At the next dance, several foreigners came to have a relationship with Lin Youde. These were businessmen with small capital and unable to enter mainland China alone, or simply middle-class people who came to speculate. Lin Youde happily promised them to wait.
After they opened their business in Guangzhou, they would provide protection themselves. As for the protection, Lin Youde did not elaborate. Anyway, these foreigners who had just arrived had no idea about the situation in the country, so he had to tie them aboard his pirate ship first.
After a dance, Lin Youde made a lot of money, and he received seven or eight name cards alone.
As for Chen Haihui, the swinger brother completely forgot about his duties as a staff member, left Lin Youde aside to deal with those guys who came to build relationships, and went to the venue to invite beautiful women to dance.
Seeing that the last song of the dance was about to come, according to the rules, men and women who participated in the last song together should dance with their partners. Lin Youde and Chen Haihui came together, and the last song had nothing to do with them, so
The two were ready to leave early.
Who would have thought that Cheng Yaojin would come out at this time.
The person who came here had silver hair that reached past her shoulders, and her sapphire blue eyes showed the unique arrogance of a tsundere. There was also an impatient expression on her face. Unlike the other ladies at the ball, this girl’s long dress looked different from the other foreign ladies.
The girl's bulky skirt is completely different, giving it a refreshing feeling and making it easier to move around. The girl's pointed ears, which are slightly longer than normal, clearly distinguish her from ordinary humans.
Elf? Regarding those long ears, Lin Youde's first thought seemed to be very unoriginal, or maybe he subconsciously selectively forgot about the trolls in World of Warcraft whose ears were also very long and pointed.
Chen Haihui's judgment is more in line with the common sense of the world here: "Aryan race?"
"Wait a minute, shouldn't Aryans have blond hair?" Lin Youde whispered to Chen Haihui.
"There are also people with silver hair, it's just rare."
At this time, the girl's eyebrows were raised even higher. She said to the two gossiping people in broken English and in an unhappy tone: "It's too rude to blatantly gossip in front of a lady? Don't all Chinese people know how to be polite?
?Well, forget it, which one of you two is Chen Turtle?"
Because the girl's pronunciation was so weird, the ninth son of the Chen family turned into a turtle. Lin Youde suppressed his laughter, patted Chen Haihui on the back and pushed him forward.
"You have to solve the problem yourself."
Lin Youde completely regarded this as a love debt owed by Chen Haihui.
"I don't know her. I'll definitely remember this kind of Nordic beauty. Besides, her hair color is so special..."
Just when Chen Haihui was thinking about returning it, the girl spoke again: "Are you Chen Turtle? Tell me honestly, how did you know that I have a new pistol design? I obviously just applied for the patent not long ago, and the approval was only recently completed.
thing."
Lin Youde and Chen Haihui looked at each other.
"So, you have the blueprint for the Mauser military pistol?"
As soon as Lin Youde spoke, the girl gave him a sharp look.
"What Mauser! That idiot who is just fishing for fame can never have anything to do with my invention!" Because the pronunciation was so weird and the speaking speed was really fast, Lin Youde almost didn't hear the girl's curse.
After being reminded by the girl's curse, Lin Youde remembered that this Mauser military pistol--that is, the box gun--seemed to be not invented by Mauser, but the work of three engineers named Dele from the Mauser factory.
, and finally Mauser registered a patent in his own name. It seems that the historical process of this world is slightly different from the original history in this small detail.
Probably because the inventor is a beautiful girl.
"Sorry, it's my fault." Lin Youde hurriedly made up for his mistake. Chen Haihui seemed to have noticed something was wrong, but he didn't ask any more questions.
"Miss, what is your name?"
"Hmph," the girl raised her neck and announced arrogantly, "I am Katerina von Fiedler. I am the most talented inventor and alchemist in the German military industry. Sooner or later, I will return Mauser.
There are people whom Krupp consigned to the cesspit of history.”
