Chapter 30
Wang Wenwu invited the master at home, set up several tables at home, and treated Shu Jinxi's classmates to a meal.
At the end of the month, all the arrested students were released, and Liu Qingyang declared the end of the struggle. During this struggle, most of the students bought tickets to Beijing at their own expense, including Guo Longzhen, Zhang Ruoming, and Zheng Shuliu from the Zhili Women's Normal University.
Zhou Zhilian, Zhang Sijing, Wang Tianlin, Wu Ruiyan and other female teachers' classmates lived in Shu Jinxi's house.
At first, the female teachers' classmates wanted to pay for the food themselves, but Wang Wenwu refused. He was a female teacher's classmate of Shu Jinxi, and he went to Beijing to petition the government. In the end, Wang Wenwu couldn't resist, and each of them contributed one silver dollar for food.
At the beginning of September, Shu Jinxi and his female teacher classmates and other petitioning students returned to Tianjin in batches. Not long after Shu Jinxi and other petitioning students left BJ, at the end of the month, because the Beiyang government did not punish the Shandong warlord Ma Liang, Ma Liang intensified his efforts and continued to suppress the Shandong patriots.
sports.
Shu Jinxi wrote to Wang Wenwu, asking Wang Wenwu to take in the ten representatives sent by Tianjin. Wang Wenwu still let everyone live in the backyard. There was an independent exit in the backyard, and Wang Wenwu was not afraid of the military police coming to find them.
Wang Wenwu took advantage of the chaos on the streets to leave the city and went to Zhangjiakou to see if he could sell the rifle he had brought in.
Wang Wenwu hired two carriages, piled grain on the boxes containing firearms, and followed the familiar convoy towards Zhangjiakou.
Because he didn't know what the market was like in Zhangjiakou, Wang Wenwu only brought 70 guns. The food was sold quickly after the introduction of the team manager. No gun family could eat 70 guns in one go, so they could only be scattered here and there.
Sold loose.
That day, Manager Liu brought two people, pointed to the first person and said to Wang Wenwu: "Master Wu, this is the second master, who is also very famous in Zhangjiakou. The second master has pulled up a group of people, but he is short of guns.
You heard about me, Master Wu, don’t you have a batch of guns in your hands?"
The second master said: "Brother, we don't spare the circle. I heard you have a batch of guns, I want them all."
Wang Wenwu said: "Second Master, you are very generous. The seventy Mannlichers I have are all authentic European products. But I also promised in advance that these are not new guns, but they are at least 70% new. New guns must be
Fifty silver dollars a handful, my old forty silver dollars a handful, and I’ll give you sixty rounds of ammunition, what do you think?”
"You're talking about an old gun, so why does it cost forty silver dollars? A new one made in Hanyang only costs forty or fifty silver dollars."
"Didn't I say it before? Although it's an old gun, it's a European product. It's all shipped from Europe. The freight is expensive. It took half a year to float on the sea before it arrived in China. You also said it was made in Hanyang.
, this is an authentic European product, can it be compared?"
"Okay, but I want to see the gun first."
Wang Wenwu said: "Please come with me,"
Wang Wenwu put the gun in the inn room where he lived. Wang Wenwu took the lead and went to the room.
Wang Wenwu pulled out a box of ten rifles from under the bed. The second master tried the guns skillfully and took the trouble to try each gun. He did not say until he was sure that there was no problem with the gun:
"Okay, I want them all, but I only have eight hundred silver dollars. I will make up the rest with seven boxes of Yunnan soil."
Although Wang Wenwu didn't know the price of seven boxes of Yunnan soil, he still made a profit from the eight hundred silver dollars, not to mention the seven boxes of Yunnan soil.
Wang Wenwu stood up and said: "Then let's pay with one hand and deliver the goods with the other."
The second master said: "Okay, here is eight hundred silver dollars, which is considered as a deposit. Later, my people will send the Yunnan soil."
