My British Empire

  Chapter 504 A Bright Future

  In London in August, it rained lightly as usual, and the whole sky looked gray, depressing and unhappy.

   "Goodbye, dear Fina, and little John!"

   "Goodbye, Phoenix, my dear husband, I wish you luck as always today!"

  Phoenix is ​​holding an umbrella, wearing a gray top hat, a bearded face, a tall nose bridge and blue eyes, making him extraordinarily handsome.

   After kissing his wife and the lovely son in his arms, Phoenix, like most London citizens, hurriedly left the house—a two-story log cabin.

  Holding an umbrella and leather bag in his right hand, and a large bag of garbage in his left hand, which was the size of a child, and wearing a close-fitting black jacket, Phoenix quickly left the house.

  Naturally avoiding passing pedestrians, Phoenix carried a bag of garbage, walked for a while, and turned a corner again. He was relieved when he saw an old man and a carriage.

"Old Nick, come here, here is my family's disposal fee for this month!" Pour out the garbage in the garbage bag in the garbage pool, and then throw the large garbage bag onto the mountain of garbage bags that has been stacked to a height of one foot. Panting, said softly.

Old Nick was wearing a gray blouse, and was holding a broom to load the contents of the garbage pool into the closed compartment of a carriage. When he saw Phoenix coming, he turned his head, his face full of dimples bloomed. smiled and said:

   "Phoenix, you are the first one again, you are really a hardworking person, and you will definitely make a fortune in the future!"

   Taking ten pennies away from Phoenix, old Nick kept praising.

   "However, the feces bucket in your house should be dealt with. Yesterday Jackson told me that he was about to faint from the smell of your house!"

   "With your good words, I will definitely get rich in the future!" Phoenix immediately blushed when he heard this, and he responded loudly.

  But in a blink of an eye, when the smell was mentioned, he explained in a somewhat awkward and polite way:

   "Please say sorry to old Jackson for me, after all, Little John's emissions are too big!"

   "Haha! It's okay, it's okay, this guy Jackson is just complaining, that's what he does!" Old Nick shook his head quickly after hearing this, and said gloatingly.

   "Haha! Goodbye!"

   "Goodbye, Mr. Rich!"

  After parting from the old Nick who belonged to the city government, he felt that the rain in the sky was getting heavier. Phoenix restrained his smile, quickened his pace, and dodged the slowly passing carriage, and came to a platform.

  Hiding under the shed on the platform, feeling the dense crowd in the front, back, left, and right, a trace of sweat appeared on Phoenix's forehead.

  Such a crowded environment made him extremely unhappy. At this moment, he had never been so impatient to have a carriage of his own, instead of waiting for the smelly and crowded public carriage.

  The idea of ​​making a fortune appeared in his mind so clearly that he couldn't get rid of it.

   "Bing, ring, ring!" Phoenix was awakened by the unique sound of iron bells on the stagecoach. He looked up and saw a number "15" on the stagecoach.

  He hurriedly took out a rain-soaked penny from his pocket, eagerly got into the carriage, and then put the penny into the wooden box, while the others followed suit and boarded the carriage quickly

  In less than a minute, the carriage for twenty people was already bulging, while the crowd on the platform was only half gone.

  I felt that I was surrounded by people, and the smell of sweat was so strong that it made Phoenix feel bad.

Feeling that he was about to suffocate, he quickly took out a small piece of tobacco leaf from his pocket, put it in his mouth, and chewed vigorously, a warm current rose from the bottom of his heart, and his body became much more relaxed. Only then did he feel better .

  Ten minutes later, after feeling the comfort of the body gradually disappearing, the groom's thick voice came from Phoenix's ear: "The Stington Pier is here—"

  Phoenix immediately squeezed out of the carriage and came to a three-story wooden building.

"Phoenix, **** it, why are you so slow today? There is a ship that has just docked here. You need to calculate the price of all the items for him, and find out if it is full of high-grade furs! If you don't go to find the way, you are dead! "

  As soon as he entered the office, Phoenix heard the voice of his boss, a big fat man with tight clothes.

   "Yes, boss!" Phoenix had no time to rest, and immediately took the paper containing the information from the boss, then quickly left the office and headed to the pier not far from here.

  Due to the development of commerce, the needs of rich people in England are more and more vigorous, and the scarce commodities are always so scarce.

   At this time, middleman companies like Phoenix appeared to find needed and scarce commodities for businessmen, and became middlemen to make profits.

  Phoenix rushed to the pier non-stop, and began to look for the cargo ship in the information according to the paper.

  With sharp eyes, he was not disappointed when he found that his cargo ship did not have the furs he needed, because he found a more important cargo—silk, although it was only half a bolt.

  Silk is generally sold as a whole, and nobles are not willing to buy silk that can only be used as half a coat.

When selling it to a down-and-out aristocrat in need, or swollen face to pretend to be a fat businessman, half a piece of silk can be used to mend the hole in the previous silk clothes, or add it to the original clothes as a decoration, but it is an excellent choice .

   After buying the scarce silk with all the money on his body—twenty pounds, Phoenix left the pier, went to a family of a down-and-out aristocrat he knew, and sold the half bolt of silk.

  In the blink of an eye, he made a profit of three pounds. Although he would be scolded by the fat pig boss after returning home, this was one step closer to his dream.

   In this way, after a week, Phoenix finally collected a hundred pounds, enough to buy a simple family carriage, buy a gelding, and hire a groom.

   You know, it took him three years to get together, which is equivalent to his one-year salary.

  Taking his family to the car dealership and happily buying a carriage, a situation occurred.

  In the past, there were only three carriage sellers, but suddenly, more than a dozen appeared, and the prices were much cheaper.

   "What's the matter? Phoenix!" The wife asked strangely, looking at the distraught Phoenix.

   "I'm hesitant. One is a carriage that has been planned for a long time. The price suddenly dropped today, which makes me very strange!" Phoenix explained with a puzzled face.

   "What's the matter, His Majesty the King has abolished the monopoly rights of the Martin family, the Samar family, and the Thomas family. A large number of carriage manufacturers have popped up. Of course, the price will drop!"

  The middle-aged man wearing a black top hat also looked at the carriage in front of him and explained softly.

   "I see—" Phoenix suddenly realized.

  I bought a carriage and a horse, and by the way, on the recommendation of the carriage dealer, hired a loyal groom, and returned home full of hope.

  In the evening, when Phoenix was working on documents and planning the information he got, his wife suddenly ran over and said in surprise:

   "My husband, Phoenix, you will never believe, what happened today?"

   Before Phoenix could answer, his wife said loudly:

   "The prices of soap, food, cloth, and even shoes and socks have all been reduced, and there are many more merchants. Our family's budget is no longer overrun!"

   "Oh! Thank God, thank Your Majesty, this is really good news!"

   "I think our family must have a bright future!" Phoenix said emotionally.

  (end of this chapter)