A few days later, Qin Lang had a second meeting with Liu Xuexun, but only for five minutes - because the only reason Liu Xuexun asked for this meeting was that he wanted to say goodbye to Qin Lang, and then "by the way" told him that he was seriously considering his proposal, but it would take some time. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Regarding this, time, Qin Lang believes that it is true, and in fact, Liu Xuexun needs more time to consider those two suggestions than he thinks, and it is possible to make a decision in the end, and use his wealth worth millions or tens of millions to do something more realistic, such as buying a large piece of land in a scenic place, building a gorgeous manor, collecting a little precious antiques and calligraphy and paintings, and finding a few young and beautiful concubines, Rather than using them for a great cause that is both dangerous and illusory.

However, if he is crazy enough, or with a nicer embellishment, brave, he will come up with a large sum of money, buy arms, recruit soldiers, and then use the money from marrying concubines to hire several professional military experts as consultants, and take a crucial step towards realizing his ideals - there are not many such people, but there are always some, and Liu Xuexun already knows that as long as his first step is good enough, the rest of the things will be easy.

Because a world-class arms dealer had promised him discounted arms and soldiers, he could hardly resist the temptation.

Fifty percent vs. fifty percent. Qin Lang selected a ratio for Liu Xuexun. There is a good chance that the plan will succeed.

Therefore, when Liu Xuexun said goodbye to him, Qin Lang didn't say a word, but instead gave a very rare gift: two "python" pistols that were hastily prepared by the Big Viper Weapons Company, but were very beautifully made.

Liu Xuexun may not be able to use these two weapons in his life, but he should be able to understand their significance.

He thought they contained meaning.

Next, Qin Lang knew that all he needed to do was wait, waiting for Liu Xuexun to make a decision.

Of course, while waiting, he also had to do a lot of things: running between several companies, inspecting factories and research units, calling meetings of senior employees, meeting with government officials and representatives of Washington - three successive groups of delegates, a dozen people, arrived in San Diego almost simultaneously. These people take up a lot of his time, and it's all because of the Philippines.

Although the mercenaries are already in that place, and are quickly and forcefully sweeping up the Resistance, the situation in the Philippines has been a nerve stirring in the White House, Congress and the Department of the Army, some people want to know how many bombs the Resistance really have, some people want to know when the situation will get better, and the Army wants Umbrella to do some simple combat training for the recruits so that they don't have to be packed in boxes and sent back to the United States less than a week after arriving in the Philippines - but the problem is, The leaders of the War Department did not want to spend a lot of money, nor did they want the matter to be exposed and affect the reputation of the Army.

In the end, all the guys from Washington, whether they represented the White House, Congress, or the Department of the Army, declared that they were discussing these things with him alone, and that anyone else, including Rachel and O'Connor, was only present at the meeting.

"Excellent." Rachel immediately began to laugh when he heard this, gloating, "It just so happens that I have a lot of work to arrange lately, as well as business negotiations with representatives of the Eastern Consortium. Those guys finally did a good thing and didn't waste my time. ”

"And I'm going to inspect District 51 too." O'Connor also said, "You know, routine inspections ......."

And then they threw all the representatives of Washington to him and disappeared without a trace.

Therefore, Qin Lang had to spend his time dealing with these things, dealing with inquiries from the White House and Congress, bargaining with the War Department, and repeating some of the questions that had been repeatedly said and the conditions mentioned many times.

Luckily, in the end, he sent the troublesome guys away, signed a contract to train recruits for the Federal Army, and also found time to do two things: meet the Wright brothers—Qin Lang thought the opportunity to invest in their research was ripe; Having made an arms deal with the British, selling 2,000 sniper rifles and 500 two-inch pocket mortars - the South African Expeditionary Force finally realized the serious danger of Boer snipers, and now the British Empire was going to launch a counterattack.

However, the British rejected Qin Lang's suggestion to sell them 120 mm caliber mortars and supporting "weapons of mass destruction", which Qin Lang felt was because they did not yet know what "weapons of mass destruction" were, even though he had already given some hints.

It's just that they will still need weapons of mass destruction in the end. After sending off the British negotiators, Qin Lang suddenly had a new plan: perhaps he could secretly smuggle a batch of pure Lewis gas to the Boers, put it in unmarked metal cans that could be seen to be produced by German machine-building processes, and then sell mustard gas to the British.

