Thunder Emperor

During his stay in London, England, for more than a month, Liu Qiang met many nobles in London under the recommendation of the Duke of Windsor, and Liu Qiang also took the opportunity to reach a supply agreement with several nobles on spices, sugar and tobacco. Taking advantage of a temporary return, he sold a large amount of modern black tea to the London nobles in the seventeenth century. For this batch of tea orders as high as 470 tons, Liu Qiang cleared all the black tea stocks in the western tea city in one day in Xijing.

Lei Jiede is a young tea merchant. He has a tea shop on Bird Street in London, specializing in selling all kinds of black tea and tobacco. However, with the death of his father, those old customers gradually stopped coming. , the business can be said to have plummeted.

Lei Jiede has been very anxious these days. Vlad, a despicable profiteer, went to his shop four days ago and openly announced to him that Lei Jiede would transfer the shop to him. The well-educated Lei Jiede wanted to fight him, but this despicable old man actually brought out Baron Arland, which made Lei Jiede, who did not have any support from the nobles, fall into deep helplessness.

The door of the old store was pushed open, Lei Jiede heard the ringing of the doorbell, and showed a puzzled expression, he had clearly put up the sign of closure, but out of good family education, since there are customers coming to the door, he must He entertained with a smile, although Lei Jiede couldn't smile at all at this time.

"Hi sir! What can I do for you?" Because the store was not lit, Lei Jiede didn't see the customer's appearance clearly, but he still asked the customer's needs out of etiquette.

"Mr. Lei Jiede! I didn't come here to buy anything. I took the liberty to come here today to ask, do you plan to sell your shop?" The visitor said in a polite voice that Lei Jiede didn't want to hear speech.

"I'm sorry sir! If you are the lobbyist of that old guy Vlad, then please leave my shop and tell him that I will not sell the shop!" Reggie De said in a gentlemanly manner. expressed his dissatisfaction.

"Oh! I think you have misunderstood! I don't know Vlad. I am here to discuss with you on my own behalf. Please forgive me if you have misunderstood!" The person who came was Liu Qiang. I want to find a suitable shop in the busiest neighborhood in London to sell the goods I brought and the goods I looted in the Caribbean.

Knowing that he had identified the wrong person, Lei Jiede apologized for his recklessness. "Oh! I'm sorry, sir! I didn't mean to say that, but I met a despicable opponent before, which caused my store business to be very poor. Although I don't want to sell my store now, I have no choice but to sell it. But for Vlad, the culprit of all this, I will never transfer the shop to him no matter what!"

"Hehe! Don't worry, I am not sent by Vlad. I represent myself. If you don't believe me, you can go to the Duke of Windsor's mansion and ask. I will live there for a few days!"

"Oh! Sir! You are actually a distinguished guest of the Duke of Windsor! I believe you. After all, Baron Arland, Vlad's backer, has always been a deadly enemy with the Duke of Windsor. The two of them used to have sex in the suburbs for some things. You are a distinguished guest of the Duke of Windsor, and I would like to talk to you about the transfer of the store!" Hearing that the visitor is a guest of the Duke of Windsor's family, Lei Jiede expressed that he would like to talk to Liu Qiang, and it seems that the Duke of Windsor is in the public opinion. The reputation is still quite good.

After more than an hour of negotiation, Liu Qiang won the shop with an area of ​​130 square meters at a price of 110 pounds, and Lei Jiede became the manager of the shop at the invitation of Liu Qiang and continued to work in the shop. .When Liu Qiang's first shop opened in London three days later, the businessman Vlad, who originally wanted to come to make trouble, was surprised to find that Dude Windsor, the eldest son of the Duke of Windsor, came here on behalf of his father, the Duke of Windsor. congratulate.

Liu Qiang actually didn’t need to buy a store by himself, but the reason why he did this was to give Baron Arlande, who had a private connection with Spain and the helm of the British Ministry of Commerce, an eye salve. Making money was just incidental That's all.

The Duke of Windsor once told Liu Qiang that if the UK is to send troops to control the shipping to the northwest of Spain, it is necessary to get rid of this baron who has always been ambiguous with Spain. He will soon learn the news and take precautions, because the baron has hundreds of high-quality pigeons at home, and he uses these pigeons to contact Spain.

Liu Qiang once asked the Duke of Windsor curiously, why did the British royal family know that Baron Arlande had connections with Spain, and entrusted him with such an important position as the Ministry of Commerce?However, Windsor's answer to Liu Qiang was because the baron's wife was the sister of the current Queen Elizabeth. In order to take care of the royal family's face, she had to act as if she didn't know it!

