1840 Indian Rebirth

Chapter 27 [Colt revolver]

Feeling that the time is almost up, the conversation changed on a rainy day: "Although this has nothing to do with integrity, but out of friendship and understanding, we are still willing to buy a small amount of spirits to reduce some losses for you."

Businessman Smith's face softened a little, and he thought for a while and said, "How much are you willing to buy?"

"Fifty gallons," said Rainy Day.

"Fifty gallons? That's too little!" Smith's expression turned ugly.

"We brought more than 600 gallons of wine, and fifty gallons is less than a tenth. You have to buy at least three hundred gallons, otherwise we will lose everything!"

"As I said, the Apaches have decided to quit drinking, and we will not let alcohol eat away at our bodies and souls." Rainy Day paused, and continued, "Well, one hundred gallons, no more."

Packed in a large wine bag, one hundred gallons is almost two hundred bags, which is more than enough for medical use. Individuals who are seriously addicted to alcohol and cannot quit in a short time can also drink a small amount to prolong their lives.

"Two hundred gallons." Smith wanted some more.

"Just a hundred gallons." Rainy day said without hesitation.

Smith was silent for a while.

Rainy day said: "However, although we only need a hundred gallons of spirits, we are willing to buy more for other commodities."

"Other commodities, we may not have enough goods right now."

"It doesn't matter if it's not enough this time, and it's not just this time. In the future, the Apaches will still be willing to buy goods from you, and the scale of the business will only increase. It's just that they will no longer mainly buy spirits."

Smith thought for a while and asked, "What do you want to buy, fabric? Knife? Or musket?"

In his view, the fine and varied cloths of the industrial world, metal knives and axes, and muskets were the three most likely to replace spirits.

"Muskets," said Rainy Sky, "we need two hundred guns."

The decision to boycott the spirits had saved the Apaches a great deal of money, and after discussion, and above all on the recommendation of the horse posts, it was decided to buy a batch of muskets, two hundred, not many but not too few.

"What kind of musket do you need, and how about this one?" Smith brought a gun.

Looking at the horse whistle on a rainy day, the horse whistle nodded, and stepped forward to take the gun from the businessman, ready to try it.

"Brown Beth, a British product, this one is said to have killed a Chinese officer in 1840." Smith said casually.

In order to take care of the English level of the Indians, Smith used simple vocabulary and spoke slowly, so the horse whistle understood.

Undoubtedly, this refers to the Opium Wars.

Horse Whistle sighed a little, and then fiddled with Brown Beth.

He doesn't want this kind of gun, it's too old. In his impression, this thing seems to have been invented in the early eighteenth century, more than 100 years ago.

In fact, there are not many people who use brown bess now. As Smith said, until the Opium War, the British army was still equipped with brown bess.But as a future man, Ma Shao is really not interested in this musket that is about to be eliminated.

He was about to ask what other models there were, but his eyes suddenly focused, staring straight at a young white man behind Smith, to be precise, the gun in his hand.

Revolver!

Horse Whistle took a closer look and was sure that the opponent was holding a revolver or a revolver. He pointed at it and said, "Let me see this."

"You said this, this is a new thing my nephew bought, what is it called a Colt revolver." Smith said.

"But I think it's a terrible thing to use, it breaks easily, the trigger feels terrible, and it's expensive, so it's no wonder the company that made it went out of business and it barely sold."

Horse Whistle did not speak, but recalled the information about Colt he knew in his previous life.

Samuel Colt, the well-known American gun master, is almost synonymous with revolvers.

The early entrepreneurial experience of this firearms master was not smooth, and there was a period of embarrassment. As Smith said, due to reasons such as immature pistol design and high prices, the first company created by Colt closed down, and the backlog A bunch of unsellable weapons.

But Horse Whistle does not think that these defective weapons have no practical value, especially the Colt revolver, even if it is flawed, it still has a firepower advantage that many firearms do not have.

Moreover, the revolver is the trend of the pistol structure for a long period of time in the future, so it is best to get familiar with it early.

He sees this as an opportunity.

It won't be long, at most, until the Mexican-American War two years later, and Samuel Colt will be out of trouble and become a world-famous gun master.

By then, as an Indian, it would be very difficult to buy a Colt pistol again.

Now that the Colt company has closed down, there is a backlog of weapons that cannot be sold. You should be able to buy some at a relatively low price.

As for Colt himself... If the horse whistle is a white man, he can try to win him over, and give him a helping hand or something, but the Indians don't even think about it.

Under the direction of Smith's nephew, the whistle fired several rounds.

As Smith said, this Colt pistol does have a lot of flaws. The folding trigger makes the shooting process rather cumbersome. Every time the gun is fired, a strange operation is performed: fold the trigger back into the gun body, and then Pull the hammer back to cock to allow the trigger to pop back out.

In addition, it is said that this kind of gun is easy to damage, and the one in front of me has been repaired once before.

But this is still a pistol that can fire five bullets quickly, so after thinking about it for a while, Horse Whistle said, "This is what I want."

"Are you sure?" Smith wondered what happened to the Apaches today. Instead of their favorite spirits, they wanted to buy this broken pistol whose production company had closed down.

"Sure." Said the horse whistle.

"Okay, but I have to wait until next time. I will bring you two hundred revolvers for the next transaction, but this time we only have two." Smith said, "Also, I can't guarantee that I will buy it, say Maybe the closed company has cleared out all the unsold guns."

"Don't you think about other guns?" He brought two more guns. "We still have some rifles, such as Rocky Mountain rifles and Kentucky rifles."

Apache still bought two hundred rifles and a batch of ammunition. After all, the Colt pistol will have to wait until next time, so it is not bad to equip a batch of rifles now.

In addition to muskets, Apache also bought a lot of iron products, such as iron arrowheads, iron stirrups, horseshoes, daggers and short knives, as well as some production tools, such as wood saws.

For these goods, especially stirrups, which were not needed by Indians before, Smith's team did not specially prepare them, and a considerable part of them were reserved.

Smith felt that this transaction was so strange that the Apache family seemed to have changed a group of people.

But something even stranger is yet to come.

"What are you talking about, you want to buy newspapers?" Smith seemed to see a ghost.

(End of this chapter)