System, help me become the empress

Chapter 186
When the word "traitorous" was said, the entire negotiating hall suddenly went into an uproar!
He Jiangyi was the first to react, got up angrily from his chair and yelled at Le Xiaoqu, "Le Xiaoqu! What have you done!"

He Jiangyi had killed people before, and when he launched a ruthless attack, he carried an astonishing evil spirit on his body. Ordinary people couldn't stand this posture at all.

"The villain was wronged, but he didn't do anything!"

Le Xiaoqu was dumbfounded and knelt down in panic.

The two Jinyi guards controlled Le Xiaoqu, waiting for Xu Youxi's next order.The British businessman sitting across from him didn't expect such a change, but he still maintained his apparent calmness.

Xu Youxi stared at Le Xiaoqu for a while, feeling a little regretful in her heart, she was unwilling to figure out what methods these British businessmen used to persuade Le Xiaoqu, after all, the fact had already happened.

As long as he can keep the bottom line, he will at least be a great translator who will be recorded in the annals of history in the future. Perhaps decades later, the first lesson that all students who are inspired to become translators need to learn is to know this translator. The originator of the character.

Pity.

He won't have this chance.

"This treaty means that Dagan promises to only conduct business with the British Empire. If he violates it in the future, he will need to compensate the Great British Empire for a hundred times the loss."

"When did Dagan agree to this? If there are some details in the contract that you didn't notice, or if there were some omissions, it's fine. I don't believe you can't understand such a long paragraph!"

"Le Xiaoqu, how many times have you been to negotiate with us, and Dagan's attitude towards business, you should know better than anyone else."

"Do you think the signing is just a piece of paper! Let me tell you, this is the shame of Daqian. Even after thousands of years, people will still point at my backbone and laugh at us for being fooled so easily."

Xu Youxi condemned every word, although even if she signed this contract, there would be no trouble, the most serious problem would be the subsequent breach of the contract.

Besides, it was Li Si who signed it, and it had nothing to do with her, Xu Youxi.When it really came to that point, she assured that even if the people of Great Britain looked for Li Si's name in the list of high-ranking officials, they would definitely find no such person.

In fact, what embarrasses Xu Youxi the most is Le Xiaoqu's behavior, which is simply embarrassing and thrown abroad!

Xu Youxi doesn't believe in any difficulties, and doesn't want to listen to any explanations from him. The most basic thing to be a human being is not to betray your motherland!She doesn't believe Le Xiaoqu can't do it!

Great Britain's translation was not as good as Le Xiaoqu's. He couldn't translate what Xu Youxi said, so he faltered and uttered a few words.

The few people including Lenato still had a calm expression on their faces, without any sense of embarrassment after being exposed, as if Le Xiaoqu's betrayal had nothing to do with them at all.

Xu Youxi asked Jin Yiwei to take Le Xiaoqu down, and he began to communicate with these British businessmen in standard English: "I will not sign this contract."

The English that Xu Youxi learned in later generations is quite different from the spoken language of the British people of this era. Fortunately, the impact on the communication between the two parties is not too great.

Only these Britons feel a little puzzled, why Xu Youxi is so confident when he uses such a strange grammar?

Could it be that they are ignorant?
Lenato seemed to have been prepared for Xu Youxi's sudden attack, and stood up with a smile: "It seems that we have made an omission. Please give me some suggestions, and we will modify them."

With that said, Lenato was about to reach out to take back the old contract.

Xu Youxi dodged Lenato's movements, and slowly folded the old contract, with a polite smile on his face: "The British Empire is really chic, and if you make an omission, do you want Daqian to not be held accountable?"

"Then tell me how you want to solve it?"

Lenato's expression was a little helpless, as if he was dealing with a child who was throwing a tantrum.

Most of these businessmen are around 30 years old, not to mention that the appearance of Britons tends to be mature, which makes Xu Youxi, who was already in his teens, look younger, and they inevitably look down upon him a bit.

Although this contempt was reduced a lot when they discovered that Xu Youxi could use their language proficiently, it was still not enough to make them feel threatened by Xu Youxi.

