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"Damn the Tatars!"

A small curse came from inside the office of the senior class on the second floor, and several compradors and staff in suits and leather shoes outside were all slightly stunned when they heard this curse, and the faces of the Chinese compradors looked a little ugly.

In the eyes of foreigners, there are neither Han Chinese nor Manchus, and in their eyes, the Qing people with "pigtails" like braids are Tatars, although they are reluctant, but they can only pretend not to hear.

Sometimes, eating comprador meals in this foreign bank not only has to pretend to be blind, but also to pretend to be deaf, and for Liu Yixuan, every time he hears the harsh scolding, his heart will always seem to have a thorn in his heart, piercing him there, making him even breathless.

"He lied to me, to all of us!"

Thompson yelled angrily, he looked at Bradley in front of him, and put down the coffee cup in his hand.

"Damn, this Zhu Yifeng, maybe he already knew all this, he already knew that there was a rebellion in China, that's why he bought these weapons, my God...... I actually gave him everything with joy like an idiot! ”

Thompson's complaint was met with Bradley's sympathy, and the reason for sympathizing with him was simple: three days earlier, news of the war had come from Wuchang, in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, from the missionaries, and it was said that the rebels had revolted from Guangxi, China, and they had attacked the city and plundered all the way to Wuchang, and the Qing government army was no match for them.

Of course, unlike the missionaries who rejoiced in the rebels' belief in God, almost all the merchants in Shanghai were keenly aware of the smell of wealth, war meant wealth, and for these adventurers from all over the world, war stored too much opportunity and wealth.

It was at this time, in the social circles of the concession, that Thompson became the laughing stock of everyone's mouth, because just a week ago, he had "sold" to a Tatar for almost nothing the more than 50,000 weapons he had shipped back from the United States a few years earlier, and although those weapons were only leftovers from the Mexican-American War, they were already extremely advanced weapons for the Tatars. If nothing else, after the outbreak of war, it is highly likely that these weapons will be sold at a high price.

In any case, it's always higher than the price that Thompson sold for before!

What's even more ridiculous is that Thompson sold all his weapons to the other party in the form of a deposit. The Tatar spent only a few tens of thousands of dollars to get a warehouse full of weapons.

"No, my friend, it's not that you're like an idiot, it's that you simply couldn't have predicted that there was a war there!"

Bradley didn't fall into the trap, but said in a relatively calm tone.

"Perhaps, before that, there was some news that there was a rebellion in the southwest, but these news did not attract our attention at all, because we did not know the scale of the rebellion, and we did not know all this, but, as a Qing person, he could get the truth from the mouths of a few officials of the Qing State, so he carried out this speculative ......."

Businessmen always need to seize opportunities, and unlike Thompson's exasperation, Bradley, as his partner, sees opportunities.

"There's no need to talk about it now, my friend, we have to be prepared, um......"

After a moment of silence, Bradley, an opium dealer who had made his fortune on $100 and living on half a box of opium, continued.

"Preparing for change, perhaps, this war can change China, and the wealth stored in the war is unimaginable......"

"However, even if we buy weapons from the United States again, it will take at least a year from the order to the recovery!"

This is where Thompson is most unwilling, and it will take five months to get from Shanghai to New York, and with the time it takes to produce weapons, it will take at least this time next year for him to re-enter this market full of opportunities.

"A year? Is there anything wrong with this? We need a year, and so will everyone else, and you have to understand that it takes time for the ignorant Tatars to accept modern firearms! ”

Bradley's words immediately stung Thompson's short feet, you must know that even if it is replaced by African barbarians, after being hurt by the muskets of the Europeans, they also know how to use muskets, but these ignorant Tatars, although they were beaten by the British and could not find the east, west, north and south, but they still closed their eyes ignorantly, unwilling to accept modern firearms, unwilling to open their eyes to the progress of the world, and still awakened to the illusion of the so-called "**** kingdom".

"So, for us, it's nothing, let the Tatars and others create the market, and when they create the market, we will enter this huge market, and, believe me, when the time comes, whether it's the rebels or the government army, they'll all need a huge number of modern firearms!"

Compared to Thompson, Bradley, as a partner, undoubtedly saw a little farther, and after the two reached a consensus on how to profit from this war, Bradley looked at Thompson and said with a smile.

"Thompson, what are you going to do with this?"

"What?"

"Zhu Yifeng!"

"Huh?"

Brows jumped slightly, Thompson was a little puzzled Bradley, what is the plan of this opium dealer? Didn't he say to ignore this Chinese for the time being?

"Are you willing to be at the mercy of that Tartar like this?"

"This ......"

After a moment's silence, Thompson stared at Bradley and made a look of attentive listening.

"Bradley, do you have any suggestions?"

"Suggestions?"

There was a sneer on the corner of his mouth, and the sneer even caused the temperature in the room to drop suddenly.

"Our reputation must be preserved, and we must not allow those Tatars to bully us again, otherwise, Thompson, we will not only become the laughing stock of the entire business world, but likewise, we will set a bad precedent for those who come after us, my friend, this is not only a shame for you and me, but also a shame for American businessmen in China!"

Lowering his eyes, Thompson's right hand picked up the coffee cup, but he didn't drink it, just quietly held the cup, as if he was breathing the aroma of coffee, for a while, the office fell into a strange silence, neither of them continued to speak, as if they were waiting for each other's response.

"You're right—"

After a long silence, Thompson raised his head and took the initiative to break the silence, looked at Bradley and said.

"I want to ask you, what are you going to do?"

"Quite simply, Chinese things, of course, are to be done by Chinese, my friend, if I expected it to be good......"

Bradley lowered his voice, his finger pointing to the wall, a smile squeezing into his bearded face.

"Well, we're going to use this Tatar greed to get rid of him!"

The foreigner class made the decision, but it was the comprador in the foreign bank who finally completed the deal, and for Liu Yixuan, who graduated from the church school, he was now determined to leave the foreign company, because he could not stand the condescension of Thompson and Bradley and the contempt for the Chinese in his bones.

"I must leave this place this time!"

Listening to the laughter coming from the Taipan office, Liu Yixuan silently thought in his heart, and the harsh scolding from before was still vaguely in his ears.

Although the work of a comprador is lucrative, he is not worried about finding a job, all foreign companies need compradors who are proficient in foreign languages and familiar with business, and even in private, several foreign companies have extended olive branches to him.

"Zhu Yifeng!"

Liu Yixuan, who was faintly in the room, heard the name mentioned by the two senior executives in the room, and he immediately thought of the "clearance" a few days ago, that "clearance" Thompson used less than 1/5 of the price to deal with the backlog of foreign guns and foreign guns that had been backlogged for several years at a low price, and now? The news of the war from Wuchang turned his "handling" into a joke.

Zhu Yifeng, who took over the batch of guns at a low price, became a lucky person.

Could it be that Thompson and the others are discussing how to get revenge on him?

Being in the midst of foreign companies, Liu Yixuan naturally knows no more about how these foreign business leaders cheat and abduct, I don't know how many seemingly shrewd businessmen are planted in their hands, for these big classes, they deceive the Chinese for granted, but they will never tolerate the Chinese taking advantage of them.

And this time Zhu Yifeng took such a big advantage, how could Thompson turn a blind eye?

Conspiracy!

There must be some conspiracy, but what could it be?

The young man who came back from the dead came to mind, but Liu Yixuan was worried about this young man he had met before, and the reason why he was worried was entirely because the other party was Chinese, nothing more......

Do you want to give him a heads-up?

Why don't you visit today? Just as this thought came to him, he suddenly laughed to himself.

"It's not certain whether people have come back now......"