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Chapter 93 Pier; Honeymoon; Venice (1w, please subscribe!)
To be honest, Zhu Chuanren never expected that Ni Sichun could be recognized by the elderly in his family so quickly.

In his opinion, Wei Chunfang is nostalgic. For so many years, Xin'er has been by her side and has never had any conflicts. She is quite satisfied with this daughter-in-law. Even before, she was trying to persuade Zhu Chuanren, hoping that he could Give Xin'er a title.

From this perspective, it is reasonable for Wei Chunfang to be biased against Ni Sichun.

But unexpectedly, after just a few meetings, Ni Sichun used his cheerful personality to get along with his family, and even became good friends with Xin'er, and the two even arranged to go shopping together another day.

I can only say that this damn charisma cannot be described in words.

As for the Luo family, they were really anxious. They had been disrupted by ruffians for a week in a row, and there were no more guests at the dock.

A considerable number of the thugs raised by the Luo family were from the Cao Gang, and they had been greeted before they started. Compared with the call from the main family, the Cao Gang was obviously more powerful.

As a result, the Luo family is now helpless. Those who are playing yin cannot play well, and those who are playing yang cannot even find the rightful owner. The Luo family is so angry that they are yelling and cursing.

It was also because the Luo family had been so low-key before that even the big families in Magic City had rarely heard of the Luo family's name.

When they heard that the third young master of the Zhu family had a conflict with the Luo family, everyone's first thought was - what little blind family had actually kicked the Zhu family into the ground.

After asking around carefully, I found out that they were not from a small family and had a rather deep background.

This is interesting. The confrontation between two powerful families is a rare sight even in the Magic City. Everyone wants to watch the excitement.

As a result, as soon as the two sides fought, the Luo family showed signs of decline. Zhu Chuanren pinned him to the ground and could not get up, which disappointed many people.

There are even gambling parlors open to bet on which of the two families will have the last laugh.

As a result, the Zhu family's odds were so low that there was no profit, and the Luo family's odds were ridiculously high. How could they play with this?
Of course, there are also gamblers who want to take a chance and turn their bicycles into motorcycles.

The loss is more than a dozen. If you throw a gold bar in, if you win, you will get a house.

When Zhu Chuanren found out, he was very excited. He thought about whether he should play Mouse Cang, take a gamble, and then deliberately lose to the Luo family to make a profit from him.

But this thought was dismissed as soon as it went through my mind. I can't make this money, it's too embarrassing.

If the small Luo family can't take care of it, how can they stand up on the beach in the future?
Closer to home, the Luo family searched for Zhu Chuanren to no avail, so they simply stopped looking. They became so angry that they turned over the table and stopped playing.

Luo Jinming first, in the name of the Ministry of Industry and Industry Bureau, ordered all docks located within the public concession to prohibit providing convenience to the Zhu family.

Then he ordered the patrol room to arrest Huang Mapi's men. More than 100 of them were arrested in a short period of time, and the patrol room was overcrowded.

But to be honest, this series of arrangements did not have much impact on Zhu Chuanren. If the docks in the public concession were not allowed to stop, then they would stop in the French concession.

At worst, taking a long way to Zhabei would only cost more labor and fuel, which was nothing to the wealthy Zhu Chuanren.

As for the person who caught the jute skin, what did he have to do with Zhu Chuanren?He is from Jute Skin, not from Zhu Chuanren.

The most important thing for Jute Pi is people. If he has the ability to catch all his little brothers, he can save a few days of food money.

Those gang of local gangsters entered the patrol room as if they were going home to celebrate the New Year. They had no deterrent effect at all. If you had the ability to kill them all, that would be considered powerful, but would Luo Jinming dare to kill them?
Of course not!I don’t even dare to lend him some courage!
If he were the director of the police department and shot a few people despite the pressure of public opinion, no one would be able to say anything. But as the deputy director of the port and terminal, if he dared to kill people, the people in the public concession would revolt!
So these two moves seemed quite cruel, but in fact they didn't even hurt Zhu Chuanren's hair.

On the other hand, Zhu Chuanren, didn't you take action?Okay, then don't blame me for being ruthless.