"The right thing is to 'send it to the old scraps of history'." Lin Youde corrected subconsciously.
"I like to talk about the dunghill. Do you have any objections, Chinese?"
Lin Youde curled his lips. According to his opinion, it doesn't matter if you are arrogant, as long as you are really capable. So he still said to the arrogant silver-haired girl with a smile on his face: "We are indeed looking for a high-performance pistol, but this, what exactly do we want to buy?
Which one to buy depends on the performance of the gun..."
The girl glanced at Lin Youde and then at Chen Haihui, who was standing slightly ahead of the test. She frowned and asked in confusion: "Who among you is Chen Haihui? I want to talk to the person who can make the final decision. I can't make the decision.
Please shut up."
Chen Haihui quickly took a step back to give up his position, and pointed at Lin Youde and said: "This Mr. Lin Youde is my boss, and he makes the final decision on business matters. Also, my name is Chen Haihui, not Chen Turtle."
Chen Haihui's final correction most likely did not reach the girl's ears. As soon as she heard that Lin Youde was the boss, she immediately lifted up her skirt, pulled out a black pistol from the holster hanging on her thigh, and quickly turned it around in her hand a few times.
, handed it to Lin Youde and said: "This is a prototype gun I secretly made before resigning at the Mauser Factory."
Lin Youde took a look and saw that it was a box cannon that later generations had repeatedly made military exploits in the domestic revolutionary war and the Anti-Japanese War. Lin Youde took the pistol and found that it was much heavier than expected. As for the others, he, a layman, could not see anything.
When he came out, he changed hands and handed the gun to Chen Haihui.
Chen Haihui took the gun, quickly opened the nose of the machine, fiddled with it for a while, and then said: "It looks like a good gun, but you can't know its true performance until you actually shoot it."
"I use my reputation to guarantee the performance of this gun."
Lin Youde glanced at the girl with pointed ears, and suddenly felt a little unhappy with her condescending expression, so he replied: "We are businessmen, and our reputation is of no use to us."
"Then I guarantee it with my virginity."
Lin Youde was taken aback and looked up and down at the Nordic girl who was not ashamed to say such words. Chen Haihui closed the nose of the plane with a bang and said with a bad smile: "This gun doesn't seem to be much good..."
Lin Youde stepped on Chen Haihui.
"Well... Miss Fidler, you don't have to be like this. I am still very confident in the level of your country's military industry."
"Let me tell you the truth, Chinese," Catalina interrupted Lin Youde, "I was already short of money when I arrived in Hong Kong. In order to get the invitation to this ball, I spent the last money I had.
, If you don’t buy this gun, I will really go to a brothel to sell myself.”
Lin Youde is happy. Does this girl know how to do business? Is she showing her trump card like this because she is afraid that others will not kill her?
But on the surface, Lin Youde still looked surprised and asked in an unbelievable tone: "Well, Miss Fidler, how did you end up in such a situation?"
Lin Youde's kick was like kicking a hornet's nest. Catalina kicked her foot hard and her cheeks bulged up. She replied angrily: "Humph, those blind people! First, Mauser wanted to register the gun in his own name.
After I registered the patent myself, through his connections in the German army, he advocated that after being equipped with the new Mauser rifle, the glorious German soldiers no longer need to equip a bulky repeating pistol, and a bayonet is enough for close combat.
For self-defense, officers only needed light revolvers.
"So I resigned and went to the United States with the drawings and sample guns. I thought that the US military, which used a large number of repeating rifles during the Civil War, should know the value of repeating pistols. Who knew that the pig heads in the US military told me that the army had already installed Maxine machine guns?
, the firepower is enough. What’s even worse is that I can’t find a reason to convince them! Later, I heard a firearms dealer who came back from Hong Kong said that someone in Hong Kong was interested in repeating pistols made in Germany, so he came here
.”
Catalina stamped her feet repeatedly, attracting the attention of the gentlemen and ladies around her.
