Chapter 14: The second shot of fooling the emperor in Shanghai ()

Masked with Persian velvet couches and solid ebony desks, hardwood carved short bookshelfs, gorgeously bound books, the whole furnishings are solemn and coordinated, and two silver-gray tapestries of faded French famous Coberin cover the four walls, and the shepherds and trees on the tapestries are vivid.

It was only during the day that I saw the foreign scenery everywhere in the foreign buildings.

His words.

Ye Zhao only took Rui Sier. He got on Wells' carriage. Rui Sier followed him trotted all the way, heading east and heading straight to the dock.

Wells' ship was a three-masted fly-scissor, with huge hulls and huge canvas hanging down, with extraordinary momentum.

The blonde and blue-eyed armed sailors on the deck were curiously looking at Ye Zhao and Rui Sier boarding the ship from a distance. On the side of the ship, there was a blue sea and a blue sky, and the seagulls soaring, looking into the distance, which was refreshing.

Wells ordered, and soon several strong and strong sailors of flat breasts brought a wooden box from the lower cabin. A handsome white young man opened the wooden box quickly. There were straw in the wooden box, and brand new rifles were neatly arranged.

The young white man took out a rifle from the wooden box and handed it to Ye Zhao, but could not hide the contempt at the corner of his mouth. Obviously, in his eyes, who knows guns in this strange country with braids?

Although Ye Zhao was an amateur in guns, he could see at a glance that these rifles were polished to a shiny shape, but they were really models eliminated during the Napoleon period. He picked up a few and looked at them. Some rifles were even smoothbore guns without rifles. Although they were much stronger than the shooting guns that were always equipped by the Qing army, they were really an eliminated arms in the Western world.

It's normal to think that the Hunan Army and Huai Army were equipped with the elimination of their own a large number of eliminations a few years later. Although they also had real advanced rifles, they were actually a minority.

Ye Zhao smiled and looked at Wells and said, "Mr. Wells, I don't know how you are going to set the price?"

Wells had a keen eye. He was originally an opium merchant, but when he saw the Qing Dynasty stirring up the Taiping Army, he brought a batch of guns with an opium ship. The ship had just arrived in Shanghai, and Xiaodaohui had limited purchasing power. He was about to go to Tianjing to sell the batch of guns to the Taiping Army at a high price, but suddenly he heard that a Qing official who could speak foreign languages ​​came to Shanghai. Wells was naturally happy to get lucky to see if he could get more money from the government army.

Who knew that when he saw Ye Zhao, he felt that it was not the case. Ye Zhao's words about London stocks just now made him think for a long time. He might not be able to make money according to the method Ye Zhao suggested, but it undoubtedly gave him a lot of inspiration.

Originally, he was preparing to pay thirty taels of silver for a rifle, but Ye Zhao asked with a smile, but Wells was not able to answer. He hesitated for a moment and said, "One branch, one branch is twenty taels..."

The white young man who was taking the rifle from Ye Zhao's hand and putting it back in place looked up in surprise. He knew how smart and stingy Mr. Wells was.

Ye Zhao felt a little bit dark. According to the current Western arms market, the most advanced rifle is only a few pounds and more than ten taels of silver.

Seeing Ye Zhao's smile, Wells was convinced that the young official knew the market very well, but no matter what, it would be impossible to sell it to him at a low price. Another big buyer, Taiping Army, was probably willing to pay thirty taels of silver.
Chapter completed!