Chapter 406: Repentance
Now that the emergency is at stake, and the federal government is not prioritizing Colt Arms in military procurement, who is it considering? After all, Colt is one of the top arms dealers in the United States, and it is much better than the British and French arms dealers to make money!
The alliance under the city, then the alliance under the city, rescue Richmond first.
Grant reluctantly agreed to Colt's request, and Colt was satisfied to send a telegram to Guo Ye.
However, before Colt's telegram could be sent, Guo Ye's telegram arrived first.
The affairs assistant on the side handed over a telegram and said, "Mr. Colt, General Guo Ye's urgent telegram." ”
Colt was stunned for a moment and asked, "What emergency electricity?" ”
The affairs assistant said in a low voice: "When General Guo Ye was protecting the arsenal, he captured more than 600 enemy soldiers in the First World War, and none of them were able to escape from the colonel's commander, Stephen, and all of them were captured alive. Now the envoy of the southern rebels has arrived at the arsenal and asked for the redemption of the captured rebels, this Stephen seems to be the son of a big man in the south, and he has a very high status, the rebels can't sit still, General Guo Ye has already made a price to the southern rebels, eight hundred dollars per ordinary soldier, two thousand dollars for officers, and as for that Stephen, it will cost fifty thousand dollars......"
“FUCK!” When Grant on the side heard this, he directly burst into a foul mouth, ******, black, this Guo Ye is really ****** black! A person costs eight hundred dollars, you must know that in the United States, a slave is only a few tens of dollars, and he actually opened the price directly to eight hundred dollars!
The clerk continued, "And. General Guo Ye said that it is not a double price. Communication is underway on the part of the rebels in the south. In order not to cause misunderstanding, General Guo Ye specially sent a telegram to you......"
"Can't hand it over, definitely can't hand it over!"
Grant roared frantically, "******, I finally wiped out the strength of a regiment of the rebels, and now we have to hand over the people again, this is the enemy." This is a serious capital enemy! ”
"General Grant!"
Colt was dissatisfied: "Don't forget, Guo Ye is not a general of the federal army, he is a Chinese general, he is a war to protect his property, all seizures have the right to dispose of, we can't ask for others!" ”
"Bastard! Colt, you have to understand, this Stephen I know, he is the son of the famous Southern Joseph Johnson, no matter what. Definitely can't let this Stephen run away! You know, this Stephen is definitely not worth 50,000 dollars! ”
Grant roared angrily.
Colt froze. replied: "Grant, I'm afraid that this is not up to you and me, and the only way is for us to give Guo Ye certain conditions, so that he can hand over the captives to the northern government for disposal......"
Grant was dissatisfied: "Conditions? And what are the conditions? Aren't we paying enough dollars? ”
Colt shook his head and replied: "General, since it is cooperation, then one yard is one yard, if a few days ago, President Lincoln directly allocated that mercenary to Guo Ye, then we would have a reason to ask them to hand over the prisoners now, but we didn't do that, that is to say, these prisoners were captured by Guo Ye before the two sides reached an employment relationship, and we have no power!" ”
Grant slammed his hateful punch on the table, one wrong step, one wrong step! It's because it's two days late, and the Federation will have to pay one more price! No, it's two costs, and Colt's request!
"Colt, immediately send a telegram to Guo Ye, asking him to immediately send troops to Richmond to repel the siege of the southern rebels first, as for the matter of prisoners, ordinary prisoners are at his disposal, but Stephen must stay! It would be better if we could keep other prisoners, and we are willing to negotiate on this issue! ”
Colt nodded speechlessly, I knew this was the case, why bother in the first place, this is all the federal government's own uninteresting!
Colt immediately sent a telegram to Guo Ye and waited for Guo Ye's reply.
Colt Arms Company, Guo Ye was sitting on the sofa in the office at this time, holding a goblet in his hand, tasting red wine from France, extremely comfortable, completely ignoring the current Walcott outside the house, Walcott is going crazy now, time waits for no one!
As for the more than 600 captives, Walcott even disagreed with Guo Ye to let the Confederate redeem it, joke, redeemed it, in a few days, he can be rearmed, and he is a sworn enemy of the government army, but he is just a colonel, where does he have the power to decide these things?
"The telegrams from General Guo Ye, Walcott, Colt and General Grant have arrived!"
Janssen shouted eagerly.
Guo Ye slowly stood up and walked towards Janssen, and Walcott took a few steps over, grabbed the telegram, and read it.
"Janssen, Walcott, what does the telegram say?"
Guo Ye asked.
Janssen replied: "General Guo, General Grant has transferred three million dollars to your account on behalf of the government, and I ask you to immediately send troops to Richmond to help in the war, and in addition, I implore you to keep all the prisoners and hand them over to the northern government to deal with, and as for the conditions, you can sit down and negotiate!" ”
Guo Ye nodded and replied: "Walcott, immediately prepare a military map of Richmond for me, Xiaohai, immediately gather all our troops, ready to go out at any time, Gao Qi, a few of you come here, let's study together, how dare you fight this battle!" ”
Walcot became excited, great, once Guo Ye joined the war, it would not be a problem to at least stabilize the situation in Richmond.
Guo Ye continued: "Call Colt and Grant back, at the same price, I will give limited consideration to leaving the captives to the northern government, but if the other side pays a higher price, then you can't blame me, I am a businessman, and I put interests first, these benefits are earned back by my soldiers with their lives and blood, and I can't get the corresponding benefits, how can I be worthy of the bloody and sweaty soldiers!" ”
But this problem is no longer Walcott's concern, he has already opened his marching bag, took out the military map, spread it on the table, and shouted: "General Guo Ye, please look!" ”
Guo Ye looked at Walcott's hand, "General Guo Ye, now the southern rebels have a total of seven regiments, plus two artillery battalions, among which the Stephen regiment has been annihilated by you, then they still have six regiments of troops, eight or nine thousand people, are launching a fierce offensive against Richmond from the south and west, the government army in Richmond is only three regiments of troops, two artillery battalions, and the strength is at an absolute disadvantage, and now especially on the south side, we are under too much military pressure......" (To be continued.) )