Or, conversely, sell mustard gas to the Boers and let the British use Louis gas......

Good idea. Qin Lang recorded it and prepared to put it into practice in the new year. You don't need to wait long, it's fast.

The new year is coming - by the time Qin Lang has done all his work, 1899 has come to an end, Christmas is only a week away - and now is also the harvest season.

Just as Christmas was approaching, on December 23, the first step of his railroad project was finally completed: after completing its full mission, the "Shikoku Railway Company", which was responsible for the construction of two railways from the Chinese capital to the southern and western concessions, and issued a large number of shares in the United States, Britain and France, officially declared its collapse under the stunned gaze of all the stockholders......

No, there was no "official announcement", but on this morning, it was suddenly discovered that the hot company that had been in the spotlight of investors had come to an end - it had gone bankrupt, it had collapsed, without warning but in an instant, as if it had been affected by a supernatural force.

Of course, whether it is public information or the inside story of private talk, it is not a supernatural force that caused the bankruptcy of Shikoku Railway. The consortium had already prepared a whole bunch of reasonable reasons: first, the obstruction of the Chinese, which led to the slow and costly progress of the railway project; Second, since all building materials need to be imported, railway companies have to pay high transportation costs, which are further increased by China's poor traffic conditions; Thirdly, China's special and complex geographical structure has made construction extremely difficult, which was not expected in advance, so the expenses have increased further; Fourth......

Then the most critical one is that there are people within the railway company who embezzle funds to invest in other projects, or use them for their own squandering, but unfortunately, all their investments fail, and the part of the funds that has been squandered is naturally squandered.

Very valid reason, but not of any practical significance. Investors are looking at their wealth, but it's all gone; Some people want to get compensation, but no one will do such a thing; Others just want justice, however, the police tell them that the senior management of the railway company has either disappeared, or has absconded before the police arrive, or has been found guilty of suicide, and the rest are insignificant people......

There is no doubt that justice will not come.

More precisely, justice will never come – the same thing has been and will ever be done countless times by consortiums, but they have never been judged.

This time is no different.

Investors can only bear the losses themselves and bear all the consequences; These people once had some beautiful ideas for the future, but now they are all in vain.

For them, the reality is very harsh and comes a little early.

Although this moment came a little late for Qin Lang: according to the original plan, the Shikoku Railway Company should go bankrupt before November at the latest, but his partner was not Morgan, not Rockefeller, or exactly Mellon, but the other partners hoped to make more money, and they did get the news that there would be people investing in the railway company in November and December, so its bankruptcy was postponed until just before Christmas.

It's ironic that tens of millions of investors in the United States, Britain and France received Christmas gifts in 1899 and their total wealth of $230 million was wiped out. This gift was so expensive that Qin Lang was a little skeptical that some of them would have a fear of Christmas because of it, provided of course, that these unlucky people didn't go to see God, whether because they committed suicide or were killed by suicide.

There is only one thing Qin Lang can be sure of, that is, this Christmas should be the Christmas with the highest frequency of accidental deaths.

Because it's always the case, when there's an economic crisis or just a stock market crash, or even if a stock is finished, somebody will jump off the top of a tall building, or from a bridge, or off a cliff, or they'll put a gun on their head and pull the trigger -- and sometimes, they'll pull their own family members, and the news of killing whole families and then committing suicide is rare, but it's still there. At such times, the gangsters also become extremely active, because they need to recover the loan sharks they have lent out before the debtor dies - although most of the time they get nothing but the dead.

This is a social hazard. And when Qin Lang thought that the crisis that broke out this Christmas was because of his proposal, he felt happy, but then he became melancholy.

As a person who defines himself as an arms dealer rather than a financier, at this moment, Qin Lang must admit that the most dangerous weapons of mass destruction in the world are not nuclear bombs, biological and chemical weapons, or automatic rifles, but financiers. Financiers don't need to kill people themselves, they just need to use their brains and raise a little more money, and they don't even need to scrape together money to send thousands of people to hell.

Never in history has an arms dealer done what a financier often does, and an arms dealer has a much worse reputation than a financier.

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