Insufficient balance

  In July 1887, David arrived at Tamsui Harbor in Taiwan with a large fleet of ships. By this time, David was no longer the same as when he was first picked up from the sea. On the gangway, David even had lace on his undershirt, looking like a homosexual; his hair was greased to shine, and from afar it looked like he was wearing a halo; the scent of perfume on him could be smelled from half a li away, and he sported a small mustache that made Hitler look tame.

  "De xing, P's aristocrat, stinky nouveau riche." Liu Fei stood on the dock, waiting for David to disembark, with a smile and a curse.

  "Dear Liu, how are you? I've been thinking of you every moment since I arrived in Europe." David had just stepped onto the dock when he shouted out and opened his arms to rush towards Liu Fei.

  "Stop... stop it... I'm fine, we don't do hugs here..." Liu Yi said while speaking to block her, and quickly retreated backwards.

  "Oh, you Chinese are always so reserved. This is my wife, Helena Amalia." David withdrew his arms, holding Liu Mei's hand while introducing the beautiful woman beside him.

  "Ah...!" David's new wife said, holding out her gloved hand.

  "What the... is this glove clean?" Liu Ye knew it was a hand-kissing ceremony, so he lowered his head to kiss the back of the hand while secretly ridiculing.

  "My wife is German, she can only speak German, French and Dutch. Just now she said thank you for saving my life, let her find a good husband." David was on the side, complacent and proud of himself.

  "Anyway, I don't understand what she's saying, can you translate it for me?" Liu Fei was skeptical.

  "Oh, Liu, you've really hurt me. I'm a gentleman of my word...". David was getting excited, but the more excited he got, the more likely he was to lie.

  "Stop messing around, first tell me what you brought back this time? Did you buy everything on the list I gave you?" Liu Mei wasn't used to David's British-style small talk and interrupted his chatter.

  "There's too much stuff, on the list, I bought everything I could find, it's all on the boat, you get someone to take the list and check, right? I want to go see my son, you haven't been mean to poor little Andrew, have you?"

  "Your son eats more than two kids, and wets the bed every night. This habit is up to you?" Liu Fei handed the list to Liu Fu, asking him to find someone to unload the ship. With the experience from last time, not only were many cranes installed at the dock, but also the dirt road leading to Keelung was replaced with stone pavement.

  Liu Wei took David and his two sons, as well as the 2 male and 2 female servants, to visit Sandru who was living with Liu Fu's family. When they saw that their son was pale and thin, David cried bitterly, and while crying, he mentioned his ex-wife. Foreigners are really different, Liu Wei observed from the side, David's new wife not only didn't get angry when she heard David mention his ex-wife, but also shed sympathetic tears together with him.

  Originally, David wanted to take his son with him to the mansion prepared by Liu Fei, but Shandru was very good at distinguishing between good and bad people. He rolled around on the ground, crying and biting, refusing to follow David, not even allowing himself to be hugged. Having no choice, David could only reluctantly leave Liu Fu's home.

  Liu Ye had already built a large villa and European-style courtyard near the hospital, specifically for foreign technical personnel and engineers to live in. To prevent more people from coming, many wealthy people were left behind, so David's family and entourage all lived here. There were still over 200 technicians on the ship who would move in after the equipment was unloaded. All of this had been arranged by Da Gui, so Liu Ye didn't have to worry about it. Anyway, there was enough room for another 200 people.

  In David's temporary residence, after settling his wife and servants, Liu Fei pulled David into a study room and asked about David's development in Europe.

  After David brought the medicine back to Britain from Liu, he quickly mixed into London's social circle with his noble title. His tablets became famous here, but what made them famous was not their effectiveness in treating pneumonia, fever or external injuries, but rather venereal diseases. At that time, Europe's high society was plagued by sexually transmitted diseases and there were no effective treatments available. When a 50-year-old aristocrat was cured of his "lower body hidden disease" with just three tablets, David's medicine quickly became popular in London's upper class. It soon spread to France and Germany, where David received enthusiastic and exceptional receptions wherever he went, from both men and women.

  This year, David wandered around Europe, buying medicine and purchasing equipment for Liu Fei. As he came into contact with the upper class nobility, many procedures and troubles were easily resolved, and everything went smoothly. Various aristocrats, bankers, and parliamentarians all chose the former between happiness in their lower body and principle.

  David set up a company called Sandrow Pharmaceuticals and hired several employees to sell medicines in various European countries. Although he had a child, his wealth and youth led him to have an affair, and David's new wife was the daughter of a noble family from East Prussia, who was said to be very wealthy and had investments in many enterprises, especially in shipbuilding, which helped David a lot when purchasing equipment.

  After roughly discussing the situation in Europe, Liu Yi asked David what he planned to do next. David's medicine was running out, and most of the money he earned had been spent on buying equipment for Liu Yi. Apart from selling medicine, he couldn't think of a faster way to make money. Liu Yi agreed to give him 500 more boxes of "anti-inflammatory tablets", but required David to set up sales personnel or sales points throughout Europe, at least in several major countries' capitals. David asked the reason, and Liu Yi said it was for future development, that formal business operations were the way to long-term stability. David deeply agreed with this. Additionally, Liu Yi gave David 500 more boxes on the condition that he would go to America to develop his company's business, and Liu Yi wanted to invest in David's company, holding a 51% stake. According to last year's agreement with David, the profit from selling medicine was split 50/50. This time, when buying equipment, David had helped Liu Yi out with some of the money, which Liu Yi made up for by giving him more medicine.

  Although David was somewhat skeptical of Liu's insistence on going to the United States, he eventually agreed. The company's shares were not an issue, but he couldn't understand why Liu wanted to develop heavy industry on this small island of Taiwan. In his opinion, it would be more comfortable to go to Europe or the US together to sell medicine rather than doing these industrial things.

  Liu Fei didn't explain his choice to him, just saying it was to help with the development of his hometown and brushed it off. This time David couldn't stay in Taiwan for long, after unloading the equipment from the ship, he would be going on vacation to Europe with his new wife, but because of Liu Fei's American plans, David planned to go directly to America from Europe, anyway there were many great places in America, wherever they went it was all just play, as long as you had money you could have a good time.