There were many people who came to visit Zhu Jinglun, and Fuli only gave a promise of a valuable reward, but others really came with real money. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Most of them are wealthy businessmen who maintain relationships, and the gift list can be turned around, but there are two people who can't be seen.

One of them was a young man sent by the Zhang family, named Zhang Long, with a handwritten letter from Zhang Qianshan, the general manager of Nanxiong Qian.

Zhang Qianshan probably also knew that his butler Daniel Zhang was a guy with a not very bright head, so he sent a clever young man this time, because what he had to do this time was not something that a stupid person could do.

Zhu Jinglun also wanted to get in touch with the people of the Zhang family, and inquired about Zhang Qianshan's recent situation, and learned that Zhang Qianshan had brought people to the vicinity of Guangzhou, stationed in the Qingyuan area, and could reinforce Guangzhou City at any time.

The purpose of Zhang Long's visit to Guangzhou to meet Zhu Jinglun was to inquire about the arrangements made by Governor Bai Gui for them. At this time, Zhang Qianshan didn't know that it was not Bai Gui's opinion that let him lead the troops back to Guangzhou, but Zhu Jinglun's order to pretend to be Bai Gui.

This created a not very good situation, that is, Zhang Qianren brought the soldiers back, but they could not get any supplies, the local government did not provide them with any support at all, and there was a conflict with them, and the Qingyuan county order even brought the lawsuit to Huang Zonghan.

Zhang Qianshan came here to seek the support of the governor.

Zhu Jinglun felt that it was necessary to appease Zhang Qianshan, and asked Zhang Long to tell Zhang Qianshan that the governor had not taken action for the time being, so that they could calm down for a while, and if there was a situation, they would be notified at any time.

After Zhang Long left, Zhu Jinglun felt that Zhang Qianshan was deceived by himself, although he used the name of Baigui, but this can still be regarded as a power that can be borrowed in his hands, to a certain extent, the positive Zhang Qianshan is better than Lin Fuxiang. At least Zhang Qianshan will not treat Zhu Jinglun as a dispensable secret agent, he will praise a few points when he is useful, and when he is useless, he will not even see his face.

However, Zhu Jinglun felt that he had to let Bai Gui know at this time, otherwise it would affect the relationship with Bai Gui, and the gains would outweigh the losses.

Another must-see person is Chen Qixin, a French translator from Macau, who has never looked for Zhu Jinglun after sending a thousand yuan to Zhu Jinglun more than half a month ago.

However, Zhu Jinglun wanted to see Chen Qixin, not because he sent another two hundred oceans, but because this person was quite energetic in the French army and was an eight-sided and exquisite figure.

Zhu Jinglun also thoroughly found out about the situation of the Chen family only a few days ago, he is a native of Nanhai County, and he is not a famous family, but some people in the clan are doing business in Macao and Vietnam, Chen Qixin has learned to do business with his brother since he was a child, has business dealings with the French, and can speak fluent French.

When Zhu Jinglun and Chen Qixin were both living in the governor's yamen, they felt that this person was not very keen on the translation career, in fact, Chen Qixin came to work as a translator, not to earn that salary, but to value business opportunities, during this time he almost took over the food supply of the French army through the relationship established with the French army quartermaster and other high-level officials.

Europeans were accustomed to eating bread and needed flour, but the coastal areas near Guangzhou, as well as Vietnam and Singapore, were rice production places, which brought great trouble to the supply of the British and French forces. However, the Chen family had a way, they purchased wheat in Yunnan, and then transported it to Vietnam by water, and then transported it to Guangzhou in a circle, where it was ground into flour and sold to the French army.

Businessmen like the Chen family give gifts to Zhu Jinglun, most of them are related to business, and the less they give is that they don't want Zhu Jinglun, the translator, to find trouble, that is, to spend money to buy peace, and if they give more, they must hope that Zhu Jinglun can help them develop their business.

The Chen family has already taken over the flour supply of the French army, and I heard that there are some other military supply businesses, what can Zhu Jinglun help him with, so that the Chen family can also supply supplies to the British army? Zhu Jinglun thinks that he does not have this ability. You must know that the British army is different from the French army, the French army is a newcomer, the British army has a foundation, they have been operating in Hong Kong for almost twenty years, there is a huge network of relations among the Chinese, so most of their suppliers are some old relations, either Chinese businessmen in Hong Kong, or Xu people near Guangzhou, although these Chinese businessmen supply prices are slightly higher, Xu people in Guangzhou smuggled materials to the British army at high prices.

