During the Taiping Rebellion, German ordnance entered the Chinese market, but failed to have a wide impact, but in the fifth year of Guangxu, Britain embargoed arms to China, and the Qing government turned to Germany, and the German side reacted quickly, with the help of the Chinese minister in Germany, and soon obtained huge orders.

Krupp cannon is an important magic weapon for German arms sales advantage, in the last years of Tongzhi, the generals of the Huai army realized that the Krupp cannon is the most powerful weapon, in the first year of Guangxu, Li Hongzhang supervised the Beiyang coastal defense, and asked the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau to build ships and match guns, should be dedicated to the German merchant Krupp family, and then advocated that the battery and the army artillery also use the gun, and then with the help of the German minister in China Barland, the Krupp factory and Li Hongzhang established contact.

Li Hongzhang was attracted by the excellent performance of the gun and hoped to get political support from Germany, so Krupp guns were continuously imported into China, and in this way Germany gradually established its dominant position in selling arms in China.

The official likes the arms produced in Germany, and the landlords and gentry below naturally think that the arms produced in Germany are good, so the arms produced in Germany have become the best-selling weapons in the country.

In Shanghai, especially in the concession, there are many people engaged in arms smuggling, but there are only two companies that are really doing it on a relatively large scale, one is Sun Wei in the public concession, and the other is Huang Jinrong in the French concession.

In history, although Huang Jinrong finally became the uncrowned king of the French Concession in Shanghai, the development of his power is still relatively bumpy compared to the current Sun Wei.

Huang Jinrong sent Huang Mazi, not only short in stature, but also with a pockmarked face, obviously unable to get the favor of everyone's ladies at a young age like Sun Wei, and there was no beautiful widow like Xie Xiaoshu who had a lot of money to recommend a pillow to solve his financial troubles, it can be said that everything he earned by virtue of his true ability to overcome all difficulties and shoot a knife.

Although Huang Jinrong entered the patrol house six or seven years earlier than Sun Wei, his development in the patrol house was not as smooth as Sun Wei, and now he has just been promoted to the inspector of the central patrol house of the French Concession, a month later than Sun Wei's appointment as the inspector, but his power in the gang is much greater than Sun Wei's, not only has he controlled the underground forces of the French Concession, but also extended his hand to the public concession, and Lu Liankui, the probe of the patrol house of the public concession, is his protégé.

Although the Taipan Johann von Karlowitz of Lihe Foreign Company has outstanding ability, he is also a standard gentleman, who is proficient in eating, drinking, and having fun, and often mingles with Sun Wei, who is suddenly rich and noble, so he has much more details about Sun Wei's affairs in the patrol room than Wang Qian and other family members.

Sun Wei talked with Johann von Karlovitz for a long time in the ward, and although the topics were all about some ups and downs, Sun Wei had a general understanding of his power and various livelihoods in the public concession.

Generally speaking, Sun Wei's actions in the public concession in the past four or five years are actually not much different from Huang Jinrong in the French concession, and he has recruited a wide range of disciples in the concession, and there are more than 1,000 people in the top row alone, and there are countless people who work for him in the periphery; under his command, these disciples smuggled arms, trafficked drugs and gambling, robbed and harbored stolen goods, trafficked in people, armed escorts, extorted tickets, and grabbed territory.

With the development of his career, Sun Wei encountered the same trouble as Huang Jinrong, but he did not have a woman like Lin Guisheng to take care of his affairs, his wife Wang Qian can only be regarded as a lady, and she does not understand and care about the affairs of the rivers and lakes, and although his concubine Xie Xiaoshu has the heart to help him deal with the affairs of the rivers and lakes, she does not have the ability of Lin Guisheng, so she can only delegate power to the hands of her disciples.

In order to prevent his disciples from being too powerful and anti-customer-oriented, Sun Wei divided his business into two, in which things such as smuggling arms and armed escorts, which require strong force but do not require much brainpower, are handed over to Sun Li, a brother from the same village who fled with Sun Wei.

At this time, Sun Wei can be said to have two teams in his hands, the largest of which are the ordinary disciples managed by Gu Yecheng, these people account for eighty percent of the number of disciples in Sun Wei's hands, all of whom are Qingpi recruited by Sun Wei from inside and outside the Shanghai Concession after his career, and are responsible for finding out news for Sun Wei, intimidating and intimidating, and taking care of business, which has made great contributions to Sun Wei's rapid promotion in the capture house.

Although the second team in Sun Wei's hands was nominally his disciples, the members in it were all landless peasants from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and even farther provinces, and these people were encircled by Sun Wei as soon as they arrived in Shanghai, and they still maintained the simple nature of the poor peasants, although their number was only about 200 people, but they were the most central and most effective team in Sun Wei's hands, and its commander was Sun Li, who only accepted Sun Wei's orders.

