I want to be emperor

Chapter 802 I Take You to Get Rich
The Dutch didn't expect that the arms dealer they found was not a pure arms dealer, but a former pirate who wandered in crime and killing, now a bandit...

In other words, in fact, no matter which arms agent from Chu State the Dutch people found in the end, they all met the same type of people.

Because there are not many ordinary businessmen who dare to do arms business in a wild place like Africa.

Normally, they seem to sell guns and other various supplies, and buy native products from the aborigines.

But in the dark, what to do to make more money, such as the piracy business that Meng Xiu engaged in before, and the labor introduction business that he is now engaged in... Although he has made a lot of twists and turns, he really encountered a real judicial censor and dug deeper. If you do, you can also send him to prison.

It's just that the censors of Chu State are very busy, and they don't have time to talk to these people who are doing things in the overseas indigenous control area.

Meng Xiu was like this, and many other Chu people who went to Africa and other wild places were basically the same.

How to put it, at this stage, only those desperadoes will go deep into the inland areas of Africa to do business.

In fact, many Chu people, especially Chu people in overseas areas, basically know these things, but these Dutch people don't know.

They thought that the Meng Xiu they found was a pure arms dealer.

And they actually took some precautions themselves. They didn't carry too much gold with them, but only one or two catties.

At the same time, they did not intend to say that they went to Maputo to purchase arms and transport them by themselves.

What they asked was for Meng Xiu's company to deliver the goods to their door.

This door-to-door delivery does not mean that they will be sent directly to their Dutch lair, but will be sent to a place hundreds of kilometers away from their settlement.

And these Dutch people also have a certain degree of self-confidence to avoid gangsters... After all, most of these Dutch people are young and strong. Although they are not professional soldiers or desperadoes, they can still pull out hundreds of people to protect themselves.

These Dutch people think they have made sufficient preparations.

As for Meng Xiu and the others, after discovering such a suspected big fat sheep, they didn't do anything else on the surface, and they didn't even agree to the Dutch's ordnance purchase immediately, but sent people to do the ordnance purchase with the Dutch negotiations.

He said that they could get flintlock guns and sell them to them, but the price could not be lowered, and there was no discount of [-] Chu yuan per set.

Very expensive!
As for flintlock guns, if they are mass-produced industrially in the country of Chu, there is basically no self-use version, and the export version is produced. The cost is about one Chu yuan to three Chu yuan, which is quite cheap.

But the low cost does not mean that the price is also low. The price of an ordinary flintlock gun overseas is actually not cheap.

This is the cheapest civilian-use flintlock gun sold to the people of the country in overseas territories, basically less than ten Chu yuan.

However, if they are exported in large quantities to those indigenous countries, the price will often start at [-] Chu Yuan. Basically, the export price of these flintlock guns is to add a zero to the cost price and sell them out.

This is still a large-scale supply to indigenous countries, and this kind of transaction often comes with a lot of other trade conditions and even political additional conditions.

If there are no additional conditions, the price will have to be doubled, forty Chu Yuan is the minimum.

But even forty Chu yuan is very attractive to those natives. After all, the flintlock guns produced and exported by Chu people have nothing to do with performance.

Basically, the low-end models have an all-weather firing rate of 70.00%, the mid-range models can often achieve 80.00%, and the high-end models even have 80.00%.

Not to mention the high-end ones, even the ordinary low-end models, the flintlock guns made by the natives can't compare.

Good things are expensive, that's the basics.

Besides, the arms of the Chu people have two great advantages. It can even be said that the reason why the arms of the Chu people can be sold so expensive is because of these two advantages besides their good performance.

One is a large amount of stock. As long as you place an order, tens of thousands of flintlock guns can be dispatched to you in minutes. If there are hundreds of thousands of them, even if the stock of the Great Chu Empire is not enough, but domestic production increases, at most It can be produced in one year.

This means that if an indigenous country encounters a war, it can quickly obtain a large amount of arms from the Chu people.

This is very important. If the arms dealer does not have enough inventory and the production capacity cannot keep up, I am afraid that this indigenous country will be wiped out, and the ordered guns have not yet returned.

In addition to timely supply, the arms dealers of the Great Chu Empire also have a great advantage, that is, they can deliver goods to most parts of the world.

Anywhere, even Antarctica, as long as you give money, the arms dealers in Chu State can send you guns there.

