Although the British royal family has lost its actual control over the United Kingdom and has become the mascot of the United Kingdom, the British royal family is still the top aristocracy of the United Kingdom, especially in name, it is still the supreme existence of the United Kingdom. However, the greed deep in the bones of the British made Hans' meeting with the British royal family extremely difficult. While Tangcheng was busy in Chongqing and its surrounding areas, Hans, who was thousands of miles away, was also having difficult negotiations and discussions with the British royal family.
Fortunately, Britain, which is already in tatters, is facing an extremely difficult situation. Post-war reconstruction has become 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. benefits to rebuild your home. Hans's appearance quickly aroused the interest of the British royal family and aristocracy. In particular, the Egyptian oil and gas field exploration data that Hans produced has been confirmed.
Years of living in Shanghai have already transformed 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 work with the British royal family and nobles to achieve the purpose of his trip bit by bit. When Hans sent the 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 the 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 the leader of this development company, Tangcheng needs to hand over a certain percentage of the income to the British royal family every year. If the income turned 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 seemed unfavorable to Tangcheng, but Hans cleverly played a trick in this contract. In this contract, it did not indicate that the development company needed 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, Tang City needs to use half of all proceeds to purchase their asylum from the British royal family.
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 arguments, the Myanmar Development Company held 15% of the shares in the newly formed United Petroleum Company, and these were the original shares that could not be diluted. Hans has carefully calculated that these shares of United Oil Company alone are enough to compensate Tang City for all the annual fees paid to the British royal family.
That's not all. After confirming the shares of United Oil Company, Hans secretly formed the Far East Tobacco Company with the white gloves of the British royal family. The tobacco company's raw material base and production factory will be located in Myanmar. As a gesture of goodwill from the British royal family, Hans was allowed to order five transport ships from the British shipyard to transport cigarettes from Myanmar to various parts of the world. . All in all, Hans gained a lot from his trip to England, which made Tang Cheng very happy.
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. The nearly 2 million US dollars that Tang Cheng transferred to Hans would definitely be able to Play a huge role.
Hans, who received the telegram and remittance, did not expect that Tangcheng would believe in him so much. When he was still in Myanmar, because the two brothers from Tang Cheng were also in Myanmar, Hans would have other thoughts in his mind. He mistakenly thought that the two brothers from Tang Cheng came to Myanmar to spy on him secretly. But now, Hans's mood has completely changed. How could someone who can trust him so much use him while secretly sending someone to monitor him. What's more, I have known Tang Cheng for so many years, but I have never seen or heard that Tang Cheng did anything detrimental to me.
The greedy British people are indeed difficult to deal with. The man who came back to inherit the noble title has not contacted Hans for almost half a month. The situation in Britain, which had just stabilized, was in short supply of people who could do things. Therefore, 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 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 Oil Company, Hans was now a guest of many nobles in London. Now that there was a large amount of money remitted from Tangcheng, 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 frontline troops, the British government opened some small arms production license qualifications to the private sector.
What Tangcheng needed was a simple bullet production line, but Hans had his eyes on an entire arsenal, including a lot of equipment and machinery used for the production of light weapons. As the saying goes, things get easier when you have money, and Hans also had the support of several British nobles. Half a month after receiving the remittance, Hans had finalized the purchase of a small arsenal. This small arsenal can not only produce bullets of several different calibers, but also small-caliber mortars.
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The war in Europe 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 was something Hans experienced when he was in Burma. What the Indians produced was really bad. . Therefore, Hans, who bought this arsenal, had even thought of an excuse to move the arsenal to Myanmar. What he didn't expect was that when his noble friends learned that Hans purchased the arsenal to provide ammunition for the British army in South Asia, good things would happen 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 Allied control, so it is a very simple matter for Hans to transfer the equipment in the arsenal to Burma. The British royal family had earlier allowed Hans 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 be purchased immediately. A retired military transport ship from the military.
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 ships belonging to the British army, but trophies captured by the British army from Italy. The weapons loaded on the ships had long been disassembled. The corner of his eye glanced at the strange expressions of the people around him, and Hans immediately realized that the damn British knew that they were holding a large amount of money in their hands, and they were treating themselves like a scrap collector!
Hans's judgment was correct. Among the nobles he knew, some worked in the Admiralty. The British Navy has foreseen that the European War is about to end. Because the country is about to face reconstruction, the government will definitely cut military expenses. Therefore, some people in the British Admiralty began to think of trophies. In fact, even without Hans, the British Navy would successively dismantle some captured enemy ships and sell them to the private sector. Hans just happened to encounter 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 Department? After several days of long tug-of-war, Hans finally bought five forcibly decommissioned transport ships from the British Admiralty at a price he thought was suitable. However, as compensation, the British Admiralty must help Hans, sail these transport ships to Yangon Port, and allow Hans to hire seamen on board for one year.
Everything in the UK is inseparable from the sea. Therefore, 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. employment. 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 seemed to be a loss for Hans, but in fact, for Tangcheng, who wanted to control Myanmar's seaport, the retired naval transport ships purchased by Hans were a big advantage. First of all, these transport ships are all unexpired and 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.
Although Britain has declined, it was once an empire on which the sun never sets, so transport ships flying the British flag cannot cause trouble for everyone. Then there are the retired British Navy personnel hired by Hans. They 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.
