I want to be emperor

After the party, Song Erniu met with Manager Li of Dongyang Trading Company on time with a sample of canvas tooling.

The negotiation went smoothly, and Manager Li was very satisfied with the canvas tooling produced in Song Erniu's small factory.

After all, this thing is cheap and durable, very suitable for use as work clothes.

Immediately, he placed an order for [-] sets of tooling on behalf of Dongyang Trading Company, and asked Song Erniu to deliver it as soon as possible, and said that this was just a trial order. If the follow-up trial response is good, then Dongyang Trading Company will need more.

At that time, it will not be a small order of hundreds of sets, but a large order of thousands or even tens of thousands of sets.

After walking out of the small office building of Dongyang Trading Company, Song Erniu finally couldn't bear the excitement in his heart, clenched his fist and waved it several times in the air.

After returning to his small workshop, he arranged the order task so that the order could be produced and delivered to Dongyang Trading Company as soon as possible.

After processing the order, he went to the Shuanghe branch of Jinshan Machinery Trading Company, which he had cooperated with twice, and asked them to buy a pedal sewing machine again.

Nowadays, the sales volume of canvas tooling is getting bigger and bigger, not only the orders from Dongyang Trading Company, but also the ordinary market in the private sector. Song Erniu estimates the number of tooling tools that Shuanghe County needs in the short term. There are more than tens of thousands of sets.

In addition to Shuanghe County, Jinshan Prefecture also has other areas. At the same time, the North American governor of the Great Chu Empire is not only Jinshan Prefecture, but also many other counties.

These add up to a lot of potential demand.

Now his small workshop can't meet such a big market demand.

It's just that the people from Jinshan Machinery Trading Company said that they no longer have the stock of pedal sewing machines, and they need to transfer goods from Jinshan City or even Xiayang City.

After all, Song Erniu's demand is relatively large, and this time he plans to place an order for [-] units.

As for the pedal sewing machine, it was seldom said to be applied to the industrial field before this, and only a few domestic factories that produce various uniforms, tents, quilts and other fields will need it. In fact, the main market for the pedal sewing machine is in many Tailor shops and upper-middle-class home markets.

At the same time, this thing is not cheap, and it is not a consumable, and the scale of daily sales is actually not large.

Song Erniu had purchased more than a dozen units in a row before, and now they need an order of [-] units at once. It is really difficult for them to meet in a short time. They can only transfer goods from the entire North American region, which is expected to take some time.

After finalizing the order for the pedal seam heater, Song Erniu started to recruit people again.

This time, he has to recruit at least 50 people, not only sewing machine operators, but also personnel for various processes such as cutting, packing and handling.

Because it is expected that the staff will increase rapidly, and the demand for the factory site is relatively large, Song Erniu ran around again, and finally rented a large-scale factory building.

While finalizing the production matters, he did not forget the sales matters.

In addition to continuing to set up stalls in the mining area, he also opened a shop in Shuanghe County, specializing in the sale of canvas tooling produced by himself, and used his newly applied brand name: "Songhe" brand.

Song He, Song is naturally his surname, and He is taken from Shuanghe County.

For Song Erniu, Shuanghe County is a blessed place in his life. Only when he came here did he get rid of poverty in a real sense, and even realized the stage of getting rich quickly in his life. He quickly transformed from a poor boy to a rich man. The owner of a small garment factory with dozens of people.

Before this kind of thing, Song Erniu didn't even dare to think about it!

After all, he is just the second son of a farmer who graduated from high school. The first half of his life was basically directly linked to poverty. He spent a few years in the big city of Songjiang without achieving anything.

But when he came to Shuanghe County, he started to change his life.

In Song Erniu's view, Shuanghe County is his blessed land, and there are opportunities to make a fortune everywhere.

In this poor place, even selling tea can make a lot of money!
There are quite a few tea stalls in the mining area. They look inconspicuous, and a bowl of tea costs only a few cents, but the cost is extremely low, and the accumulation is very profitable.

