In the fifth year of Chongzhen, August 5.

Above the waves of the East China Sea, there are several three-masted ships, with their sails open, breaking the wind and waves, coming from east to west.

The turquoise coastline looms ahead.

Standing on the bow deck of a large ship, Luo Houping, a businessman from Yangzhou, held a telescope with a maximum lens of 20 times in his hand, and carefully observed the coastline until he saw the 20-mile-long barrage embankment and nearly 100 white wind turbines on the embankment.

Luo Houping suddenly became excited.

Almost there.

Xujiazhuang Harbour City is coming!

His half-year business trip to Japan is coming to a successful conclusion.

As for his gains from doing business this time, it can only be described as a 'full bowl'.

The entire five ships of goods were sold out in exchange for five ships full of gold, silver and copper currency.

Before leaving for Japan, Luo Houping spent a huge amount of money to buy ships, hire sailors and crew guards, and purchase goods, and invested a total of more than one million taels of silver.

Now not only have the costs been fully recovered, but the profits have also tripled.

There is no way, Xujiazhuang's goods are too popular, and when they first landed in the island country, they set off an unimaginable wave of popularity, up to the emperor, the daimyo, down to the merchants, landlords, samurai, and middle-sized wealthy families, all of which were crazy and snapped up, conquering all strata except for the low-level people who had no purchasing power.

Soap, mechanical watches, glass mirrors, lighters, toilet paper, toffee, snow salt, and other goods were all sold out.

There were only ten Phoenix bicycles, and they were also auctioned off at sky-high prices, and they were bought by a few of the richest and most powerful names.

In short, the experience of doing business in Japan in the past few months, for Luo Houping, can only be described as "I didn't expect the money to be so easy to make".

Of course, the tree is very popular, the money is eye-catching, Luo Houping's caravan was also attacked by some wandering samurai or daimyo private army, in a vain attempt to kill people and rob money, fortunately, he had already prepared, a hundred caravan guards wearing half-body plate armor + alloy knives, and killed dozens of hundreds of island country samurai without a loss, just like chopping melons and vegetables - mainly because the Japanese katana is too brittle, although it is sharp enough, but when it touches the alloy Yanling knife, it is the end of the shattering of the blade in three or two, what kind of kendo knife techniques such as Tianxinliu, Yidaoliu, and Jingxinliu, No matter how fancy the name is or how strong the martial arts are, when you encounter the alloy goose feather knife, you will either die or be injured, or you will run away.

The losses of the caravan escort were slight.

However, in order to strengthen security, Luo Houping also paid to recruit hundreds of Japanese samurai as a supplementary security force, but he did not expect these samurai to be loyal, although they were hired for money, but when something really happened, no one ran away and retreated, but they drew their swords desperately, just for the salary of a silver dollar a day, there were more than a dozen people killed in battle, and they did the four words "loyal to the Lord".

This surprised Luo Houping very much, not only gave the samurai who died in the battle a pension of 100 silver yuan per family, and doubled the salary of the remaining eighty-odd samurai, but also promised that if they performed well, they would probably be hired for a long time, and even taken with them as close guards.

This is unbelievable, Luo Houping's words were understood by those Japanese samurai as to accept them as retainers, and since then they have changed their fate, and even have the hope of going to the rich Tang Kingdom to develop (the ancient Japanese used to call Huaxia the Tang Kingdom), such a great opportunity, how could they be willing to miss it, so they all began to perform wildly, and even the phenomenon of involution appeared, because the attraction of the Tang Kingdom to them was fatal, and Luo Houping, a bold and benevolent Tang businessman, in their eyes, was far more effective and loyal than the Daimyo. If you can become a retainer of the Tang people, it will be like Mt. Fuji is smoking, and you will have a rare opportunity.

Romance

Of course, after this business was over, Luo Houping fulfilled his promise and recruited all these samurai for a long time, but he only picked ten of the best Tang dialects to take with him, and the rest were all left in Nagoya, because he would definitely go to Japan to do business next time, at least once a year.

Besides.

Luo Houping also realized one thing.

That is, it is necessary to do a better job in the relationship with Xujiazhuang, deepen the trust and cooperation between the two sides, especially to get the favor and favor of Xu Yuan, the owner of Xujiazhuang, and do a good job in the personal relationship between the two, so as to ensure the long-term prosperity of the Luo family.

The reason is very simple, the best-selling goods he sold to Japan, which made his net worth more than triple in half a year, are all from Xujiazhuang, and his dependence on Xujiazhuang is 100%.

Once the two sides stop this kind of cooperation, or if there is something to slack or offend Xujiazhuang, and lose the qualification of overseas agents, he Luo Houping will instantly return to the prototype, or it will not be long before he loses his wealth and wealth, and can only sit and eat empty, and he will definitely fall within three generations.

The only way to keep the wealth for a long time is to firmly bind Xujiazhuang, not only to be absolutely obedient and loyal, but also to take some measures to win the trust and favor of Xujiazhuang, just to enter the list of "friendly agents" is not enough.

