In the early morning of November 17, Dawn's Flying Fish arrived at Zangjin Bay.
The weather is still not very good, and Zangjin Bay, which used to be bustling with boats, is very empty, except for a few cargo merchant ships that are in a hurry to sail overseas, that is, those fishermen who are driving small fishing boats to venture out to sea for their livelihood.
There are many masts on the wharfs of Zangjin Bay, and countless large, medium and small sea ships are moored on the shore. The pilot who was cursing the weather was full of impatience, but after receiving a reward of a large silver coin from Schwader, with a smile on his face, he graciously guided Chenxi's Flying Fish to the berth.
At this time, an embarrassing thing happened. Judging from the length of the hull, Chen Xi's Flying Fish was a medium-sized sea ship with a length of more than 30 meters, although it was almost half narrower than other medium-sized sea ships. But the problem is that there is a wing plate more than three meters long under the ship, so the berth of a medium-sized sea-going ship with a fixed depth of five or six meters cannot berth. For example, when the tide is low, Chenxi's Flying Fish will be stranded, and the only way is to let it berth at the dock of a large ocean-going ship that is more than ten meters deep.
However, the docks of large ocean-going ships for civilian use are already full of ships, and few ship owners are willing to go to sea in such strong winds and waves. Even if there is room for Chenxi's Flying Fish to squeeze in, it would be dangerous. Two large ocean-going ships of the same size will bump into each other without any problem, but Chenxi's Flying Fish is narrow and squeezed in the middle. No one can guarantee that there will be no accidents.
Lorist was also rubbing his chin and pondering, the deepened wings could keep the boat stable and resistant to wind and waves, so that it could still sail at full sail without capsizing in strong winds and waves. But I forgot the difficulty of parking. Maybe I can cut off the wing board by about two meters, it doesn't need to be so long, this will speed up the speed of the ship instead.
Shiwadra pulled Lorist's clothes, and Lorist came back to his senses: "What's the matter?"
"My lord, look over there." Schwader reminded Lorist.
In the distance is a deep-water pier with several large sea-going ships moored. There are many vacant places, and the most important thing is that the flag flying above is a wheel pattern.
"Let's stop there..." Lorist was overjoyed.
"No, that's the dedicated pier of the Peterson Chamber of Commerce..." the pilot said with a bitter face.
"It's okay, we are friends and partners of the Peterson Chamber of Commerce." Lorist said, "Schward, show him the Chamber of Commerce token that President Peterson gave us."
This token of the Peterson Chamber of Commerce belongs to Fatty Shi. Back then, he introduced the Peterson Chamber of Commerce to Mr. Tim in the Kingdom of Ridley, and cooperated with the Viscount of Taberley and the Peterson Chamber of Commerce to make the Peterson Chamber of Commerce Extend its tentacles into the southwestern region of the Kingdom of Ridleys. For this reason, President Peterson sent this token to Fatty Shi, saying that the Norton family can use this token to seek assistance from the Peterson Chamber of Commerce. payment.
It should be a trivial matter to use this token to find a berth at the dedicated pier of the Peterson Chamber of Commerce. Sure enough, when the pilot saw this token, he kept silent, instead he complained that Lorist should have shown this token to him earlier, so that he could directly send Chenxi's Flying Fish to the dedicated pier of the Petersen Chamber of Commerce , instead of worrying about it for a long time here.
After presenting this token to the person in charge of the private pier of the Petersen Chamber of Commerce, Dawn's Flying Fish got a berth. Lorist gave the pilot another Kingford, which made him so happy that he couldn't help but grin from ear to ear.
Lorist rejected the proposal of the person in charge of the dock and decided to go to the Red Crow Tavern first. In the afternoon, I will visit President Peterson again. At that time, I have to come to the dock again to take the samples of the monster furs carried on the ship to the chamber of commerce to sell them at a suitable price.
There were two special horse-drawn carriages from the Peterson Chamber of Commerce on the pier to pick up and drop off the guests, but this was not enough, and the person in charge of the pier found two more rental horse-drawn carriages. Lorist took Schward, Josk, El and Dolles, and ten guards, unloaded two large boxes full of Kingford from the boat, got into the carriage and rushed to the Red Crow Tavern.
As for Captain Wilson, he took Old Jack, the sailors and five steel crossbow shooters from the Chariot Battalion to live in the Sailors Hotel near the pier, and they also arranged for manpower to be on duty on Dawn's Flying Fish.
The arrival of Lorist and his party brought a big surprise to the owner of the Red Crow Tavern, Gary Lando, and his wife, Louise.
Gary Lando took a spoon of wine and tapped El on the head: "I still learned to run away from home, leaving behind so many brothers and sisters and leaving a letter and ran away. Is this what it looks like to be the boss? You have become more and more capable even after seven years of not bringing a message. Do you know how worried everyone is that you will die in some unknown corner or on the battlefield... "
El ran away with his head in his arms, but Gary Lando was quickly pulled back by the proprietress Louise. I haven't seen her for seven years, and the proprietress Louise has become more and more plump. It was only then that Lorist found out that Sister Louise had given birth to two sons for Gary Lando, and hurriedly congratulated Gary Lando loudly.
