Some people say that the most important thing to grasp a man's heart is to grasp a man's stomach. How do you say this? I don't completely agree with this sentence. I think this should be said: grasping a man's stomach can better grasp a man's heart. After all, if there is no emotional premise, or a man is basically a man, then no matter how well the meal is cooked, he can only be a chef...

But objectively speaking, for those who have been away for a long time, having a good cook is really an extremely important thing - for example, Mavi, a handsome mixed-race man in front of him, quickly gained the recognition of everyone present through a few skewers of barbecue!

I ate two more strings before stopping, picking my teeth, and smiling satisfiedly: "Then Mavie, tell me what you are going to do!"

Mavi grinned, revealing his white and neat teeth again, and said in his unique tone: "I think I have the basic ability to find an errand in your fleet, right? Mr. Sun Qilan!"

I spread my hands, pointed to the guys next to me who were eating meat and fruit skewers like wolves and tigers, and said helplessly: "You know me? It's such an honor. For the question of whether you were hired, I think facts are always better than words. Isn't it?"

After saying that, I asked again: "How much salary are you going to ask for? Chef Mavie!"

Mavie smiled and asked back, "Your fleet is for food and accommodation, right?"

I replied, "That's natural! There are many empty rooms on the upper deck on the boat. Besides, who can you still hungry for the chef?"

Mavie laughed and replied, "That's it! Let's do it first during the probation period. Just make sure you get a salary!" After thinking about it, he sighed, "I used to go out to the sea with my father many years ago. Now I leave this town and return to the sea because I am tired of such calmness and monotony. I hope that in your fleet, I can forget some things. As for salary, that doesn't matter!"

I nodded and smiled and said, "Then let's make a decision! Come on the boat first. If the food you cook can meet today's standards, I will give you two gold coins per month. Well, how much do you get in this town in a month?"

Mavie narrowed his eyes and smiled: "You are so generous and kind! My salary is only one silver coin. Even if there are major festivals that require extra meals, I will only add a few copper coins!"

I said half serious and half jokingly: "You are here to cook for the guests. The guests leave after eating, and the repeat customers will not visit them every day. But it is different when you get on the boat. All of us have handed over our lives to you, so it is completely worth the salary! "

Mavi put his right hand on his chest, bowed deeply to me, and said seriously: "As you wish! Please feel free to believe in my kitchen skills and moral integrity! Time will prove everything."

To be honest, listening to this guy's words, I always feel that he doesn't have the skills to be just a chef. What should I say, observe and see!

However, his appearance reminded me of a problem - my fleet lacks a serious accountant, or a financial director, CFO! Well, in this era, it is called the Controller.

Su was in Japan, and seemed to be using a control chief who borrowed from Hakataya, but he had already bought it completely and became our man. Uncle Ye and his uncle traded in Malacca, South China Sea, and a local man.

In this era, in addition to calculating prices and controlling costs, the controller was also responsible for negotiations in trade, as well as the formulation and implementation of personnel salary. Our current controller was also held by Mo, and after Mo and Buhui left first, Yuan was held by Yuan. This guy has asked me several times that he didn't want to take care of the money anymore, which made her smell all day long.

Once I joked, "Aren't the bosses in other stores responsible for the money?"

Yuan pouted and said, "Then you can find another person who loves to take care of money! I can't do it, I think Lan is good, go there!"

Lan and I laughed wildly. But this is really an urgent problem. Before, in the Ming Dynasty or Japan, they were actually mainly working on land, with not that much risk and easy to control their salary. I gave everyone except my confidant, and all the salary increases by 50% based on the local salary in the same industry.

What do these confidants say? Jiugui Zhengxiao, Yuan, and Mo did not have any salary requirements at all, but I think that we can’t let these closest people do the most dangerous work and take unexplained salary. We should keep people and employ people, but we must use loyalty alone, and we must use the system to keep people.

Prince Laxhin was born, and had no idea about gold and silver, and seemed to have a strong family background... Every month, he always laughed and invited everyone to dinner and squandered it. However, this guy never lacked money sample paper...

Haleha was in charge of casting, including raw material procurement. To be honest, I don’t think this business requires salary at all. However, the price of buying things is not high and even economical, so I generously gave him three gold coins every month - this is three times that of a similar blacksmith, so he naturally accepted it happily.

For example, Chen Kui and others are in charge of a fleet, and they are completely responsible for their own profits and losses. Their accounts are also reported to me. The salary I gave to him and Lan is 10% of the net income, which is also a very rich fortune. So the real local rich man around me is Lan.

But now that I have gone overseas, all risks are superimposed, so I can't use such a fixed salary mechanism anymore. Moreover, I need a financial supervisor who knows at least Chinese and English. If I know Italian, Spanish or Nordic languages, it will be more reliable. It seems that it's time to discover a professional talent!

I was so confused that I knew that Mavi's voice woke me up.

The guy said, "Captain! As a proof of joining the team, I have two news to bring to you! One good news and one bad news, which one do you want to listen to first?"

I smiled and said, "This guy doesn't recognize his child, but it's fine, at least there is no obstacle to communication. So I smiled and said, "According to the convention, listen to the bad ones first."

