the ships in the German shipyard are newer than those in the Italian shipyard, and the designed load capacity of the transport ships in the German shipyard is 5,500 tons, while the Italian ship is exactly 5,000 tons. The four ships are powered by steam turbines, and the maximum speed is about fifteen knots. Although it is lower than the maximum speed of the victory wheel of the 18 knots, it also exceeds the eleven knots of the ordinary free wheel.

The ships were all Axis steamers seized intact and there was no damage. After Brigadier General Jackson sent someone to inspect and confirm that the ship was in very good condition. The US military had just carried out in-depth maintenance on the ship and was in full oil state and could set off at any time.

Fang Lang directly handed over three German-made ships to Coburn, and he accepted Italian-made ships for the Brazilian Navy. Better ships must be left for himself. Fang Lang clearly divided the difference between public and private. There is nothing wrong with this Italian-made ship, but the load capacity is slightly smaller and the ship age is slightly longer, which does not affect normal use.

After explaining to Mr. Coburn how to deal with Lieutenant Colonel Graham at night, Fang Lang returned to the Brazilian Naval Base with the ship's information, reported the handover to Colonel Attilio Parisi, and asked Mr. Colonel to arrange for entry of the entry information to officially place the ship into the battle sequence of the Brazilian Navy. Of course, there are many cumbersome procedures that do not require Fang Lang to worry about.

Only Brazilian naval personnel need to seize the time to inspect the ship tonight, and Fang Lang will become the official captain of the Brazilian navy tomorrow.

It was soon six:30 pm, and Fang Lang came to the Cantina restaurant early. In fact, according to the living habits of Italians, dinner is usually eaten very late and will not start until eight o'clock. However, this time, because Fang Lang plays the role of an intermediary, he must arrive at the restaurant early. After all, Lieutenant Colonel Graham, as a Brazilian, did not know that Italian dinner was a real dinner.

Sure enough, when Fang Lang came to the restaurant, Lieutenant Colonel Graham's special car had already parked at the entrance of the restaurant. Lieutenant Colonel Graham, wearing casual clothes, squeezed out his fat body from the passenger seat of Willis Jeep. Seeing him jumping out of the Jeep with difficulty, Fang Lang believed that if the Jeep could speak, there would be a national scolding.

Fang Lang stepped forward to meet Lieutenant Colonel Graham and said, "Sir, Italians usually start at 8 o'clock in the evening, so we came a little early. Although I told the other party that the dinner would start at 7 o'clock, Italians are not punctual people." Although it is not good to say bad things about Italians behind their father-in-law, they must show that they are just middlemen.

Otherwise, Lieutenant Colonel Graham would not know what his company would think. After all, the current Brazilian government is an authoritarian government, and Fang Lang had already thought about it that all investments in Brazil would not be to directly establish companies in Brazil in his own name, but to invest in Brazil in the name of European and American companies, it would be safer and would not cause unnecessary covetousness.

When Ragham heard that he was an Italian, he couldn't help but frown: "The Italians are not reliable now. Are you sure this Italian can have three steamships that can run to Brazil."

"Please rest assured, I have known this company. The full name of this company is the Italian branch of Global Trading Co., Ltd., which is actually an Italian branch of an American company. Therefore, during this war, it was not confiscated as enemy capital. If you are not relieved, then we will arrange our own soldiers and ships on each ship, and there will be no problem." Fang Lang saw that Lieutenant Colonel Graham was worried about the Italians, so he hurried out of the company's American background.
Chapter completed!