Chapter 36: The Empires of the Eastern Powers
"Damn, did you meet a ghost?"
He Changying walked out of the guest room in surprise, and saw that at the corner of the plantain bush, Xiao Liuzi and John Charlie King, who were busy picking up clothes on the ground, looked innocent. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Hello, John, you're so persistent."
When He Changying saw the big box in John's hand, he knew what he was doing early in the morning, glanced behind him, and asked disappointedly, "Miss Audrey, why didn't you come with you?" ”
"Nicole went horseback riding in Victoria Park, she always liked to spend time with horses."
John said happily: "He Changying, you really live here, it's really happy." ”
, aren't these foreign devils stupid, they know that my brother may be lying to him.
"John, do you think I'm going to be such a person?"
At this time, the morning sun shone lightly on He Changying's big face that had just taken a bath, covering him with a layer of pale golden divine light.
Many years later, John Charlie King wrote in his Memoirs of the Far Eastern Empire:
"At that time, I was so ashamed in my heart, and I regretted that I had used unwarranted malice to suspect an honest, honest and kind Chinese gentleman; It wasn't until much later that I began to understand that it wasn't like that at all.
However, it is probably only such a great and demonic man, with his scepter, iron and blood, and spear, that can lead that disaster-stricken nation to reconstruct a new order in Greater East Asia and establish an empire of the great powers of the East. ”
The foreign devil made a special trip to the inn to give He Changying a picture of the soul, which alarmed all the people in the inn, and everyone laughed and watched the excitement like a monkey.
Especially the 'bang' puff of white smoke when taking pictures, the surrounding spectators were shocked to shout 'wow', and hurriedly avoided it from a distance, for fear that their souls would also be innocently photographed.
took two photos, He Changying originally wanted to invite Xue Yingchun to take one too, but as soon as his eyes looked over, he was glared back fiercely by Xue Yingchun, who was leaning on the door and understood his thoughts, so he had to give up.
"John, why do you want to open a photo studio? IMHO, if you want to make money, it's the slowest and dumbest way in China, and you might even have to take your panties to the pawnshop. ”
After taking the photo, He Changying invited John to his room to rest, he handed John a cigarette, and then timidly sprayed a puff of white smoke at John, and said with a smile.
Knowing that this John Charlie King was actually a Hungarian from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, He Changying suddenly remembered "Princess Sissi" starring Romy Schneider.
In He Changying's memory, the Austro-Hungarian Empire at this time was one of the five great powers in Europe and the third most populous in Europe, second only to Tsarist Russia and the German Empire; The territory is the second largest in Europe, second only to Tsarist Russia.
Moreover, at this time, Austria-Hungary was not only very strong economically and militarily, but also a country rarely seen in the West without direct conflict with China.
The only time was the invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Coalition in the year of Gengzi, when Austria-Hungary sent the smallest number of people, only symbolically 75 people.
Then, until the end of World War I and the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the old European power did not seem to have any trouble with China.
So He Changying's impression of John couldn't help but be very good, and she planned to dial him a little, so that he understood that if he wanted to make money in China, which was a big flower world, it would definitely not work to carry this clumsy and heavy broken camera every day.
"But I only take pictures, and I like to take pictures; Dear He Changying, these two photos are a total of four yuan. ”
John's words made He Changying angry and wanted to scold his mother, he asked angrily: "It's so expensive, John, you think you are a robber, what about your gun?" ”
The price of goods in this era, the purchasing power of one tael of silver, is about two or three hundred yuan in later generations, and the monthly expenses of ordinary people in Jinmen are only three or four taels of silver; If you go to the surrounding countryside, you won't be able to spend a tael of silver for two months.
In other words, John, this kid, 'bang' and 'bang' twice, extorted himself from the expenses equivalent to more than a month of ordinary well-off people.
It's just a broken photo, it's so expensive, it's really unreasonable not to starve him to death!
"Dear He Changying, this is not expensive, if you go to the photo studio in the concession, the starting price is three yuan; Like me, I came to your house to take pictures, and I also added two silver dollars to call the coachman's foot money. ”
John fought with He Changying reasonably.
"it!"
He Changying reluctantly paid the silver dollar, and watched John put the silver dollar into his suit pocket with a smile, thinking about the less and less silver dollars in his pocket, and his heart was even more unhappy.
He Changying didn't want to deal with John, a guy who saw money, but thinking about his beautiful sister Audrey, the plump buttocks under the thin skirt, if only he could get it from behind-
So He Changying was patient and continued to lure John to take the bait: "John, you can't make money like this, do you know that I had a banquet with two Daotai adults in my country last night, and called three chickens, do you know how much money it costs?" ”
He Changying looked like a rich man who despised the poor boy, stretched out his right hand and held it high to compare a sixty or six Shun: "Sixty pieces of light ocean!" ”
"So expensive?"
John looked at He Changying suspiciously and said: "I know that your old hen soup in Daqing is very delicious, but this is too expensive, Nicole bought an old hen stew two days ago, but it only costs two dollars of silver; The prices of your Qing Dynasty are so expensive! ”
He Changying heard John say that an old hen costs two coins of silver, and he knew that these evil foreign devils were given justice by our kind and simple people.
A few days ago, Xue Yingchun bought a fat old hen on the street, and borrowed the kitchen stew of the inn to make up for He Changying's legs, and it only cost more than 20 eldest sons, and he could buy six or seven old hens with two dollars of silver.
And the 'chicken' in He Changying's mouth is not the kind of 'chicken' in John's mouth, it is used by men to be cool, not the kind of chicken that can be eaten by men, women and children.
At this time, He Changying felt that he and John still needed more communication before they could further talk about those deeper topics.
For example, the Austro-Hungarian Empire's unique formation of the Field Chasseur Regiment.
And He Changying still needs a lot of silver support, and enough rights to implement these things, without these two basic points, everything else is empty talk.
At noon, He Changying boldly invited John to drink a meal at the Jinhe Inn, and specially ordered an urn of old hen soup, and John smiled when he drank it.
Xue Yingchun was still reluctant to show up, only He Changying and John, two big men, were bored drinking and bragging.
Sending off the drunken John, He Changying went back to the house to rest for a while, washed and tidied up again, and then spent a few sons to call a rickshaw and rushed to the outside of the government yamen on Jinhaiguan Road.