"From today onwards, all contracts will be made in duplicate, and both parties can only use large Chinese characters." Xu Youxi said firmly.

"I advise you not to go too far."

Lenato's light green pupils darkened.

Xu Youxi shook the old contract in his hand, and said with a cold expression: "What qualifications do you have to say too much to me! Respect is mutual, since you are here, you have to abide by the rules."

"The previous contract was indeed our omission. If you care about it, then we can apologize." Lenato let go, but his tone became more rigorous, "I can even swear on the glory of the Brusson family, things like that It won't happen again."

simply.

Ridiculous.

Start playing swearing without success?

Xu Youxi sneered: "Let me repeat for the last time. From now on, all transactions in Dagan will only accept contracts in Chinese characters, and future negotiations will only accept negotiations in our language."

Xu Youxi hates war, but this will definitely not be a reason for Dagan's innocent to be wronged.

Seeing Xu Youxi's tough attitude, although Lenato was a little angry, he still suppressed it: "This is not the attitude of doing business at all!"

Xu Youxi casually continued to shake the contract: "Yeah, nothing compares to your business attitude."

Lenato hesitated again and again, and no matter how hard he said, he couldn't say "no business dealings with Dagan in the future".There are too many things they can earn from Dagan, not to mention that he is still thinking about those weird inventions in the odd goods shop.

He even regretted a little now, why he broke up with Dagan so quickly.

The most hateful thing is that the person in front of him can clearly talk to them in British, why did he pretend that he didn't understand anything before? !

"Well, you're not afraid to drive us away in anger, you won't be able to find someone to do business in the future!"

"Oh, your family can build ships, or you can do business."

Xu Youxi ruthlessly started to hate people.

A negotiation broke up under Xu Youxi's ambiguity, and in the end, no contract was negotiated.Xu Youxi took back all the souvenirs that Xu Youxi originally planned to give away. These people are not worthy of her spending money.

Lenato was still a little bit unwilling to give up, and planned to stay for another two days to try and wait for Xu Youxi to change his mind.

In the evening of that day, a news circulated in the streets and alleys, saying that the imperial court wanted to build a cultural relics exhibition hall called a "museum" in the most prosperous area of ​​Guangzhou.

There are some meaningful souvenirs in this exhibition hall, such as the weapons damaged in previous wars, and the tool wooden basket of the merchant who introduced sweet potatoes.

Among them, the most valuable treasure of the town hall is nothing else, it is the old contract that the British used to try to coax Dagan to sign.

"Your Majesty, it's not good for you to make such a big show."

He Jiangyi was shocked by Xu Youxi's operation, but could he still change His Majesty's will?
Xu Youxi is using chic calligraphy to record in detail the entire process of this negotiation, including how the British businessman tried to coax Dagan into signing an unreasonable contract, and how it was exposed.

"What's wrong?"

"It is said that family ugliness should not be publicized. If you write it so bluntly, won't it... be a little embarrassing?"

Heh, as long as I don't feel ashamed, the one who is ashamed is someone else!
Xu Youxi naturally did not express his true inner thoughts, but chose an explanation that people around him could accept: "There are still many opportunities to do business with the outside world after the big work. If you don't inform the people of the inferiority of these overseas businessmen in advance, you will still be in trouble in the future." I don't know how many innocent and kind people will be deceived, they are all my people, I can't bear it."

How can her hard-working people suffer!
He Jiangyi really didn't think about the future. Hearing Xu Youxi's explanation, he immediately felt that it was necessary.

Standing beside him was Xu Ling who had remained silent all along, and he felt a bit disgusted with He Jiangyi's haggling attitude. It seemed that he didn't get along with His Majesty too little. Just for such a trivial matter, let's see how calm he is.

Lenato, who was waiting in the guest house, was so angry that his face turned blue when he found out about this!
He even went to Xu Youxi to ask for the old contract in person, but not only was he rejected, he even found out that Dagan had already asked a craftsman to reproduce the entire content of the contract and printed hundreds of copies.

