Six Hundred and Seventy First Flattery

Mercury Manor.

The manor, named after the ancient Roman God of Commerce, is located on the banks of the picturesque East River, including villas, horse farms, gardening, squares, small lakes and dedicated docks, covering a total area of ​​about 50 acres (200,000 square meters) ).

This is the headquarters of the American Chapter of the Drake Chamber of Commerce.

The headquarters of the American branch is known as the most luxurious headquarters of Drake, not to say how luxurious the decoration of the small villa is, but that the value of its real estate was as high as 100,000 pounds when it changed hands in 1784. With the development of New York in the past two years, The value has continued to increase. Although it has not flowed into the trading market again, the estimated value is already close to 300,000 pounds.

The headquarters of the Chamber of Commerce worth 300,000 pounds has no docks, no warehouses, no exhibition halls and exchanges, and even Chuck Parker and his family don't live in it.

This manor is a real [administrative building], where people go to and from get off work, receive guests, and hold meetings, purely like an expensive joke.

Lorraine is here for the first time.

Sitting in the carriage, he hung the curtains and looked at the small red building in the distance: "Chuck, you are the host, how do you plan to arrange our accommodation these few days?"

"There is a row of vacation houses by the small lake in the manor. They were originally used for entertaining guests, but they were taken care of again a while ago. Little Pierce and his two girlfriends have moved in first, and the remaining single houses are enough to accommodate them. All the rest."

Chuck obviously had plans.

"In my opinion, although the house there is a bit small, you should prefer that everyone live together rather than patching things together and relying on other people's fences."

"Do I seem to be afraid of being lonely?" Lorraine raised his eyebrows, "You don't live in the manor yourself, but you use it to entertain guests?"

"It's two different things." Chuck straightened his back, "I want to create an environment with a pure working atmosphere, so that employees can enter the state as soon as they step through the door, knowing what they should do and what they should not do. Administration, negotiation, banquet , Hospitality is work, self-occupation is not."

He expressed his professionalism so plainly that Lorraine was speechless. After he finished speaking, he thought about it and added.

"However, the situation where you and other directors' families live in is completely different from the self-occupation I mentioned. You are the idols of the employees, and working next to the idols will only stimulate their desire for performance, and will not destroy the working atmosphere of the manor."

"Really?" Lorraine looked at him deeply, "I thank you..."

"No thanks."

The day easily died.

Lorraine found that as he got older, Chuck showed more and more characteristics of a workaholic, and seemed to have fallen in love with flattery.

He doesn't know where his mastery of flattery kung fu tends to be, it often makes people feel comfortable first, and then realizes it later.

This is the embodiment of slickness.

Back then, Chuck lacked slickness and was full of talent. Now he is still outstanding, but since he thinks more, correspondingly, he will definitely think less about business.

Lorraine frowned: "Chuck, are you worried about Pierce?"

Chuck's expression tightened, turned and relaxed, without a trace: "The chairman is worrying too much..."

"Pierce has grown up." Regardless of his answer, Lorraine talked to himself there, "He is the deputy director of the General Chamber of Commerce, and I like him. He was young and unreliable before, but after two years of expedition, his growth Let everyone look at it with admiration."

"The importance of the American Branch is becoming more and more obvious, with the rapidly growing trade volume, the increasingly calm sea routes,

What's more important is the revolving door plan in the near future. The American Chapter will be upgraded as the spokesperson of the Chamber of Commerce to the behind-the-scenes man who controls the United States. "

"I have countless reasons to put someone more trustworthy in your place, and at this moment, Pierce decided to come to New York to get married..."

Chuck's forehead was covered with cold sweat: "Chairman..."

"Chuck Parker, if you continue to indulge in these things you are not good at, you will soon be replaced. The chamber of commerce has far more young talents than you can imagine. Even if it is not Pierce, I can easily find suitable candidates. "

"So focus on your career." Lorraine patted him on the shoulder, "Are those old things in the conference room?"

"yes……"

...

Appease...maybe appease...

After calming Chuck's restless heart, Lorraine walked into the first meeting room of the headquarters on the top of the third floor alone.

There are rows of windows facing the picturesque East River, but the room is dark, all the curtains are closed, and the darkness and smoke make it difficult to see anything.

Lorraine swept away the smoke from the tip of his nose depressedly: "Damn it, is there someone hibernating in my branch?"

Old Dukov laughed out his position in the dark, full of anger: "Little guy, these are all your uncles. Could it be that Drake has taught you such etiquette for two hundred years?"

"Etiquette is for people to see." Lorraine's eyes adjusted a bit, and finally saw eleven ominous beasts crouching in the darkness. "In the dark, Drake is a pirate."

"You are also a pirate on the surface, Your Highness the White Flag Pirate King!" Another voice came from the Pellamin family in Spain.

Lorraine sneered and dragged away the only chair left on the round table, and Da Ma Jindao sat down: "Old Pellamin, my twelve families weaved my white flag together, and I don't need you to remind me. I know it well."

"Is that so?" The third voice, the Plundit Chamber of Commerce in the Netherlands, "President Drake, you were absent from the last Association Council meeting. It was an important meeting, and we need your reason."

"The reason is that I'm busy." Lorraine sneered in the dark, "It's very important to control the US economy, and it's also very important to operate new markets. I was busy receiving distinguished friends from Asia at the last meeting, Mr. Plundit, You should know Drake's expectations for Asia, right?"

Old Dukov clearly knew the details of what happened in Miami during this period, and he immediately reacted: "Asia, could it be that Qing Dynasty gentleman who wants to marry your cook?"

"That gentleman's name is Shi Chaosheng. He is well-known in Zhaoluo Dao in the Qing Dynasty and has many friends." Lorraine revealed part of Shi Chaosheng's identity without concealment. "The center of Zhaoluo Dao is Guangzhou, so establish a connection with him It will open to me the wealth of the Qing, and in the long run, it will be no less beneficial than what we do in America."

The voice fell to the ground, and a fire suddenly lit up in the darkness.

Old Dukov lit the candle in front of him, and passed the old fire to his clockwise neighbor.

The candles were lit one after another like this, and Lorraine was the seventh, directly opposite old Dukov, and when he finished lighting, he immediately passed it to the eighth beside him.

Soon, a total of twelve candles were lit in a short silence, and the flickering candlelight reflected the twelve faces, marking marks on the round table like scales.

The round table was covered with a pure black tablecloth, and a huge pale skull was printed in the middle of the tablecloth. At first glance, it was actually 90% similar to the pirate flag.

Old Dukov looked around the round table and coughed lightly twice.

"All the candles are lit, which means that everyone has accepted Drake's defense, including himself."

"Since this is the case, there will be no more differences between us. I request the start of the twenty-second Illumination Council, vote!"

"Agree!" "Agree!" "Agree!"... "Agree!"