1840Indian rebirth

(Chapter 25 has been slightly modified)

Feeling that the opportunity was almost there, he changed the topic on the rainy day: "Although this has nothing to do with integrity, out of friendliness and understanding, we are still willing to purchase a small amount of spirits to reduce some losses for you."

Businessman Smith's face softened a little, and he thought for a moment and said, "How much are you willing to buy?"

"Fifty gallons," said Rainy Day.

"Fifty gallons? That's too little!" Smith looked ugly again, "We brought more than 600 gallons of wine, and fifty gallons is not even one-tenth. You must buy at least 300 gallons, otherwise

We will lose everything!"

"I said that the Apaches have decided to give up drinking. We will no longer let alcohol corrode our bodies and souls." He paused on the rainy day and then said, "Let's do this, one hundred gallons, no more."

Use large wine bags. One hundred gallons is almost two hundred bags. It is more than enough for medical purposes. For those who are seriously addicted to alcohol and cannot quit in a short time, they can also drink a small amount to survive.

"Two hundred gallons." Smith still wanted to win some.

"Just a hundred gallons." Rainy Day said without hesitation.

Smith was silent for a while.

Rainy day said again: "However, although we only need a hundred gallons of spirits, we are willing to buy more for other commodities."

"For other commodities, we may not have enough goods now."

"It doesn't matter if it's not enough this time. It's not just this transaction. The Apaches will still be willing to buy goods from you in the future, and the scale of the business will only increase. They just no longer mainly buy spirits."

Smith thought for a moment and asked: "What do you want to buy, cloth? Knives? Or muskets?"

In his opinion, the exquisite and diverse cloths, metal swords and axes, and muskets in the industrial world are the three most likely to replace spirits.

"Muskets." Yutian said, "We need two hundred guns."

The decision to boycott spirits saved the Apaches a lot of money. After discussion, especially the recommendation of the horse whistle, they decided to purchase a batch of muskets, two hundred, not too much but not too little.

"What type of musket do you need? How about this one?" Smith brought a gun.

Rainy day looked at Ma Shao, Ma Shao nodded, stepped forward and took the gun from the businessman, ready to give it a try.

"Brown Bess, a British product. This gun is said to have killed a Chinese officer in 1840." Smith said casually.

In order to take care of the Indians' English proficiency, Smith used simple words and spoke slowly, so Ma Shao could understand.

There is no doubt that this is about the Opium War.

Ma Shao sighed a little, and then played with Brown Bess.

He didn't want this kind of gun, it was too old. In his mind, this thing seemed to have been invented in the early eighteenth century, more than a hundred years ago.

In fact, there are not many people using Brown Bess now. As Smith said, until the Opium War, the British army was still equipped with Brown Bess. But as a person from the future, Mashao really has nothing to say about this kind of musket that is about to be eliminated.

Get interested.

He was about to ask what other models there were, but his eyes suddenly froze, staring directly at a young white man behind Smith, or to be precise, the gun in his hand.

Revolver!

The horse whistle took a closer look and determined that what the other party was holding was a revolver or revolver. He immediately pointed at it and said, "Let me see this."

"You're talking about this, this is a new thing my nephew bought. It's called a Colt revolver." Smith said.

"But I think this thing is very difficult to use, easy to damage, and its trigger feels terrible. It's also expensive. No wonder the company that produced it went bankrupt and the product barely sold."

Ma Shao did not speak, but recalled the information he knew about Colt in his previous life.

Samuel Colt, an American firearms master known to everyone, is almost synonymous with revolvers.

The firearms master's early entrepreneurial experience was not smooth. As Smith said, due to immature pistol design and high price, the first company founded by Colt collapsed, leaving a pile of unsold products.

arms.

However, Ma Shao does not believe that these defective weapons have no practical value, especially the Colt revolver. Even if there are defects, it still has a firepower advantage that many firearms do not have.

Moreover, revolvers will be the structural trend of pistols for a long time in the future, so it is best to become familiar with them as early as possible.

He felt this was an opportunity.

It won't take long, at most two years later during the Mexican-American War, Samuel Colt will get out of trouble and become a world-famous firearms master.

By then, as an Indian, it will be even more difficult to buy another Colt pistol.

Now that the Colt company has gone bankrupt and has a backlog of unsold weapons, you should be able to buy some at a relatively low price.

As for Colt himself...if the horse whistler is a white man, he can try to win over him and provide help in times of need, but the Indians should not even think about it.

Under the guidance of Smith's nephew, the horse whistle fired several rounds.

As Smith said, this Colt pistol does have many flaws. The folding trigger makes the shooting process quite cumbersome. Every time you fire the gun, you have to perform a strange operation: fold the trigger back into the gun body, and then

Move the hammer back to the cocked state to allow the trigger to pop back up.

In addition, it is said that this kind of gun is easily damaged, and the one in front of me has been repaired once before.

But it was still a pistol that could shoot five bullets quickly, so after thinking about it for a moment, the horse whistle still said: "This is what I want."

"Are you sure?" Smith wondered what happened to these Apaches today. Instead of giving up their favorite liquor, they wanted to buy this kind of broken pistol whose production company had gone bankrupt.

"OK." Ma Shao said.

"Okay, but you have to wait until next time. I will bring you two hundred revolvers for the next transaction, but this time we only have two." Smith said, "Besides, I can't guarantee that I will buy it.

Maybe the company that closed down has cleared out all the guns it couldn't sell."

"Don't you think about other guns?" He brought two more guns, "We also have some rifles, such as the Rocky Mountain Rifle and the Kentucky Rifle."

Apache still bought two hundred rifles. After all, Colt pistols would have to wait until next time, so it would be a good idea to equip them with a batch of rifles now.

In addition to muskets, Apache also bought many iron products, such as iron arrowheads, iron stirrups, daggers and daggers, as well as some production tools, such as wood saws.

For these goods, especially stirrups, which the Indians did not need before, Smith's team did not specially prepare them, and quite a few of them were reserved.

Smith thought this transaction was really strange.

But something even stranger is yet to come.

"What are you talking about? You want to buy a newspaper?" Smith said as if he had seen a ghost.