"Oh, we've just developed a new gun, Gatling, you know, it's pretty much the same, 'da-da-da'." Chen Jianqiu made a machine-gun strafing pose, "There were people studying it before." It's not an unusual thing. ”

"You're humble, Mr. Chen." Mr. Hunt took a deep breath and said, "Can you show me the real thing?" ”

"No problem, but the samples I brought are all in Iquique now." Chen Jianqiu said.

"If that's convenient, can I and my military observer go to Iquique?" Ambassador Hunt asked.

"Yes, of course, you are very welcome." Chen Jianqiu nodded again and again.

But then, his face was slightly sad.

"But you have to hurry, we'll be back soon." Chen Jianqiu spread his hands, "American businessmen are no longer welcome here. ”

Ambassador Hunt did not fall into the trap, but just glanced at Chen Jianqiu, and did not make any obvious statement.

"Then we can go straight to Iquique with you, okay?"

"Okay, we'll leave later."

The two walked out of the general's study together and came to the reception hall.

The general was chatting with Ondejong and Camilla.

He spoke Cantonese, Spanish, and a few words of English from time to time.

The middle switch is free, and there is no sense of stagnation.

"We're ready to go, Your Excellency." Chen Jianqiu said to General Lynch, "Mr. Ambassador is with us. ”

The general nodded.

"After the treaty with Peru is officially signed, we will send someone to hand over the relevant formalities." He said to a few people.

Chen Jianqiu and the three of them were the first to leave the hall, and Ambassador Hunt followed after a few brief words with the general.

They walked out of the door of the mansion one after another.

"How? Where are we waiting for you? Chen Jianqiu turned his head, looked at Mr. Hunter who came out of the door, and asked.

Mr. Hunt looked left and right, then beckoned to a teenager across the street wearing a flat cap.

Across the street is a church.

The boy was sitting boredly on the steps of the church door, looking around.

When he saw Mr. Hunt waving at him, he immediately patted the dust on his ass and stood up.

He turned and walked into the church, and in a few moments he got a carriage out of the alley on the side of the church.

There was a young man sitting in the carriage, and there were large bags of supplies in it.

Mr. Hunter boarded the carriage, and then waved at Chen Jianqiu: "It's time to go!" Mr. Chen! ”

Chen Jianqiu pursed his lips.

It seems that this Mr. Ambassador came prepared, and even the people and supplies were ready to work.

Although Chile is not a large country in theory, it is a long and narrow country.

The journey from Santiago to Iquique is more than 1,800 kilometers.

Although Mr. Hunter and the young man in the car seemed to be very eager to see Chen Jianqiu's weapon.

However, Chen Jianqiu didn't seem to be in a hurry.

It took him more than three weeks to see the outline of the port of Iquique.

Along the way, Chen Jianqiu chatted a lot with the ambassador and the young man.

These two people were impressed by the unique personality charm of this Chinese businessman.

This young man has a great deal of knowledge and a great imagination.

Some of it sounds like a prophecy.

He actually told them that there was an iron box that could replace the infantry on the battlefield, and that people could even fly in the sky like birds.

There are some things that they can't accept, such as Chen Jianqiu's joking telling them that there may be a person of Indian origin who will become their prime minister in the future.

Of course, the two men were unimpressed.

"You should be a science fiction writer, however, I wouldn't advise you to get involved in politics." The young man in the car said solemnly.

"Yes, I'm a science fiction writer." Chen Jianqiu said, "Everything is just a fantasy. ”

The young man's expression was only then better.

Chen Jianqiu learned through chat that he was the military observer that Hunt was talking about.

He had a resounding surname: Churchill.

"Do you know Winston Churchill?" Chen Jianqiu thought for a moment and asked.

If the previous words that seemed to be similar prophecies made the two gentlemen seem to be listening to a story, this question suddenly frightened them.

"How do you know my little nephew who is less than ten years old?!" The young man looked at Chen Jianqiu suspiciously.

He was the fourth son of Duke of Marlborough VII, the younger brother of the British statesman Randolph Churchill, and the uncle of Winston Churchill.

"Oh, so he's your nephew." Chen Jianqiu nodded thoughtfully, "He will be very promising." ”

This is beyond the category of science fiction people, more like a magic stick.

