Liang Pengfei smiled and did not expose Smith's lies. "Don't worry, since I have promised you, this transaction is worth 100,000 taels of silver, then it is worth 100,000 taels, only you can complete it according to my requirements, and 100,000 taels of silver will be delivered to you as soon as possible."

Liang Pengfei hooked his finger to the white scholar beside him, Bai Shusheng stepped forward, took out a stack of paper with a stamp from his arms and respectfully handed it to Liang Pengfei, Smith and Thomson stared directly at the stack of paper in Liang Pengfei's hand, they naturally know very well that this is a kind of currency often used between Oriental businessmen, called silver bills, this seemingly ordinary paper, its value is only one tael, but the highest can reach ten thousand taels, Some even reached 100,000 taels of silver.

Greed and **, covered the faces of these two Brits, with green eyes, eager to stand up and take out a gun to grab it, but just seeing Monk Chen, who was standing behind Liang Pengfei, who was as majestic as a god in ancient mythology, and his war knife with an amazing length at his waist, made these two Brits give up this idea.

Liang Pengfei casually took one from the stack of silver tickets, put it on the table, took two fingers, and elegantly pushed it towards Smith, the Chinese characters on it made Smith's heart jump fast.

"Here is a silver ticket of 10,000 taels as a deposit." Liang Pengfei leaned back in his chair, stared at the smith and said: "I will give you the deposit, and now you can draft the contract, but what I want to explain is that there must be a clause on the top of the contract, if you can't fulfill the contract, then, I will ask you to compensate me for my economic losses, as for the amount of this compensation, it is ten times the deposit, what do you think?" ”

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With both hands trembling, he squeezed the silver ticket tightly in his hand, and Smith, who was not yet excited, heard Liang Pengfei's words, his gray-green eyes rolled, and he nodded very happily: "Of course." ”

Soon, a contract was drafted by Smith's assistant, Thomson, a lawyer, who was a lawyer, to write a concise initialed contract. Liang Pengfei took it in his hand, carefully checked it, nodded, took the quill pen handed by Thomson, and signed his name in Chinese, English and French.

After Pan Youdu also put pen to paper, this contract is equivalent to officially taking effect. Bai Shusheng carefully put away the share that belonged to Liang Pengfei, and Pan Youdu and that Smith also held a share each.

"Dear Mr. Liang, you can rest assured that our merchants of the British Empire are definitely the most reputable in the world. We'll be able to do it for you, but you know that it will take time, and the distance between the Qing Kingdom and our British Empire is too far. Smith raised the red wine glass in front of him and saluted Liang Pengfei with a smile.

"Of course I know that, but I believe that two years is enough time to come and go." Liang Pengfei's meaningful smile made Smith's heart sudden. At this time, Pan Youdu suddenly opened his mouth. "Pengfei, yesterday I went to the Governor's Palace, and I heard from Governor Fu that the excerpts about your actual donation to the water master and the merit for you have been handed over one after another. I believe that in two months at most, there will be news back, and when the time comes, you will be the general manager of our Great Qing Kingdom. ”

"Naval officer?" Smith couldn't help but be stunned, looked at Liang Pengfei twice, Pan Youdu nodded with a smile: "Yes, my nephew is very much loved by Master Fu, the governor of Liangguang, and personally presented it to His Majesty the Emperor, hoping to appoint him as the general manager of the Guangdong Water Division." ”

"You're talking about the highly decorated Governor of your country?" Although Smith stayed in Macao most of the time, it does not mean that he does not know the news in the Qing Kingdom, even if it is a Westerner who is far away in Macau, or even in India, they will know anything about the Liangguang area.

"Exactly, by the way, I forgot to introduce just now, my nephew, is the young hero who captured the pirate Pulsatilla Owen who has been crisscrossing the Straits of the Malay Peninsula for more than ten years."

"My God......" Smith swallowed a mouthful of saliva, his whole body was cold, the young man in front of him was really ...... He no longer knew what adjectives to use to express his mood at the moment.

Beside him, Thomson's mouth was wide open, his eyes bulging forward, like a silver carp left in the desert, about to suffocate to death.

Pulsatilla Owen's fierce name, these Europeans who came to the East, which one has not heard of it, can almost reach the point of stopping children crying at night, his fleet is crisscrossing the Malay Peninsula, even if it is the British East India Company's trading fleet, Pulsatilla Owen has plundered, and the East India Company's fleet has also thought of killing this guy, but he will always let this guy slip away first, he is on the East India Company's bounty list, but he is the number one pirate leader.

