Year: I had a good time when I was young

Chapter 784 Taking the initiative to show kindness
After entering the town, Titmouse and Marten soon found a shabby tavern.

The titmouse landed on the roof and through the broken window it was easy to see what was going on inside the tavern.

When Chu Xiangqian saw that there was no white skin inside, he basically guessed that there would be no useful information.

The marten doesn't even need to get close to the tavern. It can easily hear the sounds in the tavern from dozens of meters away.

This further confirmed that Chu Xiangqian’s previous guess was correct.

After taking a bath, Chu Xiangqian lay on the big bed in the luxurious suite of the Novice Village Tavern. While he closed his eyes to rest, he also focused on the titmouse and marten.

Through Huang Diao's monitoring ability, after excluding the surveillance of the tavern, all the talking within a radius of eighty to ninety meters where Huang Diao was could not escape his ears.

After listening for two or three hours, Chu Xiangqian finally felt relieved when he confirmed that there was no news about the team entering the mountain.

Although it may be because this small town is too far away from the rainforest, more than 140 kilometers away.

But this also shows that the 40 or so French women did a good job of keeping secrets before they entered the mountains.

Chu Xiangqian had lunch in the Novice Village at noon and then came out of the Novice Village.

Get on a quarter horse and continue on your way.

The reason why he didn't ride Red Hare was that it was too conspicuous.

It is obvious at first glance that it is different from ordinary horses and will most likely attract the attention of passers-by.

Rather than taking out highway robbers, it's easier to keep switching to a regular Quarter Horse.

The journey lasted more than 10 hours. In the early morning, we changed to three quarter horses and finally returned to the coastal city of Konalik.

Chu Xiangqian found a pretty good hotel to stay in. He didn't have high requirements for the accommodation conditions. After all, the decoration of the Novice Village Restaurant was quite luxurious.

But he had been eating barbecue and fruit in the wild for a few days and now just wanted a big meal.

Konarik is right on the seaside and is the capital of Guinea. There is no shortage of French cuisine and seafood in the hotel.

After a delicious meal, Chu Xiangqian returned to his hotel suite and fell asleep. However, he only slept for three hours before waking up.

I checked out and went to the beach before daybreak.

They found an uninhabited beach, launched a small wooden boat and rowed a few miles, then released the seaplane.

After filling up the gas, we took off and flew north along the coastline for 4 hours.

By 10 o'clock in the morning, you can see the Strait of Gibraltar, the border between Spain and Africa, from afar.

We found a calm sea area to land and refuel, then took off again and flew over Spain and France. We could already see the coastline of England.

The process of going ashore was very smooth. At around 5 pm, Chu Xiangqian had already entered London on a motorcycle.

Kensington Gardens High Street.

Margaret was stunned for a few seconds when she saw Chu Xiangqian, who looked exhausted, appear in the greenhouse of her villa.

It was not until Chu Xiangqian approached that Margaret, who had just been drinking afternoon tea alone out of boredom, screamed excitedly, jumped up from her chair and threw herself into his arms.

After some complaints and consolation, there will naturally be some sweet talk.

After Chu Xiangqian finished dealing with the girl, he saw her sleeping soundly on the bed, feeling amused, so he kissed Margaret's forehead.

After getting up and washing up, I walked downstairs from the bedroom in my silk robe, intending to ask what to eat in the evening. I unexpectedly saw Philip and Norton sitting on the sofa in the living room, smoking cigars and drinking red wine.

No need to guess, the reason these two guys are so anxious to come over must be related to the shipping company and the business of exporting coal to Neon.

It makes sense when you think about it. The coal business alone can bring $200 million in profits to Philips and Norton every year.

Converted into pounds, it is about 55. If divided equally between the two, it is more than what Philip gets from the royal family every year.

Given Philip's playful personality, he naturally was reluctant to give up this extra money.

As for Norton, this guy has made a lot of money in the past few years, but his net worth should be only two or three million pounds.

With one tenth of the wealth, it is impossible not to be positive.

Moreover, the two men knew very well that this was the annual shipping capacity of 30 Victory ships. If it were expanded to 100 or 200 ships, the money earned from the coal and shipping business every year with the help of Chu Xiangqian could be multiplied several times.

It is possible that they will receive millions of pounds in dividends every year in the future. It is not an exaggeration to say that Chu Xiangqian is their financial sponsor.

So there was no need for Chu Xiangqian to take the initiative to talk about the shipping company after saying hello.

Philips spoke first, "Stark, Norton and I have not been doing nothing these days."

After that, he continued with a boastful look on his face, “In addition to helping you get a logistics supply order worth 100 million pounds from the Far East Fleet Command in England.

In the future, shipping companies can not only fly the Union Jack in the name of logistics supply fleets, but also request rescue from the Far East Fleet if they encounter danger while sailing in the Far East.

Chu Xiangqian understood as soon as he heard it. This was clearly telling him that even if the shipping company transported some contraband, it would not be checked by the Ying people in East Asia.

Even if he was willing to share some of the profits with the leaders of the headquarters, there was a chance that Ying Guolao would cooperate with him to transport some high-value and scarce contraband together.

But Chu Xiangqian was not very interested in these things. After all, if he really wanted to transport contraband, he didn't need to use a ship at all.

The Novice Village warehouse can transport the scarce materials to any place you have been to quietly.

So Chu Xiangqian quickly shook his head and said, "To be honest, I don't care much about the shipping company's annual profit, otherwise I wouldn't share half of the profits with you and other partners."

Philips and Norton were stunned when they heard this, and Chu Xiangqian saw that they both looked unconvinced.

After thinking about it, I simply said bluntly, "International trade will definitely become more and more busy, and the profit of shipping companies will be good every year, but what I value more is the annual growth rate of the market value of shipping companies.

To put it bluntly, once the shipping company becomes the largest freight company in East Asia, the market value of this company alone may be hundreds of millions of dollars, or even billions of dollars.

There is really no need to cause so much trouble by transporting some contraband."

After hearing this, Philips and Norton swallowed subconsciously.

Chu Xiangqian is now revealing his confidence in the shipping company, simply because he is thinking that in a few years, when the market value of the shipping company continues to increase, he will slowly start selling off his shares in the shipping company.

More than ten years later, when the shipping industry entered a cold winter, he went from being a sole proprietor who held 100% of the shares to a major shareholder who only needed to hold 34% of the shares.

At that time, not only can you make huge sums of money by buying shares, but when the shipping winter comes, you will not have to support the operating costs of the entire shipping company by yourself.

Maybe at that time, we can use less than half or even several times the money to repurchase a large number of the company's shares.

By going in and out, you can not only make money from others and help the company through the most difficult times, but you can also make a lot of money and get back more shares.

For something like this that kills three birds with one stone, of course, we need to prepare in advance.

(End of this chapter)