Chapter 29

Dressed in a stiff tuxedo, Lorraine and Haina sat in the glittering tacky reception hall.

Opposite them was the owner of the room, Mr. Frey, a glassware merchant in black harbor.

"Mr. Frey, I sincerely thank you for your willingness to accept our request for a meeting in your busy schedule."

"HMM."

"We picked up a boat of exquisite glassware from the kingdom of Norway. Although it is not the master's hand, it has clear shape and grain and is of high quality. I wonder if you can waste your time and have a look at it?"

"Haven't you brought it? If you don't take it out, it will probably delay me longer." Frey took out his silk scarf and slowly wiped the Emerald on his finger. "Time is money, young sir."

"I feel the same way."

Lolin smiled like a spring breeze, waved her hand and asked Haina to take out the square wooden box and open it in Frey's direction.

Frey glanced at the back of Hannah's Brown hand in disgust: "moor?"

"She's Coptic, sir."

"Well, it's no different."

Frey didn't know that he had just walked on the line of life and death. He put away his silk scarf, took out a pair of white gloves from his pocket and carefully picked up the glass bowl in the box.

This is a large bowl with arc twill, crystal clear and blooming like a flower.

There are carvings on all sides, including the Virgin Mary, embracing Christ, the son and the mother, and the Trinity. The carvings are stained with colorful colors, especially exquisite and beautiful workmanship.

Frey looked at it for a long time and suddenly asked, "young sir, should you be less than twenty?"

"Sixteen, sir."

"Sixteen... When I was sixteen, I was still soliciting business in my relatives' shop. My father didn't want me to touch my own shop at all."

Lorraine knew what Frey wanted to ask, because he had heard similar questions many times these days.

He shook his head: "Sir, I'm English. It's normal for English people to get on board at the age of 13 or 14."

"But their positions are limited to interns. Perhaps the best of them can become sailors, but they can never be captain." Frey put down his basin and narrowed his eyes. "Young sir, I'm curious. How can your family rest assured of your safety at sea?"

"Maybe... That's the advantage of not having a family?"

"No..." Frey silently swept the edge of the glass basin, one or two times, and finally stopped. "The appearance is good. If you have this appearance, I'm willing to bid ￡ 2.5 for each one, how much I have and how much I charge."

Lorraine gently closed the box and left the table. "Excuse me, Mr. Frey."

Frey sat upright and crossed his legs. "Young people should be realistic. You don't have a permanent agreement. It's not easy to find a higher bid than me in belmayo."

"Thank you for your kind advice. Goodbye."

……

In belmayo black harbor, Spain, Lorraine still failed to sell his glass on the 17th day of the anchoring of the beauty of the Atlantis.

Each black harbor has its own unique characteristics.

Cherbourg is characterized by chaos, Elgin is characterized by order.

Stavanger is as reckless and xenophobic as the Vikings, while belmeo is like the twilight kingdom of Spain, with an open appearance and a conservative interior.

The business model of the black port opened Lorraine's eyes.

First of all, unlike other black ports, she sets a threshold for businessmen to enter Hong Kong. Anyone can come to Hong Kong to do business, and everyone can enjoy the protection of the system.

There is no need to worry about forced buying and selling here, nor do you have to worry about the bad things like Lorraine in Cherbourg, who was sold and paid for the number of people.

However, belmayo, which has the most fair business environment in black port, has not been truly fair.

Taking the tax rate of the management committee as the boundary, the local business groups have established strict trade barriers and adopted different valuation systems for resident and tourist businesses.

Resident businessmen can buy at a low price and sell at a high price in belmayo, while enjoying a lower port tax rate; While tourists like Lorraine must buy at a fair price and sell at a low price, they must bear higher taxes.

When he first entered Hong Kong, Lorraine thought that this was the short-sighted practice of the local business group. But after three consecutive applications for resident qualification were rejected, his view changed again.

This strange secondary market is probably not the spontaneous behavior of businessmen, but a premeditated government behavior.

