0023 Foreigners
After learning about the general pattern of today's world with Lin Ruhai, Tao Bao returned to the room. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Pouring the gold ingots from the money bag 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 he just took the opportunity to sell one to the system store to buy the Ten Perfection Tonic Pills, and now there is still 14 money left on the personal panel, and there are still ninety taels of gold on the bed, plus a mess of things in the system warehouse, these are all the current assets of Tao Bao.
I searched the system warehouse for the ship's guns, but found that these things were too expensive to use as tools for long-distance voyages.
Tao Bao had to put down the idea of sailing first, now it is mainly capital accumulation, rather than buying ships with the system store, 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 get guns and ships from the system store.
Anyway, I will go to other mission worlds in the future, and if I have the opportunity, I will say that making money is not only a way to engage in voyages, but now since it is not possible, let it go first, and it is okay to do something else, and it is not too late to do it when the time is ripe.
Having made up his mind, Tao Bao has been thinking about other ways to make money all night, if it weren't for his internal strength, I'm afraid that when he gets up, he will not be refreshed, but with panda eyes.
Tao Bao hasn't been out of the Red Mansion World for a month, and now he can finally take advantage of Daiyu's opportunity to learn housekeeping to go out and stroll.
With ninety taels of gold in the system and a dozen taels of broken silver from Jia Yu Village in the hidden pocket around his waist, Tao Bao began to visit this prosperous Yangzhou City purposefully.
There is a very large inner city river in the inner city of Yangzhou, so Tao Bao walked along the riverbank, looking at the surrounding shops and estimating the flow of customers while strolling.
Probably because of the proximity to the wharf, most of the shops on both sides of the river are inns or warehouses, and occasionally there are one or two restaurants, and even if you count the itinerant hawkers, there are very few people who cook food.
Tao Bao's main purpose is to find a store for rent and transfer, and on this street near the dock, it is clear that everyone is doing well, and so far there are no shops for rent.
All the way to the wharf, a noise came, the sound of the wharf unloaders, the sound of merchants bargaining, all kinds of sounds came into Tao Bao's ears.
Another place is the most obvious, there are a lot of people around, look carefully, I don't want to buy and sell goods, listening to the noise of the group of people for a while, Tao Bao's eyes flashed with curiosity.
She walked towards the crowd in a large circle, for she had heard someone speak a foreign language, which was really unusual.
Relying on his strength, Tao Bao flexibly squeezed away the people who stood in the way, and got into the innermost part of the crowd in a few moments.
This is a two-party person arguing, one side is a middle-aged man who looks like a steward with six or seven shirtless guards, all with fierce faces.
On the other side were three foreigners, who appeared to be a father and son with a servant, blonde and blue-eyed Englishmen who spoke English in a London accent.
The two parties were arguing fiercely, and although the people around them couldn't understand what they were arguing about, this didn't stop everyone from looking at the strange mind.
The steward said a word of English, and then the two men in England trembled with anger, and the little boy was desperate, and he didn't know where he took out a pistol and was about to shoot at the steward, but fortunately the little boy's father reacted quickly and quickly stopped.
The smell of gunpowder on both sides suddenly became stronger, and the few big men behind the steward looked fierce, Tao Bao was sure that if the three Britons said anything more, the two gangs would be able to fight immediately.
However, Tao Bao would not let them fight, not only did she understand that the two bullheads did not talk to each other, the more she misunderstood that she wanted to stop it, but also the identity of the steward and the pistol in the little boy's hand, which was exactly what she needed now.
Seeing that the atmosphere between the two sides is getting more and more stiff, although these people are just watching the excitement, they are also very sorry for their lives, worried that the two sides will accidentally hurt themselves when they fight, and everyone tacitly retreats a little to avoid harming the pond fish.
As soon as everyone retreated, Tao Bao was revealed, and the steward saw that Tao Bao did not retreat but walked towards them and gestured to the guards behind him.
The two guards walked towards Tao Bao menacingly, and were raising their hands to push Tao Bao aside, but they didn't expect that they would be frozen in place like this.
Tao Bao finished clicking on the acupoints of the two, clapped his hands, raised his two hands and said with a smile as he walked: "I have no malicious intent, I just see that you have misunderstood each other's meaning, come and tell you." ”
Tao Bao said this sentence again in Chinese and then to the three Englishmen in English, seeing that the British man in charge and the person in charge looked at him puzzled, Tao Bao said:
"This steward, I think you must have misunderstood the three Englishmen, I heard what you said just now, and the reason why you quarreled was because you seized their goods, right?"
The three Englishmen did not understand the rest, but they understood the word goods, which they had been arguing about for a long time, and immediately looked at Tao Bao with bright eyes, for they found that this woman spoke English very standardly, and it was not good that they could help them convey their meaning to the steward.
Obviously, the idea of the steward was the same as that of the three Englishmen, and when he heard Tao Bao speak so well in English, he suddenly felt a sense of relief, and no one wanted to do anything that could be resolved peacefully.
When even responded: "That's true, but because the father and son didn't pay us commissions, we naturally can't hand over the goods to them, we are such a big ship, and it costs money to support so many crews, and when we came from Great Britain, we said that the goods were paid in full, and the contract was signed." ”
The steward looked at Wen Qing with a bitter face, shook the contract in his hand and continued: "But this father and son insisted that we breached the contract and deducted their goods, and we can't help it, girl, I see that you speak English well, you help me talk about it, and I owe you a favor if it is done!"
Seeing Gao Wu's anxious face, Tao Bao nodded, and explained to the three Britons: "You have signed a contract, you should have paid Gao Wu first and then picked up the goods, I know that you are talking about paying him after the goods are sold, but Gao Wu doesn't know, his English is not very good You also know, so there is a misunderstanding between you, and you signed a contract for cash on delivery." ”
"So, you can pick up the goods as long as you pay them. ”
As soon as Tao Bao finished speaking, the little boy who had the gun before immediately said, "But what if we don't have any money to pay him?"
This little boy is about eight or nine years old, although he dared to threaten Gao Wu with a gun before, but after all, he is still a child, and Tao Bao can see the panic in his eyes clearly.
"How much are you going to pay Gao Wu?" Tao Bao asked.
The boy's father replied: "Two hundred taels of silver, now we don't have so much money, we have to sell the goods to pay Mr. Gao Wu back, can you help us talk about it?"
It was only now that he realized that it was not Gao Wu who deliberately tricked them, but that Gao Wu misunderstood what he meant, and now he can't come up with so much money to pay Gao Wu.
This thing is difficult to do, Tao Bao signaled him to be calm, and conveyed the meaning to Gao Wu again, and finally Gao Wu took Tao Bao as a witness and re-signed a contract with the Charles family, giving the Charles family five days, and then paying after five days.
Not only did they have to pay an extra fifty taels of interest at that time, but they also had to allow the fleet to send men to follow them, and Charles agreed.
When he was done, Charles thanked Tao Bao and went to the docks to find someone to unload the cargo, while the old servant and his son Jack stayed on the ship to watch the cargo.
Tao Bao, on the other hand, was invited by Gao Wu to drink tea.