The fat man woke up in the morning, looked at the red-haired beauty like a kitten in his arms, and suddenly felt that such a Caterina was the most beautiful, gently pulled out his arm from under her little head, pulled the quilt and gently tucked it under her, and got up.

It's been a long time since I've been here, and after counting the days, Arthur has been back for a few months, and it's supposed to be back!

Just thinking about it, he heard a sound of footsteps and rushed to run here, he hurried out to see that it was O'Neill, looking at his relaxed but rapid steps, he knew that something good must be there, and I am afraid it is still a good thing.

Sure enough, O'Neill's face no longer had the majesty that a captain should have, but his eyebrows fluttered, and he had already shouted from a distance: "Lord Viscount, Arthur, Arthur is back!" ”

What the! The fat man was overjoyed, and as soon as he thought of Arthur, he came back, so he put on his clothes and ran out, and O'Neill couldn't catch up after him, and he wanted to tell the fat man that Arthur was not the only one who came.

The fat man rushed to the dock and was shocked to find that there were more than fifty boats parked on the dock, more than fifty! The sails on the ship almost covered the entire sea outside the dock, how many people were coming?

But then the fat man didn't care about it, because he saw Arthur, and Arthur saw him, and he was walking quickly, but who was beside him?

Hey! It was actually the Duke of Auston, and he thought that this old man died at the hands of the British! It turned out to be fine.

The old man was very excited from a long distance and shouted, "Hey! Chen, I haven't seen you for a long time, old Auston thought you died at the hands of the British, but it turned out that I waited for news from Arthur, who brought a perfume, a perfume that made the whole of Europe crazy, and I knew at that time that you must be alive, you must still be alive, only if you live, Arthur could get such a perfume, and only you could get such a perfume! ”

The old man was really excited, and he even felt a little bit like he was talking about it, but he was excited not because he was worried about the fat man's life, but because the fat man was now a person who had successfully connected the East and the West from the sea, and if the old man wanted to reach the East better and faster, the fat man could not die now.

Arthur was followed by a large group of sailors, and behind the sailors was a large group of old and weak women and children, this is the families of the sailors, most of the people who followed Arthur back this time were going to pick up their families, and now they are all here, and they are learning to say hello to the fat man with an awkward bow with Arthur.

After the fat man gave them a salute in return, he asked Arthur to arrange for them to stay quickly, but Arthur did not leave, he just asked Elive to take the people down to settle down, and then said to the fat man: "This time we went back to Europe, when we took out the perfume you gave, the Europeans were crazy, they had never seen such a perfume, so rich, so noble, oh! Christ is above, I swear, they must have been mad when they smelled the scent, and of course, it could have been the noblewomen of their house who were mad. ”

Duke Auston also nodded: "That's right! It's all crazy, the last time in Casablanca, old William held an auction, the Europeans went crazy once, now William Jr. held another time, the Europeans went crazy again, Christ is above, all this was brought by you, Chen, I heard that you have been promoted to the title of viscount? ”

The fat man smiled: "No! Duke of Auston, I have been promoted to earl, and this place is one of my fiefs, because I have successfully expanded the territory of my country, so my country is not stingy with titles and fiefs. ”

Duke Auston sighed: "The monarch of your country is really a generous monarch, and it is surprisingly generous! However, this has become one of your fiefdoms, is the city newly built? I see that the stones on the city wall are all new? How long have you been building? ”

The fat man laughed proudly: "You know what? When Arthur first left, only a dock and a wall were built, and it took us a month to build the pier and the wall, and in the few months that Arthur left, we built the government building, which is what you call the Doge's Palace.

We have established a market, which is what you call an exchange, but our market is more comprehensive than your exchange, and our market is divided into three areas, including wholesale of bulk goods, retail of small quantities, and special auction halls;

There was our tax office, and a tax was levied on every shipment of goods brought into the port, and there was a whole street, yes, the street on either side where only one large inn had been built, which was to be reserved for the merchants to buy and build a hotel, and on the other side of the hotel street, it was reserved for those who opened taverns and restaurants, but I heard that my sailors had set a few pieces, and there was not much left;

The one that is by the sea is the one that is encircled, which is going to build a shipyard in the future;

The largest room, see? The walls are as thick as someone's hands outstretched, and they are all made of stone, and that's my warehouse! ”

Duke Auston looked at the tall city wall, the ten-meter-high city wall could allow four people to walk side by side, he could see clearly from the bottom that the city wall was all made of huge stones made of unknown things, this was at least a thousand pounds of boulders!

