Chapter 40: Fortunately, He Didn't Die
PS: I forgot to send it last night.,Sorry for the ......
Fat man, God assists! Si Nanpei almost wanted to rush over and hug the fat man and kiss him twice. He has lived for so many years, and it is the first time he has met such a "powerful" teammate.
"Hmph, isn't it just a little bit of platinum, who is rare, maybe there is platinum everywhere in Oggenia here. Kawagoe was still stiff-mouthed, but her tone had been visibly shaken.
I have to say that this girl is still too young, too simple. Sinan Pei coughed quietly: "I think it is difficult for you to find a customer with thousands of catties of platinum no matter where you are in the world......
"Up, a thousand catties?" Kawagoe covered her head, looking dizzy again.
Seris still knows too little about Eugenia, which gives Sinampe a huge advantage. But this time, Sinampei is not talking nonsense, but the backlog of "bad silver" in Theresa's warehouse, there are really so many ...... Anyway, she had been cheated by this thing before, and it was once Eugenia's usual trick to use shoddy silver. But to let those people know that this "bad silver" is so valuable in Seris, they are afraid that they will regret all their intestines, right?
Maybe so much platinum is really nothing on the earth in the twenty-first century, but this is still in an era of low productivity, and Sinampe is willing to bet that even those guys in the commercial republic will not be able to come up with so many precious metals at once - thanks to the leading financial development, they have long begun to use a lot of things like bills of exchange in international transactions. In modern times, banks have begun to take shape, not only by the very economically minded Jacobs, but also by the various knightly orders. Sinampe was not too surprised by this, the first bank on earth in Europe was opened by the Knights Templar, and the royal treasury of many countries was even entrusted to them for safekeeping - who knows what they were finally strangled by the Holy See and other countries?
Looking at the watch of the Kawagoe woman, Sinan Pei knew that the looting of precious metals was definitely one of the most important things this fleet did when they came to Ogina. Although it is foreseeable that a large amount of precious metals will flow into Seris in an era of increasingly interconnected places, it is still a fairly long historical period. Now the Grand Commander will definitely be worried about the matter of precious metals - if Sinan Pei is not mistaken, the Great Commander of Sichuan must be trying to issue banknotes. In addition to gold and silver, even copper, salt, and grain, which were basically equivalent to hard currency, were definitely in dire need of him. Luxury goods such as silk and platinum are also good choices for pressing bank warehouses.
It's just that with such a long-distance ocean trade, salt and grain are definitely impossible options, so precious metals must be their first priority purchase.
Moreover, the flickering eyes of the Kawagoe girl made Sinampei wonder if Seris had already broken out at this time to rush to buy platinum - just like the tulip bubbles in the Netherlands on Earth.
Tulip bubbles, the first financial bubble in human history, this flower native to Asia Minor caused a frenzy of speculation in the Netherlands because of its preciousness and rarity in Europe, and even produced a 5,900% price spike in one year. Of course, the damage caused by the bursting of the bubble is also extremely heavy.
And platinum is different, it is a precious metal after all, and the output that enters the market every year is only a little, and Sinampei has reason to believe that once a certain frenzy starts, it will not decline in a short period of time. In the Celestial Empire, which pursues upward and downward effects, once their top boss likes this thing, then this qiē will happen naturally.
Sinan Pei's hunch is quite accurate, whether it is the Kawagoe girl or the fat man, he is quite eager for platinum. Whatever one may say, for them, who have a stake in the fleet, this is making money for themselves!
However, Kawagoe Nu is still stubborn, and since she was born, no one has been able to make her whisper: "In short, you must hand over the murderer! If I can't even find the murderer who assassinated my envoy of the Celestial Empire, how can I let Huaxia gain a foothold overseas?"
But the Assassins have nothing to do with us, and you should go to the Caledonians. Si Nanpei wanted to reply to her like that, but Si Nanpei gave up after thinking about it. He didn't want to annoy this crazy girl who seemed to have authority in her hands but was unusually impulsive. If she really ordered the shelling of the port of Masaak and made things out of control, then no one would have a hard time.
Luckily, someone came to relieve the siege.
"Yue Nu, don't be rude!" a coughing voice came from outside the house. Toyoaki finally arrived in a wheelchair. But his wheelchair was obviously much better than the one that Sinampe used when he was captured by the Galedonians, and it seemed that it had been prepared in the fleet a long time ago.
In addition to the guards, he was followed by Baptiste and Abel.
Baptiste, a pioneer in mathematics, also threw a meaningful look at Sinampe.
Sinampei decided to wait for this matter, and he must ask Baptiste what information he got from Feng Ming.
"Ah...... Ah Ming, didn't you fall asleep, why did you get up again?" Kawagoe rushed forward in a panic, half-crouched beside him, "Does it matter if your body is serious? Is the injury still uncomfortable? You are so busy, in case you ......"
"I'm fine! I've been an unbeatable cockroach since I was a child, don't you know?" Feng Ming smiled and touched her head, but then put on a straight face again, "But you are messing around like this, it makes me very embarrassed, if I can't hand in a satisfactory answer, do you want me to be killed by your father after I go back?"
"But you've been assassinated twice, and I'm ......."
Si Nanpei looked at the appearance of this unruly woman as a little sheep in front of Feng Ming, and was dumbfounded. He looked at Theresa beside him again, if ...... How nice it would be if Theresa could one day be like she is now. Alas, how can the gap between people and people be so big...... Si Nanpei smiled bitterly, it seems that his girlfriend and hostess is a little more interested in other women than men? But Si Nanpei is very satisfied, after all, the perfect girlfriend will only appear in the second dimension, isn't it......
Huh? Wait, no, twice? Could it be that Feng Ming is the chief officer of this Cyris fleet? But he is too young, right? Si Nanpei's eyes when he looked at Feng Ming suddenly changed. Looking at this appearance, he seems to be the quasi-son-in-law of the Kawagoe Tetsudai Commander, ......right? Will he be the intended successor to the Grand Commander?
My goodness, fortunately he didn't die, otherwise this would have been a big trouble......