The man who had been following the second master took off his baggage from his body, showed eight silver coins in front of Wang Wenwu, and turned around to go out.
Wang Wenwu counted the silver coins and said to the second master: "Okay, second master, I have received your deposit now. I wonder when your tobacco will be delivered."
The second master said: "Didn't you just see that my brother brought you tobacco?"
"Then I, Wang Wenwu, am here and I would like to invite you to have a drink."
"Easy to say."
Wang Wenwu and his party ordered a table at the inn and sat around.
Wang Wenwu picked up the wine glass and said to the second master: "Thanks to the recommendation of Manager Liu, I, Wang Wenwu, can marry a hero like the second master. I will give you a drink."
The second master also picked up the wine glass and said: "I also want to thank Manager Liu for his introduction. I was able to buy the guy so quickly after meeting Master Wu." After speaking, he drained the wine in the glass in one gulp.
Manager Liu even said he didn't dare, he didn't dare, but when he saw the second master's empty glass, he hurriedly filled it with wine.
The second master said to Wang Wenwu: "Brother, to tell you the truth, I have gathered more than a hundred people, but there are only a few guns. I wonder if brother can still get thirty guns?"
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"Second Master, I won't hide it from you. I came into a warehouse with a thousand guns, and these were the only seventy guns sold. I didn't know the market price before, so I didn't keep much, but Second Master, you want
Thirty guns are a bit small, they are not enough for one warehouse."
"A thousand guns, but I don't have that many people!"
"Second Master, do you think this is okay?"
"Master Wu, please tell me."
"Second Master, look at this. I will buy the guns that go into the warehouse for thirty-seven silver dollars each. I don't care how much you sell them. What do you think?"
"Then it's less, thirty silver dollars per handful,"
"No, I not only have to transport it back, but also to Zhangjiakou. The price is not low,"
"I take in so much at one time, so you should take more."
"If you only use silver dollars, you can get as little as thirty-five silver dollars a handful."
"Aren't you making things difficult for me? How can I get so many silver dollars?"
"I sell arms to begin with, but you still want me to sell tobacco to get the money. Of course it's a little more expensive. Besides, it takes almost half a year to ship arms from Europe, so maybe you can do it!"
The second master smiled and waved his hands. This is the person who went out first and came back.
Wang Wenwu asked someone to check whether it was Yunnan soil. After confirming, the second master took all seventy guns away, and Wang Wenwu took seven boxes of Yunnan soil into the room.
When the second master left, Wang Wenwu said to him: "Just ask if anyone else wants a gun. If you have any news, please ask Manager Liu to bring it to me. If it is sold, I will give you two boxes of bullets."
The second master said with a smile: "The relationship is good, there is news, I will ask Manager Liu to tell you, okay, let's go."
Wang Wenwu and Manager Liu stood at the door of the inn to say goodbye. Wang Wenwu said: "Bandits!"
"Well, bandit, this second master is not an easy man. He just gathered up more than a hundred people, plus your gun, tsk tsk."
"Then you are not afraid that he will rob you!"
"Without you, do you think he wouldn't be able to get a gun? I'm just showing some mercy."
"Do you want a gun?"
"you also have?"
"Yes, in BJ, I'm afraid I won't be able to go back if I don't tell him that I can still get him a gun and bullets."
"Aren't you going to come when he asks for a gun again?"
"I'm afraid that he will kill someone and silence him. When the time comes, you will deliver the goods. If you want him to pay first, I will deliver the goods."
"Okay, just pay me and you can leave anytime."
"Tomorrow, can you give me some skin? After all, I'm here in Zhangjiakou."
"How much do you want,"
"Eight hundred silver dollars,"
"Then you'd better go to Gongji, Xinyi De, Hengxingyi, Hengxingyuan and other workshops. Then we'll go back together."
"Then you can help me,"
"Just this once,"
"Thank you so much. Let's go have fun tonight!"
Chapter completed!