"I'm still a fortune teller, and in our culture, it's called a fortune teller." Chen Jianqiu looked at the two and added.

"Then I'll lend you good words." Churchill would be skeptical.

After the group arrived at Iquique, Hunt and Churchill immediately asked Chen Jianqiu to take them to see the "killing machine".

But when the black lump of iron appeared in front of them, they still couldn't believe it.

"Can you show us a demo?" Churchill asked.

"No problem, but I don't have a lot of bullets, they are specially made in my factory." Chen Jianqiu said.

In fact, in the battles of South America, he actually used Maxim only a handful of times, except for the destruction of more than 1,000 people who landed on the beach of Iquique, and also used it when facing the Peruvian cavalry charge and attacking a seaside stronghold on the edge of the desert.

The former wiped out the last of Cáceres' cavalry, while the latter rained down bullets on the Peruvian soldiers hiding in their strongholds.

Chen Jianqiu asked his Chinese soldiers to raise the muzzle of the gun and hit a parabola, stretching the effective killing distance of the machine gun to more than a kilometer.

Although it is not used many times, as long as it is used, it is a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.

This caused the Peruvian soldiers to flee as soon as they heard that their opponent was the Chinese army in Iquique.

Chen Jianqiu's two hundred cavalry chased after him, and he didn't even fight much in the encounter.

"Bullets are also special?" Hunter and Churchill glanced at each other, and they stepped aside.

"You decide." Hunt said to Churchill.

Churchill walked up to Chen Jianqiu and said to him:

"It's okay, just take a look at it, and the demo doesn't take long."

The final demonstration is still taking place on the beach.

Li Sifu and another soldier came over with a box of bullets, and Chen Jianqiu personally went into battle.

Makqin began to roar, weaving a barrage in the direction of the beach.

Half of the boxes of bullets were quickly fired, and the wooden boxes that were used as targets on the beach a few hundred meters away had already been shattered.

Hunter and Churchill were stunned.

They can imagine the desperation and horror of the Peruvian soldiers on this beach that night.

"This is a weapon that can determine the course of war." Churchill said categorically to Hunter.

"Do you want the experts of the army to evaluate it?" Hunter said, looking at the cooling holes that were still steaming.

Churchill nodded.

"Mr. Chen, I would like to take the liberty of asking you a question, have you already sold this weapon to the U.S. federal army?" Hunter asked Chen Jianqiu.

Chen Jianqiu took off his hat and fanned the wind, glancing at Hunter:

"Federal troops? What the hell are you going to do with this? Kill the Indians? Or do I want to fight you again? ”

Hunter straightened his hat's hair to hide his embarrassment.

The independence of the United States is an eternal pain in the heart of the British.

Less than 20 years after the Civil War was over, and the Indians were dying, the U.S. military really didn't have that much motivation for the time being.

"Besides, I'm just a small businessman, where do those people who buy from the army look up to me?" Chen Jianqiu snorted.

"You can sell it to us." Hunter threw an olive branch, "Let's order three prototypes first, go back and test it, do you think it's okay?" ”

He arched next to Churchill.

He represents the opinion of the Army.

"Ah, yes, let's look into it."

"I'm ready to stop production, the bullets are specially made by us, no saltpeter." Chen Jianqiu sighed, "After this battle is over, the saltpeter mines here in Chile will become you British!" It's not my share. ”

"But if your company is a British company, it's different." Hunter gritted his teeth, it seemed that he had already made a plan with China, "Mr. Chen, what are your political beliefs?" ”

"I'm a businessman!" Chen Jianqiu said helplessly.

"Then you don't think this will work, Mr. Chen, why don't you move to England, and we can provide you with an address to build a factory in Kent."

Hunter and the rest of the Army in China attach great importance to this matter.

If the Commonwealth of the United States was not in such a hurry about this weapon, then the British Empire, which was at its peak at this time, had the opposite attitude.

Europe was shrouded in the clouds of war, and the sun never set on the empire with too many overseas colonies in flames.

Chen Jianqiu stared at Hunter's face and suddenly smiled:

"Deal, Mr. Hunt."

"I'll build a company in the UK."