After the Siren's attack, the Maria's voyage was smooth sailing, and after less than a day's voyage on the North Sea, Mary at the lookout post saw the shadow of the land in the distance, which was the destination of their voyage, the port of Hamburg, which belonged to the Holy Roman Empire.

According to the original voyage, it would take at least a day and a half for the Maria to reach its destination, but the whole ship had just received the life-saving grace of the three of them, and in gratitude, the sailors were riveted, and the captain did not care about the damage to the mainmast, and the sail was full sail, and the speed was increased to 10 knots, so it arrived at the port of Hamburg ahead of schedule.

As for why Lao Wang, a weapons merchant, has such a strong fighting strength, although the captain is full of questions, he still wisely chooses to remain silent, no one on the sea has his own secrets, and not every secret can meet people.

The captain just told Lao Wang that after the voyage, if there is still a place to use the boat, he will definitely give Lao Wang the greatest discount.

Hamburg, the largest seaport in the German states of the Holy Roman Empire, is famous in the real world, and in this world of trials, the size and people of Hamburg are well replicated, and unlike the free-spirited and exuberant Amsterdam, Hamburg appears to be relatively disciplined, but like every port city in the Age of Sail, it is also full of life because of the thriving maritime trade.

Through the captain, Lao Wang learned that the Holy Roman Empire was also inclined towards Protestantism in terms of religious tendencies, so as long as it was a merchant from the same Protestant country, such as the Netherlands, England and Sweden, the commercial activities in this city were not very restrictive, and it was very suitable for Lao Wang to dump goods.

The three of them unloaded their goods, paid the stage rent, agreed with the captain on the sailing time, waved goodbye, and then stored the goods in the rented dock square warehouse, this kind of port functional construction is standard, a few small money can be used for a few days, very convenient.

"Uncle, are you familiar with the business process, and how do we sell our goods?" asked Takenaka, the three of them had completed all their business at the dock and were leaving the port of Hamburg along the path outside the warehouse.

The little guy has a high level of intelligence, but he doesn't know anything about making money in business, Mary is a surreal element full of romantic feelings, otherwise there would not be a girl who would run to be a war correspondent, counting on her to make money and counting on Li Bai to make money is a reason, so it doesn't work, among the three people, Lao Wang is still a person who lives a life, so the invincible uncle team's money-making plan is naturally Lao Wang.

"I know the process very well, the identity of this weapon merchant arranged by the space for me has some business knowledge in itself, and I will see that it is okay when I am on the ship these days, and there is no problem. Lao Wang said to the two: "And we have a bit of an unexpected gain." ”

"What's the catch?"

Lao Wang looked at Mary and Takenaka, who asked in unison, and said a little proudly: "Counting on the two of you, I'm afraid you will have to sell your house in two days to get by!"

Didn't we kill a dozen sirens, and these guys didn't drop anything, and you two were still upset, remember?"

"Remember, what's wrong?" said Mary and Takenaka in unison.

Lao Wang did not sell Guanzi, explained: "Although the sirens do not drop props, but the feathers on their bodies are a kind of trial world element props, according to the captain, the feathers on the wings of the sirens are a good material for making quills, I asked a few sailors to take off the hair of these sirens, and now there are about two boxes, which can be sold as part of our cargo." ”

"Uncle, you are really thrifty and thrifty..."Takenaka muttered, surprised by the amazing care that Lao Wang showed when he encountered this kind of thing.

"I have to say, Lao Wang, you have a talent for making money. Mary also made fun of Wang Mancang, and then asked, "So where are we going now?"

Lao Wang said: "We should go to the exchange first, in the inner city of Hamburg, where we have to apply for the qualification to trade in Hamburg, and after obtaining the business qualification, we can trade in Hamburg, and after shipping, we will immediately purchase goods in Hamburg, and then sail to Bruges." ”

Lao Wang said: "In addition, when we got off the boat just now, the captain also popularized some basic information about doing business with me, which seems to have saved their lives, and it is quite a row." ”

"Oh, Wang, tell me about it. Mary said with interest.

In fact, what the captain told Lao Wang was the world's information about the Chamber of Commerce.

Strictly speaking, they are not regular maritime merchants, at best, they are only licensed self-employed at sea, running with ships, a bit like the small businessmen running boats in Fujian and Guangdong in the late Qing Dynasty of China, the general business volume is not large, the occupation is not fixed, and it is very likely that they will change careers after making money.