From the very beginning of its formation, this team was distinguished from the ordinary gang disciples, and except for a few who were used to protect their families, most of them were stationed with their families in the undeveloped Pudong, where Sun Wei used the connections between Li and the foreign bank to run an arms warehouse.

Shanghai as the largest port terminal in the Far East daily goods are naturally like carp across the river, in addition to most of these goods are transported to all parts of the country by water and rail, but there is still a large part of them need to be reached by land, and compared with the convenience of waterways and railways, the land route is bumpy, much more dangerous, and it is necessary to fight with bandits at all times, so it is necessary to have a large number of escort teams with large armed forces, so Sun Wei's team came into being.

The armed escort pays attention to the wharf, and if you can not fight, you will not fight, but you really need to see the truth on the knife edge when you really encounter some more muddy bandits, so those escort teams with more powerful forces have become the sweets in the mouths of businessmen, and Sun Wei's escort team not only transports ordinary goods, but also carries guns and ammunition purchased by landlords and gentry from all over the world.

After two days of understanding, Sun Wei has a preliminary understanding of his predecessor, and he also made a summary of his predecessor, this person is really not a thing!

In Sun Wei's view, his predecessor deliberately curryed favor with the Wang couple and seduced the daughter of the Wang couple in the final analysis just to save himself a few years of struggle, which is understandable, but from the frightened eyes of his daughter Lingling looking at her father, it can be seen how bad Sun Wei is to his family after his career, and it is no wonder that Wang Huairen does not have a good face for him.

On the other hand, Sun Wei believes that it is understandable for his predecessor to recruit disciples to develop his own power after entering the patrol house, and directing his disciples to smuggle arms, sell drugs and gamble, rob and harbor stolen goods, carry out armed escorts, and seize territory are also due actions in a specific environment, and it can also be said that it is understandable, but trafficking in human beings and extorting and kidnapping tickets are not psychologically acceptable to Sun Wei.

When it was close to lunch, Sun Wei had a rare moment of silence, which also gave him time to think about where he should go in the future.

It was 1907, only four years before the Xinhai Revolution, and Sun Wei did not think that his arrival could hinder the development of this general trend in the world.

Sun Wei believes that the legacy left by his predecessor, even if he does not have the means of his predecessor, as long as he does not die, his future development in the patrol house will be very smooth, even if he can't become the Chinese deputy director, there is no problem in becoming the chief detective inspector of the chief detective of the chief detective of the Bao Detective, and when the new China is founded, he will take the looted money and take his family to Hong Kong or the United States to hide, which can be regarded as free.

The rich man is carefree, and he is at ease, but what is the benefit of his arrival and the country, and at the same time he thought of his current opponent Huang Jinrong, this tycoon with unlimited scenery in the concession but because he beat Lu Xiaojia, one of the four sons of the Republic of China, was closed in a small black house by He Fenglin, the Shanghai Songhu Protector, what kind of humiliation is this.

Every man has an emperor's dream behind him, and there will be no farce of the principal sitting on a pickup parade in the future, saying that Sun Wei doesn't want to be the kind of emperor who is angry and "ambushes millions of corpses and sheds thousands of miles of blood", which is a lie, and at the same time, what makes Sun Wei most excited is that the warlords in the early days of the Republic of China, except for the unlucky Lu Jianzhang and the domineering Xu Shuzheng, can basically leave a good death after powering down to the wilderness, which has the charm of the United States and civilian elections, of course, this kind of election depends on the barrel of a gun.

If you want to get a piece of the Xinhai Revolution, you need to prepare as early as possible.

Sun Wei only needs two things to take advantage of the situation to arm the revolution, one is money, and the other is soldiers, but governing the local area is not only these two things can be solved, and the military ruling the country is always the way to take trouble, so after obtaining the territory, you also need to govern the local talents.

Sun Wei considered that he was just a small inspector in the concession, except for the brave and ruthless Qingpi, naturally no other talents would take refuge in him, so if he wanted talents, he could only cultivate them by himself, and at the same time, the talents he cultivated were also guaranteed in terms of loyalty, just like the Whampoa Military Academy started by Chiang Kai-shek.

At this time, there are still more than four years before the Xinhai Revolution, which is enough to train a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy into a young man who can do anything, and at the same time, the young man still has the vigor of a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers, which is enough to break the obstacles of the stubborn forces for himself, so as to avoid a situation like the League that leads to harmony and corruption due to the intertwining of forces.