So when you see those gold diggers, maybe they are lucky enough to dig up a lot of gold, and then spend all kinds of money, looking like a master, but in fact these so-called lucky people are basically poor, even if they don’t They are poor, but they are used to being extravagant. After a few days, they spend all the money they earned from panning for gold, and they will eventually become paupers again.

However, those seemingly inconspicuous little bosses of tea stalls are worth much more than these gold diggers.

Many people have a lot of money in their bank accounts in the financial bank, and they have bought various properties in Shuanghe County.

Song Erniu himself is like this, and now he often takes a subordinate to travel between the county town and the mining area in a four-wheeled carriage, selling canvas work clothes at the mining area stalls.

But those gold diggers, how do you know that Song Erniu can spend more than 70 yuan for a traditional dress when he goes to a business party, and he also opened a small factory and a shop in the county town, employing dozens of workers Woolen cloth.

The same is true of Boss Chen next door. He doesn't look very good. Ordinary people think he is just a grocery seller... Well, he is actually a grocery seller.

But people really make money.

There is also a large-scale grocery store in Shuanghe County, and there is also a single-family courtyard with front and rear gardens in the city.

It's just that whether it's Boss Chen or Song Erniu, they are actually relatively low-key, making a fortune quietly in the mining area, and constantly earning the gold that the gold diggers have worked so hard to pan for.

Many gold diggers spent several months or even years in the mining area, and indeed found a lot of gold in the process, but in the end there was no hair left.

Zhao Gantong is one of them!

In March of Chengshun's 31st year, when he walked out of the financial bank, he looked lonely.

He has been panning for gold in Shuanghe for more than a year, but in the end he only saved more than 30 Chu Yuan!
Others say that panning for gold in Shuanghe is very profitable, um, in fact, it can be said so. During the gold panning process of more than a year, he had good luck several times, and one of them even dug up a gold nugget the size of a child's fist. Woolen cloth.

There are also many small golden sands in daily life.

But the money obtained from the gold panning, in the end, can't be saved much.

The various expenses in the mining area are too great.

It costs money to drink hot tea in daily life, and the food is also expensive. The rented wooden house in the mining area is more expensive than the house in Shuanghe County.

Food and drink expenses, etc., the daily expenses alone are not small.

In addition, gold mining also requires tools, and these tools are also very expensive.

Occasionally I earn some money, but I have to spend some to satisfy myself. I go to restaurants in the city to eat and drink, and occasionally go to a small blue building for a while.

Not only the gold diggers came here smelling the smell of gold, but also some brothel girls.

Doing skin and meat business in this kind of place where gold is produced can earn more and faster than in other places.

After spending a few years here, these young ladies can return to China with a lot of savings, and then make up a set of inspirational struggle stories from the past, open a shop by themselves to start a small business, and dress themselves up as the heroines in the inspirational stories.

Sometimes some of the good ones can find a good and decent young man to marry, so that they can live the life of a decent middle-class wife.

Many men really only eat this set.

After all, although this kind of woman's family background is a bit poor, she is young, beautiful, and knows how to listen to others, and she also has her own small business, and she has a lot of savings to help with family expenses.

Even a few can give you a certain amount of financial support in your career.

From time to time, I have an innocent and shy look, as if I met you, I met love...

Let me ask you, is your heart fluttering?

During the more than one year of gold digging career, Zhao Gantong has helped the young ladies' businesses, but in this way, saving money has become even more difficult.

He obviously made a lot of money panning for gold, but in the end, Nima, he might as well have saved more money working for those unscrupulous bosses when he was in China.

Although the unscrupulous bosses don’t pay you much, they don’t give you money and time. You work in the factory all day long, and you work overtime every day. You have money in your pocket and want to go to the small blue building. time to go...

I have been panning for gold for more than a year, and I have not saved much money, and my health is not doing well.

Panning for gold in the mining area, the living conditions of these individual gold panning personnel are relatively difficult, the work intensity is also high, and the physical burden is also heavy after a long time.

