Chapter 124 Selling guns, slave traders
After following Shoren back to the company's first town to repair for a while, Jaime left home with the guards who had recovered from their injuries. Xiao Lin was also afraid of this unlucky brother-in-law, and under the coquettishness of Nina and Britney, he gave him two Type 17 pistols to strengthen his firepower. In the same situation, with these two powerful Type 17 pistols, Jaime himself would be able to escape without being captured and secretly imprisoned or secretly executed by the enemy.
Of course, Shotin also believes that with the current technology of the British, it should be impossible to imitate the 17 pistol. Even the steel used to make pistols was not something that the British could smelt. This was also a test for Sholin to James, the next time he was able to bring the two guns back intact and without any signs of disassembly, and Sholin felt that he could sell them some breech guns in the future. If both requirements are not met, then unless the Charles family explicitly joins the company, they will not want to get the weapons made by the company.
Even if he eats other people's two daughters, in matters related to the development of the company, Xiao Lin can only be cheeky and do it. And Jaime really didn't disappoint Shoren. Xiao Lin, who had just returned to the company to handle the training of recruits after returning from a camping trip with Yu Wei and his daughters, received a message that Jaime had arrived again, and said that he had brought a stranger to meet him. Shoren let him in, and Jaime immediately returned the two pistols that Shoren had lent him.
Xiao Lin took it and saw that there was no trace of disassembly. As a person with the ability of the most elite special forces in the 21st century, Xiao Lin still has this vision. It seems that the Charles family is indeed planning to stand on the side of the company, and in this case, he can't continue to defend them here and there. Shawlin smiled and returned the two pistols, then took out a box of 100 rounds from the drawer and pushed it in front of Jaime together.
"What does that mean?"
"Alright, uncle, don't pretend. How's it going? I've experimented with pistol performance, don't you want it?"
"Hehe, I'll tell you the truth, on the way back, I really encountered a robbery, and I was all knocked down by these two pistols. That firepower, that accuracy, needless to say, far surpasses the revolver. Originally, I didn't want to pay it back, but my father said that you can't be greedy for your things. ”
"Okay, now that we're a family, we don't need honorifics. These two guns are yours, and a hundred rounds of ammunition. This is the last time, and if you want it again, you have to pay for it. ”
"You mean, you can sell us guns, really?"
"Nonsense, I'm a man of my word, but ah, I have to make three chapters of the law. ”
You say. ”
"First of all, it is not allowed to disassemble the study without permission. ”
"That's for sure. ”
"Secondly, it cannot be exposed casually, and it must be used confidentially. ”
"Of course, it doesn't do us any good to expose it. ”
"Finally, it is not allowed to resell it without permission. ”
"Not to mention this, this is a military weapon, whoever sells it is a fool. ”
"Okay, here's the list, you can take a look, by the way, who is this?"
"Oh, I forgot to mention that this is Igic, the second largest slave trader in Boston. This time, he took the initiative to come up and wanted to talk to you about a business. ”
"Hello, Great Ruler of the Yanhuang Trading Company. ”
Following James's introduction, the white man with triangular eyes came up politely and bowed solemnly. In this day and age, the slave trade is a big deal, and every farmer, mine owner, and nobleman needs slaves. And white people, as long as they don't can't live now, won't choose to become someone else's slave, and even if they can't live, I'm afraid they will choose to rebel. In this way, black slaves are needed.
The slave trade began in the 15th century, when European colonizers sold African blacks to the Americas as slaves, and a large number of African blacks came to the Americas. In the Americas, European colonists forcibly occupied the land of the Indians, established plantations, and at the same time, wantonly slaughtered and enslaved the Indians, so that the number of Indians was sharply reduced, and they could not provide enough labor for the plantations, so the plantation owners began to buy African blacks and work on the plantations as slaves, which opened the way for European slave traders.
In the recent history of mankind, the slave trade has written one of the most shameful and despicable pages. The greedy European colonizers took the large number of black Africans who had the skills to grow tropical crops and were able to adapt to tropical labor as slave hunting objects, and in the vast area from the mouth of the Senegal River to the mouth of the Congo River, there were one slave ship after another anchored in the European colonial countries, and the black bow of the ship was like an open mouth of blood, waiting to devour human flesh.
According to statistics, the black tribe "slave hunting war" In the course of 400 years of enslavement, tens of millions of black Africans were killed; In the first half of the eighteenth century, the island of Santo Domingo imported 2.8 million slaves, but by 1976 only 65,000 remained, with an average of more than 40,000 deaths per year; According to the calculation that at least 10 or so black Africans were sacrificed for every slave transported to the Americas, the slave trade cost Africa 100 million people, a figure equivalent to the total population of Africa in 1980.
