"Mr. Bell, I am waiting for your arrival again in Guangxi."

As the ninth year of Tongzhi approached, Liu Xian saw off Bell in his hometown of Shuangxi. Fox. The arrival of this old friend has written a new chapter in the trade relationship between Qin Jun and Maisheng Foreign Company. At the same time, it also represents that the sluggish relationship between the two sides, which has lasted for nearly two years, has come out of the trough.

In the more than three years of Liu Xian's absence, in addition to purchasing a batch of match machines and cigarette machines from Maisheng Yangxing, Qin Jun founded China's first match factory and cigarette factory in Hanzhong, which created a lot of profit value for Qin Jun, and there was no major trade development between the two sides.

Qin Jun wanted to continue to buy weapons from the United States, such as Colt revolvers and Remington's breech guns, whether they were side needle guns or medium needle guns! [Edge needle - the locking method is rolling locking. The middle needle locking method improves its combined chamber and locking mechanism under the original rolling locking method, making it simpler and more accurate. Of course, breech steel cannons are also indispensable.

However, because of some restrictions on the US policy toward China, or because of the agreements reached privately between the European and American countries, throughout the sixties, breech-loading guns did not appear in the Chinese market at all.

It wasn't until this summer that Li Hongzhang bought a batch of Snyder-Enfield breech guns from the British side, and the entire market began to be listed. In Japan before that, the Satsuma clan already had Henry Winchester 13-shot lever-fired repeater (using metal cartridge bullets).

Historically, when Zuo Zongtang leveled Ganshan and Xinjiang, a considerable part of the Chu army's armament also reached the breech era, and it is no wonder that the entire counterinsurgency process cost so much military supplies.

The level and cost of breech guns and metal cartridges are not at all the same level as breech guns. In addition, the Chu army is mainly infantry.

After the opening of the breech gun market, Maisheng shipped a batch of arms to Shanghai in October.

Among them, there are 200 Colt revolvers, 1,000 Remington medium shots, and 100 Henry-Winchester 13 lever-fired repeaters referred to as Henry's rifles, each rifle with 200 rounds. Eight breech-loading 75-mm mountain guns, each equipped with 30 rounds.

Liu Xian did not hesitate to buy all the bottoms, and bought the other 200,000 Remington rifle bullets, 30,000 Henry rifle bullets, and 500 rounds of 75 shells brought by Maisheng Foreign Company.

This is an arms deal of 100,000 taels of silver. But for the entire Qin army, only a small part of the soldiers could be armed. With only the current scale of the Qin army, this is a big market of two million US dollars. [One dollar is equivalent to one eagle ocean, three eagle oceans and two taels of silver]

Now Bell. Fox couldn't have imagined Liu Xian's massive revenge at all. His eyes were only fixed on the munitions of the Qin army. The first small amount of 100,000 taels of silver, the profit of Maisheng Foreign Bank reached the point of halving. So, if it's a $2 million business, wouldn't Maxim make a million dollars from it?

This amount is only a tiny amount on the bilateral trade predators between China and the United States 140 years later. But now, that's an astronomical sum.

After getting the breech gun, Liu Xian immediately handed it over to the craftsman battalion. He did not expect the artisan battalion to be able to replicate this most advanced gun in the world today. Because he knows that breech guns and metal bullets are the crystallization of industrial civilization, relying on the workshop-style production model of the Qin Army Gunpowder Bureau today, even if it can be imitated, the cost price and performance can make people collapse.

In the current Qin Army Craftsman Battalion, the main production of zuò is still front-loading smoothbore guns and large and small mountain splitting guns, as well as Han and Yuan Type 1 and Type 2 artillery. These things are still quite valuable in today's Manchu market.

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Time is getting closer and closer to the end of the year. The whole Hanzhong is more lively than in previous years.

The return of a large number of soldiers brought a lot of money to the people of Hanzhong. In addition to buying land, marrying a wife, saying goodbye to a wife, repairing a house, etc., it is also necessary to have a prosperous New Year.

Therefore, this year's market in Hanzhong is particularly prosperous. Of course, when the children return to their hometowns, their families no longer have to worry about the lives of their relatives, which also adds a sense of joy to this prosperity.

Tan Fusheng drove a carriage to his home slowly.

In the south pass of Hanzhong Prefecture, a large area is inhabited by Qin soldiers like Tan Fusheng.

The size of each household is exactly the same, and if you look down from the sky, you can clearly find that there are ten houses in one alley, one in ten alleys, and there are a total of five plots of land here.

The carriage entered the alley and stopped at the first door. This is not Tan Fusheng's home, but the home of a Qin army soldier. But when he jumped out of the carriage and knocked on the door of the house, an old man soon came out of it. "Uncle, I bought you a piece of meat and two fish."

Tan Fusheng carried the fish and meat into the door, but the old man couldn't stop him.

"Oh, Fusheng, I have all of them. The army didn't forget my family's pillar, and the subsidy was sent the day before yesterday......"

The old man couldn't stop Tan Fusheng, so he could only follow behind. There was a movement in the stove, and two women, one old and one young, came out to see. The older one's drenched hand was clutching on the apron around his waist.

