Chapter Forty-Eight: The Eve of the Celebration

At a time when the world's attention is on Afghanistan, the negotiations with the British government have also attracted the attention of countless people, and the ordinary people are also interested in the negotiations, which are related to the ownership of hundreds of millions of dollars. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

As the harvest of the tour was identified by more and more experts in antiquities, the age of the silver and gold coins, as well as the identification of many antiques, increasingly pointed to the Royal Merchant.

During this time, Zhou You was not idle, he has been collecting historical information on the Royal Merchant, and researching information about the descendants of the ship's owners at that time in England.

Thankfully, the Royal Merchant was a partnership merchant ship affiliated with a merchant organization with multiple shareholders, but none of them held the majority of the shares.

According to British law, the 360-year-old shipwreck currently does not have a legal heir, which means that Zhou You can directly and legally become the owner of this wealth.

Therefore, after settling this part of the legal process, Zhou You generously announced that after research, the wreck was the Royal Merchant, which sank near the Isles of Scilly in 1641.

The reason why the British side has not publicized it has been mainly due to pressure from the Spanish side. Because Fernandez belonged to the Spanish police, they knew from Fernandez that almost a third of the artifacts had not been recovered.

Because the wealth that Zhou You has salvaged now does not match the record on the ship, if the British side announces it, it will also indirectly point out that they have all the information and that Fernandez is a traitor.

However, after Zhou You directly pointed out this matter, the British side also acted quickly and immediately raised questions. For the Royal Merchant, which was loaded with 500,000 silver coins weighing 17 tons, was worth 300,000 pounds at the time. There are also 100,000 pounds worth of gold coins and a variety of gold and silver jewelry.

Although the harvest of the trip is many, it is far from the record of the royal merchant.

At this time, Zhou You also generously announced that at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, a third of the wealth was still sunk at the bottom of the sea. However, until the conflict with the British government is resolved, Zhou You refused to reveal any specific location of the Royal Merchant.

But at the same time, he also gave a general direction, and the location of the sunk was definitely far from the British 12-nautical-mile territorial waters, but not beyond the 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone.

Therefore, Zhou You is very willing to pay 10% of the tax to the UK in accordance with the Law of the Sea Convention, but Zhou You will not pay attention to the demands beyond this range.

The strength in front of the media has also made Zhou You's prestige rise greatly. Being uncompromising in the face of a country alone made Zhou You famous, but it also made the British feel that they had lost face.

Therefore, on the one hand, the British side is fighting a lawsuit with Zhou You, and on the other hand, it is actively collecting all kinds of evidence, trying to beat Zhou You's arrogance.

If Zhou You didn't publicize this matter, the British side would not be so passive, but when this matter becomes a global hot topic, the British side must consider their national image.

Therefore, they can only act according to the rules, and cannot bully others.

In this process, the deepest feeling is Zhou You, in his previous life, he wandered between black and white, even ordinary policemen, Zhou You's heart has some fear.

This fear is not the fear of ability, but the fear of rules in the subconscious mind. He can easily kill the other party, but he doesn't dare to touch the bottom line of the rules, because no matter how strong his ability is, he is also a weakling.

Therefore, when salvaging the Royal Merchant, he subconsciously wanted to escape, and he wanted to hide the Ranger.

But with Rhodes and Volando Sr., their presence now points the way to a brighter path. He is not just a little person outside the rules now, taking advantage of the contradictions between England and Spain, and the contradictions between Spain and the Basques, Zhou You has also created a good game and integrated himself into the rules, and now he can also use the rules to deal with a country.

For him, who has always been a widow in a small country, he has re-realized his breakthrough, and with old Volando by his side, he is no longer the lonely wolf in his previous life.

Although he didn't know what his future path should be, with old Volandor by his side, he believed that his ability to resist the wind and rain had almost increased exponentially.

If according to his initial decision, the Ranger is hidden and sneaky, there is still a chance that it will be searched by British satellites, and even if it reaches Singapore, it may not be able to resist the pressure of the British government.

But now he is a hundred times stronger than he did at the beginning, by directly publicizing the matter, and skillfully exploiting the contradictions between Spain and England, and using the rules to make Britain dare not do whatever it wants.

In the first phase of negotiations with the British government, no compromise was reached because the differences between the demands of the two sides were too large. So the two sides decided to calm down for the time being and put their hopes on the next negotiations.

The second round of talks is set for November 26 and will not take place in Spain, but in Singapore, Asia.

This is mainly due to the fact that the inauguration ceremony of the company's new base will be held on November 19. At that time, the World Shipwreck Research Society, which he led the founding, will also be established at that time.

Since this matter has received strong support from the Singapore government, as one of Singapore's allies, the British government will also give this face and will not make any small moves in this matter.

The Singapore government's support for the World Shipwreck Society is very strong, and Zhou You's original idea was to set up a non-governmental organization, find some historians, and provide some sponsorship funds.

However, the Singapore government has expanded the matter, and they are planning to establish this association as an official-backed seabed resources research society, which is more inclined to the use and sustainable development of seabed resources in addition to the study of shipwreck treasures.

So, they invited officials and scholars from more than 150 coastal countries and regions around the world, and set aside two floors in the Singapore Maritime Authority building in the Bay Area to set up a formal research association, which will be used as a liaison headquarters, and will also set up their own website, form an editorial team, and set up their own journals.

