The locals watching the fun in Sany Square saw the reporters running out like a tide. They were just blocking the church door and smilingly discussed whether candidates for the Longchuan Presbyterian Chamber of Commerce should be hung. At this time, like a gust of wind blowing, the ants felt the signs of the coming of a storm, and turned to run outside the square.

Everyone was surprised and when they ran past, locals could hear these reporters running and talking to each other in a Beijing accent:

"Is it really that big gangster Zheng Abao here?"[]

"Go quickly! Go quickly! With him here, you can't lack headlines!"

"Huang Demei's sworn brother! That live treasure! Run quickly, if you go late, you will definitely not be able to squeeze in!"

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Zheng Musheng was surrounded by reporters who recognized him with red eyes. He was surrounded by a wall of people around him. The saliva of asking questions flew around him like a wood. The exit and the ticket gate behind him were kicking away the staff trying to block him from time to time, and howled. The person coming from the ticket gate was like a suicide squad, screaming and jumping down from the other platform down the trench-like train lane, bypassing the front of the car and climbing up.

Zheng Musheng, surrounded by reporters, seemed to have seen such a big scene. He raised his head and smiled proudly, then lowered his head and stretched out his hands full of jade and diamond rings to press the hungry reporters, shouting with a familiar word: "Don't be anxious, ask one by one, ask slowly, don't worry, I won't fly. Big newspapers are preferred, cameras are preferred, sketchers are preferred, wow!"

The two local police officers behind and the stationmaster Lu at the local railway station were stunned and looked at the person in a blink of an eye and were covered by the abortion. "Who is this?" Old Lin shouted at the stationmaster Lu who was sitting on the ground with his head covering his head.

"That's Zheng Abao. Our country's largest arms dealer!" Webmaster Lu looked at the group of reporters screaming, turned his head and replied, and then said to himself: "Why are you swaying in the Qing Dynasty official uniform? Are you not afraid of scaring people! I just fainted just now. Is there any money to burn it like this?"

Who is Zheng Musheng? Lao Lin, a local, doesn’t know, but when he heard "Zheng Abao", he exclaimed: "'The Great Hooligan of the Imperial Gift' Zheng Abao? It’s him?!!"

This person is another legend in the business world of the Song Dynasty - the arms dealer Zheng Abao!

However, after becoming rich, I felt that my name was too rustic and changed it, but everyone still called him Master Bao.

He started his business as a legend. At that time, the General Manager of the Manufacturing Bureau of the Song Dynasty had a case of Chen Qirong's embezzlement. The Emperor of God first issued the "Self-Sin" and then wrote a large pen to divide the manufacturing bureau of the court into two, giving it to two craftsmen for free. One of them was Zheng Abao's brother Zheng Shaoting. This is the origin of their company "Brothers Arms Company".

This incident caused a sensation in the whole country and even the entire East Asia region, and is still talked about by people today.

The Zheng brothers who have obtained a munitions factory have lived up to the expectations of the Emperor of God, and have gained the trust of the court and the military in a timely manner with low prices and good supplies, so as to get the second pot of gold, because the assistance of the Emperor of God and the orders of the national army are the foundation. In addition, the Far East and Türkiye are currently the two largest arms markets in the world, with strong demand and the development of the enterprise soars to the sky.

Because the region itself is the largest arms market, the arms dealers of the global powers are naturally focused on this area. To be honest, the arms dealers of the great powers are powerful, advanced in technology, and excellent in products. The local brothers and Huang En are just a rustler compared to them. The real ones are definitely not opponents, but they can't stand them, but they are just guarding the edge of this big fat piece of meat, and the distance is close!

If Europe and the United States are too far from the Far East, the distance can determine the cost.

The arms shipped from Europe will increase the cost by 30%. Or, the local arms dealer products can be one-third cheaper than them as soon as they are shipped.

For example, a standard European arms procurement contract: purchase 100,000 breech guns that are cheap due to outdated elimination, usually with 20 million rounds of bullets;

When loading a ship thousands of miles away, every 24 guns needs to be loaded into one box, with a total of more than 4,000 boxes;

There are more than 17,000 boxes for every 10 guns and a box for every 117;

Price of 100,000 guns - 17,500 pounds;

Price of 20 million bullets - 50,000 pounds.

