Chapter 126 Selling Whoever Sells Is Not Selling
The Charles family has not yet determined the number of weapons to order, and Shawlin has already made a deal. The French are under his incorruptible tongue, but they have spent a lot of money. It was the cold weapon steel knife and the compound bow, both of which were bought in quantities of five thousand. Xiao Lin said a word, and the French jumped into the pit automatically. All the words in it can be summed up in one meaning. The French also had many Indian tribes who took refuge, both as subordinates and cannon fodder.
However, no matter what, if people give you their lives, you have to prepare weapons for them. However, this gives firearms and artillery, and I am not at ease, and I am deeply afraid that raising tigers will be a problem, so it is best to create a situation where the tail is too big to fall. With the company's batch of steel knives and compound bows, it is different, especially compound bows, which are more accurate than brown bass firearms within one hundred and two meters. Armed with steel knives and compound bows, the Indians could not only provide strong support to the French in the subsequent wars, but also prevent them from potentially mastering firearms technology and thus threatening their rule.
In this day and age, European countries have long since outlawed the existence of crossbowmen. In contrast to crossbowmen, whose training takes at least a few years, muskets can be trained in just three months. Except that the range is not as good as some top-tier crossbows, the power is not bad. So, they don't care about the bow and crossbow at all. Even if the effective range of this compound bow was one hundred and twenty meters, they did not pay attention to it at all. Perhaps, these Frenchmen still despise Chaulyn behind their backs as an Indian, and they know how to study these flashy things.
And it was this mentality that allowed Xiao Lin to sell nearly 100,000 sets of compound bows. These composite bows, which were not much inferior to the current front-loading muskets, greatly strengthened the strength of all the Indians who did not turn to the Yanhuang Trading Company, and inflicted great losses on the whites in the future. Naturally, these are all later words, so I won't mention them for the time being.
After doing this French business, the company can almost net 8 million Chinese yuan. After all, the deals with the French are all about the use of iron ore and other minerals that are not worth much in the 21st century, and the company does not have them now. Regardless of how much money there is, this is also the profit that the company officially made through the manufacturing power of the 18th century. Slowly, as the company grew, Xiao Lin was able to stop speculating and scalping in the two planes.
Xiao Lin was still thinking about how to continue to expand his business, but he didn't expect that new customers would appear immediately. The god of war, who has become the leader of the Wolf Warrior Tribal Alliance, sent his own messenger four months ago. In this day and age, there was no navigation, not even a full-fledged map. And few people from the Wolf Warrior Tribal Alliance have never gone far away. The god of war is not a person with a very sense of direction, only pointing in a general direction.
Four months is not bad, but it is not uncommon for this messenger to die in the wild. The god of war has not really been to the company, but has only been to the Trader Tribe to receive ammunition, so the direction he points to is naturally also the Trader Tribe. The Quard Patriarch of the Trader Tribe has always admired the God of War. Originally, it was thought that the god of war died in that battle, and even Quelder held a memorial ceremony for him. Suddenly, a man said that he had sent a subordinate from the god of war, and Quilde almost thought he was playing a trick on him, and was about to order the warrior to beat him up.
Luckily, the Courier had the God of War token in his hand, and Quelde had better believe the Courier with the part of the God of War Matriarch trinket he had seen before. Originally, the messenger sent by the God of War was to convey the message of merging into the company to Xiao Lin. And if Xiao Lin is unwilling, he will retreat to the next best thing and want to purchase weapons from the company. After all, the Wolf Warrior Tribal Alliance now has 50,000 people, the number is too large, the strength is not weak, and all of them are unruly, maybe Xiao Lin will refuse to merge in order to prevent the company from being unstable.
However, it is precisely because of the strong strength of the Wolf Warrior Tribal Alliance that this messenger has a little objection to the idea of the God of War. It's not that I'm dissatisfied, but I feel that the Wolf Warrior Tribe can survive completely independently, and there is no need to merge into any force at all. Of course, if the Yanhuang Trading Company could provide advanced weapons, he would naturally not stop this matter. He is here to explore the way, and at the same time, he is also here to negotiate trade first, and naturally someone will pay later.
Quelde happened to not have much to do recently, so he took this middle-aged Indian wise man named Acre to the Yanhuang Trading Company. Although Aka is a wise man in the Wolf Warrior Tribal Alliance, this is the same as if Grandma Liu enters the Grand View Garden. The god of war has never entered the company, so naturally he doesn't know what the company really looks like. When communicating with Acre, he naturally said something that he guessed by himself, that is, white towns with a little mythological element.
