Chapter 444: , There must be a middleman to make the difference

Early the next morning, the American envoy Andy Fred came to the "White Castle" manor and asked to see Louis Bonaparte, chairman of the Louisiana Development Bank, who is known as the invisible governor of Louisiana.
The horse-drawn carriage he rode went round the Panshan Road a few times before reaching the entrance of the manor. The carriage stopped there, and Andy Fred got out of the carriage, walked to the door, and handed a business card to the porter. After a while, the door opened, and a man in a waiter's costume told Andy Fred that Mr. Bonaparte was waiting for him in the meeting room.
Andy Fred followed this man into the manor, through the garden with a fountain in front, and then through the lobby with marble floors, upstairs, until he reached a small living room on the second floor. A young man, steamed inside and waited for him.
"Hello, please sit down. I am Louis Bonaparte, president of the Louisiana Development Bank. I heard people say that you have a business to talk to me." Louis knows that Americans, or people from the New World do it. Things don't like to be roundabout, so he said directly.
"Yes, you know, we recently had a war with Britain. Britain is also your country's enemy..." Andy Fred said.
"No, Mr. Fred, you may have made a few mistakes." Louis shook his finger, and shook his words. "First of all, you may have mistaken my identity. My identity is Louisiana Development Bank. Chairman of the Board of Directors, I am a businessman, and I care about it, and only the value-added of the company’s wealth. This is my part. Although some people may have said that because of my brother, they think I will intervene Politics. Well, this kind of statement is wrong most of the time. If I have something that makes people think I interfered in politics, it must be that they themselves have not figured out the difference between making money and politics.
In addition, even if you only consider politics, your statement is problematic. First of all, we do not think that Britain is our enemy. France and England are still at peace. Of course, due to trade issues, we have been a bit unhappy with the UK recently. However, disputes between traders are common occurrences between any two countries. If, I mean, if, tomorrow the British will change their attitude on trade issues and recognize and respect the principles of free trade and open door, then we are truly friendly neighbors. So you cannot just treat us as enemies of the British.
Of course, we and the United States are also truly friendly neighbors. Therefore, we are also willing to achieve a win-win result for both parties through free trade. If you come to me for trade matters, then you have found the right person. But if it is for other purposes, I think you may have found the wrong person. "
"Ah, Mr. Bonaparte, I am indeed here to discuss trade issues." Andy Fred said quickly, "You know, our country is now being brutally invaded by the British. We need to buy weapons, and we Two cruisers need to be leased from the Louisiana Squadron."
"You want to rent two cruisers? It's not easy to handle..." Louis said.
"We already have a precedent for successful cooperation with your country." Andy Fred said, of course he was referring to the lease of the "Free Trade" and "Common Market" from France by the US government.
"It's not the same." Louis shook his head. "When the lease was reached, your country and Britain were still at peace. Therefore, our country's lease of these two warships to your country is in full compliance with the principles of trade and war. Yes. But now it’s different. Now your country and the United Kingdom are at war. If it’s just a general arms trade, especially civilian arms trade, you know, Louisiana and your country have a long border. Here Some smuggling on the border is inevitable. Therefore, if a large-scale French-made civilian weapon flows into your country, I don’t think it will have much impact.
But warships are different from these things. It is impossible for warships to be smuggled in the past, and it is impossible for France to lease warships to countries at war. This violates the French principle of maintaining peace. Well, at least, it is impossible for us to lease warships to you directly. "Louis said, in order to prevent American buns from not understanding, he also deliberately made the word "direct" very heavy.
Facts have proved that there is no problem with American intelligence. They can still understand the simple meaning.
"Mr. Bonaparte, that is to say, if some people can change hands in the middle, can this agreement be reached?" Andy Fred quickly asked.
"I think this is a feasible solution." Louis replied, "At least, if you do this, there will be no legal problems."
"Thank you for your teaching," Andy Fred said sincerely. "Besides, Mr. Bonaparte, who do you think is more convenient as an intermediary?"
Andy Fred asked this not because Americans could not find a suitable middleman. But in this process, it is obvious that there are many vacancies where you can legally obtain income such as commissions. This benefit is of course given to Louis, or to the Louisiana Development Bank. If you don't even know this basic principle~EbookFREE.me~, then this business must be impossible.
"Ah, I think Santo Domingo is good, what do you think?" Louis replied.
Just a year ago, Santo Domingo had just completed its independent statehood and officially became the "protectorate" of France. And Governor Dusan Louvidul also became the ruler for life.
Although Santo Domingo has become "independent", it is still part of the French economic circle, and it accepts the "protection" of France, just like the later generation of Bhutan accepts the "protection" of the third brother. It offered to lease the cruiser of the overlord, and the French immediately agreed. There was no problem at all. After Santo Domingo got the French cruiser, he immediately changed hands and subleased the two cruisers to the Americans. It was because Santo Domingo did not understand the norms of the international community and took advantage of the contract. Besides, in black countries, something like this is normal, isn't it?
Of course, in this process, there will definitely be "middlemen making the difference", but if there is no "middlemen making the difference", who will do it for you?
After the two parties reached an agreement on the principled issues, all that was left was the details. There is no need for a high-level person like Louis to talk about these things. So the two said something casually, and Andy Fred got up and left.