078 The head of the merchants

"You lard is blinded, you don't know that the sky is high and the earth is thick and you are instigated by the villain, you actually dare to fight with me to get rich, and you want to use tricks to force me out of Tanggu City......?

Xiao Letian stood at the window on the second floor, scolding this group of businessmen with dead faces just like training the third grandson. But I don't know how to do it, the more Xiao Letian scolded, the more relaxed the expressions of these businessmen became.

They are not born cheap bones, but the social experience accumulated over many years of business tells them, reprimanding you to show that you can still be saved, if the other party has already regarded you as a dead person, they will not say more than half a word to you.

"A small lifter, coupled with a ruffian hooligan, can actually make the merchants of the entire Tanggu City bow their heads and admit to being their grandsons? Look at your arrogant posture in the foreign bank yesterday, as if you can kick someone out of Tanggu City in the next moment, and what do you say that the silver ticket should not only be cash, and what do you say that there is no arrears...... I'm smacking you face, letting people use them like dogs, and they're all pretentious with shy faces? shameless ......"

"A businessman should do what a businessman should do, operate with integrity, be undeceiving, do your business well, and get involved in other people's fights, what is happening now? Your house has been raided by the mob, and the warehouse has been burned down by the mob, you go to Huang Juren to reimburse the losses......!

Xiao Letian's mouth is really damaged, this group of businessmen who almost scolded him for his short exposure committed suicide by jumping into the sea. They should also be ashamed that last night they went back to their respective homes to see the empty stores and the burning warehouses, and that ten small merchants committed suicide that night, and it was too uncomfortable to shoot themselves in the foot.

"You are all older than me, I don't think I need to teach you what retribution is......" Xiao Letian scolded for a quarter of an hour, and then drank a cup of tea and breathed a sigh of relief, "Although you are stupid and lack of morality, but in yesterday's riot, you have learned a lesson, and what you have done is only against morality, and there is no capital crime, so you don't need to worry about me settling accounts after the autumn, as for what nonsense to spare, don't say any nonsense, Tongzhi is above, what are you shouting at me......"

Hearing Xiao Letian's teasing words, Zhou Mingkui, whose face had just eased and was a little ruddy, was frightened again, and quickly bowed his head and said humbly, "The lower officials don't dare, don't dare to ......"

These businessmen who had harmed Xiao Lotian on the port, when they heard that their lives were worry-free, they cried bitterly, and they bowed 90 degrees one by one, "Thank you, Mr. Xiao, for your magnanimity......"

Xiao Letian pouted, "But this capital crime can be avoided, but the living crime is not good!" The businessmen present were stunned when they heard this, but when they saw the pile of contracts in Xiao Letian's hand, everyone was dumbfounded, and several of them collapsed directly on the ground.

"Look, everyone, this is the bristle contract you signed for me yesterday, how much it is, how many catties and taels are written in black and white. You can deliver it to me in the next two days......"

Before Xiao Lotian finished speaking, there was a cry downstairs, and almost all the businessmen knelt down, "Mr. Xiao, you better kill us, yesterday's fire, half of the bristles in the warehouse were burned, you just killed us, and we don't have any goods......"

"Mr. Xiao, please be merciful, give me a few days of grace, although my bristles have not been burned, but the money has been robbed by the mob, I am already bankrupt, please give me a way to live......"

The crowd wailed, but everyone didn't dare to mention Xiao Letian smashing the thug with their silver coins, for fear that one would accidentally provoke this killing god again. But people begged for a long time, but found that Xiao Letian's kindness had been exhausted just now, and now he looked like he was doing business.

The merchants finally collapsed, and the two outermost merchants screamed, stood up, and ran in the direction of the sea, when the captains and sailors of the foreigner merchant ships were watching the excitement, and suddenly found two figures screaming and burrowing into the sea.

There is one who takes the lead, and there is a second, and in the blink of an eye, more than a dozen businessmen who can't bear the pressure jump into the sea with their eyes closed, they really don't want to live.

"Save people, hurry up and save people......" Xiao Letian saw that he had gone too far, and he was anxious at that time and hurriedly ordered to save people. However, it was the foreign sailors in the harbor who took the lead in rescuing.

Captain Corsica stood at the bow of the ship and shouted French, and the sailors of the Lucky and the surrounding merchant ships crackled and jumped into the sea like dumplings, tossing and turning for a long time to save the merchants, but fortunately none of them died in time.

When the dock sat side by side and slipped down the soup chicken, Xiao Letian also went downstairs, stood in front of them and pointed his nose and scolded, "Waste, stupid, won't you make money if you don't have money?"

"What you said is easy, although you have the ability to make money, but the turnover of silver has already been robbed, and there is no working capital for this business, isn't it just waiting for death? Maritime merchants have a big handicap, even if it is difficult to borrow usury! Woo woo woo ...... one businessman actually cried after speaking.

Xiao Lotian stood up, looked around at the businessmen present, and said earnestly, "You don't have any money, but I have it! Isn't it just borrowing money, I, Xiao Letian, am not a miser, as long as you open your mouth, how many ...... you want."

