Chapter 200: Meeting the Merchants III

The next to speak was Scott Russel, "Thomas, why did you have to drop our names? Anyway, Lord Daniel, I am here today because of the new project me and Isambard are working on. Ship production is a business engaged in by a lot of merchants, however, I am positive that the one we have invented is a league on its own. The truth is, we're almost done with it and it will be called, the Great Eastern. It is an iron sailing steamship which will have the capacity to carry 4,000 passengers that can travel 15,000 kilometers without refuelling. Anyway, the problem is that we want to have sole rights on our creation. We refuse to be coerced to share it with other nobles who has already partnered with other ship building companies. If you let us use your name as a business partner, I don't know if there is still a need to swear allegiance because obviously, our ship will always sail with your name and will also sink with yours if it ever comes to that."