Nowadays, this matter is beyond the scope of Zhou You's management, and the Singapore government will not hand over such a semi-official association to Zhou You, because this is an important channel to expand Singapore's international influence.

The United Nations International Seabed Authority, which is still nestled in the small Caribbean country of Kingston, Jamaica, also provided a lot of human support for the establishment of this association.

Although they have a great reputation, they have no power, and they can't control anyone or anything. Due to financial constraints, their development has been very slow, and the major member states have not cared about this aspect, which has caused them to be in an embarrassing situation.

Now, with the strong support of the Singapore government, coupled with the generosity of entrepreneurs like Zhou You, they also see a new direction of development.

That is to combine their expertise with the wealth of the seabed to create more economic benefits.

However, as a non-profit organization, they are affiliated with the United Nations, and they will also face resistance if it is inappropriate to participate directly in commercial development.

So they pinned their hopes on this semi-official body, hoping to negotiate with the Singapore government to place the association under the structure of the Seabed Authority and become a semi-independent body.

Of course, the Seabed Authority will also devote its abundant human and research resources to enrich the strength of this association. And the benefits created by this association can also be shared by the Seabed Authority.

I didn't participate in this part of the negotiations, but the negotiations between Singapore and the Seabed Authority went very smoothly, and one side wanted money and the other side wanted fame, so they took what they wanted.

Just a few days ago, Zhou You received a report from Lin Wei that the Singapore government has reached a cooperation agreement with the United Nations Seabed Authority, and both sides are very optimistic about the future of this association.

They set up this association, and Zhou You didn't want to put aside the shipwreck association he was going to establish, and the experts and scholars he invited were all celebrities in the industry, which was very helpful for his future development.

Although most of them belong to this association established in the name of the state, it does not prevent them from directly serving the tour.

Therefore, Zhou You decided to establish a small research group in his own base, sharing the resources of the association while serving himself.

On November 16, Zhou You booked a flight directly and returned to Singapore from Spain with a large army. He was accompanied back to Singapore by half of the crew, as well as Volando Sr. and Gracia, as well as dozens of maritime experts and historians from all walks of life in Spain, as well as some officials.

And, of course, Caneiroga and Sanchez, as well as some government officials from the Basque Country and the Balearic Regions, they were invited to travel to Singapore for the inauguration of his base.

Lin Jiapei and Liang Hao were left on the Ranger to guard, and nearly twenty security guards were added, and now there are nearly fifty people on board. Underneath the ship, the Bilbao Police Department has also sent a large number of people to guard the Ranger, so there is no need to worry about safety issues.

Since the negotiations with the British side had not yet reached a result, the British side also sent a representative to guard the ship, watching the wealth and not allowing the possibility of transfer of the trip.

Until the matter is resolved, the Ranger will be trapped here, with nowhere to go.

But he didn't care about these trips, anyway, in his plan, the Ranger didn't have anything to do now.

There was also a special guest on the flight, that is, Atletico Madrid's president Old Hill, who attached great importance to the invitation to travel, and as soon as he got on the plane, he talked with many government officials, talking about the future with confidence.

Thinking that he only had two or three years to live, Zhou You really didn't understand what he was working so hard for.

Gracia took her trip to Singapore very seriously, because if it weren't for the fact that she needed to greet the Spanish guests, she wouldn't have been allowed to come to Singapore.

Gracia was very curious about this forbidden area. Of course, what she is more curious about is Yan Fangqing, she and Paris are incompatible every day, and they feel a little in love and killing each other. But when she went to the United States, how did she make Paris's stupid girl like her?

Gracia doesn't think that her ability is worse than her, she is still in school, and she can become Zhou You's wife, just because she and Zhou You have known each other earlier, if she really has the ability, Zhou You may have arranged something for her to do.

But so far, except for the fact that she went to the United States on behalf of Zhou You to sign a few agreements this time, nothing has been done. Although her education is lower than hers, she has already exercised herself in management, otherwise, Zhou You would not have arranged such an important position for herself.

The flight arrived at Singapore Changi Airport at 8 a.m., and everyone had a good night's sleep on the plane, so the spirits were quite good at this time.

The Hilton arranged for three buses to take everyone to the Hilton Hotel at the northern end of Orchard Road, where the early arrival Paris and her grandfather, Barron Hilton, had been staying here for a day.

At first, he was a little surprised that Old Barron had come to his own celebration, but he soon figured it out. She has been dating Paris for a long time, and she is now completely controlled by herself.

As Barron's most favored heir, Barron must get involved at this time to negotiate better terms for his granddaughter.

After all, Paris is not the only woman around you.

For the last head of the Hilton family, Zhou You is actually quite admired. In the previous life, due to the fall of Paris and Nikki, Barron could no longer find an heir among his descendants, so he simply sold all the assets of the Hilton family in the United States, and set up a family foundation with all the money, giving these descendants some pocket money every month, so that these rice worms would not starve to death, but it was completely impossible to take power.

With such a large family, there were nine people in the third generation, but all of them were prodigals and losers, and Barron regretted his home education. What made Barron even more sad was that only Richard had given birth to a fourth generation, and none of the other children had been born.

This left him with no choice.

He is actually very optimistic about travel, whether it is his self-made experience or the life development path he planned for Paris, all of which prove that his plan for the future is incomparable to that of an old man like himself.

It would be better for him to have his own family in Singapore, and Barron only hopes that because of Paris, he will travel around to support and help the future Hilton Group, but he definitely does not want his Hilton to become his industry.

(To be continued.) )