Chapter 95 The Indian Caravan
Shuke and his group of fifteen people were arrested in the hotel at noon the next day by a battalion of soldiers and rows of police officers from one battalion and row of soldiers. Of course, it was Kent's secret. If the person had not shown any ill intentions to Jenny before, then even if these people did not agree with his ideas and did not understand his actions, he would not do anything. However, love would reduce people's IQ, and his cherishment of Jenny made Kent have to report these people just in case.
Xiao Lin was also speechless. Unexpectedly, such a talent who had been a little resistant, was completely in the company camp because of a woman. Even if he still had some friendship with his family, after this incident, the Adams family would probably regard him as a target for killing him. But that's fine. Kent is a military talent after all, and this time he has submitted a letter of fame and can be used for great use in the future.
Fifteen spies were of course very vigilant. When the soldiers approached, they found something wrong. However, their strength was still not as good as those of the elite soldiers of the first battalion. They were blocked before leaving the hotel. They had no weapons in their hands, just a few short-handled muskets and daggers hidden in their underwear. The short-handled muskets were fired one minute by minute, and were suppressed by the Yanhuang rifle in the hands of the soldiers so that they could only shoot without aiming. The dagger was even more useless, and it was not as long as the sabers in the hands of the soldiers.
In just half an hour, they were all taken down and did not cause any harm to the soldiers. The spies were directly pulled away with their heads covering and locked up in the confinement room in the military camp. For this reason, the soldiers in the military camp were very happy because there were only fifteen confinement rooms and the spies occupied them. They would not be punished for the confinement if they made mistakes. Xiao Lin did not intend to visit them for the time being, because these people did not have much value. With information, James and the others would do it, and there was no need to torture these people.
On the day of capturing the spies, a caravan composed of Indians entered the Yanhuang town. This Indians were also an old acquaintance of Xiao Lin. They were traders tribes and were also transitors who conducted bulk transactions with James and others several times. With the aggressiveness of the whites, the Indians also had some primary forms of alliances. Although they were still not united enough, they were much better than the previous melee situations of each tribe.
These Indians united to fight against the whites, regain their own land and resources, and wanted to grab a handful of them from the whites. However, their equipment was too poor. Not many years after the last war, the whites still blocked them. Except for the Indians who clearly defected to them, the other Indians could only use their own bows and arrows and cold weapons.
In this case, they would actually die. Therefore, they had to find ways to obtain enough advanced weapons. After suffering so much, they did not refuse to give up their bows, arrows, swords and axes, and were very eager to obtain muskets and cannons. After dozens of times, they found the Trader Tribe. The Trader Tribe has gained some fame around due to its long-standing transaction with James and others. Everyone knew that they could get white things, and the tribe was also equipped with muskets.
Although the trader tribe can also be regarded as Indians close to white people, they still hope that the Indians can rise up on their own and expel white people from the American continent. Therefore, they are very friendly to the Yanhuang Trading Company. Therefore, they took over this commission. However, it was impossible for James and the others to sell them too many muskets, and they are all backward styles. However, apart from James, they found that they had a new choice, that is, Xiao Lin's Yanhuang Trading Company.
In their opinion, Xiao Lin was also an Indian, so the company was the power of their compatriots. It was better to find compatriots than to find alien races. Yanhuang Trading Company also defeated the British army several times, seized a lot of weapons, and the equipment of the guard soldiers was better than that of the white people. The trader tribe has always suspected that they had their own military factories. They dare not expect Yanhuang rifles and heavy punches and cannons, but they planned to directly complete the muskets and cannons seized from the British active army in the company.
Xiao Lin really didn't expect this. He had five thousand intact muskets and thirty-seven ordinary front-mounted cannons. After repairing the remaining ones, he could assemble about one thousand muskets and about twelve cannons. In Xiao Lin's idea, these seizures had only two uses. One was to be transported to the 21st century as handicrafts, and they were all brand new things, and no one would believe them when selling antiques; the other was to dismantle and recycle metal raw materials.
Neither of these two uses will gain much value. If sold to others, the profit will be very high. Before receiving the people from the trader tribe, Xiaolin specially asked his men to find someone to count the prices of these guns and guns. How much is sold within the British, Xiaolin will directly double the price. The leader of Quild personally led a team of thirty people, driving five carriages full of fur and gold ore to the Yanhuang Trade Town.
