Chapter 462 Governor of Sichuan
The boss behind the Liaodong Foreign Trade Company turned out to be a woman, and she was a young beauty.
There is no doubt that the first time I saw Yan Bing, the prefect was shocked.
However, in addition to being shocked, the prefect also felt a little secretly happy.
When dealing with the kind of experienced and experienced hurtful people, the prefect thinks he is not his opponent.
However, the prefect is still very confident in dealing with a woman.
The two people who were both careful with each other quickly got to the point.
The prefect who has always been high and arrogant all year round asked Yan Bing in a arrogant tone: "The government wants to buy at least five white rifles. I wonder if you are just a good example and have so many goods?"
Yan Bing replied confidently: "Sir, I underestimate our strength. Not to mention the 500 rifles, as long as you can offer a starting price, we have 5,000 rifles?" "What's the specific price?" Seeing that Yan Bing didn't seem to be telling lies, the prefect asked afterwards.
Yan Bing gave an amazing answer without thinking: "For you, this price is not expensive at all."
"Specifically, twenty young and strong men exchanged a rifle and fifty bullets with their families. To put it more directly, the people under the jurisdiction of the adults can exchange a rifle and fifty bullets for about seventy people."
"As long as the adults send these people to the dock, we will pay the adults a certain number of rifles and bullets according to the number of people!"
"Isn't this a transaction of people? This violates the laws of the court, and I will never agree!" As soon as Yan Bing finished speaking, the prefect subconsciously refused.
Then, he directly asked Yan Bing: "What do you want to do? Don't you know that trafficking in persons is a violation of the law?"
Yan Bing replied calmly: "No, sir, you are wrong, we did not sell human beings..."
Seeing the prefect still having a disbelief on his face, Yan Bing continued to explain: "Maybe he doesn't know another identity of our Liaodong Foreign Trade Company?"
"On the surface, we are a foreign business run by Germany in Chongqing. In fact, this foreign trade company is the stronghold for the Liaodong Army to raise various materials within the pass!"
"You must have heard of the Liaodong Army. Tens of thousands of Liaodong Army fight alone with the two major Japanese and Russian powers outside the pass, and all supplies must be solved by themselves."
"And outside the pass is a bitter and cold place, and there is nothing."
"In order to support the Liaodong Army's tens of thousands of troops, the Liaodong Army had to open foreign trade companies within the pass and exchange the weapons and ammunition of the Japanese and Russian armies for various other materials they urgently need."
"However, because the weapons and ammunition seized on the battlefield are limited, the ones that were exchanged for it will undoubtedly not be able to meet the needs of the Liaodong Army. Only when the Liaodong Army had no choice did the Liaodong Army think of this method, use weapons to replace people, and immigrate from the pass to the Liaodong Army-controlled area. As long as there are people, the Liaodong Army can at least be self-sufficient in food."
"All of you are from the Liaodong Army?" The prefect frowned and asked Yan Bing.
Yan Bing did not answer directly, but continued: "For immigration to exchange for money, it is also beneficial to adults without any harm."
"As far as I know, the population under the rule of the adults is more than 800,000, of which only 600,000 are registered and registered. In other words, there are more than 100,000 black households under the rule of the adults."
"Adults can completely use these black users to exchange for rifles. In this way, adults can buy weapons that are priceless at a very small price."
"Besides, the imperial court issued an order a few years ago. In order to enrich the population outside the pass, people from all provinces called on the people of various provinces to take the initiative to move outside the pass. This matter was interrupted because of a sudden change outside the pass."
"However, the imperial court's decree to immigrate outside the pass was not abolished, nor did it go back."
"The adults immigrated the people under their rule to Liaodong outside the pass. Our Liaodong Army will compensate you and give them some weapons and ammunition. If you say this, it can only be considered as the adults responding to the imperial decree, and it has nothing to do with violating the imperial court's laws."
The prefect did not reply to Yan Bing immediately. However, Yan Bing was full of confidence in this transaction.
Because Yan Bing had already felt that when the prefect left, a heart-warming expression appeared on his face.
Sure enough, Yan Bing waited in the living room for less than half an hour, and the prefect returned to the living room.
Yan Bing looked at him and replied calmly: "In principle, I agree to exchange immigration for the rifles in the hands of the Liaodong Army! No, it is not just rifles. Since you have exhibited all the heavy machine guns and artillery, it proves that you also sell these weapons. So, I also want to buy heavy machine guns and artillery, but the price you drive is too high."
"If the price is appropriate, I can order each county to mobilize a total of 100,000 people to immigrate to Liaodong."
Yan Bing was very happy, but in order not to suffer any losses in negotiations, he answered calmly as much as possible: "We can discuss the price. But sir, you should also know that the weapons and ammunition we bought were all seized by the Liaodong Army from the two major powers of Japan and Russia on the battlefield, which is very difficult!"
"More importantly, weapons and ammunition are already priced but not marketable here in Sichuan, and the average price is much higher than other places. As for heavy weapons such as heavy machine guns and artillery, it goes without saying that, even if you have money, you can't buy them."
After some bargaining, the two finally set the price at the price that Yan Bing had thought from the beginning.
Fifty people had a rifle and fifty rounds of bullets.
As for heavy machine guns, Yan Bing directly fired a price for 5,000 people to exchange for a heavy machine gun and 500 bullets.
As for mountain cannons, a rare weapon that many foreign companies cannot buy, Yan Bing was not polite at all, so he directly spoke out and offered a price for 20,000 people to exchange for a mountain cannon and twenty shells.
Finally, Yan Bing exchanged the extremely low price of two mountain cannons, four heavy machine guns, and four hundred rifles from the prefect in front of him to 100,000 immigrants, almost equivalent to the population of the two counties outside the pass.
The Sichuan-Shaanxi Governor's Office is also located in Chongqing City. Governor Xiliang has not laughed for a long time because of the raising of weapons to form a new army.
Because of his contribution to rescue the emperor, Xiliang was directly promoted to the Shanxi Palace. In order to ensure the retreat of the court, Xiliang defeated the coalition forces' invasion of Shanxi many times in Shanxi, and fought with the coalition forces, and witnessed the powerful combat effectiveness of the army equipped with new firearms.
Because of this, Xiliang, who was re-activated by the court, began to form a new army in accordance with the imperial court's will and train the court to fight against the coalition forces of the great powers.
However, things went against my expectations.
The new army's troops are intact and training has begun, but there is still a big gap in the new recruit's equipment.
After seeking help from the court, Xiliang considered buying weapons himself.
Although I bought a lot of them, these weapons could not meet the needs of tens of thousands of new troops at all, and the weapons I bought were still very messy.
After handling the government affairs for a day, Xiliang summoned his staff again and frowned and discussed with everyone how to solve the problem of the new army's weapons.
An hour passed, and the discussion was over and over, and nothing was solved except nonsense.
Chapter completed!