Chapter Thirty-Seven: Let Him Search!

At noon, Huang Shaohong invited Joanna and Wiggens to have lunch, the former wanted to stay here to learn martial arts, and he readily agreed, while the latter probably felt that he was disgraced, so he excused himself and went back to the ship first, but anyone could see that this cargo was unhappy.

After lunch, Lin Yunkai began to teach Joanna to practice basic skills, along with Aunt Thirteen and Ya Chasu.

Pork Rong brought back all the firearms with the militia people, both long and short, the long gun was the British 'Lee-Enfield rifle', that is, the Lee's rifle, and the short gun was the '6-round repeating revolver', which was the British 'Webley revolver'.

According to Joanna, the 'Webley revolver' was already a pistol equipped by the British regular army, and even a ragtag army like Wiggens was not qualified to be equipped, of course, this was mainly due to the fact that it was too expensive compared to the flintlock pistol.

Huang Shaohong really didn't expect that there was already a revolver in this era, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed, the revolver was easy to use, and the revolver was equivalent to having a magazine, and the six-shot round was easy to hide, so it couldn't be better for assassination or something.

These guns contained more than two dozen large crates of ammunition, as well as two separate large wooden crates containing two 'Maxim heavy machine guns'.

The steward who came with the pork Rong belonged to the British camp family, a middle-aged foreigner named 'Eppening', who looked like a philistine, and said bluntly to Huang Shaohong:

"If it weren't for Miss Joanna, we would never have sold you these weapons, after all, this order is too small!"

"In addition, I would like to remind you that these firearms were originally intended to be sold to your Qing government, and because of Miss Joanna's request, these weapons were temporarily appropriated from the order of the Qing government......"

"So it's okay to say that these two 'Makqin heavy machine guns' are better not to use them in a short period of time, if the news leaks, we will be very troublesome!"

Huang Shaohong nodded quietly, these two things were bought to deal with you foreign devils, of course they will not be used easily.

After the two sides inspected and confirmed that it was correct, Eppen calculated the account, even calculated the guns and ammunition, and wrote the price on a receipt and handed it to Huang Shaohong.

Huang Shaohong was startled after just one glance, the other party actually offered 800,000 silver dollars for these weapons, and this was the price after the discount.

He really wanted to roll up his arms and sleeves and ask the other party what he was doing? Nima ...... What's going on with Ming Robbery?

At this moment, Huang Shaohong even had an urge to kill these foreigners, he took the price list and took a closer look, and found that the most expensive was the 'Makqin heavy machine gun', and a machine gun cost 200,000 silver dollars.

And that's not counting the money for ammunition, which is said to be able to shoot 600 rounds a minute, making it a money-burning machine.

The arms dealer observed his words, and when he saw Huang Shaohong seeing the price of the heavy machine gun, his face was not very good-looking, and he immediately said with a smile:

"It doesn't matter if you don't buy it, when you Qing Dynasty Li Hongzhang Zhongtang came to visit our British Empire, he took a fancy to this 'Makqin heavy machine gun' at that time he also said it was too expensive, and finally only bought 3 to go back to study, I heard that the Qing Dynasty's 'Jinling Manufacturing Bureau' had already begun to imitate ......"

"But I heard that there are too many imitation things, so they have been discontinued, but there are still some finished products left, if you want to buy cheap ones, for Miss Joanna's face, I can help you contact and buy those defective products!"

"Nima, you said that it was defective, and you let me buy it This is the contempt of Chiguoguo!" Of course Huang Shaohong can't be cowardly, he really needs this thing, so he immediately gritted his teeth: "Who said I won't buy it, you are waiting here for me to get you money!" ”

turned around and entered his room, sorted out the silver dollars in his bag, and put more than 520,000 silver dollars back into the original three large boxes, and only after sorting them out did he call Pork Rong, Lin Yunkai and others to come in and move the money.

After the three big boxes were moved out, Huang Shaohong painfully took out the red sandalwood box containing gold bars, thinking that these should be enough, but the reality was cruel, and the silver dollar plus gold bars was still not enough.

Huang Shaohong had to supplement the savings of Bao Zhilin for many years for two generations, which barely made up enough money.

Watching Epning command his subordinates to leave with the money, Huang Shaohong secretly scolded the British in his heart for being too profiteers, if the money is modern, it is estimated that it will be enough to buy a row of bazookas when they go to the US imperialists.

Let Pork Rong lead the people of the militia to withdraw first, and while Aunt Thirteen and Joanna were learning kung fu together, he did not unpack the box and put all these weapons in his bag.

Putting away his weapon, Huang Shaohong sat in the flower hall, looking at the few people studying martial arts in the courtyard outside, thinking about whether to knock out a few more gangs to enrich his pockets, when the door of Bao Zhilin was suddenly pushed open.

