"Are you serious when you say you're buying your own separate ship to run transportation? It's a very dangerous route right now, the German submarines are so sneaky that they could easily be sunk without a fleet escort." Commodore Jackson was surprised to hear that Elrond wanted to buy his own transport ship.
"My plan is to move my transports along with the convoy, it will be safer. I wonder if Uncle Jackson has any suitable ships on hand that he can sell me right now." Elrond knew that it wasn't that ships couldn't be bought outside, but buying captured ships from Commodore Jackson's hands would certainly be cheaper than buying them directly on top of the market.
"Now we do have a few transport ships captured from the enemy's hands, but the tonnage is not as big as a free ship, and the maximum load is only five thousand tons. If you're sure you want to buy one, I'll have the following people check it out for you and select a suitable ship for you. But the price of the ship is not cheap! It's all at least fifty thousand dollars a ship to be sure." Brigadier General Jackson was naturally not opposed to Elrond's purchase of the U.S. Army's transport ships, and now, due to the tightness of the U.S. Army's crew, some of the transport ships were in a state of idleness.
And the U.S. Army was afraid to use Italian crews, both because of the fear of spies infiltrating the convoys to try to pass information about the fleet to the Germans, and because of the resistance the Italians retained to participating in convoys for military purposes.
"That's very kind of Uncle Jackson, can I buy one for fifty thousand dollars? Then I'll start with three, and I'll pay fifty-five thousand dollars for each ship, fifty thousand of which, I'll pay to the U.S. Department of the Navy, and the other five thousand I'll have my Global Trade Import/Export Co. in the U.S. pay in the form of a consulting fee to Mrs. Jackson's private account." Although fifty thousand dollars a ship for a used freighter was not particularly cheap, but one could further deepen the relationship with Commodore Jackson by purchasing a freighter, Elrond would not give up such a good opportunity.
Commodore Jackson obviously did not expect that Elrond would have such a tawdry maneuver, and obviously did not know how to respond for a moment. It was only after a long while that he gave Elrond a deep look and said, "If you purchase three of them, it will indeed help us alleviate a lot of our burden, so let's do it this way! I'll do the honors and lower the price to forty-five thousand dollars a ship in the five thousand ton class."
"Thank you Uncle Jackson, for taking care of my nephew, as it is I will pay the U.S. Navy Department forty-five thousand dollars for each ship and ten thousand dollars for Mrs. Jackson's consulting fee. I wonder if Uncle Jackson thinks that's appropriate!" Elrond as soon as he heard Commodore Jackson's answer, obviously approved of his idea, this can be too much simpler, as long as Commodore Jackson collected the consulting fee this time. Then, there are a lot of things that will be better in the future.
"Ten thousand dollars a consulting fee is too high, or according to five thousand! Can't let you suffer too much, young people just started business, are not easy. I will arrange for the Navy to select the latest and best three ships to be delivered to you, and will carry out a full overhaul of your ships, fueled and handed over to you." Commodore Jackson was obviously one of those good fellows who would do what he was paid to do, and was as sweet as could be. He didn't have to pay for any of this stuff anyway, the U.S. government would pick up the tab.
"It is really too thankful to Uncle Jackson, I don't know if my nephew can have a warehouse of his own in the Naval Warehouse, my nephew has some goods that need to be stored but I am worried that it will be unsafe to put them outside, so I want to rent a warehouse in the Naval Warehouse to store the goods."
This kind of small thing for Commodore Jackson is simply not a thing, directly to Elrond arrangements, "later I will notify our naval logistics to your Brazilian Expeditionary Force to allocate an additional warehouse, but this warehouse will not be notified to your Brazilian Expeditionary Force, you personally on behalf of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force Navy to sign for it, understand?"
"Uncle Jackson, I also hope that you can continue to help my nephew keep an eye out for some quality ships, you can rest assured that every ship my nephew will pay according to the current price. In addition, I wonder if uncle can provide five passes to facilitate our vehicles to enter and exit the barracks and carry goods." Elrond's demand for ships is naturally the more the better, after the end of World War II, immediately is the rapid recovery of the economy, the United States will soon begin to Europe to start the Marshall Plan, to help Europe rebuild the economic order.
At a time like this, having a large fleet of ships on hand could make Elrond very rich. So Elrond and Commodore Jackson quickly reached a strategic partnership, Elrond left the office and went directly to the logistics and storage area, and received a warehouse that nominally belonged to the Brazilian Expeditionary Force, but actually belonged to his own warehouse, the warehouse area of more than 1,000 square feet, plus the height of the warehouse is more than ten meters.
By the time Elrond and the crew of the Charles Joss, moved all the goods into the warehouse, they couldn't even fill a quarter of the warehouse. When Bojan Gambino and the others drove five vans and followed Elrond as he drove into the military restricted area, the shock in his heart was even more unintentionally attached, not daring to produce any bit of bad thoughts.
After completing the transaction, the Gambino family deposited one million dollars directly into Elrond's account at the Bank of America. The predecessor of the Bank of America was the Bank of Italy in 1904, which was renamed Bank of America in 1929 after merging with the Bank of America in California. Therefore, it was very convenient to conduct deposit and withdrawal business in both the United States and Italy.
The remaining three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars was delivered to Elrond in cash. When Elrond laid more than one hundred and fifty thousand dollars before the crew of the Charles Joss, the shock to the crew was unprecedented, especially since there were several captains of other ships among them who had been invited by Captain Cross.
The atmosphere reached a complete crescendo when Elrond returned triple the proceeds to the crew, one by one, based on how much they had invested in the crew list.
"Brothers, thanks to everyone's support in this business, we have achieved a complete victory, because I have finished the examination with the ship, so I can't be born on the same ship with you all in the future. But I won't forget my friendship with you all, nor will I forget the help you all have given me, so I have decided to share this channel to get rich with you all. I don't know if you all want it." Elrond began his exciting speech after sharing the profits, with the aim, of course, of getting the crew, to continue to give themselves a steady stream of used cigarettes.
"Want, want ..." Everyone yelled in unison, their voices breaking through the deck.
Elrond hastened to press his hands down, signaling for a low blow.
Only after everyone's voices had quieted down did he say, "I know everyone is excited and wants to get rich, but I'd like to be clear with you. First of all, we are transporting goods to Italy for sale through private entrapment, so everyone needs to keep a low profile and not attract the attention of the gendarmes, and the bigwigs of the Admiralty. Secondly, because of this kind of carrying goods, it is necessary for you to bear your own risk, just like this time, by your own money, in the Universal Trade Import and Export Co., Ltd.'s Italian branch to get the pick-up voucher, to the Global Trade Import and Export Co., Ltd. headquartered in New York New York wharf office to pick up the goods, pick up the goods according to the number of their own economic strength and transportation power to decide, after the shipment to Italy After storing all the goods to, Global Trading's warehouse in the dock storage area for inspection, you can directly get three times the price of the goods taken. Does everyone understand?"
"Understood! But we don't know where these two companies are! We're on a tight schedule, we don't have much time to look around for the addresses of these two companies!" Someone quickly spoke.
"What about this time! I'll help you all send the bill of lading from the Italian branch to the dock later, as for the dock office in New York, it's also very easy to find, you can see it more than a hundred meters after coming out of the dock. Of course, if you don't even want to look for more than a hundred meters, then I can only say that you'd better watch your brothers get rich! Money and you don't have a bond."
The crowd laughed.
Now all Elrond needs to do is to register the branch in Italy, and, by recruiting the right people, set up the import and export channels for cigarettes from the US to Italy.
When their own fleet grows at a later stage, this company will take off fast.