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Three days later, that is, in the fourth week, Yang Ruiti asked the students to take a cavalry class this week, but this cavalry class was completely on the wild grassland, riding from the military school to Barberton, and then riding back from Barberton, the cavalry instructor Schroeder had no objection to this, so all the students of this gun transport operation followed.

On this morning, the team came out in a huge way, and the students were very excited to ride horses, although they had learned to ride horses before, they had never run far, and they usually only ran a few laps around the school. After three weeks of training, they were more upright and disciplined, without the usual giggling movements. Looking at the dark faces of all the students -- in order to prevent others from seeing that these were Asians, Yang Rui had all the exposed skin of all the students smear black ink and pretend to be local natives -- Yang Rui sighed: It is really getting more and more like a soldier.

Because of the students' lessons, they could only walk for eight hours a day, which according to Christian's estimation would take four days to get to Barberton. Yang Rui is not very interested in cavalry lessons, of course, this is just his excuse, in fact, he is very afraid of riding a horse, so Schroeder personally picked an old horse pulling a cart for him, he has no temper, but he can't run fast. He hadn't ridden a horse for such a long time before, so much so that he slept on his stomach at night to give his sore ass a good rest. But fortunately, the African savannah is still very flat, except for some bumps in the road when entering Eswatini, the road is fine. It was not until the afternoon of the third day that the team entered the mountains again, and on the fourth day, after a day in the mountains, finally arrived at the meeting point.

There were several white tents set up in the valley, and when I heard the sound of horses' hooves, several people dressed as cowboys came over with guns, and when they saw Christian's flag, they put down their guns, and a man waved on his horse, and Christian hit his horse to meet them, and it seemed that they were all acquaintances, and they chatted happily after meeting. Yang Rui had no interest in getting to know a few Boers, so he found an open space under the command of Leo and began to set up camp and set up tents. After a few days of running around, his whole body was sour, and Yang Rui just wanted to get water to take a bath in the small river outside the valley.

Christian quickly brought people over, Leo and Schroeder are old acquaintances with them, there is no need to introduce them at all, he just needs to introduce these people to Yang Rui, Yang Rui is thinking about taking a bath, just said hello to them, as for the names of these people, there is no need to remember any of them. Soon, a few people took Yang Rui to the cave to see the goods while it was not dark.

The cave is in this valley, and there are several small shrubs growing at the entrance, which just cover the entrance of the cave, and it is very hidden. The cave was deep, and it became wider and wider as it went, and several people had already prepared to light the torches. Not far from entering, I saw rows of long wooden boxes, pried open the boxes, the smell of gun oil came to my face, and a superb rifle stood out in front of me, looking at so many guns, Yang Rui's heart couldn't help but tighten. One of them took out a handful of mustaches and made a handful, and then handed it to Yang Rui, he meant that you look at how this goods are.

Yang Rui, who blindly took the gun, didn't know how to pretend to understand it like before, and only gave the gun to Leo. Now is not the time to pretend to understand, and whether it works or not depends on the opinion of experts. Leo took the gun and only looked at the maintenance and rifling of the gun, and then pried open some boxes inside and took out the rifle to look at it, and didn't say anything after reading it. This cave is very dry, there is no water seepage or anything, and the guns are all oiled before they are put into storage, so there is no problem with preservation. The worse ones were the British rifles, which were piled up in bundles without wooden crates. In addition to the rifles, there were four Maxim machine guns, which were also very well maintained and covered with some oiled paper.

It was already dark when I came out of the cave, and dinner was ready for the camp. The Boers had prepared a sumptuous dinner for their distant brothers, and several sheep were already roasting on the fire. Everyone sat by the fire, and as soon as they drank the wine, their feelings came up. Christian began to talk about the past with a wide tongue, and the Boers were also passionate people, and they began to shout and drink when they were drunk. For a time, the valley was full of wolf caves and ghosts. Yang Rui didn't have the heart to drink, he only thought of the guns he saw just now, this was the first time he had seen so many guns in so many years, and he couldn't tell the joy of thinking that these guns would be his own after thinking of them. It seems that the crossing is also very exciting, he thought to himself.

