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With a creaking sound, the door of the study was pushed open. Mrs. Duran walked in from outside like a gust of wind and placed a famous post on Zhu Jishi's desk.

Zhu Jishi looked up at the old lover and housekeeper Mrs. Duran, smiled gently, and said, "Roman, what's the matter?"

"Jason, do you still remember that Ricardo Rodriguez?" Mrs. Duran pointed to the name and said softly, "He has been in great trouble recently. A sailboat full of opium sank in the South China Sea.

, lost a lot of money, and almost went bankrupt. I wanted to cooperate with Jishi Bank to make up for the losses. Now others are waiting in the living room, do you want to meet?"

It deserves it! Zhu Jishi cursed in his heart, but he still remained calm in his face. As his status grew, this skill of not showing his emotions was gradually developed.

"Big business?" Zhu Jishi picked up the famous post and took a look. The post was completely Chinese. The white single fold cover was covered with ink and written three Chinese characters, Rhodeli! Below is a line of small characters: Rhodeli, the foreign company, Rhodeli, came to Rhodeli.

It seems that Rodriguez has been dealing with Chinese businessmen a lot during this period. I don’t know if there is any big business this time that I want to cooperate with him?

Zhu Jishi played with the post for a while and smiled and said, "Please come up, I'll see him here."

After saying that, he looked down and looked up a stack of manuscripts. This was a textbook for the Department of Medicine of Jishi University. After Zhu Jishi arrived in Hong Kong, he not only went to the Governor's Office to show off his face, but mainly focused on running schools. Jishi Academy has now

School starts, and four courses including English, mathematics, Gezhi, and physical education are first. Confucianism has not been opened yet because we cannot find a suitable Confucian scholar to teach. As for the military academy in Ap Lei Chau, it is still under construction.

The students are temporarily attending classes with ordinary college students. Jishi University has not officially started yet, but there are also many students, some of whom are students who follow from Europe who hope to study medicine, and some are graduates of Yinghua Academy, with a total of only a hundred people.

But it's better than nothing. Jishi University is preparing to open four departments, including medicine, chemistry, law, and military. Each department has a small class, and it is really bragging about being called the "college". However, the level of Jishi University's medical department and chemistry department is certainly certain

It's world-class.

In addition, Zhu Jishi also planned to run a Chinese newspaper to promote his thoughts. The name was already named "Ta Kung Pao". He also wrote an editorial for the upcoming issue of "Ta Kung Pao", titled:

Middle school is the basis, Western learning is the application. The draft of this article is also in this stack of manuscripts.

"Ricardo, please come in." Mrs. Duran once again pushed open the door of the study and politely invited a foreigner in a long robe and jacket. It was in the place where he had met Zhu Jishi several times.

Cardo Rodriguez, now has a very Chinese name called Rodriguez.

Zhu Jishi put down the manuscript and raised his hand slightly to signal Rhodeli to sit down by himself.

Rodri was not polite either. He bowed to Zhu Jishi according to the Chinese etiquette and sat upright beside him.

"Do I call you Mr. Luo or Ricardo?" Zhu Jishi asked with a smile.

Rodri laughed and said in a stiff Cantonese dialect: "If you follow the local customs, the Lord should call me the word "I'm going to the local customs."

"Character?"

"I'm the following word "Hai'an", which means "Sea Road" is peaceful, but unfortunately I've overturned the boat."

Speaking of this, Rodley's face turned dim and showed a heartache. For those who do maritime trade, shipwrecks are common. But the Oceanic Company, such as the Jishi Company, has 8 armed merchant ships, and Jardines Company has 19

The armed merchant ship has the ability to bear the risk of sinking one or two sea ships. However, Rhodeli has only two ships in total. One is sinking and half of its possessions are lost! And dozens of sailors are missing, so it is estimated that they will not survive.

The big ones would have to pay at least 10,000 or 20,000 pounds in compensation, and the losses were huge. The opium loaded on another merchant ship did not make Rhodes-People make a profit as expected, because the opium that arrived in Hong Kong was extremely high.

There are many, so the price of opium in Hong Kong has fallen.

