Li Tie and Tie Dan took a rickshaw directly to the foreign trade mall in the French Concession, and first spent 100 silver yuan to buy two sets of suits to put on each, Li Tie didn't want to wear the pony coat landlord costume given by his father anymore.

For the first time, the iron egg who wore a suit of fifty yuan a piece was uncomfortable. I don't dare to touch it, I don't dare to touch it, for fear that one will be accidentally broken, this is a dress equivalent to his ten months' salary, which is too luxurious, where is this the clothes that people wear, even Master Li has never worn such expensive clothes.

Obediently, this dress is enough for him to go home and marry Cuihua, the young man also said, what kind of work clothes is this, everyone around him will have to wear this kind of clothes in the future, or he will not be allowed to come out to meet people. I don't believe it, my robe is only comfortable to wear, which is like this clothes, hard and hard, and it is not comfortable to wear on the body at all.

Where is this to wear clothes, this is simply spending money to buy sin. Alas, the eldest young master said, if you don't wear these clothes, you won't be paid, in order to save enough money to marry Cuihua, we can endure how uncomfortable it is, but fortunately, after a short period of adaptation, Tie Dan finally stopped scratching his ears and cheeks.

Li Tie wandered around the streets with iron eggs, looking east and west, the concession of Shanghai Tang is indeed the most prosperous place in Shanghai, and the ground is full of stone roads, and there are several asphalt roads.

There are many shopping malls on both sides of the street, all kinds of department stores, electrical appliances, bicycles, as well as various casinos, tobacco houses, and prostitute houses, which dazzle the two people who came to Shanghai for the first time.

There is an endless stream of pedestrians on the road, and from time to time they pass by the ** police, military police, and many gang disciples with guns walking back and forth to maintain law and order. These people sometimes come forward to interrogate suspicious people, and sometimes tease the big girls and little daughters-in-law in the past. attracted the big and small girls to rush the way, and it caused a lot of bad people around to laugh loudly.

Li Tie and the two of them are dressed up in a fashionable manner, especially Li Tie's young age is a unique temperament, and there are also iron eggs in the same suit and leather shoes behind them, which makes people not easy to bully at first glance, and they have not encountered any trouble for a while.

Mike is a salesman in a medium-sized steel mill in Germany, and the son-in-law of the factory director, because Germany is a defeated country in World War I, so the country's large industries have been broken up and sold, and many German companies are on the verge of bankruptcy.

As an employee of the machine factory, Mike had not received a salary for a year, and because the factory provided raw materials to the German Mauser military factory, and the Mauser factory also had no money to pay them for the materials, they finally put a batch of firearms in the warehouse against their steel factory as payment. wheat

The steel factory in Croatia is not specialized in selling munitions, and all the workers of the factory are peddling in Germany and neighboring countries, but they have not sold the firearms in their hands.

Mike can't watch the factory go bankrupt, let alone see his beautiful wife wash her face with tears every day, I heard that the warlords here in China are fighting and fighting every day, so he took the initiative to invite the baby to come to China to sell this batch of arms, but he didn't know that China's business was not as good as he imagined.

First, there are no acquaintances to introduce them, and second, most of the arms are bought and sold through foreign companies. However, the purchase price of the foreign banks was too low, and what was even more excessive was that they knew that he was eager to sell arms, and these foreign companies joined forces to squeeze the price of arms, from the price of cabbage at the beginning, to the price of garbage later, and they could not even earn the freight.

After nearly three months of running around in Shanghai, Mike now has almost no money on his body, and he really has no face to return to Germany, and Mike even remembered the idea of jumping into the river several times.

The cost of living in the French Concession was very high, and Mike was tired of walking, and saw that the steps of a commercial factory were still clean, and there were many people begging on both sides of the steps.

He stepped forward and sat on a step, feeling the only silver dollar in his pocket, which was estimated to be enough for today's food and lodging, and after today, if he wanted to live, there was no other way than to ask for food like the people next to him.

In this part of Shanghai Tang, apart from foreign companies, there are very few Chinese who hire foreigners. As for those foreign companies, even if they died, they would not ask for them. Looking at the beggars in the streets, he thought that maybe tomorrow he would be one of them. I heard that in Shanghai, even if you are a beggar, you have to join the gang, or you will not be allowed to beg.

Alas, what kind of country is this? Isn't it that this place is full of gold, and that this ancient oriental country is full of magical places. If you really exist, God, do you want your people to starve to death? If God you really exist, please give me a client.

Thinking of this, Mike stretched out his hands and prayed. Suddenly, I felt that there was a huge shadow blocking the scorching sun in the sky. Then I heard the **** person talking, and then a Chinese young man took out a silver dollar and put it in his hand.

