Chapter 362: Suzhou City Shopping

An Dalang was a little puzzled: "Sixth son, are you too ambitious?" In fact, women are the same, as long as they can give birth to Lao Tzu, what they look like or something, it doesn't matter at all. As long as the ass can give birth, hahaha! ”

Boris looked at the rough blank with contempt, then shook his head and walked away.

The next morning, the fleet arrived off the coast of Suzhou.

Boris gathered key personnel together to discuss the next move.

Cui Daoming spoke first: "Everyone, our Cui family has a shop in Suzhou City. It mainly sells the spirits of the Cui family. The business of the shops is very good, and every time the spirits arrive, they are sold out.

This time, when we go to Suzhou City, we can first go to the shops and settle down, and then find a way to take over the property of the pirate leader Zheng Fa and use it as a base for Seven Seas. ”

Everyone discussed it for a while, but there was no opinion. I think Cui Daoming's method is good and can be implemented as planned.

Boris asked: "We can't all go to Suzhou, the fleet can only float in the open sea." We can only send people to Suzhou by merchant ship, and the scale cannot be too large. ”

An Dalang said: "Liuzi, I want to go ashore to see, it's too boring to be floating on the sea these days." ”

Boris thought about it and said: "In this way, Lao Guo led all the warships to stay behind, and I, Da Lang, Zhang Hong, Cui Daoming, and Chen Sanshi disguised themselves as merchants, with a hundred guards, and the personnel of the Ministry of Commerce and Trade went ashore on a merchant ship to Suzhou City to see it." ”

Everyone had no objections, so they began to prepare intensively.

In the afternoon, everyone changed their clothes, Boris and An Dalang dressed up as Hu merchants, and everyone took more than 100 makeup guards, changed to four merchant ships, and sailed towards Suzhou in the Liao State.

After more than an hour, four merchant ships approached the pier outside Suzhou.

Boris and An Dalang looked closely on the deck and found that the Suzhou city wall north of the pier was low and rudimentary, made of rammed earth. Weeds have grown in many places, and cracks have appeared in the walls.

An Dalang smiled: "Sixth son, if we want to occupy Suzhou City, it is too simple. As long as the warships raid the dock, after occupying the dock, carry the ballistas ashore, and throw a few * and * over, the walls of Suzhou will be blown down. ”

Boris said indifferently: "What's the use of occupying Suzhou now?" It's better to open a few shops here and make money from the Liao people. As long as our Seven Seas Company becomes stronger, the world is so big, where can we go? Da Lang, we should be defenders of world peace, and don't always think about fighting and killing all day long. ”

An Dalang pouted and said, "A few of you always say some inexplicable things, bullying Lao Tzu to read less?" It's boring. ”

At this time, Cui Daoming came over and said, "Two, let's not get off the boat first, wait until we send someone into the city to get in touch with the people from the Cui family's shop, and let them arrange a foothold for us, and then we will enter the city." ”

An Dalang said disappreciatively: "It's too troublesome, you go and arrange it, Boris and I will go to the city first." ”

Boris hurriedly grabbed An Dalang, who wanted to get off the boat: "Da Lang, don't make a mistake." We don't know each other here, so let's wait a while. lest something uncontrollable come out. ”

An Dalang said helplessly: "Okay, you are the commander, and my brother has to listen to your orders." ”

Boris smiled and said, "Let's go, let's go into the cabin, I'll accompany you for two drinks." ”

After about an hour, the brothers, who were drinking, heard a knock on the door.

Boris went to open the door to the cabin and saw Cui Daoming standing outside.

He walked in and said with a smile: "Two, we have already arranged it, and the housekeeper of the Cui family has chartered an inn, which is enough for more than a hundred of us to live in." And they sent a lot of guys who would help us unload the goods we were carrying and send them to the Cui family's warehouse for storage. ”

An Dalang waved his hand: "You are in charge of these small things, you don't have to report to us." You find a few locals as guides and take our brother around the city of Suzhou. ”

Cui Daoming agreed and left in a hurry.

An Dalang and Boris cleaned up, and then the two found Zhang Hong and Chen Sanshi, brought a dozen more guards, and got off the boat and boarded the dock.

Cui Daoming was already waiting here, and there were several people dressed as businessmen standing beside him. Cui Daoming pulled a short, smiling middle-aged man over and introduced him to the two: "Two gentlemen, this is the person in charge of the Cui family's shop in Suzhou, and Cui Yongyuan is in charge. ”

Boris almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood, even Cui Yongyuan came, and Song Dandan and Zhao Benshan estimated that they were also soon.

