Zuvo... Very busy.


    Sitting in the rickety carriage, Lorraine looked at the retrogressive street view and racked his brains to come up with a one-sided description that could not be accurately described.


    In front of him, there was a magnificent scene of "rolling up your sleeves and cheering up". Men, women, the elderly and children were on the dock, on the beach and in the town


    Everywhere, every living person was busy, so busy that the luxurious carriage passed by, and Wu Ya looked up.


    They are completely different.


    Some of them work under the whip. Some push carts to carry soil, some expand roads with pickaxes, some dig sand at the berth site, some deal with logs and burn lime, and some deal with stones with chisels.


    The other part shuttles through laughter, drying dried fish, mending fishing nets, cooking meals and delivering water.


    They are far less vigorous than those under the whip, but their mental state is more than ten thousand times better.


    Lorraine''s face could not help showing a thoughtful expression. Roy, who was riding with him, saw it and suddenly asked, "is this your first time to zuvo?"


    "The second time." Lorraine still looked out of the window, "the first time I went to the island was to preside over the hanging of masilaschek, and gather the population captured by the stormtroopers and hand them over to my African sub president."


    "It''s a desolate island that you run. It''s obviously an excellent supply station for Asian African routes, but there''s no standard berthing dock on the island."


    "There is also a population. Zuwo has only more than 600 nationals, but there are a full 300 troops, and the number of soldiers and civilians has almost reached the level of one to two..."


    "The garrison is to deal with wild animals and..." Roy shook his head with a complex look. "Our trade is mainly concentrated in Asia. Sur, Suhar, Muscat and Matra will receive merchant ships, East Africa and Zanzibar Island. In our opinion, there is no value in building here."


    "It''s the wisest operation I''ve ever seen to take the initiative to exclude myself from the international trading system." Lorraine turned the topic back to the beginning, "why do you think I''m new here?"


    "Because you show curiosity about the residents of the town."


    "I''m really curious." Lorraine knocked on the window. "Don''t forget that this town is full of enslaved slaves, including the elderly and children. Such a sunny living state is too conspicuous for slaves, just like everyone has learned witchcraft..."


    The wagon team soon drove into the administration hall on the dome.


    In order to save words, even if the sixth Prince and his guardian mother were in the motorcade, Lorraine did not summon them in advance.


    He ordered the club to call marshal manzeli and the princess''s father, and then took Roy to see Eddie.


    The branch is having a formal executive board meeting, including Eddie, Barto and Aziz. The meeting has lasted for a whole morning.


    This is why Lorraine was not welcomed when he entered the port. He didn''t send the news of his arrival to zuwo port until 9 o''clock. At that time, the meeting had already begun. In Drake''s style, there was no reason for formalism to interrupt administrative affairs.


    More than an hour later, when the meeting was over, Eddie rushed to the office with his vice president and supervisor glowing, and began to apologize from a distance.


    "Chairman, general hassadi! I didn''t expect you to come to the island suddenly. This meeting has been prepared for three days. If I had known so, I should have prepared for another three days."


    Lorraine Shiran put down the teacup.


    "I think you''ll have to discuss what''s new from me. Even if there''s no such meeting, you''ll have to convene it temporarily."


    "Really..."


    Eddie asked his secretary to serve tea again, apologized to Roy again, then threw him to Aziz and Barto, and walked a few steps to Lorraine.


    "Your news broke up our original agenda. Later, almost all of us were discussing the adjustment of Masila island. You gave me a big problem."


    "Is the impact so great?" Lorraine wondered. "Although the formation of the new Sudan guard will empty all the military prisoners of the Navy Department, zuwo still has more than 800 local slaves. The construction progress slows down at most. How can it not stagnate?"


    "It''s almost like stagnation."


    Eddie glanced at Roy, who was entangled by Aziz and Barto, and leaned up.