Zhu Chuanren has never been a vegetarian. No matter what he does, he always pays attention to being steady and ruthless.

First of all, he gave Jute Pi another project. Jute Pi, who had no dissatisfaction in the first place, suddenly became elated and said bluntly that he had enough young men. If he had the ability, he would arrest everyone named Luo, and he was not afraid at all.

Immediately afterwards, he asked Huang Mapi to send people to circle around the Luo family. They would do nothing, just appear next to them. They should blatantly let the other party see them, but they would not take action. It was clear that they would scare you to death.

This is not over yet. Aren’t you gay? The dock in the public concession does not allow the Zhu family’s goods to be disembarked?
Row!
Then I will set a fire in your warehouse. You put it out once and I will put it out again. After three times, several warehouses have been burned to the ground. It depends on what inventory you take!
Zhu Chuanren was so ruthless that he directly came to recruit people to remove the salary from the bottom of the cauldron.

Think this is over?
No no no!Either Zhu Chuanren doesn't take action, or he will definitely kill you if he does!

He was secretly contacting Clement. This brilliant director of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce was the same as Kant. He had greed written on the left cheek and greed on the right cheek. His eyes shone with golden light. As long as the money was in place, everything would be easy to negotiate.

Zhu Chuanren's request is not too much. If I spend money to buy your help, it will not destroy the friendship between you, but it will also allow you to make money. Is it too much?Not too much?
Anyway, Clement thought it was not too much, so he accepted the money, then directly took a sick leave and lay in the hospital for a month without seeing anyone!

Luo Jinming is paralyzed, and his biggest backer is unreliable. How can he still play this?
Zhu Chuanren struck three times in a row, knocking out the entire Luo family.

In the past, they deliberately kept a low profile, and that was because they thought they were quite capable.

But now, he has been pressed to the ground and rubbed, and there is no use keeping a low profile. He is really not on the same level.

You reason with people, they teach you the art of war, you play the art of war with others, and they start to act like a hooligan, but you start to act like a hooligan, and they talk to you about the law again, one step slowly, one step slowly, the Luo family has no capital to fight back. and ability.

All he can do is pray that Zhu Chuanren can be kinder and stop as soon as possible. If he doesn't stop, the Luo family will be destroyed.

Who would have thought that at the end of 1917, a blind date would trigger a murder in the upper class society of Shanghai.

After this battle, almost all the big shots in the Demonic City saw Zhu Chuanren's ferocious methods. He made people refuse to recognize their relatives and would really kill them!
Moreover, the resources that can be mobilized span the two realms of hey and white, turning one's hands into clouds and turning one's hands into rain.

The Luo family was completely convinced. Luo Jinming came to apologize in person and confessed his crimes in front of Zhu Chuanren.

No one knows what price the Luo family paid to extinguish the anger in Zhu Chuanren's heart. They only know that since then, the Luo family has completely withdrawn from the scope of the public concession wharf, and the originally burned warehouse has been taken over by a group of unfamiliar faces.

Not long after, Renhe Trading Company officially took over the Vanity Wharf and the five warehouses belonging to the Vanity Wharf.

Since ancient times, war has been the best way to get rich.

The same goes for shopping malls. Look, just because of a moment of anger, the Luo family lost their source of money, while Zhu Chuanren got a dock and five warehouses out of thin air.

How did Magic City get started?Isn’t it based on the treaty port on the Huangpu River?

Nowadays, there are only 9 docks on the Huangpu River, and behind each dock is a tycoon. Zhu Chuanren took this opportunity to jump up and officially join the first-class family in the Magic City. Is this a blessing in disguise?
He was in a good mood and formally proposed to Ni Sichun, binding this Song family relative in advance. After ten years, even if Zhu Chuanren did nothing, he would still be among the top people in the Magic City and even the entire country.

You have to hug your thighs as early as possible. Zhu Chuanren is very proud now.

Ni Sichun liked Zhu Chuanren after all, and after being reserved, he agreed to his proposal.

Then he took him home to meet his parents. Ni Sichun's parents were both teachers and were from a scholarly family. They were somewhat discriminatory towards a businessman like Zhu Chuanren who came from a humble background.