The grassland dinner was late, and Yang Rui still didn't take a bath after all, and he fell asleep in a dizzy kimono. After breakfast in the morning, more than 100 people began to move boxes in the valley. Yang Rui arranged a team of students to be responsible for inspecting the guns, in fact, there was no problem with these guns, at the beginning they looked at them one by one, and then they simply checked the guns. There are many people and great strength, and the cave is empty without much effort. More than 500 boxes of things were loaded into the carriage, and Yang Rui also took good things like Makqin, and the total of the two sides was only 9,500 pounds. After paying the money, the Boers hugged them warmly with their tickets, and then said goodbye to everyone with a red face.

The journey back seemed shorter than it had been, and by the third day it was almost the border between Eswatini and Lorensmarques. Yang Rui was napping right away, only to see a rapid sound of horses' hooves coming from behind, but it was Lei Yizhen and another student urging the horse to run over. I saw him report loudly to Schroeder: "Report to the sir, there is a caravan of native horses behind him, numbering about fifty, carrying weapons. ”

Schroeder was unimpressed by the presence of the natives, and only called up Christian, who was sleeping in the carriage. The two rode their horses together and ran to the back, Yang Rui knew that his equestrian skills were not good, and if the situation was not right, his escape would not be conducive to his life, so he would not join in the excitement. I just ran to Leo's side, "What's the matter, didn't you say that this road is safe?" ”

Leo is also thinking about this matter in the lock eyebrows, choosing to cross Eswatini is Christian's idea, in fact, there is no other choice, if you take the railway line, then you must meet the border patrol when crossing the border, gun confiscation not to mention people and squatting in prison. At this time, the natives behind him were already very close, and from a distance they heard Christian shouting: "sanibonani, sanibonani......"

Leo's brows furrowed even more, "Don't that guy know that these are Swazi, they don't understand Zulu." "The convoy has stopped, and according to the usual training, it is in a circle under the command of the students. Students held guns and stood guard in the circle. Christian's negotiation failed, and the other party couldn't understand what he was saying, so he just watched from afar. Seeing this, Leo rode in the circle and shouted to the natives who were driving the car: "Who knows Eswatini, who knows Eswatini......"

Immediately, a native man walked out tremblingly. "Go and tell them that we have only come from Barberton, and we have brought some goods, and now we are going to Lorens Marques. We were just passing through. ”

The natives didn't quite understand what Leo meant, but they went in a hurry. Soon, he communicated with the natives on horseback, and after the communication, the natives turned around and left. The whole convoy began to move forward again, watching the carriage hurrying forward, Yang Rui breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, what a fucking false alarm.

On the afternoon of the fourth day, the convoy finally returned to the farm, and the manor had long been vacant, and everyone worked together to unload the car. Christian didn't see anyone when everyone was moving, and after moving, he didn't know where he came out, and happily said to Yang Rui with a telegram: "Yang, the Dutch have sent a telegram back." Two good news, he has more than 10 million 7mm bullets there. And the price is not expensive, only 30 marks per thousand, and the large amount can also be discounted. The 7.92mm bullets are not in stock, so you need to make a reservation if you have a large quantity, but the price is higher. Every thousand and fifty marks. As for the ships to the Far East, he could arrange them as long as fifteen days in advance. ”

Yang Rui was very suspicious when he heard the price, there was no concept of second-hand bullets, and there were very few discounts, but the price of thirty marks was obviously a discount price, and fifty marks was the normal price. "Christian, his bullets won't be coming back for long. Why is it sold so cheaply. ”