However, the company that has developed to the present is much stronger than the god of war wants. It looks like an industrial city in the mid-19th century that experienced the second industrial revolution. Moreover, because many of the equipment is a process in the 21st century or the mid-to-late 20th century, the pollution is much lighter than that of the equipment after the second industrial revolution, and the environment around the company has not deteriorated too much. At the same time, it also shows enough modernity.
From time to time, a man from the field rode back to the town on his bicycle, and for the first time he saw a bicycle that did not need a horse and could walk on its own on two wheels, and Acre was also very surprised. Everything in the company is not familiar to Acre, and it is also subverted by his cognition. When Quellde arrived, Shoren naturally had to receive it. However, for Acre as a messenger, Sholin didn't want to waste any more time on him.
What Acre wanted was the muskets and artillery that Sholin had sold to the British, who had sold them to the god of war. And, of course, the company's own fuse grenades. These things are not difficult to make. The arsenal built in the Republic of Beran still has a surplus of production capacity, and if you move it out a little, you can make these things well. You don't need any good steel, you can do it for 21st century scrap. Although Aka paid the bill with fur and yellow rank ore, Xiao Lin couldn't look at the money anymore.
Xiao Lin is not interested in wasting time on him, and it does not mean that this money will not be earned. How to say, but a piece of meat. Therefore, Xiao Lin handed over this matter to Ye Qianqian, who had joined the company for several months but did not make much credit. Ye Qianqian is also a stubborn woman, and now Xiao Lin gave her a salary of 30,000 yuan a month, which was originally meant to reward her for her contribution to the company's financial planning, but Ye Qianqian felt a little ashamed to receive this salary that was three times that of the previous one.
Therefore, Ye Qianqian has been asking Xiao Lin to find something for her to do. At this time, with the help of this strong woman with extremely skilled bargaining skills, how can she squeeze the oil and water of Acre clean. Xiao Lin himself, naturally, there are still things. It's not about Yu Wei and them, but about to start wooing his dozen life and death brothers. Xiao Lin made a proposal that made these people think about it for a while, and now, it was finally agreed.
After all, after leaving the army, they really can't find any good jobs. Either manual labor or being a driver's bodyguard. Not only is it dangerous to be tired, but the money is not high, which is not a drag on the family, and the family relies on them to eat. Although it's a little embarrassing, it's all a fateful friendship, brothers are in trouble, and helping each other is not something that can't be said. More than a dozen elite soldiers came to take refuge at once, and Xiao Linna was overjoyed.
It just so happened that the steel plant, which was jointly invested by Zarqam, had already transported the equipment in place, and the workers had mastered the basic operating methods. The process is also in place, and the factory is about to start production. To this end, Zarqam even started an iron mine he hid, recruited many workers, and bought mining equipment from Huaguo to mine a batch of iron ore. As the majority shareholder of the steel plant, Xiao Lin also had to go over and take a look.
Of course, Zarqam was still a little weak-hearted. After all, he is just a leader with some political and military talents, and just like the founding fathers of China, he is still a little short of economic construction. Zalkam was not even as good as the Ancestor, he didn't know anything about these things. If it weren't for Shawlin's help, and Sorento's capable successor, I'm afraid that there would still be no industry in his occupied area.
And relying on Xiao Lin, he has now completed the construction of six large factories in light industry, at least pots and pans and clothes do not need to buy foreign goods, the style of his own production is not bad, the quality is not bad, the price is affordable, and it is very popular with the people of Belan under his rule. For this reason, the people's hearts have settled down a lot, and Zarqam has also gained more sincere support. Moreover, there is also a motorcycle factory under construction, and the technical equipment is imported from the Sholin factory, which costs a lot of money.
Now, there is another large steel mill. This means that it is possible to produce your own weapons. As soon as the news broke, Zarqam's approval rating rose again. However, this has also caused waves outside his sphere of influence to rise again. Zalkam's enemies will not sit idly by and watch the steel plant officially put into operation. The bombing of the Air Force has been carried out again after the first batch of pilots trained in China returned in the foreign trade version of the Thunder Dragon, which is a third-generation combat technology.
So, they sent elite spies and special forces into Zarqam's territory, ready to destroy the steel plant with explosives. Although Zarkam took strict precautions, not only transferred most of the wolf commandos, but also guarded them by three battalions of ordinary soldiers. However, it is still a bit overwhelming. The last time Sholin helped bomb the warlord's airfield, Zarqam knew that he was a truly powerful special forces commander.
However, he didn't expect that this time Xiao Lin would bring several powerful special forces commanders.