This discrimination refers to the cultural level, and they also know that if they are measured by family strength, compared to the Zhu family, which is at its peak, their own family is considered to be superior.

But the noble nature of the scholar still made the first meeting a bit awkward.

The parents of the Ni family were showing off their cultural heritage in front of Zhu Chuanren, opening their mouths and saying things like Confucius and Laozi.

And Zhu Chuanren gave them a trick to remain unchanged and adapt to all changes. In troubled times, money and gun barrels are king, and Zhu Chuanren has both of them. Let you make up your mind, I will use my gun to fight against them, and use my knife to cause chaos. Just ask Are you convinced?
Can you be dissatisfied?On the one hand, it is the daughter's love and happiness, and on the other hand, the last bit of stubbornness in the literati's heart. The Ni family can still tell which is more important.

The most important thing is that Zhu Chuanren learned from Ni Sichun that her aunt had come forward.

No need to say more about who her aunt is, right?She was a woman of great wisdom. After investigation, she found that Zhu Chuanren was no ordinary rich kid.

Although externally he is the third young master of the Zhu family, the real situation is that he almost single-handedly built the Zhu family.

In other words, he is not just a second-generation person who only cares about pleasure, but a real creator.

The gap between the two is too big, not to mention that the Zhu family is now a first-rate force in the Magic City, with no shortage of financial, military, and political resources. It is definitely a good family.

What's more, Ni Sichun also likes Zhu Chuanren. You can have your cake and eat it too, and only a fool would not do it.

Therefore, with the intervention of the mother-in-law of the future country, Ni Sichun and Zhu Chuanren finally got married, and in the spring of 1918, a Western-style wedding was held in the church.

There was no way, the Ni family were loyal disciples of Jesus, and this was the last insistence of the old couple. Zhu Chuanren didn't bother to care about it. Western style was Western style, and he didn't think it mattered.

Moreover, on the wedding day, he invited many foreign friends to be present, and a Western-style wedding was more suitable.

Not to mention the wedding process. After the ceremony, Zhu Chuanren invited all the guests to the building outside the building to have a feast. All kinds of good wine and food were served for free, which made all the foreigners confused. It turns out that this country And such delicious food.

Needless to say, the Republic of China was really the culmination of the country’s soft culture. There are many delicacies now that future generations will never see.

For example, a dish of lychee-flavored dried pepper and popped cherries was originated from the palace.

After the founding of the Republic of China, democracy and freedom became the mainstream of society, bidding farewell to the autocracy and confinement of the Qing Dynasty. Palace cuisine gradually transcended the palace wall and gradually merged with folk cuisine.

The so-called "lychee flavor" is said to be that Cixi lamented that the taste of Kung Pao Chicken was as good as lychee when eating Kung Pao Chicken. From then on, the imperial chef used the "lychee flavor" as a criterion when making this dish.

This also became another name for "Kung Pao" by the old imperial chefs who later came to Taiwan.

It happened that people at that time liked to eat frogs, but they felt that calling it by its name was not elegant. Because the legs of frogs were round like cherries, and the texture was smooth and refreshing, it was better than cherries, so it was euphemistically called "lychee-flavored popped cherries."

This dish at Louwailou is made by sauteing whole bell peppers, using only soy sauce and white sugar to create a "lychee" taste, and frying them together with bullfrog legs.

For example, a large number of traditional Jingsu dishes such as whipped shrimps, braised chicken, braised duck, golden leg stewed waist cake, Jinling dumplings, imperial concubine chicken wings, chicken minced abalone and so on have been updated, highlighting the mellow taste of Jingsu cuisine and the appropriate saltiness. .

Pay attention to the original flavor, hard shape but soft texture, clear soup and mellow taste, crispy and rotten off the bone without losing its shape, smooth, tender and crispy without losing its taste characteristics.

This wedding banquet also allowed the guests present to re-understand the strength of Louwailou.

They may have only heard of it before, but they think it is no different from an ordinary restaurant, so naturally they will not deliberately go to the French Concession to taste it.

But after this time, Louwailou will probably have many more gourmets coming to patronize it. It can only be said that Zhu Chuanren has understood the publicity trick.

