It was very easy to sell firearms in China now. Of course, if one did not have the strength, it was very likely that they would be blackmailed by others.
Foreign countries had always imposed an arms ban on China, not allowing other countries to sell weapons to Chinese people. This was because this would balance China's power and prevent China from unifying.
Therefore, firearms were in short supply in China. The most popular ones were naturally machine guns and cannons, but they were even rarer.
If a Kar98K was sold in China, the price would be between 30 to 50 US dollars. If it was exchanged for dollars, it would be around 75 to 125 dollars.
Heavy machine guns were even more expensive. Even the Lewis light machine gun cost more than 1000 dollars, and the heavy machine gun cost about 2000 dollars.
For these weapons, bullets were the most important part. A few dozen dollars for a thousand bullets could be used up in one or two minutes for a heavy machine gun.
If he wanted to deal with these warlords, Lu Jie still felt that he should put on a layer of foreign skin. Otherwise, the possibility of them fighting against each other was very high. After all, he was in the territory of the 29th division.
Therefore, Lu Jie asked Tan Ya to open a shop in Beiping, which was the office for arms sales. Tan Ya also used her identity as a Westerner to contact the 29th division.
Song Zheyuan, who was in Beiping, heard from his subordinates that a Western-run office was actually selling firearms to him. This made him very interested.
In this era, only with guns could one have money and power. Especially recently, the Japanese army had been very dishonest, and the situation in North China had become very tense.
To him, money was not a problem. The Beijing-Tianjin region was the wealthiest region in North China.
However, he lacked guns and cannons. He was not from the Central Army, so it was basically impossible to obtain firearms from the Nanjing government.
Therefore, Song Zheyuan immediately ordered,"Contact them. We want as many as they have!"”
Money would rust if it was kept. If it was gone, it could be earned again. As long as he had more people and guns in his hands, the territory would be bigger, and naturally, the money would be more.
Soon, Lu Jie received a list of weapons. When Song Zheyuan heard that there were heavy machine guns for sale here, he was very excited. Although Maxim was an old gun from World War I, it was still very powerful.
As for rifles, he wasn't very interested because they were too expensive. However, it was necessary to purchase a batch for his elite troops.
This time, they had purchased a total of 20 heavy machine guns and 2000 Mauser 98K rifles. Although the heavy machine guns were good, they consumed a lot of bullets. 20 of them were barely enough for now.
Another reason was that he didn't really trust this newly opened arms company. He placed a small order first to test the strength of this arms company so that he wouldn't be blackmailed.
Lu Jie did some calculations. A Maxim machine gun cost 2000 dollars, and a Mauser 98K cost 150 dollars. That meant that the total income this time was 340,000 dollars.
In this era, this was already a huge sum of money. Furthermore, there were bullets and other things. In total, it was a total of 400,000 yuan. From this, it could be seen that Song Zheyuan was not someone who lacked money.
But thinking about it, Song Zheyuan had occupied the Beijing-Tianjin area for many years, so he had reaped a lot of benefits.
Lu Jie was very happy that he had made so much money from his first business deal. Now, he was just short of start-up funds. He had to have his own territory before the July 7 Incident. Otherwise, he would be at a disadvantage in the war.
The firearms were quickly sold. Since Song Zheyuan wanted to do another business, the funds were quickly received.
After Lu Jie received the first sum of money, he began his next step of the plan, which was to buy a piece of land.
In this era, buying and selling official positions was a very normal thing. Even if you were a fool, as long as you paid enough money, you could buy a good position.
Lu Jie had his eyes set on a small town about 20 kilometers to the left of Wanping City. After spending tens of thousands of yuan, he had successfully obtained the position of the head of the Wulidian Security Corps and successfully established himself in Beiping City.
After that, they began to train the troops. The 200 miners who were rescued were all willing to join the Wulidian security team after hearing that they would be fed every day.
However, Lu Jie was not very optimistic about this. These people's physical fitness was really too poor. Now, he was looking forward to the opening of the mall.
After completing the mission yesterday morning, Lu Jie received a notification that the mall would only open in five days. The mall was currently loading goods, so it would take a lot of time.
The system's introduction of the mall also gave Lu Jie a lot of confidence.
The mall was one of the core functions of the super weapon lottery system. It was no longer a dream to become the world overlord with it.
However, they would only be able to see this in the early hours of the morning. It was impossible to rely on these miners now. Their physical functions were too weak and they needed time to recover. They had to go out and recruit soldiers.
In this chaotic era, it was quite easy to recruit a team. Anyway, with the name of the security team, recruiting people would not attract much attention.
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