ACT130: The Burton Family
"NiceToMeetYou~ Mr. Dai! Please forgive me for being late, my captain had a little trouble passing through Pearl Harbor and was a little late. ”
"It's all right, Mr. Burton, we've just arrived." Dai Bing replied with a stiff smile.
The white young man in front of Dai Bing's eyes was named "Walter. Burton" is a Canadian-American who looks like he's in his 20s, but his actual age may be even younger. Just looking at the appearance, the other party is a blonde man with a rather Europa style, especially the pair of eyes as magnificent as sapphires, the blurred eyes are hooked, and under the flickering of the lights, they exude a "girl's comic"-like crystal.
In short, the other party feels very gorgeous at first glance, just like Prince Charming who has stepped off the stage, which can definitely make those ignorant girls who are just beginning to fall in love with their hearts. But if you look at it a little more, you can feel a very subtle "nausea". People often say "disgusting and handsome", which probably refers to people like him.
The Bolton family can be said to be unknown in North America, not to mention ordinary people, even many rich people do not know that there is such a group of "Akarins" in their circle. If Dai Bing hadn't really received funding from the other party, he wouldn't have believed this kind of mysterious guy who couldn't find out at all.
Four years ago, not long after Dai Bing seized the Zhao family's tea plantation, the Bolton family took the initiative to find him. The other party took out a lot of money to fund the expansion of the Dai family's industry, and the only thing they asked for in return was to hope that the Dai family could become the "partner" of the Bolton family in Datang and assist their business to enter the Datang market.
For this kind of big thick legs that take the initiative to come to the door. Dai Bing naturally hugged it without hesitation.
At first, the other party just sent batches of "pretty goods" to Dai Bing, and asked him to distribute them in the Tang Dynasty, and the proceeds were divided in half between the two parties. Relying on this unprofitable consignment business, the Dai family was making money every day during that period, and their assets kept growing like a snowball, so Dai Bing, who was in a happy mood, happily agreed to the new request made by the other party later and helped them collect some business information.
Soon, however, the Burton family's requirements were no longer limited to "business intelligence." Some intelligence collection related to military and political aspects has gradually appeared in the demands of the other side. Dai Bing, who has no patriotic sentiments, feels that these things may bring him some trouble. But compared to the benefits that can be obtained, it is only a trivial trouble.
So in the following two years, Dai Bing unknowingly got used to this kind of "espionage" business. Relying on the funding of the Burton family and the connections of his two brothers-in-law, Dai Bing successfully entered the elite class of the Tang Dynasty. Gradually, he came into contact with some big figures in the military and political fields. The Burton family took the opportunity to ask him to collect private information about these people. And pull some of them.
At this time, Dai Bing finally sensed that something was wrong, but he had already had no turning back.
In the past few years. In order to continue to receive funding from the Bolton family, Dai Bing has done a lot of things that infringe on his national interests, such as bribing high-ranking officials and spying on military intelligence. In the middle of the year, he even helped collect detailed numbers about the Datang Navy's newest first-class capital ship "Hebei class", and took the initiative to contact the chief designer Luo Yu, but unfortunately failed to successfully buy the other party as expected.
Perhaps it was Dai Bing's "loyalty" that moved the other party, and two weeks ago the Bolton family suddenly wrote to say that they had a family member who was coming to Datang, hoping that Dai Bing could take care of it a little. This is the first time since the other party took the initiative to send someone to contact Dai Bing four years ago that someone surnamed "Bolton" is coming, so Dai Bing takes it for granted that this meeting is very important.
But in terms of the target, it seems that the other party sent a not very reliable guy.
Dai Bing, who had been freezing for more than an hour, met Walter. After Burton, he was invited to sit on the boat. As soon as Dai Bing thought that it was good to be warm first, he gladly accepted the other party's invitation and took his men to board the Golden Truffle.
Upon entering the cabin of the Golden Truffle, the interior decoration first made Dai Bing feel an ultimate luxury, which could not be compared to any luxury cruise ship he had ever boarded. The two soon came to the living room, Walter sat down on the sofa with a big grin, and immediately two bunny girls came up to rub his shoulders and make him squint his eyes comfortably, while Dai Bing was a little eager to get into the subject.
"Mr. Burton, what are you doing when you come to Datang this time?"
"What are you doing? No, no, no! I'm not here to talk about anything serious this time, those boring things are taken care of by my two elder brothers, and I'm only responsible for being a happy rich man, just travel around the world. ”
"And what are you?"
"I'm here to play!" Walter said dryly.
“……”
Walter's words made Dai Bing frown, he didn't expect that the Bolton family would be such a standard second ancestor, and listening to him, he was still the youngest son of the family who was not in power, and the other party was like a special trip to entertain him. But no matter what, Walter is also the son of a big financier, and judging from the car and pomp he travels in, the other party should be quite favored in the family, and it is not meaningless to have a good relationship with him.
So Dai Bing changed his coping mode, since the other party was here to play, then lead him to have a good time.
"In that case, what do you want to play, Mr. Burton? This is Qingdao, one of the largest port cities in the north of Datang, and there are countless fun places to go! ”
Dai Bing, who often deals with dignitaries and nobles, naturally knows how to please a gentleman, and he introduces Qingdao's "good places" to Walter, and the other party who listens is full of interest. The two chatted for more than an hour, and finally Walter said that he was a little tired from the journey and wanted to rest early, so Dai Bing got up to say goodbye and said that he would visit again tomorrow.
Not long after Dai Bing left, Walter took a glass of red wine from the plate held by the bunny girl next to him, and then asked the blonde beauty with a cold expression with a smile.
"Elma, do you think this Tang country is easy to control?"
"Don't you think he's hard to control?"
The bunny girl named Irma asked rhetorically, Walter smiled noncommittally, leaned comfortably on the sofa with a wine glass, and then dragged Irma into his arms and put his hands on it, and several bodyguards all withdrew with interest.
"Sure enough, when I left that house, even the air smelled of the sweetness of freedom, and I didn't have to look at the faces of the dead who lacked light, it was better than anything else, my little darling, what do you say?" (To be continued......)
PS: The new character is not a miscellaneous fish! And it's a "gentleman" who smells like the protagonist in some ways...... But to be honest, after setting it up like this, I always had the possibility of writing a "love and kill" rush ORZ!