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Chapter 6 Buying a gun for self-defense

A new luxury store has opened near the embassy area of Dongjiaomin Lane, Beiping, a store that seems incredible to people, women's socks, stockings, and stockings as thin as cicada feathers.

At first, everyone didn't know what the function of this store was, but after a few days, everyone finally saw the true face of Lushan, and several kiln sisters invited from Bada Hutong wore stockings as thin as cicada wings, sitting quietly in front of the window, which immediately attracted everyone to watch. In these years, women have not been emancipated, let alone sexual emancipation in Europe and the United States, and they sit in front of the window in stockings, and they are even scolded as immoral. Some people walked past the stocking point, staring at the model sitting in front of the window, scolding: "Extremely vulgar, extremely vulgar", but they were reluctant to leave, let alone look away.

The owner of this shopkeeper is Pu San Young Master of Beijing City, and he even let those old-fashioned widows chase him to Pu Ji's house to scold him. Pu Ji felt wronged, this Xiusheng idea to make money is to make money, but it is too harmful, so he hurriedly ran to Bada Hutong to avoid the old man of his own family.

Wang Maoru personally ran to arrest Pu Ji back, and asked him to present this kind of stockings to the ladies of the embassies of Western countries, which was unanimously praised, and then the business continued. Due to the proximity of the land boundary to the family area of the embassy in the eastern suburbs, it attracts many people to buy.

At this time, Yuan Shikai began to create an ocean to replace Yingyang and silver, Wang Maoru's pair of stockings is twenty oceans, this year is a luxury, a family of five in Beijing has a living expense of only one hundred and two a year, and his pair of socks will make people live for two months.

But judging from Wang Maoru's business experience, those who make money still have to start with the middle class and the wealthy class, and the poor have little money to earn. For these European and American women in the embassy area, the charm of these stockings far exceeds the price barrier, and they are not bad for money. A Russian noblewoman bought a pair of white stockings at one time in his Jianyi, cut her skirt short the next day, and scratched her head at the ball, causing other women to be jealous, so Wang Maoru's business suddenly became popular. When Wang Maoru came, he didn't bring anything else, he took out a handful of Makarov for self-defense, some perfume, instant noodles, and the rest were stockings.

He knew that money was not easy to make, but women's money was easy to make, so the rest of the space in the carriage was stockings. I bought a pair of two yuan seven, brought 100,000 pairs of stockings, and a car full of them. Here, a pair of twenty oceans, according to the calculation of purchasing power, a piece of ocean is equivalent to fifty or sixty yuan in modern times, and a pair is a thousand yuan, and the huge profit is definitely a huge profit. However, the purchasing power of Beijing is limited, and no matter how many embassy districts there are, the market will eventually be saturated. After selling 10,000 pairs of stockings, Wang Maoru wholesaled 10,000 pairs on other counters in Beijing, earning 350,000 yuan before and after, in exchange for 300,000 taels of silver.

While counting the money, the shopkeeper of Pu Jipu scolded Wang Xiusheng for hurting people, and received 20,000 yuan in benefits from this side and gave his father 10,000 oceans. How did he think about it, old Baylor simply threw Dayang out, saying that he didn't recognize this son.

Wang Maoru became acquainted with Pu Ji, and saw that he was under a lot of pressure because of his own affairs, so he said that he would go to Shanghai Mansion on Shiliyang Street in the south to buy stockings. After the two of them thought about it, they just did it, took Yao Quan'er and a subordinate named Wang Peng, and the four of them took 20,000 pairs of stockings to Tianjin first, and then took a boat to Shanghai. When I first came to the slightly more modern Shiliyang Street in Shanghai, except for Wang Maoru, who had seen the world in later generations, the other people felt that it was extremely prosperous, and the foreigners in Shanghai also knew about Beijing's stockings, which aroused the pursuit of foreigners and wealthy businessmen in the south who pursued foreign spirits. Originally, I thought that the price was 20 yuan, but the market was good, and I dealt with several foreign companies, and I made a lot of money from 25 yuan.

