The history is terrible, and the origin and name of the rifle in front of him cannot be seen from the appearance. Wu Chaoyue can only pick up this rifle I have never seen before to look around and understand its structural characteristics and operation methods. However, as he looked, Wu Chaoyue's hands began to tremble and his breathing began to become rapid.

Because, this rifle is actually a continuous rifle with a capacity of fifteen rounds. In addition, one round can be pre-installed in the chamber, and up to sixteen rounds can be loaded, and a continuous shooting can be carried out 16 times! The barrel is engraved with rifles, and metal shell bullets are used! (Henry's continuous bead gun m1860.)

"My God! Brown, such a good rifle, you even scolded it as a piece of shit? Tell me not to buy it?"

Wu Chaoyue's excited roar did not change Brown's bad impression of Henry's continuous bead gun, but also made Brown shrugg and said disdainfully: "In addition to the advantage of continuous firing, other aspects of this rifle are just like the boss of the company that produces this rifle!"

"Wu, we are friends, I have to tell you the truth. This rifle is very bastard. First of all, its power is too small and its penetration is insufficient. It is not as powerful as the Minnie gun in both range and power."

"Then it's very troublesome to load it. It has to be loaded from the front one by one. You can't reload it before all the bullets in the barrel are fired."

"The third is that the barrel of this bastard rifle is very hot after firing the bullet. It must be cooled for a while before it can be reloaded. You must be very clear about what this means on the battlefield."

"Also, the most bastard thing about this bastard rifle is that it is too dangerous. After the hammer is opened, it is very easy to get fire when it is hit. Even when the hammer is not opened, the bolt will also get fire when it is hit too hard! So Wu, if you don't want your soldiers to be killed by this bastard rifle, it's best not to buy this bastard rifle!"

Brown's kind dissuasion did not change Wu Chaoyue's decision. Wu Chaoyue, who was in urgent need of a weapon to replace the firing gun, maintained his firepower advantage, insisted on buying all the Henry guns brought by Brown. Brown had no choice but to say: "Wu, your strange taste for rifles has never changed. Last time it was a ** gun, but this time I like this shit gun. I have no choice but to do anything to you, just do whatever you want."

"But I have to remind you first that the price of this bastard rifle and its bullets is not low. Even if I don't charge you for shipping, I won't make the difference in the bastard rifle. Each one will cost for forty-two dollars, and the price of every thousand bullets is also ten dollars."

"Forty-two dollars per bullet?" Wu Chaoyue took a breath and the value of the US dollar in this era is more than twenty dollars per ounce of gold, which means that the price of each Henry's continuous gun is more than two ounces of gold!

"Yes, this is the unified price of this rifle in the United States." Brown shrugged again, and then said: "Also, this rifle does not come with a strap and holster. The strap is two dollars and the holster is five dollars."

"Even gun holsters and straps are so expensive? Is this company's boss Sherlock or Grandet?" Wu Chaoyue asked angrily.

"Oliver Winchester, a bitch, is a famous villain in the American business world. Many American businessmen I know like you, like to put his name together with Sherlock and Grandet."

Brown replied humorously, saying, "Especially the bastard Henry, who invented this rifle, scolded me more than once for being a Jew who was a loan shark, and should have been tied to a cross and burned to death."

When he thought that he had to spend a high price of 49 US dollars to buy a Henry Pearl Gun that could be used, Wu Chaoyue of course nodded and hated the blood-sucking profiteer Winchester to the bone. However, after nodding, Wu Chaoyue's heart moved and asked, "Brown, since this rifle was invented by Henry, why was the factory owner who produced this rifle Winchester? Why didn't Henry himself produce it?"

"That bastard Henry is an engineer of Volcano Pearls. The owners of Volcano Pearls were originally Smith and Wesson. The company lacked funds and had to invest in this bastard Winchester." Brown explained: "Who knew that Winchester, a bastard who was raised by a bitch, took the opportunity to play tricks and deliberately broke the Volcano Pearls. Smith and Wesson sold all the shares to him, renamed the company to New Haven Weapons, and took over the entire business."

"Then the bastard Winchester, a bitch, used tricks to register the rifle as a patent of New Haven Weapons. So although Henry invented this rifle, he had no patent rights or shares, so he could only continue to work as a worker for Winchester."

Wu Chaoyue was overjoyed when he heard this and said, "Brown, can you help me contact Henry and ask him if he is willing to work in China? I am willing to hire him at three times his current salary, and ask him to help me study the new bead gun in Daye, and improve the current bead gun?"

"I'll give it a try for you." Brown answered casually, and then said: "But hope is certainly not big. Henry is also a bastard. Not only is he greedy, he also wanted to leave Winchester and work alone, asking him to come to China to serve you. I guess he won't agree."

