However, Liu Gongrui volunteered to act as the wronged leader... Ye Niangzi can not only settle a personal favor, but also make a sum of intermediary fees, so why not: "But the price is one hundred silver yuan and a flintlock pistol, and Liu Junshi can pay this money?" ”

Liu Gongrui was using public funds anyway, but patted his chest and promised: "Our Red Turban Army must also have a foreign gun team, right?" What the? One hundred silver yuan? ”

In Europe, a retired flintlock pistol was enough for only a few silver yuan, and in the hands of the wholesalers in the Shanghai Concession, the price had nearly doubled, and when the retailers sold it, the price had risen to fifteen silver yuan, and when De Mons sold it to Liu Chang, it was twenty-five silver yuan, but the knife would directly offer a hundred silver yuan.

"That's right, a hundred silver dollars a stroke!" Ye Niangzi broke Liu Gongrui's illusion: "That's the price." "But I heard that Liu Chang bought a foreign gun, and it only costs thirty or forty silver for the same gun!"

"People can give you kickbacks!" Ye Niangzi said with a smile: "You go and talk about it, don't forget my part!" , , the final negotiated price was that the Red Turban Army bought sixteen foreign guns at the price of seventy silver yuan each, but among the seventy silver yuan, Liu Gongrui took a rebate of fifteen silver yuan, and Ye Niangzi took an intermediary of ten silver yuan.

The price of this batch of purchases cut off any possibility of the Red Turbans being equipped with foreign guns on a large scale, and these sixteen foreign guns were nothing compared to De Mons's efforts in Shanghai.

"Mr. Anrui, as a legitimate European businessman, I am the biggest protest against the discrimination of your company, my employer needs to purchase more weapons, and you refuse to sell me any Mini rifles and twelve-pounder guns."

This Mr. Anrui in front of him is the upline of De Mengs, most of De Mengs' weapons were obtained by his foreign bank, this time De Mons returned to Shanghai in a hurry after confirming Liu Chang's ability to pay and credit, trying to purchase a large amount of weapons for Liu Chang.

As a superior wholesaler, the Englishman An Rui told him that he could not purchase any Mini rifles and field artillery from the foreign company, and he now reiterated this view: "We must be responsible for the safety of the Shanghai Concession, and you should know that the irresponsible outflow of Mini rifles and field artillery into the hands of the Taiping King will pose a direct threat to the safety of the concession!" He was talking about Hong Xiuquan's Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and he talked about the Little Knife Society incident: "You also know what kind of threat the small number of Western weapons that flowed out of the country posed to the French army in the incident that just ended! I would like to reiterate that old equipment such as flintlock pistols and shotguns has been obsolete by European armies and poses no threat to the security of Shanghai, so some of them can be sold to the government forces of China.

"But advanced weapons such as field artillery and Mini rifles will never be allowed to fall into the hands of the Taiping army in Zhenjiang." Mr. Anrui was clearly an arms dealer who loved his country very much: "Even if I sell obsolete equipment such as flintlock pistols, which is in fact against the orders of the British Empire, I am not allowed to sell some of them for the sake of my livelihood." ”

At the insistence of General Manager Anrui, De Mons had no choice but to reveal a little tone: "I assure you that all the weapons I sell will not endanger the safety of the Shanghai Concession, in fact, my employer is not the King of the Peace, he is hundreds of kilometers away from the Shanghai Port, and he will not threaten the freedom and safety of the Shanghai Port at all." ”

"Can you guarantee that? General Manager Anrui's eyes lit up, and he asked De Mons loudly: "Which warlord's arms agent are you?" De Muns shut up for a moment before he could form a language: "It's a trade secret, but I can swear to you in the name of God with the Bible that I have never sold a rifle or a pound of artillery to the King of the Peace, or to anyone who has ever threatened the freedom and safety of the harbor!" He turned around and threatened His Excellency An Rui, who was sitting in the senior chair: "Your Excellency, we have always worked together happily, if I can't purchase this batch of Minnie rifles and field artillery, my employer will be very disappointed in me, and this will also affect our good cooperation!" During this period, the establishment of the Shanghai Ocean Rifle Corps was still on paper, and the military situation of the Taiping Army was quite good, and it did not purchase a large number of arms as Li Xiucheng did when he passed through Jiangsu and Zhejiang, so although the arms business of An Rui was profitable, the sales volume was very limited, so after serious consideration, General Manager An Rui finally replied to De Mons: "I can sell Mini rifles to you, but the quantity is limited to the extent that it does not threaten the freedom and safety of Shanghai Port, and field artillery is not good." ”

"Unless you have conclusive evidence to ensure that the freedom and safety of the Port of Shanghai are not threatened by your employer."

