"Mr. Acting Consul, this is the latest weapon produced by our company, and it is currently only equipped with mercenary units and the San Diego police. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Info" Duncan took a submachine gun from the mercenary standing next to him, and introduced it in an extremely formal and slightly seductive tone: "The 'Debaucher' light machine gun, the perfect combination of modern firearms technology, is an epoch-making cutting-edge product......"

He gushed on and on, but his listeners, especially Bai Siwen, didn't feel the slightest meaning. "The perfect combination of modern firearms technology", "cutting-edge products of epoch-making significance", similar propaganda may have a little effect on Americans - just "maybe", and the vast majority of Americans do not know what Duncan is talking about - but Blasven has never touched a firearm, he can't even tell the difference between a gun and a rifle, and the introduction has little effect.

And Whiteswin's attention was entirely focused on another question: O'Connor and Duncan, what exactly did these American businessmen want to do? A few minutes ago, their purpose was to promote their company's military advisers, and they did everything they could, but this matter had just come to an end, and they actually began to show arms again...... Is this a sales pitch? Then they're looking for the wrong person.

Bai Siwen knew very well that he did not have the right to buy weapons, and Yang Ru did not either; Exactly what weapons to buy, only the imperial court could decide, and their duty was only to make demands to American arms dealers, sign contracts, and finally be responsible for paying and arranging for the weapons to be loaded on ships...... As a minister, Yang Ru can only do this, and his subordinates and staff can do even less - Duncan sees him as a sales target, and is doomed to no results.

But Duncan was still loudly introducing and fiddling with the "debaucher" in front of Whitesven. “…… As you can see, this light machine gun is twenty-nine inches long, and when the butt is folded, it is only eighteen .5 inches, which is very compact. He smiled more distinctly, "It fires nine-millimeter rounds, which are fed by large drums, and can be loaded with a hundred rounds at a time, and it can run out of them in ten seconds." ”

As he spoke, he took the drum from the mercenary, loaded it onto the gun, and loaded it into the hall with skillful and dashing movements. After doing this, Duncan sent a question to Blasven: "Don't you want to try this weapon yourself, Mr. Acting Consul?" ”

"Nope." The answer is unquestionable, "Thank you for your kindness, Mr. Sandy, but I won't shoot." ”

As if he had expected such an answer, Duncan didn't say much, just nodded, turned sideways and pointed to the half-body target that had just been assumed fifty meters away. "See that target, Mr. Acting Consul?"

"Yes."

"Watch out." Duncan turned to the target, took a few steps forward, and raised the "debaucher" to aim at it. After waiting a little longer, he opened fire.

The moment the gunfire rang out, Bai Sven reflexively raised his hand to cover his ears, but he soon found that the sound of this light machine gun was much lower than the machine gun that needed to be mounted on the ground and operated by two people, and it was not so dull that it would not make people feel uncomfortable.

So Bai Swen put his hand down again, and set his eyes on the target fifty meters away as Duncan asked. At the waist of the humanoid half-body target, half of it was now gone, and the rest of it was quickly disintegrating, falling off, and splashing under the blow of the bullet - Duncan was clearly doing a slow lateral straf, just right enough that when he fired the last bullet, the target was cut off by the waist.

As soon as the gunfire died out, the upper part of the humanoid target fell, falling to the ground with a soft thud.

Duncan was quite pleased with the result, in fact it was his first time, so the cowboy frivolity was once again evident in him: he whistled triumphantly, struck a pose, and then turned around.

"What do you think, Acting Consul Vice-Consul?"

"Good marksmanship." Bai Sven gave him a thumbs up, and then began to applaud. Under his leadership, several of Yang Ru's staff members also began to applaud, and of course O'Connor, Harrington, and the mercenaries had to do the same, so there was a round of applause at the shooting range.

Duncan was even happier because he rarely received applause...... In fact, as long as Rachel is present, he usually gets blame, and praise is a very rare result, so the applause makes him very happy.

But applause wasn't what he was hoping for.

After waiting a little longer, maybe a minute, when the applause died down he asked again: "What do you think of this weapon, Mr. Acting Consul?" ”

"It's a good gun." Mr. Blaswin said slowly, looking for a way to answer Duncan without damaging his own face -- he couldn't tell the Americans bluntly that they had chosen the wrong pitch and that he was just a puppet in charge of signing the contract -- despite what he had already said.