This circle of walls is still ten meters high, oh my God! This has to be placed in Europe, this work that will take several years to complete, it may not be completed in a few years, and it may even take more than ten years, how long will it take for me and this oriental nobleman to be separated? Half? Or a year? How could his methods be so magical?

Duke Auston looked at a group of black people coming out of the fat man's house, and asked strangely, "How did you get this group of natives to live in the city, why don't you drive them out of your city." ”

The fat man smiled: "Why should I drive them away, you know, blacks are the most real, as long as you pay them, they will work for you honestly, since they can work for me, why drive them away?" ”

"Alright! You are a kind aristocrat, but sometimes kindness is also your weakness. Duke Auston said solemnly.

The fat man smiled and brought Duke Auston into the market, which was a façade house, but although it was only a façade room, it was built tall and spacious, and now several were open.

That's the fat man's business, but now it's Caterina in charge, Caterina was still sleeping, but when she heard that there were more than fifty big ships coming on the sea, she immediately took the fat man from another world, and there was nothing at all here, and everything was moved to the storefront, and the beautiful lady Caterina had now turned into a charter lady and commanded her subordinates to move things and put them in place.

Seeing her acquaintance, Caterina hurriedly came over to salute Duke Auston: "Dear Duke Auston, it's a pleasure to see you again." ”

Duke Auston also returned the salute to Caterina graciously: "Beautiful lady, I am very happy to see you again, but I am more interested in what I can buy from you?" ”

Caterina was delighted, and jumped into the shop like a little girl, and took out several things: "First of all, nobles like us, the first thing to pay attention to is writing, yes, writing, are you still on the boat with that quill stained with ink?"

No, Mr. Duke, that is outdated, and now what is in vogue here is this writing tool called the ballpoint pen, which was born to be studied for the use of the nobility,

Have you seen this transparent glass-like barrel? Yes, it's as transparent as glass, it's as noble, but it's used to make the barrel of this pen, and then look at the two ends of this tube, in fact, I'm not afraid of your jokes, stupid Caterina still doesn't know what kind of substance is on the two ends of this pen tube, but I know that I have never seen it in Europe......"

The fat man watched Caterina introduce the inferior ballpoint pen in her hand like a rare treasure, and introduced the plastic barrel and cap to the high, and couldn't help but laugh secretly in his heart.

Caterina was soon surrounded by people, this was the captain and the nobles who had come here from Europe with Arthur, and the perfume that Arthur brought back turned into a huge fortune in Europe, and then the nobles flocked to it like vultures that smelled the smell of stinky meat.

Katerina's voice continued to introduce the products in her store: "Although this is beautiful and noble, but whether it can be used or not, that's the point, so let's get a piece of parchment and write a line, okay!" Then let Duke Auston write, just write your name, yes, write it, Duke Auston, can you tell me what it feels like to write with this pen? ”

The Duke looked at the pen in his hand in amazement and said, "Christ is on it, this pen is really smooth, and it doesn't need to be inked, the black thing inside is ink, right?" ”

"Yes! Mr. Duke, this pen in your hand may even be able to help you copy a Bible, and then wait until the ink in it runs out, we also have the heart of this pen here, which can be replaced, for the pen, this heart is very cheap, as long as half the price of the pen. Caterina held up something else, the center of a ballpoint pen.

After watching Caterina demonstrate how to change the pen, the old man Auston and the people around him sighed, it was too convenient, so they asked: "Beautiful Lady Katarina, how much is this?" ”

"This is a pen for the nobility, let's not talk about its price, and then let you see what is special about it, this gentleman, please help me hand over the basin over there, thank you!"

Caterina took the basin: "It's a basin full of water, and now, I'll put down the parchment that Duke Auston just wrote and soak it for a while...... All right! Let's scoop it up, everyone see! ”

"This is actually a pen that is not afraid of blisters, Christ is above, I swear I didn't dream!" One of the captains exclaimed, "Beautiful lady, I only want to know now the price of such a pen!" ”