But the British were not only engaged in a business, but also their relationship with the Xu people, knowing that more than half of their coolies were Xu people, and in this regard, they had to continue the smuggling business with the big leaders of the Xu people.

So if Chen Qixin is for business, Zhu Jinglun really has no choice.

The two are acquaintances, originally living in the same room, Chen Qixin is also a self-acquaintance.

Zhu Jinglun told Chen Qixin very simply that if it was for business, he might not be able to help. He also explained that the relationship between the British army and Xu Min was special, and at this time it was a relationship of mutual dependence, and there was not only business between them, but also a potential alliance, so it was impossible for Zhu Jinglun to let the British army purchase flour from the Chen family.

Chen Qixin said with a smile: "Brother Zhu, who said that my Chen family can only do grain trading?" I've heard that the British army is running out of tobacco, and I happen to have a batch in my hand. ”

"The British are out of smoke?"

Zhu Jinglun was surprised, it is not a secret that there are always big cigarettes in the British military camp, it is not that the British use it themselves, most of them are prepared for those coolies, it is strange to say, the British army recruits these coolies, they do not give money, not because they can't afford to give money, but they are afraid that if they give money, these people will have no motivation and will flee.

The British regarded the Chinese as the coolies they saw in Africa and the homeless people they saw in India, and those people really ate food, had no planning, did not know how to save money, and when they had money in their hands, they refused to work well.

Therefore, when the British recruited coolies in China, they did not pay them monthly, but promised to pay them together after the war, and they promised a high salary, five taels of silver a month. But if you can't get cash, how can you keep these coolies, the British have a way, that is, big smoke, in the British barracks, tobacco is enough.

Therefore, the British army, without exception, recruited a group of big smokers, and the people who were really honest and dutiful, in fact, did not dare to work for the British.

"Their ship carrying big cigarettes capsized!"

Chen Qixin said, very confident, looking like a British.

Zhu Jinglun said with a smile: "There are hundreds of large and small tobacco houses in Guangzhou City, and even if the boat capsizes, the British can buy tobacco soil." ”

Chen Qixin said with a smile: "I'm afraid it's not so easy, the battle has been fought so far, and six or seven out of ten people in Guangzhou have escaped." The tobacco house is already in a cold business, there is not much stock, and recently it has been out of stock, and most of the tobacco houses have closed. The British want to buy a large amount of tobacco soil, and they are not afraid that he will be unhappy, so they can only buy it from me. ”

Zhu Jinglun nodded, this is useful news.

pretended to be puzzled: "Even so, Brother Chen went directly to the British, and he was afraid that they wouldn't buy it." Why bother looking for me, it's so expensive! ”

Chen Qixin sighed: "This time, I am not familiar with the British, and secondly, the British think that I have a high price, and while taking some inferior loose men from the tobacco house, they have reduced the supply to those coolies, but I heard that the coolies are tired of working now." ”

Zhu Jinglun understands that the British are not stingy, it is definitely Chen Qixin who is too dark. You must know that the British have a lot of impression of local tycoons in China, and they have always been generous, and they prefer to do business with the British compared to the Chinese, and they feel a little picky and searched compared to the French.

"I don't know how I can help?"

Zhu Jinglun asked.

Chen Qixin said: "The British are the firstborn here, but Brother Zhu is not, you should know a few people from the coolie team." ”

Zhu Jinglun said: "I know so many. ”

Chen Qixin said: "If the coolies knew that the British were now restricting the supply of tobacco and soil to them because they were running out of stock, what do you think they would do?" ”

Zhu Jinglun understood, this guy wanted to spread rumors in the coolie team through Zhu Jinglun to make the coolies make trouble, once those big smokers became addicted to smoking, they all had the intention of killing. It's just that Chen Qixin is sure that he can do this kind of thing, and he just bribed two coolies to spread rumors, and it won't be a big deal. But I just gave myself a big gift and let myself do this, which is strange.