Its purpose is to forcibly realize the trade surplus through obscure administrative intervention, find dumping exports for Spanish goods, and slow down the outflow of domestic gold and silver reserves.

This kind of beating around the Bush is very likely in Spain

The once powerful kingdom of Spain has long been the yellow flower of tomorrow.

The royal family is extravagant and politically conservative. As the leader of the era of great navigation, she failed to cultivate a solid and reliable middle class in this unparalleled geographical discovery. As a result, the market hematopoietic ability is poor. After the bonus period of colonial reclamation, the economy shows a trend of substantial recession.

On the one hand, the people were in trouble and the domestic purchasing power was weak. On the other hand, the increasingly mature colonies kept transporting their products back to China and stacking them in warehouses.

Under the intertwined contradictions between the two sides, overseas products in short supply throughout Europe show a strange surplus in the Spanish market.

That's why black ports like belmayo appear.

In the astute calculation of the Spaniards, they never wanted to accept the products of other countries through these offshore black ports. They just wanted to use the transportation capacity of black market businessmen to sell the colonial goods accumulated in China. The more, the better.

Having figured this out, Lorraine completely gave up his plan to change the port.

The whole black harbor in cabis Bay is supposed to be the same.

Even not only the black port, perhaps even the regular port of Spain is this style. Otherwise, why would a super big port like Bilbao break down so fast and take people by surprise?

Isn't this... Giving me trouble!

Walking out of Mr. Frey's exchange with Haina, Lorraine put down her disguise and rubbed her eyebrows wearily.

"Haina, which one is this?"

"Ten."

"The highest price is two pounds and twelve shillings, and the lowest price is one pound and sixteen shillings. Are these Spanish businessmen too good at business or not?"

They walked to a small square and casually found a bench to sit down.

Lorraine is in a dilemma.

On the one hand, overseas commodities are the most important part of the triangular trade ring designed by Lorraine, which can ensure the diversity of commodities of the chamber of Commerce and help Lorraine quickly accumulate contacts.

The special market environment in which Spain is eager to sell overseas goods is something he can never give up.

On the other hand, accepting the unequal treaty with tourists will greatly slow down his accumulation of wealth, even destroy his good start in Scotland and Norway, and finally make him trapped in the small trading circle of black market businessmen all his life.

The best way to solve this dilemma is to get belmayo's business qualification.

He has made it clear that the belmayo black port management committee is composed of seven gentlemen. It must be recognized by four gentlemen at the same time before the business application can be passed.

Lorraine is a stranger here. It is extremely difficult to achieve this condition in a short time.

Fortunately, he has another way out, viscount Alfonso.

Viscount is a member of the seven member group of the management committee. He has a grand reputation and has a strong influence on other members. Only with his help could Lorraine open up the situation of belmayo.

But

"The two sides are neither relatives nor friends, and the Viscount is often not in Hong Kong. How can we get on the line with him?" Lorraine thought wholeheartedly and said what he thought unknowingly.

Haina raised her eyebrows: "you can find out his home address. I'll kidnap his children in disguise first, and then you save people in front of him and beat me away. In this way, friendship will be established."

Lorraine couldn't laugh or cry: "is it a fool to be a Viscount for such a deliberate script?"

"You can do it really." heina was murderous. "For example, during the rescue, I poked a few holes in you and shed more blood. Out of guilt, the Viscount is not easy to doubt."

"You... Can't be serious?"

Haina is serious.

She has had enough of anger these days. Her mind is full of trying to poke transparent holes in people. She can't do it at all.

Lorraine saw it and was stunned.

He swallowed his saliva and looked around. Suddenly, he saw more than a dozen colorful dome caravans at the end of the square and occupied a corner of the square.

The gospel of heaven!

Lorraine was overjoyed and anxiously turned off the topic: "look, Haina, there are Gypsies here!"

Dead silence

Haina looked at him coldly and said, "you are a gypsy! Your whole family is a gypsy!"