The gifts that Lorist brought to Gary Lando and Louise were three furs of the devil wolf, four furs of the devil deer and the gazelle, and a crimson blood fox fur. These are authentic Northland specialties. Especially the blood fox was hunted by El himself, and he said that he would bring the fur to his uncle Gary Lando to make a scarf. Sister Louise liked these gifts very much, and the old man said that they were not rare, but here he was holding on to the blood fox fur.
We haven't seen each other for seven years. The biggest change in the Red Crow Tavern is that the maids have changed. The proprietress Louise said that as an old group of maids three years ago, Molly was the last to leave to marry. The old customer who used to go to the tavern, the miser old hope who opened the shoe store, died. One winter two years ago, he got drunk. In order to save more than a small silver coin in the car fare, he would rather walk all the way back, and ended up falling down halfway. Fell asleep on the snow, only to be discovered the next morning, when old Hope was frozen hard.
There is also the old Mike, the red-nosed vocalist, who got drunk three years ago and fell asleep. When he woke up, he suddenly said that he was homesick. Everyone thought he was joking and drank him two more glasses of wine. But I didn't expect that no one saw him since the next day. I guess he should have gone back to his hometown, but no one knows where his hometown is, and there is no news of him until now.
The most unfortunate thing was the retired postal officer old Thom, who committed suicide by jumping into the sea. Originally, old Tom lived a leisurely life on his pension, very carefree. But his three children did not live up to it. The eldest son started to lose money in business and became malicious. He kidnapped his business partner for a ransom and then tore up the ticket. He was finally caught and sentenced to hang, and his wife and children were punished as slaves.
Old Tom raised the money and just redeemed them, his second son gambled and ran away with a loan shark and lost his fortune, his favorite young daughter was caught having an affair with someone and was caught by her husband on the spot, the angry cuckold wearer I went to a law enforcement officer, asked for a divorce, kicked out the cheating wife from the house, and refused to return even a single copper coin of the nearly thousand gold fortune.
The successive blows made old Tom unable to bear it. One day, he went to the tavern in a well-dressed manner and drank a glass of ale before politely leaving. When he got the news at night, Old Tom jumped into the sea with a big rock tied to him. When the people at the place found out and rushed to pick him up, he had already gone...
There are also the three black bear brothers. Once they took a mission and got lucky, they picked up a large piece of dilapidated scrap iron. Later, according to research, the scrap iron was a fragment of a magic boiler that was a relic of the era of magic civilization. They sold it for more than a thousand gold dollars. , the three brothers went to the countryside and bought a farm, married their wives and stopped working as mercenaries.
While eating the delicious food carefully prepared by Chef Fatty Mai, and listening to Elder Sister Louise babbling about her family's problems, Lorist accompanied him with long sighs, lamenting that people are right and wrong. But at this moment, his body and mind were extremely relaxed, as if he had returned to the leisurely time when he was teaching at Chenxi Academy seven years ago, and he no longer had to worry about the big and small things of the whole family...
Lorist booked eight guest rooms on the third floor of the Red Crow Tavern. After eating a delicious meal, he went upstairs to take a shower, changed his clothes, and then took Schwader and Dolles to visit the Peterson Club. The chief, Josk and four guards were guarding the room to guard the two large boxes containing one hundred thousand gold fords. As for El, he wanted to go back to the previous society to see his brothers and sisters.
I went to the pier first, and unloaded several large bundles of tightly bundled furs from Chenxi's Flying Fish, as well as wrapped jerky meat of monsters, and whale meat packed in several large jars. Then he ordered the rented carriage to go to the Peterson Chamber of Commerce.
As one of the seven giants of the Ford Business Alliance, the head office of the Peterson Chamber of Commerce is located in the inner city of Morente City, covering a huge area, almost occupying a street. Even though we haven't seen each other for seven years, President Peterson is still very face-saving. Having already received the news, he personally stood at the entrance of the hall to welcome Lorist's arrival.
After a long list of polite words, Chairman Peterson invited Lorist to go to the living room to have a talk. After serving tea, Lorist straight to the point explained his purpose of coming. First, he wanted to make a deal with the Chamber of Commerce. His family territory was in In the Northland, there are a lot of warcraft furs that have been hunted. I don't know if they can be sold for a good price. The second is to buy or customize some large ocean-going cargo merchant ships through the shipyards in Moluant City through the Chamber of Commerce. The third is to allow the Chamber of Commerce to purchase large quantities of grain.
The Peterson Chamber of Commerce started out as a dealer of fur goods and a long-distance carriage business. After finding a few experienced masters to appraise the magic cow fur brought by Lorist, they all gave high-quality evaluations. President Peterson was very happy, and asked Lorist how much stock he had covered.