Lin Youde laughed secretly in his heart.
It turns out that this is what happened. In the last time and space, a similar thing happened to the Thomson submachine gun. Now it is just earlier, and it happened to the Mauser pistol, which also focused on enhancing the single-person firepower. The reason for the earlier time is,
Probably because there are General Fengjia and Shenji in this world, the conventional military forces of various countries attach less importance to firepower than in the previous time and space. You must know that General Fengjia in this world has long had the ability to carry out continuous fire suppression.
.
The reason for Lin Youde's secret laughter was not here. He was laughing at the Nordic girl's lack of business acumen. The army didn't want it because it had Maxine. You could sell it to those who didn't have Maxine and needed firepower, such as the American gangsters. Back then, Thomson
The submachine gun followed this path. After the gangsters created the name Chicago Typewriter, in order to counter the gangsters' firepower, the FBI and the police department had to purchase Thomson. In this way, the brand survived until World War II and finally became a battlefield.
The "Tommy" that U.S. soldiers trust...
But Lin Youde had no intention of telling the girl this "way of survival".
While Lin Youde secretly laughed, Catalina, who had talked too much in one breath, took a large glass of wine from the passing waiter and drank it all in one gulp.
The girl's white skin had already been slightly flushed. After drinking this glass of wine, the alcohol content in her blood seemed to have finally exceeded the critical point, and even her face began to turn red.
"Hmph!" The girl kicked Lin Youde, "Hey, tell me, are they a bunch of pig heads?"
"Well, yes, they are a bunch of pig heads." Lin Youde agreed sincerely, and then he suggested to the girl, "Well, Miss Fidler, we bought this sample gun. In addition, I want to open a factory in Guangzhou to produce this gun.
If you want to plant a gun, could you condescend to come to Guangzhou and serve as the director of the factory?"
The calculation in Lin Youde's mind couldn't be more obvious. Although the Eight-Power Allied Forces' invasion of China had not yet occurred at this time, and according to history textbooks, the Qing court had not completely become a court of foreigners, it had been almost 40 years since the Prime Minister's Yamen was established.
The Qing court was afraid of foreigners to the core. Lin Youde's experience traveling through time for nearly a year also showed that local officials in the Qing Dynasty had no backbone and basically followed the lead of foreigners.
Normally, the "famous Italian chefs" hired by Lin Youde's shop could intimidate the lower-level officials of the Qing Dynasty who came to enjoy the shop and did not dare to make any mistakes. They did not appear to be domineering in other shops at all, so they used a foreign girl as a bluff.
It will be much easier for the director of the future factory to do things in the future. I am afraid that even if the Qing Dynasty knew that Lin Youde was making guns, they would only turn a blind eye.
It's a pity that this girl obviously doesn't like Lin Youde's golden fingers, otherwise sending her to a maid training center would be a good choice.
Regarding Lin Youde's suggestion, Catalina was silent for a while. When Lin Youde thought she was drunk and didn't hear clearly and was about to repeat it, she spoke: "Huh, I can't help it... Hier, I can't help it either."
Refuse? I’m already like this. I can’t even afford to stay in a hotel tonight, so I’ll let you go.”
Okay, this girl seems to be really desperate. Lin Youde secretly rejoiced, didn't he pick up a beautiful engineer for nothing? Sure enough, he brought the template of the protagonist, so he could get whatever he wanted.
Just then the master of ceremonies of the dance announced that the last song of the night was about to begin.
After Catalina, who was already eighty percent drunk, listened attentively to the words of the emcee, her eyes moved back and forth between Lin Youde and Chen Haihui, not knowing what she was thinking. Finally, she seemed to have finally made a decision and took Chen Haihui's hand:
"Finally, I will condescend to dance with you. Everyone here is blind, and no one asked me to dance! It's an advantage for you, Mr. Turtle."
"It's Haihui." Chen Haihui corrected helplessly, and was dragged towards the middle of the dance floor by Catalina.