Mavi nodded, put down the barbecue skewers in his hand, and said seriously: "First of all, I want to ask, how much do you know about the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce trade?"

I laughed and said, "It's said that in Nanyang, there is Kuhn in the south and Memphis in the north. It seems that both sides are not very good at dealing with it. I don't know if it's right?"

Mavie nodded and smiled, "The captain knows the general trend. However, the specific situation still needs to be explained in detail. Please listen to me-"

He picked up a barbecue stick and lowered his head to draw it on the beach. When I looked closer, it was in the shape of the Southeast Asian country. I have to say that in this era, nautical charts were still a very rare thing. His ability to draw such charts easily shows that he must have been studying this field for a long time, and it is definitely not as simple as a chef.

Mavie drew for a while, raised his head and used the barbecue stick in his hand to draw a circle in the southern part of Nanyang, mainly Indonesia and surrounding islands, saying seriously: "This range is mainly under the control of the Kuhn Chamber of Commerce. The Kuhn Chamber of Commerce has been doing flesh and blood trade. In their eyes, there is nothing that cannot be sold."

As he said, he gestured with his hands: "From plants, animals, minerals, goods, all aspects, any kind of things, including people!"

I have heard of this. It is said that the slave trade in the Kuhn Chamber of Commerce is rampant. However, since he sells slaves from overseas to the location of his Chamber of Commerce's stronghold, the officials in Jakarta also turn a blind eye. What's more, if you often walk by the river, you won't be able to get a piece of it. Local officials may not have lost their share of it.

Sure enough, Mavi continued with a calm expression: "It is said that last month, the Kuhn Chamber of Commerce once raided southeast of Manila - an indigenous tribe in that direction. When I went to see it a few days ago, there were no living people there... All living people became slaves and were sold to the sphere of influence of the Kuhn Chamber of Commerce!"

"Especially their princess, His Highness Maggie, is said to have been a treasure after the Kuhn Chamber of Commerce seized her! After cleaning and dressing up, an auction was held in Jakarta. Princess Maggie was auctioned as the finale, and finally sold a sky-high price of 11,000 gold coins!" Mavie continued: "But it was sold by the Kuhn Chamber of Commerce itself and handed it to the local governor as a gift."

I asked lightly, "So what did they get?"

Mavie's face twitched for a moment, and then said, "It is said that the forces of the Kuhn Chamber of Commerce have been infiltrating towards the northeast Felipin (Philippines) recently, and have received support from Jakarta. I wonder if it has anything to do with this."

I looked at his expression and asked three questions.

"In Manila today, I mean whose sphere of influence is the land under my feet?" This is my first question.

Mavie replied: "Manila has always been a neutral port, and has been around for decades. However, the Kuhn Chamber of Commerce has come to talk to the local governor several times in a row, and seems to want to monopolize Manila's trade - after all, this is the throat area closest to the East, right?"

I asked, "What's next?"

Mavie spread his hands and replied, "They left later, but it is said that they left a lot of harsh words. Then he went to rob the indigenous tribes we just mentioned, which is a warning to the local governor!"

I nodded. This information is very important. My first stop here was to sign a trade agreement with the local governor. After all, the geographical location here is too important. If we can join the link here, the importance of the Blade Sea is not even below Malacca!

However, if the Kuhn Chamber of Commerce also gets in trouble, there will undoubtedly be a lot of variables and the cost issue needs to be recalculated.

I nodded, as an affirmation of Mavie's previous words, and then asked: "The second question is, what attitude does the Kuhn Chamber of Commerce have towards other chambers of commerce?"

Mavie smiled again, the young man's smile was very contagious: "The Kuhn Chamber of Commerce has a nickname called vampire! They never let go of any prey, especially their competitors. In the era when my father went out to sea, there were more than a dozen large and small chambers of commerce in the south of South China. However, after the Kuhn Chamber of Commerce arrived, there were only Kuhn's family left in the entire southern South China Ocean!"

I smiled and said, "What about the Memphis Chamber of Commerce? Why wasn't it merged?"

Mavie snorted heavily: "There is the shadow of the British royal family behind the Memphis Chamber of Commerce. Kuhn naturally started to attack Memphis from many parties, but unfortunately he has not been able to do so. Especially in recent years, with the intervention of our Blade Sea Chamber of Commerce, Memphis has formed an alliance with Blade Sea, so the northern part of the South Ocean has become a forbidden area of ​​the Kuhn Chamber of Commerce, but the two sides have been fighting openly and secretly."

I asked again, "So do you think he knows that I'm here? If he knows, will he come and take the opportunity to sneak attack me?"

Mavie smiled and said, "This is the most important question I want to say! Captain! When you arrived here yesterday, I received the news that the Kuhn Chamber of Commerce, which is very clear about the situation - so you, no, it should be very lively when we go to sea this time!"

He said it was easy, but I knew that this trip to sea was definitely a war! And I had more doubts about Mavie’s true identity, or purpose.

So I asked the third question: "So Chef Mavie, please tell me what is your relationship with that native princess Maggie?"
Chapter completed!