This also includes the battlefield!
A very common situation is that the natives on both sides are fighting, and the ammunition, cold weapons and armor are too depleted and urgently need to be replenished.

At this time, an armed caravan from the Great Chu Empire came to the battlefield, and then provided weapons, equipment and even various other supplies to the warring parties according to the orders.

After the supply is over, the two sides continue to fight!
The arms dealers in Chu State said: We are professional in the supply of ordnance logistics. You can rest assured that you will still have ammunition after the ammunition is finished. If you place an order on the spot, you can even give you a [-]% discount!
The large volume of arms dealers in the Great Chu Empire and the door-to-door delivery service greatly promoted the war capabilities of the indigenous countries, and they screamed when they fought.

What the Dutch want is the door-to-door delivery service of the Chu people's arms, but the price is too expensive.

The price of sixty Chu yuan does not include the service fee for door-to-door delivery. If you want to deliver the goods to your door, you have to add another sum.

For the first time, the few Dutch people who came to negotiate the purchase of arms felt that even if they dug a gold mine, they still didn't have enough money.

Nima, it's too dark.

But you can't do anything about it, whoever makes the Chu people's things good, and now in the East African region, there is no second arms dealer for them to choose except for the Chu people.

Unless these Dutch are willing to cross the African continent and go to the west coast of Africa to find the Portuguese, the Dutch go to purchase, but the journey is far away. More importantly, these Portuguese and Dutch themselves have no advanced gun production capacity. They are still looking for Chu people to buy arms.

So even if it is expensive, these Dutch people have to recognize it.

In the end, it was good or bad, and I finally negotiated the purchase price. At a price of 56 Chu yuan per set, I purchased [-] flintlock guns.

The prototype is actually a two-year-style flintlock. After various improvements, a low-end flintlock model specially designed for export has been produced.

The all-weather firing rate has reached 70.00%, and its performance exceeds that of the flintlock guns produced by indigenous European countries.

Moreover, a bayonet made of low-carbon steel with a full blade length of [-] centimeters was also distributed.

Just this bayonet alone cost more than ten Chu Yuan.

You ask why a mere bayonet is so expensive, it is because currently only the Great Chu Empire can mass-produce this kind of bayonet in the world.

The bayonets used by the natives of European countries on the matchlock guns are still in the stage of spear stabbing.

Because the bayonet needs to withstand a huge impact during combat, the strength of the blade is very high. If the material and processing are not good, it can only be stabbed with a gun. In fact, the flintlock guns of Chu State in the early years were also Used spear.

The use of real bayonets is something that Chengshun will do 12 years later.

A complete set of Guang-56 flintlock guns cost [-] Chu yuan, and the Dutch directly ordered [-] sets, including flintlock guns, bayonets, cleaning rods, straps, and ammunition boxes.

In addition to flintlock guns, they also purchased four iron 65mm smoothbore field guns produced by the Jiangnan Arms Company. Not only the Chu people like this thing, but the natives also like it. It is light and powerful.

Then there are some cloth, farm tools, and various tools, including a large number of tools used by miners.

They have purchased a large number of various materials, whether for military or civilian use, and the last count of the entire order amount reached more than 8 Chu yuan.

Looking at such a huge order, I thought that the Dutch said that they would pay directly in gold at that time, and at the same time saw that there were a large number of mining tools among the materials purchased by the Dutch.

Meng Xiu directly concluded that these Dutchmen must have gotten lucky and found a gold mine.

Immediately ordered to go down and prepare the corresponding order materials, and at the same time sent someone to watch the Dutchmen.

Most importantly, Meng Xiu started to mobilize his staff.

That's right, when Meng Xiu saw these Dutchmen whose heads were shining with golden light, he had already decided to do something to these Dutchmen.

robbery?

You're wrong, he really didn't intend to engage in any robbery or anything like that, what's the use of this kind of robbery, it's just a matter of earning some gold.

What he wants is to find the gold mines discovered by these Dutchmen, and then grab the gold mines directly.

Thinking that he might own a big gold mine, Meng Xiu couldn't help but tremble all over!

Why did he work so hard to come overseas? Isn't it just to make money, to make a lot of money!
It's not just him, the reason why the dozens of brothers under him followed him to Africa, a place that doesn't shit, was not to make a fortune.

Now, a gold mine with great potential is in front of them, and they can only hold back to hell.

Meng Xiu began to gather his subordinates, and when he wrote the letter, he could sum it up in eight words: the people here are stupid and rich, come quickly.

