Chapter 186: Was he knocked senseless?

"Okay, thank you, big brother, thank you, big brother."

In order to expand the liquor distribution channels from the Maldives, Cui Jinghui had to swallow his pride.

Under normal circumstances, no security guard would dare to speak to him like that, let alone demand a red envelope from him.

He would have had their legs broken immediately!

Following the path indicated by the security guard, Cui Jinghui arrived at the pier and saw a cargo ship docked at the shore, with several sailors using carts to transport wine barrels from the ship.

"This must be the one!"

Cui Jinghui stepped forward to talk to the sailors, saying he wanted to see the captain.

However, he and the sailors had no common language; he didn't know which local dialect of the Maldives they were speaking. After much persuasion, they finally understood he wanted to see the captain.

Arriving at the captain's cabin, Cui Jinghui finally met the captain, who was wearing a white hat with gold trim.

He was of medium build with dark skin, though it was hard to tell if it was from sun exposure or his natural complexion.

Still, they couldn't communicate!

This Black captain could speak a few words of English, but Cui Jinghui felt like crying—he didn't understand English at all!

If only he had studied harder in school.

His subordinates were just as lost, as if listening to a foreign language.

With no other choice, Cui Jinghui had to call his cousin, Cui Ziqing, and ask her to come and translate.

Cui Jinghui bribed the security guards with money again, and after much difficulty, finally waited for Cui Ziqing to arrive.

"Cousin, cousin, I'm really sorry to make you come over so late at night."

"Stop the nonsense, where is the captain?" Cui Ziqing never dreamed that Cui Jinghui would make her come out for something like this.

She had just taken off her makeup and was preparing to take a shower when Cui Jinghui called, saying he had already found the captain from the Maldives and needed her to come over to translate.

After chatting with the Black captain for a few sentences, everyone learned that this person was not actually the captain, but a first mate currently serving as the acting captain.

"Huh? Not the captain? Then what are we talking to him for?"

"Are you stupid? An acting captain is still a captain; we can negotiate." Cui Ziqing suddenly felt that her cousin was quite foolish.

"Then cousin, tell him I want to order some of the liquor he's transporting, and I'm willing to pay a high price."

Cui Ziqing translated Cui Jinghui's words word-for-word into English and told the Black captain.

The Black captain rattled off a long string of English like a machine gun, causing Cui Jinghui to frown deeply.

"Cousin, what is this guy saying?"

Cui Ziqing sighed after hearing it.

"He says they are only responsible for this transport mission and don't do business selling liquor."

After hearing this, Cui Jinghui instantly became dejected.

Then wasn't tonight's effort all for nothing?

"Doesn't that mean we wasted our time?"

"I'll help you ask if they can help contact the liquor merchant." Cui Ziqing translated in extremely standard and fluent English.

She graduated from Brown University and was a genuine high-achiever.

The Black captain took a bill of lading off the wall and pointed to a string of numbers.

"Cousin, what does this mean?"

"It's a phone number, aren't you going to write it down?" Cui Ziqing said impatiently.

"Oh, oh, okay!" Cui Jinghui quickly took out his phone to take a picture.

But before he could even get his phone out, Cui Jinghui was pushed away by the Black captain, who shouted:

"No!"

"I'm speechless. Jinghui, did you get beaten stupid?"

"Don't take a picture, just copy the phone number."

"They are kindly providing you with contact information, what's with taking a picture? The bill of lading is their top secret."

"Alright, alright, I'll copy it, I'll copy it." Cui Jinghui's brain really wasn't working very well.

After leaving the pier, everyone returned to the Seattle Club.

With Cui Ziqing translating, Cui Jinghui made an overseas call.

The result was very unsatisfactory.

The call was indeed to the person in charge in the Maldives, but their attitude was very poor, and they didn't really want to talk to them.

However, when the other party mentioned Mr. Zheng, their tone was incredibly respectful.

The other party stated that all this liquor belonged to Mr. Zheng, and he had no authority to decide. If they wanted the liquor, they had to go find Mr. Zheng.

That is, Zheng Qian.

Besides that, the other party would not provide Cui Jinghui with any liquor, not even a single drop, even for a high price.

This made Cui Jinghui furious, and he was so angry he almost smashed his phone.

"Damn it, those monkeys from the Maldives! So unappreciative!" Cui Jinghui roared, his expression extremely angry.

"Don't be angry, it's actually quite normal."

"Normal? Is this normal? I'm willing to pay a high price, and they say what? Not even a drop? Isn't this clearly a provocation?"

"If this guy were in front of me, I would definitely smash his head with a wine bottle."

Cui Ziqing analyzed it seriously. The Maldives was just a small country, and its main revenue depended entirely on import-export business and the tourism industry.

The Qianhe Group was mainly involved in the shipping business, and for the Maldives to be able to connect with such a large shipping company like Zheng Qian's, they must have gone to great lengths and were carefully managing the relationship between the two sides.

If they shipped the liquor to Cui Jinghui, wouldn't that be the equivalent of stabbing Zheng Qian in the back?

They had never met you before, and you came up to talk business right away; who knows if you were sent by Zheng Qian to test them, so of course, they had to act firmly.

If Cui Ziqing had answered the phone, she wouldn't have done business with Cui Jinghui either.

Since Zheng Qian could control the people in the Maldives so tightly, he must have a way to monopolize it.

This path was clearly a dead end.

Even Cui Ziqing didn't expect that Zheng Qian would have such great influence, and could even know people in the Maldives.

The Zhengxin Shipyard under the Qianhe Group recently acquired the Yamei Group, becoming the strongest shipping enterprise in Yezhou in one fell swoop, and the Maldives was still counting on the Qianhe Group to help them make money.

The Cui Family just ran entertainment venues; it was basically impossible for them to build a relationship with the Maldives. The two sides were simply not in the same industry and couldn't integrate.

"Cousin, what should I do then?"

"Recently, the momentum of Red Rose has been growing, and it's packed every night. Many of our wealthy clients have run off to play at Zheng Qian's venue!"

"Cousin, I'm in such a difficult position!"

Cui Jinghui hoped Cui Ziqing could give him some advice.

Knock, knock, knock!

Operations Director barged in at this moment.

"Young Master!"

"Young Master, look what I've managed to get my hands on?"

Behind Operations Director, three subordinates were carrying a huge wine barrel together.

"Operations Director, what is this? Could it be that Maldives liquor?" Cui Ziqing asked.

"The eldest young lady is indeed intelligent."

Operations Director said that he had gone to great lengths to acquire it.

Cui Ziqing suddenly had a flash of inspiration; she thought of a good idea.

Since they couldn't order the liquor, why not hire some top-tier mixologists to taste this liquor, see what the ingredients were, and have the Cui Family make their own?

An experienced Sommelier could taste how this liquor was made after just a few sips.

The Cui Family was quite familiar with those liquor merchants; as long as they got the recipe and had them produce it on their behalf, wouldn't that solve the problem?