Chapter Five Hundred and Ninety-Three It is transporting people and arbitrage!
Liu Asheng is now the Jiatai of Lanfang Company. In fact, more people in Lanfang Company are called Lanfang Country. Anyway, foreigners think so. And Jiatai is the highest ruler.
And this position, according to Westerners, is the result of democratic politics and is elected!
There are also salary, but not many. It is really not easy for Lanfang Company to survive for so many years. It is thanks to everyone's efforts. The unity of these Chinese people who are stranded overseas, and the harmonious relationship formed between them is not distinguished from each other...
To be honest, in Li Mengyang's eyes, the situation of Lanfang Company is a bit communist, which is really the case. But there is another explanation for this situation, that is, the social form of pirates!
Well, Li Mengyang would never say this to Liu Asheng, even if Li Mengyang makes sense.
This is because many people actually don’t understand pirates. The pirate’s career is actually very communist and democratic. The reason is that in the past, pirates made a living, not as people imagined, eating meat in big mouthfuls and dividing gold and silver. On the contrary, pirates’ life is very hard, at least there are no women on the pirate ship, and there must be no women!
Because if there is a woman, it is impossible for every pirate to have one, so it will naturally appear, an unfair situation. In a market economy, this is called unreasonable resource allocation, and then a situation will naturally occur.
Pirates will kill each other!
Therefore, the pirates act so terrible when they stop the boat and dock, and they are so hungry and can only hold them back!
But in fact, women cannot divide it by weight, they cannot divide it according to the weight or the number. They can't kill a woman, right?
Therefore, pirates are actually a rare form of harmonious communist society in human history. The captains of pirates are voted for by seamen, so they are also democratic.
And all of this is to be able to live on the sea and be a pirate happily...
Of course, I will never say this. Even if Lan Fang company sometimes plays a guest appearance as a pirate, they are originally a social organization. But Li Mengyang will never say this, and he still has to meet Liu Asheng.
"Long live my emperor!" When Liu Asheng received a letter saying that Li Mengyang, the emperor of the Pacific Empire, wanted to see him, Liu Asheng rushed over. You know, this is really a place to meet in Washington.
"Don't kneel, don't kneel, we won't promote this." Li Mengyang hurriedly went to support others.
There is no way, Liu Asheng said from the root. He was still a remnant of the Qing Dynasty. This is his understanding of various etiquettes.
"Your Majesty is so kind!" Liu Asheng was very moved and wanted to kowtow!
"..." Li Mengyang quickly tried hard.
If you want to say, Liu Asheng is really too enthusiastic, but in fact, he has an idea in his heart.
The title of Lan Fang Kingdom was called by foreigners, but in fact, Liu Asheng and the others did not call themselves Lan Fang Kingdom. They don’t think so in the Republic. To put it bluntly, they even regard themselves as Chinese. Why do Chinese people call themselves Lan Fang Kingdom?
To be honest, the national cohesion of our Chinese people is really strong, and this is our advantage.
Of course Li Mengyang knew about this, but he was very clear that he could not admit the Lanfang company now, and he could not say that you are a company, not a country, you are Chinese, and a subject of my Pacific Empire.
It really can't be said, really!
But however, Li Mengyang still gave them benefits.
"Asheng, I'm here to come to you this time just for a big deal. Your Lanfang company does more sea business, so I want to introduce a sea business to you now."
"Ah?" Liu Asheng was so strange. Is the person in front of him an emperor?
You should know that the emperors in China have always been discriminatory about business, and they emphasize agriculture and suppress commerce. Therefore, under this concept, Liu Asheng felt that Lanfang's company could not return to the motherland and to recognize his ancestors. It may be that Emperor Li Meng and Emperor Yang felt that Lanfang's company was not good.
But now, this emperor actually wants to introduce a business. He wants to do business himself. Not to mention this matter, but it falls on Lanfang Company. Does that mean that this emperor does not dislike us much?
"This..." Li Mengyang saw that Chen Asheng didn't say anything for a long time, so he couldn't continue talking.
"Damn it! Please give me advice!" Chen Asheng now really regarded himself as a person from the Pacific Empire.
