Chapter 384 Home in Cairo
"You guys are waiting here!"
General Baibls Bendugadali gave a message to his subordinates, and then threw the black cloak used to hide his body to his subordinates. To meet Zhao Fubo without his men was just an attitude of expressing trust to the other party.
The place where Zhao Fubo lives is a three-story mansion in Cairo City. There is also a large open space nearby, and the mansion itself has a considerable garden. This is not only Zhao Fubo's residence, but also Carlos' residence.
What is even strange is that Zhao Fubo bought it for money. The Carlos and his daughter moved in together because they were not used to living in the accommodation provided by the palace of Saleh Naidimdin and were unable to eat their food.
In the end, Carlos made a real fortune. What he saw from this incident was not Zhao Fubo's intelligence, but Gong Zi's wisdom.
"If you have money, everyone should spend it, but you should spend it in useful places!"
As a mature and tricky woman, all of this is really within Gong Zi's calculations. Her charming eyes that were not just used to seduce men, she had long seen Governor Cote's plan and understood Sophia's thoughts.
Although Zhao Fubo did not have so many ideas about Sophia from a certain perspective, Gong Zi was trying to build a development environment for Zhao Fubo's development. After all, compared with Huangsha City, the Cote Province is much bigger. If Zhao Fubo had the power of the Cote Province, then a small Huangsha City would be nothing more than a treasure.
In addition, for other reasons, this huge mansion was created. The hall on the first floor was where soldiers had dinner. Not only were there Spanish knights under Carlos, but also guards under Zhao Fubo.
At this moment, they were eating the food piled up on the plates brought by the maids. Of course, we know what Carlos' hidden belief is, but what is unbelievable is that his knights have almost the same belief. Although in the Arab kingdom, when they carry out this belief, they often carry out in an extremely hidden state.
Fernando ate the plate, combined with vegetable salad, Arabian barbecue and local pancakes. Drinking the wine in European cups, it seems that Zhao Fubo and his subordinates' lives are much more beautiful, whether compared to Arabs or Europeans.
Just like the cup, most of the Middle East and Europe use cups made of metal or even wood and other unsanitary materials. But under Zhao Fubo's hands, white porcelain plates are equally popular with ordinary glass plates. Especially those plates with fairy women's porcelain plates are even more popular.
Usually, when eating, the cavalrymen would be in front of a table covered with tables, with all the people under Zhao Fubo. Because of Carlos' arrangement, there were many guards in this house. The place where they ate was a long wooden table in the hall outside. At the same time, according to the arrangement of Carlos, their food was relatively poor.
As for the people on the table, they are often invited to the lobby on the second floor for dinner, where Carlos and Zhao Fubo and others eat. Also for Carlos's request, the tableware used for dinner is Western-style tableware made of silver or oriental chopsticks made of silver. They are made of crystal products such as painted porcelain dining plates and crystal glasses.
Obviously, compared with the knights downstairs and the main combat cavalry, the food there is more exquisite and sufficient, and the atmosphere of eating is better. The difference from the two halls on the first floor is that the candles mixed with fragrance are used here.
The faint fragrance of flowers flows in the room, and the wind chimes that will hang before will make a crisp and loss-taking sound in the night wind like music. Here, Carlos can pray formally before the meal with his daughter Sophia.
In order to avoid everyone's trouble, Zhao Fubo and others did not pray at all, nor did they know who to pray to, and would also beg for any gods to bless people. They would wait for Carlos, Sophia and the Catholic cavalry in their family to pray and appear again.
When sitting on the table, he was the young Captain Sean who had long abandoned his faith. As well as the young Fernando who was invited today, the rest were like Martin and Juliana and Gong Zi. Of course, Juliana was a sentence in prayer. It was precisely because of her faith that Zhao Fubo hated Catholicism in his heart. It was not necessary to say what the reason was.
"I think we all have a drink for future prosperity and development!"
The reason why Carlos had to live here is probably because he had to live here. What Yao Zhilin disliked the most was that he relied on his status as governor and did things that seemed to be the parents of this family. Zhao Fubo sat on the other end of the table, beside him was Gong Zi and Juliana.
