Lu Ming

Chapter 365 Self-driving tour

When Mr. Bu saw that the shopping guide took out a lighter and some other gifts and put them on the counter, he immediately flew into a rage, pointed at the counter and cursed: "You bastard! What is this for?"

These two bastards dare to spend the master's money without authorization. Although the quota for the three people is not used up, but the master, I have already bought enough, right?What do you two slaves want?Stealing in front of the master?
"Go back to the master." Chang Sui Bugui was not in a hurry at this time, bowed his legs respectfully and said: "This is my wife's self, I told the little one to buy some things to give back when I came here."

Immediately afterwards, the little servant Bu Mo also joined his legs and said: "Master, the young master and miss asked the young one to bring some things back."

"Ah! So it's Madam's private money!" Master Bu never expected such an answer.The next moment, the anger in his heart disappeared instantly, and the fear of being insulted, beaten, and scratched by his old wife for many years quickly filled his whole body-Master Bu was always afraid of guilt, and everyone he knew knew it.

"Bastard, master, I said it was the fire scythe!" Years of transfer experience saved him, and Master Bu resolved the main conflict with a trick of turning the stars: "I don't know, sir, I don't like Dunhill? I replaced all the fire scythes with Marlboro!"

"Here!" The two servants had no fluctuations in their hearts, and they nodded in agreement.

For the rest of the day, the group abruptly browsed through the shopping malls on Chikan Street.Like all business travelers who come here to shop, the visiting group finally returned with a full load.

Master Bu and Fang Tangjing actually bought a lot of various goods in large and small packages, so that the long-term follower Bu Gui had to rent a small cart on the spot, and ran back and forth several times just to deliver the goods to the hotel.

In addition to small gifts, exquisite glass tea sets, glass jewelry sets, vanity mirror sets, women's cosmetics sets, perfumes, cigarettes, high-end deerskin bags and leather shoes, bamboo mouse leather robes, short-sighted and reading glasses, heaven brand iron bone umbrellas, Thermos pot, thermos cup, kerosene lamp and kerosene stove.
Human beings lack resistance to exquisite objects, which is a kind of nature and an implicit worship of wisdom.

In the late 70s, the Friendship Store, which only served foreigners, diplomats and government officials, opened, selling peanut butter and Hershey chocolate, as well as American refrigerators and washing machines.

Since only foreign exchange certificates are accepted as currency, "guards will prevent anyone who looks Chinese from entering the store".Even so, there are many people peeping outside the store every day, looking for opportunities to go in and take a stroll.

Later, in the 80s, Japanese household appliances that entered the country began to be queued up all night to buy, and then consumption upgrades, people began to chase after big phones, luxury cars, kidney machines, and Canadian geese.
These living examples tell us that unless the products with high added value are physically separated, they will definitely be sought after by people in relatively backward areas. This trend cannot be stopped by ideology or hostility.

General Kim is so poor that he still has to import hundreds of millions of dollars of luxury goods from the enemy every year to distribute to the top leaders of the Workers' Party. At the beginning, it was hard and simple because of ignorance. If you really have knowledge, don't give it a try?

Let's go far, let the story go back to Master Bu in the seventeenth century.

Although Master Bu is equally reactionary in terms of ideology and hates the Cao Group very much, this does not prevent him from sending all the money he brought this time to the store opened by the "Cao Family".Relying on the public visas they obtained when they entered the customs, the visiting group spent crazily all the way on Chikan Street, making some small businessmen who were short of money and shopping procedures drool enviously.

In the evening, when we go back to the hotel, Mr. Bu, the master and his servant, will settle the accounts with the goods in the room, together with the silver brought by the master himself, the public funds paid in advance for business trips, and the private purchases entrusted by the lady to the servants. The money, a total of more than 700 taels of silver, was spent in one afternoon.

"Tomorrow, please ask the person on the cabinet to come and do that. Well, I will consign it with the wind." At this point, Master Bu could only let the servant rub his feet, while commanding his long follower with a wry smile. No doubt, since the above said that the consignment is safe and secure, and the fragile items are also packed with extra reeds, then of course the old man will not bother to carry the luggage by himself.

At the same time, Fang Tangjing at the opposite door was also counting the goods.He came to Taiwan for investigation and research, and he was originally responsible for purchasing tasks, so his purchasing power was stronger than that of Master Bu.At the end of the Ming Dynasty, except for the military leaders, the gentry had a lot of money, a mere few thousand taels of silver, and a middle-level scholar-bureaucrat could easily spend it.

Fang Tangjing's master and servant have bought up all the quotas for all the commodities today.Including thick canvas, denim, and khaki, which Mr. Bu despises, Mr. Fang from the cotton-producing area in the south of the Yangtze River bought two copies of them and prepared to take them back for research.

Checking, recording the trophies, eating, bathing and drinking coffee, Mr. Bu spent the shopping night happily.

Early the next morning, after contacting Shunfeng Express, the carriage soon stopped in front of the hotel.After watching his goods being packed, Master Bu filled in the address of Xinghua Mansion on the triple sheet.

