Chapter 195:

"Father, you..."

"Let's go, this is not the place to talk!" Chang Kun secretly shook his head slightly at his son, indicating that this was not a place where he was presumptuous, then took his son's hand and returned to the sedan chair.

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Along the way, Chang Kun's face was sinking like water. Chang Wei wanted to speak several times, but when he saw his father's gloomy face, he was too frightened to speak.

After the group returned to the mansion, Chang Kun sat quietly in the hall, looked at his son after pondering for a while, and said, "This Zhou Ye... the visitor is not good!"

He didn't even bother to call him the official name An Wang, so he just called him by his first name, which was a big taboo in the officialdom, but at this time he couldn't care so much anymore. In Chang Kun's view, Zhou Ye was targeting himself this time. come.

Especially the attitude of the soldiers gave him an ominous premonition. As the saying goes, a servant follows a master—that means, the attitude of a master towards a person can be seen from his servant. One or two came out.

After all, it must be the servants who often come into contact with the master. There are some things that the master will not say behind his back to the servants. Today, the soldiers dare to scold him in front of him, especially when his son wants to rush forward. There was an eagerness to try in the servant's eyes.

This had to make him secretly think about Zhou Ye's meaning... It seems that Zhou Ye has a lot of opinions on himself this week... How should I save myself? He can't even see himself, which means that he has blocked the way to work, but are there still people in these two regions who can restrain him? Not at all...it's about to die.

"Father..." Chang Wei looked at his father without saying a word for a long time, and couldn't help but ask, "Is the situation very bad?"

"I'm afraid... Weier, our Chang family is doomed this time!" Chang Kun sighed and said, "Then Zhou Ye obviously didn't want to see our father and son, I'm afraid we really have to take a ride this time!"

"Then father, what are we going to do? Let's run away!" Chang Wei said absentmindedly, "We can take the money to Nanyang, or take a merchant ship to that English country, as long as we have money. , can't we live well anywhere?"

"Idiot!" Chang Kun scolded his son resentfully. "With this navy admiral's hat, we can have so much wealth. If we don't have this official hat and the power in the hands of your father and me, then the money in our family is like a child holding gold in a busy market. Seeking a dead end, still taking the merchant ship to the English country? You will be eaten by those merchants halfway, do you think those smugglers who call you brothers are good birds? Childish!"

"Then... Dad, what are we going to do? We can't just wait here!" Looking at his father's angry face, Chang Wei couldn't help but say submissively.

"Zhou Ye, Zhou Ye, since you are not benevolent, don't blame me for being unrighteous..." Chang Kun was able to climb from a small tube to the current high position. , trying to get rid of Zhou Ye...

Although he also had a good minister in Beijing, he told him not to provoke this An Wang Zhou Ye, saying that this person has unpredictable supernatural powers, but Chang Kun, who has been driven to a dead end, can't take much care of it. If he doesn't struggle, he will die. If you struggle for a while, maybe there is still a chance.

Thinking of this, Chang Kun thought about it for a moment, then said to his son who was waiting eagerly for his decision: "Go out through the back door now, quietly invite Mr. Charlie from the British business hall to the house, and say that I have something important to do. Find him for business..."

"But... what about Zhou Ye's side?" Chang Wei looked confused. Why was his family at the verge of life and death, and his father asked him to invite a businessman from English, who used to be a smuggler in tobacco and soil. ?

"Go!" Chang Kun completely gave up treatment for his son, who had developed limbs and a simple mind, "I have my own opinion on everything!"

"Oh!" Chang Wei responded timidly and left, and when Chang Kun showed his power, he was still a little scared.

After Chang Wei left, Chang Kun sat on the Taishi chair, pondered for a long time, and smoothed out all the interests. Then he lifted the tea bowl with confidence and took a sip of tea. "Bah, why is the tea cold? Come, come!"

"Master, what are your orders!" A maid heard Chang Kun's cry and walked in quickly.

"How come the tea is cold and you don't know how to change the water? How do you slaves do things?" Chang Kun angrily scolded: "Is it possible that I was too indulgent to you slaves, so I let you all Dare to ride on my head? Huh?"

"Old, master... Yes, it was you who ordered us not to approach the main room..." The maid explained with a look of fear.

Chang Kun's anger grew even stronger when he heard the maid's words: "How dare you talk back? Come on, drag this lowly maid down, beat him hard, beat him to death..."

A few domestic servants rushed up, dragged the poor maid out of the courtyard, and pressed it to the ground for a while...

"Master...forgive the slaves...the slaves will no longer dare..."

"Ah... lord... please forgive me... ah... spare the slaves..."

Hearing the screams and begging for mercy coming from outside, Chang Kun took a deep breath, as if the strings that had been tensed were relieved a little...

The voice of the maid from the outside became weaker and weaker... After half an hour, there was no sound again, and the servant came in to report: "Master, she passed out..."

"Throw it into the woodshed and let her fend for herself..." Chang Kun ordered casually.

"Yes!" The servant turned around and left...

Chang Kun has a little secret. Whenever he is faced with an important decision, he is very eager to abuse others. When he was serving as a sailor, there were countless pirates who were directly abused to death by him. Those pirates hated him so much that their teeth itch...

