The people in Lianhua City are very polite, at least on the surface, as it seems; not only are there a small boat leading the way, but when they arrive at the pier, there is also a middle-aged man with a slightly blessed state to welcome Wu Yiping and the others.

"Welcome to our Lotus City, welcome!" He walked to the lifeboat with a beer belly that was rare in this era and introduced: "I am Zhang Jingbo, the welcome envoy of Pinghailong, the head of Lotus City. I don't know who your leader is?"

Wu Yiping had never experienced these things. He did not see any so-called welcoming envoy when he was in Shoufeng City. At this time, Luo Hu next to him said to Wu Yiping: "Instructor, this should be learned from the Dutch; they have been newly established soon."

"My name is Wu Yiping, they are the leader. I have met the envoy Zhang."

Now that we are on other people's land, basic politeness is indispensable. Besides, I don't know anything about it now. Although Luo Hu and the others have been to Lotus City, there was no such welcome messenger at that time. In addition, Zhang Jingbo was selected to welcome the guests. He must be Ping Hailong's confidant. If he offended him, he would wear small boots for himself at that time, and it would be difficult for him to survive in Lotus City.

Zhang Jingbo narrowed his eyes and smiled, shook his head and said, "I dare not be a little messenger. But Boss Wu has two big ships at a young age. It's so terrifying to be a young man!"

Although he said he didn't dare to be fooled, he looked at Zhang Jingbo's enjoyment look and probably would be very helpful to Wu Yiping's flattery.

Seeing that Zhang Jingbo was chatting with him in a mess, Wu Yiping immediately reported that he had not taken the next step and sent some of the best dried fish, a bag of rice and two taels of golden beans that had been prepared.

The only thing that can be smiling here is the wind and sun that is so rich. Zhang Jingbo took it away very naturally, and even took it as Wu Yiping for a brief inspection. After discovering the severity of the gift, he asked his subordinates to put it away. Then the smile on his face became closer. He said enthusiastically:

"Our boss has rules that if you want to sell goods here, you must pay taxes. Both of your ships are dried fish, which is a good thing. Just pay a tax of 200 taels of silver!"

Wu Yiping initially felt sorry for his rice and gold, but when Zhang Jingbo said that he would only pay 200 taels of silver tax, he would no longer feel sorry for him, but the rewards he received were beyond imagination.

Luo Hu estimated that he might have to pay 400-700 taels of tax this time, but now he has only paid 200 taels, so it must be that the gift has played a big role.

From ancient times to the present, bribery has seriously disrupted the market order, and in serious cases it will affect a country. Wu Yiping hates bribery very much, but if used on the enemy, it is the best weapon.

Now Wu Yiping's attitude towards Zhang Jingbo has become more sincere, and he has another round of flattery.

When he left, Zhang Jingbo did not escort him, but sent a young man to take Wu Yiping to the chamber of commerce in the city. A few minutes later, the appearance of the Lotus City appeared in front of Wu Yiping.

Lianhua City is larger than Shoufeng City and has a larger population; there are low houses everywhere, and only the crowds that can be seen through are not worse than some small cities. However, the clothes and expressions of pedestrians on the street are the same as those of Shoufeng City. They all feel lifeless.

The only thing that surprised Wu Yiping was that he saw several blacksmith shops on the street. However, thinking that the minerals in Lianhua City were very rich, all this could be explained.

Unlike Shoufeng City, it is backed by mountains and does not have a large amount of flat arable land. Coupled with the drought, the food in Lianhua City is more tense than that in Shoufeng City.

When I walked to a street entrance, I saw a two-story wooden building with a tall huge wall and four soldiers guarded by them at the door.

With the certificate issued by Zhang Jingbo, Wu Yiping easily passed the wall gate and truly entered the interior of the Lotus City Chamber of Commerce.

In fact, this chamber of commerce was also learned from the Dutch. He saw that every Dutch city had chambers of commerce to formulate transaction rules, which made the Dutch make a lot of money and also followed suit and set up a chamber of commerce. However, due to management issues, he had to do so and failed to really play a role.

In fact, when Wu Yiping and Zhang Jingbo were still talking, all kinds of forces with spies in Lianhua City had already received news. Two ships of high-quality dried fish could be eaten, which would be a large amount of income. Of course, they could not let go of the visible interests. Struggles of all sizes sent people to negotiate with Wu Yiping.