As soon as he heard this, the eyes of the businessmen present lit up, "How much profit do you want?" Xiao Letian smiled slightly, "If I say don't want to do it at all, you don't have a bottom in your heart, just add a profit, for a period of one year, I won't play with you about the profit......"

Before he finished speaking, the people present surrounded Xiao Lotian with a bang, and Xiang Shaolong next to him was so frightened that he wanted to do it at that time. "Sir, you didn't lie to us, it's really only a penny? You really don't play the game of profit?"

Xiao Lotian raised his hand and pointed to the sun and said, "There are gods and Buddhas in the sky, and the ancestors are watching, I say that one is one, and I will never lie to you......" Everyone swore by Xiao Letian with gods and Buddhas and ancestors, and they no longer doubted it.

"Sir, great kindness, I will never forget it for the rest of my life!" everyone knelt down with a bang after saying this. Xiao Letian smiled bitterly and pulled up the cow shopkeeper next to him, "Enough is enough, you kowtow too much today, I really don't know why you love kowtowing so much...... After speaking, he reached out to help the cow shopkeeper pat the muddy water on his body.

At this time, the businessmen of Quantanggu have already made Xiao Lotian into a clay figure, and the ups and downs of people's feelings in the past two days have been in the sky and the earth for a while, coupled with the extremely nerve-stimulating things such as death and bankruptcy, which have completely collapsed the psychological defense line of these people.

Now Xiao Lotian is a little kind to them, in exchange for the gratitude of all the businessmen, this day Xiao Lotian received the heart of Tanggu maritime merchants, in just two days Xiao Lotian unified the business district of Tanggu Port, and became a well-deserved boss.

"Mr. Xiao, I'm ashamed, I'm really ashamed...... "How dare the shopkeeper let the nobles help him beat the dust, he took three steps back and said respectfully, "From now on, I will look at Mr. Sihai Cargo Station!"

"Tanggu hundred merchants, from today onwards, Mr. Ma is the head is the ......" It was like a thunder on the ground, and all the businessmen present actually swore allegiance to Xiao Letian collectively. At that moment, Xiao Letian was a little grateful to Huang Juren and them, if they hadn't made such a fuss, he wouldn't have been able to win the hearts of the people within two days.

When the big drama is sung here, there is nothing new, and the shopkeeper Fan Yao began to write an IOU at the execution ground, and the silver with a cent of interest was opened to borrow out, and more than one million taels of silver were emptied in just two hours.

How much is a million taels of silver, according to 35 grams and one tael, that is more than 35,000 kilograms, which is a full weight of 35 tons. Not to mention that the Qing people are dizzy with such a silver mountain, even the foreigners on the harbor swallow their saliva, and the light of the silver two can't be pulled out when it comes into their eyes.

From today onwards, the name of Lotte is completely launched, whether it is a Qing businessman or a foreign businessman, no one dares to doubt the financial strength of Lotte Bank, and gradually the nickname of "South Hu and North Xiao" spread, Xiao Lotte has become one of the two gods of wealth in the north and south with Hu Xueyan.

When the chores on the square were almost done, the captain of Corsica and a group of foreign businessmen actually came to visit Xiao Lotian in person, and with the etiquette of the Qing Dynasty, he actually prepared a greeting post, which shows that Xiao Letian's prestige has reached a certain level in the past two days.

"Dear scholar Xiao, I didn't expect you to be a very good businessman, you have conquered the merchants of the entire port in just a few days, I think we can take a good look at the future cooperation, you have won the respect of all of us......" After Corsica finished speaking, more than a dozen foreign businessmen present collectively took off their hats and nodded to Xiao Letian.

Xiao Letian is happy in his heart, or the reality of foreigners, as long as you can suppress them, they are actually more cute than domestic businessmen. The subtext in Corsican's words Xiao Letian understood as soon as he heard it, this is a big business coming to the door, and he can be regarded as entering the inner circle of maritime businessmen.

"Hahaha, thank you very much for your support to me, please accept my most sincere thanks......" Xiao Lotian spoke fluent English and invited these businessmen to the backyard of the foreign company, "Everyone, let's have a good talk, what good goods do you have in your hands for me? Do you have a Mauser rifle in the rear? Remington made in the United States can also be used, and silver ore, I need silver ore very much now, I will eat as much as you have...... Oh yes, Captain Corsica, can I ask you for something personal when you get home......"

The inner house of Lotte was completely turned into a meeting room for smugglers, a group of people lowered their heads and whispered, a business that violated the laws of the Qing Dynasty and European countries was finalized, and the generous Xiao Lotian actually generously traded with gold.

"Oh God, generous Xiao, you actually traded with us in gold, you must know that the entire European monetary system is maintained by gold and pounds, and gold is the life of our motherland......"

"Hooray! With gold, let the law hell with it, dear Shaw, we love you so much......"

In the howl of a group of foreign devils, Xiang Shaolong sat quietly on the roof of the house, and said helplessly to the eagle not far away, "You better go back, can you understand the messy bird language below?"

The eagle made Xiang Shaolong blush a little, and turned his head and left, this eavesdropping mission was a complete failure.

Note: This is a chapter for Xiang Shaolong, Long Ye is a single chapter, Long Ye is powerful enough, it is not possible to add it...... Anyway, Xiang Shaolong, you haven't joined the group yet, have you?