Chapter 51: Getting Involved in Arms
Chapter 51
As night fell, the Huangpu River under the night was like a giant beast shrouded in darkness. This time, Yang Yuanzhao did not travel alone and called Zheng Daniu. Zheng Daniu's burly figure was even more intimidating on the beach at night. The two of them came to the warehouse they rented in the morning.
"Big Niu, you're waiting here, I'll go in and get something!" Yang Yuanzhao said to Zheng Daniu at the door of the warehouse.
"Yes?" Zheng Daniu was a little surprised, but he didn't follow him. As a bodyguard, ensuring the safety of his master is the key, but obedience is also an important feature of the bodyguard. Before contacting him, Zheng Daniu knew that Yang Yuanzhao was not a young man like Yang Yue. His small body was full of strength. He could not deal with him at all, not to mention that he also had a pistol in his hand.
The warehouse under the night was even more dilapidated. Except for the big lock on the door, the others seemed particularly messy. 800 yuan had been paid. It turned out that the old doorkeeper recruited by the warehouse owner had already left. The guards he ordered Habi to recruit would not be in place until tomorrow. This was just an empty room. At this moment, no one paid attention to this.
Yang Yuanzhao entered the Taoist warehouse like a spirit cat, passed through rows of rooms, and entered the innermost, the strongest and best-conditioned warehouse. Without turning on the lights, he could not see five fingers. In such an environment, Yang Yuanzhao's eyesight could barely see everything in the warehouse, empty, just in line with his idea.
This warehouse will be a huge aspect of his collection of funds. If he sells gold completely, it will attract the attention of others to a certain extent. Besides, gold has a greater role and China's gold reserves are not rich. In the next few decades or even hundreds of years of the world economy, gold reserves represent the credit of the country to a certain extent. Even if there is an all-in-one machine, it can decompose every tiny gold in the ore and flow out in large quantities, which is not something that Yang Yuanzhao is willing to see.
Finding Habi and finding a reason for a large number of machinery. On the other hand, Habi also needs to do something that he cannot and cannot do. The arms transaction is one of them, and it is the most profitable one.
What China lacks most in this era is all kinds of weapons. The training of new troops in various places is almost endless, and the demand for weapons is almost endless. In this case, weapons are best sold.
Today, in the Lihe Foreign Industry, all weapons were copied, and there were several types of rifles. The choice of rifles was of course the Committee 1888, and the recently appeared Mauser, who was only exposed to it after arriving in Shanghai. It was absolutely high-quality and high-priced. Such weapons were destined not to be produced in large quantities. In the afternoon, Yang Yuanzhao ordered the all-in-one machine to produce cannons. Mauser just made hundreds of them casually, and other Maxim would also make some, and some cannons.
It’s okay for Maxim to say that with Yang Yuanzhao’s production, hundreds of them can be produced in a day. In China, this thing is not as sales as a rifle. After all, the original rifle bullet is a huge restriction. Once the machine gun is turned on, the bullets poured every minute will be daunting, so in the inventory of all-in-one machines, the most it is a rifle.
The cannon is a big guy, with a 75 cannon and 405 kilograms. Due to the length and weight limitations, Yang Yuanzhao was able to produce up to three cannons in one hour. The 75 cannons started to be made in the afternoon. Now there are not many cannons per hour. The final product is only 36. The remaining part of the rifles, all of which are new-style Mauser, are much more powerful than the 1888 committee.
Guns are easy to deal with. Yang Yuanzhao, a level 4, can make 8 cubic meters of things at one time, and 8,000 cubic meters of things, which are tens of thousands of guns. These were made by Yang Yuanzhao on the road. Now, they are just piled up in different boxes. In addition to these, there are some artillery and some basic logistics devices. In this case, it is still difficult to pile up the entire warehouse. There is no need for this for the time being. In the future, it will gradually pile up here. Now, there are a total of 120,000 rifles, 1,000 machine guns, 36 artillery, etc., which is almost the same, just a few million, which is enough for Habi to complete the initial accumulation of funds.
