Hai Hongzhu said: "I don't believe it, how can that big dog make money?"

Hua Bushi said: "This matter is not Hua Bushi's joke, yesterday I set a banquet with the shopkeeper Sun, you also saw it, whether you can successfully open a business at that time, it will all fall on the body of this big dog Baoliang. ”

Hai Hongzhu said: "Do you want to use that big dog to gamble with others?"

Hua Bushi said: "At the banquet, I will use Baoliang to fight a powerful fighting dog in this city, but not to win money in gambling, but to let the principals of the major businesses in this city understand our ability to train fighting dogs." ”

Hai Hongzhu said: "So you really want to start a business to help people train fighting dogs?"

Hua Bushi nodded and said, "That's right." ”

Hai Hongzhu frowned and said: "This kind of dog training business can make a lot of money, where can you afford to repay the loan shark you borrowed, aren't you lying to me again?"

Hua Bushi said with a straight face: "This kind of dog training makes a living, and he can't make much money elsewhere, but in this big warehouse city, I'm afraid that there is no business that can make more money than this!"

Regarding the annual "Zixiaotai Dog Fighting Conference" in Okura Castle, when Hua Bushi asked Shopkeeper Sun about the situation on this island earlier, Shopkeeper Sun did not say anything. That's because this "dog fighting conference" is a matter of big merchants in the city who specialize in ocean trade, and it has nothing to do with ordinary people, so Shopkeeper Sun took it for granted that Hua Bushi would not be interested.

The "Zixiao Terrace" is a 100-foot high platform located in the north of Okura Castle, and there are not only pavilions built on the platform, but also 18 venues dedicated to dog fighting. Every year on the fifth day of the fifth month of May, the Okura Castle Dog Fighting Tournament is held on this stage, and hundreds of fighting dogs from the major merchants in the city and trading companies from Western countries compete in rounds, and finally the ranking of each fighting dog is determined according to the number of winners and losers.

It is not easy to participate in the "Zixiaotai Dog Fighting Conference", and the owner of each fighting dog must pay a thousand taels of silver when signing up to participate, in order to replenish the membership fee, and no matter how many fighting dogs have won, what the ranking is, there is no silver or two bonuses. Under such rules, ordinary ordinary people will certainly not participate.

There is no prize because the "Zixiao Terrace Dog Fighting Tournament" is not betting on silver taels, but on the priority of ocean trade in the port. And the value of this right of priority, in the eyes of the major trading firms, is enough to be worth tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of silver taels.

Where there are interests, there are disputes, just as where there are people, there are rivers and lakes.

Ocean trade is a very profitable transaction, which is naturally indispensable to the competition between peer merchants, which will inevitably lead to conflicts and fights.

Every year, merchant ships from the Ming Dynasty would transport large quantities of goods to Okura, mainly tea, raw silk, silk and porcelain, while Western cargo ship owners would also transport cloth, spices, weapons and other goods produced in their countries. Some of these goods are in high demand and are the ones that merchants from both sides compete for, while others are not so popular.

Okura Castle was a city of free trade, and there were no restrictions on the trade between the ships and the island's merchants, so when a shipload of goods arrived at the port, several merchants immediately competed for each other. When the bid does not have an advantage, many merchants resort to other means. Most of the trading houses on the island employ bodyguards and warriors, who were supposed to guard the storefronts and guard the warehouses, but this is where they come in handy.

As more merchants entered the city, the ocean-going business became more and more prosperous, and such fierce battles were also violent, not only killing and wounding many people, but also causing chaos in the city and affecting the trade of all parties. And even if the "Wanjintang" in charge of the city intervenes, it is often not easy to mediate, after all, in free trade, if both parties bid the same price, there is no certainty as to which one the goods will be sold to.

Finally, five years ago, the city lord Sima Zhufeng was determined to try to stop this kind of dispute, so he spent a lot of money to build Zixiao Terrace, and set the rules of the annual "Zixiao Terrace Dog Fighting Conference".

The lord of Okura Castle issued a regulation that the trading houses that had obtained the higher ranking in the "Zixiaotai Dog Fighting Conference" could give priority to trading with merchant ships coming to Hong Kong, and for the same ship of goods, if the latter wanted to bid, they had to pay at least 10% more than the former.

It is certainly much better to use fighting dogs instead of human fights, and to follow established rules and compete fairly and openly in betting, rather than indiscriminate fighting without limits.

The reason for choosing the way of dog fighting is because this kind of gambling competition for raising and training fierce dogs is popular in both Chinese and Western countries, and it is not only the business name of the Ming Dynasty in Middle-earth, but also the trading companies from Western countries can also accept it.

This was a mandatory rule made by the lord of the city, Sima Zhufeng, but all the ocean-going trading houses in the city must abide by it, even the merchant ships of the "Wanjintang". And if anyone violates the rules, they will be immediately expelled from Okura Castle and will no longer be allowed to trade in the city.