In order to take care of the royal family's face, he exposed all the commercial secrets of his country to the enemy. The person who came up with such a trick was beyond Liu Qiang's imagination. This showed Liu Qiang the chaos of the British regime in this era.

Baron Arland's Mansion is located on the outskirts of London. This large and vast manor is full of various ornamental plants and fruit trees. Old Vlad is standing respectfully among a man with a beautiful moustache. In front of the young man, I reported to him about Liu Qiang and the shop.

"Your Excellency! This oriental man named Liu Qiang is the pirate who plundered Spanish gold ships and merchant ships in the Caribbean not long ago! But he has a privateer certificate issued by the royal family in his hand, and the plunder he handed over to the country Taxes are much higher, so it is almost impossible for us to attack him as a pirate!"

"Vlad, don't you claim to be the most powerful middleman in London? Such a low-class person who just came to London, just because of identity issues makes you shrink back! I know that behind him is Windsor, but behind you I am helping you You, think of a way to squeeze his shop to death and force him to sell all the tea to me, I believe you can do this little thing, right?" Arlande was actually very anxious, recently because of the weather and other reasons , causing problems in the supply of tea in Spain, and there were more than one letter to him, hoping that he would solve the tea problem as soon as possible.

The lack of tea in Spain is actually caused by Liu Qiang. After he came to London, he released the Mojiao and tried his best to attack Spanish merchant ships along the west coast of Africa. As a result, no merchant ships in Spain have entered the port for a month. Now Spain is not only in trouble with tea. In short supply, even other commodities have become in short supply.

In Europe in the seventeenth century, Spain controlled the Strait of Gibraltar, the gateway to the Mediterranean Sea. Therefore, the vast majority of foreign goods in the countries along the entire Mediterranean Sea depended on imports from Spain.At this time, Spain is almost out of stock even in its own domestic market, let alone the demand for exports. For this reason, the King of Spain thought of Baron Arlande in England.

As the head of the Ministry of Commerce of the British Empire, Baron Arlande began to purchase a large amount of tea and other goods in the British market after receiving a letter from his business partner Spain, and began to purchase shops through some relatively despicable means in order to get the most smuggling deficit.Because only by controlling most of the tea sales channels in the British market, can the purchase price of tea be lowered. After purchasing these teas across the ocean at low prices, Baron Arlande can smuggle these low-priced teas to Spain at high prices. Earn huge profits so that he can become the largest tea merchant in all of Europe.

The wishful thinking was good, but the arrival of Liu Qiang shattered Arland's sweet dream. This oriental general who was looked down upon by Arland, as soon as he appeared in the aristocratic circle in London, he sold cheap and high-quality tea wantonly. The tea that Yalande bought before became straw, and Liu Qiang's tea was overwhelmed by Liu Qiang's tea in terms of quality and quantity, and the plan to dominate the European tea market became a pipe dream.

Liu Qiang doesn't care whether he is missed or not!At this time, he was sitting on the balcony of his room, enjoying the warmth brought by the rare sunshine in London, while sitting across from him was Barbossa who had just arrived.

"BOSS! Since you left the Caribbean Sea, Spanish merchant ships have become active, which has also brought convenience to Jack and me. In just seven days, we have robbed five Spanish merchant ships. No! You gave The ships we left behind are all full of spoils. According to your previous request, I escorted those ships and took the route you specified to arrive at the port of London without any hindrance. Now the warehouses you leased are now full. Do you need to go and check it yourself?"

"Barbosa! Your work efficiency is still very fast! I won't go to check those goods. You can clean them up later. I will introduce you to the Duke of Windsor. From now on, you will be my representative in the Caribbean. Everything The proceeds from the looting are not only the taxes paid, but also the goods sold in our own shops, and the rest are all sold to Mr. Duke of Windsor. This is the foundation of our foothold in the UK, and I don’t think you want to spend your whole life on the sea!”

"Boss! You are simply a genius. In this case, we are doing business without capital. Except for the consumption of ships, everything else is pure profit. With the help of the Duke of Windsor, we are like ducks in water in the UK. No matter what we do Everything is a green light all the way!" After hearing Liu Qiang's arrangement, Barbosa couldn't help but feel that his boss was so clever that even a veteran nobleman like the Duke of Windsor could win him over.

After more than a month of operation, Liu Qiang now has more than a dozen shops selling tea and other imported goods in London, and three of them also sell silk and porcelain, which are extremely rare in Europe.This blow hit Baron Arland's throat completely. Porcelain has always been a luxury item that European nobles sought after. In the past, most of the porcelain in Europe was held in the hands of the Dutch. The prohibition of the sea caused porcelain to gradually disappear from the market throughout Europe.