My Spy Years

  Chapter 133 Warehouse inspection

   Seeing Cheng Qianfan stunned, Pete laughed out loud. This was exactly the effect he expected.

  Cheng Qianfan looked at the neatly placed wooden boxes, he naturally knew the French on them, they were all gun boxes.

   "Did you rob the arsenal?" Cheng Qianfan asked.

   "Open it up and take a look." Pitt Nunu pursed his mouth, a cigarette dangling from his face with a smug expression.

  Cheng Qianfan took a crowbar casually and pried open one of the gun boxes.

  Looking at the neatly arranged pistols in the gun case, he picked it up and looked at it, his expression became even more exaggerated.

   "Peter, where did you get all these antiques?"

  It is indeed an antique, and it is a M1892 revolver made in France.

  M1892 is the first standard pistol in the history of the French army. It belongs to the standard pistol of the French army in the late 19th century. It was used on a large scale during World War I. This kind of old antique can no longer keep up with the demand.

The strangest thing is that everyone now knows that it is more convenient to hold the gun with a right hand and throw the bullet wheel of the revolver to the left, but the French standard pistol is a pistol with the bullet wheel on the right , or to put it bluntly, this is an outdated right-hander.

  Ghost knows what's going on in the French mind.

   Seeing Cheng Qianfan's disgusted expression, Pete spit out the cigarette **** in one gulp, "It's a free gift, do you still dislike it?"

   Free gift?

  Cheng Qianfan was a little puzzled.

   But saw that Pete did not continue to explain, but picked up the crowbar, went up to look for it himself, and pried open a gun case.

  "Rupee pistol?" Cheng Qianfan picked it up and looked at it. The gun was in good condition.

   This gun is also the standard pistol of the French army. The Ruby pistol was born in Spain in 1903 and was purchased by France during World War I to replace the M1892 revolver.

  The actual performance of this gun can also be described as 'difficult to describe'.

  Because of its low price and easy mass production, it was heavily equipped by the French army, Finland and other countries during World War I.

  During the previous domestic warlord melee, France dumped the pistol to China, and the Hanyang Arsenal at that time also imitated a batch of the pistol.

  However, due to its poor reliability, inaccurate shooting, and short life of the gun body, it is actually not very popular.

  …

   "Peter, you miscalculated this time." Cheng Qianfan looked at these gun cases and frowned, "These old antiques are not easy to sell."

  Whether it is the M1892 right revolver or the Rupee pistol, they are not very popular in China. If the price is too high, no one cares about it.

"Smart Pete won't make stupid mistakes." Pete said triumphantly, and he winked at Cheng Qianfan, "We didn't spend a penny on these guns, and we didn't even have to pay for the shipping. "

   "You stole it from the arsenal in partnership with someone?" Cheng Qianfan was surprised and asked half-jokingly.

  Although these two guns are not popular, they are indeed the standard weapons of the French army.

  Yes, although it is now the 25th year of the Republic of China, these guns, which were widely used in the late 19th century and World War I, and have almost been eliminated by the times, are still the standard weapons of the French army.

   "No, to be precise, those guys gave it to us." Pete grinned, "They also paid for the shipping fee for us."

   "Don't hold back, talk quickly." Cheng Qianfan said angrily.

   It turned out that the father of Pete's new wife Linda was a logistics officer of the French army in Marseille.

  A French member of parliament submitted a proposal. In view of the excellent peace situation in Europe and the powerful French Army having no rivals in Europe, he suggested that the French military carry out disarmament.

  This proposal has received general support from French public opinion.

  The military is naturally unwilling. However, in order to calm public opinion, the military stated that it will gradually destroy the huge arsenal of stockpiled ordnance.

  Peter's father-in-law's new job is to destroy these firearms in Marseille's arsenal.

  Peter was keenly aware of the business opportunity after learning about it.

  He proposed to his father-in-law that he could help to 'destroy' these firearms.

  So, some of the guns and ammunition to be destroyed were transported to the ship and brought to China by Pete.

  After the private operation of Pete’s father-in-law, the French military not only did not charge a penny, but also paid for the freight from Marseille to China.

  In their view, this is a good deal. Compared with these shipping expenses, it will cost more to destroy these guns.

  …

   "You are really a smart ghost." Cheng Qianfan laughed.

   It's no wonder Pete is so proud. Although these two guns are not very popular, they don't require capital, so the price can naturally be lowered, and selling them is pure profit.

   Moreover, the so-called "unpopularity" is also a relative term. As long as the price is right, these two guns will definitely not worry about selling them in China.

  In any case, this is also the standard weapon of the French army. You must know that many warlords in the country are armed, and even two or three soldiers share a gun.

  Cheng Qianfan was already thinking about notifying the underground organization of the Shanghai Red Party that he could buy some rupee pistols.

  Compared to the old-fashioned M1892 revolver, the Rupee pistol is the second-generation standard weapon of the French army after all, and its performance is much better.

  The Red Party lacks weapons, and these guns are good things for the Red Party.

   "What is this?" Cheng Qianfan saw dozens of wooden boxes of different styles inside the gun box.

   "This is also military assets that will be destroyed." Pete raised his eyebrows and said in a low voice, "Morphine, Linda's father added these medicines to the destruction list."

   As he spoke, he also complained that, unlike the guns, which were earned by them alone, Linda's father also got a share of the dividends.

  Cheng Qianfan knew in his heart that this was a way for Pete's father-in-law to take advantage of his position to resell medicines to make money.

   "Greedy old man, he doesn't want to bear the freight, and he has to split the money." Pete cursed.

  …

  Cheng Qianfan ignored Pete's complaints, he was overjoyed, he was more interested in morphine than guns.

  The red party armed forces are far more in short supply of narcotics than guns.

   Firearms can be seized from the national army, but it is too difficult to seize medicines.

   "What are these two boxes?" Cheng Qianfan saw that among the medicine boxes, there were two boxes with different colors from the others, and he didn't know the French written on them.

"That's..." Pete thought for a while, with a disgusted look on his face, "What is it called? It's called sulfonamide. It is said to be a new type of drug. I don't know what it is for. I saw it at the military supply depot, so I moved here together. Already, no one wants this thing.”

   Many people have never heard of this new type of drug that has not been tested in the market, so it is difficult to sell it.

  Cheng Qianfan just felt that he had heard of the term 'sulfonamide' somewhere, but he didn't pay much attention to it.

  He is now preoccupied with thinking about how to eat as much morphine as possible.

  PS: After communicating with the editor boss, Sanjiang still has to wait. Depending on the current situation, it will take three weeks or even a month, which means that it is very likely that it will not be released until July.

  The whole person is a little confused, which means that when it is put on the shelves, it will take more than 400,000 words, close to 500,000 words.

  Lao Qi has had no income for nearly three months now, just waiting for the new book to be on the shelves. There are old and young, and to be honest, it is too difficult to not see income for several months.

  Now all my thoughts are on this book, I will try my best to save the manuscript, just waiting for it to explode on the shelves.

   Comfort yourself, the future will be fine.

   What I'm thinking about now is, how many people are reading this book, and how many readers will subscribe?

   It's really... too difficult.

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  (end of this chapter)