It's got to be a little better!

So what can be done to take the relationship to the next level?

Please Xu Yuan, the owner of Xu Village!

This is the most direct way that Luo Houping thought of, and the effect will definitely be the best.

So how do you go about currying favor?

"Money, what the owner of Xu Zhuang has is, rare treasures, the owner of Xu Zhuang has much more than me, as well as land and land, higher power, for the owner of Xu, it is something at his fingertips, just see if he wants to do it, if he wants to come up with something, it must not be so easy to please the owner of Xu Zhuang."

But!

Luo Houping knows that there is another thing, and it will definitely have a good effect of pleasing him.

That's beauty!

Because Luo Houping was fortunate to be a guest in Xujiazhuang a few times, participated in a family banquet of the owner of Xujiazhuang, and met the two concubines of the owner of Xuzhuang, although they are quite beautiful, but in terms of Luo Houping's aesthetics, they can only be described as mediocre, but they are very favored by Xujiazhuang, and they have not even married a wife until now.

Could it be that these two concubines are far beyond ordinary people?

Or is the owner of the village pure-hearted, not good at women, and not interested in beauties?

Luo Houping didn't know what the reason was, but he decided to give the beauty as a gift to the owner of Xu Zhuang to enjoy.

If the owner of Xu Zhuang doesn't like beautiful women and fails to give gifts, the problem should not be big, and the risk is the hostility of the two concubines.

If the owner of Xu Zhuang likes beautiful women and succeeds in giving gifts, then he will make a lot of money, and the goal of taking the relationship to the next level will be achieved.

"The sage also said that sex is also sexual, how can there be a man in this world who is not good for women? As long as this beauty is beautiful enough, even if it is the owner of Xu Zhuang, he will definitely smile and accept it, and will not refuse. ”

Based on the cognition of men's nature, Luo Houping is more than seventy percent sure that he can send beauties to success.

And at the end of the Nagoya business, Luo Houping heard about two famous dancers in Kyoto, Kobe, and Nara, who are known as the world's first dancing girls, they are twins, eighteen years old this year, and they have only been debuting for three years, and they don't know how many big names they have conquered, but their redemption fees are too high, and even some big names can't afford to pay for them, otherwise they would have been accepted as concubines by big names and retired to the rivers and lakes.

Luo Houping managed to meet the pair of dancing girls, saw their dancing postures and performances, and was immediately shocked, and they all had the impulsive idea of taking it for themselves, but he still restrained himself, found the owner of the dance troupe, and smashed 100,000 gold to buy the twin dancing girls at a sky-high price equivalent to five bicycles, and wanted to give them to Xu Yuan, the owner of the Xu family, as a gift.

Now this pair of canaries is on the 'Golden Ingot' at his feet, placed in the first-class cabin, and Luo Houping is trying to minimize the number of times he sees this pair of canaries, because every time he sees this pair of stunning widows, he can't help but have the idea of possession, and it is very likely that something bad will happen.

……

Soon.

Harbour City is just around the corner, and the fleet will be docked in short.

The Gold Ingot, in an ornately decorated cabin on the upper wooden floor.

Standing on the upper deck, holding on to the wooden railings with both hands, you can see the straight barrage dam in front of you, countless huge wind turbines erected, and countless modern high-rise buildings in the harbor city.

Maiden Ono Tamako's beautiful eyes widened, and she said in disbelief: "Tang Kingdom, this is Tang Kingdom?" She suspected that she had seen the heavenly scene in the mirage, but she rubbed her eyes vigorously, and there was no change, and the heavenly kingdom in front of her became clearer.

"Sister."

Next to him, Ono Yuko, who looks like a mold carved out of a mold, said: "No matter what kind of person Lord Luo will marry us, as long as we can live in this heavenly kingdom, I am willing." ”

Noriko's mentality has also changed, originally she was very resistant to leaving her hometown and coming to the Tang Kingdom, and even wanted to commit suicide by jumping into the sea, but now, for the harbor city she went to, she only had longing and yearning, even if it was actually a hell, she wanted to go in and see.

"Is this the kingdom of heaven? Mom and Dad, I see the kingdom of heaven, I may be dreaming, but it may also be real! ”

Saburo Kuroda, one of the ten samurai selected to come to the Tang Kingdom, when he saw the harbor city, he let out a whoa-wow, jumped and jumped, and the ghost cried wolf, kneeling on the deck and worshipping reverently, as if he had seen a sacred object.

"Oh my God, is this what the kingdom of heaven looks like? I saw it, I saw it! ”

"Even the kingdom of heaven that people go to after death cannot be so beautiful, and we actually saw it with our own eyes."

"This moment is death, and my Kitaro Tamura is also satisfied!"

The performance of the other nine samurai was the same, they all knelt down, their faces were full of excitement and fanaticism, their mouths were babbling words that others could not understand, and there was only a deep shock and surrender in their hearts.