Chapter 316 The storm is about to come and the wind fills the building

"This is impossible!" Demons immediately rejected Anrui's suggestion: "You should find Miss Ruthya."

It seems like a very simple thing to trade directly with Hong Jun and Liu Chang, but in fact it represents huge economic benefits.

As time goes by, the Hongjun no longer buys any Western weapons without restrictions. Some old smoothbore cannons and light cannons have been abandoned by them. If the number of old Western weapons is too large, they will not buy all of them, only a part of them. However, for arms merchants who can trade directly with Liu Chang, this is not a problem.

But there are only two people with this qualification, one is Demons and the other is Ruthya. No matter they transport arms or industrial products from Shanghai or other places, they are the most preferred objects for Liu Chang. Too many and old weapons are not a problem. Liu Chang remembers that their little favors in the past will not make friends embarrassed, and the price is 10% or 20% higher than other people.

Of course, since Demons and Ruthya have the right to trade first, they naturally have the obligations they should fulfill to Liu Chang. However, compared with their rights, the obligations they should fulfill can be said to be worth talking about.

Many times, some arms merchants have to transfer their weapons to Demons and Ruthya first because their weapons are too old or too large. Now Anrui proposes to upgrade himself to the same level as Demons and Ruthya, which makes Demons more angry.

If it weren't for the fact that Mr. Anrui refused to sell him Minni rifles and field artillery, a competitor like Ruthya wouldn't have appeared. Now, Ruthya's popularity is even stronger than himself, and he has oppressed himself several times to give up huge profits, and Mr. Anrui has not been able to make good use of it.

She got all the resources for the arms trade between Ruthya and Liu Chang from Anrui. However, after she became rich, she did not take care of her old customers at all. She just dug up the walls of Anrui and poached a large number of senior cadres.

When Demons thought of these old things, he became more and more angry: "What did you say at the time? For the benefit of the British Empire, you must not sell Minnie rifles and field guns to the Zhong** valve. But now, the most active person to sell these things is you, Mr. Anrui!"

But An Rui lowered his voice and said, "These are all news from the past. We talked in the carriage. I have an important news that can be enough to change your mind."

"What news?"

Demons suddenly became alert. Sometimes, a large amount of news was enough to make them earn hundreds or thousands of times of money, and An Rui could actually think that this news could be impressed, which was obviously not a large amount of news.

The two got on the carriage, and Demons still made his own suggestion: "Go back to my apartment and talk!"

Although he had made a fortune, Demons still lived in the apartment. However, he had considered buying two foreign buildings to entertain guests. However, he had not yet liked them. After Anrui arrived at Demons' apartment, he still looked at the guard at the door vigilantly, then took out a revolver and searched left and right before deciding to tell them.

"Dmons, you should know that our British Empire has long maintained a neutral policy in China and does not allow the people to sell arms and other strategic materials to the Chinese."

The fact of this policy is just a piece of paper. The Qing army has never been hindered by any situation by purchasing foreign fires in Shanghai and other places. The Taiping Army cannot purchase a large amount of Western arms, which is not because of this policy. This policy was strictly implemented until Li Xiucheng attacked Shanghai.

On the contrary, many Western merchants had a rebellious mentality. Britain did not allow the sale of arms to the Taiping Army. They were just going to do it and sell a large amount of arms to the Taiping Army.

But now, this ban has been clearly destroyed, and the Qing army's naval forces in Zhejiang were almost gone. In the confrontation between the Baoshun and the Ziwei Star, they have been devastating again and again. Now they have no spare time to intercept the Western merchant ships selling arms to the Hong Army.

Therefore, Demons said with concern: "How will the policy change? But no matter how it changes, it will not affect our normal trade, unless the Foreign Minister is a lunatic, he will give up the best opportunity to open the door of China!"

This is a truth, and An Rui also agreed: "According to the news I have received, the British government hopes that trade with China will normalize, and we will still maintain a neutral position."

It is completely impossible to achieve normalization of trade with China and maintain a neutral position with the United Kingdom at the same time, but An Rui said the purpose of the British political work in the next moment: "The political work hopes to allocate quota in China's trade!"

This sentence has a shocking effect, and Demons understood it immediately.

This is because some big figures in the political field are jealous of the huge benefits of the special trade between Shanghai-Ningbo-Wenzhou, but they don’t share the benefits, so they came up with a method of quota allocation. He asked a little angrily: “Will our navy conduct a merchant ship inspection on the coast in the next place of the Chinese team?”

"Yes!" An Rui replied to him: "That is why I am eager to trade directly with General Liu Chang!"