Total value of the goods: 67,000 pounds.

However, the labor costs of packing this bulk cargo, the water supply fees for long-distance ocean transportation, and the shipping insurance are as high as 37,000 pounds!

Once you arrive in the Far East, the buyer will have to pay £105,000!

(The historical materials of the arms price are Li Hongzhang's memorials, which were around 188*.)

Absolutely higher than the quotation of local arms dealers in Haisong under the same conditions.

To avoid huge labor costs, shipping costs, and insurance, we can only choose to build factories locally. Although the Haihuang is happy to build factories for foreigners, even if we do not consider national security, the advanced military factories will be built in foreign countries. After the great powers of the arms dealer transported huge machinery, allocated all employees and established the arms factory, they still faced many problems: such as technical leaks, capital security, high subsidies that foreigners must give, poaching of local competitors, etc.

So although many times, diplomats were salesmen of the ** fire merchants and small foreign arms factories, it was impossible for Britain to build Armstrong's breech guns. German Krupp would build major factories in Haisong, just as "Brothers" and "Imperial Eternity" did not dare to build major factories on the territory of the Qing Dynasty.

Therefore, the mountain is too far away, and the tiger cannot pass. Brothers and the emperor are called kings. With their technology that is always behind for a few years and slightly inferior quality, they have launched a bloody battle with foreign arms dealers in the Far East with their absolute quality and low price and extremely fast supply.

The Song ** team needed arms, the Ming king needed arms, the Qing Hunan Army, the Huai Army, the Chu Army, the Eight Banners Green Camp, the foreign gun team organized by the governors from all over the country, the artillery positions on the southeast coast needed arms, and even Japan, Vietnam, Myanmar, Nepal, and even the Annan anti-French Song guerrillas, Southeast Asian anti-British guerrillas all needed arms. Even if they were cheap small guns and small cannons, as long as they could get a piece of the pie from these big pots, they would become rich. The market demand was too great!

The Qing Dynasty was in charge of the Westernization Movement and the governors of various places actively built mints and military factories. The technical content of mints is low. Anyway, silver dollars and copper coins will not explode in your palms. You are not a martial arts master who can throw them out to kill people, so it doesn't matter. But military factories are different. Old-style bore guns may be possible. Now the gun technology is thriving in a day, and all countries are actively developing breech or long-range rifled guns, with high technical content. When encountering IQ problems, the Qing Dynasty made a bad job, which is completely a replica of the Song Dynasty Manufacturing Bureau back then. Although it is very high in emotional intelligence, the position of the person in charge is recognized as having a fat man and not giving away a million or 800,000 silver. The result of low IQ and high emotional intelligence is that the guns made are all "rebellious guns" that "anti-Qing and restoring the Ming Dynasty". They are still blown up and killing the royal army, which makes Qing soldiers in various places have to buy guns from foreigners, including the Song people.

The Ming King himself built a military factory and the court also ran it. I heard that this king was stimulated by the God Emperor in the Chen Qirong case that year. He had to build such an IQ factory by his own court, so he wanted to prove that he could trust his subordinates. As a result, he had to massacre more than 20 military factory leaders and managers in a row in ten years, and had to rely on the State of Song to support his arms. Later, he couldn't find a few stupid foreigners with zero emotional intelligence to be general managers and backbone administrators, and finally he could produce arms and ammunition safely;

Of course, the Mingwang's arms production is definitely not as good as the Song Dynasty's major arms dealers who have been developing for more than ten years. They have become giants in the Far East arms world.

In addition to the extremely advanced and unmanufacturing giant cannons, the purchase of Song ** must be the competition between the two largest arms dealers of the local brothers and Huang En, and the wealth will not flow to outsiders. For the Qing Kingdom, the largest buyer in the Far East, although the Qing Kingdom extremely hated Song from top to bottom, but the disgust was because its national soldiers and Eight Banners had poor combat effectiveness and the national treasury was empty. Britain and the United States paid attention to "no representation to pay taxes", while the Qing Dynasty "give power if it does not pay the salary". To a certain extent, the court's power over the governor was actually purchased with funds. If you don't allocate funds, you have to actually decentralize the power to the ministers of various places to organize their own troops to train defense and attack. So the emperor's return to the emperor, and the powerful ministers belong to the powerful ministers.