Two days later, two of the Dutch who came to Maputo left Maputo on horseback. Mengxiu immediately sent someone to follow, trying to find the Dutchman behind them. The lair, the most important thing is to find where their gold mines are.

At this time, the Dutch still hadn't noticed that Meng Xiu, who was trading with them, had already bared his fangs, staring at their necks, and would pounce on them and bite them when the time came.

The few Dutch people who stayed in Maputo were still attracted by all kinds of novelties in Maputo like the bumpkins at this time, and they were even more shocked by the few motor-sailing ships outside the port.

They had actually seen this large ship of the Chu people in Cape Town before, but those ships at that time were all warships, and the Chu people would not allow them to approach.

Later, in order to avoid trouble and arouse the resentment of the Chu people, they did not stay in Caput, but evacuated before the Chu people entered the port.

Therefore, as for the steam ships of the Chu people, they have only seen them from a distance, and to be honest, they can't see anything.

After all, Chu people's ships are basically motor sailing ships with sails on them. Except for the addition of a chimney, they are actually not very different from traditional sailing ships.

Coupled with the distance, it was also difficult for them to judge how big the Chu ship was at that time.

But it's different now. Now they can see those sailboats up close in the port of Maputo.

One of them was a merchant ship of more than 3000 tons that shocked them even more. Looking at it from a close distance, it was really big!
Far beyond the imagination of these Dutch people on ships.

Just when they were shocked by the novelty and power of the Great Chu Empire, Meng Xiu sent to follow the four desperadoes who left first, and all of them successfully caught up with the two Dutchmen ahead.

Finally, we arrived at a small town about 400 kilometers away from Maputo.

This small town is clearly a new settlement. There is no fortress, not even a simple masonry wall. There is only a wooden wall around the outer layer. The buildings in the town are basically relatively simple wooden buildings.

However, there are a large number of African natives with wooden shackles in the town who are continuing to build the city wall, and a section of brick and stone city wall of several hundred meters has been built.

Just looking at this small town, you can't really see much. This kind of immigrant settlement is very ordinary, and it doesn't deserve the attention of Meng Xiu and his group.

So they continued to lurk outside the town to observe. During the observation, they found that for several days in a row, a large number of Dutchmen went to a hill in the south with live ammunition.

Immediately after following them, they found that the Dutch had even built a checkpoint on the hill, and there were still people watching from above.

After sneaking away from the Dutch checkpoint, they climbed the short hill from the other side, and then saw a very shocking scene.

On the other side of the small mountain, there is a large flat land, but there are several areas on this flat land where wooden barracks have been built, and in the large area in the middle of the flat land, there are at least thousands of black soldiers. Almost natives were working under the command of the Dutch guards.

Some of them are excavating soil and gravel, some are using primitive means to separate the gravel and soil, and some are using gauze to clean the sand.

Just seeing this scene, these people couldn't help their hearts beating!

Nima, these Dutch people really found a gold mine and have organized a large number of natives to mine it.

Looking at the posture of this gold mine, I am afraid that the reserves are extremely rich, and the difficulty of mining is also very low.

Now, I really want to make a fortune, make a fortune!

They suppressed their excitement and figured out the surrounding situation, especially the approximate number of the Dutchmen. After drawing a topographic map, they began to return along the way they came!
Not long after, these scouts returned to Maputo after all the hardships, and reported the situation to Meng Xiu and a group of other company executives.

At that time, Meng Xiu said to more than a dozen middle and high-level employees of the company in the conference room: "Brothers, the few of you have followed me for five or six years, and the long ones have followed me for more than [-] years. I don’t have the ability to lead everyone to death and let everyone have food and clothing, and I can’t let everyone get rich together, I feel ashamed in my heart!”

"But now, our chance is here!"

"A gold mine with large reserves and easy mining just fell from the sky and landed under our feet!"

After all, Meng Xiu took a deep breath and said, "I announce that the company will enter a special state from now on!"

"Drop all the manpower that can be mobilized, and then send out the brand-new 21-year-style percussion guns in the company's inventory, and then give the brothers one big and one small, and two revolvers."

"Take all the cattle, wagon!"

"Get ammunition, food, and horses ready."

Speaking of this, Meng Xiu took a deep breath, looked around and said: "Then I will take you to get rich!"

Meng Xiu emphasized his tone again, almost gritted his teeth and said:

"Make a fortune!"

(End of this chapter)