Lorist stretched out five fingers.
President Peterson immediately agreed: "Five thousand tickets, what a joke, we'll cover all of them."
Lorist smiled wryly: "President, if it was five thousand monster furs, I wouldn't bother you. In fact, there are a total of five thousand monster furs, most of which are sealed magic cow hides..."
"Bada..." President Peterson was just about to drink tea, and the silver cup in his hand trembled and fell on the table: "You, what are you talking about, half a million monster furs?"
Lorist nodded and explained: "The family territory is adjacent to the barbarian, and the barbarian monsters will come to the family territory to hunt for food every winter. The family armed forces have been hunting monsters in the past few years, so they have accumulated so many monster furs. It was only this year that I found an outlet to the sea, so I wanted to sell these monster furs in exchange for funds to buy ships and food... "
After saying this, President Peterson was relieved: "Well, if the furs of the magic cows you have accumulated have the quality of these samples brought this time, there are two magic cows on the market that are worth two Gold Ford Twelve Silver Coins each. I bought the cowhide at three Jinford, you can ask, it is impossible for anyone to buy it higher than me. I am mainly interested in the quality and quantity of your magic cowhide, which is very convenient to manufacture leather armor and leather goods of the same style. Of course I also buy the furs of other monsters at a 20% premium over the market price, what do you think?"
"Okay, President, you have the final say, this matter is settled like this." Lorist was also straightforward.
President Peterson laughed out loud, very satisfied with Lorist's straightforwardness: "As for food, don't worry, Locke, we can meet your requirements, and you can buy as much as you want. But this sea-going ship, I can help you ask Ask if there are any large ocean-going merchant ships for sale, because our Peterson Chamber of Commerce only has six seagoing ships, two large ocean-going merchant ships and four medium-sized armed merchant ships. In the past, the main purpose was to transport materials and did not operate maritime trade routes.
If it wasn’t for your family’s knight, Shredder, who helped us negotiate a cooperation with the Viscount of Taberley, and through the wharf he controlled, we could sell and purchase goods in the Kingdom of Ridleys. This is the first time that our Peterson family Owning a sea trade route does not earn much, but it is more convenient and less expensive than relying on horse-drawn carriages for long-distance transportation. "
Lorist raised his teacup, replaced the wine with tea, and toasted Chairman Peterson: "Then I will leave everything to Mr. Chairman."
Now that the Viscounty of Taberley was mentioned, Lorist also asked about Mr. Tim's address in Morente City, planning to visit it when he had time. Chairman Peterson lamented Mr. Tim's good luck, and it was also a blessing to meet Lorist's northbound convoy. Since cooperating with the Viscounty of Taberley, Mr. Tim has used the name of the Peterson Chamber of Commerce to officially obtain the canonization documents and title certificate of the Viscounty from the eldest prince under the guise of a tiger. Now he has officially become a real territorial nobleman. "
President Peterson told two jokes about Mr. Tim when he first became an aristocrat. During the conversation, he suddenly sighed and became depressed. Lorist asked him why he was sighing, and President Peterson replied with a wry smile, it's not all because of his precious son who made him worry about it, it's really disappointing.
Lorist thought President Peterson's son had gained weight again. President Peterson shook his head and said no, that precious son is now an exercising fanatic, he has been practicing hard all day long, and even his battle qi has been upgraded to a silver star. In addition to this, he is also very fond of women. In the past seven years, he found seventeen wives for himself and gave birth to twenty-three children.
Lorist was surprised, but he still congratulated President Peterson, isn't it a good thing to have so many grandchildren, it's better than a single seedling of his precious son. As for the daughters-in-law, the Peterson family has a big business, and it's not that they can't afford it. Let alone seventeen, it's okay to marry seventy more.
President Peterson said that his troubles are not these, but that this precious son has no interest in inheriting the family business, especially because he is very impatient in doing business. This made Chairman Peterson very worried, not knowing who would hand over his family business in the next hundred years. Seeing that Mr. Tim can transform from an illegitimate child to a formal territorial nobleman, President Peterson is even more angry at his precious son's lack of progress.
Lorist smiled and comforted President Peterson. He is a fan of the authorities. If his son doesn’t like doing business, he has so many grandchildren. As a golden swordsman, he can live to be a hundred years old easily. At least the president can do well. Living for 40 to 50 years, such a long time is enough for him to cultivate a grandson who can inherit the great responsibilities of the Chamber of Commerce. Why do he always hope that his son will inherit it
President Peterson turned his worries into joy when he heard that, yes, he can raise grandchildren. He was very happy when the knot was gone, and enthusiastically asked Lorist to have dinner with him. Lorist refused but had to stay, and just after drinking two glasses of wine, he saw a servant crawl in and kneel in front of President Peterson: "Master, something is wrong, the Chickard family The third young master has caused trouble at our pier, and he insists on taking away the boat that this lord is mooring at our place... "
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