De Mons was a little disappointed, which meant that he had to use other channels to purchase more Mini rifles and field artillery, and he could not afford to wait for a long time between negotiations, he had to transport this batch of arms to Rock Harbor in the shortest possible time, so he got up and took his leave: "Mr. Anrui, I hope we have a happy cooperation next time!" When he left the office, General Manager Anrui shook the office bell, and a young female clerk walked in with a folder, and it could be seen that this was a mixed-race child, with a bit of European style in her oriental face: "Your Excellency General Manager, what do you need me to handle?" ”

"Rusya, did you see that bastard just now?" Mr. Anrui took a puff on his cigar: "That damn Dutch bastard!" Rusya gracefully put the folder on Anrui's desk, and the whole person fell on the desk with a smile, revealing the graceful curves of her body: "Isn't that Mr. Deemmons?" Does he owe us the balance and can't afford to pay it? "That bastard!" Mr. Anrui threw the cigar into the ashtray vigorously: "He's rich!" Remember when he placed a big order with us last month? ”

"Remember! I remember the bankrupt bank clerk who got a lot of money out of nowhere. "But today he placed a big order with me, a really big order, last month's order compared to this, it's just a drizzle, this bastard doesn't know which foot is on the shit!" Mr. Anrui cursed, "This damn Dutch dog! Rusya's smile became more elegant, and the money made her breath rapid: "Big order? How big is Feng? ”

"It's bigger than all the arms transactions of our entire foreign bank in a whole year!" Mr. Anrui was furious: "No, it should be two whole years!" It can equip an entire infantry brigade with weapons, ammunition and other equipment, which is the largest arms order since the port of Shanghai was opened to Europeans! Why did such an opportunity actually fall on that bastard! ”

"I know his details, he set up a small bank in the Mediterranean, ran to Shanghai with a lot of debts, and usually played some tricks to deceive those poor Chinese, and I have been legally running an arms business in Shanghai for ten years, but why is he stepping on shit!" Rusya asked keenly, "Is this a hoax?" ”

"No!" Mr. Anrui told her, "He is willing to pay in person, by whatever means we can accept, in English, silver, gold, or whatever!" ”

Rusya jumped up from her desk and screamed, "This should be our order!"

Kill this bastard and snatch this order.

"That's right, our order!" Mr. An Rui took out a revolver from a drawer: "We have worked hard to transport weapons from Europe to the port of Shanghai, but we can only earn a pitiful freight fee, but I have heard from him that he has bought a flintlock pistol from us for only ten silver yuan, and transported it to a secret dock hundreds of kilometers away, and we can get twenty-five silver yuan!" "This damn bastard! He should have been shot in the head! Secretary Rusya cursed mercilessly: "Did he sell this batch of arms to the King of Taiping?" ”

"It's not the Taiping Army, I heard a little rumor, it's a secret harbor hundreds of kilometers away!" Mr. Anrui was eager to pull the trigger of the revolver and snatch this vignant order: "If we can sell the arms directly to this warlord, then I will immediately increase your salary, ten silver yuan a month!" "How?" Rusya asked, "Do you want to bribe a group of gunmen to kill him at the docks?" ”

"He wants to buy Minnie rifles and field artillery!" Mr. Anrui smiled: "This is the most profitable part of the whole order, which is a full double that of selling flintlock pistols and firing pistols, so I did not promise him, and was only willing to sell a small number of flintlock pistols and firing pistols, as well as a few Minnie rifles as samples." ”

"Although Demons didn't get most of the equipment he wanted, the warlord was in desperate need of arms to arm his troops, so Demons would rush to that secret port as soon as possible to make a deal with the warlord, and I will write you a check, and you keep an eye on his ship for me, and find out about the warlord and his port no matter what means, even if it is to sleep with the." At the thought of this, Mr. An Rui, who was already over fifty years old but felt that he was still very young, lit another cigar: "In that case, in front of the warlord of the East, who is very rich and in dire need of a large number of advanced weapons, I will personally lead a steamship before him, and say to him, "My Excellency, dear marshal, do you need arms?" My ship with five hundred mini rifles, twelve howitzers, and a full set of equipment for an infantry brigade will you be able to meet your needs? All you need is a small amount of gold. ”

Mr. Anrui is intoxicated by his own romance, and Rusya is also intoxicated by her dreams.

How much can this news be worth if it is sold to Mr. An Rui's old rivals, and if the top-secret information about the warlord and the secret port is sold to Mr. An Rui, it can only be exchanged for eight silver yuan per month, and if it is sold to the right person, how much silver yuan can it be worth?

What a dream!

I delivered the first update today, and I saw more than 20 more monthly passes, which was so touching