Demons' breathing became heavy, but soon slowly calmed down. He had already understood An Rui's opinion.

After strict investigation and smuggling, the quota allocation will be hot and the place where the big guys do it, but even these big guys must respect the reality. He must respect the strong people who are making noise on this route and reserve them enough quotas.

Whoever can seize enough share on this golden route before the new policy is introduced will be invincible in quota allocation. He agreed with An Rui's suggestion: "Mr. An Rui, we can work together to deal with that ignorant girl, and have a happy cooperation!"

“Happy cooperation!”

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At this moment, Rutha, the long-legged girl Demons hated the most, was sitting opposite Liu Chang, and both sides were talking with paper and pen.

No matter from any aspect, Rutha is a beauty above the standard, which is pleasing to the eye. Don’t look at her showing a snow chest today, which makes Liu Chang’s face smile.

Just standing outside the door, Zhou Xiuying, who was in charge of the guard, snorted and took Bao Meiying directly out: "I saw this witch again, it's really unlucky!"

Although Ruthya dressed very conservatively from the perspective of later generations, her exposed calves and delicate jade hands still made Zhou Xiuying look very disliked. Bao Meiying also had the same feeling: "What a shameless foreign girl, she dressed so much!"

"I'm shameless, don't learn from this Ruthya!" Zhou Xiuying said very directly: "Don't wear such clothes to seduce and inspect, otherwise I will slash you with one knife!"

Bao Meiying stuck out her tongue. She had already come out of the pain of her family being destroyed. She said angrily: "No, I don't look like Shi Yang and the two empresses. I'm so tired during the day, and I have to..."

Zhou Xiuying flicked Bao Meiying's forehead with her finger: "When she was on night shift, she ran to listen to the couple's heels. Is a yellow girl shy? Besides, they always go to walk three people, so you are not out of the box yet!"

Bao Meiying said angrily: "Sister Xiuying, have you never heard of it? By the way, Sister Xiuying, how do you think you are going to check this person?"

Bao Meiying is a girl innocence, and Zhou Xiuying bounced her forehead hard again, and scolded her: "Little girl movies, Chun is not allowed to think about it even if she is moved. It is a person of heaven. Isn't it something that we women can think about?"

"But...but..." Bao Meiying thought for a long time and said with a blushing face: "I'm just talking, not thinking about anything bad."

Speaking of which, in addition to having two empresses and being a little younger, Liu Chang is indeed the best match in the world, but Zhou Xiuying concealed her: "It's not like to say it, by the way, a batch of good horses have recently arrived, and I'll pick a horse for you that comes from the north."

"I don't want a pony, I want a pony!" Zhou Xiuying replied: "I just like Yingjun."

A hint of indifference and sadness slipped through Zhou Xiuying's eyes, but she still concealed her: "Then you choose it yourself, but you are only allowed to choose a full horse, not a stallion!"

The two girls walked away with a smile.

Liu Chang and Ruthya gradually entered the valley. Ruthya came this time not just to sell a few steam engines to Liu Chang. She told Liu Chang: "Recently, the Hunan Army has purchased a large amount of arms from Shanghai, so you should pay attention to this!"

"We have always been paying attention to the Hunan Army!" Liu Chang regarded the Hunan Army as the number one enemy to unify the world. If it weren't for the Hunan Army, he would be planning to take down Hangzhou Jiahu now, rather than operating the six offices of Wenshaoning Taiwan Jinchu as carefully as he is now.

The Hunan Army is indeed a powerful soldier of this era. Although the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom caused its own destruction, according to Li Xiucheng's words, it was "self-provoking and perishing", without the Hunan Army, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom might have been able to struggle for a few more years.

Ruthya's cute dimples appeared on the corner of her mouth, and she said sweetly: "Do you have heard that in addition to Hu Xingren bringing the fifth battalion's personal soldiers this time, Li Yuandu also wants to lead the eighth battalion's Hunan Army into Zhejiang!"

There are a total of 13th Battalion of Hunan Army, which is only 6,500, and it is also a Hunan Army, not Zeng Guofan's old foundation, and his combat effectiveness is average. Liu Chang felt that he should be fine to deal with it, but the next moment Ruthya said again: "But in addition to these two Hunan Army, it is said that the north will also send a prince to lead the Mongolian horse team and the Han infantry to help Zhejiang. Have you heard of this news?"

Liu Chang suddenly became nervous, and he blurted out: "Senggelinqin! Is it Senggelinqin? Unfortunately, it's not Shengbao who came."

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