Every slave trader is a person with blood on his hands, and I don't know how many lives have been tragically lost in their hands. Originally, according to Xiao Lin's original values, the first action to see this kind of person was definitely to kill him with one shot. Now, however, he has developed a keen interest in Igcik. Although the black people of this era are not good soldiers, they are good hands when it comes to hard work and hard work.
If the company had more labor, it would have freed up more adult white and Native American men, and the size of the convoy would have increased rapidly. It's not as simple as Igcik finding the Charles family and asking Jaime to connect him with the company. Igci was originally very popular in Boston, and he could be said to be the leader of the dark forces in Boston, but he did not expect that this would attract the hostility of Inspector General Mir.
Originally, Charlie lacked strength in his hands and didn't dare to do anything. Later, Adolf arrived with 30,000 Hessian mercenaries, which gave Charlie confidence. Hessian mercenaries who haven't completed their equipment upgrades may have a bit of a hard time dealing with the company escort and the French army, but dealing with the ruffians and gangsters is easy and enjoyable. If it weren't for the fact that Ijik had been in business for many years and had a wide range of connections, and Charlie was not the emperor of the colony, I'm afraid Ijik would have died.
Even if he survived, Igic's current situation is not very good, the slave trade was robbed of a large share by Charlie, and his connections cannot be stopped at all. Now he had nearly 2,000 slaves in his hands, which he could not sell and had nowhere to work. Ijik was reluctant to starve them to death, so he couldn't help but consume even if he had thousands of family fortunes. And if the slave can't be sold, I am afraid that he will not cooperate with him anymore if he provides a partner for the slave.
Igic is also a local snake, and somehow, he found out about the relationship between the Charles family and the Yanhuang Trading Company. Judging from the fact that the Yanhuang Trading Company attacked several times, not a single civilian was killed, and all of them were brought back to the company and became the company's people, it seems that the Yanhuang Trading Company is very short of manpower. It is likely to be a big customer, and besides, the products of the Yanhuang Trading Company are now very popular in the colony.
Sell the slaves to the company, then buy some of the company's goods and sell them back in the colony, and the difference will be enough to feed him and all his men. Both of them have intentions, and this business is naturally easy to discuss. Xiao Lin also thought that the price of this slave was very expensive, but he didn't expect that Ijik directly quoted the price of 600 Yan Huang coins for an adult man, while other old and young women and children were sold at half price, Xiao Lin remained silent and suppressed the price of 100 yuan.
It seems that Ijik is also very aware of the company's situation, and he wants Yan Huang Coin instead of British pounds, because it is much more cost-effective to buy the company's products with Yan Huang Coin than to buy them with British pounds. In fact, it would be better if Ijik wanted the pound, anyway, Shawlin had the technology in his hands, and he could continue to print counterfeit money, and it could also have a bad impact on the economy of the British colonies. However, if he can sell more of the company's products and expand the company's influence, Xiao Lin will not refuse.
Jaime is also on time and can accept a deal from Igcik. It's a win-win situation, and Shawlin's side is even more profitable. After the trade contract was finalized, Ijik went back that afternoon to prepare, without stopping at all. Slaves were still transported to the trader tribe through the channels of the Charles family, and after obtaining the Yanhuang coins, they would purchase the company's goods themselves. Naturally, Jaime stayed behind, ready to talk to Sholin about the purchase of new weapons.
Shawlin had some good stuff in store for them. The original Colt revolver of the original mature system that was given to them as a gift was a handful of the former Yan Huang coins. Rifles, Xiao Lin didn't plan to let Yan Huang out. The rifle that Shoren prepared for them was a Hall M1819 rear-loading rifle. Many domestic sources mention that the Dresser M1841 is the world's first massively equipped military rear-loading gun, but in fact Hall M1819 is. However, the M1819 still uses a flintlock firing method, while the M1841 uses a more advanced needle.
Hall M1819 breech-loading rifle was developed by John A. Designed by Captain H. Hall, patented on May 21, 1811, it entered service with the U.S. Army in 1819. Early Hall rear-loading guns had a caliber of 0.52 inches (13.2 mm), a barrel length of 572 mm, and 16 rifling. The metal parts on the gun were essentially the same as those of the M1812 musket. With the exception of the case-hardened bolt, all metal parts were coated with a layer of brown paint. According to soldiers who used the gun at the time, the gun's biggest flaw was that the gap between the bolt and the barrel would cause too much gunpowder gas to leak out, and there was a safety hazard of gunpowder leaking into the bolt mechanism.