European Financial Emperor - European Financial Emperor chapter 6

006 Learn Commerce (2)

3 months later.

Time passed, and 1819 was bright.

Last year, the United States annexed Illinois as its 21st state, and Colombia was declared a republic by Simon Bolivar.

This was a testament to the fading of Spain’s name on the international stage, and proof that the expansion of the emerging industrial nation of the United States was now at its peak.

In such a gown, Lee Hwan was still working as a porter at the top.

There is still a long way to go to Europe, and there are many opportunities for Lee Hwan to learn commerce.

Although the Netherlands lost most of its colonies, it still had a base in Asia, including Java.

For this reason, he earned money by conducting triangular trade with the British colonies, and imported goods directly via Asian routes.

However, it was expected that the duration of the voyage would exceed two years because it was a huge journey of nearly 30,000 km and had to go through several transshipments in the middle.

Ben Heren’s fleet moved its business base from Indochina to Australia.

Despite the fact that it was the middle of winter, the sweltering heat was rampant in Australia.

As if all the merchants were going to die, they were overworked with fans.

“… … Catch people, catch them.”

Even while everyone was screaming in the heat, Lee Hwan was making something in his spare time.

Swipe, swipe.

Perhaps because of his memories of growing up in an ironworks as a child, Lee Hwan had a habit of making things whenever he had time.

These days, they were making pencil cases and bags.

At night, I usually read law codes or outdated newspapers from overseas.

It wasn’t too difficult, as Icilia gave me all the laws of the European continent and British newspapers just by talking to her.

Thanks to this, Lee Hwan became a very outstanding person, both legally and on a topical basis.

The merchants asked Lee Hwan, who was cutting trees without a break during break.

“No, what are you going to do with something like that?”

When the merchants asked, Lee Hwan replied roughly.

“Just. By Bored?”

“I wish I was younger. You have a lot of power.”

Lee Hwan also saw a strange black shadow these days. So he was growing with the shadow.

After the break, Lee Hwan loaded the goods brought by the merchants onto the cart and climbed the steep hill.

Compared to the sweaty merchants, Lee Hwan had a very smooth face.

“Heh heh, heh heh! Sweetheart, what kind of little girl is so strong?”

“It’s not that I’m strong, it’s that the men aren’t weak?”

“… … are you kidding me? Look at your luggage.”

Inadvertently, I turned around and saw that the wagon was loaded with items that were likely to weigh more than 150 kg.

Lee Hwan himself surprised himself.

“what… … ? When was it loaded so much?”

“I heard that little guy eats a lot, so he’s very strong. I don’t know where such a monster came from.”

These days, Lee Hwan ate enough food for an adult to eat, and he was very light and full of energy as if his body would fly away every morning.

It had long since passed the category of the general public.

‘If that black shadow grows, will I grow together?’

It wasn’t just this.

From memorization and computational power, he almost became a person who could be called a superman.

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Meanwhile, an appointment was made to trade leather in northern Australia, and Sang Sang Lee, to which Lee Hwan belongs, was on his way to collecting items to sell to hunters.

“Do you think leather is money these days?”

When Lee Hwan asked, the merchants nodded their heads.

“It’s not just these days that it’s money, but animal skins have been a thing of money since ancient times. That’s why some of the pioneers of northern America shoot and kill hunters and pioneers coming from outside.”

“Ah, right?”

“They say that in the frontiers of Mexico and adjacent to Canada alone, every other day there is bone and meat.”

He said that even in this desolate desert, there are many animals that can harvest hides, so hunters from England and the United States flocked to him quite a bit.

It was a swarm of flies in search of money.

Eventually, Sang Sang reached the hunter’s shelter where he had promised to meet the leather traders.

It was a village with only a few shabby huts and a stable that vibrated with the smell of rotten horse manure.

There were a bunch of naughty gunslingers smoking cigarettes, and I could see some women following them.

However, even though they had made an appointment, they looked wary.

“Are you from England?”

“Netherlands.”

“… … Dutch or British, they are them.”

Whether to make a deal or not, Lee Hwan wondered why they were so shaky.

But he had a reason.

“We are people who have nothing to do with machines. Don’t look at it in the paradigm of Ludaism.”

“… … .”

“Well, do you get our money anyway?”

“It sounds natural. Gold is just gold.”

Backcountry life in this era was quite lonely.

Nevertheless, the reason they came all the way to Australia to sell hides was exile.

‘These are those who participated in the Luddite movement.’

If you’re lucky that you survived, you’re lucky.

Those who returned to Australia for the crime of burning factories and destroying machinery in the past were still living a lonely life.

When we reached the corner of the shelter where the cheap smell of fumes vibrated here and there, the merchants asked Bob Boogiwon.

“Are you done with the calculations?”

“That, that… … .”

“Aww, this burn! What was the calculation that caused it to explode so slowly?”

“Bo, it is because of the investment in the loan I received from my home country. If you don’t arrange the dividends now, bad luck will fall on you later… … .”

“Have you ever seen such a bastard? If the calculation is so slow, how the heck are you telling us to do business? Are you going to buy something or not?”

Bob had a reason for taking his anger out with the little boys.

It was because this irresistible stone head was too difficult to act as an accountant at the top.

Usually, the top of the circle in this era is constructed by receiving investment, which can be seen as a hedge of risk considering the risk of maritime trade.

As the guild is formed, insurance premiums for maritime trade will be divided, so ultimately, even the investment dividends of each individual at the top had to be calculated separately.

