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Chapter 1234 The Disappeared Li Jinde
The Levant company spent six days in Halep in the Ottoman Empire to process the wool on board, and they had to go to other cities in the Ottoman Empire.Levant has not only factories in Halep, but also small factories in several Ottoman cities.

Li Jinde proposed to Sir Henry to go to Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, but this does not seem to be in the plan of the Levant Company.The Levant Company is managed by several directors, and Sir Henry is only the most powerful one, so Sir Henry refused the request to go to Constantinople.

Li Jinde only suggested that he didn't have to go to Constantinople. He could get a glimpse of the situation of a city and roughly see the reality of the Ottoman Empire.

However, on the seventh day of Halep, when the Levant company's fleet was about to leave Halep for another city in the Ottoman Empire, Li Jinde suddenly disappeared.

"Where is Mr. Li? Where is he?"

"Will he go to any street again?"

"It shouldn't be. We have already notified that the fleet will leave Halep today. Besides, he has traveled all over the main urban area of ​​Halep in the past few days. Does he still want to visit the backward villages?"

When the people of Levant Company were counting the number of people before leaving, Sir Henry found that Li Jinde was not there, and asked other directors and employees, but everyone shook their heads.

"Do you want to ask that woman in the east, she might know where Mr. Li is." The person from Levant suggested.

Sir Henry and people from the Levant Company found Xiaolian, but Xiaolian couldn't understand Sir Henry's English or Ottoman's language at all, so she couldn't communicate with them.

Xiao Lian couldn't see Li Jinde among the group of blond and blue-eyed people, so she asked Sir Henry anxiously, "Where's Shopkeeper Li? Why isn't he here?"

"What is she talking about? Which of you can speak Chinese?" Sir Henry shrugged. Xiao Lian couldn't understand his English, and he couldn't understand Xiao Lian's Chinese either.

The people at Levant shook their heads. They were engaged in trade in the Mediterranean Sea, and they could barely speak the language of the Ottoman Empire. No one really knew Chinese.Li Jinde usually communicates with them by relying on the English he learned from Sarina.

The only people in Britain who understand Chinese are probably the employees of the East India Company who went to the Spice Islands.

Although Sir Henry and Xiao Lian didn't understand each other's words, they quickly realized that they both realized Li Jinde's disappearance.

The most anxious one is Xiao Lian who was rescued by Li Jinde from the sea of ​​suffering, but she is unable to find a person who disappeared in a strange foreign country.

Next came Sir Henry.Li Jinde is his partner, and their king Charles I signed a trade treaty with Huaxia. If something happens to Li Jinde, how will he explain to Huaxia?
"Governor, we have an important employee who disappeared after your Halep, please help us find him, and I can give you a high reward." Sir Henry found Halep's governor and asked him for help.

"No problem, the whole of Halep is under my management, so what's the difficulty in finding someone!" Halep's governor readily agreed.

However, Sir Henry always felt that something was wrong, and the other party promised to skip it.

Levant stayed in Halep for three days because of Li Jinde's sudden disappearance. During this period, Halep's governor sent soldiers to search from house to house, but Li Jinde was still not found.

Li Jinde seemed to evaporate from the world suddenly without a trace.

Sir Henry and others searched for traces in Li Jinde's room. Li Jinde's luggage was still there, but he suddenly disappeared.

"Could it have been kidnapped by pirates?" the person from Levant suddenly asked.

"Mr. Li came to this city for the first time. Apart from buying this girl, he didn't do any other unusual actions. He shouldn't offend the pirates, so he wasn't looking for revenge. But if it was to ask for property, he should be kidnapping Li. Sir, at the same time, he left a message to contact us, so it is impossible that there will be no news at all." Sir Henry deduced and found that he couldn't explain it no matter what.

Li Jinde had no reason to disappear by himself for three days. If someone wanted to harm him, it was only for revenge or property.

But all the current traces do not indicate any possibility of Li Jinde disappearing.

"Sir Henry, our Levant company and our business, we can't stay here forever. There are merchants in other cities waiting for us to deliver, otherwise it will bring us a loss of tens of thousands of pounds. "Other directors of Levant Company saw that Li Jinde had been missing for three days, which was far beyond their plan of Levant Company.

"Let's get out of here first... Let our employees in Halep continue to inquire about Mr. Li's whereabouts. If Mr. Li is found, whether they personally or hire someone else, they must contact us as soon as possible!" Sir Henry calculated In time, Li Jinde will not be found in one and a half, and the company's people are in a hurry, so they have to leave the city first.

Their Levant company also has a factory here, and they can ask the employees of the factory to continue looking for Li Jinde in Halep.

"Then what should this girl from the East do?" The people from Levant Company thought of another Xiao Lian who was rescued by Li Jinde.

"Bring her to our ship. Even if Mr. Li cannot be found, we must ensure that she can reach the safe city of London. Otherwise, we will not be able to explain to him when Mr. Li returns." Sir Henry said.

"Let go of me! Where are you taking me? I want to stay here until I find shopkeeper Li!" Xiao Lian shouted hysterically.

If it wasn't for Li Jinde's help, she still wouldn't be able to escape from the clutches of the slave trader.

However, Sir Henry and the others couldn't understand what she said, and even if they understood, they wouldn't let her stay in the Ottoman Empire, which was a bit dangerous for Easterners.

Xiao Lian was forcibly taken onto a British merchant ship by Levant's people.

"Mr. Li must be found as soon as possible. He is the top person in charge of Huaxia's company in our UK. If something happens to him, I don't know what the angry Huaxia people will do. They have a fleet moored in Portsmouth Harbor , our trade treaty stipulates that the two parties should try to act in unison. If they declare war on the Ottoman Empire because of Mr. Li's disappearance, and we in Britain are forced to stand on the side of the Chinese, then our Levant company is on the east coast of the Mediterranean The established factories are all over!"

"If there is such a day that we unite with China to declare war on the Ottoman Empire, you must find a way to escape from the Ottoman Empire as soon as possible..." Sir Henry said privately to the person in charge of Halep.

(End of this chapter)