Time travel fat businessman

Chapter 23 Foreigners

After getting to know the general structure of the world with Lin Ruhai, Tao Bao went back to the room.

After dumping the gold ingots in the purse onto the bed, and opening the system panel, Tao Bao planned to clean up his personal assets.

Lin Ruhai gave a total of ten gold ingots, and just took the opportunity to sell one to the system store to buy Shiquan Dabu Pills. Now there is still 14 money left on the personal panel, and 90 taels of gold on the bed, plus the mess in the system warehouse. A bunch of things, these are all Tao Bao's current assets.

I searched for ship guns in the system warehouse, but found that if these things were to be used as tools for long voyages, the cost would be too high and not cost-effective at all.

Tao Bao had to let go of the idea of ​​sailing, and now the main thing is capital accumulation. Compared with buying boats and robbers from system stores, it is easier and more cost-effective to use RMB to buy things in the real world.

But in modern times, there is no way to buy guns and ships, but you can buy them directly in the system store, but it is too expensive, and Tao Bao no longer plans to buy guns and ships from the system store.

Anyway, I will go to other mission worlds in the future. If I have a chance, the only way to make money is to make a long voyage.

Having made up his mind, Tao Bao spent the whole night thinking about other ways to make money. If he hadn't had internal strength, he might wake up with panda eyes instead of refreshed.

Tao Bao hasn't been out of the house for a month since he came to the World of Red Mansions, and now he is finally able to take advantage of Daiyu's opportunity to learn about housekeeping and to go out for a stroll.

With 90 taels of gold in his system and a dozen taels of silver from Jiayu Village in a secret pocket on his waist, Tao Bao began to purposefully wander around the prosperous Yangzhou city.

There is a very large inner city river in the inner city of Yangzhou, so Tao Bao started walking along the river bank, looking at the surrounding shops and estimating the passenger flow.

Perhaps because it is close to the wharf, most of the shops on both sides of the river are inns or warehouses, and there may be one or two restaurants. Even if you count the itinerant hawkers, there are very few eaters.

Tao Bao's main purpose is to find a store for rent and transfer. On this street near the pier, everyone's business is obviously good. So far, he has not seen any store for rent.

All the way to the dock, there was a burst of noise, including the chants of unloaders at the dock, the voices of merchants bargaining, and various sounds reached Tao Bao's ears.

There was one place that was the most obvious. There were a lot of people around it. Looking carefully, it didn't look like they were buying or selling goods. Hearing the crowd of people making noise for a while, Tao Bao's eyes flashed curiosity.

She stepped up and walked towards the crowd that formed a big circle, because she actually heard someone speaking a foreign language, which is really very strange here.

Relying on his own strength, Tao Bao nimbly squeezed out of the way and got into the innermost part of the crowd.

This is a quarrel between two parties. On one side is a middle-aged man who looks like a manager with six or seven shirtless guards, all of whom have fierce looks on their faces.

On the other side were three foreigners, who appeared to be a father and son with a servant, pure Englishmen with blond hair and blue eyes speaking English with a London accent.

The two parties were arguing fiercely. Although the people around couldn't understand a word of what they were arguing about, this didn't stop everyone from looking curiously.

The steward said something in English, which made the two British men tremble with anger. The little boy looked desperate and took out a pistol from nowhere and was about to hit the steward. Fortunately, The little boy's father reacted quickly and stopped him quickly.

The smell of gunpowder between the two sides suddenly became stronger, and the big men behind the steward looked fierce. Tao Bao was sure that if the three British said something more, the two groups would immediately fight.

But Tao Bao would not let them fight, not only did she understand that the two parties were wrong, the more she talked, the more she misunderstood her intention to stop her, but also the identity of the manager and the pistol in the little boy's hand, all these Just what she needed right now.

Seeing that the atmosphere between the two sides was becoming increasingly tense, although these ordinary people were just watching the fun, they also cherished their lives. They were worried that they would be accidentally injured when the two parties fought, so everyone stepped back a little tacitly to avoid harming Chi Yu.

As soon as everyone retreated, Tao Bao appeared. Seeing that Tao Bao did not retreat, the steward walked towards them and gestured to the guards behind him.

The two guards came towards Tao Bao aggressively, raising their hands to push Tao Bao aside, but they didn't expect that they would be locked in place like this.

After Tao Bao tapped the acupoints of the two, he clapped his hands, raised his hands while walking and said with a smile, "I didn't mean anything malicious, I just saw that you all misunderstood each other's meaning, so I came here to tell you."

Tao Bao said this sentence once in Chinese and then in English to the three Englishmen. Seeing that the manager and the British man in charge looked at him in puzzlement, Tao Bao said again:
"My steward, I think you misunderstood the three British people. I heard what you said just now. The reason you were arguing is because you seized their goods, right?"

The three Englishmen didn't understand the rest, but they understood the word "goods" they had been arguing for a long time, and immediately looked at Tao Bao with bright eyes, because they found that this woman spoke English very standard, maybe she could Help them convey their thoughts to the steward.

Apparently, the idea of ​​the manager was the same as that of the three British people. Hearing Tao Bao speak English so well, he immediately felt a sense of relief. No one wanted to do something that could be resolved peacefully.

Dang Ji responded: "That's true, but it's just because the father and son didn't pay us a commission. Naturally, we can't hand over the goods to them. It costs money to feed so many crew members on a ship as big as ours. From then on, When Great Britain came over, it was agreed to pay the full payment in cash on delivery, and the contract was signed."

The steward looked at Wen Qing with a bitter look on his face, shook the contract in his hand and continued: "But the father and son insisted that we breached the contract and deducted their goods. There is nothing we can do. Girl, I see you speak English well. Alright, tell me for me, if the matter is over, I, Gao Wu, owe you a favor!"

Seeing Gao Wu's anxious look, Tao Bao nodded and explained to the three British people: "You have already signed the contract. You should have paid Gao Wu first and then picked up the goods. I know what you said. He is paid after the goods are sold, but Gao Wu doesn’t know that, and you know that his English is not very good, so there is a misunderstanding between you, and you signed a cash on delivery contract.”

"So, as long as you pay the reward, you can pick up the goods."

Just after Tao Bao finished speaking, the little boy who held the gun before said immediately, "But what should we do if we don't have money to pay him?"

This little boy was about eight or nine years old. Although he dared to threaten Gao Wu with a gun before, he was still a child after all. Tao Bao could clearly see the panic in his eyes.

"How much do you want to pay Gao Wu?" Tao Bao asked.

The boy's father replied: "200 taels of silver. Now we don't have that much money. We have to sell the goods to pay Mr. Gao Wu. Madam, can you tell us something?"

It was only now that he realized that it was not Gao Wu who deliberately tricked them, but that Gao Wu had misunderstood his meaning, and now he couldn't afford to pay Gao Wu that much money.

This matter was difficult, Tao Bao signaled him to be calm, and conveyed the meaning to Gao Wu again. Finally, Gao Wu took Tao Bao to be a witness and signed a new contract with the Charles family. Give the Charles family five days to pay after five days.

Not only will they have to pay an additional 50 taels of interest, but they will also have to allow the fleet to send people to follow them, and Charles agreed.

After finishing, Charles thanked Tao Bao and went to the dock to find someone to unload the goods. The old servant and his son Jack stayed on the boat to watch the goods.

Tao Bao, on the other hand, was invited by Gao Wu to have tea.

(End of this chapter)