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"Merchandise?"

Zhu Yifeng's words made Thompson's whole person immediately fall into thought.

The most common way for foreign banks to repay debts owed to Chinese businessmen is to use goods or real estate to repay debts, that is, to save money and clear up unsellable inventory, without causing lawsuits, even the so-called "courts" with consuls acting as judges will acquiesce in this kind of "deception".

"Mr. Zhu, I don't know, what are the other compensation you are referring to?"

Thompson did not feel any resistance to giving some compensation, and even in his opinion, it was a solution to the debt.

But the question is what he needs, there is indeed a backlog of old goods in the company's warehouse, such as North American furs with cavities, and cotton cloth that has been unsalable for almost a year, well, and some opium, no, opium sells very well, this is not something to consider.

"Mr. Thompson, I am a businessman, and I must protect my own interests!"

Zhu Yifeng did not answer his question directly, but looked at the merchant ship that was about to belong to him and said.

"According to the current market price, this ship is only worth 10,000 yuan at most, and if I deduct the berthing fee and maintenance fee, I will get no more than 6,000 yuan. My friend, in the United States, what will the courts do in the United States? ”

What the!

Thompson's eyes widened, barely believing what he was hearing, what he was talking about, was he going to the United States to prosecute?

"Mr. Zhu......"

"I think there must be a law firm in the United States that is willing to act as my prosecution agent, such as Gault Law Firm, what do you think?"

Walking in front of Thompson, Zhu Yifeng looked at him forcefully, and there was no trace of politeness in his tone.

Thompson seemed to avoid his aggressive gaze, at first, he thought Zhu Yifeng was bluffing, but when Zhu Yifeng mentioned Gault Law Firm, he knew that the Chinese in front of him was ready to move seriously, if he was not ready, how would he know Gault Law Firm?

Perhaps others don't know about the law firm, but Thompson, a New Yorker, is no stranger to him, and he even entrusted a well-known New York lawyer to collect a debt for him. In Shanghai, consul "ad hoc judges" may be inclined to protect the interests of expatriates, but in New York, judges are held accountable to the law, and no judge can err on such a factual commercial dispute, because the precedent is likely to affect the interests of tens of thousands of bank or individual creditors.

In fact, Zhu Yifeng's reason for knowing this firm is very simple - newspaper! He knew about the law firm from the newspapers, and it was at best an attempt.

"Damn it!"

scolded secretly in his heart, and Thompson's face changed from time to time at this time.

"Mr. Zhu, this, this, I think, I think, we ......"

Thompson's face changed and fell on Zhu Yifeng's eyes without dropping, and he just looked at him with a smile on his face.

"I think, we don't need to do this at all, please believe me, Mr. Zhu, reputation is the foundation of every businessman, which is why I have cooperated with Ling Zun for many years, at the same time, I also hope that you can understand, because of the business problems faced by the company, therefore, resulting in the failure to repay in time, but I believe that we will be able to negotiate a solution to the problem of repayment."

As soon as the conversation turned, Thompson looked at Zhu Yifeng and asked rhetorically.

"I don't know, what kind of goods do you want to get? I hope you can understand, my friend, right now, there aren't many valuable goods in my warehouse, which are some cotton, well, some furs......"

Thompson noticed that as he spoke, Zhu Yifeng had already walked to the side of the gun, as if he was looking at the guns that were defending against pirates.

"Weapons, Mr. Thompson, if I'm not mistaken, in your warehouse, there are some weapons stored!"

Although he did not have a close relationship with Thompson, Zhu Yifeng knew that in addition to being a businessman and opium dealer, this Yankee also tried to become an arms dealer. And those weapons of his are either in someone else's warehouse or stored in the Zhu family's warehouse!

"Weapons!"

His eyes widened, and Thompson could scarcely believe the words his ears heard, what, what was he talking about, he, he wanted weapons, he wanted to pay this debt with weapons!

"You, are you sure?"

Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Thompson asked tentatively.

The reason why he was so excited was simple - four years ago, as a businessman, after learning that the United States had defeated Mexico, his first thought was the tens of thousands of weapons captured from Mexico, which were cheap enough, and of course, more importantly, after witnessing the backward and primitive Chinese army, he believed that the Chinese who had experienced the war with Britain would definitely buy weapons from Europe, so he used extremely low, almost "scrap iron" prices. Weapons captured by the Army from the Mexican Army were purchased.

Although the rifles were just muskets and old guns modified from the Napoleonic Wars brown bes, in his opinion, this was enough to meet the needs of the Chinese, you know, the Mexican army was holding that kind of rifle against the American army.

But the result was completely unexpected - despite the defeat, the Chinese had no intention of buying weapons from foreign merchants, they might buy such as caron guns during the war and just after the war, but they had no interest in European and American rifles and field artillery, and this directly led to Thompson's "disaster" - in the warehouse, there was a huge backlog of weapons, and those weapons were kept in the warehouse for four years!

Right now! Finally someone wants to buy those weapons, no, not to buy them, but to offset the arrears, so ...... Why refuse him?

"Of course!"

Zhu Yifeng nodded affirmatively, and then said casually.

"How much you have, how much I want!"

The look of surprise on Thompson's face was all in his expectation, there was a process of Chinese recognition of Western weapons, and this process was slow, at least before the Huai army, the Manchu army had never received European and American weapons, in contrast, the Taiping army, as an insurgent, was extremely welcoming to European and American weapons, and those foreign adventurers also saw business opportunities in the war - less than half a month after the Taiping army occupied Nanjing, there were adventurous merchants who sold a large number of weapons to the Taiping army. Since then, the lucrative arms trade has been active between arms dealers and the Taiping army.

However, this was only a few months later, at least after the occupation of Nanjing, and the "rebellion" became known to the merchants in the Shanghai Concession.

Now, not to mention that these gringos don't know about the Taiping Army, they are the gentry in Shanghai County, and they also don't know about this war disaster that is about to be locked up in China and take the lives of hundreds of millions of Chinese people in more than ten years.

But, for Zhu Yifeng, this is a business opportunity!

"Muskets, artillery, gunpowder, in short, how much you have, how much I want!"

"You, you're sure!"

On the contrary, Thompson's "lion's big mouth" frightened Thompson, and he couldn't tell the other party's purpose at all, didn't he know that arms were "non-best-selling materials" that were more difficult to sell than cotton cloth?

"Of course,"

Nodding, Zhu Yifeng continued.

"However, I hope you will be able to give me the best price! After all, you and I know very well that those weapons have been backlogged for a long time, and they may have rusted! ”

Now Zhu Yifeng is glad that his cheap father, when Shanghai was just opened, he "leased" the land from the British consul and built a warehouse for the inventory of small and medium-sized foreign merchants, while Thompson's weapons have been stored in the warehouse, and he needs to pay hundreds of yuan in rent every month. If it weren't for knowing about it, he wouldn't have taken the initiative to send it to the door.

"Of course, of course, Mr. Zhu, please rest assured, we are old friends! In terms of price, I will naturally give you the best price! ”

What is the best price?

As long as it is cheaper than the market price, as for those weapons, didn't they buy them at a price that was almost equal to "scrap metal"? Now as long as you can dispose of those weapons, you can get a lot of money back!

"However, I hope you can understand that I can't give you this money right now, but I can pay a 20% deposit and then withdraw all the goods......"

Zhu Yifeng, who knew that he must not miss this good opportunity at the moment, first pondered for a moment and then continued.

"In the next three months, I will hand over the rest of the payment to you, and if I can, we can sign the contract now!"