"Okay, then I'll come to receive the goods in fifteen days!"

Before dinner, the deal between Dickinson and the Pham firm was finally concluded, and after the contract was signed and the 10,000 taels of bills of exchange promised by the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce were completed.

"Slow down, two adults!!"

After seeing Dickinson and Abel leave, the shopkeeper happily and painfully calculated how to deal with this huge and time-critical deal.

"Pony, you should hurry up tonight, go back to report to the owner, and let them hurry up to prepare this batch of goods for us!"

After turning his head and closing the door of the shop, he didn't have time to eat dinner, so the shopkeeper called a man over and handed him this difficult task.

"Okay!"

The man turned and headed for the stable.

Fortunately, Fan's firm also has a transit warehouse in Suzhou, and here we should hurry up the time to walk around Wang's and Chang's firms, and ask them to help, and the goods that should be able to complete this transaction within the specified time should be gathered.

"Knock knock!"

There was a knock at the door that had just closed, and the man opened the door to welcome the guests, but it was the British merchant Abel who had gone and returned.

"Well, today's deal is interesting enough!!"

Abel reversed his previous temperament of having to compete with the shopkeeper Tong, and sat down in front of the shopkeeper with a big grin, but he seemed to be very close to the shopkeeper Tong.

"It's amazing!"

Shopkeeper Tong replied to the God of Wealth with a smile.

"Then it's time to honor the kickback you promised me?"

Abel's eyes were golden, but he looked like a money-obsessed man.

"Don't worry, don't worry, haven't these deals been delivered yet? We haven't got the balance yet, what can we do to settle the bill with you? ”

These days, thanks to Abel using his identity and channels, he has introduced several orders to Fan's firm one after another, but people are also unprofitable characters, but they don't just introduce them to the shopkeeper Tong, but the shopkeeper Tong pays her benefits according to the commission of five percent per order, and people are so enthusiastic.

"I can't wait, I can go back to Europe as soon as these guys go back, and I can make a little more money on this batch of goods!"

Abel himself is not too strong, and the scale of his cargo ship is equivalent to the scale of Hongmen's "Yang Fan-style" sea ships, and he can only earn 10,000 taels of silver for a trip to the ocean-going trade, which is not as good as the owners of ships like Di Gensheng who are backed by the East India Company, and they can easily earn tens of thousands of taels of silver on a trip.

"But we haven't received the balance yet, don't you make it difficult for me?"

"Why are you so hard to do? Didn't you take 10 percent of the deposit from the company I brought, even if you paid me 5 percent in advance, and even if they didn't come to pick up the goods, wouldn't you still earn 5 percent for nothing? ”

"And didn't we make a verbal agreement in the first place? As long as I bring someone to purchase goods, will you give me the due remuneration after the order contract is signed? ”

The two sides engaged in a heated discussion on this issue, and in the end they each gave in, with the Tong shopkeeper paying 80 percent of Ebel's due commission first, and the remaining 20 percent when Abel returned to Yuegang to trade again.

Afterwards, Able exchanged the more than 10,000 silver he deserved for the goods he needed, and transported them to his cargo ship, escorting the supplies to him with a happy expression, and beckoning goodbye to the shopkeeper Tong who saw him off.

Looking at the ship that was fading away, Tong Chang withdrew the disguised smile on his face, took a sip, and then cursed, "I hope you bastard will die at the bottom of the sea!" ”

The profits of Abel should have belonged to the dividends of his shopkeeper Tong at the end of the year, but in order to open the predicament of Yuegang, the shopkeeper Tong had to find a familiar face of the foreigner to solicit business for himself, and lay a good foundation for the owner to convene the treasurers from all over the country at the end of the year.

It is precisely because of this introduction of Abel that Shopkeeper Tong is so relieved, and basically he will not worry that the merchants he introduced will release his pigeons and hoard the goods in his hands.

Early the next morning, the shopkeeper Tong got up and went to visit the Jin merchants Wang and Chang, hoping to communicate with them and turn over some needed goods from them, so as to deal with possible or emerging crises in advance.

However, he ran two or three Jin merchants in succession, and even he visited a few well-connected Hui merchants and Chao merchants, which seemed to underestimate the impact of the opening of the port in Yuegang.

At the same time, the branches of these companies in Yuegang also accepted purchase orders from more than 100,000 to more than 400,000 yuan, which was beyond the expectations of the shopkeeper Tong.

After this incident, the shopkeeper Tong began to be a little worried, not only worried that his own business would have a few more opponents in the next purchase of goods, but also began to be nervous in his heart, why did there suddenly be so many more Western businessmen?

It's a pity that the British Abel had already set off for the south last night, and went to South Seas Java and India to trade first, otherwise with his help, he might be able to inquire where so many Westerners came from.

However, Shopkeeper Tong also had an extra mind, and quietly sent someone to the Yuegang Wharf to secretly calculate the total number of Westerners' seagoing ships and the size of sailors, so that he could also know from the side whether these foreigners really had so much transportation power and strength to buy these goods.

The difference between the Westerners' ships and the Orientals' ships is too great, as long as you know a little about ship management, you can basically observe the number and scale of ships docked at the wharf of Yuegang from a distance with the naked eye.

The guy stayed in the dock area for a day and a night, and the news he brought back finally dispelled the doubts in the letter from the shopkeeper Tong.

Westerners took advantage of the opportunity of the reopening of Yuegang this time to come from the southwest by the monsoon, and I heard that even the inherent partners on Hongmen's Dayuan Island had come over, but they didn't want to contribute to the expansion of Hongmen's strength.

This is also what the shopkeeper Tong can understand, the Hongmen people are too strong in the sea area of the Ming Dynasty, not only many goods in the Ming Dynasty are arbitrarily priced by Qixintang in Keelung Port, but at the same time, no sea ship in the West needs to pay at least 1,000 taels of silver in taxes and fees in order to trade in Keelung Town.

This is simply a business that is faster than robbery, but Hongmen has fought with Westerners several times, so that powerful Westerners no longer dare to start a war lightly, so they can only obey the rules of Hongmen, obediently let it be slaughtered, and anyone will have a grudge in their hearts.

Now that the Ming Dynasty has finally reopened its port, Westerners are naturally happy to trade directly with the Ming Dynasty, without having to look at the faces of the Hongmen people, who have been exploited by it, and it is self-evident how to choose.

(End of chapter)