On the 10th day of Yang Yuanzhao's entry into Shanghai, that is, the seventh day of recruiting Harpy, the German and American Foreign Firm was established, and in just seven days, from recruiting manpower to arranging a qiē, Harpy showed his ability at this moment.

Or the garden house purchased for 1200 pounds before, in this era, there is no decoration for the time being, at most it is a little arranged, in Shanghai, the things that are arranged in the shops are ready-made, Harpy has formulated a basic strategy, and naturally has the manpower to buy, and even in the early days, when the manpower is insufficient, he also transferred manpower from the Yang family.

The garden was moved to the back, and then replaced with a lawn, it has not grown thoroughly, this era, there is no special sale of turf, slightly arranged, it seems flat and tidy, the hall is connected with three rooms, open up and transformed, the space is relatively large compared to before, it seems to be more spacious and huge, a total of 27 display counters, almost the entire foreign goods, are displayed above, of course, are empty guns, bullets are not, this is for safety, Even for the sake of the high www.biquge.info of the Biqu Pavilion, a French-made 75 fast cannon was placed in the middle of the hall in a grand manner, but the running bolt of this cannon was removed to prevent unnecessary danger.

In addition, there were only a few dozen guns placed in the center of the hall of the foreign company, and most of the remaining guns were brought to the basement of this room.

This is another harvest of buying a house, I don't know if it is to avoid danger, or to defend something, the owner has set up a solid basement here, all of which are bluestone strips, at least more than a meter deep, and the gate is also specially made, very thick, a little decoration, it has formed an arms warehouse, even stronger than before, the arsenal of Lihe and foreign companies.

Harpy released the news that the newly established German-American foreign company has a large number of arms, and he will definitely not say that there are 120,000 rifles, you know, the current China, the strongest army, the seven towns of the Beiyang Army, is only more than 70,000 people, and the maximum number of guns is 70,000, 120,000 standard military rifles, not to mention that the Qing government will go crazy, even the concession authorities, will feel unstable.

Harpy is proficient in business knows, some news, true and false, cover up the truth, but also let the name of Germany and the United States, in a small range, in this era of Shanghai Haixing, is fighting in the jungle, foreign or for ordinary Chinese firms, is an unattainable object, but in terms of itself, there is also zài blood competition, the relationship between countries, fighting, fighting, almost everything.

Harpy stood at the gate, is greeting the guests, just a few days, has been arranged in Shanghai a number of contacts, the establishment of the German and American foreign firm, many new friends and old friends have also come to congratulate up, but also let the newly established foreign bank, seems to be a lot more lively.

In the hall, the lights were magnificent, except for the necessary merchandise, the rest of the place was arranged as a foreign-style buffet, and even in the garden, some food was also placed, and the guests, after congratulating the harpy, gathered together in twos and threes, all merchants in the circle, and had many common languages with each other.

"Harpy, congratulations, the trading houses have been established, what are the main distributions?" John of Swire & Co., came to the door with a basket of flowers, saw Harpy, and joked with him familiarly, but his eyes glanced at the foreign company, the German and American foreign company was specially rested, and the hall adopted some later concepts, which seemed relatively spacious, almost merchants entered the door, and at a glance, you could see the products inside, and other foreign companies, hidden and tucked, formed a more sharp contrast.

"It's just a small business!"

"Is it, it's all arms, or is it a small business, and there are still a lot of types?" John asked, looking at Harpy with a smirk.

"It's a friend from my hometown, take care of me, I'm just a big class!" Harpy said quietly, Swire, as a representative of the German-funded foreign firm, took the road of the arms business, and they have faintly become opponents with each other.

"This shot!" John walked into the hall, walked straight to one of the committees 1888, picked it up, it was a very heavy feeling, the weight was about the same as the one he had handled before, and even the overall feeling was familiar, look at the barrel, those rifling were beautiful, and the whole barrel was also molded at one time, absolutely of German origin, not imitated by China or other countries.

When did Harpy contact such a powerful backstage, John's eyes finally fell on the handle of the gun, he finally knew that he had looked at this gun before where the sense of disobedience came from, this gun handle is a little weird, it actually uses jujube wood, Germany will not use jujube wood to make zuò's gun handle, because there are very few jujube wood, but it is a Chinese imitation, most of them use such a gun handle, are these guns made in China?

Almost instantly, Yang Yuanzhao put this idea aside, he is not a Harpy, he doesn't know anything about China, in China for more than ten years, he can be said to be a China expert, what is the level of Chinese industry, made in Hanyang, it is a good gun in China, in Europe, I am afraid that even farmers will not use them, these guns, except for the handle, the rest are up to the original German standards, is it just an imported gun body, and no gun handle?

All kinds of thoughts flashed in his heart, and in this matter, there was a trace of eccentricity, and the old and sophisticated John didn't say much, and after a circle, the things were all comparative, almost all of them were firearms, and there were all kinds of them.

After a moment of silence, John suddenly said: "Harpy, you are completely different from before, you have completely grasped the dominance of China, in this way, I have a guest at hand, are you interested." ”

"What a guest!" Harpy's eyes lit up and asked, now he basically does what he has, and he doesn't care about the little calculations in John's heart.

"A target of the Nanjing New Army, as you know, we do retail, occasionally some small orders, really big orders, need to be approved by the headquarters, the strength of the new army is not strong, only half of the down payment will be paid, and the rest will be mortgaged by tariffs and paid off in 2 years."

After 2 years of clearing, Harpy finally understood why this well-funded and powerful Lihe foreign bank did not take this business, for no other reason, that is, this installment payment, the foreign banks are all short and fast, pay money with one hand and deliver goods with the other, unless it is for political purposes or with political conditions, it will give a relatively long period, and the rest will almost not be done like this.

This business is a way to open up sales, the source of guns, he didn't ask, but he knew the low price of guns, Yang Yuanzhao explained a business, let him not make money, the price given is 35 yuan, this price, compared with the price of foreign banks, at least dropped by more than half, the original German rifle, converted into dollars, about 11-12, large quantities slightly discounted, plus the cost of ocean shipping and the cost of dotting the relationship, 35 yuan is already a cost price, so calculated, prepay half, It seems acceptable to pay it off within 2 years.

Harpy knows that Yang Yuanzhao urgently needs this money, the previous start-up capital of 5,000 pounds, now basically spent a lot, Yang Yuanzhao has bought a lot of things during this time, obviously, they all need money, and it is okay to get a down payment of fifty percent, and the next installment payment, with the power of Nanjing, should be no problem.

Harpy changed his mind and said with determination: "Thank you, John, you can help introduce me, as for the cost of the intermediary, I will not reduce you." ”