After doing all this, Yang Yuanzhao carefully locked the door. No one knew that in this relatively remote warehouse on the Huangpu River, there are now coveted equipment piled up.
Zheng Daniu was smoking a cigarette boredly at the door. When he saw Yang Yuanzhao coming out, he threw away the cigarette and asked in a low voice: "Young Master Yang is OK? Can we go back?"
This place is a little bit off. In Zheng Daniu's opinion, it is not very safe. It is best to leave early. Yang Yuanzhao nodded, followed Zheng Daniu and went back.
The next day, when Yang Yuanzhao brought Habi to this warehouse again, Habi was shocked by everything in front of him. There was only a small corner piled up in the huge warehouse, but the mountains of boxes seemed to be full of guns, which were the most intimate in China.
Habi was an unlucky guy who came to China with a sudden idea, but he didn't expect that in China, pianos and other things were not popular at all. But after arriving in China, he found that what was popular in China was actually guns, and the governors and governors from all over the country were training new troops, and the demand was huge. Even old guns and old guns from abroad could have a market, let alone brand new rifles.
Suddenly, he felt that this noble man suddenly appeared, seemed to have some mystery. Guns were hard currency in this era and the world. No matter which country they received, they could be exchanged for the mainstream currency of this country. This was even more so in the Qing Dynasty. There were many bandits, rich and unkind landlords, and the endless caravans. The gap in guns was very large. Even the honest bird guns from more than a hundred years ago were wanted, let alone these.
I walked up and opened a box. The box was very heavy, and the black box seemed to be made of steel.
The most stored thing in Yang Yuanzhao's all-in-one machine was steel. It was made casually at that time, and it didn't fit much with the rifle, but it was enough to put these guns down. A dozen guns were placed in each box.
Habi was even more surprised. The brand new rifle exuded a strong smell of gun oil. He took out one casually and manipulated it slightly unfamiliarly. As he had been a soldier, he felt that these guns were very good, not as rough as Chinese textiles made in Hanyang. He looked down at the barrel of the gun. The rifle was shiny and looked like first-class military industry.
The style of the gun is Committee 1888. Could it be that these guns are imported from Germany in original form. Looking at the dense boxes, there are 12 guns in each box, and there are almost no number of boxes here.
"No need to count. There are 10,000 boxes in total, 120,000 guns, 1,000 Maxim and a large number of cannons. Just sell them. I guess these can almost help you raise some of the money!" Yang Yuanzhao said calmly.
"It should be tens of millions, and there will be certain problems in sales, but it will be fine!" Habi said with a patted his chest. It is not a big deal for a foreign business group. Habi has few connections here, but in China, even in the United States, there are still certain classmates and friends. These combined together will form a huge force that will allow him to intervene in the field of arms.
“How long will it take?”
Habi was a little hesitant. After following Yang Yuanzhao, he found that this young and over-young man had more and more strength than a large chamber of commerce. It was just that so many rifles were not easy to get even in Germany. Habi was one of the Jewish class. However, in the whole of Germany, it was probably a minority among the few who could get 120,000 rifles at one time. Even the committee 1888 was the German equipment that had just been replaced. This was the first time in the Far East that it appeared in large numbers.
Yang Yuanzhao waved his hand and said, "You can build the foreign company first. After the foreign company is built, you have to go abroad. Before that, raise funds as much as possible."
"I don't have this channel to go abroad. Should I go out alone?"
"Of course I'm not going out alone. I'll solve the problem of cargo. You first get a cargo ship and need to go out to sea next month. I need you to set up a network in Europe and the United States, and there are many things you need."
"Okay, no problem." At this time, Hubby was so excited that he couldn't do it. He realized that the previous treatment was more generous than he thought. The power in this young man's hands was much more terrifying than when he thought the most. It was just that such a warehouse of arms, even if sold at the market price, was 3 million marks under 30% of the profit. He could get a 1% bonus of 30,000, which was five times higher than the previous monthly salary. 500 marks himself was an absolute high salary, and he had increased so much. What does this mean?
Chapter completed!