The problems faced by Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang were of course more serious than those of the rural girls in the court. Although their emotional intelligence was not as good as those of the girls, the problem of dealing with the problems, especially the foreign enemies was because you could not give a corruption official hat to buy them. So they also did business with the two major arms dealers of the Song Kingdom.

First: Both major arms dealers were enslaved by foreign gods, shameless, ruthless, unfaithful, and shameless, neither loyal to the emperor (Haihuang) nor shameless, and sold them as soon as they were given money. Moreover, the after-sales service was good. Not to mention that the arms were not qualified, they would be replaced immediately. If any governor didn't know how to form a foreign gun team, they would get you ready-made instructors and teaching materials, and other cases of how the governors formed a foreign gun team. And when they were happy, they would take adults to Shanghai for training. The trainers were all local prostitutes. They were really simple and easy to learn, thoughtful service, and ensured that they were taught step by step. Therefore, many adults thought that the Song people were too stupid and handed over the sharp weapons to these crazy merchants and traitors. Isn't this the same as the Ming Man war that the Ming Dynasty only loved money to secretly buy money to the enemy to sell grain, salt and weapons to the Later Jin Dynasty, but the Ming Dynasty was destroyed by the Later Jin Dynasty. They all thought they had gained a big advantage in the moral degradation of Song State.

Second: Because of its abundant profits, the arms industry has been one of the darkest industries from ancient times to the present to the future.

The State of Song cannot resist the civilian arms industry, and small arms factories are everywhere, but only "Brothers" and "Imperial Elegy" look down on the world and become two giants? Why? Because you have to do a big business.

The guns you make in your small factory are of good quality. People in one region buy yours and sell them a thousand a year. This is great, enough to be well-off or even a wealthy family. But a foreign gun team order is 100,000 guns and 20 million rounds of bullets, and a coastal defense position order is dozens of cannons and shells, gun mounts, and construction fortifications, and even horses that sell gun mounts. A large order from a large arms dealer may exceed the sum of sales of all other small sellers throughout the year.

Who has the power to sign a big order? - All are actually the highest powers in various places, from emperors of various countries to military leaders in the region, all of them are among the people. If you, a guerrilla leader, want to buy more than a dozen guns to fight for wealth, don't worry, you will never see the Zheng brothers or Li Yuting in your life, and others will not swear to you.

This kind of person is almost above the law in any country in the world. If you want him to be satisfied, the product must be qualified, but it also needs marketing relationships. You have to be good at these adults. It is best to make them think that you are a good person, so they like your company and products.

The most important thing is to give bribes and gifts to rebates. Each order from Krupp Far East carries a strange expense of 15%, which is the maximum rebate limit for regional salesmen. When encountering large orders, it is not the job of a salesperson. If the headquarters sends people to the headquarters, how much rebates can be obtained for bribes is a secret.

The Germans and British people are like this, let alone the Song Dynasty fire merchants developed from the Qing Dynasty culture. Therefore, if the Qing people obtained the imperial edict to form a foreign gun team, they would be happier than if their wives died. This project should not be asked to bid for them, or even just let the wind out. The Song people in their family were full of foreigners. After a business, the money from the three generations after their great-grandson was earned again.

Buyers are lawless, sellers are not vegetarians, and they are even more cruel than buyers: the big arms dealers are a group of merchants who make money by relying on power. The backstage is very terrible, all of them are emperors and governments of various countries. They are also afraid that the world will not be in chaos, and they wish they can fight every day and blood flow all over the earth.

The arms dealers of the great powers should not talk about it. Purchasing their arms to promote their domestic industry is a peace talisman that all forces in the Far East have to buy. The Haihuang, the dog-legged man, had to pay for it with grimace;

The same is true for the Qing Dynasty.

You are a loyal minister who loves the Qing Dynasty. You are disgusted with these yellow-skinned and white-hearted foreign lackeys. You would rather buy purebred foreigners than buy their goods if you have money. You are too fierce to them. If they remember you, then you will definitely be in trouble.

Whenever they have the chance, they will instigate their foreign pope emperor and foreign pacific army to do your job! See if you can survive the first round of artillery strikes of the Song army, facing the opponent's evil array line, walk two steps forward. They dare to use Huang En and Brother's rifles, and attack your panicked shells. They come over leisurely and stab you with no shot at a bayonet! Once you stab your British equipment, what do you say to the girls in the two palaces?