"No, no. It's impossible. He was cheap because someone had already paid half of the money - the bullets had been ordered by the Boers, and half of the money had been paid at the time of the appointment, but they could not be shipped in later, and they remained in the hands of the Dutch. When the war was over, the bullets were worthless, and the Boers could not afford to pay the other half for them, so they threw all the money to the Dutch. They know that except for a small number of 7.92mm bullets, this batch of goods is difficult to sell, you must know that except for South Africa, 7mm caliber Mauser rifles are only equipped by farmers in some parts of South America, but there is no decent war there at all, no one needs this caliber bullets on a large scale, and these goods have been stockpiled until now. "Christian has been here since the beginning of the war, after all, and he knows these things very well. And if he hadn't come forward to inquire if he hadn't known the details, the other party wouldn't have been so cheap. "Actually, there should be some people over there who also have a stock of 7mm ammunition in their hands, although there are not as many as the Dutch, but these people have no way to arrange ships to the Far East."

It turned out that this was the case, and Yang Rui's mood became happy. It's really a treasure here, and after a big battle, it's a lot cheaper to pick up. "Half the price is paid, and according to the normal price of fifty marks, how can it not be bought for only twenty-five marks?"

Christian is also thinking about it. "Yang, how many bullets do you want? If you want more, you can just let the Dutch lower the price. I guess he's got a headache when he mentions that batch of bullets now. ”

"I want a lot of bullets, and all of his more than 10 million can be bought, but not this year, this year I only have 100,000, at most 150,000 marks to buy bullets. By this time next year, there will be plenty of money. Those guns from the Transvaal and those bullets from the Dutch can be bought. However, the asking price of the Transvaal is too expensive, thirty-five marks, ......" Yang Rui said and suddenly thought of other things, and now he bought the remnants of the Boer War, which took advantage of it. So will these people have arms factories other than guns and bullets, and if there are then these professional machines are worthless for now. "Christian, do the Boers have any munitions factories?"

Christian didn't know how Yang Rui had transferred the gun to the military factory, and as a quartermaster, he still knew a lot about the war potential of the Boers. "There is no munitions factory, but there is a small bullet factory, but because there are no raw materials, it does not play a role in the war. And where it was occupied by the British in the end, and whether that factory was demolished by the British, I don't know. I can go and ask. ”

"That's good, I'll wait for your news. No matter how many bullets there are, there will always be a day when they run out. Yang Rui felt that his cheapness was getting bigger and bigger, and he was very proud. Oh, I'm sorry I was distracted just now, where did we go? ”

"We said the asking price for the Transvaal was too expensive. Fifty-five thousand guns and thirty-five marks is a lot of money. Christian's mind was still on how to make a little money out of this big deal. If you add bullets, it's a million-dollar business, so I remember it very well when I talked about it. According to the 3% commission that Yang Rui gave him this time, if the price is low, he can get at least 4 to 50,000 marks, of course, according to the agreement, if the price is not ideal, the draw will only be 2%. "I want to find a price and talk about the possibility of thirty marks, this batch of guns is too large, and they are worried that the British will find trouble if they know it, and they can't shoot openly, so the buyers who can choose are limited. Now Germany. The price of the 88 Commission rifles that have been re-equipped by the army is also very cheap, and their price is the same as that of the 88 Commission that has been retired. ”

It turns out that this price is still very particular about setting it like this, they are sellers who can't see the light, and they are buyers who can't see the light. If you really go to Germany to buy those retired rifles, it is estimated that you will be arrested immediately, and then packed in a large wooden box like Sun Zhongshan did in London and shipped to the Qing court Ling Chi to be executed. After the Gengzi Incident, the great powers really made great efforts to maintain China's integrity and reunification, and they were deeply afraid that the 900 million taels of indemnity and the annual trade surplus of hundreds of millions of yuan in the chaos of the First World War would be wasted, and the money from the sale of arms in the war would come as quickly as trade. In the later Xinhai Revolution, they also supported Yuan Shikai one-sidedly, and did not give or say anything to Guan Yin, the rebel army, and did not sell any guns and ammunition. Of course, the Japanese still sell it, but what they sell is some junk goods, and those so-called Japanese revolutionary friends are really a big pit for the rebel army, and if it were not for the hundreds of thousands of guns in the Hanyang Gun Factory, this revolution would not have been successful.