After the marriage, Zhu Chuanren took Ni Sichun on a cruise trip, departing from Shanghai and heading south to Venice.

He did not run to the Atlantic Ocean. These days, the Atlantic Ocean is like the water used to cook dumplings, turning into a mess.

He doesn't want to sleep on a cruise ship and be blown under the sea by a submarine. Is that a honeymoon?It's to die.

Today's Venice does not have as much of a commercial flavor as later generations, and everything is very primitive.

However, most people’s impression of Venice is limited to a beautiful waterside city.

Few people can associate it with a maritime power.

However, from the 13th to the 16th century, the Italian Republic of Venice was an out-and-out maritime power. In the 15th century, its powerful navy had a huge fleet of 3300 ships, and its terrifying commercial income was as high as 150 million gold ducats.

At that time, the Ming Empire's tax and grain revenue, the so-called "more than [-] shi of tax and grain in the world", was probably worth this value.

Why can the Republic of Venice, a small city-state in northern Italy, have such strong economic and naval strength?Can it still maintain its terrifying hegemony for hundreds of years?
This can be traced back to Byzantium, the homeland of Venice. The origin of the Republic of Venice can be traced back to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire.

At that time, the Huns and other barbarians invaded the Western Roman Empire on a large scale, causing the Western Roman Empire to fall apart.

After the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, several of its younger cities in northern Italy discussed that if they went their own way, they would probably be defeated by the Gothic and Germanic barbarians, and then they would be left to their own devices.

So they slapped their thighs and decided to unite. This was the origin of the Republic of Venice.

At that time, they thought about it, the Western Roman Empire was unreliable, and wasn't there an Eastern Roman Empire?
So they elected their own chief and became the Doge of Venice, expressing their submission to the Eastern Roman Empire and finding a protective umbrella.

After all, he was a horseman sent from heaven, and the emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium) must have welcomed him.

Moreover, before the 11th century, the Byzantine Empire was invincible in the Mediterranean and controlled the main transportation routes for East-West trade at that time.

However, in the 11th century, especially after the Byzantine power in Anatolia suffered a devastating blow from the Turks in 1071.

Things changed dramatically. Ottoman defeated Byzantium and the Crusades that followed plundered the wealth of the Byzantine Empire.

In particular, the Normans occupied the empire's silk fabric base in the Western Mediterranean, making the Byzantine Empire's fleet funding sources unprecedentedly tight.

In desperation, Byzantium had to rely more on trade with the Venetians to maintain the country's finances and commodity circulation, which turned the Venetians into the empire's super "second-rate dealers."

With the Byzantine emperor's special permission, the Venetians resold Western silk fabrics and other products to Byzantium, and Byzantium could only trade agricultural products.

The Venetians then sell these agricultural products to other regions to earn the price difference, which can be called a business without capital.

This created a vicious cycle, because the Venetian region was far away from the Byzantine mainland and was rich and powerful. It was actually an independent region. The Republic of Venice, which constantly sucked blood from trade, maintained a huge maritime fleet.

Facing the growing threat from the Turks, Byzantium often had to ask the Venetians to "borrow troops".

After all, the once mighty Byzantine Navy was basically an empty shell.

But the territory of the empire is getting smaller and smaller, and the fiscal revenue is getting smaller and smaller. So what should we give in exchange?

The Byzantine emperors of the Comnenus dynasty came up with a plan: to expand their privileges.

At that time, the Byzantine Empire's tariff on Venetian merchants was only 4%, but its tariff on its own merchants was as high as 10%. It was simply a colony of Venice and helped the Venetians become "local governors."

Although this trick of drinking poison to quench thirst helped Byzantium survive many difficulties for a while, due to dwindling financial resources, Byzantium continued to grant this right to Genoese and Pisa merchants.

This group of Italian vampires squeezed almost half of the profits from the territory of the Byzantine Empire, making Byzantium poorer and poorer, but themselves extremely rich.

Relying on the maritime trade that dominated the entire Europe, the commercial profits of the Republic of Venice reached unprecedented levels.

The fiscal revenue of the city of Venice and its municipal districts reached 75 dugas. Including overseas income, the total revenue reached 161.5 million dugas, which is "on par with Spain and on par with England."