Not only that, you will also be corrupted by the black money of the Song State. The "traitorous minister" will be taken into slap in the face. A memorial with a sneering smile on your face. Do you want the governor's seat under your butt, who is so angry that others are red in your eyes?

It is a fortune to form a foreign gun team, but it is a fool to rely on the foreign gun team to resist the demon army of Song State. You really dare to quarrel with Emperor Song, which makes you angry and annoyed that bastard to protect the people, avenge the missionaries, and discriminate against commercial discrimination. You violated a certain clause on the stack of waste paper in the "Song Qing Treaty" that only knows - this kind of fucking can get the support of foreigners, declares war on you, friendly troops shouting happily, but they will never really save you! Everyone knows that Zhao Sangui is afraid of foreigners, and only fights local wars with punishment and national glory and compensation, and does not launch a war of destruction, so it doesn't matter. Who is consuming his strength? Therefore, once this warrior and loyal minister encounters the iron hoof of the Song army, he will find that he is fighting against a country with one province!

This situation is like those brothers who said it to you: Ultraman is good! Ambition! Monsters are not as good as four hands. We besieged him. If you hold his feet and knock him on the back of his head, he will definitely die. As a result, you sacrifice your life to hold his legs, and those brothers all hid and shouted, "Ultraman is good!" "Kill him!" Just "Come on" you, you don't move a finger. Okay, if you become a hero and fight a monster one by one, you won't be beaten into a pig's head by him, then you are really possessed by Kong Lao Er. The brothers and brothers laughed and pretended to be miserable, complaining to the "master":

"I've said earlier that Ultraman is loyal but too frivolous." (This guy is crazy)

"Although he is smart in military management, he sometimes does not consider issues comprehensively." (This guy is still a brainless person)

"He was not determined enough to hold his legs. For two more seconds, I rushed up for the master. At that time, I cut off the monster's heart and liver to give you wine." (This guy is not only a stupid guy, but also a coward, it's his fault!)

"Now the monster and his monster friend (the great powers) want us to apologize again and have to pay for it. Without him, can we be embarrassed?" (It's all the mistakes of this bastard)

So Ultraman was all dead. In order to curb Song and Ming dynasties, there were only a few large military leaders left. If you don’t worship their mountain, you want to be loyal to the Qing Dynasty. Then wait for them to unite with the Song Kingdom and the Ming King to kill them.

Don’t you see the Hunan Army, Chu Army, Huai Army, and Fujian Navy holding the powerful army, but they send each other with the Song Army Qiubo. The first thing the army is to maintain their own safety; the second thing the holding is to threaten the court; as for destroying the pseudo-Song, it can only be the young and ignorant students who have done a brilliant job in the examination hall. Who doesn’t understand the truth of this world?

If Aiqing is so good that he does not take the black gold of the Song Dynasty fire merchants, such loyal ministers will definitely not be with the demon monks who are rampant in mainland China. The subordinates and the people will definitely vent their anger for you. Maybe one day they will kill a missionary. In this case, there will be more excuses to be made for no reason. Moreover, you can obtain the court's permission to establish a foreign gun team, so you must rely on the territory of Song and Ming Kings. Then you are waiting to be attacked by Song State, and the demon king will implement "regional conflicts under the premise of realizing international understanding" without hesitation.

Zhao Sangui of Song Dynasty likes to engage in such wars the most. Who is it? He doesn't know how to buy into him and his merchants. Not only does this kind of war, but also the global arms dealers howl "wise and powerful" and destroy a silly army with pure Western equipment. He got out of here, and the broken foreign gun team was disbanded. The next adult will build it again. Another large arms order is for global bidding. However, at this time, if you make a fortune, you must bring the evil neighbor Song dealer and spend some money from the court to buy your own peace talisman, otherwise you will want to make a fortune.

Because he was first given such a black job by the emperor, after more than ten years of development, "Brothers' Arms Company" and Li Yuting's "Huangen Ordnance Manufacturing Factory" have been called the local two heroes of the East Asia arms industry.

The most famous person in the arms dealer is Zheng Abao. Although his brother has two brothers in the arms, his younger brother Zheng Abao is not the vice president, but is the chief president and the two presidents just like his brother.

