"Here you are, Lord Dickinson!!"

The shopkeeper of Fan's firm was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, but he had a bright smile on his face, and he still warmly greeted the foreign foreigners who had just entered the door and knew what he was here to do.

"Well, I'm here to receive the purchase order I made last time, is your firm ready?"

Dickinson still looks like he doesn't like to match, and under the translation of his entourage by his side, he bluntly reveals his intentions.

"Please forgive me, our firm has prepared most of the goods for you, and the remaining small half of the goods, I don't know if we can forgive our firm for one day, the caravan on the road has been delayed, and it is estimated that it will arrive in these two days."

Shopkeeper Tong was stubborn, since the day before yesterday, he sent his quick men to the roads in the direction of Suzhou and Hangzhou to find the traces of Fan's caravan without success, Shopkeeper Tong has begun to plan for the worst, collecting goods everywhere, and striving to minimize losses.

However, even if the shopkeeper Tong searched for the inventory in his own store's warehouse and visited the upper berths of many shops in Yuegang several times, the gains could not even make up for the goods needed by a foreign businessman.

"What ???"

When Dickinson heard this, his face was not good-looking on the spot: "What did you say when I ordered the goods with you, and what did you say to guarantee the delivery of the goods before the specified time!" I've been sure how many times you can complete your order, and you've always given a positive answer! ”

"Now that my fleet is about to depart, just waiting for your cargo, you are now telling me that your caravan is still on its way, and let our East India Company fleet wait for you??"

“…………”

Dickinson crackled and counted, leaving the shopkeeper speechless, and could only keep apologizing and bowing to make up for it.

However, the matter has come to this point, even if Dickinson persecuted the other party, Fan's firm could not come up with the goods that should be given, and finally after satisfying the benefits of his tongue, Dickinson could only reply abruptly: "I will give you two more days of grace, if you still can't prepare the goods I need in these two days, then I'm sorry, let's execute the contract signed before!" ”

"I hope you can do it yourself!"

Dickinson came in a hurry, but he returned in disappointment, and before leaving, he kept complaining that he should not have been fooled by Abel at that time, and he had made a gesture to find such an unreliable and incapable firm.

Finally sent Dickinson away, the shopkeeper wiped the sweat on his face, and the first thing he did when he turned around was to gather a few men and let them run to the road of the caravan again, looking for traces of the caravan.

In fact, Shopkeeper Tong already had a bad premonition in his heart, and even had a suspicion in his heart.

If there is a problem with the goods of their business, it may only be said that their Fan's business is unlucky and has encountered a rare mountain bandit; However, judging from the news he had heard in the past two days, almost all of their northern merchants had failed to appear on time at the boundary of the Moon Harbor when they had delivered goods to the caravan, as if there was an invisible hand outside the Moon Harbor, blocking so many caravans outside.

Even before most foreign businessmen flocked to purchase goods to the doubt, now the shopkeeper Tong seems to have a foreshadowing.

It's just that the shopping mall is like a battlefield, although there is a suspicion in his heart, but the naturalization strength is strong, and he does not show any pepper in his own territory, even if the shopkeeper Tong is very sure, he does not dare to confront it easily, so as not to cause more trouble.

Dickinson's arrival was only the beginning, and then several waves of foreign businessmen visited, all of whom came to the shopkeeper Tong to receive the goods, and the final result was nothing more than the shopkeeper Tong begging his grandfather to tell his grandmother to intercede with these merchants and ask them to give them two days.

When the men who were exhausted and sent away from the shelves, and when the guys who went out to find traces of the caravan after dark returned again in vain, the shopkeeper Tong finally couldn't hold on anymore, and sat down in the shop all of a sudden, regardless of what the guys below thought.

"It's over, it's over!!"

When the transaction was made and the contract was signed, I thought it was a good opportunity for me to soar this year, but in a blink of an eye, this great opportunity became his own life-saving talisman, even if the proprietor of Fan's firm would not want his own life, but such a big business failed, who would dare to hire a shopkeeper like him in the future!

The purchase and sale of two or three hundred thousand taels of silver, if the compensation is carried out in full accordance with the land contract signed before, I am afraid that half of the family property of their Fan family will have to be used to fill this hole!

And if the Fan firm does not come up with money to compensate these merchants, and at the same time, these merchants still use the contract they signed to trouble the Fan firm, the final result is nothing more than to pull him, the shopkeeper who signed the contract, to the table, and he will bear all the responsibility.

The shopkeeper Tong was so sad that he didn't want to run away, thanks to the vast territory of the Ming Dynasty, there was always a place for him to stay, but he could run away, and his family that was placed in Fan's old mansion had no way to escape with him.

Thinking about the pair of parents who are raising their children in Fan's old house, three lively and lovely children, and his hard-working wife, who has not been at home to support the burden of the whole family for many years, the shopkeeper Tong still has no heart to make the decision to flee alone.

Since he didn't dare to escape, there was really not much that the shopkeeper could do for today's plan, except for letting people quickly deliver news to the Fan family's old mansion and continue to send additional people to inquire about the whereabouts of their caravan, the rest of the things, he could only drag on for a day!

In the next few days, the entire Yuegang was in turmoil, and even alarmed the Haicheng County Order, and sent a messenger to ask what happened.

More and more Western and Eastern merchants went to the northern merchants to ask for explanations in front of the shops in Yuegang, until the final delivery time, except for a few merchants in the north whose caravans arrived in Yuegang, the caravans of the rest of the merchants disappeared as if they disappeared from the world, and no one knew of their existence.

Most of the merchant caravans that arrived by luck were small caravans, and the value of the goods was only about 1,000 taels, not so much that they were lucky, but rather that the powerful opponents who secretly manipulated the caravans of the various caravans did not look down on the chicken rib caravans of these merchants at all, so they let them go.

The goods on the market have basically been looted, not to mention that the various businesses want to sweep the goods, and even the daily needs of ordinary people have risen a lot, which forced Haicheng County to ask a thing or two.

(End of chapter)