472 Catfish Effect
At the end of June, the southern African flight team finally returned with honor, and after a smooth flight over the English Channel, the southern African flight team has performed more than 20 air shows in France and the United Kingdom, and many countries have been attracted by the advanced aircraft in southern Africa, and negotiated with the Nyasaland Aviation Institute to purchase aircraft and hire pilots.
The Institute of Aviation Research is very adamant in this regard, it is okay to buy an airplane, but not to hire a pilot, but Nyasaland can help train pilots, which of course also needs to be paid.
Nyasaland now has more than a hundred Italians and Persians in training as pilots, of course, training is limited to basic operations, and more advanced tactics are not involved at all.
In North Africa, Italy and the Ottoman Empire are already on the brink of war, both countries want to buy planes from Nyasaland, both want to hire pilots, if Nyasaland agrees to all their demands, then when war breaks out, it will be Nyasaland people who will fight in the skies of North Africa.
There are still very few pilots in Nyasaland, and every pilot is precious, so Roque will not let them work for money.
Also at the end of June, Elvis voluntarily resigned as chairman of Casimir Perrière's company and transferred all the shares of the Perrière family in Casimir Perrière's company to the Nyasaland Agricultural Company for three million francs.
On the evening of the signing of the contract, Elvis left Madagascar with Oliver and Ellis, and Casimir Perrière's name was officially changed to Mayotte.
In fact, it doesn't matter what the name is, as long as it doesn't involve southern African elements, compared to Marseille and Lyon, Mayotte is not far from Madagascar and is more like a pure Malagasy enterprise.
Robert, who served as the general manager, had just taken office and immediately began to make all kinds of drastic changes.
The entire company was purged of the Perrière family, Oliver's tenure as general manager and all the fox friends he hired were gone, and Mayotte re-signed a new contract with the umbrella company, with a total contract of three and a half million francs, but no longer limited to the number of mercenaries.
At the same time, Robert also disbanded the security department previously formed by Casimir Perrier, and handed over all security work to the umbrella company.
Mayotte then began to soar, and at the same time as several mines were operating at the same time, Mayotte bought a large amount of land in Madagascar to develop plantations and grow coffee, vanilla, tobacco and other cash crops.
In fact, it is very simple to develop a variety of operations, there is no need to go to the distant North African provinces, it is enough to operate in Madagascar, so Oliver is really not wronged.
The change in Mayotte also attracted the attention of other French companies in Madagascar, and the general manager of Mayorte publicly stated at a reception in Antananarivo that Marseille would not conduct any kind of business with Mayotte, and called on French companies in Madagascar to unite and drive Mayotte out of Madagascar.
Because of the position of Marseille in Madagascar, it is true that some companies will respond to Brown Joel's call, but more companies have an ambiguous attitude, after all, for Madagascar, the market in southern Africa is also irreplaceable.
Trade with France accounts for three-quarters of Madagascar's foreign trade, and the remaining quarter, Southern Africa accounts for a large part, and this piece of profit must not be abandoned.
"Gentlemen, since the autonomy of southern Africa, it has become more and more aggressive, Portuguese East Africa, Tanganyika, South West Africa, the Congo Free State and other regions bordering southern Africa have suffered greatly, so we must resolutely resist the invasion of southern African capital, and do not cooperate with all enterprises, including Casimir Perrière, otherwise Madagascar will become the next Lorenço Marques." Brown Joel was also very determined in southern Africa because of the heavy losses in the civil war that broke out in Lorenzo Marques.
Everyone who heard these words looked at each other, whether Madagascar will become the next Lorenzo Marques, no one can be sure now, but it is unrealistic to stop cooperating with southern African companies, the umbrella company is also a southern African company, and the Marseille company itself has business dealings with the umbrella company, so Brown Joel's words are a bit contradictory.
"Casimir Perrier is now Mayotte—" Leo Parker, the general manager of Lyon, did not respond positively to Brown Joel's words.
"This speaks volumes about the ambitions of southern African capital, and if Casimir Perrière does not work with the Africans, then the Perrière family will not lose Casimir Perrière." Brown Joel is stealing concepts.