"Brown, my friend, please do your best to help and try your best to persuade Henry to agree." Wu Chaoyue, who had already made a copycat idea, begged and said: "If Henry really refuses to come, please help me find some excellent gun development technicians, and I will hire them with a high salary."

"This is OK. I happen to have a wide range of ways in this area." Brown agreed and complained half-jokingly: "But Wu, don't always think about buying arms, you have to consider giving me some orders? Due to the economic crisis, my rubber business is very difficult to do, and I hope you can lend a helping hand to me."

"Are you doing the rubber business?" Wu Chaoyue was stunned and asked hurriedly: "You have been selling arms before, how could you go to the rubber business?"

"My father-in-law runs a very small rubber factory. When my wife and I got married, the Crimean War broke out, and the troops of European countries purchased a large number of military tents." Brown explained: "So I simply took out money to expand my father-in-law's factory, produced tarps and processed them into military tents and military rubber shoes to sell them to the European army. The business was pretty good at that time. Later, Crimea stopped fighting, and the United States happened to have an economic crisis, so my business was not good."

Wu Chaoyue laughed when he heard this, hugged Brown's neck and said, "Brown, my best American friend, don't worry, as long as your price is fair, you will all be yours in the future! Also, if you like, you can open a branch on my territory at any time. I can give you discounts regardless of land, taxes or loans!"

"Wu, my friend, I will definitely give you the most reasonable price!" Brown was overjoyed and hugged Wu Chaoyue and laughed.

After gritting his teeth and buying the 800 Henry Beaded Guns brought by Brown at a high price, Wu Chaoyue of course sent someone to Daye to hand them over to Yung Wing for research and trying to imitate the possibility. As a result, Yung Wing's reply also made Wu Chaoyue overjoyed. Because the structure is not complicated, Daye Arsenal, which already has experience in counterfeiting needle guns, is sure to imitate the Henry Beaded Gun. At the same time, the metal shells used by the Henry Beaded Gun are the same as those of the Smith pistol, and they are all fire bullets on the edge, so as long as you buy a mold or make a metal stamping mold by yourself, Daye Arsenal can also create bullets used by the Henry Beaded Gun.

After confirming the news, Wu Chaoyue was overjoyed and did not dare to take it lightly. He still entrusted Brown to purchase 3,000 Henry rifles and 2 million bullets from New Haven Weapons Company. Brown also asked Brown to help him buy more metal stamping machines and supporting molds in the United States. Brown, of course, did not refuse. When he left Hubei at the same time, Brown and a Guangdong fellow villager of Wu Chaoyue took 30 Chinese schoolchildren to study in the United States, and helped Wu Chaoyue establish the first foreign office of the Hubei Provisional Government in the United States.

After seeing off Brown and his group, it was already mid-twelfth lunar month in the tenth year of Xianfeng. After accepting Zhao Liewen's suggestion, Wu Chaoyue deliberately issued an announcement announcing that the next year would be the first year of Qixiang. He refused to recognize the year name Tongzhi that the Beijing Coup Group ruled for the 10th generation of Wild Boar Skin, which showed his attitude of drawing a clear line with the Beijing Coup Group, and shamelessly stated that he was still a Qing minister. His actions were to support the Qing Dynasty and allow the fence-ridden officials in the control of the Qing army to have steps to surrender and facilitate surrender and bribery.

At the same time, given that the iron ore in Shaoyang, Hunan is also of excellent quality and the technical reserves are sufficient, Wu Chaoyue once again cheated money from his grandfather and father, and began to establish Wu Jun's second industrial base, Shaoyang Iron Factory, to prepare to first produce iron and share the production pressure for the Daye Industrial Base, and then gradually establish the gun and artillery bureau to produce weapons to alleviate the logistical pressure of the future expedition of Guangdong and Guangxi.

In terms of military affairs, following Wu Chaoyue's orders, the troops of Jiang Zhongji, the Hunan Wu army and Li Xubin's troops of Sichuan Wu army, who were divided into two groups, had already approached Dali City, the old nest of Yunnan bandit army with the help of the Qing army in Yunnan. The bandit leader Du Wenxiu resisted stubbornly while sending letters to surrender, expressing his willingness to help the Wu army attack the Qing army. However, after hearing the news, Wu Chaoyue flatly refused and still ordered the Wu army to attack Dali with all his strength and annihilate the main force of the Dali bandit army at any cost.

Finally, on the fifth day of the first lunar month of the first year of Qixiang, the Wu army soldiers finally used tunnel siege tactics to blow up the Dali city wall and attacked Dali city. Du Wenxiu committed suicide by taking poison. He had received Wu Chaoyue's permission to rob the entire city beforehand and started a massacre of killing, basically annihilated the main force of the thief army and pacified the largest thief army in Yunnan and Guizhou.