However, the Republic of Venice was much smaller than Spain and England.

Such strong financial resources allowed the Republic of Venice to organize a huge fleet. By the end of the 14th century, the Republic of Venice had 3 merchant ships.

According to European medieval standards, there were probably as many potential "warships" as there were merchant ships.

After all, as long as cannons are installed after modification, it will be a standard fleet.

There were 25000-30000 people serving in the Venetian fleet, which was an absolutely unimaginable number in Europe at that time.

To say that the Venetians can have such a strong strength, it cannot be achieved solely by cheating the Byzantine Empire.

First of all, the Venetian government has a good internal reputation.

In 1171, because the Republic was planning to go to war against the Byzantine Empire, it issued a public debt of 15 silver marks to the people. By 1262, the interest and share of this debt had never been in arrears for a year.

Secondly, Venice implemented standardized management of its commercial empire.

Because the empire had no army and all land problems were solved by mercenaries (with deep pockets), Venice focused on the construction of its navy and fleet.

The Senate of Venice has the power to supervise all ships and can supervise their construction and maintenance. At the same time, all ships over ten years old are required to be inspected and replaced regularly, which is a bit like the annual inspection system of later generations.

Finally, Venice attaches great importance to establishing "overseas bases" and strongly supports industry and commerce.

The Republic of Venice is a country that only obeys commerce. It is the purpose of the republic to fully protect merchants and their trade.

In order to defeat its trade rival Genoa, two wars were fought in 1378 and 1379. Especially in 1379, 34 large battleships and 60 ordinary ships were concentrated, destroying the Genoese navy in one fell swoop.

Venice occupied almost all the commercial strongholds and docks along the eastern Mediterranean coast.

For 56 years, the entire Eastern Mediterranean region was Venetian territory.

With the spirit of making a fortune and the quality of no internal strife, Venice dominated the Mediterranean for hundreds of years. The entire two sides of Venice were full of gorgeous buildings built by merchants.

But what is interesting to say is that the Venetians continued to squeeze the Byzantine Empire and eventually the country was conquered and destroyed by the Ottomans.

But in turn, the rising Ottoman Empire built a larger fleet on the original Byzantine land to compete with the Venetians for maritime hegemony.

The Venetians finally discovered a problem. Their weak territory could not compete with a huge empire.Sure enough, after losing areas such as Crete, Venice's commercial status declined.

What was once a business myth began to collapse.However, they took over the cultural baton from Byzantium and began to spread humanist ideas.

Unexpectedly, in the end, I ended up living in the most annoying person I had ever been.

However, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, and Venice's past traditions have not been abandoned. Venetians have done a better job of protecting merchants than people in other regions.

The reason why I use a long paragraph to tell this history is because Zhu Chuanren's purpose of visiting Venice was to build a commercial transfer station for himself in Venice and to find an escape route for himself.

China will be turbulent in the future. As I said before, what he has to do from beginning to end is to protect himself.

With his small stature, he was unable to influence the general trend, so finding a way out for emergencies was something he had already considered.

Venice has a great advantage, that is, shipping. If a transfer station can be successfully established here, then Zhu Chuanren will be confident to create a maritime empire.

The essence of business is trade, and any platform or model is a variant of trade.

Especially in this era, maritime trade undoubtedly bears the heavy burden of global trade. If Zhu Chuanren can get involved, he will definitely achieve greater success in this era.

Why doesn't he build a fleet at home?Nonsense, building a fleet in China is equivalent to tying up a young lady and throwing her in front of gangsters.

And he has already used He Taisheng's hand to secretly intervene. Although it is only passenger transport, it is also part of maritime transport, isn't it?

Back to business, Zhu Chuanren and Ni Sichun got off the boat and took a gondola to a sea hotel.

Venice is the most beautiful and romantic water city in the world. Its winding water alleys and flowing clear waves are like a romantic dream floating on the blue waves.

The entire city is built on the water, with waterways serving as streets and alleys. Boats are the only means of transportation in Venice. Venice is the only city in the world without cars. It is composed of 118 small islands and 177 canals densely distributed like a spider web.