He hesitated. But it's not hard to find an excuse that seems plausible, and the political and military leaders of various countries have used the same reason when refusing to equip themselves with automatic weapons on a large scale, and now Bai Sven has thought of it.

"It's a good gun." He repeated the conclusion just now, and then said: "But this officer believes that this gun is not suitable for use by our Qing Army. It consumes bullets too fast for our country to bear. ”

"That's a problem." Duncan nodded. The cost of use is indeed a concern that every country pays attention to. But he added: "But it's not serious. You can procure a small number of 'Debauchers' to equip elite troops, such as His Majesty's Imperial Guard. ”

"This needs to be decided by the Queen Mother and the Emperor in person." Bai Siwen said smoothly.

"That's true." Despite his reluctance, Duncan could only agree, considering whether he needed to send someone to China to sell arms to the Chinese emperor. However, he immediately remembered that the arms business had little to do with him, and that cotton and raw silk were the projects he was responsible for, so he dismissed this idea again.

Of course, he still had to complete Qin Lang's commission.

Duncan shrugged his shoulders to himself, handed the submachine gun to one of the mercenaries, and smiled at Bai Sven. "Of course, in addition to 'debauchers', the company also produces other types of weapons, like this one ......"

A new round of sales pitches has begun.

This time, however, Duncan paid a little attention to the actual situation of the customer - since Blaswin stressed that he could not buy submachine guns because of the cost of use, he deleted Browning's light machine guns and automatic rifles from the sales catalog. At the same time, the carbine was removed, and in addition to the rate of fire, it used .223 caliber ammunition that was twice as expensive as any other ammunition, and China would not buy it.

The fourth weapon to be removed was the .357 Magnum caliber semi-automatic pistol, which was never successful, and only a very small number of hunting and shooting competition enthusiasts would buy it, but the Chinese military was clearly not such a customer; then, the .44 Magnum caliber "anaconda" was also removed, and Duncan felt that the Chinese physique might not be able to withstand its recoil, although Qin Lang could use it, but he was a special example.

Only in this way, Duncan's sales catalog was left with only four products: the "Anaconda" and the semi-automatic pistol "Cobra" of .45ACP caliber, as well as sixty and eighty-one mm mortars. However, he thought about it for a while, and added a new toy that Browning was still working on: the pump-action shotgun.

When he did this, and had a trial model brought from the factory, Duncan never imagined how successful the move would be.

"This new rifle, Mr. Sandy, is your company ready to produce it?" Bai Sven asked, his eyes fixed on the sample, and his face was excited.

His performance took Duncan by surprise. He didn't understand why the acting vice-consul, who had always shown no interest in weapons, was so excited to see him fire a shot from his shotgun - yes, although the twelve-gauge had made a big hole in the human target, Duncan didn't find Browning's new toy any more appealing than a submachine gun.

In addition to the price and the cost of use.

But Bai Siwen just acted very excited. "Is your company ready to produce this new rifle?" Seeing that Duncan was unresponsive, he asked again.

"Yes, we'll produce it soon." Duncan said it immediately, though there was one thing he didn't say: "After Mr. Browning finally finishes it." ”

Why? He thought to himself. Browning's new toy may be the only catch of the day, and as long as the Chinese government can be persuaded to order it, the rest of the side issues are better hidden. Moreover, even if Browning had any delays, it could theoretically be completed before the Chinese government's order arrived.

Duncan was so happy that he was about to laugh.

Bai Swen was also very happy and wanted to laugh out loud. He thought he had found something that would add a little color to his career, a new rifle that could cut a wide hole in the enemy's chest with a single shot, and it was easy to use, which the adults in the military department should really like.

Of course, he also needed to convince Yang Ru that only he could submit an official recital to the imperial court, but Bai Siwen felt that this was not a problem.

"Mr. Sandy." His eyes were already narrowing, "Can you give this gun to this officer?" As you know, the official needs to submit samples to the imperial court. ”

"No problem." Duncan happily replied, "Mr. Acting Vice Consul, we can provide samples of any weapon you need. ”

The two hands were clasped together.

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Note: The "trench gun" used by the U.S. military in World War I is the M1897 shotgun designed by Browning and produced by Winchester, but in this book, M1897 and its predecessor M1893 will belong to the big viper (to be continued, if you want to know what happened next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )