271.Chapter 271
Chapter 265: The Local Tyrant (II)
"Your Highness! Allow me a few words. Fulong hesitated for a moment, and stood up directly.
"You." Liu Fei nodded.
"Your Highness, although we are all ordinary people, but we are also all people who know how to repay our kindness, Your Highness, you have saved the lives of all of us, it stands to reason that the lives of our people are Your Highness, we should not ask for any salary, benefits, etc., we should be Your Highness's people in the future. However, if we die, it will be fine, but since we are not dead, and our owner still has a family business in Guangzhou, we must say to the owner before we can follow Your Highness. Fulong said quickly.
"Yes, your Highness, our life will be yours in the future, you don't need any money, just give us a few mouthfuls of food."
"That's it!"
The sailors below immediately began to roar, it seemed that Fulong still had a high prestige in their hearts, Liu Fei stretched out his hand and pressed it, and everyone immediately quieted down.
"Everyone, I've just passed, are you willing to follow me, these things are everyone's welfare, all the people who follow me, I won't let him give me his life in vain, the rule here is that as long as you pay, you will get a return, anyone is the same, I will let everyone go to Guangzhou, of course, I also want to go back to Guangzhou." Liu Fei said.
"Next, I will free up a ship for everyone to use, and then I will also take this ship to Guangzhou, and finally, I hope you can help empty the three cargo ships! Since the British robbed these three ships, I believe that the contents should all be good. Liu Fei said loudly.
"Your Highness, don't worry, we don't have culture, but we still have a lot of strength." Fulong immediately spoke.
Liu Fei nodded, there was no one on this battleship, so naturally he couldn't let these people stay for a long time, otherwise it would be easy to find out the accident, so Liu Fei immediately asked Liu Zhiwen to start notifying the fleet behind, and let Zero release two armed merchant ships of this era.
Liu Fei only prepared three armed merchant ships, these merchant ships are the same as these warships, they are also three-masted galleons, the difference is that there are not so many gun emplacements, each merchant ship only has five cannons on one side, but with the power of modern artillery, I am afraid it is not worse than the firepower projection ability of the main battleships in this era.
Two armed merchant ships soon appeared on the distant horizon, and at a distance of a few hundred meters, the two were close together, and the sailors thought that they were vacating one of them. After about ten minutes, another armed merchant ship sailed away directly, and Liu Fei also let his warship approach the merchant ship, and then let these sailors go up.
These sailors didn't doubt it, after all, it was impossible for ordinary people to go up to all the warships, but what they didn't expect was that Liu Fei also followed them on the merchant ship, and Liu Zhiwen and a T1000 naturally followed. There were only five warships left, and one merchant ship headed for the three French cargo ships.
During this time, these three cargo ships have not left, and the scene just now simply frightened all the crews on the three cargo ships, how dare they move casually, the accurate artillery sent the British Far East Fleet directly into the deep sea to feed the fish in half an hour.
And unless they want to die, the other party will definitely not mind sending them into the ocean as well. Soon, when the four warships surrounded the place, Liu Fei's merchant ship also approached, and the other party had honestly gathered all their sailors on the deck, there were only about a hundred people in total, all of whom were French.
"Who's in charge here?" Liu Fei looked at these people before he spoke.
"I am." A brightly dressed fat man walked out of the crowd, Liu Fei looked at this bearded fat man, who looked like he was in his forties, and from what he was wearing, he might also have the aristocratic status of the French royal family.
"Very well, I'm going to accept supplies for these three ships now, I don't know if you have anything to tell me?" Liu Fei said lightly.
"Your Highness, I can tell you that the three ships of their valuables are going to transport back to France 100 tons of gold, as well as 600 tons of silver, and all other goods are camouflaged." The fat man spoke very respectfully.
100 tons of gold? 600 tons of silver? Liu Fei almost bit his tongue off, he was why the British Far East Fleet did not hesitate to risk a war between the two countries and took the risk directly, because this risk and the benefits obtained are simply incomparable.
But now it's all cheaper, Liu Fei! 100 tons of gold! I grass, the price of this 100 tons of gold alone is an extremely terrifying price, it seems that Liu Fei's income from this trip can be guaranteed. However, from this silver and gold, it can also be seen how much silver Britain and France earned from selling opium in China in this era!
This is still France, and Britain, as the main beneficiary of opium, may get even more terrifying money! Yes, 80% of the powerful navy that Britain was able to have during World War I and World War II was raised by China in this era!
"What's your name?" However, this fat man came out of this matter so simply, Liu Fei was still a little surprised.
"My name is Brino, Your Highness, you can call me by my Chinese name, my Chinese name is Wang An." Fat Brino spoke quickly.
Liu Fei looked at the fat man with some curiosity, it seems that this fat man should often travel between China and Europe, otherwise he would not have given a Chinese name according to the local customs.
"Very well, your honesty has won my favor, and I can spare all of your lives." Of course, Liu Fei knew why this fat man was so simple, and he was obviously frightened by Liu Fei's iron-blooded methods. You must know that Liu Fei's battleship just now did not even let go of those rescue boats that did not have any attack power at all, all of them were bombarded by one shell, and now there are still a lot of British sailors floating on the sea, but this is the depth of the sea, there are no islands nearby, and there is no land.
If no one rescues them, they probably won't even be far from death.
"Thank you, Your Highness, for your grace." Brino simply knelt down for Liu Fei, it seems that this fat man has no discipline in order to survive, but Liu Fei just likes such people.
"You can get up, and now take my men to carry the silver, and as for the gold, you can bring me there." Liu Fei thought for a while and said.
"Yes, Your Highness." Brino immediately said decisively. Soon Brino took Liu Fei to the cabin of the ship, and when he opened a dark cabin below, revealing the golden gold inside, Liu Fei's current net worth was not cheap, and his face was full of shock.
A whole 100 tons of gold were stacked together, and the gold bricks were neatly stacked there, fixed with wooden shelves, but now, all this gold was Liu Fei's.
Liu Fei quickly ordered Liu Zhiwen to start driving the French on the three ships to one of the ships, and then let the sailors of Fulong first empty the silver on that ship. And the ship with the gold was close to another warship, of course, this was just a cover-up.
Liu Fei had already emptied all the 60 cubic meters of space, and all the food and other things in it were put on the merchant ship. 1 cubic meter of gold is about 19. 32 tons, according to the calculation of 19 tons, 100 tons is only less than 6 cubic meters, even if the area of these gold bricks is larger, it is only less than 8 cubic meters to put all 100 tons of gold into Liu Fei's space.
As for how to carry Liu Fei, I don't know, anyway, after Liu Fei explained, when Liu Fei came to see it again, all the gold was gone. Occupies about 7. 5 cubic meters of space, counting the original 11 tons of silver in Liu Fei, Liu Fei's current capital is definitely a big tyrant in this era.
What's more, there are a whole 600 tons of silver out there? However, Liu Fei did not put all the 600 tons of silver on another merchant ship, but only put 300 tons of silver on it, and the remaining 300 tons were also received by Liu Fei into the zero space, occupying about 32 cubic meters.
There are only more than 20 cubic meters left in Liu Fei's space, but the value of the 100 tons of gold alone is about 4.2 billion US dollars, which means that Liu Fei has 420,000 points in his hands, and this is not counting the silver. 300 tons of silver are worth more than 200 million US dollars, and there are also more than 20,000 points.
And this is all a business without capital, as soon as the cannon goes off, ten thousand taels of gold, Nima, this sentence is really true.
"Young master, these people should be able to be trusted, in the process of transporting silver, we did not supervise, but this silver is not missing a slight." After transporting all the silver and gold, and replenishing all the living materials on the three cargo ships to his merchant ships, Liu Zhiwen found Liu Fei and reported.
"Well, the people of this era are still very simple." Liu Fei nodded, 300 tons of silver is equivalent to more than 8 million taels of silver! This is definitely a terrifying number in the Qing Dynasty, but these people don't even have a hand or foot, you know, these silver are smelted silver nuggets, and there is no problem at all when you hide a piece in the process of transportation.
But what Liu Fei didn't know was that it wasn't that there were no greedy people, but that he hadn't encountered it, first of all, he did business on the ocean in this era, because the Qing Dynasty banned the sea, which was also an illegal business, although in the current Daoguang period, this sea ban is basically useless, but after all, it has not been officially lifted.
And these proprietors who do marine business when choosing their sailors, the selection system is stricter, I am afraid that it is stricter than the selection of future generations to be soldiers, they must be loyal and honest, and they have not been in prison, and they must be good neighbors in the township, and there are at least three or more respected people elected for you before they will be hired, and finally they need to go through a long assessment period.
Therefore, the character of these people, originally their owner had already assessed Liu Fei. Liu Fei is completely picking up cheap
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