Chapter nine hundred and forty-eight sailing heroes
Under Chu Yun's intentional exaggeration, Li Jinde's story began to be widely promoted in the capital.
"The secrets of "The Outside, the Outside," said Li Jinde, the sailing hero, personally, and the secrets of "I'm going to the West", fighting pirates, meeting the Western kings, and getting rich overnight. They are all in today's newspapers!" The newspaper boy walked through the streets and alleys early in the morning.
The people in the capital had heard about Li Jinde's story when the royal envoys came to visit, and knew that it was Li Jinde who brought back the Western envoys, so this time the special report of Li Jinde by the Jiuzhou newspaper caused a sensation in the capital again. Along with Li Jinde's legend, some details of the visit of the British envoys were released. The people in the city learned about the details of the visit of the royal envoys through official passages for the first time.
Of course, Chu Yun did not announce the news of cooperation with Britain to develop the European market. Few people in the government knew about this matter, so as not to obstruct the Spaniards and the Netherlands.
Li Jinde's legendary story was published, and it was building momentum for the establishment and financing of Western trading companies. The detailed situation on the Western side became the focus of discussion for the first time. Everyone was paying attention to Li Jinde's story itself and whether gold was really everywhere in the Western side.
"By the way, Fujian merchant Li Jinde encountered the siege of the Barbary Pirate King in the boundless sea. At that time, ninety-ninety-eighty pirate ships surrounded their ships. Each pirate ship had a cannon as thick as a bucket and pointed at their merchant ships! There were 12,000 pirates on the pirate ships, all of whom were fierce. Many of them had only one eye and the other had been stabbed in the battle! If the shopkeeper Li and his group were caught by the pirates at that time, there would be only one fate, that would be sold to the desert to serve as slaves, and their descendants would be coolies for the slave owners!"
A storyteller talked about the legendary story of the recently emerging sailing hero Li Jinde in the tea garden, which made the listeners in the tea garden hold their breath and concentrate.
"What happened later?" asked a listener.
"Your guest, please ask. Our shopkeeper Li didn't expect that there would be such a vicious robber in the West. There were no heavy firearms on his merchant ship that could fight with pirates, only more than ten bird guns, and the entire merchant ship had only two or three hundred people. If we were to forcibly fight against a pirate fleet of 12,000 people, it would be purely a rock with eggs!" Mr. Storytelled enthusiastically.
"Yes! How could two or three hundred people compete with 12,000 people, let alone the other party has a thousand cannons!" The audience nodded at the same time.
"So Manager Li wanted to avoid his edge for a while and chased the pirates on the sea for seven days and seven nights. In the end, he still had no choice but to rely on his mind to defeat the pirate king. This is called 'Capture the king first'..."
"After the time the shopkeeper Li arrived in Britain, the king of Britain called Charlie set up a huge banquet to invite him and his accompanying crew to the banquet. How huge was the banquet at that time? There were hundreds of chefs alone, all kinds of birds and beasts, and the banquet lasted for a full eleven day!"
"Western people frantically rush to buy porcelain and silk brought by Manager Li. It is said that Manager Li made a profit of 100,000 taels of gold during this trip to the West!" Mr. Storyteller once again exaggerated the story about Li Jinde published in the "Jiuzhou Daily", which surprised the audience.
"100,000 taels of gold!" The audience was stunned. That was one hundred thousand taels of gold!
"A ship of goods can make a profit of 100,000 taels of gold! Is there really gold everywhere in the West?"
Some people began to doubt the authenticity of the storytelling, and they all knew that storytelling was suspected of exaggeration.
"This matter has been published by Jiuzhou Daily. Although it is a bit different, I heard that our goods are sought after by Westerners. One voyage can make several times the profit, otherwise those Westerners would not frequently appear on the southeast coast. Now many Westerners have come to our capital to live temporarily, in order to transport our goods back to the West to sell?"
"If we ship the goods to the West ourselves, we might be able to make profits, or we might just set up workshops in the West, and we wouldn't we save even the transportation costs by using our technology?"
Some people with more active minds are wondering whether they can repeat Li Jinde's legendary experience. It seems that there is really a lot of gold and silver in the West, but there is a lack of Eastern goods.
"There are pirates on the sea that goes to the West, so we may not be able to outwit our wits..." These people are worried about encountering pirates.
Li Jinde lowered his head and drank tea in the corner. When he heard the story adapted by the storyteller, he couldn't help but blush. If only he was as powerful as described in the storyteller.
"They seem to be telling your story." Salina came out with Li Jinde to have tea, and she heard Mr. Storytelling repeatedly say Li Jinde's name.
"He is talking about my going to your country." Li Jinde explained to Salina in the simplest words.
"If my Chinese is better, I can understand it." Salina seemed to be interested in Mr. Storytelling about the storytelling storytelling, but she still couldn't hear a lot of Chinese.
It would be better not to understand. Li Jinde thought to himself that Salina was an insider. If she knew that the Jiuzhou Army officials deliberately sought him, she wouldn't have to find a crack on the ground to get in?
"Salina, it's not as good as us..." Li Jinde thought of Chu Yun's suggestion to him again, and hesitated for a while, preparing to mention marriage to Salina.
"Mr. Chu agreed to let us go to the Academy of Sciences, the day after tomorrow." Salina didn't know that Li Jinde was going to talk to her about the major marriage events at this time, and inadvertently interrupted Li Jinde who was muttering quietly.
"Your application to the Academy of Sciences and His Highness and His Highness and His Highness have been approved? That's great." Li Jinde was interrupted and did not continue.
"My Chinese language is better in the future. Can we talk about it in detail?" Salina was full of hope for continuing to live in the capital of China. She has special Chinese courses overseas at the Academy of Sciences and knowledge she had never seen before.
"Well, we'll talk about it in detail then." Li Jinde nodded.
Li Jinde's men secretly observed the progress of his shopkeeper and Salina at another square table. Seeing that his shopkeeper finally took a step and was interrupted, they couldn't help but scratch their heads in a hurry. The two of them were not in a hurry, but the people around them couldn't stand it.
"Roberts, you are a British man, and if you know that, is there any other way to quickly promote the shopkeeper and their good things?" Several of Li Jinde's apprentices looked at the British sailors he hired.
"I am just a poor man in Britain, otherwise I wouldn't have ventured on the sea. How could I know the noble lady's mind?" British sailor Roberts also expressed his helplessness in the drag of Li Jinde and Salina.
Several apprentices sighed, and one of them suddenly had an inspiration: "Although Salina is a British, the women in the world are almost the same. I have a way to quickly promote good things between them, and you need your cooperation."
Chapter completed!