Smith and Thomson had just arrived in Guangzhou on the merchant ship of the East India Company today, and when they got off the ship, they heard some news about this, but they never imagined that the protagonist, who had almost wiped out all the European pirate leaders in the South Seas, was actually sitting in front of him, and he almost regarded him as an upstart or a loser just now.

Pan Youdu doesn't need to lie, and he doesn't need to, Guangzhou is so big, Smith has been dealing with Qing merchants for nearly ten years, how can he not have a few friends, and he can know the whole story of this matter by asking casually.

"Are you really a maritime merchant of the Qing Kingdom?" Smith felt that he was going crazy, when did the Qing navy become so powerful, so powerful that they could easily capture alive pirates that the British Empire's navy in India feared?

In the past ten years, he has often been in and out of the waters of the Qing Dynasty, and he is very aware that the Qing Dynasty's management measures for the trade of its own merchants and people at sea have stipulated that some merchants should take a guarantee before going to sea, and obtain a stamp license from the place where they are located, and can only build a ship with a mast and less than 500 stones, and it is forbidden to carry guns and other weapons to go to sea.

By the forty-second year of Kangxi, merchant ships going to sea were allowed to use double masts, but there were still restrictions on the size of the beam head and the number of crew members. During the Yongzheng period, although the ban on merchants carrying weapons to the sea was lifted for a time, there were still restrictions, such as no more than two guns per merchant ship, and no more than 30 catties of gunpowder.

For Western pirates, the merchant ships of these Qing maritime merchants are simply fat sheep that have been stripped of all defense forces, and the objects they like to plunder are the maritime merchants of the Qing Kingdom, not to mention the sea ships of those maritime merchants, even the so-called largest warships in the Qing naval divisions: the large material boat of 2,500 stones, in his eyes, compared with the naval warships of the British Empire, it is simply a two-meter-tall giant standing next to a dwarfism.

He couldn't believe that Pulsatilla Owen, but a powerful pirate with five warships, even if he collided, he could smash the battleship of the Qing Naval Division to pieces, and actually let those Qing Maritime merchant fleets that were almost nicknamed toy ships by them Europeans were defeated.

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"Could it be that Pulsatilla Owen took the initiative to lay down his arms and surrender at that time?" Smith rubbed his face, he felt that his brain had been short-circuited, and he had made such a strange conjecture.

Liang Pengfei couldn't help laughing: "Of course, I swear, they did take the initiative to surrender to me, but they were forced to surrender to me in a desperate situation." ”

Liang Pengfei's arrogance, in exchange for only a suspicious expression, including that Pan Youdu is also suspicious, in this regard, Liang Pengfei has no idea of explaining, sometimes, it is more effective to maintain a sense of mystery for his allies than to expose his full strength.

"It's unexpected, it's so surprising that you're the hero." Smith's tone became more humble. "You can defeat those damn pirates and catch them with your own hands, oh, I can hardly believe it."

"It doesn't matter, if you arrive at the South Gate of Guangzhou in a while, you can pay a little attention to it, the heads of that Pulsatilla Owen and his fellow pirates are all hanging on the edge of the city wall, if you have seen him, I believe you will be able to recognize him." The corners of Liang Pengfei's mouth curved in an evil arc, reminding Smith of the smile of the demon in hell. "And one more thing, you had better not break the contract, my men will keep an eye on you at all times, dear Mr. Smith, and when the time comes, if you fail to fulfill the contract, either compensate me for my losses, or ...... Don't question what I say, dear Mr. Smith. ”

Liang Pengfei's tone was quite soft, but it was extremely resolute, Smith looked at the two guards behind Liang Pengfei with feeling, and the giant Monk Chen, who was full of fierceness and savagery, grinned innocently, and the scar from the door of his head to the corner of his eye was extremely hideous. It made Smith feel like a Viking had been resurrected from an ancient deep sea tomb.

Bai Shusheng was also laughing, and his evil triangular eyes were full of dangerous light, like a night owl hovering over a graveyard in the wilderness, calling for death.

All this is nothing, compared to the young man, these two people are inconspicuous characters at most, Liang Pengfei still has a faint smile on his face, it seems to be so leisurely and free, but his gaze is like a sharp blade that cuts through the night, in the dark night, tearing out a blazing white thunderbolt, and in the dark and bewishing pupils, there is a flame full of blood and cruelty flickering, flickering.

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(To be continued)