The Dutch Chamber of Commerce, according to the procedures, must go to the Chamber of Commerce to register, and only after the Chamber of Commerce dispatches supervisors will allow transactions in the city. However, the Chamber of Commerce in Lotus City will ignore it after you pay the money. So Wu Yiping is very busy now and has to socialize a lot of people.

Wu Yiping is a skilled technical soldier in modern times and doesn't really understand these business methods. But what Wu Yiping didn't expect was that Gu Yonglong seemed to have a talent in this area. Seeing that Wu Yiping was surrounded by those local snakes, he could not resist it.

Gu Yonglong came out to replace Wu Yiping's role, sat slowly on a chair, and dealt with these representatives.

Especially his slow tone and sensible mouth, he could draw out other people's information and ground wires in a few strokes. I have to say that he was a big waste of Lu Mingyu's guard before.

Wu Yiping simply handed over the entire negotiation process to Gu Yonglong.

But he sneaked out and went to see the blacksmith shop he cared about the most.

In fact, science in China developed greatly during the Ming Dynasty. The reason why it became more and more backward was entirely due to the enslavement rule of the maturity and academic suppression; this did not work, and that was not accurate, and gradually there was no research.

Just like what Wu Yiping saw now, a small coal-fired steel furnace was found in a blacksmith shop in Lianhua City.

When Wu Yiping saw this thing, he was greatly surprised! "There is such an advanced thing at this time?"

Then he was overjoyed: "I have been making no progress in steelmaking. Now that I have discovered technicians, I must not give up."

So Wu Yiping immediately arranged someone to ask who opened this blacksmith shop and what the technology is like.

It is easy to do things with so many people. A few erudite soldiers in the village protection team took action at the same time, and soon he got his basic information.

It turned out that this blacksmith shop was opened by someone who was handed over to Zhao Dongxu. He can be said to be the best blacksmith on the entire Taiwan island and is well-known far and wide. In the past, many high-ranking officials specially asked him to make knives.

His biggest hobby is to study how to make good steel and some strange things, because he has not yet started a family and has lived alone.

In Zhao Dongxu's words, as long as the business can maintain expenses, I will keep studying how to make good steel and how to make sharper swords; but since Lotus City was taken down by Ping Hailong, his life has been getting worse.

It turned out that the weapon repair and production of Ping Hailong was used by his subordinates as a way to make money and handed over to their relatives to complete it, and outsiders could not insert it.

Most of the people who asked Zhao Dongxu to build things in the past fell into the Dutch colonies. Now they make a living by building some farm tools, kitchen knives, etc.

The Dutch burned, killed, looted, or banned a large number of farmers in the situation of farms, which made fewer and fewer people looking for him to build farm tools, and gradually there was no business at all.

Wu Yiping, who learned about these, observed them for a long time in the name of buying steel and found that this was really a steelmaking furnace. By adding toner into the furnace, the direct steel, not iron. Although it is not a good steel, there is no problem with using it as some basic machine tools or tools.

Wu Yiping, who saw this, found the boss of the blacksmith shop named Zhao Dongxu, and asked him to sell all the more than 5 tons of steel in stock to himself.

Zhao Dongxu was very happy to hear that Wu Yiping wanted so many things, saying, "Oh! That's great. If Boss Wu hadn't bought me so much steel, I would have to go farming. There is no business at all."

After hearing what he said to Dongxu, Wu Yiping said with his eyes shining: "Master Zhao, why don't you move the blacksmith shop to our village! Due to the Dutch burning, killing and looting, many of our villages formed a large village with a population of tens of thousands (a small trick); if you move over, your business will be prosperous."

"Uh! Moving?" Zhao Dongxu was shocked, then shook his head and continued, "I don't think I need it anymore, although my business here is poor, the city is high and there are many soldiers here.

The Dutch had no choice but to use this Pinghailong for a moment. If they changed the place, they would be defeated by the Dutch sooner or later. I heard that! General Zhou of Shoufeng City surrendered to the Dutch, and the people there lived a hardship! Alas!..."

"Master Zhao, please rest assured!" Hearing his concerns, Wu Yiping slapped his chest and said, "Our Dafeng Village organizes a village protection team, which is also very powerful. The Dutch dare not come to our village easily."

"Oh! Thank you guy for your kindness, but I'm really used to it here again and don't want to run around..."
Chapter completed!