The hotel where Zhu Chuanren and the others stayed was called Laurel Hotel in translation, a very beautiful and poetic name.

The entire city is filled with Renaissance and Byzantine architecture, such as Piazza San Marco, which has breathtakingly beautiful cloisters, buildings, paintings and sculptures, and is full of romantic footprints left by great writers, painters, and musicians.

The Laurel Hotel can always sit on this dreamy romance on the blue waves and integrate itself into this beautiful picture.

As soon as you enter the hotel, you feel like you have entered a beautiful palace like a fairy tale.

It is integrated with the magnificent water style of Venice and is located in the center of the ancient Republic of Venice. It is at the entrance to Piazza San Marco, which represents the history of Venetian art and the spirit of the city.

Therefore, it is only a few steps away from the most beautiful Piazza San Marco in the world, overlooking the island of San Giorgio and the San Marco Basin.

Enjoy Venice's most beautiful water city scenery and its most concentrated historical and artistic landscape.

I learned from the hotel steward that this hotel was originally a church. In 1187, it was donated by the Archbishop of Ravenna and belonged to the Knights Templar.

The Knights Templar, who frequently made pilgrimages to the Holy Land, were very supportive of trade between Europe and the East and established good relations with many urban states.

For this purpose, a shelter was built for the Knights Templar to stay while waiting for the arrival of the Venetian galleys, which is the historical predecessor of the current Laurel Hotel.

As soon as you enter the hotel, you can see the costumes of the count, the lady and the children on the stairs. On the first floor is the Marco Polo Banquet Hall, which not only provides exquisite food and drinks, but is also extremely luxurious and spacious.

The ceiling is decorated with precious murals depicting scenes of joy in the world, painted by the famous artist Tiepolo in the 1700s.

The hotel's antique furniture can be traced back to the last century, and the majestic crystal chandeliers and art decorations fill the lobby, giving birth to extraordinary antique luxury and elegance, just like walking into a beautiful fairy tale palace.

In the hotel, you can see Piazza San Marco, known as the most beautiful square in the world, without leaving your home.

St. Mark's Square and St. Mark's Basilica are the most famous places of interest in Venice, with a total area of ​​about 1 square meters. They are rare masterpieces of ancient Roman architecture.

Since ancient times, it has been the center of public activities for Venice's political, religious and traditional festivals.

After Napoleon occupied Venice in 1797, he praised Piazza San Marco as "the most beautiful square in the world". The square was surrounded by magnificent palace buildings on the south, north and west sides.

To the east stands the 98.6-meter-high St. Mark's Bell Tower and the St. Mark's Church, which combines Eastern and Western architectural art.

The most beautiful time is when the tide is high. The tide is like paving a huge mirror in the square, making all the buildings seem to be inlaid in the middle of crystal or glass, making them appear exquisite, translucent and dazzling. You can see it all while sitting on the terrace of the hotel. Nothing left.

Go out before 7 a.m. and only take a 5-minute walk to enjoy the view of the sunrise over the water of San Marco's inner harbor.

Countless tourists from all over the world linger here and use the oldest camera equipment to take photos here. It is also a unique landscape here, leaving romantic memories and stunning scenery that will be unforgettable for a lifetime.

The hotel itself has a small private pier. You can ask the hotel service staff to rent a boat or gondola, and row your own boat to explore every corner of Venice.

The romantic atmosphere of taking a boat ride through the streets and watching hundreds of bridges in Venice is unforgettable.

These bridges come in various shapes and styles.Some are like swimming dragons, some are like flying rainbows, some are solemn, and some are small.

There are historical memories and classical art everywhere, the most famous of which is the Liard Bridge, which is shaped like a single-hole arch bridge and is made of marble. It was built around 1592.

The bridge is 48 meters long and 22 meters wide. Shakespeare's literary masterpiece "The Merchant of Venice" describes the story that happened here.

Zhu Chuanren booked an earl suite, which is famous for its luxury and spaciousness. It has a large and comfortable Carrara and basalt marble bathroom; the interior is paved with "Versailles"-style floors;

Even the terrace is huge, about 100 square meters, and offers a panoramic view of the beautiful water scenery of St. George Island.

