Chapter 83 The fool has sent money (please order first)

On the other side, Alfred hurriedly came to the door of Alphonse's room and knocked on the door: "Master, Master..."

"Um...what's the matter?" Alphonse had slept for less than three hours at this time, and was still dazed when he was woken up by Alfred.

"Sir, the Oton family sent someone to report that Miss Charles has returned to Calais ahead of schedule and will be docking soon!" Alfred quickly replied.

"..." Alphonse didn't react at first. After two or three minutes, he suddenly opened his eyes: "An is back?"

"Yes, sir." Alfred, who was guarding the door, quickly replied.

"Prepare the carriage immediately, I'll pick her up." Alphonse suddenly sat up from the bed and said. He thought Ann would not come back for a few days, but he didn't expect Ann to come back suddenly today. It seems that he planned to give himself a birthday.

Surprise?

The carriage rushed all the way to the pier. At a glance, Ange, wearing a blue and green tutu skirt, stood out at the edge of the bustling pier: her delicate face was turned sideways to herself, and her eyes were looking at Calais.

Her expression has changed, and her expression is still a bit confused. She is probably still wondering what she has missed?

Not far away from her was Sova II, who had been working as a supervisor at the dock recently. After seeing Alphonse appear, Sowa II even waved to him!

"Shh!" Alphonse gestured to Sova II, cautiously approached An from behind, and suddenly covered her eyes: "Guess who I am?"

"..." An was startled when her eyes were suddenly covered, but then she heard Alphonse's voice, which made her angry and funny. She hummed and replied: "You're not San

A year old child."

"Hehe..." Alphonse let go of the hand covering her eyes, then hugged her gently and said, "Are you planning to surprise me?"

"You're not planning to celebrate your birthday, so how can there be any surprises?" An deliberately replied. Sova II had just told Ann that Alphonse didn't plan to celebrate his birthday.

"You haven't seen how busy everyone is now. Come on, let's go home." Alphonse let An go and smiled. An turned around, looked at Alphonse, and walked towards the carriage with his hands behind his back.

Walking away, Alphonse had to shake his head and smile bitterly, lift up the suitcase for An, waved to Sova II, and then followed her towards the direction of the carriage.

"Not bad. I heard in Amsterdam that you made a fortune. You buy wheat by the boat, and you also sell specialty mirrors. A set of them costs 1,000 livres." When they came to the carriage, An teased.

Come on Alphonse.

"Selling 10,000 livres has nothing to do with me. I transferred the mirror-making workshop to the Merchant Alliance." Alphonse smiled and helped An onto the carriageway.

"I heard this from Suo Wa, why did you do this?" An asked strangely.

"In the far east, there is a story called "The Story of Standing Wood." Alphonse smiled and said, "The story is like this. A new prime minister has taken office. He wants to introduce new policies, but he is worried that others will suspect that he is not good at speaking.

To be honest, no one will accept the decree;

So he had someone set up a log at the city gate, and said that whoever could move it from the east gate to the west gate would be rewarded with a pound of gold."

"Then what?" An asked curiously.

"No one believed it at first. The prime minister was waiting there until noon before a young man came forward and said he would give it a try;

As expected, he moved the wood from the east to the west, and in front of everyone, the prime minister gave the young man a pound of gold." Alphonse laughed: "From the next day, all the decrees issued by the prime minister

, everyone will try it first, instead of just watching the joke like before."

"Because others know that he is serious and there are obvious benefits?" An nodded.

"Yes, so when I launched the business alliance, people didn't necessarily think I was right. It was just because I had money and made investments.

But if I immediately put the mirror-making workshop into the business alliance, everyone will find that they can make money just by joining the business alliance, and they can share the money without doing anything." Alphonse said with a smile:

"So as soon as I launched the specialty copperware, everyone rushed to open a copperware workshop, and the exchange immediately opened; when these people all made money, I would say nothing, even if they didn't see anything.

, I will do it right away."

"Even if I am sold by you, right?" An teased him.

"What you said is clearly slandering my character. You have to apologize and compensate me for my losses." Alphonse said seriously: "At least let me kiss you first..."

"No..." An giggled and pushed away Alphonse who came to kiss her...

And at this moment, Louis Gold, who brought a total of 300,000 livres, and Rière of livres, finally arrived in Calais, ending his frightening journey; you know, the security situation these days is really not good!

After driving the carriage to the gate of Alphonse's house, Rie jumped out of the carriage and hurriedly asked old Anda who was guarding the door: "Open the door quickly! Is Mr. Alphonse at home? Go and tell him, Virgeri

Jazz is coming."

