Chapter 2105 Flower Fight (13)

The Chinese know very little about the outside world. Even in Guangzhou, where foreigners are more common, they still can't tell the race of foreigners and regard all foreigners as "red-haired people."

This name may come from the Portuguese and Dutch who were the first to come into contact with southern Fujian. They once fought with the Ming Dynasty. These European merchant ships were equipped with cannons and were both commercial and military. Therefore, the Chinese people's thinking was that these "

The "Red Haired Man" is using trade as an excuse, but is actually preparing to invade China. If it is a merchant ship, how can it be equipped with cannons?

But they hide this idea deeply and only show contempt for foreigners, even children. They imitate adults more and stubbornly believe that foreigners cannot receive a good education overseas.

"Exotic people".

Nick found that most Chinese people are more diligent than others. Even if they live on four or five shillings a day, they still live happily with their meager income. I hope that they can wear silk clothes on festival days and the balance will be small.

Save your experience and exchange the saved copper coins into silver coins, or turn a wandering, irregular, luck-based job into a fixed career. In this way, not only will your life be guaranteed, but your income will be better.

A cash-strapped sailor like Captain Yao has probably fallen into some bad habits. Otherwise, at this age, he would have saved enough money to go ashore and become the shipowner himself, or his son could inherit his position, and he would not be dressed so well.

Shabby.

After encountering the attack, Nick did not return to the hospital immediately. Instead, he searched for people in the casino where sailors gathered. He soon found Captain Yao who was playing Pai Gow. He could speak English mixed with Indian. It was said that he was in Singapore.

I learned it, and the first thing I learned was swearing.

He must have lost a lot of money, cursed his bad luck, and later left the card table to play cockfighting instead.

Two roosters will be placed in a fence. When they see each other, they will have a strong desire to fight. As soon as the owner lets go, they will flap their wings and grab each other with their claws, and peck each other with their sharp beaks. The attack speed is dazzling until the fighting cock is defeated.

Finally, the gladiatorial battle ends when you jump up or die.

Captain Yao kept shouting and cheering for the chicken he was betting on, even though he knew it couldn't understand. The chicken brought him good luck and he won a lot of money, or in other words, his losses were not so miserable.

Unlike other gamblers who lost all their money, he quit when he was good. After he won, he did not continue gambling and left the casino.

Nick followed him and left. Captain Yao lived on the boat, so he could look at the cargo and save travel expenses. When he came to a place with dark lights and no one around, Nick took out his Spanish folding knife and walked away quickly.

In the past, when he was about three or four steps away from Captain Yao, he became alert and subconsciously looked back. As soon as he showed a surprised expression, Nick rushed over and forced him into a corner.

"Spare your life!" Captain Yao said quickly.

"Why did you regret it?" Nick said in English.

"I was warned not to bring foreigners on board." Captain Yao replied immediately.

"Who asked you to do this?"

"You don't know." Captain Yao said cunningly. This is another characteristic of the Chinese people, just like a shopkeeper charging a very high price for a worthless gong.

"Tell me his name.".

"His surname is Qian, we all call him Boss Qian." Captain Yao said quickly, "He is a money exchange businessman."

Nick thought he was joking. People who do money exchange business are called "money bosses"?

In the eastern provinces, a ping of coins was worth 100 copper coins, and 10 coins was equivalent to a piece of Mexican eagle. However, there were 18 provinces in China at that time, and the number of a ping of coins varied from place to place. For example, there were 83 in Taiyuan and 33 in Zhili.

This sounds like a fantasy, but it is entirely related to the quality of the coins. The imperial court monopolized the right to mint copper coins, and the law protected the circulation of copper coins minted by the court. Even if the copper coins had quality problems such as trachoma and windpipe, and some were thin and small,

Mixed with earth, sand and copper, we must not choose between copper coins of different quality and inferiority cast by the imperial court, but must accept them equally.