Zhu Jinglun smiled: "It's just a trivial matter. Brother Chen shouldn't be like that, right? ”

Chen Qixin said: "I know that I can't hide it from you, and there is a backhand in the future, I don't know if Brother Chen has a way to burn the British tobacco?" ”

After listening to this guy's plan, Rao is Zhu Jinglun couldn't help but be amazed, sure enough, in the face of huge profits, businessmen are the most courageous group of people. Burning the tobacco of the British, this is absolutely dead if it is caught, but if it really burns the tobacco of the British, then the British can only beg to buy Chen Qixin's tobacco soil, otherwise they will wait for the gang of coolies to make trouble.

But this gave Zhu Jinglun an inspiration, and he shook his head: "I can't do this in the future, but if Brother Chen wants to sell tobacco, he will be interested in taking it over when he arrives, I don't know how many goods Brother Chen has in his hands, and how much is it worth?" ”

This time it was Chen Qixin's turn to be surprised: "Brother Zhu, are you going to take over?" ”

Zhu Jinglun smiled: "I also want to make some money in the future." ”

Chen Qixin has no doubt that he has him, who doesn't want to earn money, he came to work as a translator just to do business, and now it seems that Zhu Jinglun is afraid that this is also the purpose, and he can't help but see Zhu Jinglun as a person like himself.

But he didn't care, he was just for money, and he had been fighting with the British for a while, and the British never let go, so he gave Zhu Jinglun a generous gift, hoping to open a breakthrough. To be able to come up with the idea of burning the British stockpiled tobacco, he was also forced to be in a hurry, you must know that in order to hoard that batch of tobacco, Chen Qixin could press a lot of silver on it, if he couldn't sell it to the British at a high price, he would die.

Since Zhu Jinglun was willing to take over, he just got out, and to be honest, he was already a little apprehensive, and the more time passed, the more likely it was that the British would bring new tobacco from India.

So Chen Qixin was very simple: "Since Brother Zhu wants to do this deal, I won't see you outside, I have 50 loads of tobacco in my hand, and the British have 50,000 taels and I haven't sold it." Since Brother Chen wants it, then give 40,000 taels and take it! ”

Usually, the price of a load of tobacco is about 500 taels, and Chen Qixin asks for 40,000 taels, which is less than double the profit, and it is not black.

Zhu Jinglun nodded and said, "Okay, it's only 40,000 taels, I want Brother Chen's goods." ”

Chen Qixin arched his hand: "Brother Zhu is really happy!" ”

To tell the truth, Chen Qixin really didn't make much money in this deal, the reason why he hoarded tobacco was that the price of food would rise when the war was fought, who knew that the price of grain had risen almost three times, but the price of tobacco and soil had not even doubled, because the rich people in the city had run away, and how many of the remaining poor ghosts could afford to smoke big cigarettes?

So he finally hit the British on the head, and was lucky to learn from a friend in Hong Kong that the East India Company's Yapian ship capsized, Chen Qixin immediately realized that this was an opportunity, so he not only continued to hoard, but also took out a large amount of money to buy tobacco in Guangzhou City, and wiped out the inventory of more than a dozen tobacco houses, so that those tobacco shops had no smoke to sell and were temporarily closed.

Hoarding cigarettes and sweeping goods can account for a large amount of Chen Qixin's funds, on average, he takes 600 taels of goods super fast, 50 taels cost him 30,000 taels, and Zhu Jinglun wants 40,000 taels, so he earns hard money. But it is safe, the recent news has made Chen Qixin a little uneasy, he already knows the news that Xiangyong ambushed the Anglo-French army, and he also knows that the Xiangyong army is approaching, where is the nervousness of the French, so that he feels that the French may abandon Guangzhou City.

Chen Qixin didn't want those things to be wasted, so he immediately came to Zhu Jinglun today, and the thousand oceans he sent last time, he felt that it was enough for Zhu Jinglun to help him do something. Who knew that Zhu Jinglun did not agree to burn the tobacco soil of the British, but promised to buy all the tobacco soil in his hand.

After confirming the transaction method with Chen Qixin, Zhu Jinglun knew that he had to find Bai Gui in person, otherwise he would not be able to take out the 40,000 taels of silver.