ACT022: Bulk Business
On April 1, 1935, an old freighter arrived at the port of Mogadishu in Italian Somalia. A black-haired boy stood on the bow of the ship against the railing, and behind him stood the gray-haired old butler, one old and one young, looking out at the port that was getting closer and closer.
"In 1935, time flies!"
"Yes, more than a year has passed in a blink of an eye, and even Africa is used to running."
More than a year ago, in order to raise money to pay off his debts, Zhao Jian did not hesitate to take risks to smuggle arms to Tanzania, although he failed to keep his tea plantation in the end, but also opened a door to the "new shijie" for himself. For more than a year, Zhao Jian set up his own "Black Rabbit Shipping Company", which openly transported groceries to Africa in exchange for ores, but behind the scenes, he has been smuggling arms.
During this period, he also took the time to go to Europe and North America to "investigate", and after comparison, he found that the Soviet homeland defense force was as expected, and it was the best group of people to buy, but other old empires were not much stronger.
The financial turmoil that occurred in 1929~1933 caused the entire capitalist society to suffer unprecedented economic losses, not to mention soldiers in the army, and even many officers often did not receive salaries. Therefore, as long as Zhao Jianrang took out bundles of banknotes and slapped his face one after another, those local officers promised to be obedient.
Because the amount of Zhao Jian's resale is not large every time, those officers only need to distribute these guns and ammunition evenly into the training loss of each company, so if they don't send someone down to investigate carefully, they won't be able to find out what is wrong with it.
It is worth mentioning that every time the goods arrive, Zhao Jian will deliberately pick out a few good ones to "beautify".
He doesn't care about the performance of these second-hand guns, so let's make the appearance "crazy and cool" first. And those tribal chiefs just ate this set, such as the god horse "Golden Mosingana", "Fire Kirin Lee Enfield" and other things, which were very popular as soon as they were launched, and they were even better than elementary school students.
In addition to "packaging", Zhao Jian often sends black Singh to engage in artificial propaganda.
The other party is not only sharp-tongued, but also, like many black brothers, speaks with a sense of joy with his own "RAP talent". Sometimes Zhao Jian even thinks that if he is sent to the United States to engage in rap music, he may be able to become popular in the United States, but the other party prefers the current job of bragging around with a salary.
"Friends! You know the chief of that XXX tribe, don't you? I'll tell you! I've heard that he got a shaman-blessed "magic spear", and he can shoot his head 800 miles away with a casual hug...... What the? You said that 800 miles went to sea? That's definitely the Maldivian chief, don't care about these details......"
Relying on the "special vending skill", Zhao Jian did make a lot of money in the first year, but at the same time, he also found that the income was also very reduced. The tribes have so little diamonds that some small tribes have wanted to switch to "local specialties" in exchange. In addition, the British seem to have noticed an anomaly in their colonies, and finally began to send people to investigate.
Faced with this situation, Zhao Jian decisively abandoned Tanzania, which brought him the first pot of gold, and began to shift his business to other parts of East Africa. And soon, a big business was sent to Zhao Jian......
"Uncle Qin, we are pulling a lot of goods this time, the more low-key the better, let the three fat men drive slower when they enter the port."
"I've already told him this, and I haven't left Xiao Xue over there in the power room."
"Alas~! If it weren't for the sudden eruption of the volcano in Djibouti, we wouldn't have had to land from the Italians. ”
"Young master, I think Italians are very talkative."
"They are easy to talk and have a good time! Uncle Qin, you also know that Italy and Ethiopia started working on the border a few years ago, and the two sides still refuse to give in to each other. This time we are delivering goods to Ethiopia, and the British in the north of Somalia will not let us land, and now we are going to the territory of Italy, which is much more risky! ”
"Young master, if you want me to say that you don't have to come with you in person this time, we are all familiar with the routines, you can stay at home and go to school."
"Can I not follow such a big business? Besides, you don't know that I've been suspended from school again. ”
"Can't you just keep a low profile at school like you go out and do business? I'm not saying there's anything wrong with you acting bravely, at least lightly, right? Back to the hospital to beat people up, how bad do you say it is? ”
Qin Heng's preaching made Zhao Jian pout disapprovingly, and his nickname at school was "Fighting Injustices and Governing All Kinds of Disobedience Little Prince"! It sounds a bit like a campus bully, but Zhao Jian never bullies ordinary students and beats campus bullies! In addition to himself, there are also 3 "cooperative" friends who accompany him in trouble.