"..." Li Mengyang had no choice. He could see it, but now he could only say that he would go along. So he said: "That's right, there is a route for you, from the eastern part of the United States to Cape Town in South Africa. This route is very good, because in the future, the imperial trade will have to be frequently traveled. You know, the empire exports a lot of things, and the ones that are exchanged for gold."
Li Mengyang told him about his business. To put it simply, it was to let Lanfang Company do this shipping business. Of course, Lanfang Company has been doing this business. They are very familiar with it, but now they have to change places.
But, anyone can see that there are huge benefits here!
"Long live my emperor!"
Liu Asheng really knelt down and kowtowed!
How can you not kowtow! This future will be the gold of luck!
The business model is very simple. The Pacific Empire exports products to the UK, so of course the pound you get from the UK is the pound, but the Pacific Empire doesn't want the pound. At most, we use some pounds as a foreign exchange deposit, and that's it.
However, as long as this business is done, the British will continue to buy our things, and the pound will continue to increase, but what should we do with so much pound?
Exchange gold!
This is the international financial order at this time. Although everyone stipulates currency, and many of them are dual-standard systems of gold and silver, gold must be used in the end. Gold is the real currency and something that can be regarded as a general equivalent.
To be honest, there are some things in Mr. Marx's political economy that he sees, not inventions, such as the status of gold, now it is like this.
So, this business has been doing this. The British had won the Boer War before, so the place to exchange gold is of course Cape Town. This is also where the British prefer you to go to the Pacific Empire, because compared to coming to London to make gold, it is better to do it in South Africa. The gold in the UK is losing.
Liu Asheng doesn't understand the various things here, and he doesn't need to understand them. He just needs to do a good job in maritime logistics, but...
"Your Majesty, then when we go..."
Yes, this question is good, because South Africa is not big, and the Pacific Empire products can be imported there, but the number will not be too large, and the main demand is still in Europe. So, isn’t this going to happen? Will Lanfang’s ships run to South Africa in empty ships?
This transaction is not suitable. No one wants to run away for transportation.
So is there any solution for Li Mengyang?
"Don't worry." Li Mengyang patted Liu Asheng on the shoulder. He looked like he was a god-like person and said, "There must be goods when he went there, but this goods are just something you should be careful with, because they are all living people!"
"Ah? A living person?"
Liu Asheng understood as soon as he heard this. This was to get the transporter and the transporter together. This... is OK, okay.
The ships in this day and age are basically transporting people and cargo. This situation is different from those in later generations. Most of the cabins at this time are similar to pig nests, which is basically the same as the piglet ship that Li Mengyang woke up from.
It is the same cabin, and you can transport people and cargo!
Of course, if you have money, you have a good cabin...
But what happened to this living person?
"This is it, don't worry. When this route is done, it will be interesting and there will be someone."
"This...Long live my emperor!"
Liu Asheng didn't ask much, the living person Li Mengyang mentioned...
"Black comrades! Your Majesty the Emperor understands everyone's difficulties! Your Majesty the Emperor will not punish everyone!"
"Black comrades! But the empire now has many problems. It is really difficult to solve the problem of improving your treatment!"
"Black comrades! But now, the world is undergoing changes. There is one place where you can get rich quickly, that is Johannesburg, South Africa!"
"It is a natural huge gold mine, but it is occupied by evil British imperialism! And Africa is the hometown of black comrades!"
"As long as you want to go to South Africa to hunt gold or dig diamonds, the empire will give you certain subsidies! Boat tickets are very cheap! And there are also pounds for low-priced exchange!"
"Black comrades! The opportunity to get rich will hit you!"
These are some small-scale speeches and publicity currently being carried out in the United States, and of course the target is the black group, and these publicity...
By the way, the living people Li Mengyang mentioned are these black people!
Aren't black people making trouble now?
Aren't you arguing about your bad treatment?
Now there is a chance, there is a place where the gold rush is coming!
And there is the rule of the British Empire, and they are in an alliance with us!
That, actually, the first stop for the black comrades was Maputo, Mozambique. That place was so nice. It was not far from the gold mine Johannesburg, and was connected by a river.
So, black comrades. Are you going or not?
"Long live the great emperor!"
“all-hail-lee!”
I have to say that black people are really good at fooling... (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!