Taking a bath in the large and comfortable bathroom while sipping wine is definitely an unforgettable memory. It will sweep away the fatigue of the bumpy journey and make you forget the passage of time.

Ni Sichun came back from studying abroad, but she had never been to Venice. She only heard about the beautiful scenery here, but it was not as good as seeing it with her own eyes.

As soon as she got off the boat, she fell in love with everything here, the wind, the days, the rippling water, sitting on the gondola and drifting with the current, and even felt that heaven was nothing more than this.

Xin'er's eyes were opened even more. It turns out that there is another scene in this world.

It turns out that not all foreigners are blond and blue-eyed, there are also some with black hair and red hair, and they even look very similar to Chinese.

On the boat, Zhu Chuanren relied on his previous life experience to spread a lot of common sense to the two girls, and also told them the history of Venice, which made them admire them very much.

In particular, Zhu Chuanren could tell a thing or two about every bridge and building here, which stunned Ni Sichun, who thought he was well-informed.

"Honey, where do you know so much?"

"Book!"

Zhu Chuanren certainly couldn't say that he had watched the documentary, and could only blame everything on books.

After two days of fun in Venice, I was satisfied with all kinds of lobster dinners, and Zhu Chuanren also thoroughly satisfied the two girls in bed.

After settling all this, he took Lao Tan out of the hotel door alone, preparing to find a suitable talent to become his agent in Venice.

Seeing that Lao Tan was so restrained in his formal dress that he didn't even dare to turn his head, Zhu Chuanren chuckled and said:

"Are you concerned? Do you want to go back to the hotel and rest first?"

"No, Third Young Master, I just think it's too dangerous here. There are foreign devils everywhere."

At this time, the young man wearing glasses on the other side spoke:

"Haha~ Lao Tan, don't worry, foreign devils just look scary and don't eat people."

This kid's name is Mao Dan, which sounds like a poor name, but he is a serious international student, and he speaks three languages, including English, Spanish, and Italian.

Don't ask why, just ask that his brother is so big that he can conquer all white women.

Since ancient times, the bed has been the best place to learn a language.

Zhu Chuanren did not have this talent for language. Mao Dan was the little language genius he spent a lot of money to find before setting off.

Without an interpreter, they could not move forward.

"Maodan, how's the matter that I asked you to inquire about?"

Hearing Zhu Chuanren's words, Mao Dan quickly suppressed his smile. He didn't dare to be presumptuous with this person.

"Go back to the third young master and ask around. There is a man named Ricardo. He is 26 years old this year. He once studied in Chou Country and was born in a Venetian merchant family. However, his family fell into trouble and he has now become a broker."

Zhu Chuanren nodded:
"Just him, where can I find him?"

"I asked for the address. Let's just row there."

"OK!" This is Zhu Chuanren's most familiar foreign language.

The three of them got on the gondola rented by the hotel. Mao Dan and Lao Tan were responsible for rowing, and Zhu Chuanren was responsible for admiring the scenery.

Nonsense, we can't let him, a young master, row the boat himself, right?What a loss.

Venice's waterways have been replenished, and now it's just high tide, so there's plenty of water and it's the most charming time.

The sun shines down, as if a golden avenue has been paved between the buildings, and the gondola is floating on it, which is very dreamy.

Mao Dan was rowing while staring at the map. Without a map to guide him, he would definitely get lost.

After paddling for about 20 minutes, we arrived at the eastern part of the small town of Venice and entered a narrow waterway.

There were no ships passing by in the waterway, they were the only one, and it looked a little deserted.

"No. 18, No. 19, No. 20, Third Young Master, here we are!"

Mao Dan quickly threw the cable to the pillar at the door of a house, then jumped onto the steps and knocked on the door.

"Is Mr. Ricardo at home?"

After a while, footsteps came from inside, and the door opened with a sour sound:

"You are?"

The young man who opened the door looked very much like an Oriental. His black hair was slightly curly, his eyes were deep-set, and his nose was high. He looked almost mixed-race.

"Is this Mr. Ricardo?" Mao Dan asked in fluent but not authentic Italian.

"I am Ricardo!"

"Hello Mr. Ricardo, we are businessmen from the East and we need your help with something."