Lin Youde smacked his lips, Catalina was considered a pretty good beauty, especially her silver hair and blue eyes, which appealed to Lin Youde very much. It was a pity that this girl didn't want Lin Youde's golden finger, so she could only give it to Chen Haihui, the real one.
The love killer went to deal with it, but Lin Youde was still very clear about his own priorities.
Lin Youde smiled self-deprecatingly, called a waiter who was waiting nearby, got a glass of wine, and prepared to spend the last song of the dance alone.
"Mr. Lin, you look very idle. Could you please dance the last song with me?"
Lin Youde looked around and was surprised to see Josephine's plump breasts, and then her smiling face.
"Although we did not come together, my first dance was with you, and according to the report of my knight squire, it was also your first dance. So, let's dance this last song together,
Is that what it should be?"
"Ah, this is my honor." As he said this, Lin Youde drank down the wine in his hand, placed the cup on the small table by the window, took Josephine's hand, and walked onto the dance floor.
**
"Hey, lucky guy." Chen Haihui's voice made Lin Youde, who had been waiting outside the dance hall for a while, turn around.
"You have the nerve to tell me off," Lin Youde looked at the Nordic girl in Chen Haihui's arms who was holding her in a standard princess hug, "You guys have obviously gained more than me."
"Where, Brother Lin, at this dance, you danced with the French Paladin, established a relationship with a local gangster in Hong Kong, earned investments from several foreigners, and also solved the gun matter. I bet you are
The person who gained the most from this dance." After speaking, Chen Haihui turned to the waiter next to him and ordered, "This lady's luggage is stored at the concierge. Could you please take it to our carriage?".
After the waiter took the order and left, Lin Youde raised his eyebrows and asked, "Did she even bring her luggage?"
"Yes, it seems that they are planning to ask the German representative in Hong Kong who is attending the ball for help if they can't find any information about us at the ball."
"It seems that we are really desperate." Lin Youde said, reaching out his hand and gently playing with the girl's pointed ears. These pointed ears were much softer than Lin Youde expected. Every time he pinched the girl, the sleeping girl became softer.
It will make a very comfortable moan.
"How about, Brother Lin, put this girl in your bedroom tonight?" Chen Haihui suggested with a wicked smile.
To be honest, this suggestion was quite attractive, but Lin Youde thought about it and rejected it.
"Open an extra room just for him and treat him well."
"clear."
At this time, the waiter who had just walked away appeared at the corner of the corridor carrying a suitcase, so Lin Youde made a gesture to Chen Haihui.
"Let's go back."
**
It takes about forty minutes by carriage to go from the official residence of the Governor of Hong Kong to the inn where Lin Youde is staying. Lin Youde just arrived in Hong Kong and immediately attended the Governor's ball. He also spent a lot of time preparing clothes and other things. Now all the fatigue is gone.
The children came up.
He decided to take a nap, but not long after he closed his eyes, he gave up the idea of taking a nap. In this era, the roads were not as smooth as they would be in the future, and there were carriages on them, and the bumps were like an earthquake. In addition, the seats of the carriages were not at all smooth.
Considering the comfort of passengers, taking a nap is simply a fantasy - at least for Lin Youde, a time traveler.
There was no other way. Lin Youde had no choice but to open the curtain on the car window and look at the street scene. However, he found out that electricity was not very popular in Hong Kong at this time, and there were no neon lights at all. After leaving Victoria City, there were even few gas lights on the streets, and the lights were black.
Can't see anything.
Lin Youde sighed and was about to close the curtains when his eyes suddenly caught the sparks flashing in the darkness outside the window.
Soon after, everything around Lin Youde slowed down, and a big red arrow appeared in his field of vision. He immediately realized that this was his self-protection skills at work, and the flash just now was probably gunfire.
!
