"Dear Mr. Businessman, do you need one or two temporary servants to help you carry your luggage?"
The cargo ship docked, and Xue Hua walked from the deck to the port with two "bodyguards" transformed from mimic larvae, carrying an empty luggage bag.
As a result, as soon as he stepped onto the wooden trestle covered with white salt and frost at the port, a group of ragged and skinny coolies surrounded him.
These coolies all looked like children, some of whom might not even be ten years old. They looked disheveled and had thin bodies, and their clothes were full of holes and stains.
These children are all children from poor families living in the port area. As the saying goes, "Children of the poor become rich early," this saying is also applicable in this world.
For the poor people who live in the port area, everyone in the family has to work, so that they can barely feed the family.
There was nothing in Xue Hua's luggage bag, so naturally he couldn't hand it over to others to avoid exposing his flaws, so he handed the luggage bag in his hand directly to the two "bodyguards" behind him, and then looked at the disappointed eyes of these children.
They said: "I don't need a servant to help me carry my bag, but I need a guide who can show me the way. Who among you can take me to familiarize myself with the terrain in King's Harbor, then this will be his!"
Xue Hua put his hand into his pocket and fumbled for a long time but could not find a coin smaller than a gold coin. In the end, he had to take a gold coin out of the inventory and bump it gently in his hand.
His bump didn't matter, but it made all the coolies on almost half of the trestle stare straight.
You know, in this world, things like gold coins are dropped by monsters. They are not only universal but also very valuable.
In comparison, other smaller currencies are minted by each human kingdom. For example, King's Port is a very common gold, silver and copper three-coin cent system, that is, one universal gold coin can be exchanged for one hundred king coins.
Hong Kong silver sail coins, and so on.
Not only is the value of this kind of kingdom's self-minted coins not comparable to that of general gold coins, but many kingdoms do not recognize the currency of other countries in their own countries. Large-scale international trade uses the gold coin settlement system. Even if there is a small difference, merchants
They would rather round up than collect the kingdom's self-minted coins.
In the port area of Port King, this situation is even more common, because this is a large international port, and merchants from almost all kingdoms in the first world have trade relations with it.
The huge volume of trade also brought about various currency problems. These currency problems were of little significance to large-scale trade between merchants, but they suffered for the poor who made a living by working hard at the port.
These coolies often receive a variety of self-minted coins from the kingdom as rewards after completing their services. These self-minted coins basically have to go to the black market and are exploited by those black-hearted self-minted coins before the rest can be truly sold.
into the hands of these coolies.
Almost no coolies received gold coins after completing their work, and the value of a common gold coin was almost equivalent to half a year's total income of a family of five.
Now Xue Hua took out a gold coin from his pocket and claimed that as long as he took him around King's Harbor, he could get this golden gadget. Who wouldn't want such a good thing?
Almost most of the coolies on the trestle looked eagerly at the gold coin in Xue Hua's hand, but strangely, after more than ten minutes passed, no coolies dared to come up to earn this windfall.
Even the group of children who were surrounding Xue Hua before now ran far away from Xue Hua.
"What's going on?" Xue Hua frowned.
In fact, he doesn't need a so-called guide at all. The insect swarm has already penetrated the noble area and port area of King's Harbor in the past few months. The topography here and all the details in the city are natural.
They were all recorded in the mind of the main nest for Xue Hua to review. The reason why he did this was because he felt a little unbearable looking at these skinny little guys.
This result was indeed beyond his expectation. Could it be that too much money was taken out at once, which made these coolies think that they had other sinister intentions?
If this is the case, then he really has no choice but to say that God will not allow him to do this good deed.
However, just when he was helplessly preparing to put away the gold coins, he accidentally captured a detail through the monitoring vision of the monitoring king insect.
It was this detail that made Xue Hua suddenly understand why no one dared to come forward to take over the deal.
At the huge port terminal of King's Harbor, under the eaves of the old, low buildings covered with salt and frost, several guys in black leather jackets with scornful faces were staring greedily at his coat through the crowds on the pier.
At the same time, there were several gangsters who looked like they were in the same group, leaning against the pillars of the trestle, looking at the coolies around them with threatening eyes.
There was a hint of cold light looming on the cuffs of these guys, and the port coolies passing by them obviously bypassed the place where these guys were standing.
Hey, dock gangsters...
Xue Hua sneered in his heart, remembering a passage he read in "Chronicles of King's Port".
"The dock area of King's Port is a paradise for dock gangs. There are many gangs here, and there are at least hundreds of them. The first test that travelers who have just arrived in this city have to face are these dirty gangsters and scoundrels. They are
The first meal served to travelers in King's Port.
Here, you have to be vigilant at all times and seize every opportunity to show your strength and difficulty. Otherwise, you may not be able to make it past the port area, and your money bag will be slashed, your throat will be cut, and you will become a corpse.
Thrown into the sea to feed the fish.”
The author of this book obviously had a deep understanding of this. He used a whole page of parchment to record the various evil deeds of the King's Port dock gang. At the same time, the author also wrote many preventive measures against these diarrhea-like guys, including
It is not limited to carrying a loaded light hand crossbow with you, hiding a money bag in your underwear and hanging it on your chest, etc.
Of course, if you are a professional or mercenary, as long as you show your professional characteristics, most dock gangs will let you go.
After all, although there are some professionals and mercenaries among them who have fallen to such a low level, the first purpose of these guys is obviously to seek money, rather than to involve themselves in a battle where they may lose their lives.
However, Xue Hua's will clone now plays the role of a businessman. In order not to be accidentally recognized by the Margery family, he even made major changes to his appearance. Such a careful disguise, naturally
We can't let a few wharf gangsters lose their temper.
So he pretended not to see those gangsters, and walked towards the edge of the trestle with his two "bodyguards" with a disappointed expression.
Just when he was thinking about how he could teach these lawless guys a lesson quietly, a petite figure suddenly ran towards him from the pile of goods beside the trestle.
The two mimic bodyguards behind Xue Hua immediately increased their vigilance. However, this reckless little guy suddenly stopped a step or two in front of Xue Hua.
"Kind sir, I am willing to be your guide and take you around King's Harbor!"