So the Rhodeli Company is in trouble at the moment, but at this moment, Rhodeli received a special deal from Jardine Mathematics Company - 20,000 smoothbore guns!

It is the loss-making business that Daobai Siwen of the Qing Dynasty used to buy guns for Emperor Daoguang. For this reason, Wu Shaorong has contacted Jardine Merchants, Baoshun Merchants, Qichang Merchants, Renji Merchants, and Huaji

The five major overseas companies, including foreign companies. The quotes of these five major overseas companies are the same. A brown bass smoothbore gun costs 12 pounds, and delivery in Hong Kong. A 20,000 smoothbore gun costs 240,000 pounds, equivalent to nearly 720,000 taels of silver!

In other words, Jardines Bank had to pay at least 300,000 taels of this deal. Wu Shaorong was naturally reluctant to leave, so he inquired about some small and medium-sized foreign banks. As a result, Rhodeli won the bid with a minimum offer of 9 pounds a brown bass. Today Rhodeli came to his door

Visiting is for this deal.

"Brother Hai'an...you want to cooperate with me to sell brown bass rifles to Manqing! Do you know who I am?"

Rhodeli stroked his beard and nodded with a smile, "I know, you are the descendant of the Ming Dynasty in China. Now Guangzhou has spread all over. It is said that you should use the support of the British to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty! There are rumors.

So now the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi of the Qing Dynasty, the General of Guangzhou, and the Governor of Guangdong have jointly submitted a letter to the court, requesting to train the Eight Banners New Army in Guangzhou! It is estimated that in the near future, Fujian, Zhejiang and Liangjiang will also train the Eight Banners New Army.

These 20,000 brown bass are likely to be the beginning of a series of arms transactions, and there will be more orders in the future. The reason why I am willing to trade with Jardinet at a lower price is that I am interested in the big orders in the future. But my

Rhodeli Foreign Company has no choice but to purchase smoothbore guns, so why not supply it to Rhodeli Foreign Company at £8.50?”

What does this guy mean? Zhu Jishi's eyes became cold. Rodri glanced at Sir Zhu, leaned forward slightly, and whispered: "Sir, you have conflicts with the Qing Dynasty. You will not wait to earn the money from the Qing Dynasty."

, right? You have eight large sailboats that can run far away, but you are unwilling to do opium business... It is a waste to leave them idle! And the Grand Duchy of Lanfang you control is a vassal state of the United Kingdom. It is to buy foreign guns from the Kolkata Arsenal.

For legitimate things, you can even open a factory and build a gun and sell it to the Qing government. Of course, the sign of Jishi Bank is not very convenient to play, so it is better to be represented by Rhodeli Foreign Company."

"Ricardo! You mean to sell me guns to the Qing Dynasty so that they can use these brown basses to hit me in the future!"

Zhu Jishi suppressed his anger and did not chase anyone. However, Rodri looked at Zhu Jishi with a surprised expression and said, "Jason, you have fought a war, and there are many experienced officers around you. Do you think

With tens of thousands of old brown besses, the Qing Dynasty's broken army can become powerful? In the new battle, your enemies also have smoothbore guns, and the number is several times greater than that of your Jishi Army. Will you still be wiped out?"

This seems to be good! Zhu Jishi was a little moved. His eight large sailboats were indeed quite idle, and he would definitely have to expand his fleet in the future. This Ming navy could only be used through the merchant fleet for a long time.

Slowly cultivate, so the number of Western soft sailing ships under the Nanyang Company will definitely increase gradually, and these ships should be able to exert sufficient benefits.

It was still a bit inappropriate to sell guns to the Qing Dynasty.

"Jason, I still have a business to work with you, but you have to make sure that you can't deceive my feelings like the last time coca leaves."

Uh, deceiving feelings? Why does this foreigner's Chinese sound so awkward?

"What business?"

Rhodeli smiled and took out a cone from his pocket, and there was a small wooden lead block at the bottom placed in front of Zhu Jishi.

"What is this?" Zhu Jishi picked up the lead block and looked at it again and again, and finally asked.
Chapter completed!