Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 113 Please let us go
All the merchants of the Qing Dynasty were surprised when they heard their own language.

Old Huang heard that the man's accent was from Yangzhou area, so he smiled and clasped his fists and bowed and asked, "May I ask where you are from?"

Lu Shoushan hadn't met people from his hometown for many years, and when he heard that the other party had a Yangzhou accent, he was very excited, so he bowed his hands and said back: "I used to be from Taizhou. But because of some lawsuits, I followed my master to Beihai, and now I am from Beihai."

After speaking, he straightened up and waved his hand, motioning for everyone to sit under the shed.

The merchants, full of doubts, went to the shed, and seeing Zhao and Liu standing up, they were amazed at the tallness of each other, and quickly asked Lu Shoushan, "May I ask who these two are?"

"This is my master, Mr. Zhao, and this is his deputy, Mr. Liu."

When everyone heard that these two were the chief and deputy leaders of the Thunder God ship, they hurriedly bowed and clasped their fists in salute, and reported their hometown and name.

"I am Huang Maocai, a businessman from Yangzhou. I have met the two leaders."

"Shen Jingdan, a businessman from Suzhou..."

"Cheng Tingmei, a businessman from Nanjing..."

Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng also bowed their hands to these businessmen with a smile, and when the last young businessman handed over his hand to sign up, Zhao Xin was taken aback.

"Why does this man sound like a woman." He looked up at the Nanjing businessman in front of him who called himself "Cheng Tingmei", and saw that this man had a dark complexion, a high nose bridge, and a disgusting mustache on the corner of his mouth.

"Huh~~! It's disgusting!" Zhao Xin scolded himself in his heart, insisting on looking carefully at the other party.

Wait a minute, these eyes are quite pretty, but it's a waste to have them on this person's face.God has no eyes.

"Everyone, please sit down. My surname is Zhao, and I have a new name. Today is the first time I meet you all. I hope you will forgive me for being rude."

"Liu Sheng. Hello everyone."

As soon as Zhao Xin said this, a group of businessmen from the Qing Dynasty were stunned, and the deck became quiet for a while, and a needle could be heard.

Lao Huang looked at Zhao Xin, opened and closed his mouth, went back and forth several times, and finally couldn't help asking: "Big, big, my lord, do you dare to ask, are you a bannerman?"

He took care of his family's semicolon in the capital a few years ago, and he is too familiar with Beijing dialect.

Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng looked at each other, and laughed loudly: "This Mr. Huang, you see, we don't even have braids, how can we say that we are bannermen?"

Lao Huang was the fattest among the merchants, so when Zhao Xin heard his registration number, he immediately remembered him.

After hearing this, everyone was relieved when they saw Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng's monk-like short hair.

That's right, if you don't become a good banner man, how can you cut your braids and go to sea?

Shen Jingdan got up at this time and asked, "I don't know where the two chiefs come from, why did you ask to see me by name?"

Zhao Xin waved Shen Jingdan to sit down, and then asked, "Are you Boss Shen? Come on, sit down, you're welcome. Let me make it clear that there are no bannermen on this boat. Please rest assured. I and this Liu Brothers and ancestors are all Tang people, but they are not subjects of your Qing Dynasty, they came from the mainland in the north."

"Yes. Our place is called Beihai." Liu Sheng added.

"As for why you are invited here, I still want to chat with you and see if there is any chance to make a fortune together. We have a lot of leather goods in Beihai. I wonder if you are willing to cooperate?"

"Excuse me, how far is it from Beihai to this place?" A businessman asked, clasping his hands.

Zhao Xin thought for a while and then replied: "This place is more than three thousand miles north."

"May I ask what kind of goods are produced in your place?"

Liu Sheng replied confidently: "Otter skins, deer skins, bear skins, and fox skins of various colors. There are also sugar, salt, silks of various colors, glass, and porcelain."

"You still have white sugar there?!"

"Cut! Don't be afraid that the wind will flash your tongue. Who in the four seas does not know that the most exquisite silk comes from Suzhou and Hangzhou. The silk in your place is probably smuggled from Hangzhou?"

"That's right. Our country's porcelain is exquisite, and it's all ingenious. As the saying goes, 'the color of sight is like emerald glass, and the sound of knocking is like jade.' How can it be compared with other places?"

"This Chief Zhao is Wang Tongfeng, a businessman from Hangzhou. I don't know what to say."

"Boss Wang, you're welcome, please speak up."

"That's good. All of you here are businessmen, and they came all the way across the sea for a profit. Chief Zhao, you can think of taking care of us, I am very grateful. But, but you shouldn't come! You guys yesterday Forcibly entering the port, disobeying the orders of the port officials to stop at will, has violated the king's law here. If the shogunate navy officers and soldiers initiate forced boarding, then life will be in danger!"

"Yes. Leader Zhao, we are all honest and responsible businessmen. Since we have received the letter from the local government, we should follow the laws of the king here. If we cooperate with you to do business, how can we come to Nagasaki for business in the future? You are setting us on fire."

"Yes, yes. We are all honest businessmen, please let me go, you two."

"You guys!" Liu Sheng slapped the table and stood up, glaring at the businessmen.

Tang Rentong, who was in charge of monitoring and recording, and several officials of the enforcement office, saw that Zhao Xin and Zhao Xin hadn't said a few words, and all the businessmen of the Qing Dynasty accused them one after another, so they wrote the records with pride on their faces .

Looking at the group of people in front of him, Zhao Xin couldn't help but gradually narrowed his eyes, scanning them coldly.