Xu Zhimo, Lu Xun, Ba Jin, every time he mentioned his classmates, the corners of Zhao Jian's mouth couldn't help twitching for a while. Zhao Jian can be sure that the names of these three people are just a "coincidence", and they have nothing to do with those writers and poets, and their respective family backgrounds are not serious.
Lu Xun, who fought side by side with Zhao Jian, opened a casino at home, and the largest Tianhu casino in Qingdao was their Lu family's industry. And Xu Zhimo, who reported to the teacher, was the young owner of the Green Lantern Nightclub, and the two knew each other when they were in elementary school. Zuihou is the one who gave Zhao Jian a baseball bat that day, timid but shrewd. Generally not directly involved in fights, and his first official meeting with Zhao Jian was quite dramatic.
The Ba family, like the Lu family, started from the underworld, and when opium just flowed into the Tang Dynasty, many children of the Ba family sucked this thing by mistake, and as a result, several lives were lost. Later, Datang began to ban smoking, but the Ba family felt that this matter could not be stopped, and even engaged in the revenge of "resale", which can be regarded as a group of strange "patriotic drug lords"!
At that time, Zhao Jian was about to sell 150 rifles to a group of militants in British Somalia, while Ba Jin followed his father Barong there to resell tobacco and soil, and the buyers were the same people. In order to save trouble, the other party actually arranged a transaction at the same time, and the two classmates met unexpectedly in this situation.
Xiao Jin can be said to be the only one among his classmates who knows the identity of Zhao Jian's "arms dealer", and he admires Zhao Jian who works hard for the world. not only recognized him as the "boss", but also had a tendency to develop into a "brainless fan", which made Zhao Jian feel that "I am also proud of the sky".
This "three friends of pornography, gambling and drugs" can be said to be one of Zhao Jian's few friends at school, although the other students know that Zhao Jian does not bully, but they also think that he is a bad boy who loves to fight, so they respect him and stay away.
"Anyway, while we are out of school, let's concentrate on getting this business done first."
"Then your academic ......"
"It's okay, I didn't take half of the classes last semester, and I didn't still be the first in the whole school year, but I'm the No. 1 student in Qingdao!"
"Boss, you call me?"
"Poof~! Lao Xue, don't you mean you...... Forget it, I just want to find you. Tell the brethren in the bilge that when we get to the shore, all our company's own people have packed up and disembarked with me, except for the two French temporary workers. ”
"Boss, don't you want this boat?"
"That's right! Don't do it, this broken ship has fallen 6 hands to me, in case it suddenly sinks one day, you are not afraid of losing your life, I am also afraid of losing the goods! Let's finish our business this time, go straight north to Egypt, and take a spaceship back from the spaceport over there. I ordered a new ship at the Qingdao shipyard last year, and we should be able to receive it when we go back. ”
Under the order of Zhao Jian, except for two French temporary workers who could not understand Chinese, everyone else silently packed their bags, and at this time, the freighter was also guided by the local tugboat and slowly entered the port.
The goods of this business are all American-style equipment that Zhao Jian got from the Philippines, including 1,000 Springfield M1903 rifles, 80 Thompson submachine guns and 12 M1917 heavy machine guns, and a total of 150,000 rounds of ammunition, which is the largest business that Zhao Jian has done since he entered the industry. Although the buyer concealed his identity, Zhao Jian was already clear about it from the moment he knew the delivery location.
At the beginning, Zhao Jian had the idea of finding a deserted beach where no one was around, transporting the goods ashore in small boats, and then transferring them to the mainland. But they had to die on their backs, and not long after the freighter crossed the Maldives, they ran into an Italian destroyer.
After intercepting the freighter, the other party forcibly boarded the ship and prepared to search, but there were several baskets of durian specially prepared by Zhao Jian in the lower cargo compartment where the weapons were placed, and the Italians were smoked alive as soon as they arrived at the door. Later, as expected, the other party began to blackmail on the grounds of "escort", and Zhao Jian pretended to argue for a moment and then paid the other party to send him away.
But what made Zhao Jian want to scold his mother was that the other party did not leave after receiving the money, but really "escorted" them all the way to Mogadishu before leaving, which made Zhao Jian hate the other party's "superfluous" conscience.
As soon as the cargo ship docked, before the cable could be fastened, more than a dozen Italian soldiers with loaded guns gathered on the shore. This is not the first time that Zhao, who has come to Mogadishu, has encountered such a battle. This made him pinch a cold sweat in the palm of his hand, worried about whether the news had leaked, when a white official appeared at the dock and shouted at the boat.
"Are you the Yanlong from Datang Guangzhou?"
"Yes, we reported it before."
"We need to carry out boarding inspections, and ask your head to come with me, Your Excellency Governor!"
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