You must know that ocean-going merchant ships sail to Okura Island, and generally speaking, there are at least tens of thousands of taels of silver loaded with goods, and even merchant ships with goods worth more than hundreds of thousands of silver. If the trading houses on the island can give priority to trading, the price difference of this percentage is by no means a small amount, especially for the large trading houses, after a whole year, there will be a difference of at least hundreds of thousands of silver taels if they do dozens of trades.

The rules have been set, and all of a sudden, dog breeding has become a trend on Okura Island, and various businesses have spent huge sums of money to search for the strongest fighting dogs in Middle-earth, and hired the most haode animal trainers with high salaries, just to compete for a better ranking in the "Zixiao Conference". A number of trading companies in the Western countries also brought fierce beasts from their own countries and transported them to Okura Island on ocean-going cargo ships to participate in the dog fighting competition.

In fact, for the large cargo ship owners who came to Okura Island from Western countries, tea and raw silk produced in China were in short supply, and they were extremely profitable to ship back to Europe, and their demand for trade was much stronger than that of Chinese firms, so they also paid more attention to the ranking of the dog fighting tournament.

In the past few years, the top fighting dogs in the "Zixiao Conference" every year are mostly Western trading companies, and the "King of Dogs" ranked first at the conference last year was a gray-haired dog named "Xialuo Raccoon" raised by Gongora, an ocean-going merchant ship owner from Spain.

Yesterday, after Hua Bushi and Cao Duyun heard about the "Zixiao Fighting Dog Club" in the city, they immediately moved their minds. Now they only have a few thousand taels of silver, and if they want to do ocean trade, they often need tens of thousands of taels, so they must make a lot of money as soon as possible.

Cao Duyun was originally a noble son in the capital, and he was no stranger to playing birds and dogs, and Hua Bushi was an expert in this way, so the two discussed opening a workshop to help people train dogs, one to earn silver taels, and the other to take the opportunity to familiarize themselves with many shipowners and merchants in the city, so as to make bigger deals in the future.

If you want to get rich quickly, you must use extraordinary means. Each of the shops in the city has its own animal trainers who have been specially hired for a large amount of money, and even if a new dog training workshop is opened, it is not easy to do business with these shops.

So Hua Bushi settled on a jihua, spent all the silver taels to buy the big dog Baoliang, and prepared to set up a banquet in the Yuelai Hotel, and invited the principals of the various businesses in the city to use Baoliang in public to fight the fighting dog "Hurricane" of another "Ruixiang Ji" boat company.

"Hurricane" ranked 33rd at last year's "Zixiaotai Dog Fighting Conference", while Baoliang ranked 86th, which is a far cry. If Baoliang can win the wind, it is extraordinary, and it can prove in front of everyone that Hua Bushi and Cao Duyun opened the ability of the dog training workshop.

Hua Bushi spent a lot of words to tell Hai Hongzhu about the whole thing, and admitted that he was really poor now, and there was no money turnover, so he made this decision and mortgaged Hai Hongzhu to Boss He of the "Mingyue Society" and borrowed 1,500 taels of silver. According to the eldest young master, as soon as the banquet was over three days later, there would be a big merchant house that would ask them to train fighting dogs on their behalf, and then they would be able to repay the usury they owed.

Hai Hongzhu also took a lot of effort to understand what Hua Bushi said, but the more she listened, the more frightened she felt. Although Hai Hongzhu didn't know much about ocean trade and dog fighting, in her mind, Bao Liang was ranked eighty-sixth in the dog fighting club, how could it be so easy for it to win against the wind that was more than forty places ahead? The evil young master casually bet all his property, even her net worth and life, on this fighting dog with little chance of victory, it was really too much!

It's a pity that by now, she can't help it, and there seems to be no other way than to gamble with Hua Bushi.

The Hai family has never been wealthy, and the Hai Lao boxer spends money even more economically, and always teaches his children to learn to be diligent and thrifty when opening a martial arts gym in the countryside, and not to be contaminated with the vice of excessive gambling. Therefore, Hai Hongzhu's concept of money has always been very conservative, but she didn't expect this eldest young master to be so bold and gamble so crazy, which is really difficult for her to accept.

Hai Hongzhu was wondering, how could she want this young master to be her husband before. If she follows Hua Bushi all her life, even if she is not sold by him, she will most likely be scared to death by this guy's crazy adventure, and the end will definitely not be good.

Hua Bushi didn't seem to care about Hai Hongzhu's face full of anger and wanting to kill, and said: "Hongzhu lady, everything is clear to you! As the saying goes, husband and wife are concentric, and their strength is gold, and now we can only work together to train Baoliang into the most powerful fighting dog within three days, so as to earn back the silver taels, and the lady can not be caught by the 'broken door'." ”