Seeing the appearance of this big leader, all the merchants gradually lowered their voices, and finally fell silent.

Zhao Xin said slowly: "Since everyone is worried about your great fortune, I can't force it. But as the saying goes, after passing this village, there will be no such shop. If you miss this opportunity, I will take the initiative to look for it next time. My, don't blame us for not warning you beforehand."

"Boss Zhao, it's convenient for you, let me wait to go back. My cargo is waiting to be delivered. If this offends the local government, my whole family will drink the northwest wind."

"Yeah yeah."

Zhao Xin didn't intend to talk nonsense with these people anymore, he and Liu Sheng exchanged glances, got up and left the table together.

"Lu Shoushan, send them away."

When the merchants heard this, they all wanted to leave quickly.If this is caught by the officials of the enforcement office, even the letter card will be confiscated if it is not guaranteed.

When Zhao Xin and the businessmen were making opening remarks, Shen Xuan kept staring at Lu Shoushan fiercely. Lu Shoushan thought that there was something growing on his face, so he touched it a few times unconsciously.

When everyone complained to Zhao Xin, Shen Xuan seemed to have confirmed something, she turned her head and whispered to Shen Jingdan beside her for a while.After hearing this, Shen Jingdan opened his eyes wide and looked at Shen Xuan. After seeing her nod heavily to him, he fell into thought again.

At this time, Zhao Xin issued the order to evict the guests, and the merchants of the Qing Dynasty got up one after another, bowed their hands casually to Zhao and Liu as a farewell, and followed Lu Shoushan to the gangway.

Shen Jingdan was still sitting on the chair, stroking his forehead in thought.At this moment, Lao Huang behind him shouted: "Boss Shen, can you go?"

"Huh? Let's go."

Shen Jingdan, who was distracted by Lao Huang's thoughts, agreed casually, and was about to get up and take his daughter off the boat, when he turned around and saw Shen Xuan looking at him with red eyes, big teardrops swirled in her eye sockets, and they were about to fall.

He thought of his daughter's depression in the past three months; thought of how he abandoned his family and took his daughter to drift in a foreign land in order to avoid the harassment of the Wang family; thought of Shen Xuan's father's life-saving grace to him back then...

"Leader Zhao, please stay!" Shen Jingdan ignored the eyes of the officials from the island country behind him, got up and walked towards Zhao Xin, and shouted in his mouth.

"Oh?" Zhao Xin turned around and saw that it was Boss Shen from Suzhou, followed by that ugly young businessman, and then asked calmly, "Is Boss Shen still doing anything?"

Shen Jingdan cupped his hands and saluted, "I have something to say to you, my boss."

"Huh?" Zhao Xin was taken aback. "You know each other?"

"Oh. It's Boss Cheng next to me who wants to ask him some old things."

"Old things?" Zhao Xin rolled his eyes, recalled the past of Lu Shoushan, and then shouted to Lu Shoushan: "Shoushan, come here."

"Master, do you have an order?" Lu Shoushan trotted a few steps, came over and asked with a bow.

"Boss Shen has something to ask you."

"Boss Shen, what do you want to ask me?"

Shen Jingdan turned around and glanced at the officials of the island country not far away, and said to Zhao Xin in a low voice: "Chief Zhao, there are so many people here, I wonder if we can find a secluded place on the boat?"

To understanding.Zhao Xin snapped his fingers. "Shoushan, take these two to the conference room on the second floor. I'll go find you later."

After hearing this, Lu Shoushan made a gesture of invitation to Shen Jingdan and Boss Cheng, and led them into the poop.

The merchants of the Qing Dynasty who were about to disembark saw Shen Jingdan and a young man whispering to Zhao Xin for a while, and then followed the servant into the boat building, and shouted: "Boss Shen! You can't help it! To go is to have an affair with a foreign barbarian."

When they saw the figures of Shen Jingdan disappearing gradually, everyone stomped their feet and sighed, but there was nothing they could do.

"Stop! What are you doing?" Zhao Xin immediately scolded the two island country officials who were about to follow them into the ship building.

The two officials just saw that Zhao Xin was refuted by the merchants of the Qing Dynasty, just when they were proud, they sneered: "All Tang people who go out to the Tang Dynasty's residence will be placed under the supervision of the shogunate. Please step aside!"

"What are they going to do?" Liu Sheng was getting annoyed after being taught a hard lesson by those people.After listening to Zhao Xin's explanation, his heart was burning with anger, and he raised his hand and gave the official a big ear!
"Fuck off!"

The island official didn't expect that these people would dare to attack suddenly. Unprepared, Liu Sheng slapped him hard and kicked him out. He slapped him twice and sat on the deck.

It's over!This guy has lost his temper again.Zhao Xin covered his forehead with a helpless expression.

"Bastard! You are courting death!" Seeing his companion being humiliated, another official drew out his knife angrily, and was about to slash at Liu Sheng.

"Bang!" Ding Guofeng on the compass deck fired.

The official only felt that the samurai sword in his hand was hit hard with a giant hammer, and before he could let go, he was knocked to the ground by the huge impact force.When he struggled in a daze to stand up and look at the knife in his hand, he realized that there was only a short piece of the samurai sword left, and the other half flew away.

The official's face immediately turned pale.The opponent has iron cannons, and the accuracy is excellent!

"If you dare to use the knife again, you will die immediately without a place to bury you! Huji, watch them and don't allow them to wander around on the boat." Zhao Xin looked at the two island officials at his feet with contempt, and said word by word.

(End of this chapter)