Because when the emperor was competing for technology to win the factory, his younger brother Zheng Abao risked the risk of being beheaded by Fei Er's head, poured boiling water on his competitors, winning the first arms factory in the Song Dynasty for his elder brother. He made great contributions. In order to repay his younger brother, his older brother Zheng Shaoting divided the factory shares evenly and held the factory with his younger brother.

However, his younger brother Zheng Abao was just a country boy back then. He was not as good as a professional in terms of technology and management. He was responsible for the sales. For his own business, he risked his life to even sell arms for the great heresy Taiping Heavenly Kingdom that was the first to die in the Tianjing Rebellion. It is also conceivable who this guy is.

Although he was only about 30 years old, facing the fierce competition between foreign super arms dealers and other giants who wanted to enter the arms industry, he was also a guy who used all means to achieve his goal, and was full of tricks and tricks. Because he valued publicity and newspapers more, he always actively cooperated with newspapers. When he advertised, you got headlines, everyone was happy. Therefore, he went to newspapers every day and was the most famous arms dealer in the hearts of civilians.

You can't cooperate with the newspaper industry just by wanting to cooperate. You have to have a gimmick. Zheng Abao was not well educated in his early years and suddenly broke out. Instead, he was not shackled by Confucianism. He was influenced by the Western Ocean Song Dynasty commercial culture that strongly impacted traditional culture. He didn't know how to be shameless and hide his weaknesses. He went on the route of a lower-class nouveau riche. He was extremely shameless and had a variety of tricks every time. When the newspaper industry saw him, he was so happy that he couldn't walk. He knew that he would definitely make fun of him and gave readers a big surprise.

When he came back from France after a walk, French said it was not easy, so he learned to pour red wine and write love letters. His wife happened to die of illness. At that time, the third princess of the Sea Emperor was ten years old. When he attended the palace reception, he saw His Royal Highness sitting on the Sea Emperor's lap.

I wonder if this kid was burned by money, but he actually felt that he could be the prince consort. After he went back, he told his father that the old blacksmith of Fogang who lives in a western luxury house in Haijing Linhai was so happy that he slapped his thighs and shouted: "Our family is so good! You and your brother are so promising, Your Majesty like you so much! Being a prince consort? I think it's OK!"

From then on, Zheng Abao wrote love letters to the princess every day according to the trick he learned from France.

The eldest brother Zheng Shaoting is not a whimsical lunatic. When he heard about this, he quickly came to dissuade his younger brother.

But my younger brother smiled and said, "Brother, we don't understand the drawings and parabolic equations you read every day, but I am in charge of our company's exports. I know what I am doing. This is no big deal. Foreigners do this, and I just want to take a try. My father-in-law doesn't agree with me, and I won't lose a piece of meat!"

Of course, this stack of love letters with the address of the palace cannot be thrown into the palace, and all of them are sent into the Public Security Bureau. When the Public Security Bureau saw it, he said: Damn, this slut is Master Bao! I can't control it!

He was transferred to the Mission Department again, but a few days later, the love letter was placed on his "Dream Father-in-law" table.

I heard that when the Hai Emperor opened the envelope, he was almost extinguished by the smell of perfume. After reading a love letter with perfume, he immediately became furious and sneezed while cursing: "Zheng Abao, this bastard! I'm sick! My daughter is only ten years old! He is in love with children?! This beast is still a widower! I'm doomed! This big gangster!"

The next day, Huang Zhaoying, the leader of the Mission Department, came to the "Brothers' Arms Company" building in person. In the office, he smashed the bundle of love letters firmly on Zheng Abao's face, and then said expressionlessly: "The imperial edict, order me to hit your face."

However, Zheng Abao, who also has a royal favor and a military background, is not afraid of Zhao Ying. He is not an official status. He is a business tycoon who is favored by the emperor. He has always worked closely with the Missionary Department. He has given him much information to the Missionary Department. Why are you afraid of Zhao Ying? So he didn't give up and bought another big newspaper headline and published his most proud love letter "Ah! My Love, the only pearl in the Far East".

The result was that the editor-in-chief of the newspaper was arrested on charges of hooliganism.

In fact, although the love letter did not state that it was for the third princess, everyone in the upper class knew it, and no one knew that "Zheng Abao, this stupid dog, is in full bloom (the emperor's words)".