The whole of Great Britain is going to lose face!
Lenato was so angry that he boarded the boat and left in the middle of the night.

"Your Majesty, did you just make them run away in anger?"

"Otherwise? Count them running fast, otherwise the guest house will start charging tomorrow."

If we say that under the condition that these people did not harm Daqian's interests, Xu Youxi would still be willing to make false claims with them for a while.But now that they are all capable of 'blackmailing', how can Xu Youxi continue to endure it?
Although Xu Ling also felt that His Majesty was a little impulsive, he was very relieved: "We are not afraid of them when we work hard."

"If they really dare to call, we will go to their hometown to demand war reparations."

Xu Youxi dared to say this because he had the confidence that they would not dare to take action against Dagan for the time being. By the time they decided to do it, Dagan's steamboat would have been built long ago.

Shenjiying has been modifying the formulas of shells and gunpowder. After countless improvements, the power of gunpowder is now dozens of times higher than before.

These powerful gunpowder have been equipped on new military warships, how do these foreigners rely on to fight Dagan!

After Xu Youxi finished handling the government affairs from Shangjing, she handed it over to Xu Ling to pass the things back. She rested for one night, and then went to deal with the black slaves tomorrow morning.

The next morning was cloudy.

As soon as Xu Youxi went out, he saw He Jiangyi waiting at the door, and by the way cared about the progress of the Shipbuilding Bureau.

In short, according to the current progress, at most half a year, the steam warship dedicated to combat will be born.

The British businessman still hopes to guarantee business relations with Dagan. The livestock and poultry transported this time are of good quality. Dozens of black people in chains take care of these livestock diligently every day, and even the nearby sanitation is cleaned very diligently.

Xu Youxi ordered his subordinates to remove the chains around the necks of these black people: "Do you want to go home?"

The black slaves looked at each other and no one dared to speak.

"If you want to go home, I won't stop you, but you have to save your own money to buy a boat. From now on, I won't control all your behavior like those people before, and I won't whip and insult you wantonly. In our eyes, you are the same kind as us, and you are worthy companions."

"This is where?"

"The name of our country is Dagan, and Gan is the sky. You can also call this place the Celestial Dynasty." Xu Youxi explained, "If you want, you can find some jobs in the local area to support you. You can continue to raise these animals, or you can change to other A job you like."

"The bottom line is that you abide by the laws of Dagan, and you can't cause trouble at will. Once you have any behavior that hurts the people of Dagan, the Dagan government will also convict you, and even directly expel you from the territory of Dagan."

"Before that, I need to ask you some questions, and you must answer me honestly."

The chains around the necks of the black slaves were taken off one after another. Their eyes seemed to be a little confused, and they didn't know how to react.

"Can you understand what I said before?"

"can."

"My first question, did the Britons invade your country and transfer your local people as slaves?"

"No country... was beaten, sold as a slave, and worked a lot."

"Aside from Great Britain, have other countries entered the land where you live?"

"Yes, there are many ships, I don't know them."

……

These black people don't speak English well, and it's a little difficult to communicate. Xu Youxi thinks that he might have to find a way to find someone to teach them Chinese first.

Through communicating with these black people, Xu Youxi also got a lot of useful news. She seemed to be able to see the situation outside, which was terrible and complicated.

But there is good news. Dagan is the first and only country in the world that has entered the age of steam.

She just needs to unswervingly continue to follow this path of development. Even if these "bandit countries" outside are afraid of Dagan and decide to unite to fight together, they may not be able to shake Dagan's status.

"Are you willing to stay in Dawei for the time being? If you work here, we will give you the same treatment and remuneration. As long as you abide by our laws, that is, our rules, you can have a place to live and don't have to worry about not having enough food. You are completely free."

"Yes, thank you."

"Thank you."

These black people who were repeatedly sold as slaves had expressions of gratitude on their faces.

"I will arrange for someone to teach you the Dagan language. Before you have the ability to survive independently, take care of these livestock and poultry for the time being. We will pay you monthly."

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(End of this chapter)