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Chapter 949
Li Jinde's story was deliberately exaggerated by Chu Yun, and large-scale publicity began in the capital.

"Extraordinary, extraordinarily, the sailing hero Li Jinde personally narrated his experience of going to the West, outwitting the pirates, meeting the king of the West, getting rich overnight, etc., are all in today's newspaper!" Newsboys shouted through the streets early in the morning.

The people in the capital had already heard about Li Jinde's story when the royal envoys came to visit, and knew that it was Li Jinde who brought the Western envoys back, so the Kyushu Newspaper's special report on Li Jinde caused another sensation in the capital.Along with the legend of Li Jinde, some details of the British envoy's visit were released. For the first time, the people in the market learned the details of the royal envoy's visit through official channels.

Of course, Chu Yun did not announce the news of the cooperation with Britain to develop the European market. Few people even in the government knew about this matter, lest the Spaniards and the Netherlands would obstruct it.

Li Jinde's legendary story was published to build momentum for the establishment and financing of Western trading companies. For the first time, the details of Western trading companies became the focus of public discussion.Everyone is paying attention to Li Jinde's story itself and whether there is really gold everywhere in Xiyang.

"It is said that Li Jinde, a Fujian businessman, encountered the siege of the Barbary pirate king in the boundless sea. At that time, ninety-nine and eighty-one pirate ships surrounded their ships, and each pirate ship had twenty cannons as thick as buckets aimed at them. Merchant ships! There are 81 pirates on the pirate ship, all of them are vicious, many of them have only one eye, and the other eye has been stabbed in the battle! If the treasurer Li and his party were caught by pirates , there is only one end, and that is to be sold into the desert as a slave, and the children and grandchildren will work as coolies for the slave master!"

A storytelling master told the legendary story of Li Jinde, a newly-emerged nautical hero, in the tea garden, which made the audience in the tea garden hold their breath.

"What happened next?" asked an audience member.

"Guest officer, you are a good question. Our shopkeeper Li did not expect that there are such vicious robbers on the Western side. His merchant ship has no heavy firearms that can fight pirates. There are only a dozen or so blunderbusses, and the entire merchant ship only has two 300 guns." People, if you want to forcibly confront a pirate fleet of 1 people, it is purely hitting a stone with a pebble!" Mr. Pingshu said impassionedly.

"Yes! How could two, three hundred people compete with 300 people, let alone a thousand artillery pieces!" The audience nodded in unison.

"So shopkeeper Li wanted to avoid his edge temporarily, and chased the pirates on the sea for seven days and seven nights. In the end, there was no way to avoid it. He could only use his mind to outsmart the pirate king. This is called 'capture the thief first and capture the king'..."

"After Manager Li arrived in Britain, the king of Britain called Charles invited him and the accompanying crew to a huge banquet. How huge was the banquet at that time? There were hundreds of cooks alone, all kinds of birds and beasts Yes, the banquet lasted for a full eleven days!"

"People from the West frantically snapped up the porcelain and silk brought by Shopkeeper Li. It is said that Shopkeeper Li made a profit of 10 taels of gold on this trip to the West!" Times, so that the audience surprised at first glance.

"10 taels of gold!" The audience was dumbfounded, it was 10 taels of gold!

"One shipment of goods can make a profit of 10 taels of gold! Is it true that the Western Ocean is full of gold?"

Some people began to doubt its authenticity, and they all knew that Pingshu was suspected of exaggeration.

"This matter has been published in the Kyushu Daily. Although there are some discrepancies, I heard that our products are sought after by Westerners. One voyage can make several times the profit. Otherwise, those Westerners would not frequently appear on the southeast coast. Now There are also many Westerners who have come to our capital to live temporarily, isn’t it just for the purpose of transporting our goods back to the West for sale?”

"If we transport the goods to the West by ourselves, maybe we can get a profit from it, or simply set up a workshop in the West. Doesn't the production with our technology even save the transportation cost?"

Some people with more active minds wondered whether they could repeat Li Jinde's legendary experience. It seemed that there were really a lot of gold and silver in the West, but there was a lack of commodities in the East.

"There are pirates on the sea to the west, we may not be able to outwit them..." These people were worried about encountering pirates.

Li Jinde was drinking tea in the corner with his head down. When he heard the story adapted by the storytellers, he couldn't help but blush.If only he was as powerful as described in the storytelling book.

"They seem to be telling your story." Selina accompanied Li Jinde out for tea, and heard Mr. Pingshu saying Li Jinde's name many times.

"He's talking about my going to your country." Li Jinde explained to Selina with the simplest words.

"If my Chinese is better, I can understand it." Selina seemed very interested in Mr. Pingshu's story about Li Jinde, but she still couldn't understand a long paragraph of Chinese.

It's better not to understand.Li Jinde thought that Selina was an insider, if she knew that the officials of the Kyushu Army were deliberately pursuing him, would he have to find a crack on the ground to sneak in?
"Sarina, it's not as good as us..." Li Jinde thought of Chu Yun's suggestion to him again, hesitated again and again, and was about to mention the marriage to Sarina.

"Mr. Chu agrees that we go to the Academy of Sciences, the day after tomorrow." Selina didn't know that Li Jinde was going to talk about marriage with her at this time, so she inadvertently interrupted Li Jinde who was muttering in a low voice.

"Your highness and the princess' application to go to the Academy of Sciences has been approved? That's great." Li Jinde was interrupted, so he didn't continue talking.

"My Chinese will be better in the future, can we talk about it in detail?" Selina is full of hope for continuing to live in the capital of Huaxia. There are special Chinese courses in the Overseas Department of the Academy of Sciences, as well as knowledge she has never seen before.

"Well, we'll talk about it later." Li Jinde nodded.

Several of Li Jinde's subordinates were secretly observing the progress of his shopkeeper and Selina at another square table. Seeing that his shopkeeper had finally taken a step and was interrupted again, he couldn't help scratching his head anxiously.These two people are not in a hurry, but the people around them can't stand it.

"Roberts, you are from Britain, and you know how to speak there. Is there any other way to quickly promote the good things of the shopkeeper and the others?" Several apprentices of Li Jinde looked at the British sailor he hired.

"I'm just a pauper in Britain, otherwise I wouldn't have ventured into the sea. I don't know what the noble lady is thinking." British sailor Roberts also said that he had nothing to do with the procrastination of Li Jinde and Selina.

Several apprentices sighed, and one of them suddenly had a flash of inspiration: "Although Sarina is from Britain, women all over the world have similar thoughts. I have a way to quickly facilitate the good things between them. I need your cooperation."

　That's it for today.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)