Movie World I Am A King

Hearing Charlie's rhetorical question, Chang Kun secretly scolded the old fox in his heart. After thinking for a while, he said, "To tell the truth, Mr. Charlie, I have already met His Royal Highness King An today!"

"Oh?" Charlie was also surprised. He didn't expect that Chang Kun had already met King An.

"His Royal Highness Wang An is not very friendly to me." Chang Kun said, "I'm afraid I have a lot of complaints about letting your company's opium enter Guangdong without permission!"

"This..." Charlie was also a little depressed. When Daoguang just came to the throne, he did strictly investigate opium for a period of time, which brought a lot of losses to their East India Company. Corruption and connivance allowed them to slowly return to their current state, even better than before.

Is this the beginning of another anti-smoking campaign under the command of Daoguang? Charlie was a little uneasy. If this event caused too much damage to the East India Company, he might be transferred from this country where gold flows in the land...

This is a result that Charlie absolutely cannot accept, but after he thought about it, since Chang Kun called him over, he probably wanted to discuss with him how to deal with this matter. Charlie also put his heart into his stomach, and the old god asked Said: "Then I wonder what kind of attitude this King An has towards our English businessman?"

"Hehe..." Chang Kun said with a sneer, "I just let your smoke come in, and you are the ones behind the scenes who actually transported the smoke into our country. What do you think His Royal Highness An will do to you?" ?”

"...This!" Charlie was so choked by Chang Kun that he was almost speechless, and instead of being angry, he smiled and said, "Then, does Mr. Chang Kun have any good solutions? For example, after buying His Highness King An Category……"

"Hehe, buy it?" Chang Kun sneered: "This King An is the prince of the city. Strictly speaking, these two provinces belong to him. What do you use to buy him?"

"My God... Can we just watch him cut off our money?" As a businessman, Charlie couldn't tolerate the fact that his biggest money was cut off by others.

The East India Company transported the big tobacco planted in Calcutta to Huaguo to earn high profits, and then shipped from Huaguo the commodities that were sought after by the European high society, such as porcelain, silk and tea, to the mainland, and then shipped those low-priced goods from the mainland. Industrial products go to Calcutta for big smoke...

This kind of triangular trade has made these businessmen a lot of money. As far as Charlie knows, in the past seven or eight years when he was in charge of Guangzhou's business, there was a lucky man who got a big tobacco license from the East India Company. From a small fleet of only seven or eight two-masted medium-sized merchant ships to a luxury merchant with more than thirty three-masted galleons, one can imagine how huge the profits are.

"Oh, dear Your Excellency Chang Kun, I know you must have a good idea!" Charlie stared into Chang Kun's eyes, as if he wanted to see something. "Come on, speak out, tell your best old friend Charlie!"

"What can I do?" Chang Kun said helplessly: "I just stopped my cooperation with you. I called you this time to inform you that I will strictly inspect your country's merchant ships in the future. Please also inform the businessmen of your company, Charlie, that it is strictly forbidden to transport opium in the future, so as not to cause unnecessary troubles, after all, we had a very happy cooperation before!"

Charlie heard Chang Kun say that he would start to strictly inspect the merchant ships that docked. And the business of opium and soil is strictly prohibited. Suddenly, like a cat whose tail has been stepped on, the whole person danced high, dancing and shouting angrily: "God, you are a betrayal... a fruit-eating betrayal."

"How can I be betrayed?" Chang Kun said with a smile: "I just can't cooperate with you in the future. I am an official of the Qing Dynasty and receive a salary from the Qing Dynasty. It is a favor to cooperate with you. It is moral not to cooperate with you!"

"..." Charlie calmed down, looked at Chang Kun in silence for a while, and then smiled slightly: "Okay, Your Excellency Chang Kun, we don't have to play tricks, if you have any ideas, please tell me quickly Well, according to the common saying in your country of Hua, we are two grasshoppers tied to a rope, we can't run away from me, and we can't jump on you!"

"Hehe... What does Mr. Charlie say?" Chang Kun pretended to be stupid.

"Although I don't know how big the crime of dereliction of duty is in your country!" Charlie smiled confidently: "But in our country, if an official commits dereliction of duty, his successor will hold him in the mud and kick him hard for a few more times. feet, so that he will never be able to climb to the shore again."

After saying these words, Charlie looked at Chang Kun's slightly twitching eyes, nodded with satisfaction, and then said: "I think people's hearts are basically connected in this world, so Your Excellency Chang Kun, since you want my If you want to assist, please tell me clearly, don’t make circles with me here anymore... That’s not a wise choice, after all, we have common interests, we are allies, aren’t we?”

"...Okay!" Chang Kun's idea of ​​trying to fool these foreigners into killing people with a knife has gone bankrupt. Although Charlie doesn't know much, it is obvious that he has seen through his current situation, and it is impossible to stay out of it. up...

After sorting out his thoughts, Chang Kun leaned forward to Charlie, lowered his voice and said, "If we want everything to remain the same, you transport your big smoke, and I will be my navy admiral, then that King An ...Must die!!!!"

"Hiss—!" Charlie gasped when he heard this remark... He saw that Chang Kun was threatening and intimidating him here, and he expected that Chang Kun's picture must be very small, but he didn't expect Chang Kun to It's so bold. "You are murdering... and the one who murdered was an imperial prince...!!"

"NONONO... This is not murder, it's just an accident..." Chang Kun shook his head, holding on to the word he only knew, with a look of compassion. "His Royal Highness King An visited Zengcheng County privately, but... a group of daring pirates went upstream along the river and attacked Zengcheng County. The officials were unable to rescue them, and His Royal Highness King An was not spared. This is really unfortunate news! Isn't it? ?”

"What a great idea!!!" Charlie smiled and applauded Chang Kun's performance, and then asked inadvertently, "Then where do you find those pirates, Mr. Chang Kun?"

"Huh?" Chang Kun cast a glance at Charlie, and his heart was really burning with anger. It's really a dream for this old fox to stay out of it. "Mr. Charlie, I heard that all armed merchant ships in your country are equipped with twelve-pound guns, and all merchant ships carry muskets..."

"You know, the sea is not safe. In order to prevent those damn pirates from snatching the cuties in our pockets, these equipments are necessary!" Charlie blinked and pretended to be stupid.

"Okay..." Chang Kun smiled and said: "It seems that the Dutch businessmen are all lying about your accusations? The Spanish merchants also accused you of robbing their caravans many times. Is this also false? "

"Uh..." Charlie was helpless. He knew the virtues of those armed merchant ships in the East India best. Do you mind picking up a knife and gun and playing a guest role as a pirate? After all, small money is such a thing that it is easy to earn money.

Especially those who dared to go to sea in this period, who is not tough and abnormal, disregarding life and death, you must know that in this era, the ability of ships to resist wind and waves is still not very good... Human creations are like Children's toys are generally fragile.

So most of the time, sailors are equivalent to pirates, only one has a bright identity, and the other does not...not to mention that there are pirates who issue privateer certificates and wear certificates to work in various countries.

Charlie has already seen that Chang Kun wants his men to act as pirates and kill the prince... But he is a businessman. What is a businessman? Those who don't see rabbits and don't scatter eagles are businessmen, even if wine is squeezed out of a stone, this is a businessman, and they will never do things that have no benefit, this is a businessman! ! !