Rebirth of the Republic of China: The Story of the Chaebol

While Sun Tong was looking abroad, Huayou Company's immigration to Longguo was also proceeding in an orderly manner.

Because Huayou Company is registered in the Ugly Country, in the eyes of the Long Country officials, this company is also a foreign company.

It is not uncommon for foreign companies to recruit workers from a country before, so Huayou Company's large-scale recruitment in Longguo was not blocked by the northern and southern governments. On the contrary, because of the famine in the country, the government actively cooperated with Huayou Company.

Since Sun Tong bought the Comoros, Huayou Company has recruited 300,000 people from Longguo in the past five months.

Hundreds of thousands of refugees were gathered together. The Long government was afraid that these refugees would cause a big trouble if they were not careful, so it has been asking Huayou Company to transport the people away as soon as possible in recent times.

In order to solve this problem, Huayou Company can only find a way to build a transfer station.

It just so happened that at that time Huayou Company was still negotiating a deal with the British on Mauritius, so the issue of North Kalimantan was brought up for discussion.

Compared with the Gauls, although the current situation of the Ying Kingdom is also difficult, the wealth accumulated in the past is sufficient after all, so they have not yet reached the point where they have to rely on selling colonies to survive.

However, Mauritius, which Huayou Company wanted to buy, was not valued by the British government. Now that it proposed to lease part of North Kalimantan, the British people also did not care much. Therefore, after Huayou Company offered a price of 20 million pounds, the British side directly agreed to all the requirements of Huayou Company.

The Liberal Party led by Lloyd George now only cares about the European war. As for other aspects, everything must give way to the European war. So when Huayou Company proposed the transaction about Jamaica again after completing this transaction, the British government not only did not feel disgusted with Huayou Company's "increasing its demands", but actually began to discuss the feasibility of this transaction with Huayou Company.

Compared with Mauritius, Jamaica's location is obviously more important to Britain. After all, Britain can intervene in the affairs of Central America through Jamaica.

However, there is still a problem here, that is, Britain’s colonies in the Caribbean are not limited to Jamaica, so even if the British government sells this island, it will not affect Britain’s influence in that area.

That is why the British government reacted in this way when Carl proposed to buy Jamaica.

"Mr. Carl, Jamaica's importance to China is not comparable to Mauritius. So if your company wants to buy Jamaica, we will never agree to the deal if the price is less than 40 million pounds!"

"Your Excellency, Prime Minister, the price your government offered is too high. I admit that Jamaica is of great value, but our company bought it just to build a trade transit station. My boss will not agree to pay such a high price for a transit station."

Could Lloyd George not have known that Jamaica was not worth £4000 million?

He was just asking for a sky-high price, and Carl's complaints just now were also bargaining.

The two sides went back and forth like this, and originally neither side thought that such a transaction involving tens of millions of pounds could be completed in a short period of time.

But no one expected that after the two of them chatted, they finally reached a deal at a price of 2300 million pounds.

"I have to admit that you are a great negotiator, Prime Minister. I have unknowingly entered your negotiation rhythm. 2300 million pounds, I don't know how to explain this price to my boss!"

“Mr. Karl is not going to regret it, right?”

"No, since I have agreed to your offer, I will not regret it. However, the price of 2300 million pounds is much higher than the reserve price offered by my boss. What I am wondering now is whether my boss will deduct my salary because of this!"

"How could that be? With a talent like Mr. Carl, I believe your boss will not blame you for this. Of course, to express my apology, I can give you the sixteen small islands around Jamaica for free in this deal. I think with this news, Mr. Carl should feel better."

Lloyd George's move seemed generous, but there were no big islands around Jamaica except Cuba. The sixteen small islands he gave away this time were not only small islands, but none of them were suitable for human settlement. From the perspective of today's era, these islands had no value at all.

"Thank you for your concern, Mr. Prime Minister. I think I feel much better now!"

Although Karl complained about Lloyd George's stinginess in his heart, he still showed gratitude on his face, as if the other party had really given him some great benefit.

No one expected the transaction to go so smoothly.

Sun Tong, who was in Long Country at this time, was dumbfounded after receiving the telegram from Ying Country.

You know, the bottom line he gave to Carl in the negotiation was 700 million pounds. He didn't expect that Carl was so capable and directly helped him save million pounds.

In today's era, this amount of money is definitely a huge sum of money. Sun Tong has no plan to keep the saved money. He just happens to be planning to relocate the residents on the island of Jamaica, so this amount of money should be enough for the immigrants.