This was also the first time they came to this legendary town. When they saw that Indians were the majority, they were relieved. As for those white people, they had not seen them before, and they were not easy to interfere in the company's affairs, so they ignored them. When Xiao Lin counted the prices and sorted out the items, he asked the officials who came to greet them to hold them back. The officials prepared a banquet directly and ate food with the first time they had food with 21st century cooking skills. They began to doubt that they had eaten pig food before.
Quilde originally wanted everyone to be more reserved and not to lose face. However, even his son was eating voraciously, and he almost couldn't help but become a starving ghost. After a meal, he ate for two hours, and the total amount was twice that of the same person in the company. The company officials were a little funny. Xiao Lin also asked someone to spread the news and took the people directly to the shooting range. Xiao Lin sorted out one hundred muskets and ten three-pound cannons, and waited for Quilde to inspect the goods.
When the two met, they didn't have much greetings, and they were not very familiar with each other. After shaking hands and saying hello, they started to talk about the important things.
"Captain Quild, I know all your intentions. I specially ordered someone to sort out a batch of samples. Should I try it?"
"Captain Xiao Lin, you are really considerate. I brought a lot of fur and gold this time. Do you think you want to inspect the goods first?"
"This is not necessary. If the head of the Quilde can trust us, he will ask a trusted man to take fur and gold to our exchange to estimate the value, and then exchange it for our currency and then trade it. This is more convenient."
"Yes, I'll let my brother follow you."
"Okay, then let's take a look first. I don't know if you like these muskets or cannons."
As Shawlin said, he took a brown bass musket and handed it to Quilde. Quilde had never seen such a musket, so he was a little confused about how to play it.
"Captain Xiao Lin, what kind of musket is this?"
"Oh, yes, you may not have seen it yet. This is the latest musket developed by the British mainland. It was purchased by white people in the colonies and was used to attack us by armed troops. It was seized by us after failure."
"These hateful white people just can't stand us rising up. Fortunately, you are strong, otherwise we really don't know if there is still hope."
"I heard from the head of Quild, and I hope we will rise. Otherwise, you will join us with your tribe?"
"Ahem, there is no hurry to do this. Let's talk about it later. Let's talk about how to use this musket."
Xiao Lin did not force Quilde. If he did not cultivate enough political talents, it would be easy to get rid of the eggs. He did not mention the previous topic and began to teach Quilde to use brown bass muskets. This kind of musket is not as complicated as before, especially after using the gunpowder box and bullet box assigned by the company, just load it in order and start aiming. The effective range of brown bass musket is 120 meters. In order to show the accuracy of the musket, Xiao Lin set up a target at 100 meters.
The elite warriors were not allowed to demonstrate. Quild himself came on. Under Xiao Lin's instructions, he began to squat and aim. I don't know if God was helping Xiao Lin. Quild hit the target in the first shot. Although it was not ten rings and nine rings, he also hit the seventh ring. Quild had used a backward musket before, and he could not hit any target in one hundred meters. He could only shoot at the target at a distance of about seventy meters. This time, he was excited.
"Yes, what we want is this weapon, it's very good. I like it very much. How much does it cost?"
After all, the Indians did not have any education system and were not treacherous enough. Isn’t this manifestation clearly for the seller to kill him? However, the people from the trader tribe present did not feel anything wrong. Xiao Lin couldn’t help but smiled treacherously, and did not rush to quote, and pulled Queld next to the cannon.
"We don't have to hurry, try the artillery first and see if you like it."
"Okay, let's try."
After all, this batch of artillery is also the active equipment of the British army, and Quilder and others are not dissatisfied with it. On the shooting range, they tried all the weapons that the big men could use. Judging from their performance, Xiao Lin also determined the price. A brown bass musket sold for 10 Yanhuang coins, and a three-pound cannon sold for 50 Yanhuang coins. The caliber doubled and the price doubled. A piece of elk skin, Xiao Lin and others only estimated to be 10 Yanhuang coins. Let's compare this, a brown bass musket can only be sold for 100 to 200 yuan in the 21st century, while a piece of elk skin can be sold for 3,000 yuan, which is too high.
Xiao Lin was still waiting to bargain, but unexpectedly, Quilde said so directly.
"No problem, we all want it, it's too cheap."
Chapter completed!