Such a chaotic currency value is a paradise for exchangers. Not only is the Chinese money industry promising, but foreigners are also involved. This has led to the popularity of not only silver taels, silver dollars, copper coins, and foreign coins. Compared with the European gold and silver standard, the Manchu and Qing Dynasties should be regarded as

To have no standard.

Under this currency system, it is difficult to find an equal and reciprocal trade with China. The Guangzhou Thirteenth Bank itself is also a monopoly on foreign trade. He Zhongtang also knows that doing business with foreigners can make money, but does not allow it.

It is run by people outside the thirteen industries.

The Thirteen Banks were not just thirteen commercial banks. In fact, there was no definite number. Emperor Qianlong had to let He Shen deal with the big corruption case, create a crime-discussing bank system to solve financial problems, put down the peasant uprising, and solve the financial crisis.

Heshen manages Guangzhou's Thirteenth Bank and foreign trade. Heshen has made huge profits through the Thirteenth Bank. At the same time, in order to obtain the quota to become the "Thirteenth Bank", not only businessmen but also officials are also trying to please Heshen. After all, he is related to foreign trade.

It is much less than the salary of officials.

Nick finally took out a knife and threatened Captain Yao. Captain Yao, like the suspects in the soul-calling case, overturned his previous confession and said that it was the smugglers who threatened him.

Anti-smuggling is the main business of the Guangzhou Navy...

"What is crime silver?" Leon suddenly asked.

"You'd better not ask." Georgiana said coldly, "If it was a good idea, He Shen wouldn't have been killed."

He thought for a moment, then pretended to listen, and Georgiana continued to read.

Is it natural that 300 million intelligent people have been isolated from the outside world by seclusion?

Nowadays, almost all insurance companies have been established in Europe. This form can be promoted to a wider range. The flow of trade and industrial products should not be stopped because of harassment by pirates.

Complying with such a ridiculous edict will not benefit anyone. It has long become a dead letter, but the emperor is clinging to it...

"Read it," said Bonaparte.

Georgiana skipped the parts where Nick expressed his political opinions and moved on to the story.

"He let Captain Yao go and then returned to the hospital. The servant told him that officers and soldiers had been here and hoped that he would go to the Admiral's Mansion tomorrow." She said dryly, "While lying on the bed, he remembered that in that room

In the store, he really wanted to buy an agate cup with flowers and fruits carved on it. The whole work was extremely perfect and gave people a sense of novelty. If he hadn't repeatedly suppressed his desire to buy, he would have spent three hundred dollars.

He bought this work with silver dollars, but if he could only choose those cheap things, he would not buy it, because compared with good things, unremarkable things have no appeal. If there were no transportation difficulties, he might

Buy a large porcelain vase with paintings of either the pain of life or the torments of hell, or a bronze elephant with platinum trim."

"In fact, he wanted a lot of things, but he didn't buy them because he had no money." Bonaparte said, "So when the British asked him to draw a coastal map, he hesitated."

Georgiana looked at the pattern depicted on the print. A bird stood on a branch with its wings spread out. The bird's body was inlaid with colorful gems, as if it was imitating a phoenix.

She compared Albus's pet phoenix Fawkes with it and felt that the living phoenix was more beautiful.

"People can be happy no matter what circumstances they are in, but enduring pain requires more courage than death."

"Do you think it's painful to suppress your desires?" Georgiana asked.

He turned his head and looked at her intently.

"I don't know which is more painful, the trouble you brought to me or losing you." He said softly. "That day at the canal, I tried to restrain myself with reason, but I am still a human being.

If you are restrained, you will be more susceptible to the mercy of evil."

She looked down at the book, but couldn't read a word.

"Do you want to hear the violin?" Bonaparte asked. "I want to hear it."

"I'm going to call someone." She put down the book and left the bedroom.

He didn't stop her and let her go. She looked back at him at the door, and he was staring at her back.

She hesitated for a moment, then returned to the bed and picked up "The Travels of Nick Polo".

"Why didn't you close the door?" he asked with a smile.

"Read seriously!" she said sternly, and then continued reading seriously.
Chapter completed!