After a month, Wang Maoru also went through the baptism of shopping malls and the economy, and they were also optimistic about the stockings market, and heard that Europeans especially liked it, and encouraged Wang Maoru to go to Europe to sell.

Wang Maoru thought about it and thought that this could be done in the future, but it was difficult to do now, because Peking University was about to open, and the revised "Rise of a Great Power" in the Peking University Library was about to be released, so he had no choice but to return to Beijing. But Wang Maoru decided in his heart that in a few days, if he wanted to go, he would go to France, the fragrant capital of Europe.

After returning to Beijing, Gong Zang Pingliang came to visit and respectfully handed over a check from the Japanese Zhengyin Bank, 5,000 yen. This is a large income, at this time the yen is directly linked to gold and silver, in China, the yen is also the silver dollar, the strongest currency since the dollar, and the ratio of the yen to the silver dollar against huàn is roughly around 1:1.5, which is also quite stable. After taking the money, Wang Maoru has nearly 400,000 yuan of capital in his hands, and he is considered a rich man in the Republic of China. However, the Beijing rebellion at the beginning of the year made all the rich men frightened, and Wang Maoru went to the German Lihe Foreign Company branch in Beijing to buy 20 German Mauser pistols.

This Mauser pistol is commonly known as a barge gun, a semi-automatic pistol with a box cannon, this pistol has strong firepower, but as a pistol, its recoil makes the muzzle of the bullet shoot and the shooting accuracy decreases. Therefore, after the barge gun was produced in Germany, it was first installed in the troops, and the strict Germans later invented the Ruger pistol that was more suitable for the use of the troops, so that the hair color arsenal that produced a large number of Mauser pistols had a backlog of Yanzhòng, so the Mauser company entrusted various foreign companies to sell them all over the world.

Not to mention that this Mauser pistol is widely praised in China, a Mauser pistol is more expensive than a Mauser rifle, 45 taels of silver, but the Mauser pistol ammunition is cheap, only six and a half taels of silver for a thousand rounds. Wang Maoru didn't see the manager, but only talked to one staff, and because of the commission, this staff member was also enthusiastic. Wang Maoru ordered 20 shell guns that fired 7.63mm Mauser bullets, each with 1,000 bullets and four magazines, a total of 1,400 pieces of silver. This caused the manager to run out and steal the business from the junior staff, and the angry junior staff was angry.

It's just that the manager asked: "These twenty self-acquired pistols, do they have gun licenses?" ”

"Do you want a gun?" Wang Maoru was taken aback, didn't he say that everyone could buy a pistol during the Republic of China? Like the United States in later generations, how can you buy a pistol and still have a gun license? Do the bandits want to buy a gun license?

Seeing his suspicions, the manager explained that the gun license was not rampant in the Republic of China, and for a wealthy businessman with huge assets, he could go to the government to apply for a gun license for sixty taels of silver, and then come to a foreign bank to buy a gun. Otherwise, if you are caught by the police in possession of a firearm, you will either be convicted of gangsterism or disorder. It can be said that this gun is easy to buy, but it is difficult to buy a gun license. The proliferation of guns in the Republic of China began only when the warlords fought and the gun license was invalidated.

Wang Maoru suddenly realized, and said in his heart that it seems that he must have his own industry to buy a gun, and he is a Peking University scholar, so he doesn't know if he can buy a gun. The manager said: "This is in Beijing, in fact, it is not difficult to buy a gun license, the main thing is that there is a way." Ordinary people pay 60 taels of silver for a gun, but I only need 50 taels of silver to find this person. Wang Maoru hurriedly asked who this person was, and the manager said that this person was the brother-in-law of Jiang Chaozong, the current commander of the infantry yamen, and Liu Laishun, the younger brother of the third aunt. This person is in the infantry yamen, specially responsible for issuing gun licenses, and generally speaking, they go directly to the infantry yamen to apply for gun licenses. Of course, in order to get a little money for himself, this Liu Laishun also privately put a gun photo, fifty taels a piece.

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