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"Ah Fa, when I heard what you said, I should really die of shame." Zhao Haizhen sighed, lowered his eyelids and was silent for a moment, then raised his head suddenly, and said very resolutely: "That's right, people are not afraid of words, if they are afraid of doing good deeds and are afraid of this, if they all go with the flow, what good people are there in the world?" When I go back today, I will reduce the rent for the tenants, and in the future, I will set up factories like you, and try to make the workers' lives better. ”

"The town's words are serious." Ah Fa was humble for a moment, and said in a deep voice: "Actually, when it comes to jealousy or revenge, it is not without defense. The international merchant groups in the concession seem to be a reference. ”

Zhao Haizhen's eyes flashed, he glanced at Ah Fa thoughtfully, pondered for a long time, and then said: "This is a big matter, and it is not something you and I can do." ”

"Zhengong is too cautious." Ah Fa smiled faintly and said, "When the factory is built, there must be security guards to protect the factory, right?" It's like the town's house, can there be no bodyguards to protect the hospital? It's not about pulling the team to pull the flag and rebel, it's just a normal exercise and self-protection at critical moments. What's so big about that? Since the town prince is unwilling, then I will do it myself. ”

"Huh?" Zhao Haizhen suddenly felt a fever on his face, very embarrassed, and hurriedly said, "It's because I think it's bad." It is certainly a good thing that a businessman can have his own armed forces to protect his interests. This, I support you, just start with your factory protection team, and then gradually expand! ”

Ah Fa smiled and nodded, no longer talking about the matter, but he had a plan in his heart.

In traditional China, merchants have always been the last of the four people, and the status of merchants is lower than that of the three classes of soldiers, peasants, and workers.

Having arms and protecting vital interests is a goal, but Ah Fa's deep meaning is more than that. Of course, this is not an easy thing to do, and neither the government nor the concession will allow the armed forces to exist within their jurisdiction. Unless it has a suitable name and is recognized by the government or the concession authorities.

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The rich and fertile land on both sides of the river, brown in color, is waiting for the next round of cultivation and sowing, and as far as the eye can see, the villages are sparsely curled up, looking poor and dilapidated. The peasants propped up their hoes and watched numbly as they passed.

At this time, Ah Fa and the others were sitting on a steamboat dragging along the river, called hunting, but in fact, Ah Fa was testing the gun.

In Shanghai, there are many foreign companies that sell arms, mainly including: Diashi & Co., Maddens & Co., Xintailai & Co., Na Neng & Co., Madelung & Co., Joan Kee & Co., Swire & Co., Tai Lai & Co., Desheng & Co., Tak & Co., Hong Kong Nanli & Co., and the "Lammington" manufacturing plant in New York, USA, and so on.

But after all, weapons are different from other commodities, and Ah Fa is inconvenient and does not want to come out, so he entrusts Roden or Neumann to buy guns and ammunition from foreign companies in the name of self-defense or hunting.

Of course, this is not a large-scale purchase, in the eyes of Roden and Neumann, most of them think that they belong to Ah Fa's hobbies, playing with guns, and men like it.

"Do you know what an eel is?" Neumann looked at Ah Fa and Luo Deng, lit a cigar, and his brown eyes flashed with a hint of melancholy and sadness.

Ah Fa rolled his eyes and said angrily: "Just listen to the name, a kind of eel!" Don't take the little bit of natural history you've learned as a skill. ”

Unmoved, Neumann continued: "It's a small eel. At some point in their lives, they swam away from the waters where they were born, blindly swimming and swimming, swimming thousands of miles, to a place they had never been. They reproduce their offspring there, they mate, live, lay eggs, and then die. He paused to take a puff on his cigar and looked at the other man's face, as if appreciating the effect of his pause.

"They are just like us, the only difference is that we think we are free, free to come and go. But look at ourselves, we are nothing but human eels, coming and going blindly like them. As if to accentuate his tone, he repeated: "Human eels, that's all." ”

Ah Fa pursed his lips and smiled at Roden: "If you drink two glasses of vodka, you will be a philosopher yourself." No, it rhymes, it sounds smooth in Chinese, isn't it? ”

"Is it poetry?" Roden nodded stupidly, looked at Neumann again, and said, "He seems to have a point. ”

"That's him lost, a lost one—" Ah Fa looked at Neumann and shook his head, this image has nothing to do with the little lamb!

"It's you who is lost." Neumann rolled his eyes, pointed to the gun in Ah Fa's hand, and said, "Knowledge and wealth are the guarantees, not the guys in your hands." Violence will not solve the problem. ”

"Well, if I'm a robber, take this guy you say you are." Ah Fa smiled and pointed his gun at Neumann and raised his eyebrows, "Now please use your knowledge and wealth to protect your life!" ”

Neumann blinked, snorted, and turned his head to shore.

Now Ah Fa has two rifles in front of him, a shotgun, and three revolvers. Needless to say, the revolver and the shotgun are just a façade, and Ah Fa cares about the performance of these two rifles.

The German-made Mauser Type 98 rifle, a German standard weapon, fixed double-row magazine feed and rotary pull-back bolt machine, is safe, simple, strong and reliable, and is recognized as the pinnacle of military manual rifles.

The Lee-Enfield magazine rifle, the same as other fixed-magazine repeating rifles of the same era. The fast reloading of bullets, combined with a magazine with twice the capacity of the rifles of its time, made the Lee rifle the fastest rifle of its time in terms of actual rate of fire.

As for the accuracy of shooting, Ah Fa leaned towards Mauser, and this was the conclusion he came to after firing more than twenty rounds. And his marksmanship also impressed Neumann and Roden.

"Fa, is it true that you're playing with guns for the first time?" Neumann scooped up the ducks in the water with a net, and his mouth was slurping.

"Not really." Ah Fa shook his head ambiguously, held his gun, and took aim in the air.

Roden shrugged his shoulders, took the shotgun and looked at the grass on the shore with some boredom, he no longer had the capital to brag and show.