Mike swore that at that moment he really felt God's presence, and he cherished the opportunity given by God, and firmly grasped the young man's arm and began to sell his own products non-stop.

Li Tie and Tie Dan were wandering the spacious streets of the French Concession, savoring the unique cosmopolitan flavor of Shanghai Tang, and the two of them were still chewing on Shanghai's special snacks in their mouths. Suddenly, Tie Dan called, "Young master, look, there is a foreigner beggar." ”

Li Tie looked at it, but no, a foreigner was sitting on the stone steps, his hands were folded and stretched out, but he was begging, it was estimated that he had just begged for a few days, so he was not very professional. Look at the beggar next to him, dressed in rags, with a sad face, and a broken bowl in his hand, he keeps nodding and saying good things to the people passing by.

Like this benevolent brother, reaching out and asking for money, do you have to change your outfit? Wearing a suit and tie, he asked for money and closed his eyes. Damn, just because you may be the first foreigner to beg on the beach since the Republic of China, young master, I pity you today.

casually took out a silver dollar from his pocket and put it in the foreigner's hand, but unfortunately there were no reporters and cameras nearby, or he would have recorded this picture. In a few decades, it will definitely be a big sale.

I just put the silver dollar in the hands of the foreign beggar, and I was still thinking about the pity that there was no change in my pocket, and it was a bit too much to give him a silver dollar. Li Tie regretted a little, he just wanted to take back the silver dollar, and found an iron egg to exchange it for a copper coin for him.

The foreign beggar in front of him suddenly opened his big eyes, and Li Tie dared to swear to the sky. He saw the essence in the eyes of the foreign beggar, full of golden light of desire for money.

Before Li Tie could withdraw his arm, the foreign beggar in front of him quickly stood up and grabbed his arm excitedly, and then chattered non-stop. Li Tie and Tie Dan didn't understand a word for a long time, and finally Li Tie tried to ask the other party in English what was going on.

This foreigner seems to have just come back to his senses, and he also communicated with Li Tie in English. The iron egg next to him was about to step forward and pull away the foreigner, but when he heard that the young master suddenly communicated with the foreign devil with nonsense. I was taken aback, my good man, the young master can also speak foreign, why can't I hear it usually. Did the young master let the foreign devil get on his body, or did he hide it?

I am grateful for the exam-oriented education in my previous life, and I am also grateful for the popularization of English in my previous life. Only then did Li Tie at this time finally have a good exchange with the foreign devil in front of him. It turned out that the foreigner in front of him was called Mike, a German, and his family's machine factory was about to close down.

He came to China to sell machinery and some munitions. When I asked him what kind of ammunition it was, I learned that it was more than 15,000 Mauser K96 pistols and 5,000 K98 rifles. It turned out that at the end of World War I, the German side ordered 150,000 9-mm Mauser pistols from the Mauser military factory, which is what we often call box guns in China.

Before the end of the war, the Mauser factory handed over a total of 135,000 pistols, and 15,000 were not delivered, and the war ended.

With the formation of a new government in defeated Germany, no one recognized the procurement contracts of the previous government. In desperation, the Mauser factory had no choice but to seal the arms. Until a few days ago, Mike's machine factory was chasing for materials, and at this time, the Mauser factory, which was also short of funds, came up with a brilliant idea.

5,000 Mauser rifles and a large quantity of ammunition were paid to the machine factory. It's a pity that the machine factory thinks that the goods are insolvent, and it will take at least 8,000 rifles to cover them all.

In the end, the Mauser Arsenal suddenly remembered the 15,000 Mauser pistols in the inventory, the cost of the two was the same, and the selling price was the same, but this Mauser pistol has been produced for ten years now, and no one wants it at all. So it was simply paid to the machine factory at one-fifth of the price of the rifle.

I got the property rights to this batch of arms, but if I couldn't sell them, I didn't get a penny. As a result, the workers of the whole factory looked for connections everywhere to sell guns, but this kind of pistol was not favored in Europe, and only had a small number of customers in China.

At the same time, China's warlords are now fighting, as long as it is a weapon, it is easy to sell, I heard that even the arquebuses of the last century are sold in China, so the factory called on everyone to go to China to sell arms, but they all know that China is fighting, no one in the factory dare to go, and in the end only Mike received this seemingly difficult and dangerous task.

After months of no progress, Mike made a great wish to God for the first time, so Mike thought that even if God sent the guest to his eyes, it would be his fault if he didn't catch it again.

He believed that the handsome young man in a suit in front of him would definitely be able to help him. Don't say that as soon as Li Tie understood Mike's situation, he really thought of how to earn his first pot of gold in Shanghai.

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