Chapter 137: The Chileans Who Cheated Daddy
Wang Sirui's words made the generals under him instantly full of energy, no one wants to leave their own name in this surging history, and what other way can be more reliable than this?
Even if they fail, they will be recorded in history like the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, what do people live for this life? In fact, they didn't know that when they could really calm down and think about this issue, they found that before that, they were just living for the sake of living.
The New Year is approaching, looking at the troops who are busy training all day, Wang Sirui has more confidence in his heart.
At least compared to a few months ago, Wang Sirui now, even when facing foreigners, will not engage in some conspiracies like before.
Because he has enough strength to confront foreigners, this is the confidence brought to him by the strength of the army.
In order to rush back to the capital before the year, the imperial court had no choice but to agree to the request of the foreigners, and the two sides made further amendments to the "Xinchou Treaty", of which the revised items were mainly two, the first was the amount of indemnity, and the second was to remove Article 10 of the original treaty.
Now that Wang Sirui is dead, the foreigner doesn't want to bear this infamy.
After all, they will often come to the Far East to do business in the future, if people know that it was the foreigners who pressured the Qing court to kill Wang Sirui, then the people will boycott their business activities, and the final loss can only be the foreigners, after all, you can't force people to buy your things, right?
Tianjin, in a private room on the second floor of a teahouse.
A white man entered the box with a slightly tired face, and looked at the Chinese man who was sitting there quietly drinking tea, and his heart was both excited, excited, and inexplicable.
"The news that you're dead is going viral right now, but luckily, your presence has shredded those rumors." The white man removed the hat from his head, placed it on the table, and drank it alone with a cup of tea.
It has been a year since he came to the Far East, and the first half year was his humiliating half year, but the second half year was his most glamorous half year.
The success of his business made him a frequent target for the beauties at ballroom balls, but he enjoyed it all, and of course, he knew who brought it all in.
When he saw the Chinese man in front of him, the white man's heart finally relaxed. At the very least, he can guarantee that his business will not be interrupted, and that is enough.
"Let's talk about the specific situation, it's not as easy as you think for me to come out, if you don't bring me some good news, you know the consequences." The Chinese man took a sip of tea and said.
"Man! This time we're really in trouble, and I think we need to go another way. A trace of anxious and helpless expression began to appear on Juan's face, if he hadn't encountered big trouble, how could he contact Wang Sirui's eyeliner in Tianjin and let Wang Sirui run in person?
Wang Sirui looked up at Juan, and then lowered his head again, as if thinking about something.
"We are currently under tremendous pressure in our country, and the royal family is already a little overwhelmed. The Argentines also began to purchase armaments from European countries after receiving news of our large quantities of armaments, fearing that the Argentines would take the opportunity to start a war, and at that time, we had no resistance. So the above means that after doing this business, I don't plan to continue to cooperate. Juan said with a headache.
At first, the Chileans also thought about those problems, but in the face of huge interests, they chose the latter.
But as time went on, their sworn enemies, the Argentines, seemed to smell the wind.
However, according to the reports of the spies sent to Chile by the Argentinians, they did not find the re-equipped unit, and even some senior military officials in Chile did not know that the unit had been re-equipped in the near future.
If there had been concrete information, the Argentines might not have been so worried.
But the problem lies here, they don't get any information, and they don't even know which unit has been redressed.
It also led the Argentines to think that the Chileans might have secretly assembled an army and were planning to wage war against them.
When this conclusion was reached, the Argentines were frightened, and they hurriedly held a meeting, raised a large sum of money, and then began to send orders to the countries of Europe, and they also wanted to arm their armies for the unforeseen.
If the Chileans did secretly raise an army, it would have been fine, but the problem was that the Chileans did not have an army, and once the Argentines had successfully assembled an army, it was discovered that the Chileans did not have the army that worried them.
I am afraid that the Argentines will then attack Chile, and the military strength of the two countries is completely disproportionate, and Chile is not a match for the Argentines at all.
It is for this reason that the Chileans have had to give up this opportunity to make money, and perhaps, as long as they stop cooperating and reveal the whereabouts of this batch of arms to the Argentines in due course, then they will give up this crazy idea.
After all, the Argentines are not a rich country, as long as they know the details, there is no need for them to continue to engage in an arms race with the Chileans.