Originally, because the emperor was furious, he should have been convicted of "blasphemy of the royal family", but although the imported product of freedom of love is not popular in the Haisong culture, it has been known to the Song people: foreigners sometimes do this; and although it is not in accordance with the law, according to traditional customs, it is okay for girls to get engaged or get married at the age of 10. What is love|child|obsession? Chinese people don't understand. The golden age of famous prostitutes in Shanghai is 15 years old. In fact, the essence of this matter is that Zheng Abao wants to climb a dragon and attach to a phoenix and is despised;

In addition, the rules in this "blasphemy of the royal family" are all crimes of death or exile from coal mines to death. The emperor would not agree to this. After all, the arms companies of the Zheng brothers have always been one of the political achievements he is proud of. Zheng Abao became successful because he was very young and supported by the emperor, and his relationship was very good. He had a good relationship with the Boy Scout officers in the palace who were about the same age as him. These people are now the court's talents and would not agree to make Zheng Abao, a funny "country illiterate nouveau riche" to dig coal, so in the end he convicted the editor-in-chief of the newspaper, and after admonishment, he fined 1,000 yuan. He just told him: Go back and tell the industry that he should stop sending the gangster's love letter, you are looking for death.

The upper class covered his mouth and smiled and covered it up. Soon, the whole capital knew that Zheng Abao was a "magic hooligan". Afterwards, he and Huang Demei, the "tracheitis" who was chased by his wife in the street with Guan Gong's knife, appreciated each other and became brothers of worship, which caused an uproar in the whole country and became more stinking.

But some are stinky, some are stinky tofu; Zheng Abao and Huang Demei are undoubtedly the latter. As successful practitioners of Western learning, he has long discovered that the newspaper industry is developing well now, with more and more readers, and he has repeatedly appeared on the headlines. This fact seems embarrassing, but in fact, it can bring benefits to the company. This is advertising, it is still free!

Therefore, he was content with the "Great Hooligan of the Imperial Gift" and was not ashamed but proud. When someone talked about this on his face, the famous shameless Zheng Abao was not angry. He always said with confidence: "This is love! This is Western learning! This is civilization! This is France's romance, do you understand? I fell in love with the pearl at first sight, and Cupid sniped me...... Alas! To commemorate my love, I also specially issued 999 limited edition diamond-plated Cupid sniper rifles. It is no problem to penetrate two hearts with one shot!"

The fact is that this kind of gun is indeed a collection of Haisong gun enthusiasts. Since its release, it has not only been sold out immediately, but the transfer price has been rising. Gun fans gave it the nickname "Rogue Gun", and the rich children rushed to buy it, and the nickname became a "romantic gun". That boy didn't want to write love letters to capture his heart by seeing a beautiful woman? This is France's romance.

In recent years, Li Yuting, who was stumbled on each other and became more and more hated that he was so hot that he was soaked in the past. Of course, he was not idle either. In order to commemorate his old opponent's defeat, "Imperial Armory" proudly released 1,001 limited edition gold-plated anti-wolf cards and six-round revolvers. The advertising slogan was: "There is a daughter in the family, and you need to defend against wolves. You must never get stuck. Don't get close to hooligans."

The emperor was angry that Zheng Abao waved his pen and wrote an advertisement for Huang En's gun: "I will not accept gifts this year during the holidays, but only the wolf-proof guns should be accepted..." He also personally wore his well-known red turban and yellow robe, took advertisement photos with the gun, and made a bronze print to sell it with the gun.

(*: In order to promote domestic products, the Haihuang allowed many types of enterprises in the Song Dynasty to use their portraits and the queen as advertising posters without authorization. This was not the first of the Haihuang, but the Christian business culture. The eldest sister of the British Queen Victoria also authorized this. Of course, you have to be careful of "Blasphemy of the Royal Family". For example, a traditional Chinese medicine clinic specializing in treating sexually transmitted diseases in the Song Dynasty ignored medicine and traditional Chinese medicine and did not use his portrait without authorization. There is no need to say the consequences. 99% of the crimes committed in those years were like this.)

Huang En's collection gun is already a treasure in the eyes of enthusiasts. After the emperor added fuel to the fire, the "Wolf-proof gun" and the transfer price of the "rogue gun" were hyped up.
Chapter completed!