But after going back, he waited for a long time at Lin and Magnolia's residence and didn't see them back, and even Magnolia's maid disappeared inexplicably.

After many inquiries to no avail, the day was approaching dusk, and time did not allow him to wait any longer, Calder had to look at the brilliant sunset at this time, dragging the long figure in front of him, wishing them happiness at the end of the world forever.

"Mr. Stephen, I'd like to buy some guns!" After Calder came out of Lin and Magnolia's residence, he immediately turned around and entered the ordnance department of the U.S. Embassy in the Qing government.

"You know, the embassy has issued a strict order prohibiting the sale or lease of any military equipment to any Chinese!" Stephen pretended to be unceremonious.

"But I'm American! Isn't it?" Calder said as he pulled five gold bars out of his bosom and said, "That's only a tenth!"

Stephen immediately smiled when he saw the gold bar, and hurriedly said: "It's easy to say if you have gold bars, you know that the embassy is very strict, and this is what you need most when you look up and down!" Say, what guns do you want?"

"Ten light machine guns, twenty submachine guns, and five heavy machine guns, bullets must be enough!"

"What? So much? And it's all machine guns, no, I can't do this even if I gamble on my head!" Stephen thought that the other party just wanted some carbines, but he didn't expect to ask for so much heavy equipment, which is equivalent to the firepower of a complete reinforced regiment of the US army!

"Hey~!Old friend, don't be in a hurry to shirk it first! I know we don't have enough here, but we're not the only ones in Shanghai!" Calder said as he pushed over another box, which contained twenty bars of gold, glittering under the tungsten lamp in Stephen's office.

"How about doubling the price again, a hundred pieces of gold? If it doesn't work, I'll go find someone else! There are a lot of people who want money in Shanghai!" Calder knew that Stephen would never let him go, and deliberately wanted to get away with it.

"Good! It's on me, when will I pick up the goods?" Stephen looked at the twenty bright gold bars and immediately took them.

"Tomorrow night at the latest!"

"What? Tomorrow night, how is this possible?!" Stephen felt that Calder was in too much of a hurry, and he didn't know when he was going to get the five-collar heavy machine gun alone.

"Just tomorrow night, it can't be any later! If you really can't ......"

Before Calder could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Stephen: "Okay! Just tomorrow night! I'll do it right now, but then we'll have to pay with one hand and deliver the goods with the other!"

Calder smiled slightly, and immediately said, "Good!" Then he withdrew.

In fact, Stephen is not a simple commodity, he saw that Calder's left eye seemed to be blinded by China's criminal law, so he came this time, probably to take revenge, so providing him with a gun is completely in line with the embassy's policy, anyway, the country has been looking for a reason to start another war, so that through war, more wealth and land can be plundered from China.

That night, Stephen reported the matter to the U.S. Embassy in the Qing government, and the ambassador to the Qing Dynasty, Smith, immediately convened a meeting of the eight powers, and the eight countries debated until midnight about how to divide China's land in the event of a war.

And so the meeting of the robbers ended successfully.

to be continued