After that, the client doesn't have to worry about it.Because Xinghua Fucheng is a second-tier city after Fuzhou, Shunfeng has an outlet in the local area and will deliver the goods to your door.The same is true for Fang Tangjing.The goods were sent directly to Hangzhou, and a letter from home was sent back by the way.

After finishing the big business of purchasing, Master Bu finally breathed a sigh of relief.The three goals of this trip to Taiwan: military purchases, procurement, and observation, now only one of the most relaxing and free is left.

So Master Bu took out the travel guide from his sleeve, and after researching it, the head of the group immediately decided: everyone will walk to the pier to visit the shipyard first, and after lunch, they will hire a car to go around the fields.

The boss spoke, and the others naturally had no objection.So after sending off the courier, everyone walked in the car and walked along the wharf area by the Taijiang River all the way to the shipyard.

In the shipyard, apart from the numerous hangers and ant-like workers, Master Bu and the others also saw a huge battleship.

The main outline of the western-style battleship, which is more than 70 meters long and has a double gun deck, has been completed, and workers are installing the top deck and mast.Visitors standing on the pier can clearly see the majestic hull of the ship and the steel cranes that stand out from the crowd and are painted in orange.

"This is the reliance of the Cao family across the sea." Master Bu said lightly while stroking his beard as he looked at the prototype of the extremely tall giant ship.

Fang Tangjing's attention was on the steel frame crane.Looking at the iron frame that was erected like a toy, the next moment he used his slender long arms to flexibly hoist the bundles of ship planks to a height of several feet, he also sincerely sighed: "That iron frame is not ordinary. Things, that generation's skill of hundreds of crafts is the best in the world, given time, I'm afraid no one can cure it."

"Hmph!" Master Bu snorted heavily: "There is no one who can cure him right now, if the court doesn't stay vigilant, catastrophe will be imminent!"

Only then did Fang Tangjing realize that he had inadvertently hooked up the patriotic enthusiasm of the old cynic, so he quickly pulled the topic aside—he knew that the old cynic had been planning something, but he didn't want the old cynic to end his investigation. Doing things in front of me hurts myself.

After visiting the shipyard, he saw that it was already noon, so Master Bu, who was in a bad mood, found a canteen on the pier.After lunch, the master took out the guidebook to look at it again, and then took everyone to a car rental shop to rent a car.

During this process, they saw a group of Westerners who were participating in the auction fighting in front of a warehouse on the pier. By the way, they also saw a man who looked like a coachman being smashed in the head by a flying hammer. I hurried to the car rental company.

There are no sedan chairs in Da Yuan’s car rental shop, and there are only one carriage here, but there are two types for carrying passengers and carrying goods.After Mr. Bu took out banknotes and visas, he easily booked a four-wheeled carriage for sightseeing.

The sightseeing carriage is open and polished all over.The blue body, the yellow trim and the wheels wrapped in silver iron make the carriage look beautiful.But the appearance of this thing depends on who you compare it with. In addition to the lack of rubber tires, the two short Yunnan horses pulling the carriage also make the carriage lose its British style, and the style has dropped a lot.

Fortunately, Master Bu has never seen the carriage of later generations, so he felt very satisfied when he sat on the cushion: the smooth road surface and the spring damping system made the master's butt very comfortable. I've been in such a smooth and comfortable carriage.

Since the carriage can only accommodate four people, the master left his long follower, Bu Gui, to move about freely—this is exactly in Bu Gui's favor, it is definitely better to go to the street to see girls than to go to the fields to see rice.

The carriage quickly turned onto the road leading to the farm on the east side. Although the two Yunnan horses could not run fast, they ran at a stable speed, which was suitable for passenger transportation.

The handlebar is called Lao Hai, he is a middle-aged man with dark skin and a solid body.Like all taxi drivers in the world, Lao Hai is very talkative, so Fang Tangjing, who was interested in doing research, naturally chatted with Lao Hai.

I don’t know if I don’t talk about it, but I’m startled when I talk about it: it turns out that Lao Hai is already the first batch of successful entrepreneurs in the local area.

This Laohai was originally a grocery store in Taizhou City, and the two generations of people who run it can be regarded as a small fortune.I don't want to see a disaster come last year: the government wants to "act as a comprador" for a batch of goods worth a huge sum of five hundred taels, and Lao Hai is appointed to undertake it.

This kind of trick, which is equivalent to free robbery, was called "hemai" in Tang and Song Dynasties. In short, it was a bad way for the government to search for businessmen.

After Lao Hai heard the bad news, he didn't sit still.He first asked someone to inquire about the inside story of this matter, and after finding out that it was irreversible, he continued to do nothing and secretly sold all valuable goods to his relatives at low prices at night.

Then Lao Hai arranged for his wife and daughter to sneak out of the city and wait for him to meet up.Before leaving, Lao Hai did one last thing: he pawned half the price of the house deed to a pawn shop opened by a wealthy family in the city.

In the end, the government only got some worthless goods, Lao Hai ran away, the house deed went to the big family, and the government servants did not dare to come to ask for it.

The reason why Lao Hai acted so aggressively was because of the crossing forces—Lao Hai had taken a boat to Da Yuan to do groceries before, so he knew he was welcome here.

(End of this chapter)