Chapter 82: What a big gang?
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In the dark night, the sound of insects filled the entire mountain range, and a team of thousands of people stood straight in the night, without any torches or any light.
If someone passes by here at this time, they will inevitably be scared half to death, and even mistake these thousands of people for Yin soldiers.
After thousands of people waited for several hours, the sky in the distance gradually turned white, and the movement of the carriage finally came from the opposite side.
"Hey, man, you're half a day late!" Seeing the comer, Wang Sirui smiled and won.
"Fack! I assure you, if it weren't for this list that forced me to stick to it, I would have wanted to turn back even halfway through. After seeing Wang Sirui, a white man did not have the slightest smile on his face, and seemed to be very dissatisfied and vented.
"But you're here anyway, aren't you?" Wang Sirui didn't care about the other party's complaints, but smiled and hugged the other party's neck.
"Damn, you don't know how hard it was along the way, and they almost caught it several times. If they really found out, I think we would definitely die a terrible death. The white man continued to chatter.
"I'll pay you an extra 10,000 taels of silver as compensation!" Wang Sirui attached himself to the white man's ear and said in a low voice.
When he heard that Wang Sirui was willing to take an extra 10,000 taels of silver, a smile finally appeared on the white man's face, and he patted Wang Sirui gently: "Hehe, don't worry, man, since I received your deposit, no matter how difficult this list is, I will find a way to complete it." Do you want to inspect the goods now? ”
Wang Sirui nodded, for this batch of munitions, Wang Sirui did not work hard.
First, he sent someone to contact Juan, a down-and-out businessman in Chile, in Tianjin, and Juan was also a complete unlucky guy.
I don't know where I heard that there is an ancient country in the Far East, where gold is everywhere, and no matter what kind of goods you buy in the past, you can make a lot of money there.
As a result, Juan engaged in some Chilean goods to be shipped to the Qing Kingdom, but as soon as he arrived here, he encountered war.
Although no one was robbing Juan's goods, it was clear that because of the war, Juan's goods did not sell at all.
And as time passed, the squeeze of the goods in Juan's hands resulted in Juan not even having the money to return to China.
At this time, Wang Sirui found Juan and reached a deal with him, if he could make this deal, Juan could not only make a lot of money immediately, but even become one of the richest people in Chile.
First of all, Chile is not a rich country, and at its worst, they even dared to sell the active warships of the Navy.
Fortunately, with Wang Sirui's financial support, Juan bought off the Chilean consul, and the consul reported the matter to China after receiving enough payment.
After all, it is such a big international order, and the Chilean consul does not dare to hide it from his own country.
And the Chilean authorities, who saw the money, put forward a ridiculous condition, which was 10 percent. For Wang Sirui, 10 percent is nothing to him.
As a result, Juan became the consul for equipment procurement in the Chilean Army.
Then, under his official capacity, he went to Japan according to Wang Sirui's request and proposed to the Japanese government a list of weapons purchases, 10,000 Type 30 rifles and 5 million matching bullets. Then he approached the British minister, Dou Nale, and made a request for the purchase of 100 Maxim heavy machine guns, as well as 5 million ammunition.
After confirming the authenticity of the order to the Chilean government, both countries happily agreed to the order and gave the greatest concession.
Among them, the Type 30 rifle is 11 taels of silver, and 50 bullets are given, and the other bullets are 1 tael of silver and 50 bullets.
The price of a Makqin heavy machine gun is 4,100 taels, and the price of a bullet is 40 pieces of silver.
The purchase price of Wang Sirui is 20 taels of silver, and 30 bullets of 1 tael of silver. A heavy machine gun was 4,700 taels, and 20 pieces of ammunition were 1 tael of silver.
200,000 taels of rifles, 166,667 taels of bullets, 470,000 taels of heavy machine guns, and 250,000 taels of bullets. This order amounted to one hundred and eighty-six thousand six hundred and sixty-seven taels.
And Juan only needs to pay 745,000 taels, even if the Chilean government needs to take 10% of the total amount of the order, that is, 100,0800 taels of silver, then Juan will end up with about 220,000 taels of silver.
Even if you exclude labor, freight, relationship costs, etc., Juan will eventually be able to get at least 150,000 taels of silver.
It was money he would never have made in his lifetime, and now, Juan really believed that there was gold everywhere.
Wang Sirui randomly spot-checked a few boxes, found that they were indeed brand-new weapons, and spot-checked a few boxes of ammunition, and after confirming that they were correct, he ordered the troops to receive the equipment, and he himself signed an order with Juan.
Why sign a bill instead of paying the money directly?
Quite simply, it was to avoid the eyes and ears of the imperial court.
Juan was armed with only 4,500 rifles, 35 heavy machine guns, and 1 million rounds of ammunition each. The rest of the equipment was being traded along the route they had taken earlier.
And the one who is responsible for the harvest over there is Wang Shuqi, and the silver will also be paid there. At that time, Juan only needs to hand over Wang Sirui's list to Wang Shuqi, and Wang Shuqi will naturally give Juan the money.
Under the temptation of high welfare and high treatment, Wang Sirui easily recruited 4,500 people, and organized these 4,500 people into six battalions, each battalion of 600 infantrymen, equipped with four machine gun groups, and a group of 12 people.
Of the remaining 684 people, 500 were used as baggage battalions, and 184 were directly under Wang Sirui's headquarters.
On the other side, in a camp that the imperial court could not see, there were nearly 6,000 troops gathered there, and those people were trained by Wang Shuqi in case of emergency.
Obviously, most of the current procurement of this batch of armaments has been placed by Wang Sirui over there, and once those 6,000 people come out to fight, even foreigners will not be able to break through their defense line.
"Juan, after making money, have you ever thought about going back to China to enjoy it?" Wang Sirui put his arm around Juan and asked kindly.
"I've thought about it, but I'm still hesitating now, I know you're a guy with a big appetite, just go back to China and enjoy it, I'm afraid I'll regret it." Juan replied very frankly.
After all, such a large amount of money has been made and so much money has been made, although I am a little frightened in the middle, but it is good to be able to make money.
However, Juan is still hesitating, because he doesn't know what Wang Sirui thinks. If only this is done, then Juan can go directly back to China to enjoy it.
If Wang Sirui wants to continue, then he needs to continue to spend time and energy to build good relations with those people in China, which costs money.
Therefore, before figuring out Wang Sirui's attitude, Juan did not dare to move easily.
"Do you want to do something bigger?" Wang Sirui said with a playful temptation.