Edo Traveler

v11 Chapter 92: Knowing that copper is sold to British b

Remember [New] for a second,! In the special industry street not far from the Yokohama port terminal, several soldiers of the training team were still drinking and having fun with their arms around the woman. After returning from India, they were all on vacation.

According to the military regulations, it is only necessary to return to the temporary military camp outside Yokohama every night to report by name. After doing morning exercises the next morning, where you like to go is not as strict as the normal time period.

In addition to the two or three hundred soldiers who were guarding the camp, the soldiers who had finally returned to their hometowns often went out to hang out in groups of three or five.

In addition, the shogunate has just paid out part of the debt, which has been held back in India for a long time, and there are two stinky money in hand. Many soldiers chose to go out to find some fun, and the generals did not prohibit it, as long as they returned to the camp on time.

It just so happened that after the port of Yokohama opened, a large number of foreign companies, shops, and companies entered, as well as foreign soldiers and military police stationed there. Most of these people were bachelors, and local special industries naturally flourished.

To be honest, workers in special industries in Yokohama Port can recognize British pounds and dollars just like businessmen employed by the shogunate, or accountants of the three major corporations.

The British authorities in the Yokohama settlement, through the military police station on the ground, set up a separate section to manage these workers. Not only to get a license, but also to pay taxes according to the license. Of course, the British were also worried that their amphibious soldiers stationed in Yokohama had contracted some warts, and sent people to check on these workers every month.

Generally speaking, this line of business in Yokohama is fairly formal, at least in the managed category. Of course, there are also some irregular places, and they are all places of inferiority. Foreign soldiers or soldiers of the current training team will not go there.

After all, although the price of formal places is a little more expensive, the workers are not only young and beautiful, but also more assured.

"Hey, hey, let's see what time it is." A soldier of the training team holding the woman in his arms shouted to the soldier on the opposite side.

Although their place is formal, they can't stand the people coming and going and the business is very good, so it's naturally a bit noisy. The reason why it is called this soldier is also because this soldier took a silver pocket watch from the dead when he was fighting in India. Pocket watches are not cheap these days, they are worth half a year's salary.

Only the soldier on the left and right has a watch, so of course we can only ask him. After all, playing is going to be fun, but the old officer Songping Qixuan promised to pay today. No matter how fun it is here, it is not as important as the pay.

The soldier smiled, picked up the dry smoke pot in his hand, took out his pocket watch, and opened it in front of the woman beside him pretending to play with it.

"Yo, it's almost two o'clock!" The soldier actually spoke clearly while holding the dry smoke pot.

As soon as it was two o'clock, the soldiers on the left and right stood up one after another, those who paid for the money and those who touched their hands. The soldier put away his pocket watch and took out two Zhujin (one-eighth of one tael). One of them was given to women, and another was paid for food and drinks.

"The rest will be rewarded to you, wait for me to come back tomorrow." The soldier touched the woman's white and tender neck, and swaggered away.

"Hahaha..." After these few days, as if they were still feeling emotional, the soldiers walked away.

While walking, he was humming some lewd songs played in special places. After all, I can get a few taels right away, and the capital to go home and marry a wife is enough. If you spend a dozen or two more to build a house, you will basically live the same life in this life.

Halfway through the road, hundreds of coolies were driven to the station by the Japanese patrolmen, who kept blowing their whistle. The whistle was hurried and loud, as if it was killing people. Who is the owner of the British uncle? This Yokohama is not the British uncle who has the final say.

"The British are not much better than me, but they drive me to wait like a guinea pig." A soldier sighed.

They also saw the British army in India, and they were driven along with the British army to fill the trenches with human life. It's hard to say how strong the British infantry is, but it's actually just like that. It's not one nose and two holes. They were all using Mignet rifles, and they would die if they ate the guns.

In addition, they were trained by British officers themselves, and the exercise codes were all British. In the early days, even the quilts and hats were the same as those used by the British, the standard pseudo-British army. So they don't have much fear of the British army itself, they have seen it before.

"Oh, what's wrong with exchanging our country's endless raw silk for British money." Another soldier was obviously more knowledgeable.

Raw silk is an almost endless product, and of course it is good to export it. After all, he has been out of the country a few times, and he has seen big scenes. This level is indeed better than that of ordinary people.

Seeing that he was right, the other soldiers did not say much. As for the expelled coolies, the reason why they complained is that they are now owed wages and they are not pleasing to the eye. There is a breath in my heart, this is definitely not a good face.

"What are you carrying at the station?" A soldier pulled a patrolman.

Although the patrolman is a British employee, he is still Japanese, and his wife and children are still outside the settlement area. The British didn't take them as their own, they were nothing more than high-level coolies hired to maintain the law and order on the streets. All day long, he still holds a stick and whistle, and works for the British uncle all over the street. UU reading www.uukanshu. So seeing that he was a soldier of the training team, the patrolman first stood at attention and bowed his head before answering.

"Sir, I'm going to carry the red copper." If you see a soldier calling him an officer, it doesn't matter if he is a non-commissioned officer or not, it's always right to call him that.

"Red copper..." Someone pouted.

In the feudal countries of East Asia, copper is equal to money. In many dynasties, there have been cases of destroying the Buddha and destroying the Buddha, and then taking the copper-cast Buddha to melt and cast copper coins. This is a very normal operation and is not uncommon.

In the Edo market, iron coins were minted and circulated because of the lack of copper coins. Hearing that the copper was exported to the British, the soldiers still complained in their hearts and mouths.

It's nothing more than a few words, greeting the female family members of the other party, and I won't go into details here. After scolding a few words, the coolies also ran over. Several soldiers were anxious because they were blocked for a while, so they could not help but quicken their pace and walked to the temporary field barracks outside the city.

Before returning to the camp, I saw soldiers on the left and right streets and alleys, as well as inside and outside the camp, who were talking about them. Just ask anyone, and they'll know what's going on.

The originally promised 100,000 has not only become 30,000, but it has not been sent yet!