Chapter 18 Good things happen one after another (1)
Although the British royal family has lost its actual control over the UK and has become the mascot of the UK, the British royal family is still the top aristocracy in the UK, especially in name, and is still the supreme existence in the UK. However, the greed deep in the British bones has made
Hans' meeting with the British royal family was extremely difficult. While Tangcheng was busy in Chongqing and its surrounding areas, Hans, who was thousands of miles away, was also having difficulty negotiating and discussing with the British royal family.
Fortunately, Britain, which is already in tatters, is facing an extremely difficult situation. Post-war reconstruction is urgent. The British people, who have been tortured by the war, are on the verge of collapse. They not only need good news to cheer them up, but also need more.
The appearance of Hans quickly aroused the interest of the British royal family and aristocracy, especially the Egyptian oil and gas field exploration data that Hans produced, which has been confirmed.
Years of living in Shanghai have already trained Hans, a former intelligence elite, into a profiteer. Hans gave full play to his true nature as a profiteer, using the chips in his hands and all kinds of intelligence collected after coming to the UK to follow
The British royal family and noble gentlemen achieved the purpose of their trip bit by bit. When Hans sent a telegram to Tangcheng, he had already signed a contract with the British royal family on behalf of Tangcheng to agree to Tangcheng's establishment of a Myanmar Development Company.
According to the contract signed by Hans, the British royal family agreed that Tangcheng would come forward to form the Myanmar Development Company. Before the British government determined the candidate for the Governor of Myanmar, the Myanmar Development Company could represent the British royal family and exercise the jurisdiction granted by the British royal family in Myanmar. As a result,
The leader of this development company, Tangcheng, is required to hand over a certain percentage of its income to the British royal family every year. If the income handed over by Tangcheng exceeds half of the development company's income, the British royal family will indefinitely delay the deployment of the Governor of Myanmar.
This contract seems to be unfavorable to Tangcheng, but Hans cleverly played a trick in this contract. In this contract, it does not indicate that the development company needs to pay taxes to the British government. This means that,
The contract stipulates that the development company must pay taxes to the British royal family, including all the development company's profits in Myanmar. In other words, Tangcheng needs to use half of all profits to buy their asylum from the British royal family.
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But this was only a contract between Tang City and the British royal family. In addition, Hans also used the prospecting data to join forces with the British aristocracy to form the United Petroleum Company in accordance with Tang City's requirements. After Hans's information
In this newly formed alliance, the Myanmar Development Corporation
He holds 15% of the shares in United Petroleum Company, and these are the original shares that cannot be diluted. Hans has carefully calculated that these shares of United Petroleum Company alone are enough to compensate Tangcheng for paying the British royal family every year.
All costs.
That's not all. After confirming the shares of United Petroleum Company, Hans also secretly formed the Far East Tobacco Company with the white gloves of the British royal family. The raw material base and production factory of this tobacco company will be located in Myanmar. As a British
As a show of goodwill from the royal family, Hans was allowed to order five transport ships from British shipyards to transport cigarettes from Myanmar to all over the world. All in all, Hans's trip to England was full of rewards, which made Tangcheng happy.
Endless.
However, Tang Cheng was not satisfied with this. He also transferred most of the remaining US dollars in his Citibank account to Hans, asking him to order two bullet production lines from the UK or France, and if possible, some industrial lathes.
and equipment. Although Tang Cheng did not know the current specific situation in Europe, he knew that Britain and France, which were nearing the end of the European War, were both in the post-war reconstruction stage. Tang Cheng transferred nearly 2 million US dollars to Hans.
, it will definitely play a huge role.
Hans, who received the telegram and remittance, did not expect that Tang Cheng would believe in him so much. When he was still in Myanmar, because Tang Cheng's two brothers were also in Myanmar, Hans would have other thoughts in his heart.
He mistakenly thought that the two brothers from Tangcheng came to Burma to spy on him. But now, Hans's mood completely changed. How could someone who believed in him so much use him while secretly sending someone to help him?
People are spying on me. What's more, I have known Tang Cheng for so many years, but I have never seen or heard that Tang Cheng has done anything detrimental to me.
The greedy British people are indeed difficult to deal with. The man who came back to inherit the title of nobility has not contacted Hans for almost half a month. The situation in Britain has just stabilized, and the most important thing now is people who do things, so
, Hans immediately hired several British people to investigate the matter. After some investigation, Hans finally figured out the reason. It was the newly promoted noble officer who had been transferred to the North African theater. The other party's
Leaving without saying goodbye made Hans realize that this guy was probably trying to
To get rid of their control.
