Hiring foreigners at such a low price, Li Hongfei naturally has his plans. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The guy in front of him is simply out of his eyes, and the other party is still a good person, if he shows that he attaches great importance to this person's appearance at this time, Li Hongfei believes that the other party will definitely get an inch and put forward a series of excessive conditions.

In the case of absolute superiority, the more merciful you are, the more the other party will think that you are a bully, and appropriate suppression is not a bad thing, especially when dealing with these Westerners who are in awe of the Ming Dynasty.

Li Hongfei did this, but it was more conducive to deterring the other party, not to mention that in the current situation, what Hopnerf did before was already deceiving Li Hongfei, and instead of killing him, he spent money to hire him to work, which is already the greatest gift.

Now offer a monthly salary of two taels of silver, wait until the other party really makes glass, and then take the initiative to give a high reward, in this way, Hopnav will definitely be grateful, whether it is for money, or for returning to China as soon as possible, the other party will work harder for Li Hongfei.

As long as he has the initiative, Li Hongfei is not worried about what tricks this foreign devil will play.

Seeing that the other party offered such conditions, Hopnav was a hundred unwilling in his heart, but there was no way, let him be extremely smart, and in the face of absolute strength, he would not be able to play any tricks.

can only follow Li Hongfei and his party with full of resentment, until this time, Hopnav did not figure out what the other party wanted to do.

Making glass?

It seems that the other party has never mentioned this stubble.

Could it be that he has taken a fancy to his own counterfeiting technology?

This was the only use that Hopnauff could think of, after all, the profits from this fraud were too considerable.

Li Hongfei didn't bother to care what the other party was thinking, after the group came out of the restaurant, they continued to wander around in this fang, with Hopnaf, a free translator and part-time European expert, Li Hongfei knew more information.

As early as May 1453, the iron cavalry of the Ottoman Turkish Empire captured the eastern gate of Europe, and after the fall, Constantinople became the capital of the Ottoman Turkish Empire and changed its name to Istanbul.

At the same time, the Ottoman Turkish Empire, because of its geographical advantage, blockaded the land trade routes between the East and the West, and the Silk Road was cut off.

Zheng He's voyage to the West was also based on the isolation of the land Silk Road, and he wanted to open up the Maritime Silk Road.

The Ming Dynasty could think of this kind of thing, and the Europeans naturally thought of the same way, so from the 15th century to the 17th century, the European Age of Discovery came.

The Dutch, the Portuguese, because of their advanced shipbuilding technology, gained a lot in such a great era, and with the opening of sea trade routes, these two countries are also getting richer and richer.

The huge wealth made the eyes of European countries red, and groups of adventurous Europeans formed a civilian expedition team and began the road of exploration one after another.

But most of these people are outlaws, except for the brave and ruthless gangsters, craftsmen like Hopnauff, who have a certain skill and can barely make a living, basically will not leave their homeland and go to the unknown continent.

After learning about this situation, Li Hongfei knew that if he wanted to find a professional like Hopnaf in these expeditions, it was tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack, and it was already great luck to meet one.

"It seems that if you want to tap talent, you have to send someone to Europe in person." Li Hongfei sighed secretly.

He came to Fanfang this time, firstly, to see the current development status of Shanghai County, and secondly, to find technical talents.

Originally, I wanted to conduct auditions in the entire Fanfang like I had recruited workers in Suzhou before, but now after listening to Hopnaf's explanation, I realized that it would not work at all.

Fortunately, Hopnaf's explanation provided Li Hongfei with a new idea, that is, today's Europe is still very poor and backward, and many Europeans yearn for the mysterious ancient oriental country.

With the speed at which the fleet is sailing, it will take more than a year to go back and forth, and talent is not so easy to recruit, so this matter has to be considered in the long run.

Just when Li Hongfei and his entourage came out of the Western restaurant not long ago, and were still wandering around Fanfang, Yao Qisheng led several officials to Fanfang at this time, and soon found Li Hongfei.

"How did you know I was in Shanghai?" Li Hongfei asked.

He came to Shanghai secretly this time and did not inform the Shanghai county government.

"Xia Guan didn't know that the adults were coming, but he heard a report that a group of more than a dozen Han people had entered Fanfang, and Xia Guan was worried that something would happen, so he sent someone to take a look." Yao Qisheng replied.

"Something? What can happen to this Fang? Li Hongfei was a little curious.

After all, I've been here for a long time, and I haven't seen anything happen here.

"Back to my lord, due to the busy export trade in Shanghai County, this wharf has naturally become fragrant, and this fang is close to the major wharves, so there are gangs at both ends of the three days, making trouble in this vicinity, if it is a big night, we are too lazy to care, this is not broad daylight, I am worried that the impact is not good." Yao Qisheng pointed out.

It turned out that Li Hongfei took more than a dozen people into Fanfang in broad daylight, and those foreigners thought that it was a gang making trouble, so they had to ask the local county government for help and let Yao Qisheng bring in to maintain order.

Fights and brawls to grab territory, if it is changed at night, the yamen is too lazy to care about the life and death of a group of ruffians and foreigners, but in this broad daylight, the government always has to behave, after all, foreigners do business here, and they also pay taxes to Daming.

"It's worthy of Shanghai Tang, it's only been open for less than a year and a half, and the gangs have been established, let's talk about what gangs are there in this area!" Li Hongfei asked.

I don't understand why Li Hongfei suddenly cares about local gangs, but Yao Qisheng still answers honestly.

Through Yao Qisheng's explanation, Li Hongfei can be regarded as figuring out the power of these gangs.

The strongest is the local gang, the Haijiao Gang, mainly the local fishermen who went to sea before, united together and organized a gang, because they are locals and familiar with the government, not long after its establishment, they occupied three docks alone, and other gangs did not dare to make trouble at all.

It is precisely because the docks of the Haijiao Gang are very safe that those overseas businessmen are also willing to do business on these three docks, which can be described as a win-win situation.

The second place is the Cao Gang responsible for freight along the river, the Cao Gang has a long history and a large number of personnel, not only the Yangtze River waterway, almost all the places where the ship can only enter, there are Cao Gang personnel.

The reason why it is ranked second is because a small group of people have only come to explore the way, if Shanghai County continues to flourish in the future, I believe that the power of the Cao Gang will slowly transfer to Shanghai.