Of course, if the Argentines don't want to give up, then the Chileans will have to use the money to buy a new batch of arms to meet the threat that the Argentines will pose to them.
Things have developed to this point, in fact, Wang Sirui has already expected it, but he didn't expect it to be so fast.
I didn't expect that the reason why they ended their cooperation was not that European countries had discovered their secret deals, but that they were threatened by the Chileans, the Argentines, their sworn enemies.
"How's the deal progressing so far?" Wang Sirui continued to ask, seemingly not caring too much about the termination of the cooperation.
"Now that the ship is docked in a port in the Ryukyus, I don't know how to get this weapon here, because I really can't think of a way to do it." Juan said.
This time's weapons were different from the previous ones, and he only needed to find a port where the freighter could dock, and then dot up and down, and then unload the ship and transport it away at night.
But this time, even if he found a suitable port, he had no way to transport this batch of weapons to Wang Sirui's station, because this time it was something that could not be hidden.
Naturally, there was no problem for the ship to stop at the Ryukyus, because at present the Ryukyus belonged to Japan and were ceded to Japan along with Wanwan.
And this time Juan came directly to Japan from Europe and bought 20,000 rifles in Japan, so the Japanese side is still more enthusiastic about Juan, after all, he is a giver of money.
For every rifle Juan buys, they can arm one more soldier, and the profits that Juan currently brings to the Japanese are enough for them to equip two divisions, and the Japanese are now only more than ten divisions, so how could the Japanese offend Juan with such a big benefit?
Besides, it's just a few days away, and it's not like it's occupying it.
How to transport it, this is indeed a big problem.
Because this time the equipment is not only as simple as rifles and machine guns, but also 30 guns, the most difficult thing to do is the 30 guns, and it is almost impossible to transport these 30 guns to the garrison without knowing it.
If it were to be replaced by later generations, it would not be impossible to load the artillery directly into the truck, but where to find the truck in this era?
The transport artillery can only rely on horsepower to transport, and then people follow behind, and help push it when they encounter potholes, so that it will take at least a week just to get from Tianjin to the station, not to mention that they can't dock in Tianjin at all this time.
There is no place to land, and it is impossible for ships to dock in the Ryukyus all the time, and besides, the southeast coastal area is currently full of foreign warships, as long as Juan's ship is slightly abnormal, I am afraid that those warships will immediately come up to investigate, and even if they want to, they will not be able to dodge at that time.
Tianjin is full of foreigners, not suitable for docking, and it is unlikely that they can get through the relationship and quietly pick up the goods.
But the next moment, Wang Sirui suddenly thought of a method, although it was also a bit dangerous and troublesome, but at present, only this method is more suitable.
"The ship continues to stop at the Ryukyus, and on the grounds that the boiler is broken, you only need to stay there for a week, and then I will give you a new place to dock, just unload the ship, and then you can leave." Wang Sirui said.
Juan was stunned for a moment, then nodded.
Whatever, as long as he hands over the things to Wang Sirui, as for whether he can reach the destination safely, it is not his Juan's concern.
Immediately afterwards, Wang Sirui continued to ask: "How are the other two things doing?" ”
"There has been some progress, but there are also big problems." Juan paused slightly, looked at Wang Sirui's reaction, and continued: "The bad news is that there are not many people who are willing to leave their homeland, and even if they are offered a high salary, they are reluctant to come to the Far East. The good news is that I have only found more than fifty retired artillerymen who are willing to come over, and they are now on the way.
As for the other thing, it was more difficult, I bribed the British, and finally they agreed to sell me some equipment, but all this could only be done in secret, again, they would dismantle the existing equipment in the factory and sell it to us, and then load it on the ship two months later.
The bad news is similar to the above, there are not many people who are willing to come here, but under the lure of high salaries, there are always people who are willing to come. However, the news of this matter somehow leaked out, and the British finally intervened to stop it, so I only found twenty Germans and thirty Frenchmen, and ten Czechs.
And there is also a bad news, among these 60 people, there is only one who is really good in technology, if it is not for this person who offended the above in the factory, and was squeezed out by his colleagues, and eventually led to the embarrassment of life, it is impossible for us to recruit him, as for the rest of the people, most of them were laid off by the factory. Juan went on to tell the specifics. (To be continued.) )