Tian Fatzi was about to slap Chen Qiang, but suddenly stopped.

"What do you say? Do you speak foreign languages? Tian Fatzi asked with an incredulous face.

Chen Qiang nodded: "I can say a few words." ”

Tian Fatzi laughed angrily, he glared at Chen Qiang with a disdainful look, and said: "Do you want to pull a cart and want to go crazy, you can still speak foreign language?" Get out of here, don't make a mess here! ”

"I really can speak foreign languages." Chen Qiang said unhurriedly: "I also went to school, and I learned in school. If it weren't for the bad military disaster at home, he wouldn't have come to pull the foreign car. ”

"You were a former student?" Tian Fatzi began to look at Chen Qiang seriously.

In this era of war and chaos, it is not new that every day I don't know how many families will be ruined, and the children of rich families will become street beggars overnight.

Next to him, the man in the suit was in a hurry to leave, he was already impatient, only to hear him speak: "Tian Fatzi, now you have a coachman here who can speak foreign languages, hurry up and send me a car to pick up people, this boat is about to dock." ”

"Mr. Chu, this deflated third person said that he could speak foreign language, who knows if it's true? What if he pretends? When the time comes, you won't be able to pick up people, and you won't be happy with your face! Why don't you try him? Tian Fatzi said deliberately.

The man in the suit pondered, what Tian Fatzi said made sense, so he turned his head to look at Chen Qiang and said, "Say hello in foreign language." ”

“Hello。” Chen Qiang said.

"Besides, I'll pick you up." The man in the suit spoke.

“I come here to welcome you。” Chen Qiang said without thinking.

The man in the suit was slightly stunned, Chen Qiang did not use the word "pick up", but used "welcome", which is obviously more appropriate when greeting guests, and the man in the suit was satisfied with the city wall in an instant several grades.

What's more critical is that Chen Qiang's answer was blurted out like instinct without the slightest thought, which is obviously something that only a person who is proficient in spoken English can do.

"Okay, it's just you, hurry up and pick up people at the dock!" The man in the suit spoke. He is in a hurry to do things for foreigners now, and he doesn't bother to care where a young man who can speak foreign language comes out.

Chen Qiang looked at Tian Fatzi, which means that Mr. Chu has been named, so you can watch it!

"You really know how to speak foreign language?" Tian Fatzi's face was full of incredulity, he couldn't afford to compete with a man in a suit for a coachman, and besides, doing business in the concession, it was always a good thing to have an extra subordinate who knew foreign language.

So Tian Fatzi said without hesitation: "Boy, as long as you pick up the foreigner for me and send him to the Licha Hotel, my car dealer will want you, and you will eat here with me in the future!" ”

"No problem, shopkeeper Tian, don't worry, I will definitely send someone." Chen Qiang replied happily.

"Okay, come with me to pick up the car!" Shopkeeper Tian didn't say a word, and took Chen Qiang to the open space behind the car dealership.

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There are also a lot of rickshaws in the open space behind the shop, and two or three of them are specially placed in the carport.

Tian Fatzi found a rickshaw in the carport, which looked eighty percent new, the body was wiped clean, and even the seats on the car were covered with sponge pads. This car is considered a high-end flagship model among rickshaws.

When he went to pull a foreigner, he naturally couldn't find a broken car, so Tian Fatzi found Chen Qiang the best car in the car dealership.

Tian Fatzi is not afraid that Chen Qiang will not return the car if he pulls it away, there are car dealership marks on each car, and there is a Green Gang behind the car dealership, this car is equivalent to the property of the Green Gang, how dare the driver not return it!

Chen Qiang pulled the car and walked for more than a mile, and he had already adapted to the feeling of pulling the car, so he quickened his pace and went straight to the dock.

When Chen Qiang was in the car, he had already found a piece of paper to write Ramos' name, and when he arrived at the dock, he waited directly at the passenger exit of the pier, and then held up the piece of paper with Ramos' name written on it.

Then he easily picked up Ramos, and after confirming his identity, he pulled Ramos straight to the Licha Hotel.

The Licha Hotel, now known as the Pujiang Hotel, was built in 1846 by British businessmen and was the earliest modern hotel in Shanghai. There is the earliest gas kitchen in Shanghai, the earliest elevator in Shanghai, the earliest sound movie that has been screened, the first place to install elevators in Shanghai, and the first place to use tap water in Shanghai.

It is also the preferred place for foreigners to live in Shanghai, and has received many celebrities, such as Chaplin and Albert Einstein, who come to Shanghai to live in the Licha Hotel.

Chen Qiang sent Ramos to the door of the Licha Hotel, Ramos directly took out a dollar bill and handed it to Chen Qiang, and said at the same time: "The rest is a tip for you!" ”

Tipping culture is prevalent in the United States, and even now, taxis are tipped on taxis. And the tips given by other guests are not considered stealing customers.

Chen Qiang immediately thanked him, and at the same time helped Ramos carry his luggage into the hotel.

Walking out of the hotel, Chen Qiang rubbed the dollar in his hand and listened to the long-lost sound of banknotes.

"Dollars, dollars, good things!" Chen Qiang happily took the dollar into his arms.

Although the silver dollar was the hard currency of the time, the dollar was more "solid" than the silver dollar.

Since World War I, the dollar has been the world's leading currency, and after the Great Depression in the late twenties, the price of the dollar against gold remained at $35 per ounce of gold, barely fluctuating much until the establishment of the Bretton Woods monetary system.

The price of silver has been falling, in 1870 the gold-silver ratio was 15.57, in 1875 it became 16.64, in 1880 it was 18.09, in 1890 it was 19.75, in 1900 it was 33.31, in 1910 it was 39.29, and it was about to break through the 1 to 40 mark. Gold can be exchanged for more silver.

One ounce, or 31.1035 grams of gold, is equal to thirty-five dollars, so the gold content of one dollar is 0.888 grams, which is equivalent to 2.4 silver dollars according to the gold-silver price ratio at the end of 1929.

In front of a car in the concession, which is four or five cents, many rickshaw drivers earn two yuan a day, and one of them has to pay a share of the money. Chen Qiang earned two yuan and four yuan in this business, which is equivalent to a day's salary of a rickshaw driver!

And this is still the dollar, and then as the price of silver gets lower and lower, the dollar becomes more and more solid, and the dollar will be exchanged for more silver dollars.

"This coachman is really making money, you can earn a dollar by running from the dock to the Licha Hotel, which is much more than selling newspapers, and I am really right to be a coachman." Chen Qiang couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

However, Chen Qiang pondered carefully, this account is not calculated like this, every guest he can't meet is Ramos so generous, willing to spend a dollar on a car, this kind of guest, may not be able to meet one in a year and a half.

"Ordinary guests, certainly not so bold, take the car and give so much tips, but foreigners are different, foreigners are definitely richer than Chinese, especially those foreigners who have just come to Shanghai, do not understand the prices in Shanghai, many foreigners give the car according to the price of their own country, as long as I am thoughtful, I will definitely get a tip."

At this time, Chen Qiang suddenly saw a new way to make money, to make money from foreigners!

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