"Auntie, brother and sister, cooking." Tan Fusheng greeted the two women familiarly, and handed over the fish meat in his hand.

"There is it at home. When I sent it the day before yesterday, didn't you see it too......"

The old woman said that she would not accept anything, and the younger one was also on the side. As a member of the Qin Army, their family is still a disabled soldier of the Expeditionary Army, and the subsidy they received during the Chinese New Year this year is enough for them to eat from the year before to fifteen, which is not ordinarily rich.

Tan Fusheng was pushing and giving way to the old couple, and the first disabled person on crutches came out of the house. The temper of the soldiers is different, and the disabled person waved his hand indifferently, "Dad, mother, Brother Fusheng brought it, and you will bear it." During the Chinese New Year, cook two dishes well, put a whole table, and ask me and Brother Fusheng to have a good drink......"

Bidding farewell to the uncle and aunt who enthusiastically sent them out, Tan Fusheng drove the carriage and knocked on the doors of the other two houses in the alley one after another. The carriage was not only pulling the New Year's goods of Tan Fusheng's family.

This piece is full of people from the Qin army system, and every year in big festivals such as the Mid-Autumn Festival and the New Year, the Qin army has benefits, no matter how much.

This year, because of the end of the war in Xinjiang, the harvest was abundant, and the benefits of the Qin army were particularly generous.

Look at the hometowns of soldiers and officers, and those in Hanzhong Prefecture, they are all sent home. Or like this place, there is a supply and marketing cooperative, with the certificate of the family, you can go to the supply and marketing cooperatives to receive your own share of benefits. As long as they live in the 'community' planned and built by Qin Jun, this is the case. Dead and disabled soldiers are sent home.

The top and upper echelons of this area are very strict, and after they catch those who are corrupt, they will all be severely punished. In the past three years, at least 100 people in the entire logistics and welfare system of the Qin army have been shot.

And Liu Xian was not in Hanzhong for more than three years, but he still maintained a strong influence on the Qin army headquarters, and these policies of winning the hearts of the people and buying the hearts of the people were one of the main reasons. In the entire Qin army system, I don't know how many families have Liu Xian's tablet.

Tan Fusheng returned to his home, and his mother-in-law held a small girl in her arms and greeted him with a four-year-old boy in her hand.

With a wife, a family, children and daughters, and no worries about food and drink, Tan Fusheng's life is at least more than ninety percent of people in China today.

Moved the vegetables, white noodles, pigs, mutton and fish into the kitchen, and then took out the firecrackers and fireworks bought for his son, and the new cloth he pulled for his wife. People live for a lifetime, and that's not what they want to do.

Untied the horse harness, Tan Fusheng led the old horse that was bought home by himself after retiring from the army, went to the horse pen set up in the southwest corner of the yard, and fed it attentively. This horse is counted as the time when it was bought home and followed him for five years, which is very emotional.

Or that since he was completely stable in the Qin army system, Tan Fusheng has attached great importance to his feelings. There are no survivors of fallen soldiers in his alley, but there are in the main community, and there is more than one. Tan Fusheng has time to help the bereaved families of these martyrs when he has time to do things, and if he doesn't have time, he has to help even if he has time. Don't ask for any return, every time you come to the festival, you will send a heart.

It's not a day or two years, it's a few years of persistence. Tan Fusheng's reputation in this community is very high. In the records of residents in the secret of the community, Tan Fusheng has always been second to none on the honor list.

He never concealed his purpose in doing so - to accumulate good fortune and pray for blessings.

It's not about blessing your own children. Rather, it is to pray for the brothers who were separated back then.

Tan Fusheng, Tan Fumin, and Li Lan's righteous army participated in by the two brothers. As a result, Tan Fusheng was one of the first batch of prisoners of war in the Qin army, and then he never saw Tan Fumin again, nor did he hear about it from others.

Tan Fusheng sincerely hopes that his brother is still alive and has not died in the chaos. I hope that my brother can return to his hometown as soon as possible and find out about himself from the villagers. Knowing that Big Brother is still alive!

Once a person has faith, he is incomparably strong. Tan Fusheng, who was one of the most evil dogs in the prisoner of war camp, is now a rare good person in the world in the eyes of the residents of the community where he lives, and in the eyes of the subordinates and colleagues of the transport team he is in.

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In the entire Qin Army system, of course, it is impossible for every household to be as happy as Tan Fusheng's family. Some of the families of the disabled and fallen in battle are also in dire straits. But at least this year, relying on the dividends of the Xinjiang war, the entire Qin military system has had a prosperous year.

Such a standard of living completely killed the Hunan army, the Huai army and the Chu army in seconds. It is not said that the Qin army in Xinjiang was more than the three armies of Hunan, Huai and Chu in the first battle. It is because the distribution of the Qin army is relatively fair, and the interests of the upper and lower levels are evenly distributed, rather than the upper echelons of the three armies of Hunan, Huai and Chu benefiting, the middle is good, and the lower echelons continue to suffer. R1152