I saw that the newly appointed Admiral rushed in with a team of Qing soldiers, and Lin Yunkai, who was teaching martial arts, hurriedly turned around to stop: "What do you want to do?" ”

Lord Admiral smiled proudly: "Someone reported that you Bao Zhilin privately purchased firearms, and Lord Ben wants to search Bao Zhilin!" ”

He swept his eyes, and couldn't help but be stunned when he saw Joanna, then bowed slightly, and saw Huang Shaohong sitting in the flower hall, and immediately walked over with a big smile: "Huang Feihong, I want to search your Bao Zhilin!" ”

The look of stability when he spoke was as if he was sure that he would be able to find a firearm in Bao Zhilin.

Bao Zhilin's people were panicked, because they all knew about Huang Shaohong's purchase of weapons, and Lin Yunkai even pulled out a red tassel gun on the weapon rack, and the spear shook, and the tip of the gun trembled: "I see who dares to search!" ”

Lord Admiral's face sank, he didn't look at Lin Yunkai, but looked at Huang Feihong, and said gloomily: "Huang Feihong, do you Bao Zhilin want to rebel?" ”

Huang Shaohong indifferently picked up the teacup beside him, took a sip, and then said to Lin Yunkai: "Let him search!" ”

"Feihong!"

"Master!"

Aunt Thirteen and Lin Yunkai both exclaimed in surprise, they couldn't figure out what Huang Shaohong was thinking, the firearm was obviously in the courtyard behind the flower hall, wouldn't it be a stolen goods for the Qing soldiers to search!

Huang Shaohong was speechless, isn't it three hundred taels of silver here, but he also knows that he can't complain about the thirteenth aunt, after all, they all think that firearms are behind.

Joanna stepped forward and said, "This lord, I am also a disciple of Bao Zhilin, can you give me a face!" ”

She spoke in English, but the Admiral was also a foreigner, so she naturally understood clearly, and said with a smile on her face: "This young lady, this is an internal matter of our Great Qing Kingdom, although your status is noble, you can't obstruct the government from handling the case!" ”

Huang Shaohong waved his hand at Joanna: "Don't stop them, let them search for it!" ”

The Admiral was afraid that Joanna would block him, so he waved his hand through Huang Shaohong's words: "Search for me!" ”

The Qing soldiers under his command immediately rushed in, and in a short period of time, the entire Baozhilin was turned into a mess, but nothing was found.

The Admiral kept receiving reports from his subordinates, and no firearms were found in the entire Bao Zhilin.

He was confident that the information he had obtained was absolutely reliable, so he naturally did not believe the claims of his subordinates, so he went to search it himself, and the result surprised him, and he searched inside and out, and there was no trace of firearms.

The Admiral finally glared at Huang Shaohong fiercely, and then said to the group of Qing soldiers: "Go!" ”

"Slow!" Huang Shaohong stepped forward and stood in front of Lord Admiral, who asked angrily, "Huang Feihong, what do you want to do?" ”

Huang Shaohong waved his hand, signaling him not to be nervous, and then said lightly: "Lord Admiral said to handle the case, I opened the door and asked you to search, but you didn't find anything, so it proves that Huang is not guilty, right?" ”

The Admiral snorted coldly: "Don't say it too early, guilty or not, this official has to investigate it first!" ”

Huang Shaohong said with a smile: "Then let's not talk about it for the time being, judging from the evidence currently in the possession of the Admiral, Huang is still innocent, right!" ”

The Admiral was asked like this, and he was furious, but he thought that there were international friends present, and he turned his head to take a look, and found that the British aristocratic chick was looking at this side, and the four-eyed bucktooth next to her was translating his conversation with Huang Shaohong for her.

immediately showed an ugly smile to him, and then replied to Huang Shaohong: "It seems to be like this at present!" ”

Huang Shaohong pointed to all parts of Bao Zhilin and said: "Since Huang is innocent, then these subordinates of the adults turned around, broke the vase and teacup, and damaged the door, table and chair, do you have to compensate for these losses before leaving?" ”

"Joke, how can there be a reason for compensation in the case of the imperial court!" Lord Admiral said with a sneer.

Huang Shaohong turned to Joanna: "Apprentice, go back and send what you have seen and heard today to your British newspaper, so that foreign friends can also see what kind of virtue our Qing officials are!" ”

Listening to Ya Cha Su's translation, Joanna was stunned at first, but then randomly understood, and said with a smile: "Yes, Master, when I go back, I will publicize this matter, so that our European society can also see the true face of the Qing officials!" ”

"You ......" The admiral pointed at Huang Shaohong, so hated that he couldn't speak, and after a while, he took out a silver ticket from his sleeve and threw it over: "Keep it and buy a coffin!" After saying that, he turned around and left.

Huang Shaohong took it and looked at the number of 'five hundred dragon oceans' on it and put it away with satisfaction, and then shouted to the admiral who left in a hurry: "Don't worry, I bought a coffin for you to keep!" ”

The admiral who was about to go out suddenly stumbled, if he hadn't been held back by his own soldiers, maybe a heel fight would have been planted here!

After waiting for the Admiral to leave, Joanna stepped forward and said, "Master, this matter will definitely not be revealed by my people!" She had no doubts about the loyalty of her family's men.

Huang Shaohong nodded: "Don't guess, it must have been done by Wiggins!" He turned his head to look in the direction of the dock and said to himself: "Wiggins, let's settle this account slowly, don't worry!" ”