When Ricardo heard that business was coming, he immediately showed the face of a businessman.

"It turns out that we are guests from the East who have come from afar. Welcome, please come in."

Zhu Chuanren heard Mao Dan's story and stepped up the steps with a smile.

Ricardo's home is not big, and can only be considered medium-sized in Venice. It has three floors excluding the foundation. It looks very solid. The floor is covered with handmade carpets. The fireplace is not in use. The temperature is not too low now. Outside There is still sunshine, no need to light a fire.

The whole home is very warmly decorated, but judging from some of the furniture, it is somewhat old. It seems that the house must be old.

Zhu Chuanren sat on the sofa amid Ricardo's warm welcome. Ricardo was busy making coffee and bringing it to him.

"I didn't expect that people as far away as the East would hear my name. It's such an honor."

Mao Dan translated Ricardo’s words, and Zhu Chuanren smiled and said:

"There are also many Italians where I live, and I heard about you from them."

There is no doubt that Zhu Chuanren lied, but there is no other way. If he wants something, he must flatter him.

"Haha, really? That's such an honor. I welcome it no matter what."

"Mr. Ricardo, I'm curious how the Venetians built houses on the water and developed to the scale it is today."

Zhu Chuanren was really curious, and this part of his knowledge was not reflected in the documentary.

Ricardo said with spontaneous pride:

“I think everyone who comes to Venice will have this question. It goes back to one day more than 1000 years ago, when a group of poor Romans supported the old and the young, screaming and wailing.

In the distance are the Hun barbarians who are killing people as fast as wind and lightning. The Romans have no ability to resist, and they don't even have the strength to run. They can't run up the mountain because they will be chased halfway, and they can't run south along the seaside. , because the barbarians are also marching in this direction.

At this time, a voice came from the air - Climb up the tower and look towards the sea. The place you see is your future home!
Desperate people quickly climbed to the church tower... where was their home?
Just a swamp, nothing but reeds.

But everyone had no choice but to run towards the vast sea. Barbarian soldiers shot arrows and laughed at them on the shore.

These poor people are the ancestors of Venice.

The Western Roman Empire fell after 24 years, which meant that they might never return to their homeland. Barbarian officials recorded their lives - the land opened and closed due to the ebb and flow of the tide, and the houses floated on the water like water birds. Sometimes it folds its wings and rests on the ground.

As soon as the first batch of entrepreneurial partners established their foothold, another group of barbarians (Lombards) came over, and the swamps were no longer safe. They hurriedly took their poor belongings - maybe only clothes, or even no clothes - and fled deeper into the sea.

So they settled in the lagoon, but hundreds of years later they were hunted down to Rialto Island.

On Rialto Island in the middle of the lagoon, the ancestors discovered the secret of the lagoon.

The water in the lagoon protects Venice from invasion by mainlanders.

The shoals made attacks from the sea impossible, and it was on the shoals that the pursuers perished.

But the ideal is full, and the reality is very backbone.

The ideal is to live, but the reality is that you have to have a house, and to build a house you need land. But you are surrounded by seawater, swamps and shoals. How can you build one?

There is a way.Oak or pine wood was whittled as sharp as nails and then driven into the swamps in dense masses.

After driving the piles, layers of stones were laid, and the gaps between the stones were filled with concrete to fix them, thus creating land.

When we got the land, we started building wooden houses. Later, we found that wooden houses were easy to catch fire, so we changed them to stone houses.

Therefore, we Venetians always say that Venice is a city built on a forest, which is not an exaggeration at all.

In short, Venice, whether it is a church, a square, a street, a stone slab... there are actually wooden piles underneath.

Including romance, there are also wooden piles below! "

After Zhu Chuanren listened to Mao Dan’s translation, he felt bad:

"Wooden piles? Won't they be corroded and fester by the sea water?"

"Haha, this is a good question, but I can't answer it because I don't know the secret of the wood pile not rotting. Maybe it's God's blessing?"

Well, that’s not important. After chatting for a while, Zhu Chuanren asked:

"Mr. Ricardo, if I want to set up a shipping trading company in Venice, what do I need to do?"

(End of this chapter)