The second model is the formal trading company, in this world of trials and the real world of the 17th century, there are all kinds of trading companies or chambers of commerce, which are active in the oceans, small single sails can form a family, seek a prosperous life as a family, and on a large scale like the East India Company, finance the expansion and naval warfare of the country, and sometimes even the actual ruler of the overseas colonies.

To put it bluntly, a chamber of commerce is a merchant organization established by merchants at sea in order to strengthen maritime trade, and the chamber of commerce or trading company can choose to be established individually, or apply to join the ready-made.

And there are many benefits after the establishment or inclusion of the chamber of commerce.

First of all, after the formal establishment of the Chamber of Commerce, it belongs to the officially registered businessmen, and regularly pays business taxes, and the business taxes of self-employed individuals will be drawn by the exchange in the profit each time, compared to the Chamber of Commerce businessmen need to pay much less taxes.

Secondly, some activities in this trial world can only be done through the chamber of commerce, such as large-scale battles at sea, speculation in controlling the market, etc., Lao Wang, as the selector, naturally hopes to obtain the right to participate in everything in this trial world as much as possible, so as to obtain the greatest benefits.

Finally, if you want to make money in this world, the amount of goods purchased is the key, sometimes even if you have enough space on board, but if the merchant authority is insufficient, you can't purchase the full cabin of goods to sail, which will cause a waste of resources, individual businessmen are the businessmen with the lowest merchant authority, often not satisfied with the goods, the invincible uncle team wants to get rid of this status quo and make a lot of money, you must enter the ranks of high-authority chamber of commerce businessmen.

Wang Mancang finished talking in detail, this was the captain's personal exclusive information, and neither Takenaka nor Mary knew about it, so they could only rely on him to explain.

"What I mean is that we set up our own chamber of commerce or join a small chamber of commerce, the kind that can be controlled, I thought about it, if you join a ready-made large chamber of commerce, they will naturally give a lot of preferential policies to new businessmen, and it is really good to make money with the help of a large platform, but relatively, we need to obey the rules of the chamber of commerce, but once we start the task, we can't be tied up, so we still need space, I conclude that enjoy part of the treatment, but also retain freedom. "Old Wang.

"Uncle is sure to do business. ”

"The business is old. ”

“...... The two of you are happy to enjoy your life, but it's too early to talk about these chambers of commerce, because to set up a chamber of commerce, you need to have at least one of your own three-masted sailboats, so let's work hard to make money as soon as possible. Lao Wang looked at the two masters beside him helplessly.

"What kind of poor ghost is starting to do business, don't get in our way, get out of the way!" A sudden rough voice interrupted the conversation between the three people, Lao Wang turned his head to look, only to see a fat man with a face full of meat and a disgusting half-length oily hair was surrounded by a bunch of people, standing in front of them, the cheer just now should have come from their group.

Although this road is not very wide, two groups of people can still pass it, and the people on the opposite side seem to be domineering and want to monopolize this path.

"I thought that people who did business at sea had at least the advantage of being big-hearted. Lao Wang didn't mean to get out of the way, he didn't need to give an order at all, Takenaka had already measured all the information on the other side at the first time of the conflict, and there was no one who could fight, I really don't know where such a horizontal confidence came from.

"Bastard boy, who do you think you're talking to, you're opposite the president of the Shupaia Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Martin Shupaia. A person who was obviously a dog-legged heard Lao Wang's disobedience, and immediately roared, foaming at the sky, which was the voice that made insulting remarks to Lao Wang just now.

"Who do you think you're talking to, but you're opposite the big businessman who is about to replace the Shupaia Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Onnis van der Kamp. Takenaka took a step forward next to Lao Wang and responded with the same sentence, what kind of jokes, when encountering interactive characters who take the initiative to cause trouble, they must not show weakness.

"Hahahahahaha!" the dogleg was choked by the bamboo, and he couldn't speak, but the fat man standing in the middle, who was supposed to be Martin Shupaia, laughed loudly, and there was a little anger in his voice.

Then, as if his face had changed, he grim his fat face and said, "Van der Kamp Dutch borer surname, you're a damn lowland merchant?"

"Fat pig, let's see if you have eaten too much of the same kind of meat and made you understand human manners. "Although Lao Wang is not the master who stands and makes people scold, but he doesn't know how to scold the street with foreigners, but Mary next to him is a master, the beautiful reporter is proficient in 5 Chinese languages and national culture, knows how to scold people, how to scold people, what country people use what terrier hurts the most, people in the Holy Roman Empire love to eat pork, this is a good point to attack them.

Sure enough, the honeycomb exploded!

As soon as Mary's words came out, Lao Wang saw that the Germanic merchants on the opposite side were like crazy, howling and their eyes were red, and a few of them had already begun to look for turners and crates on the ground, ready to come up and beat people.

"President Shupaia, I just heard someone insulting the merchants of the Dutch Lowlands, aren't you?"

Today's dock square is destined to be lively, Lao Wang and Shu Paiya have not yet done it, and another voice has branched in, but compared with the dog's leg voice just now, this voice is crisp and loud, and it sounds like an energetic girl.

The big fat man looked behind Lao Wang with a complicated face, and said with both hatred and helplessness: "Lilu Argot, red-haired girl, do you lowlanders regard hamburgers as their own back garden?"

Lao Wang and the three were the selectors, and they had long known that there was someone behind them, but the actions and words of the comer were not like enemies, so they didn't pay attention to it, and waited until the voice sounded before they pretended to look back and find out, with a surprised face.

This is a young girl whose appearance matches her voice very well, she is wearing a green short dress, beautiful and slender, not a big beauty, but there is a shrewd youthful vitality.

The girl nodded to the old king, signaled to solve Shu Paiya's trouble first, and then chatted in detail: "It's me, Lilu Argoth, we Dutch merchants are different from you, the whole world is our business partner, and our business in Hamburg is also licensed by the Holy Roman Empire, I don't think there is anything wrong." ”

"Little girl, don't take an inch, last time you were lucky enough to dump goods here, don't think I really can't do anything about you. Shu Paya said viciously, but anyone who heard this sentence would think that he really couldn't do anything about this little girl.

The girl named Lilu was not afraid and said, "This is Hamburg's dock square, how about a big fight here, Mr. Martin Schupaia?"

Shu Paiya's face's face twitched for a while, but he could only give up, gritted his teeth and said: "You wait for it, sooner or later, one day, we will meet at sea, and when the time comes, you will know how powerful I am, let's go." "Shupaiya also knows that he can't make trouble at the port, he is still a businessman at heart, and business is the most important thing, and if he is expelled from the port because of the violence, it will be more than worth the loss.

The big fat man walked away with a bunch of subordinates in a huff, and the Dutch girl Lilu Argoth immediately let go of her tense face, stuck out her tongue and said playfully to Lao Wang: "This big brother, you are really daring, dare to not give an inch with Shu Paya like this." ”

"You're not the same, this beautiful and brave young lady, I don't know your name yet. Lao Wang was still very polite to this comrade-in-arms who scolded the street together just now.

"My name is Lilu Argoth, and I am the president of the Argothic Chamber of Commerce, a Dutch merchant!" the little girl said, her tone full of pride.

"My name is Onnis van der Kamp, and I'm a weapons merchant, and I'm ashamed that I haven't set up my own Chamber of Commerce yet, and this is my nephew Freddy van der Kamp, and my bodyguard, Miss Alice Hunt. Lao Wang followed the little girl's words.

"Hello, the Chamber of Commerce is nothing, it's just luck to choose the right goods. The girl replied, and two blush flew up on her face, showing a youthful charm.

"Thank you very much for today, but we still have business to do, and I'll be sure to treat you to a drink when we get back to Amsterdam. Lao Wang turned around, ready to end the conversation, after all, he was in a hurry to make money now, and time was precious.

Lilu saw that Lao Wang and the others were leaving, and hurriedly said, "Mr. Van der Kamp, please wait a minute, I have something to tell you." ”

Lao Wang turned around and said, "Hmm, is there anything wrong?"

"You just said that you are the one who is planning to set up your own chamber of commerce, which means that you are currently a sole trader, right? I can see that you are all very good seafarers, join us, although it is only a small nascent chamber of commerce, but you will definitely make a difference in the future. The girl said loudly, with a sincere attitude.

Isn't it? It's all right? Isn't it unpleasant to be simple?