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Maybe that’s all, since he started off with a loan to finance the expedition, which was lacking for the hookers, if we counted the interest, the goal would have been split in half.

In a word, it was a position that was of course unreasonable for Bob, the head of the world.

‘… … It’s time.’

Finally, it was Lee Hwan’s turn.

He decided to take this opportunity to get rid of the thorn in his eye called Bob.

“Uncle Bob, would you like me to clear the ledger?”

Just like rotten tofu, the complexion, expression, and distortion of the rice.

However, he was attracted to Lee Hwan’s suggestion.

“… … ledger?”

“How do you calculate? by mental arithmetic? Or an abacus?”

“… … Do it with an abacus.”

The abacus is the first computational mechanism of mankind that has been used since ancient Mesopotamia and spread to Greece and China.

However, in the West, because the abacus was used based on Roman numerals, it was inefficient and complicated.

Because of that, even if the head was a little bad, the calculations had to be slow.

However, his head was so poorly made of stone, his crotch was torn while following the work table.

Lee Hwan pulled out a modern abacus.

Tararaak!

He didn’t like digital as much as he thought he would, so even after he became an accountant, he often hit the abacus.

“I’ll do the math for you. Can you give me the ledger?”

Bob knew that Lee Hwan had mysterious powers in medicine or medicine, but he could not abandon Boo Ki-won’s pride.

Besides, isn’t this boy Lee Hwan, whom he usually harassed so much?

He paid for it from the start.

“Hey, have you ever seen such a frivolous little boy?! How dare you wrinkle in front of anyone?!”

“I never intend to wrinkle. However, I am doing this because it is unfair to drag a cart all the way down this long road.”

“… … what?!”

“If you can organize your books properly, you won’t be insulted by those people, right?”

Lee Hwan is well aware that he can’t get what he wants if he gets hit in the back of the head, slaps, or licks other people’s bottoms.

Although he was bullied on a fictional day, he painted Bob’s face with gold a few times in order to get close with him and win the post of assistant secretary, never without genuine respect for him.

Bob quietly thought about it.

‘Are you rolling the chrysalis on the grass? Whoops, yes, give it a try.’

While Lee Hwan was laughing at him inwardly, the stone-headed Bob smirked and held out the book.

“Yeah, give it a try.”

“really?”

“Instead, this is all your responsibility. If the calculation is wrong, it means that you should be held accountable, either by becoming a slave or by taking your life.”

The thought of doing just that is to pass the blame on to a little boy who looks a little better.

I immediately thought that there are reasons for not being human.

Lee Hwan smiled with a smile of conversion.

“Yes, yes. Do it as you please.”

In the end, Lee Hwan, who obtained the ledger, began to show off his skills in earnest.

When he opened the book, Lee Hwan felt his eyes spinning.

‘… … You bastard, what are you doing to organize your ledgers like this?’

A book is not simply to write down the amount or quantity, but to organize it so that you can grasp the amount of inventory and how the cash flows.

However, the format was so messed up that it was almost nothing more than a memo or graffiti.

It was not known whether the bookkeeping was made like this, because it was not for the purpose of financial accounting to be used for the final settlement later, or whether he was a person who did not know about double bookkeeping in the first place, but it was clear that Bob did not have the qualifications or even qualifications to become a bookkeeper in the first place.

Lee Hwan organized this complicated ledger, shared debits and credits, and organized the inventory of goods to be traded today and the current financial situation in a very good way.

Of course, these were trivial things that could not be called the basics of accounting at all.

However, the author, Bob, did not have even the basic discipline, so it took quite a while to clean up.

About 30 minutes later, Lee Hwan handed Bob the ledger.

“Come on, here.”

“… … uh, huh?”

“This will suffice. Would you like to review it?”

The merchants who were smoking around Bob burst into exclamations when they saw Lee Hwan’s work.

“Huh! Can you see this little boy? It’s a hundred times better than stupid rice, isn’t it?”

“Hey, Bob. What happened? Is it true that you’re not as good as a 16-year-old kid?”

Those who will be culled from this floor are rightly culled.

In particular, it should be even more so for a person who is so weak in ability and bullying those who are weaker than him.

The merchants asked Lee Hwan to calculate.

“Hey, little boy! Do you want me to leave that stupid rice alone and do some calculations for you?”

“Am I?”

“Then will you leave it to that bastard?”

“Haha, it would be nice if you could.”

“Hey, Bob! You will pull the cart from now on.”

When Lee Hwan took his seat, Bob tried to express his unbearable anger.

Shaking hands and clenching molars.

But he couldn’t stand the merchants.

Strictly speaking, merchants were a gentry class, and their status was different from Bob, a commoner.

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Moreover, if they suggested that they fire a person who does not need rice from the top, he would become unemployed in an instant.

The gentry at the top put their hands on Lee Hwan’s shoulder.

“let’s go! I believe only in you.”

“Yep! I calculated the break-even point compared to the investment and insurance money. We have organized it so that all you need to do is sell things above a certain upper limit, so you will be able to trade comfortably.”

“Oh oh! to something like that? After all, a little doctor is much better than a lump of shit.”

“Hehe, is that so?”

“Of course. Are you saying that?”

Lee Hwan looked at the rice and smiled.

Looking at the winner’s smile, the rice was only crumpled.

“… … do you need anything? I will help you.”

“no. I’m a little busy.”

Changing your status in the world often happens more quickly than you think.

It was just that now.