However, Hans didn't feel it was a pity at all. Because of his previous contact with the British royal family and the subsequent establishment of the United Petroleum Company, Hans was now a guest of many nobles in London. Now there are also big people from China.
With a sum of money, Hans felt that he finally had a place to use. He first focused on some small arsenals in the UK. Because of the previous European War, in order to fully guarantee the consumption of the frontline troops, the British government opened the door to civilians.
Qualified for some small arms production licenses.
What Tangcheng needs is a simple bullet production line, but Hans has his eyes on an entire arsenal, including a lot of equipment and machinery used for the production of light weapons. As the saying goes, it is easier to do things if you have money, and Hans still has a few
A British nobleman helped, and half a month after receiving the remittance, Hans had finalized the purchase of a small arsenal. This small arsenal could not only produce bullets of several different calibers, but also small-caliber ones.
mortar dan.
The European War is not over yet, and the war in South Asia is still going on. Although the British also have arsenals in India, the ammunition produced by Indian factories, Hans experienced it when he was in Burma, the things produced by the Indians are really bad.
.So, Hans, who bought the arsenal, had already thought of an excuse to move the arsenal to Myanmar. What he didn't expect was that his noble friends learned that Hans bought the arsenal to provide
When the British army in South Asia provided ammunition support, good things happened again.
The war in Burma is a foregone conclusion, and the defeat of the Japanese army is only a matter of time. The Mediterranean is currently under the control of the Allied Forces, so it is a very simple matter for Hans to transfer the equipment in the arsenal to Burma. The British royal family has already
Hans was previously allowed to order five transport ships from the UK for global transportation of tobacco factories. Now with the intervention of these noble friends, the civilian transport ships that originally needed to be ordered from the shipyard can now be purchased and retired from the military.
military transport ship.
Hans was overjoyed when he received the good news, but when he saw the military transport ships docked at the dock, the expression on his face was a little ugly. Because the so-called military transport ships he saw at the moment were not affiliated with
It is not a British ship, but a trophy captured by the British from Italy. The weapons loaded on the ship have long been disassembled. The corner of my eye swept across the few strange people around me.
With a strange expression, Hans immediately realized that the damn British knew that they had a large amount of money in their hands and were treating themselves like a collector of rags!
Hans's judgment was correct. Among the nobles he knew, some were working in the Admiralty. The British Navy had foreseen that the European War was about to end, and because the country was about to face reconstruction, the government would definitely cut military expenses.
Therefore, some people in the British Admiralty began to think about trophies. In fact, even without Hans, the British Navy would successively dismantle some captured enemy ships and sell them to the private sector. Hans
It was just a coincidence that I came across this good thing.
Of course Hans is not a fuel-efficient lamp. After so many years of training in Shanghai, how could he not bargain with these people from the Admiralty? After several days of long tug-of-war, Hans finally used a method that he felt
At a suitable price, five forcibly decommissioned transport ships were purchased from the British Admiralty. However, as compensation, the British Admiralty must help Hans sail these transport ships to Yangon Port and allow Hans to hire seamen on board.
One year.
Everything in the UK is inseparable from the sea, so there is no shortage of sailors and sailors in the UK. In particular, the hiring fee offered by Hans is not small. Many retired British navy personnel who retired due to injuries can also accept Hans.
At the same time, Hans also used the method of recruiting and hiring retired British navy personnel to prove to the British military and royal family that he had no bad intentions towards Britain.
This transaction seems to be Hans's loss, but in fact, for Tangcheng, who wants to control Myanmar's seaport, the retired naval transport ships purchased by Hans can be regarded as a big advantage. First of all
, these transport ships are unexpired forced decommissioning ships of the British Navy, so the ships still have a long life. Secondly, because of Hans's negotiation, these transport ships can continue to fly the British flag in the next year.
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Although Britain has declined, it was once an empire on which the sun never sets, so transport ships flying the British flag can cause trouble for everyone. Then there are the retired British Navy personnel hired by Hans, who can use these
transport ships to train more sailors for Tangcheng. Tangcheng can even secretly notify Yan'an and ask them to send people on board to conduct on-site surveys of these transport ships, laying the foundation for the Chinese Navy to build domestically produced warships in the future.