In London in August, it rained lightly as always, and the whole sky looked gray and gloomy, oppressive and unpleasant.

"Goodbye, dear Fina, and little John!"

"Goodbye, Phoenix, my dear husband, and I hope you have the best of luck today!"

Phoenix holds an umbrella, wears a gray top hat, and his bearded face, high nose bridge, and blue eyes make him look exceptionally handsome.

After kissing his wife and his lovely son in his arms, Phoenix, like most Londoners, hurried out of the house, a two-story cabin.

With an umbrella and a leather bag in his right hand and a large bag of garbage in his left, the size of a child, and wearing a close-fitting black jacket, Phoenix quickly left the house.

Deftly dodging pedestrians, Phoenix carried a bag of garbage, walked for a while, and then turned a corner, and he was relieved to see an old man and a carriage.

"Old Nick, come, this is my family's processing fee for this month!" Dumping the garbage in the garbage bag in his hand into the garbage pool, and then throwing the wide garbage bag onto the mountain of garbage bags that had been folded into a foot high, Phoenix gasped and whispered.

Old Nick, dressed in a gray shirt, was holding a broom to load the contents of the garbage pool in the closed carriage of a carriage, and when he saw Phoenix coming, he turned his head, and a smile bloomed on his face full of ravines, and said:

"Phoenix, you are the first one, you are really a hardworking person, and you will definitely make a fortune in the future!"

Taking ten pennies away from Phoenix, Old Nick couldn't stop complimenting.

"However, that poop bucket in your house should be dealt with, and Jelson told me yesterday that he was about to faint from the smell of your house!"

"I will definitely make a fortune in the future!" When Phoenix heard this, his face immediately flushed, and he replied loudly.

But in the blink of an eye, the smell was mentioned, and he explained with some embarrassment and politeness:

"Please say sorry to old Jelson on my behalf, after all, Little John's emissions are too big!"

"Haha! It's okay, it's okay, Jerson just complains, that's what he does! When Old Nick heard this, he quickly shook his head and said gloatingly.

"Haha! Bye! ”

"Goodbye, rich man!"

After parting with Old Nick, who belonged to the city government, feeling the rain in the sky getting heavier and heavier, Phoenix retracted his smile, quickened his pace, flashed the slowly passing carriage, and came to a platform.

Hiding under the shed of the platform, feeling the dense crowd in front and back, left and right, a trace of sweat appeared on Phoenix's forehead.

Such a crowded environment made him feel particularly unhappy in his heart, and at this moment, he had never been so eager to have a carriage of his own, rather than waiting for the foul-smelling and crowded public carriage.

The idea of getting rich, but it appeared so clearly in his mind that he couldn't get rid of it.

"Ringing ringing!" Phoenix was awakened by the characteristic sound of iron bells on the public carriage, and he looked up to see a number "15" on the carriage.

He hastily took a rain-soaked penny from his pocket, eagerly slipped into the carriage, and threw it into the wooden box, while the others followed, shragging and stumbling into the carriage

In less than a minute, the carriage with a capacity of twenty people was already bulging, and the crowd on the platform was only halfway away.

I feel like I'm a human being on the front and back, and the smell of sweat is pungent and pungent, which makes Phoenix feel bad.

Feeling that he was about to suffocate, he hurriedly took out a small tobacco leaf from his pocket, put it in his mouth, chewed vigorously, a warm current rose from the bottom of his heart, and his body was a lot more relaxed, and he felt better.

After ten minutes or so, after feeling the comfort of his body gradually disappear, the deep voice of the groom came from Phoenix's ear: "Stinton Pier has arrived—"

Phoenix immediately squeezed out of the carriage and into a three-story wooden building.

"Phoenix, damn it, why are you so slow today, there's a ship here that has just docked, and you need to go and calculate the price of everything for him and find out if it's full of high-grade furs! If you don't go along, you're dead! ”

As soon as he entered the office, Phoenix heard the voice of his boss, a big fat man in tight clothes.

"Yes, boss!" Phoenix didn't have time to rest, so he immediately took the paper containing the information from his boss, and quickly left the office and headed to the dock not far away.

As a result of the development of commerce, the demand for wealthy people in England became more and more abundant, and goods that were in short supply were always so scarce.

At this time, middleman companies such as Xiang Phoenix appeared, looking for goods that were needed and in short supply for merchants, becoming middlemen, and making profits.

Phoenix rushed to the dock non-stop and began to follow the paper, looking for the cargo ship in the information.

Sharp-eyed, he was not disappointed when he found that his ship did not have the fur he needed, for he found a more important cargo, silk, though only half a horse.

Silk was generally sold as a whole, and the aristocracy was reluctant to buy silk that could only be used as a half-shirt.

When selling it to a down-and-out nobleman in need, or a swollen face to a fat merchant, half a horse of silk to sew up the holes in the old silk garment, or to add it to the original garment as a decoration, is an excellent choice.

After buying the scarce silk with all the money he had, twenty pounds, Phoenix left the docks and went to the house of a fallen nobleman who knew him, and sold the half of the silk.

In the blink of an eye, he made a profit of three pounds, and although he would be scolded by the fat pig boss when he returned, it was one step closer to his dream.

Thus, after a week's work, Phoenix finally scraped together a hundred pounds to buy a simple family carriage, and to buy a gelding and hire a groom.

You know, this is three years of his time, which is equivalent to one year's salary.

When I went to the car dealership with my family and happily bought a carriage, a situation occurred.

Originally, there were only three that sold carriages, but suddenly, more than a dozen popped up, and the prices were much cheaper.

"What's wrong? Phoenix! The wife looked at the soulless Phoenix and asked strangely.

"I'm hesitant, one is a carriage that has been planned for a long time, and the price has suddenly dropped today, which makes me very strange!" Phoenix explained, puzzled.

"What's this, His Majesty the King has abolished the monopoly of the Martin family, the Samar family, and the Thomas family, and a large number of carriage manufacturers have popped up, and of course the price is going to fall!"

The middle-aged man with a black top hat on the side also looked at the carriage in front of him and explained softly.

"I see—" Phoenix suddenly realized.

I bought a carriage and a horse, and by the way, on the recommendation of the carriage dealer, hired a loyal groom, and returned home full of hope.

In the evening, when Phoenix was making papers and planning the information he had received, his wife suddenly ran over and said in surprise:

"My husband, Phoenix, you can never believe what happened today?"

Without waiting for Phoenix to reply, his wife cried out:

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