Chapter 9 The Big Deal
Natural inn is a rare first-class inn in Huize County in addition to good again, although today's business is not very good, but the owner of the shop is honestly afraid, nothing else, a very talented noble son with a group of servants to charter the entire inn, and then there are more than a dozen foreigners with bodyguards to translate.
"Zhang, they know that you bought all my arms and want to do business with you!" In the huge private room, Kenneth pointed to Zhang Shusheng, who had two soldiers and a butler standing behind him.
Zhang Shusheng was wearing his formal clothes from modern times, full of energy, after taking the primary body strengthening pill, the whole person inexplicably became more heroic, and he looked much tougher, and he could see at a glance that he was not an idle person.
"You are all guests from afar, and letting everyone come today is also in line with the idea of doing business together and making money together." Zhang Shusheng said unhurriedly, pointed to the middle-aged housekeeper next to him, and said, "Uncle Fu, read the things we need this time first!" ”
"Yes, young master!" Known as Uncle Fu's 'housekeeper', he picked up a notepad and read it: "Three 3w kilowatt hydro generators ......"
"Hiss......" The housekeeper read slowly, but a few foreigners couldn't help but secretly marvel when they heard it, the young master of this warlord leader's family has a lot of appetite, and it seems that it is big business, so he listened with enthusiasm.
"There are 50 new sewing machines, two general-purpose instrument machines, two medium-sized machine tools, and two large machine tools. One set of cement production equipment, one set of primary ore mining equipment......"
Even though these ten businessmen are extremely ambitious, but after listening to this long list of equipment purchase orders, their hearts are also beating violently, and they are indeed worthy of the young master of the warlord leader's family, fortunately, Kenneth said hello in advance, this young master was sent by his family to inspect his ability to do things, otherwise everyone would definitely think that he had a fever and went crazy with a lot of money.
As for what warlord forces to foster, these businessmen are not interested in anything but money.
"Zhang, I can get a hydroelectric generator set in the things you need."
"Zhang, I can sell you the highest precision machine tool at a low price, the latest pedal sewing machine."
"Zhang, as long as you bid reasonably, I can bring you a set of the latest cement production equipment."
“……”
Everyone argued, some people still repeated the goods, and the quarrels kept on, in general, they could make up the things that Zhang Shusheng needed, and the price was cheaper than the things of Dayang Bank.
"But Zhang, how much money are you going to pay?" A Jew's words asked the foreigners a question.
"I don't have any money!" Zhang Shusheng said without being shocked, but then with a wave of his hand, the housekeeper took a box from the soldier behind him, opened it and put it on the table, "But I have something more valuable." ”
"There's two things in there." Zhang Shusheng asked himself that his style of doing things was a little different from others, maybe if another person had the opportunity to cross, he would be more sleek and more cunning, but Zhang Shusheng would only take the simplest way, and continued: "The first thing is the design drawings of the tank. The second thing is the blueprint of the gas mask. ”
When the foreigners heard this, they didn't know what these two things were, and even the vocabulary was unfamiliar, and they immediately felt a little frustrated, but as adventurous businessmen, they would not give up easily. Third-rate businessmen pay attention to the trading of money and goods, and second-rate businessmen pay attention to barter.
"Zhang, although I don't know what the use of these two things is, but the batch of goods you listed just now is conservatively estimated to cost 100,000 pounds, a full 500,000 US dollars, I think you should know their value!" A foreign devil said.
Zhang Shusheng smiled, pointed to the drawings in the box, picked up a piece casually and shook it: "It's right that you don't know each other." The first tank blueprint is a blueprint for an epoch-making weapon. Take Britain, France and Germany on the European battlefield, once whoever has it first will be a nightmare for the enemy. The second drawing, a gas mask, is a drawing of equipment for protection against poison gas. According to my intelligence, the Germans will soon use a secret weapon on the European battlefield, and this gas mask is enough to make anyone who buys the blueprints and produces them urgently get rich overnight. ”
"Zhang, these two things are about the military aspect, and as businessmen, I don't think it's of much use to us." A foreigner got up and was about to leave, originally thinking that when he came to Yunnan, he would meet a rich and powerful warlord leader, but he didn't expect to meet a guy who would only use a few pieces of paper to deceive people.
Something similar to the tank drawings in his own hands is estimated to be lying in the most secret research room of the British Empire at this time. As for the gas mask, he originally thought that this thing could be made at hand, but who knows through the database of the dream machine that he knew what kind of tortuous process the gas mask went through from shortage to widespread configuration.
Zhang Shusheng smiled and said, "You are not a successful businessman. Is there anything more violent in this world than making war money? ”
After a while, the foreigners began to talk again, yes, this warlord young master is right, war money has always been the most violent in the world.
But how do we prove the authenticity and value of these two things? As a rich boy in the hinterland, how could you possibly get these military drawings? A foreigner asked.
"First of all, you made a mistake and didn't ask where the product came from. Secondly, the presence of a merchant is superfluous if the commodity is sold at a precise real value. But I can tell you that these drawings were left to me by my foreign mentor when I was studying in Shanghai. ”
Then, Zhang Shusheng picked up a few pieces of paper and slapped them on the table: "Tank drawings, you can take a few by yourself, there is your foreigner factory in Kunming, and if you find those senior technicians, you can naturally prove whether these are mechanical design drawings or not." As for whether this weapon is useful or not, here is a rough description of the weapon's effectiveness, and the result will depend on your evaluation. ”
"What about the drawings of the gas mask?" An old man who looked like a Jew asked, from beginning to end, this old guy never opened his mouth, and when he heard that Zhang Shusheng didn't talk about gas masks, he finally became a little anxious.