It's just that Chang Kun is a little older now and his status is different, and this is not a good time. He still has to wait here for the arrival of Charlie, a businessman from the English Kingdom. If he plays in person, he will be bloody. After all, it's not good... so I can only listen to the screams of the maid to soothe my emotions.

Chang Kun, who had calmed down slowly, picked up the fragrant tea that the servants had just changed, took a sip, and said to himself, "Huh... It's almost time, it's time to arrive!"

Sure enough, it wasn't long before I heard a voice with an exotic tone. "Hello, Mr. Chang, good afternoon!"

"Haha, Mr. Charlie. I've been waiting for the driver for a long time!" Chang Kun laughed and welcomed Charlie into the house, then instructed his son: "Weier, go to the kitchen and explain that Mr. Charlie is here today and let him be a guest. They must prepare a richer meal for me, and don't let the guests see a joke!"

"Yes!" Chang Wei knew that his father was trying to get rid of him, so he didn't say much, he replied, turned around and left the main room.

Chang Kun took Charlie and the two to separate the guest and host, and his own servant brought two cups of good tea.

After taking a sip of tea, Old God Charlie asked, "Mr. Chang specially ordered your son to call me here today, not just to invite me to have tea and dinner, right?"

As the full-time head of the English East India Company's Guangzhou office, Charlie has been in Qing for seven or eight years.

"Then I won't go around in circles!" Chang Kun thought for a while, and then asked, "I wonder what Your Excellency Charlie thinks of Zhou Ye, King An, who is coming to Guangdong and Guangxi soon?"

"Huh?" Charlie's heart suddenly felt that something was wrong. This Admiral Chang invited himself to his home and hosted a banquet. Could it be that he was just asking himself about the upcoming one who is said to have the power of life and death in Guangdong and Guangxi. What do you think of An Wang?

Charlie considered it for a while, and then asked, "What does Your Excellency Chang Kun think of this King An?"

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Hearing Charlie's rhetorical question, Chang Kun secretly scolded an old fox in his heart. After thinking for a while, he said, "Don't hide it from Mr. Charlie, I have already met this Prince An today!"

"Oh?" Charlie was also surprised. He didn't expect that Chang Kun had already met King An.

"His Royal Highness An Wang is not very friendly to me." Chang Kun said: "I am afraid that I have a lot of criticism about my privately letting your company's big smoke enter Guangdong!"

"This..." Charlie was also a little depressed. When Daoguang had just ascended the throne, he did strictly investigate the big smoke for a period of time, which brought a lot of losses to their East India Company. Corruption and connivance have allowed them to slowly return to their current state, which is better than before.

Could this be the start of another anti-smoking campaign under the direction of Daoguang? Charlie was a little apprehensive. If this event caused too much loss to the East India Company, then I am afraid that he will be transferred from this country where gold is flowing...

This was a result that Charlie couldn't accept, but he thought about it, since Chang Kun called him over, I'm afraid he wanted to discuss with him how to deal with the matter. Charlie also put his heart into his stomach, and the old **** was there to ask Said: "Then what kind of attitude does this King An have towards our English merchants?"

"Haha..." Chang Kun sneered: "I just let your big smoke in, and you are the mastermind behind the real delivery of big smoke into our country, what do you think His Royal Highness An Wang will treat you? ?"

"...This!" Charlie was so choked by Chang Kun that he was almost speechless, and instead of getting angry, he said with a smile: "Then does Mr. Chang Kun have any good solutions? For example, to bribe His Highness Prince An. Category……"

"Hehe, bribe?" Chang Kun sneered: "This Prince An is the lord of the fief. Strictly speaking, these two fields belong to him. What are you bribing him?"

"Oh my God... can't we just watch him cut off our fortune?" As a businessman, what Charlie can't tolerate is that his biggest fortune is cut off by someone else.

The large tobacco planted by the East India Company in Calcutta was shipped to China to earn high profits, and then from China, such commodities as porcelain, silk and tea, which were highly sought after by the European upper class, were shipped to the mainland, and then those low-priced products were shipped from the mainland. Industrial products to Kolkata in exchange for big smoke...  

This kind of triangular trade has made these merchants a lot of money. As far as Charlie knows, in the seven or eight years he was in charge of Guangzhou's business and trade, there was a lucky guy who got a big cigarette license from the East India Company. From a small fleet with only seven or eight two-masted medium-sized merchant ships to a luxury merchant with more than thirty three-masted galleons, it is conceivable how huge the profits are.

"Oh, dear Your Excellency Chang Kun, I know you must have a good idea!" Charlie stared at Chang Kun's eyes, as if he wanted to see something. "Come on, say it, tell your dearest old friend Charlie!"

"What can I do?" Chang Kun said helplessly: "I just stopped my cooperation with you. I called you this time to inform you that I will strictly inspect your country's merchant ships in the future. Please also ask Your Excellency Charlie to inform the businessmen of your company that it is strictly forbidden to transport large smoke soil in the future, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble, after all, we used to cooperate very happily!"

Charlie heard Chang Kun say that he would start to strictly inspect the merchant ships that docked. And it is strictly forbidden to sell land. Like a cat whose tail has been trampled, the whole person is jumping high and dancing angrily: "God, you are a betrayal... a betrayal of eating Guoguo."