Recently, Zhao Gantong thought about it for a long time, and finally decided not to pan for gold. This place is poisonous...

With the dozens of Chu Yuan he had managed to save, Zhao Gantong went to the county government office of Shuanghe County and applied for a piece of free land, planning to farm the land by himself like many gold diggers.

Although Zhao Gantong is only a single dog, he still obtained hundreds of acres of free land. Although the land is still wasteland, there are no indigenous activities nearby, so it is relatively safe land.

This is also the main type of land that is officially distributed for free.

In fact, if you have a large number of people, if you dare to go to more remote places, and if there are areas where indigenous people are active, this number can be multiplied several times.

Anyway, those lands are still within the scope of the indigenous control area, and it doesn't hurt at all for the government to give them away for free.

This number can increase if you pay for the land.

Although a very strict land control system is implemented in the home region, it is an exception in the overseas territories, where the amount of privately owned land is very large.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that Chu people are doing overseas reclamation. Because of the lack of labor force and the abundance of land, in order to develop as much land as possible, the government encourages farmers to cultivate more land. Basically, you can plant As much as the government dares to approve for you.

The premise is to cultivate. If it is not cultivated for a long time, it will be recycled.

Therefore, overseas immigrants, especially immigrants in the Americas, are willing to farm, and generally use horse farming, which is simple and trouble-free and can cultivate more areas of land.

What is important is not the output per mu, but the output per person.

The land Zhao Gantong applied for is located about ten kilometers northwest of Shuanghe County, where there is a newly developed small immigrant settlement: Songxi Village.

At present, there are not many people, only more than 200 people, but these 200 people have planted a large area of ​​surrounding land.

Now, Zhao Gantong has also become a member of these more than 200 people, and after arriving in Songxi Village, he successfully joined the local militia and received the militia's gun for free, a 13-year-old flintlock that looks very new A flash cap percussion gun modified from a gun.

In the past few years, the Great Chu Empire has produced a large number of 13-year series flintlock guns. There are many sub-models, and they are widely equipped with army, navy, patrol police, and militia units.

Later, after the flash cap percussion gun appeared and served in batches, many of these 13-year-style flintlock guns have been modified from flintlock to cap percussion.

These modified old guns are generally called 21-year-style flash cap percussion guns, and some of them are still in large numbers in the military.

In fact, these modified 21-year rifles are no different from the brand-new 21-year rifles... because the 21-year rifles themselves have improved the firing mechanism in the 13-year rifles. Other structures Basically the same.

The real difference is the 23-year-style flash cap percussion gun, but the overall improvement is not great, especially on the barrel, even if the blued anti-rust technology is started, the overall use is still very mature and cheap old technology .

After all, this thing was only used by the army as a transitional weapon at the beginning, and it never thought that it could be used for so long.

As a result, many years have passed, and the production of rifled guns has been delayed and difficult, which has led to the transitional use of 20-year-old rifles that should have been produced casually. It has been produced for eight years and is still in production. , the total output has exceeded one million pieces.

Needless to say, this is a very embarrassing situation.

What's even more embarrassing is that the barrel quality of the 23-year rifle, which was originally positioned as a cheap transitional weapon, is still not good. Rifling modified for use with front-loading rifles.

This is also the reason why the Chu army has not converted those muskets into Mini rifles until now. It's not that they don't want to change them, but they can't.

Back then, if the Chu army was able to make certain price concessions and improve the quality of the barrels in the purchase of the 23-year-style rifles, it would not be the result of the same level as it is now.

But it's useless to regret now.

The army simply gritted their teeth and stopped doing any front-loading rifles. They were going to equip breech-loading rifles in one step.

After all, the Type [-] rifles of Hebei Arms Company have already undergone rigorous testing, and now they have begun small-scale production to supply the Guards and Army Experimental Forces for preliminary experimental equipment.

Rifled rifles are not mentioned, but today's 21-year rifles include more than 100 million modified and hundreds of thousands of newly produced rifles, with a total of about 80 million 21-year rifles. Some of them are currently equipped with regular army rifles. The B and C divisions, and some of them are equipped for militia organizations, mainly overseas militias.

