Chapter 115: Spreading the News
The personnel of the tax bureau continue to count, in accordance with the established rules and regulations of the tax bureau, counting the price of goods, things, porcelain, tea, silk, etc., are all purchased from the Orient in large quantities, and there is a fixed tax rate in the tax bureau, Yankel also noticed those metal boxes, and when he lifted them, he knew that they were metal, and the tax rate on imported metals in Germany was far less high than that of silk and tea, and he did not ask Habido about it, but he just sucked a batch of metal minerals and charged a fixed tax.
Rao is like this, the total tax burden of the entire 10,000-ton freighter is almost more than 470,000 German marks, this money is definitely not small, even if the tax is collected according to a relatively low proportion, the value of this batch of things is enough to make Yankel look sideways.
"Okay, Harpy, I didn't expect you to make a fortune in such a short time!"
"It's not that I got rich, I just became a senior in a foreign bank, and these are all the company's assets!"
"Then congratulations too, you have a treat today!"
"No problem, Black Forest Bar, my authentic Bavarian stout!"
The Black Forest Bar is an authentic Bavarian bar in the port of Hamburg, and the bar is even opened by Yankel and Harpy's neighbors, when they were in Germany before, the three have always had a good relationship, Yankel readily agreed, agreed to go to the bar at the end of work, and even helped him find a group of dock workers.
The tax office, in this port, has a natural right, even the dock workers are no exception, they crook their mouths, the dock workers can find good jobs, not to mention, the price given by Harpy is not low.
The personnel of the tax bureau left, and Harpy slowly got off the ship, he will leave the necessary personnel on the October number, whether it is Shu brocade or official kiln porcelain, which are high-priced items, and are fragile and easy to destroy, and are carefully protected by sea for thousands of miles.
After a few months of hard work, the German and American foreign companies have developed into a formal commercial house, each of which has rules and regulations, because the number of goods this time is huge, and there are many people who came to Germany with Harpy, almost dozens of people, with the help of Harpy's relationship, contact workers, arrange unloading, loading and unloading in this era is far from being like in later generations, one day, or a few hours, you can clean up the 10,000-ton freighter, in this era, the port is basically still manpower, At most, there are a few simple hoist cranes, what cranes, cranes, loading and unloading machines, not even containers, if you want to unload more than 6,000 tons of goods, relying on manpower, one day of effort is definitely not enough, fast maybe three or four days, slow, a week, or even longer is possible.
Shipping in this era, basically, is like this, a month or two of sailing, to a port, and then waiting for the ship to be filled again, and then embark on a new journey, this is also the custom, the general port, there are a lot of bars, hotels, and pornography, supporting them, it is the sailors, the sailors during the unloading and loading period, except for the necessary duty, the rest of the time is in the bar, the sailors' money, almost all thrown into the bar, so, when they get old, after retiring from the ship, The sailors had a miserable old age.
On the port, more than 200 stevedores were specially recruited, including 30 stevedores who specialized in porcelain, all of them were healthy and burly German strong men.
Referring to later generations, coupled with the packaging of this era, the protection of porcelain has reached the extreme, but unfortunately it is still a fragile thing, care is still necessary, these 30 stevedores are the most experienced in the entire Port of Hamburg, and have done more than one porcelain unloading, but even so, Harpy still repeatedly told that the official kiln porcelain, each of which can be stored as a work of art, and even for the West, a lot of things from the Father and God have been added, which are far more attractive than the previous porcelain, If it weren't for the large number, 1,200 sets, maybe all of them would be put up for auction.
For these 1,200 pieces of porcelain, Harpy even offered a high price of 1,000 marks, which may set a record for the Port of Hamburg, so even experienced porters are careful not to break it even a little.
The porters have begun to unload, Harpy finally has time to calm down, and the 250 students have been gathered together and arranged in a place, which was arranged more than a month ago, because they are going to stay in Germany for a long time, he rented a building, a six-story building, a total of 88 rooms, 250 students, 30 teachers, and dozens of international students recruited from Germany, together form the education team, they will deal with the main daily affairs of these students in Germany, As for the issue of funds, a part of the goods sold in this batch will be specially taken out for their tuition, 250 people, the cost in Germany is not low, but the vision of Gao Harpy does not pay attention to anything else, not to mention that tens of millions of sales in China are enough to live here.
Half a year ago, he was in high spirits, in front of Yankel and Butters, he threatened to go to the East to find wealth and earn thousands of family fortunes, and even ignored the obstruction of two friends, insisted on this, but he didn't expect that time to do business, but it became a joke, not familiar with the environment of the East, and he didn't even know how to speak Chinese, so he dared to run to a foreign country, if he hadn't met Yang Yuanzhao, maybe he would have died in a foreign land.
In the afternoon, the Black Forest bar was already lively, the familiar bass inside, a country singer, was hoarsely singing a song that he didn't know, Harpy walked in, his eyes fell on the big fat man on the bar, Butters, like Yankel, is one of Harpy's best friends, typical Bavarian, unlike Yankel is a Junker aristocracy, he is just a small landowner, but out of the family, in Hamburg.
"Look, who's coming, Harpy, is it really you!" Butters looks up just in time to see Harpy walking into the bar, and is pleasantly surprised to greet him, hugging Harpy hard.
"Butters, light, you're still so strong!"
Butters asked Harpy to sit down near the bar, took out a double beer, and drank it in one gulp, the cold beer eliminated the summer heat, and Harpy couldn't help but talk more, stammering about the experience of going to China, and in the middle, Yankel also came after work, and they listened to Harpy with great interest, the mysterious and wonderful Orient, as if it was a seed, planted in their hearts.
Waking up in a hangover, Harpy recognized it, it turned out that it was still in the Black Forest, I don't know when, the sun had risen high, shook the head that the hangover had not disappeared, and walked out against the sun.
Yankel has long been gone, Butters is still asleep, greet the guys who came early, Harpy went in the direction of the port, at this time, the October has been completely anchored in the port, in the specially set aside unloading yard, when Harpy walked, the porters, still kept carrying things, in the warehouse that had been rented yesterday, there were already a lot of things, mostly some tea and silk.
Compared with the fragile and delicate porcelain, tea and silk are much easier, in the case of intact packaging, it is just a hard work to move down, these items, the manpower used, there are several times the manpower of porcelain, this is only a day's work, almost more than 700 tons were unloaded, and this small warehouse, the pile is almost full.
The porters are still coming in, the employees are counting the number, setting up the number, in short, in an orderly manner, listening to the assistant said, yesterday someone has probed the brain to ask about the price of these goods, asked about the company and the chamber of commerce to which they belong, Harpy refused one by one, are some small chambers of commerce, can not say that these small chambers of commerce are not enough energy, they can have such a sense of smell, there must be an internal relationship in the port, but these small companies, their funds are limited, take the route of low suction and high throwing, 6,000 tons, tens of millions of marks of huge cargo, they can only swallow a tiny point, such sales pressure, will be quite large.
It seems that the rumor has not yet been completely spread, yesterday in the Black Forest, Butters has helped to make an appointment with a few relatively large guests, in the afternoon, Harpy met with them one by one, let them see some fine goods, get rid of them and let the wind out, and then ordered his subordinates, he needs to go out for a week, and during this week, nothing disturbs him.
After settling down for a while, Habiyan walked away, but he didn't expect that next, the entire Port of Hamburg, as well as the area radiated by the Port of Hamburg, rumors about China's exquisite goods suddenly spread to the area, causing a turmoil of scramble.
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