Chapter 335: Thirty Years in Hedong and Thirty Years in Hexi
About a month later, the railroad reached Roswell.
This time it didn't cause much of a stir, and it was not at all the same as the last Lincolnshire opening.
None of the major newspapers in New Mexico reported on the opening.
Since most of the residents of Roswell are Chinese.
Many of them don't have any need to come out.
As a result, there are not many round-trip trains, and most of them are wagons carrying goods, machinery, supplies and raw materials.
The mass-produced Roswell M1882 rifle, along with the corresponding smokeless powder bullets, was transported by rail to various cities in the west, and then through various distribution channels, into various gun stores.
There are more gun shops than restaurants on the continent.
People were not particularly interested in this new type of rifle at first.
Because compared to the previous guns, the price of this gun is not low, and the bullet is also relatively special, and it is a special bullet used.
But after a female bounty hunter named Camilla hit a target more than a thousand meters away with this gun in front of everyone outside San Francisco.
Everyone present was stunned.
The photo of the beautiful woman holding a gun in her left hand and pointing at the target with her right hand quickly appeared in major newspapers in California and even the West.
As a result, this gun, along with the bullets it used, began to become popular in the West.
But all hunters, policemen, and even bandits who have a little financial strength are as proud to have such a gun as fashionable.
The first guns were quickly snatched up.
Roswell M1882, sold out of stock.
There were a few other things that happened during the month.
For example, a new detective agency called "Frontier" has appeared in California, Kansas, and New Mexico.
The head of California, named Hanif, is said to have been a bounty hunter in the past, and their main business is to escort goods for the wealthy, and they are not involved in the business in the city for the time being.
The head of Kansas is the famous Wyatt.
They all filled the void left by the Pinkerton Detective Agency to some extent.
And in New Mexico, the man named White is back.
On his first day back, he threw his resignation through Harry Rivers' window.
Harry was sitting in his big chair smoking a pipe, and he was caught in the cold by the shuttlecock-like envelope.
He opened the envelope and found a metal Pinkerton badge inside, as well as a one-line resignation letter.
"No more! Good bye! ”
The signature is White.
Harry Rivers didn't even have time to think about why the paper was written "see you later" instead of "goodbye" and rushed to the window in a rage.
He was going to settle accounts with this rude bastard.
But White didn't even leave him with his back, and he was long gone.
"Bastard! Your last month's salary, never expect to receive it from me! Harry Rivers yelled into the street.
The next day, however, he understood the meaning of the words "goodbye" on the note.
The Santa Fe office of the Border Detective Agency, opened.
And the office location, according to Chen Jianqiu's instructions, was arranged opposite the Pinkerton Detective Agency.
Over the next period of time, Harry found that more and more employees submitted their resignations to him.
The reason for leaving the job is nothing more than being ill and incompetent, or although the frontier is beautiful, it is too far away from home, and I feel homesick.
At first, Harry didn't care, because many of these employees were junior detectives, and some of them couldn't even remember their faces or names.
But soon, he discovered a problem.
After these people left, the remaining people on their side were basically eating and waiting to die, and they couldn't even carry out the most basic work.
The entire Pinkerton Detective Agency's New Mexico branch was paralyzed.
And those who left their jobs appeared in the border detective agency opposite.
Harry was furious, put on his coat and hat, and angrily tried to find the pockmarked face theory.
Who knew that when he walked to the door with his head down, he directly ate the closed door.
"Our person in charge said that idlers are not allowed to enter." A voice sounded in front of him.
Harry looked up and saw that it was his original doorman.
At this moment, he wears the badge of the new owner on his chest.
"When are you coming?" Harry's face was about to turn into anger.
The doorman had never even submitted his resignation to him.
"Yesterday, sir." The doorman is neither humble nor arrogant.
"I'm here to talk about business!" Harry snorted and said angrily.
He had to meet White today and talk to him properly.
"Please make an appointment to discuss business."
"I'm here for an interview, and I'm quitting my job, so I'm satisfied!" Harry yelled at the doorman.
"Our person in charge said that we don't accept people above the supervisor level on the other side, because they are all waste." The doorman repeated truthfully.
"You!" Harry was hysterical.
He raised his fist.
But the doorman stared at him without fear, without the slightest hint of flinching.
Harry looked left and right and noticed that people passing by were looking at him with strange eyes.
Eventually, he gave up and put down his hand.
The dignified head of the Pinkerton Detective Agency in New Mexico, the apprentice of Heilman, the former Pinkerton's "Three Heroes of the West", and a small janitor got into a street fight, which was really unorthodox.
Harry glared at the doorman viciously, then turned and walked towards his own door.
He returned to his office and sat down in his chair.
Harry's face flushed, and the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt angry.
He rang the bell on the table and called out to two employees.
They are the few people left who can still get to work.
"Check! Check it out for me! Look at what this border detective agency is all about! ”
And White, who was working opposite, was in a beautiful mood at this time.
He wielded the money Chen Jianqiu had given him and poached the employees of Pinker's detective agency that he thought had a certain ability.
plus Chen Jianqiu matched him with some young Chinese who knew English.
The Border Detective Agency is already ready to start.
He was so busy taking over business that he didn't have time to pay attention to his angry former boss.
Now Roswell, in addition to oil wells and refineries, is the busiest in the arsenal.
Chen Jianqiu's main energy during this time was staring at the production here.
The molds and manpower of most parts are not a problem, and Chen Jianqiu has brought another group of qualified people from Juarez.
And for those parts that need to be ordered from the outside, Chen Jianqiu also allowed Browning to find a source of supply.
If anything, Hudson Maxim's gunpowder workshop.
The gunpowder workshop was placed alone in the wilderness.
Chen Jianqiu would wander here from time to time.
Because the smokeless gunpowder made here is kept secret from the outside world, and each process is separated, even technicians often only know the one they are responsible for.
In addition, a production line for explosives has just been installed here.
This has raised the requirements for safe production to a certain extent.
Chen Jianqiu didn't want the entire Roswell to be blown up into the sky.
On this day, when he was inspecting outside the workshop, he suddenly heard an angry rebuke from the workshop.
"You! Stand up! Why nitrocellulose is not wetted! Did you know that this would kill us? ”
A cold sweat broke out behind Chen Jianqiu's back.
He hurried into the workshop and saw Hudson Maxim reprimanding a technician.
The technician, Barco Pino, was an Italian who was in charge of a pre-procedure for smokeless gunpowder.
At this time, he was bowing his head, and was scolded by Hudson Makqin.
"If it weren't for the two rounds of cross-checks, we would all have to go to heaven now." The inventor, like Chen Jianqiu, is afraid to think about it.
Hudson looked at Chen Jianqiu.
It means that you are the boss and you can do whatever you want.
"Let's go and get paid and leave Roswell on the earliest train." Chen Jianqiu said expressionlessly.
Security is not negotiable here.
Baco Pino left the workshop dejectedly and boarded the train to the east that day.
As a newcomer, he still needed a job.
So, he decided to try his luck in New Jersey.