Looking at Cheng Qianfan's stunned look, Peter laughed. This was exactly the effect he expected.
Cheng Qianfan looked at the neatly placed wooden boxes, and he naturally knew the French words on them, and they were all gun boxes.
"You robbed the arsenal?" Cheng Qianfan asked.
"Open it and take a look." Pete Nunu's mouth, holding a cigarette in his mouth with a proud look on his face.
Cheng Qianfan took a crowbar and pried open one of the gun boxes.
Looking at the neatly arranged pistols in the gun box, he picked them up and looked at them, and his expression became even more exaggerated.
"Peter, where did you get these old antiques?"
It is indeed an old antique, and it is a French-made M1892 revolver.
The M1892 is the first standard pistol in the history of the French army. It belongs to the standard pistol of the French army in the late 19th century. It was used on a large scale during World War I. This old antique has now no longer kept up with the demand.
The weirdest thing is that everyone knows now that it is more convenient to sway the revolver's bullet wheel to the left with a right hand gun, while the French standard pistol is a pistol with a bullet wheel to the right hand side, or to be honest, this is an outdated right-wheel pistol.
What do you know is the French mind?
Seeing Cheng Qianfan's disgusting look, Pete spat out the cigarette butt in a gusto, "It's for free, do you still disgusting?"
Free gift?
Cheng Qianfan was a little puzzled.
But when he saw that Pete did not continue to explain, he picked up the crowbar, came up and searched for it himself, and pried open a gun box.
"Ruby pistol?" Cheng Qianfan picked it up and looked at it. The gun was maintained pretty well.
This gun is also a French military standard pistol. The Ruby pistol was born in Spain in 1903. It was purchased by France during World War I to replace the M1892 revolver pistol.
The actual performance of this gun can also be described as "unspeakable".
Because of its low price and easy to mass manufacture, it was equipped with a large amount of equipment by the French army, Finland and other countries during World War I.
During the period of domestic warlords' melee, France dumped the pistol to China, and the Hanyang Arsenal at that time also imitated a batch of the pistols.
However, due to its poor reliability, inaccurate shooting, and short gun body life, it is actually not very popular.
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"Peter, you miscalculated this time." Cheng Qianfan looked at the gun boxes and frowned, "These old antiques are not easy to sell."
Whether it is the M1892 right-wheel pistol or the Rupee pistol, it is not very popular in China. The price is high and no one cares about it at all. If the price is low, I am afraid that it will not even be able to get the capital back.
"The wise Pitt will not make stupid mistakes." Pitt said proudly, and he shook his eyes at Cheng Qianfan. "We didn't spend a penny on these guns, and we didn't even need to pay for the shipping fee ourselves."
"You stolen it from the arsenal?" Cheng Qianfan asked in surprise.
Although these two guns are not popular, they are indeed standard weapons of the French army.
Yes, although it is now the 25th year of the Republic of China, these guns that were used in large quantities in the late 19th century and during World War I and were almost eliminated by the times are still the French military's active-service standard weapons.
"No, to be precise, it was given to us by those guys." Pete grinned, "and paid for the shipping fee for us."
"Stop keeping your mouth shut, hurry up." Cheng Qianfan said angrily.
It turned out that Pete's newlywed wife Linda's father was a French logistics officer in Marseille.
A French MP submitted a proposal. Given the good peace situation in Europe and the powerful French army has no opponents in Europe, he suggested that the French military conduct disarmament.
This proposal has received widespread support from French public opinion.
The military naturally did not want to, but in order to calm public opinion, the military stated that it would begin to gradually destroy the huge arsenal inventory of the armour.
Pete's father-in-law's new job was to destroy these firearms from the Marseille arsenal.
After learning about this, Pitt keenly captured the business opportunities.
He suggested to his father-in-law that he could help 'destroy' these guns.
So, some of the guns and ammunition to be destroyed were transported to a ship and brought to China by Pitt.
After operating privately by Peter's father-in-law, the French military not only did not charge a penny, but also paid the freight from Marseille to China.
In their opinion, this is very cost-effective, and compared to these freight expenses, it costs more to destroy these guns.
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"You are such a clever ghost." Cheng Qianfan laughed.
No wonder Pete is so proud. Although these two guns are not very popular, they do not require capital and can naturally lower the price. If you sell them, you will make a pure profit.
Moreover, the so-called "unpopularity" is relatively common. As long as the price is appropriate, these two guns will definitely not have to worry about selling them in China.
In any case, this is also a standard weapon of the French army. You should know that many warlords in China, even two or three soldiers share a gun.
Cheng Qianfan was already thinking about notifying the Shanghai Red Party underground organization that he could purchase a part of the pistol of the rupees.
Compared with the old M1892 revolver, the Rupee pistol is a second-generation standard weapon of the French army and has much better performance.
The Red Party lacks weapons, and these guns can be regarded as good things for the Red Party.
"What is this?" Cheng Qianfan saw dozens of boxes of different wooden boxes in the gun box.
"This is also the military capital to be destroyed." Pete raised his eyebrows and whispered, "Momorphine, Linda's father added these medicines to the destruction list."
As he said that, he also complained that they made the same profit as guns, Linda's father also paid dividends for these drugs.
Cheng Qianfan knew in his heart that this was a way for Pete's father-in-law to use his position to resell medicines to make money.
"Greedy old man, he is unwilling to bear the freight, and he still needs to share the money." Pete cursed.
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Cheng Qianfan ignored Pete's complaints and was overjoyed. Compared to guns, he was more interested in morphine.
The Red Party’s shortage of narcotic drugs is far above guns.
Firearms can be seized from the national government army, but it is too difficult to seize the medicine.
"What are these two boxes?" Cheng Qianfan saw that the two boxes had different colors and other colors in the medicine box, and he didn't know the French written on it.
"That's..." Pete thought for a while, with a disgust on his face, "What's the name? It's called sulfonamide. It's a new type of drug. I don't know what it is for. I saw it in the military guarantor's warehouse and moved it together. No one wants this thing."
Many people have never heard of this new drug that has not been tested in the market, and it is difficult to sell it.
Cheng Qianfan just felt that he had heard of the term "sulfonamide" somewhere, but he didn't care too much.
He is now thinking about how to eat as much morphine as possible.
PS: After communicating with the editor, Sanjiang still has to wait. Depending on the current situation, it will take three weeks or even one month, which means it is very likely that it will not be released until July.
I was a little confused, which meant that it would take more than 400,000 words when it was put on the shelves, which was nearly 500,000 words.
Lao Qi has not earned nearly three months now, so he is waiting for the new book to be put on the shelves. There are old people on the top and young people on the top. To be honest, it is really difficult to not have income for a few months.
The old book has been completed, and now I am all about this book. I will try my best to save the manuscript, just waiting for it to be released.
Consoling yourself, the future will be better.
What I'm thinking now is how many people are reading this book, and how many readers are subscribing to?
It's really...too difficult.
Chapter completed!