The middle-aged man arched his hand and said with a smile: "I have admired the names of the two for a long time, and I can see it today, how fortunate it is." The contemptible Cui Yongyuan, who is the steward of the Cui family's shop, is polite. ”

An Dalang nodded: "Steward Cui, you don't have to be polite." A certain family is a rough person, you can just say it directly. ”

Cui Yongyuan continued: "I heard that the two of you want to visit Suzhou City, I arranged a local guy for you, he is a native of Suzhou, so let him take you around the city." ”

Cui Yongyuan pulled over a young man, who was dressed in a green coat and a round hat, and was about twenty years old. He was thin, but he seemed to have a sharp eye, and he was certainly a clever man.

The young man bowed and saluted, then smiled and said, "The two gentlemen are polite, my name is Wang Yixin, and I am a local. I wonder where you want to go? I can show you the way. ”

Boris listened to his accent, which is somewhat similar to the northeastern dialect of later generations, in the words of Du Dalei, 'a big ballast smell'.

An Dalang nodded and said, "We just want to wander around, and we don't have any places we want to go." ”

Wang Yixin said with a smile: "There are several streets in Suzhou City that are very prosperous and lively, and there are many shops there, including shops opened by merchants from Persia, Dashi, Lion Kingdom, Zhenla, Champong, Sri Buddha, Korea, Japan and other countries. There are many overseas treasures inside, so you can check them out. ”

After hearing this, An Dalang seemed very interested, and he waved his hand: "Lead the way ahead, a certain family should go shopping today, if there are suitable items, buy them all, and go back to give them to the brothers and my mother-in-law, hahaha!" ”

Wang Yixin diligently led the way in front, and An Dalang, Boris, Zhang Hong, Chen Sanshi and more than a dozen escort groups marched towards Suzhou City.

Coming to the city gate, everyone lined up and waited to enter the city.

There was a group of Liao soldiers standing at the gate of the city, who collected the city gate tax from person to person, searched the goods, and then took the opportunity to extort some finances.

When the queue reached everyone, Wang Yixin greeted him with a smile, whispered a few words to a small officer, and then stuffed a string of copper coins into his sleeve.

The junior officer looked up and down the group on Qishan Island and found nothing unusual. With a wave of his hand, the soldiers let them go.

Wang Yixin led everyone into the city gate and walked towards the bustling streets in the middle of Suzhou.

After walking for about 20 minutes, I came to a street market lined with shops. It's a bustling place, with many shops shouting and shouting loudly to attract customers.

So An Dalang took everyone to start shopping, they went in and out of various stores, selected their favorite goods, bargained, and bought a lot of things after a while.

Boris had no interest in shopping, and followed An Dalang with nothing to do, he saw that An Dalang had selected a lot of goods from overseas, and had bought several copies of the same thing, so he asked curiously:

"Da Lang, what do you do with everything you buy?"

An Dalang counted with his fingers: "Boss, second brother, Du Dalei, and Na Zhe, they are going to marry in a while, I want to buy more things, and give them as a congratulatory gift at that time." ”

Boris suddenly realized: "So that's the case! Da Lang, you are usually careless, why did you have such a thought today? ”

An Dalang smiled: "This is all when I was leaving, Rong Niang instructed Lao Tzu." She said that she couldn't go back empty-handed, and that she had to buy some gifts for her brothers. ”

Boris nodded: "Rong Niang is very thoughtful, I should also buy some things, you can help me choose." ”

An Dalang scratched his head and said: "Sixth son, if it's not my brother, I won't help you, I have racked my brains to buy these things." If you ask me to buy things for you, I'll be tired and vomit blood. You'd better find your own choice. ”

Boris shook his head and said, "To tell you the truth, I didn't bring much money out at all, and I still count on you to help me pay the bills." You can't say no. ”

An Dalang smiled: "Haha, what a big deal, brother, I don't have much else, it's just not bad money!" You buy it, and I'll pay you. ”

Boris asked curiously, "Da Lang, how much money did you bring out?" Is it enough? ”

An Dalang was arrogant, he waved his hand and said, "It's enough, Lao Tzu brought five hundred guan!" You just let go and buy it, don't save me money. ”

Boris couldn't help but smack his tongue, he lowered his voice and asked, "Da Lang, you're not bragging, are you?" Five hundred yuan, how heavy is that! Can you bring it? You can't fit a big car, huh? ”

An Dalang looked around, leaned into Boris's ear and whispered:

"Am I that stupid? I have long been in the Bank of Qishan Island, and I have exchanged 500 guan for gold and silver, and I have hidden it in my arms. Didn't you see me pay with a silver ingot? ”

Boris thought about it and said, "I didn't pay attention to this, but I remind you that you should buy some gifts for Cui Daoshu's mother, as well as Shen and Qi Jiuniang." ”

An Dalang said with a smile: "I have already bought the gifts of the godmother, but I have some concerns about buying things for the daughter-in-law and concubine of the head of the family. ”

"What's this, Cui Daoshu won't blame you."

"That's not what I said, it's better to be cautious when buying things for my brother's woman."

"You're stupid, you won't say that Xia Rongniang bought it?"