"Come on, if Mr. Jean Casimir Perrière had not cooperated with Lord Nyasaland, then the Casimir Perrière Company would not have survived in Madagascar at all, and as for the loss of the Casimir Perrière Company by the Perrière family, it was also the Perrière family's own doing, everyone knows that Oliver is a fool, only Mr. Oliver himself and his father, Mr. Elvis, do not believe it." Andrew Charley, a senior manager at Umbrella, retorted.
"What you say cannot be confirmed by anyone, the reality is that the Perrière family has lost all their shares in Casimir Perrière, which was founded by Mr. Jean-Casimir Perrière, which is now a Southern African enterprise." Brown Joel is convinced that what he sees and what others say is chasing after the wind.
"Okay gentlemen, there is no point in us discussing this, every day companies go out of business, every day new companies are formed, and Mayotte's main business is in Nyasaland, not Marseille, so you don't need to worry about it, Mr. Joel." Leo Parker didn't want to offend Roque, Lyon had not invested in Lorenço Marques before, so the civil war in Lorenço Marques did not cause any losses to Lyon, so Leo Parker would not care whether the capital behind Mayotte came from Southern Africa or from France itself, as long as Mayotte did not compete with Lyon.
One of the conditions that Roque had agreed to work with Jean-Casimir Perrière was that the minerals mined by Casimir Perrière would have to be sold to Nyasaland, not to mainland France.
Jean-Casimir Perrier had no objection to this condition, which was due to the French monetary policy in Madagascar.
When Madagascar became a French colony, the franc became the currency of Madagascar.
However, this franc is not issued by the French government, but by the Viceroyalty of Madagascar.
In 1896, Madagascar became a French colony, and the French government appointed General Joseph Simon Galleni as its first governor.
Because France had just lost the Franco-Prussian War at that time, the financial situation was not optimistic, so the French government was not able to give General Joseph Simon Galleni too much support, and even the French army in Madagascar had to be raised by General Joseph Simon Galleni, so General Joseph Simon Galleni issued Malagasy francs in Madagascar, and then forced Malagasy people to pay taxes in francs that did not have any guarantees, and Madagascar established its own monetary economic system.
The franc used in Madagascar can only be used locally in Madagascar, and leaving Madagascar is a piece of waste paper, so French companies, including those in Madagascar, are very disgusted with this economic policy.
Originally, the transaction between Jean Casimir Perrier and Roque was settled in pounds sterling, so Jean Casimir Perrier was not averse to this transaction.
"If you think so, then you are wrong, in the past, we and Casimir Perrière were able to live in peace because we had a tacit understanding with each other and did not violate each other's interests, and now Casimir Perrière has become Mayotte, do you think we can still maintain the previous tacit understanding? Mayotte has now started buying land to run a plantation, and believe me, it won't be long before you feel threatened by Mayotte. Brown Joel is stubborn, and it cannot be said that his worries are all unfounded, but there are also too many personal factors.
At this moment, Robert and Madagascar's Minister of Mines and Agriculture, Mitch Byron, walked into the banquet hall with a smile and a smile.
Mayotte, which had bought a lot of land, was now a big customer of the colonial government of Madagascar, and Mitch Byron was clearly pleased with the deal that had just been struck.
Unlike enterprises in Madagascar, the colonial government of Madagascar is not averse to southern African capital, whether it is a French enterprise or a southern African enterprise, as long as they operate in Madagascar, they have to pay taxes to the Malagasy colonial government, so in the eyes of Mitch Byron, there is no essential difference between a southern African enterprise and a French enterprise.
If you have to find a difference, it is that French companies do not cooperate with the work of the Governor's Office of Madagascar many times because of their influence on the French government, which annoys Mitch Byron.
Therefore, the capital of southern Africa entered Madagascar, although it attracted the opposition of some people, but the colonial government of Madagascar was happy to see it, and now Madagascar is a cabin full of sardines, and the colonial government of Madagascar hopes that the capital of southern Africa can become a catfish in the cabin, which is the most beneficial to the colonial government of Madagascar.