    "In our plan, zuwo is the sole property of the chamber of Commerce. These days, we have been building the port day and night in order to quickly establish the core position of the island and seize the largest share of development dividends after the war ended and the whole Masila became a concession. We all know that zuwo port needs to prosper soundly!"


    Lorraine nodded approvingly.


    "But you left a hidden danger to zuwo in order to quickly stabilize the logistics base, and the whole town was enslaved."


    "Slavery has made zuwo lose its population. Even if the port is completed on schedule, it will only be a dead port with nothing except supervisors and chamber of Commerce employees, a pure chamber of Commerce wharf."


    "Port prosperity needs residents to catalyze, but if we only rely on attracting immigrants, we can''t have more appeal than African companies."


    Lorraine suddenly realized, "so you liberated all the local slaves?"


    "In fact, it has been liberated for a long time."


    Eddie sighed: "the slavery of the whole town has only been carried out for three days. The first two days'' work was to build a prisoner of war camp near the wharf, and the third morning was to build a kitchen shack next to the prisoner of war camp. In the afternoon, internal prosecution was carried out to eliminate the garrison, officials and particularly unpopular gangsters, and then I released them."


    Eddie broke his fingers depressed: "return personal property, repair war damage, pay compensation according to the workload recorded in three days, and it is their favorite equivalent to food compensation."


    "I tried my best to create a sense of belonging for them. In front of them, I called him ''our zuwo'' and ''future zuwo'', promising work, education, medical treatment... Yes, freedom of belief and respect for customs."


    "I allow them to work for the chamber of Commerce, regardless of men, women, young and old, and pay for each work."


    "We need to thank the original administrative system of the Sultanate. The corrupt official group is very unpopular here. It took only one night for the locals to become Drake''s loyal leader. Almost at the moment of getting the compensation, they substituted themselves into the status of ruler rather than the status of aggressor..."


    Lorraine listened with a big head: "tell me straight, how much port building labor can be left in the POW camp once the new Sudanese guard is established?"


    Eddie''s excitement suddenly collapsed: "there will be no more than 500 people, including the franceans on the golden lamb. Those franceans must eventually return to France. I know if you don''t say it."


    "This means that there will be a huge gap in our labor force. By March, we can only build another wooden plank berth like berth No. 1. As for the large stone berth..."


    Don''t think about it


    Lorraine knew this was what Eddie wanted to say, but he didn''t say it in the end.


    He couldn''t help rolling his eyes: "if it weren''t for the blasphemy of jazz, I really doubt that you and chuck Parker have an indisputable blood relationship..."


    The problem of labor shortage must be solved, and zuwo port must be completed in the shortest time.


    Because regional development has its stubborn inertia.


    Considering that the next few months will be the opening period of Masila as a transit port for Asian African trade, if zuwo cannot confirm his core position during this period, even if it is well constructed in the future, it can only be used as a berth supplement for the capital of the concession in the future.


    As a result, it is difficult to obtain high returns on zuwo''s investment.


    Lorraine worked hard and thought for a long time.


    Suddenly


    "In this way, the establishment of the new Sudanese guard was adjusted to 1000 people, mainly into the Navy. The land soldiers were allowed to find their own way. We only provided weapons and instructors, and the principle of paid service should be stated in advance."


    "This..." Eddie was stunned for a moment and twisted twice in embarrassment. "Once the cooperation started, he continued to enslave their sergeants... Isn''t it good?"


    "Oh! Who said I would continue to enslave them?" Lorraine spat coldly. "The showdown with manzeli will be changed to the day after tomorrow. You immediately arrange people to select labor, weave charges, forge testimony, whether sneaking around or molesting women during service. In short, they need to be allowed to commit crimes."


    "Yes, we will release all prisoners of war based on the principle of civilization and common interests, and spare no effort to help the new Sudan regain power, regardless of past grievances. This is the obligation of every friend."


    "But we are still the managers of zuwo. In his position, we seek his government, and criminals must accept reform through labor, which is responsible for all the humiliated people!"