What Zhao Gantong got was an old and modified 21-year-old flash cap percussion gun assigned to the North American militia organization.

After getting the gun, he participated in training with dozens of other militiamen in Songxi Village many times to familiarize himself with the use of guns and basic tactics.

To play reclamation in overseas territories, it is impossible to know how to use a gun, otherwise it is easy to be cut off by the natives!
While conducting militia training, he used the newly purchased two old draft horses to cultivate wasteland. Zhao Gantong took root in the small place of Songxi Village, Shuanghe County.

He also planned to reclaim and plant the [-] acres of free land before going to the government to apply for the purchase of a batch of land.

Then buy a few horses, including mares, and raise some cattle, sheep, chickens and ducks, and the small farm is basically the same.

It’s just that not long after settling down, in June of Chengshun’s 31st year, in the midsummer, a burst of intensive beating of gongs was suddenly heard.

This kind of intensive and rapid gong sound is usually sounded when there is an emergency, especially when there is an invasion of foreign enemies.

Zhao Gantong felt a little anxious, so he walked out quickly, and saw two militiamen galloping on the dirt road in the middle of the village, one of them was beating the gong, and the other was shouting: "The aborigines are attacking, all the militiamen should be taken immediately!" Horses and weapons are assembled urgently!"

When one of them saw Zhao Gantong, he immediately said, "Brother Zhao, gather quickly, hundreds of natives are calling!"

After Zhao Gantong heard this, he felt a little flustered, but he still forced himself to reply: "I'll go here!"

Immediately walked back to the room with small brisk steps, picked up the 21-year-style flash cap percussion gun that was distributed, and put on the armed belt. There were several leather ammunition boxes in the armed belt, which contained flash caps and paper-wrapped ammunition. .

After taking the polearm, he took a revolver and loaded it with a cap and paper-wrapped ammunition.

Then there are other odds and ends, such as a water bottle, and some spare biscuits for dry food.

These things, including firearms, are usually put together in one place, just to get them quickly and avoid forgetting things.

He brought all his things together, and went to the backyard to lead a newly purchased Spanish horse. Although this horse is usually used for farming, it can also be ridden. Zhao Gantong often rides this horse in his daily life.

After everything was ready, Zhao Gantong led the horse out and went directly to the small mud square in front of the village to gather.

At this time, there were already more than 30 people there, and some people came one after another like Zhao Gantong.

Even though Songxi Village is small and there are few people, there are quite a few young and strong people, because many of them are from gold diggers like Zhao Gantong... They are all young and strong, and those who are young and strong will basically be incorporated into the militia .

In such a small Songxi village, more than 70 militiamen were assembled, accounting for almost one-third of the total local population... and these militiamen are basically equipped with horses, and they are fired with 21-year-style caps. Guns, some people will also bring an extra revolver like Zhao Gantong.

Not only the militiamen were gathering, many healthy women in the village, even the elderly and some teenagers were holding pistols or shotguns to prepare for the sporadic aboriginal attacks.

In North America, because of the large number of aborigines, and the aggressive colonial policy of Chu State, conflicts between Chu people and local aborigines are very severe and frequent.

Under such circumstances, the local Chu people, especially the immigrants in some small immigrant settlements, regardless of men, women, or children, basically have a gun... Without these guys to defend themselves and defend the settlements, these immigrants would have been taken by the locals for a long time. The natives were scalped and the skulls were used as urinals.

After Zhao Gantong arrived at the small square of the village, he saw a middle-aged man wearing an old-style military uniform in front of him. He was also the village policeman and the militia captain of the village, Wu Jintang, and said loudly: "Those damned natives appear Five miles away, our wheat is about to be harvested, we must not let them break in and destroy our wheat fields!"

"The harvest of the big guy this year is all on it!"

"Teams [-] and [-] stayed to defend the village, and the other men followed me out to let those damned natives know that Songxi Village is not a place where they can come whenever they want!"