Fatty Tian was about to slap Chen Qiang, but suddenly stopped.
"What did you say? You can speak foreign language?" Fatty Tian asked incredible.
Chen Qiang nodded: "I can say a few words."
Fatty Tian laughed furiously. He stared at Chen Qiang with a disdainful look and said, "Do you want to pull a car and think crazy? You are a slut, you still talk about foreign literature? Get out of here quickly and don't cause trouble!"
"I really know how to speak foreign languages." Chen Qiang said calmly: "I have also been to school and studied in school. If it weren't for the military disaster at home, I wouldn't have come to pull a rickshaw."
"Are you a student before?" Fatty Tian began to look at Chen Qiang seriously.
In this era of chaos, I don’t know how many families will be destroyed every day, and the children of rich families will become street beggars overnight. This is nothing new.
Next to him, the man in suit was anxious to leave. He had been impatient for a long time. He only heard him say, "Fatty Tian, ​​now you have a coachman who can speak foreign languages ​​here. Hurry up and send me a car to pick him up. The boat is almost docked."
"Mr. Chu, this bastard said he knew how to use foreign languages. Who knows if it is true? What if he pretends? If you can't get someone, it will be difficult for you to have a face! Why don't you try him?" Fatty Tian said deliberately.
As soon as the man in the suit thought, Fatty Tian said something reasonable, so he turned to look at Chen Qiang and said, "Say hello in foreign language."
"hello." Chen Qiang said.
"Besides, I'll pick you up." The man in the suit said.
"i come here to welcome you." Chen Qiang said without hesitation.
The man in the suit was slightly stunned. Chen Qiang did not use the word "pick up", but used "welcome", which was obviously more appropriate when welcoming guests. The man in the suit instantly increased his satisfaction with the city wall by several levels.
More importantly, Chen Qiang's answer was not thought at all, and he blurted out like an instinctive way. This is obviously something that only a person who is more proficient in speaking English can do.
"Okay, just you, hurry up and go to the dock to pick up people!" said the man in suit. He is in a hurry to do business for foreigners now, and he is too lazy to care about where a young man who can speak foreign language appears.
Chen Qiang looked at Fatty Tian, ​​which meant that Mr. Chu had named him, so you can do it!
"You bastard really know how to talk about foreign languages?" Fatty Tian looked incredible. He didn't have to compete with a man in suits for a coachman. Besides, it would be good to do business in the concession.
So Fatty Tian said without hesitation: "Boy, as long as you pick up the foreigner and send it to the Lecha Hotel, my car dealer will want you. You will have dinner with me in the future!"
"No problem, don't worry, Manager Tian, ​​I will definitely send someone there." Chen Qiang replied happily.
"Okay, come with me to pick up the car!" Manager Tian took Chen Qiang to the open space behind the car shop without saying a word.
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There are many rickshaws in the open space behind the car shop, and two or three of them are specially placed in the carport.
Fatty Tian found a rickshaw in the carport. It looked like it was 80% new, and the body was cleaned and even the seats on the car were covered with sponge pads. This car is considered a high-end flagship model in the rickshaw.
When I go to recruit foreigners, I naturally can't find a broken car, so Fatty Tian found Chen Qiang's best car in the car dealership.
Fatty Tian was not afraid that Chen Qiang would not return the car after he took it away. Each car had a mark on the car shop, and there was a Qing Gang behind the car shop. This car was equivalent to the property of the Qing Gang, so how dare the coachman not return it!
Chen Qiang pulled the car for more than a mile and had adapted to the feeling of pulling the car, so he accelerated his pace and headed straight to the dock.
When Chen Qiang was in the car, he had already found a piece of paper to write down Ramos' name. After arriving at the dock, he waited directly at the passenger exit of the dock, and then raised the piece of paper with the name Ramos written on it.
Then he easily received Ramos. After confirming his identity, he pulled Ramos straight to the Licha Hotel.
Licha Hotel is the Pujiang Hotel now. It was built by British merchants in 1846 and is the earliest modern hotel in Shanghai. It has the earliest gas kitchen in Shanghai and the earliest elevator in Shanghai. It has the earliest audio movies that have been screened. It is the first place to install elevators in Shanghai and the first place to use tap water in Shanghai.
This is also the preferred place for foreigners to live in Shanghai. It has received many celebrities, such as Chaplin and Einstein, who come to Shanghai, all of whom live in the Licha Hotel.
Chen Qiang sent Ramos to the entrance of Licha Hotel. Ramos directly took out a dollar of banknotes and handed them to Chen Qiang, and said, "What's left is the tip for you!"
Tipping culture is popular in the United States. Even now, you have to tip when taking a taxi. Moreover, tips given by customers on their own initiative are not considered as slaughtering customers.
Chen Qiang immediately thanked and helped Ramos carry his luggage into the hotel.
Walking out of the hotel, Chen Qiang rubbed the dollar in his hand and listened to the long-lost sound of banknotes.
"Dollars, US dollars, good things!" Chen Qiang happily took the US dollars into his arms.
Although silver dollars were the hard currency at that time, the US dollar was more "hard" than silver dollars.
Since World War I, the US dollar has become the world's most important currency. After the Great Depression in the late 1920s, the price of the US dollar against gold has remained at an ounce of gold equal to thirty-five US dollars, with almost no large fluctuations until the establishment of the Bretton Woods monetary system.
The price of silver has been falling. In 1870, the gold-silver ratio was 15.57, in 1875, it became 16.64, in 1880, it was 18.09, in 1890, it was 19.75, in 1900, it was 33.31, in 1910, it was 39.29, and it was about to break through the 1 to 40 mark. Gold can be exchanged for more silver.
One ounce, that is, 31.1035 grams of gold, is equal to thirty-five dollars, so the gold content of one dollar is 0.888 grams. According to the gold-silver price ratio at the end of 1929, this dollar is equivalent to 2.4 silver dollars.
In the concession, a bus that is 400 cents is the first to 50 cents, many rickshaw drivers earn two dollars a day, and one of them has to pay the part. Chen Qiang made two dollars and four dollars in this business, which is equivalent to the wages of the rickshaw drivers a day!
And this is still the US dollar. Next, as the silver price becomes lower and lower and the US dollar becomes stronger and stronger, the US dollar will be exchanged for more silver dollars.
"This coachman really makes money. You can make a dollar by just a trip to the hotel from the dock. This is much more than selling newspapers. I'm really the right thing to be a coachman." Chen Qiang couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
However, after careful consideration, Chen Qiang found that the account was not calculated like this. Every guest he could not meet was so generous that he was willing to spend a dollar to take a bus. Such a guest might not be able to meet in a year or two.
"Ordinary customers are definitely not so generous. They give so much tips to take the bus, but foreigners are different. Foreigners are definitely richer than Chinese, especially those who have just come to Shanghai, who don't know much about the prices in Shanghai. Many foreigners pay for cars at their own prices. As long as I serve more thoughtfully, I will definitely get a tip."
At this time, Chen Qiang suddenly saw a new way of wealth to make money from foreigners!
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Chapter completed!