There were exquisite food on the table. It was not until this time that Yao Zhilin distributed dishes to everyone according to Martin's requirements. Yao Zhilin, who was originally used to Chinese tradition, was not used to this task, but Martin was an Westerner on the surface, and as for the inside, he was willing to misunderstand him more. In this world, except for Zhao Fubo, the better Zhao Yinmi was the best for others.
Therefore, as Zhao Fubo's wife, Yao Zhilin naturally had to take on the most important job of assigning main courses to everyone. This is a traditional habit of Europeans, especially this will allow them to eat time and can be used to increase more friendship.
There is no doubt that friendship with the Governor of Cote City is necessary. Even if it is because of Zhao Fubo's choice and cannot annex the province of Cote because of his in-laws, it can become one of the most important support for Zhao Fubo there in the future.
Gong Zi's point of view is correct, but now their homes with Zhao Fubo seem to have become everyone's home. The real masters of these are at the mercy of Martin and Carlos. And the two Westerners always seem to be able to "talk together".
After the main course was allocated, the servants who were now bought in Egypt began to add various other dishes to them according to everyone's needs. These slaves with European descent and almost the same faith as Carlos was the contribution Carlos made to this "home". This is probably because these slaves would not sell the true beliefs of Carlos and his daughter to the authorities of the Saleh Naidimdin dynasty.
When Baibls Bendugadari came, it was exactly this time. He appeared "just" at the dinner time, so he naturally entered the dinner. In contrast, Carlos welcomed him. When they had the opportunity to meet the Sultan Saleh Naidimdin, they would often sing and recommend Zhao Fubo.
Although there is not much progress at the moment, they all hope that Sultan Saleh Naidimdin can face up to Zhao Fubo's power. Giving him what he deserves, a large and small fishing port of Alexandria can be exchanged for the power of a province. Zhao Fubo's help is definitely a worthwhile deal.
After coming here, General Baibls Bendugadari never appeared here in order to avoid suspicion. Today, when he tasted exquisite food and tempting wine again, he completely let go of his heart.
He had many things to say to Zhao Fubo and Carlos that he needed their help because he needed more money to expand his army and more money to open up the captain's joints.
"I've been wondering how we can expand our business in Cairo without spending too much. You know, our partnership business is booming at the moment, but the shipping speed of our products is still too slow. I can't understand why Cairo is so rich!"
When General Baibls Bendugadari proposed his opinion, Zhao Fubo and Gong Zi's eyes quietly exchanged. In order to raise this question, Zhao Fubo and the others had a lot of thoughts and even reduced the number of goods shipped.
First, things are precious because they are rare, and secondly, Zhao Fubo and Gong Zi discussed it. Whether it is to defeat the Crusaders or to use Alexandria as a shipping base for dumping goods to the West in the future, a road that can be transported quickly and transported in large quantities is necessary before digging the Suez Canal.
Now that General Baibls Bendugdari, because of the pressure caused by His Highness Azam Tulansha, who would set off from Baghdad at any time, can try to discuss something that will have a great impact on Egypt's war, but will appear in advance because of the competition for interests.
Gong Zi, who received Zhao Fubo's eyes, raised her wine glass and toasted General Baibers Bendugadari. The latter was not used to being so close to such a charming woman. The reason is that ordinary women who could easily sit on the same table with men and eat at the same table in the entire Arab Empire, including European countries, are rare in this whole world.
"General, to be honest, we have been thinking about the question you are talking about for a long time. Although the transportation speed of the big trucks is not slow, we have better and faster transportation methods. Otherwise, those Pate would have been piled up in the shopping mall near Suez City. I think neither you nor us like to see this scene.
However, this method requires many slaves and the support of the court. Although the court here needs to spend a huge amount of money, I dare to guarantee that as long as this happens, not only will our wealth increase rapidly. Even the attack of the Crusaders will become a meaningless action because of the emergence of this path!
Chapter completed!