"Wait a moment, the master has gone out." Old Anda was startled by his appearance and quickly opened the door to let his carriage in.

"Go and ask him to come over quickly. By the way, ask him to call the banker over. Quickly, drive the car to the backyard. Where is Mr. Alfred?" Rieux replied irritably. Just because of the money for this carriage, he

But I didn’t dare to close my eyes all night!

Early yesterday morning, Colbert suddenly called him over, personally brought him to the carriage, and told him to take the 300,000 livres to Calais immediately to implement the investment; the unprepared Rieux even

Without saying a word to my family, I just hurried to Calais with the carriage.

Along the way, he was still afraid of encountering any accidents, so he only dared to walk along the main road. When he went to the inn to change horses, he did not dare to leave the carriage. When he arrived in Amiens city to rest yesterday evening, he also stayed with the carriage all night.

I didn't sleep... Before dawn, I hurried to Calais again, and then hurriedly and slowly delivered the money to Alphonse's mansion.

"Hello, Sir Wiggery, please come and sit inside. The master has just gone out and will be back soon." Alfred also hurried over.

"Find a few people to unload the car. Be careful, these are valuable items!" Rie thought for a while and then said: "Hurry up and close the door so that no one can see it."

"This...is." Alfred had to wave his hand to Old Anda, asking him to close the door first, and then asked several servants to unload the boxes from the carriage together with the two men brought by Rie.

"When will Alphonse arrive?" Just as the servant was moving the box into the hall, Rieux said again: "It's better to have someone call him over. By the way, we also have to call someone from the bank.

."

"Okay, I'll make arrangements right away." In fact, when he saw these boxes, Alfred guessed that these were most likely investment funds from the Louvre, but he didn't expect that the Louvre would

How could he be lured to Calais with real money?

"Well, do you have anything to drink? I've been exhausted these past two days." Rie said again.

"Yes, please come inside. What would you like to drink? Will I prepare some snacks for you?" Alfred replied.

"Red wine will do, just have some snacks. It needs to be quick." Rieux waved his hand and replied, walking towards the sofa in the living room. He happened to see a half bottle of brandy and a wine glass on the table, and he immediately poured half a bottle for himself.

cup, and grabbed a handful of raisins from the fruit plate on the table, put it into his mouth and started chewing.

Alfred quickly asked a servant to go to the bank to find someone. He went to the kitchen and picked out some cakes, small desserts, and preserved fruits for lunch. As soon as he put them down, there was another sound outside.

The sound of horse hooves.

"Look who's here?" Lie put down the cup in his hand and withdrew his hand from the snack plate, a little worried about some uninvited guest.

"Sir, Miss An..." At this time, a servant was already greeting Alphonse and the others outside. Alfred turned to look at Rie, only to see that he had already stood up and patted the raisins that fell on his body.

Putting on a smile and walking towards the door: "Alphonse, I've been waiting for you for a long time!"

"Haha! What a double happiness! Sir Wiggery, I have kept you waiting for so long." Alphonse laughed quickly and came up to shake hands with him and introduced him: "This is my girlfriend, Ann?

Charles, Ann, this is Sir Wiggery."

"Hello, Sir Wiggery." An greeted Riey with a smile.

"Hello, Miss An is very beautiful!" Rieux also returned the gift, but he felt a little guilty. He had bumped into An at the Calais House Hotel before!

"Please sit down, please sit down, is this all?" Alphonse smiled and asked Rie to sit down. He personally picked up the half bottle of brandy and added half a glass of wine to Rie's already drunk glass.

"It's the investment money." Rieux lowered his voice and replied: "Should we send it to the bank or not?"

"It doesn't matter, it's lunch time soon. Let the people from the bank handle it. We'll go inside to eat and wait until they finish counting." Alphonse replied with a smile.

"This... that's okay, but how about counting while eating? I have to say this first, I was forced to come here by the earl. I really haven't counted how much money is here."

Ai replied with a bitter face, if it was less than one or two thousand, that would be fine. If it was less than one hundred and eighty thousand, Alphonse would definitely not suffer such a huge loss!

"Haha... Of course I can trust you. As for the Earl... I think he can only act according to the rules at best? I heard that in London, the official fee is 3 pence (1/80) per pound. In Paris,

What are the rules?" Alphonse asked with a smile. In fact, when he heard that there was such a thing as "official money" at first, he was really confused; later he heard that it was like this all over Europe, so he slowed down.
Chapter completed!