"Gas masks? There are very few drawings of this thing, just a few, so naturally it can't be attached. However, I think people who really know its value will definitely need it. Okay, that's all for today, you can take it back and find someone to distinguish the real from the fake, I'm waiting for you in Huize County for half a month. I think, true or not, at least for now, you haven't suffered. The essence of risk-taking is whether you dare to discover business opportunities that others would never dare to try. And, whoever buys it, as long as I sell these two drawings, don't those machines just have the cash to pay? ”
Zhang Shusheng said briskly, with a wave of his hand, he left with people, leaving behind more than a dozen drawings, less than one-tenth of all tank drawings, and they were all scattered, even if they were put together, they couldn't get tanks.
The foreigners saw that this Zhang Shusheng was acting differently than ordinary Chinese, and what he said was very reasonable, and they had the attitude that they might as well give it a try, anyway, even if they achieved nothing, they would only lose a little bit of road expenses that were not worth mentioning.
After leaving the natural residence and turning a few corners, Zhang Shusheng said to the housekeeper and a few soldiers in the back: "I didn't expect you to sing much better than usual in this play." You guys aren't bad, you deserve to be the ruffians who can scare Kenneth to tears. ”
"Childe has won the prize." Taking people's money to do things for others, a few people naturally have nothing to say. If those foreigners knew, they would definitely be angry. Zhang Shusheng is a warlord son, but he colluded with Kenneth to deceive them. The housekeeper is an old student in the troupe, and several soldiers are the guys who beat Kenneth last time, and this time they were pulled to play the role of a tough guy, which is a ** soldier.
In the next few days, foreigners from Shanghai rushed to Kunming again, and they needed to find someone to prove the value of the drawings. Unlike Kenneth, anyone can grit their teeth and bear the 100,000 pounds of goods, and the key is to prove whether these drawings have great potential. Once they can prove to be good enough to sell for a high price, then this venture is a big business opportunity.
Kunming, British Embassy Office
"Tanks? Oh, dear Mr. Forness, I can hardly imagine what such an iron shell could do on the battlefield. Let's go, the office will be closed! A military attache of the British Embassy in Kunming said disdainfully, tanks? What is the king of land warfare, when Lao Tzu was in the navy, no matter how big the iron shell was, he didn't sit every day, what could this sesame-sized iron shell do.
Kunming, a foreign factory
"Mr. Danny, if you look at it purely from a technical point of view, this is indeed a real drawing, the mechanics are exactly the same, and if I am not mistaken, this is a mechanical drawing of a transmission, which seems to be used on some large vehicle. I think that such a big iron lump with weapons on land, there should be no easy way to destroy it except for an artillery hit. A foreigner carefully looked at the drawings and illustrations in his hand for a long time, and said with a bright eye.
"Great, can you come with me to Aizawa? You only need to take three days off, and I will pay you two hundred pounds. ”
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Huizawa, good to come to the inn again
"God Zhang, do you think they will be fooled?" Kenneth thought of his honorarium and the benefits that Zhang Shusheng had promised, and his heart itched.
"Fooled? No, Kenneth, you've disappointed me so much. Am I a liar? Zhang Shusheng said solemnly and paused: "Of course, maybe it will, but not this time." I'll tell you for sure, both of these things are real, and they're absolutely sky-high drawings. It's just that the buyers don't have to be those people. ”
"Oh? What's going on? The buyer is not them, so why contact them? ”
Zhang Shusheng shook his head and said: "Kenneth, although our thing is real, we took it to the door to find someone to sell, and we didn't let these foreign devils, no, no, no, no, businessmen, let them do it." The essence of sales pitching is to reach the most potential customers and get them to buy. Real buyers will not turn a blind eye. People who don't have eyes, even if they see treasures, will turn a blind eye. ”
"That'...... If it's that good, why don't you sell it to me. I made money, and I shared half of you at a high price. Kenneth saw that Zhang Shusheng said that the head was the Tao, and he also secretly felt reasonable, and his mind was moved and he wanted to buy it.
"No, you can't afford it." Zhang Shusheng said secretly, hundreds of thousands of pounds, you can't afford to sell it. Enough hype was enough, and naturally there were real buyers coming to the door, and if he was not mistaken, the old Jewish man that day would definitely have taken a fancy to one of these things.
In fact, Zhang Shusheng has no choice, he is poor and white, and he is still staying in a poor ravine, where to know any foreign consuls, he can only go through the hands of these businessmen. As for why only two kinds of technology are sold, there is also a problem. He was reluctant to sell other technologies, these two things were already the limit of what he could tolerate.
Sell too much, and burn yourself. With no way out, he adopted this method of casting a net, and once he could attract the attention of any [***] party, he would sell it even if it was cheaper. But they don't want to force themselves, with their own skills and body armor, it is very easy to escape, and if they are in a hurry, they threaten to burn the drawings, and the other party has no choice.
As for the technology of the gas mask, he was not ready to sell it immediately, it was only May, and judging from the information given in the Dream Machine, the Germans had secretly used gas bombs only last month, and it was almost impossible to meet such a discerning buyer. He also thought about it, if he couldn't sell it, he would keep it to make gas masks himself, as long as he could make it at the end of the year, it would be a lot of income to find a way to resell it to the British and French embassies. It's just that the time is too rushed, and the focus of my plan is not on this.