After the Dali war, Wu Chaoyue of course immediately dispatched two armies, Li Xubin and Jiang Zhongji, to head north, returned to Hunan to rest, work part-time to guard the area, rotated the main force of the Hunan Wu army to go north to Hubei, preparing to launch an attack on Shanxi, the last supply of money and grain in the Qing court.

Regarding Wu Chaoyue's decision to transfer Wu troops from Yunnan and Guizhou to the north, the Yunnan Governor Wu Zhenju, the Yunnan Governor Sang Chunrong and the Guizhou Governor Liu Yuanhao all sent a letter to express strong opposition, and they all worried that doing so would lead to the rekindling of the thief. Wu Chaoyue, who had been dragged by the Yunnan and Guizhou battlefield, did not listen at all. He also clearly said to Wu Zhenju and others: "If the thief army resurrects, you can clean up first. It doesn't matter if I can't clean up. When I conquer the capital and quell the rebellion, I will turn around and help you!"

In addition, Wu Chaoyue made major adjustments to the personnel appointments in Yunnan and Guizhou. In addition to the failure to supervise and two governors, Wu Chaoyue all replaced his own people and took the opportunity to transfer the confidants of Wu Zhenju and others from Yunnan and Guizhou, undermining the one-supervise and two governors appointed by the Qing court in advance, and increasing the difficulty of their rebellion.

At this point, Wu Zhenju, Sang Chunrong and Liu Yuanhao also understood that Wu Chaoyue had never trusted them, but there was no way. The fiscal revenue of Yunnan and Guizhou was destined to be unable to rebel against Wu Chaoyue, and at the same time they were restrained by the thief army in the country, making it difficult for them to enter the sky even if they wanted to be separatist and independent. So there was no way, Wu Zhenju and others had to swallow their anger and continue to work hard for Wu Chaoyue, making preparations for both actions. If the Qing court could turn over, they would surrender anyway, if Wu Chaoyue really had the fate of becoming an emperor, they would really be a loyal minister and obedient people.

When Wu Chaoyue's military deployment adjustment was about to be completed, Hong Renqiu also appeared in front of Wu Chaoyue again. On behalf of Yang Xiuqing, he proposed to Wu Chaoyue to join forces with the Northern Expedition, requiring Wu Chaoyue to send troops north from Xuzhou, which had been taken by the Wu army, to take Kaifeng first and then cross the Yellow River, break into Zhili, help the Taiping Army share the pressure of the Northern Expedition, and also give Wu Chaoyue the opportunity to take the opportunity to attack the capital.

As soon as Hong Renyu finished speaking, Wu Chaoyue knew that Yang Xiuqing was going to take action and wanted to use the gradual south wind to rush straight to the capital from the sea. Wu Chaoyue did not refuse, but said to Hong Renyu: "Go back and tell the East King three things. First, if he really conquered the capital, I will keep my promise and pay tribute to him, but I will not surrender, I will just become a vassal state of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom."

"Of course, this is what we have agreed on before." Hong Renyu said with a sincere attitude: "Please rest assured Marshal Wu. Although our Dongwang Longsui has not read any books, there are also some short-sighted fools in our Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. But Dongwang Longsui knows that overthrowing the Qing demon court is the top priority now. Not only did he not listen to those stupid words of rats, he also directly killed one to kill the chicken to warn the monkey. So don't worry, as long as our Dongwang Longsui is here, we will never do stupid things that will drag each other down!"

"This is also what I admire most about Yang Xiuqing." Wu Chaoyue nodded, and then said: "The second thing is that if you decide to go north from the sea, you must be careful of the Russian Far East Fleet! In order to support the Qing Yao court to seize Chinese land, they are likely to go south from Heilongjiang to help the Qing Yao court deal with you!"

"Will the Russians help the Qing Dynasty court like this?" Hong Renyi was a little skeptical.

"Definitely." Wu Chaoyue replied: "The Russians are different from foreigners in other countries. They prefer the weak and bullied Qing demon court. They hate you and me who refuse to fight against them. For their interests in the Far East, they will never sit idly by and watch the Qing demon court fall directly."

Hong Renyi was still a little skeptical, but he also agreed to tell Yang Xiuqing. When asked what the third thing was, Wu Chaoyue said, "The third thing is to tell Yang Xiuqing that I will divide the troops into two groups to launch the Northern Expedition, attack Shanxi, and open the seal together. In this way, your pressure will be even smaller."

Speaking of this, Wu Chaoyue smiled and said, "And I will send troops earlier than you, so that you can see the sincerity of me and you in fighting the Qing Dynasty first."
Chapter completed!