Chapter 751: Chapter 331: The Beast Among Beasts_3
A corpulent middle-aged white male with a slicked-back hairstyle and a congressman with graying hair and a short beard got out of the car with an aide.
Madison and Allen Zhang also went out to greet them.
“It’s been a long ti, Flight! You’ve gained so much weight, I bet you’ll end up dying from uremia!” Madison laughed as he went over to hug the other man.
Flight also laughed and patted him on the shoulder, “Not bad yourself, old tir. You seem to be in higher spirits than before. Is it because you’ve done away with Priyan? When are you going to kick the bucket?”
“That may have to wait for a hundred years,” Madison said nonchalantly. “You’re mistaken, I haven’t done away with Priyan! On the contrary, I’m keeping him! He should be grateful to , he doesn’t have to wander the streets and doesn’t have to worry about being strangled in prison.”
The General Sect Leader also shook hands with Flight, getting acquainted with each other.
“Nice videos and photos you shared.” Flight chuckled.
“Glad you like them.” The General Sect Leader nodded with a smile.
“This is the congressman responsible for Colombian land and resources managent, Darchy.” Flight introduced.
“Mr. Darchy, I can see you have plenty of ideas.” Allen Zhang reached out to greet him.
“Mr. Jin, I’m sure your plans are far more nurous!” Congressman Darchy gave a smile.
After a few more words, they returned to the villa.
Madison had the servers open up his treasured red wine; they toasted and drank rrily before getting down to business.
“Regarding Silver Island, after careful consideration in our internal etings, we’ve decided to transfer it for 20 million US Dollars.” Congressman Darchy had his aide take out the contract and handed it over to the General Sect Leader to review.
Allen Zhang glanced at it—all in Spanish—he couldn’t understand a word.
Fortunately, the aide had prepared a translator in advance, kindly providing a Chinese translation.
The docunt also displayed a set of regulations annotated by the Colombian Land Resources Bureau. It ant that the sovereignty of Silver Island would belong to the General Sect Leader for a short period, and the right to exploit it would be transferred as well. However, it wasn’t a permanent property right, but a lease term of 99 years.
But 99 years isn’t so short either; the General Sect Leader wouldn’t live that long. Once there’s a rise in sea levels, that island will be subrged, likely becoming a sunken reef.
After all, the coastline of Silver Island is too shallow, and the island too small. During high tide, one-tenth of its area is subrged; it was originally just a sunken reef island.
“The United Nations has regulations stating that any colonized or leased islands and lands, if the lease exceeds 99 years, the land will permanently belong to another country or individual. We Colombians value our overseas territories and islands highly and won’t easily sell them. So we can only call it a lease, and it is to be returned upon expiration. Otherwise, I’ll face serious public backlash,” said Congressman Darchy, explaining. “However, if the island is subrged due to an accident or deed worthless, unsuitable for human habitation, we would consider relinquishing sovereignty. At that ti, an additional sum of money would be needed, and the lease terms can imdiately beco permanent ownership.”
Playing word gas, huh? Classic politician.
When the ti cos, the General Sect Leader could simply turn the island upside-down, blast it apart, and of course, it would lose its value for human habitation.
Buy the ticket after you board the train.
The General Sect Leader nodded in understanding, acknowledging this as there were no outsiders present. He chuckled, “I promise here that if we really find silver coins or gold coins, I’ll share 10% of the profits with everyone here.”
“Is there really silver on that island? But I bet it won’t be easy to find. The initial workload must be huge. Otherwise, those guerrillas wouldn’t have failed to find it for so long; they’d only be developing tourism,” Flight said with a smile.
“Maybe we need to turn the island upside down?” Allen Zhang chuckled. “You all just need to sort out so paperwork. I have a lot more to consider! If we end up not finding silver, it probably washed away two hundred years ago, and might end up losing a whole billion.”
Everyone laughed hearing this.
Because it certainly seed that way.
“I just hope this won’t turn out to be a failed investnt for Mr. Jin,” Congressman Darchy sighed.
Even if it fails, no worries; they won’t suffer any losses.
It’s all for the prosperity of Colombia! After all, it’s like contributing ‘200 thousand’ US Dollars in foreign exchange earnings to the people.
Twenty million? What twenty million?
19.8 million goes to the governnt.
Only 200 thousand actually belongs to the Colombian people.
The group lifted their glasses for another toast.
The General Sect Leader also sighed; Colombian governnt officials are beasts among beasts.
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