After coming to Datang, he had no other hobbies. He just liked watching football games, especially the North Shore team's games.
In order to have money to watch football matches, Edward, like other indigenous diplomats who came to Tang, began to think about making money.
How to catch it?
Naturally, he still needs to rely on his status as a diplomat.
To this end, he wrote several letters and sent them back to England to his father, asking his father to help set up a store in London to sell novel gadgets from the Tang Dynasty, mainly to high-end customers such as nobles and wealthy businessmen in England.
For the source of goods, Edward personally traveled around Songjiang Prefecture to watch, striving to purchase more competitive and clearly differentiated goods, and then sent them back to London via diplomatic parcels.
What he purchased were all novel-looking gadgets.
For example, he bought more than ten rag dolls from a toy store in Songjiang Prefecture and sent them back. He specifically told his father that these were the most popular toys in the Tang Dynasty. Many powerful people in the Tang Dynasty would sell them to their children for play. When the time comes, you
Buy the more expensive one.
Not to mention, the sales of these gadgets from the Tang Dynasty are very good in London. The English, like the natives in other places, have no resistance to all kinds of things from the Tang Dynasty.
In particular, some of the things that the Tang Dynasty people themselves used were the best in their opinion.
But these things are rarely seen in Europe.
Although Datang maintained close commercial trade with Europe, this trade was generally bulk trade. The commodities exported by Datang to Europe were mainly various traditional commodities, such as textiles, whether cotton, silk, and cashmere.
Sales in Europe are very good.
Then there are all kinds of weapons. The Tang Dynasty people especially like to sell all kinds of messy weapons to the indigenous people.
There are also some industrial products, such as perfume, matches, kerosene, etc.
However, they are basically based on commodities.
As for some gadgets, the market for these things is very small. For example, if you buy dozens of rag dolls, you can sell them at a high price in London, but if you buy hundreds or thousands of them, you won’t be able to sell them all if you keep them for ten years...
Therefore, for those large-scale traders, they generally do not engage in these things and look down upon this small profit.
But Edward was different. He didn't want to do a big business, he just wanted to make pocket money.
Not to mention, the various novelty gadgets that Edward brought back were quite popular in London. After deducting the package fees and other expenses, the money earned from this was divided between the father and his son, and Edward could earn twenty or thirty dong every month.
Yuan.
This moment made Edward's waist straighten up.
If you have money, don't panic. Recently, he will attend every North Shore team's game, and he will also buy various North Shore team merchandise, such as football equipment, football, scarves and the like.
Edward has become a true North Shore fan, more die-hard than most of the local Datang fans in the North Shore Development Zone!
Edward likes to watch football and likes to watch the game live for many reasons.
In addition to liking the football itself, what he actually enjoys more is that when watching the ball, he can shout and cheer like other Datang fans around him, and the Datang fans around him will not care about him being an Englishman.
Will cheer with him.
How should I put it, when he is on the court, it will give him a feeling, as if he has become a real Tang Dynasty person, and he will get a sense of identity.
Having been in the Tang Dynasty for a long time, Edward also knew that the people of the Tang Dynasty were polite and honorable. Most of the people in the Tang Dynasty knew that Edward was an Englishman and would not show obvious contempt or ridicule. Instead, they would be very Nod politely and slightly, and some older people will even encourage him a word or two.
However, this polite nod, this encouragement is only superficial.
Because what this reveals is that Edward seems to be a vulnerable group, and they are pitying Edward...
This feeling made Edward very uncomfortable. He sighed more than once. It would be great if he grew up in the Tang Dynasty and was a Tang Dynasty person.
Unfortunately, he couldn't choose where he was born, and neither could his parents, so he had no choice but to do so.
Edward's mentality is also the common mentality of most of the indigenous people who have had more contact with the Tang Dynasty. Although the specific manifestations may be different, they are generally similar.
In the end, they all basically have the same pursuit: to become a true Tang Dynasty person!
It’s not just about living like a Tang Dynasty person, wearing these clothes, but also wanting to obtain Tang Dynasty nationality and become a real Tang Dynasty person.
Edward chose Buqiu as an entry point for him to integrate into the society of the Tang Dynasty. From this, we can see how popular Buqiu was in the Tang Dynasty.
This also further stimulates major companies to invest in Buqiu.
Not only can this thing bring about brand advertising effects, but it is also an excellent investment industry, so it is naturally sought after by capital.
However, not all companies like to enter the sports industry. Zhongyuan Automobile Company, Qixiang Automobile Company and Songjiang Heavy Machinery Company, which are also in the automobile industry, do not have any brands like Hangzhou Power Machinery Company.
Songjiang Heavy Machinery Company does not need to advertise at all because their customers are not ordinary consumers.
What they produce are production vehicles, and their flagship products are gasoline tractors and various construction excavators and bulldozers. These are not consumer-grade products at all.
Generally those who buy these products are companies or large farms, and private individuals rarely buy these big things.
At the same time, the current output of their products is not large, and demand has always been in short supply, so they have no worries about sales.
As for Zhongyuan Automobile Company, they originally planned to develop private cars, but it was a step late. When they came up with the mature and usable Zhongyuan luxury cars, Hangzhou Power Machinery Company's West Lake luxury cars were already sold all over the country.
Moreover, the contemporary private car market is already small. After Xihu Luxury Car seized the market in advance, there was not much left for Zhongyuan Automobile Company.
But they didn’t sit still and wait for death!
Private luxury cars couldn't compete, and there was no market for ordinary private cars, so they directly changed their target and built trucks again.
Not to mention, they really started it!
In the autumn of 1941, after many tests, Zhongyuan Automobile Company officially launched a heavy-duty transport vehicle to the market, equipped with a twelve-horsepower two-cylinder gasoline engine.
Although this engine is larger in size and weight, its technical content is not as good as those engines with only three or four horsepower used in private cars.
The service life and other performance are also somewhat poor.
But this is not important. What is important is that Zhongyuan Automobile Company has successfully found a way to mass-produce automobile engines, and it is also at a relatively low cost.
It doesn't matter if the performance is worse, even if the vibration is severe and it can't be loaded on a private car, it doesn't matter, just use it on a truck.
The carriage of the truck pulled by this twelve-horsepower engine followed the main mechanism of the truck, using belt drive and rear-wheel drive. It also installed leaf springs and coil springs to absorb shocks.