Lin Youde tried his best to shrink his body downwards, but found that although time slowed down, his body's reaction speed did not speed up accordingly! In other words, he could not dodge bullets like Neo! The subjective time slowdown only allowed him to have enough
He had time to judge where to hide, but he couldn't let his body keep up with the speed of his thinking!
What a cheat!
Fortunately, the shot was not aimed. The bullet penetrated the wooden wall of the carriage compartment and then rotated and brushed against Lin Youde's Tianling Cap. If Lin Youde hadn't flinched his neck, his life would most likely have been sealed.
It seems that this self-protection skill is not so useless!
The moment he dodged the bullet, the passage of time returned to normal. At this time, the sound of gunfire also came, along with a shout in Mandarin that was full of northern flavor: "Revolutionary Party, lead the death!"
The driver's screams and flattery neighing came from the front of the carriage. The carriage braked suddenly and stopped. The force of the brakes directly threw Lin Youde out of his seat and made him fall to the floor of the carriage.
Before Lin Youde could give the order, Chen Haihui took out a silver Colt from his suit, kicked open the door of the carriage, and jumped out.
Lin Youde thought to himself that I must have a gun to defend myself. Then he saw Catalina, who was still sleeping on the front seat of the carriage. He rushed towards her and pulled off the girl's skirt. Little did he know that this would lead to
He also tore off the bloomers that were equivalent to the girl's underwear, but Lin Youde had no time to admire the girl's smooth little butt, and directly pulled out the cannon-like gun from the holster tied to her thigh.
When Chen Haihui was playing with this thing, Lin Youde noticed that there were bullets inside. He opened the nose of the plane just like Chen Haihui opened the plane in his memory, put the bullet in it, and then began to hesitate whether he should get out.
There were a lot of gunshots going off outside, and I didn't know if Chen Haihui could beat them all by himself.
At this time, maid No. 3, who was originally sitting in the driver's seat of the carriage, opened the door from the other side and said to Lin Youde: "Master, run this way."
These words stimulated Lin Youde.
He silently muttered "We have a plug-in" and jumped out of the door Chen Haihui kicked open.
Both sides of the gun battle outside were very cautious. After all, the revolver only had a few bullets and was slow to reload, so it couldn't be fired randomly. But Lin Youde didn't care about this. The box cannon had twenty bullets! He saw a flash of bullets in the dark box directly in front of him.
When the gunfire started, he immediately raised his hand and fired three shots, then he was gone. There are so many bullets, so what are you doing!
I don’t know whether the attacker was killed or stunned. Anyway, the fire stopped immediately, and the attacker hiding on the other side turned his gun towards Lin Youde.
Several bullets flew in succession and hit the ground next to Lin Youde.
At this time, Lin Youde also figured out some patterns. It seemed that as long as his bullet time skill was not activated and the subjective time passage did not slow down, it meant that the bullet could not hit him. Now he became bolder.
He made a handsome gesture of shaking his scarf - even though he was not wearing a scarf. Then he showed off the style of Ponyboy from A Better Tomorrow and strode towards the direction where the attacker was hiding. After taking a few steps, he fired a shot to maintain firepower.
suppress.
Perhaps shocked by Lin Youde's momentum, the attacker couldn't hold back his anger and finally ran out of his hiding place and fled, with a big braid swinging happily behind him.
Lin Youde beat the fleeing assassin, but unfortunately he missed the shot. Chen Haihui caught up from behind and shot the assassin down.
The world is purified.
Chen Haihui looked at the box cannon in Lin Youde's hand with smoke still coming out of the muzzle, and sincerely praised: "It's a good gun, but it's a pity that the person who uses it is too bad at shooting."
At this time, maid No. 3 also caught up: "Master, are you not injured?"
"It's okay." Lin Youde waved his hand.
Chen Haihui gave Lin Youde a blow on the shoulder and said, "You are brave enough to rush like that."
Before Lin Youde could answer, a group of uniformed Hong Kong police officers appeared blowing whistles.
It seems that Lin Youde will spend his first night in Hong Kong in the police station.