In a village fifty miles outside Songhu City.
The scar-faced man parked the car outside the village and opened the door.
"Uncle Scar Face, are the three thousand men under my father here?”
Now that Songhu City had not been developed, it was not an exaggeration to say that the land outside the city was barren.
The village in front of him only had a few dozen households.
At most, it could only accommodate a few hundred people.
"Young Master, this is a village on the surface, but in the end, it's just a place for supplies."”
Pointing at the forest in front of him, the scar-faced man said helplessly,""In the end, the people in Old Master's hands can't be exposed. Therefore, he did not have a fixed residence. Most of them usually hid in the forest and trained in groups of more than a hundred people.”
Jiang Hai Feng looked at the forest in front of him.
In other words, these thousands of people could actually endure such a difficult life for several years?
If that was really the case, not to mention other things, just this endurance and will alone was not something that the soldiers under the warlords inside and outside the pass could compare to.
Hatred could destroy a person in an instant, but it could also make a person stronger than an ordinary person.
The latter words were not an exaggeration to use on these people.
If he remembered correctly, this place should be near the Yangtze River.
"My father must have relied on the firearms to transport the food here, right?”
The living needs of more than three thousand people were not a small number.
If they hadn't relied on the Yangtze River to transport supplies during the transportation of firearms, these people would have been discovered long ago.
This was also the reason why the Jiang family had chosen the north as the main source of arms transportation business for many years.
It was so that they could have a reasonable reason to transport the supplies needed by these 1,000 people.
The scarred face nodded." This place is remote. No matter how chaotic Songhu City is, those people won't come here."”
Those foreigners were all people who thought themselves to be noble.
Naturally, he would not come to such a place.
The warlords were even more so.
Even if they wanted to plunder, they would choose some rich lands.
Who would be willing to come to such a place where one could tell that they were poor and had no money to earn?
Just as Jiang Haifeng was thinking, several figures suddenly appeared from the surrounding forest.
"Uncle Zhang!"
A child poked half of his body out of a patch of weeds. After seeing the scarred face clearly, he crawled out of the grass with a face full of joy and pounced on the scarred face.
"Second Baby! Don't mess around! Call him Regiment Commander Zhang!"
Behind the child, two men carrying old sleeves followed closely behind.
Looking at the scarred face, the two men saluted him."Commander Li!"
After saluting, the two of them turned their gazes to Jiang Hai Feng with suspicious expressions.
The scar-faced man patted Second Baby's head and looked at the two men in front of him with a smile."This is the only son of the master. The master encountered some matters in the city recently and asked me to bring the young master over.”
The only son of a teacher?
When the two of them heard this, their gazes turned cold as they looked at Jiang Hai Feng.
"Greetings, Young Master!"
Young master?
Jiang Hai Feng didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
What kind of title was that?
Jiang Haifeng walked up to the man and smiled.""Show me the gun."
The man scratched his head and looked at the scarred face with some difficulty.
"Why are you looking at me?" Scarface laughed in anger. You've already called me by my name, so what's there to guard against?”
The man lowered his head in embarrassment.
Jiang Haifeng took the gun and smiled at the man.""You did the right thing. Sometimes, being on guard can save lives. It's always good to have more."
The old sleeve was made in Hanyang in the early days.
This was the first batch of German M1888 rifles that were copied before 1904.
After 1904, the Hanyang Munitions Factory modified it by removing the sleeves and increasing the outer diameter of the barrel from 13.4mm to 14.8mm.
In 1910, Hanyang made a third modification, changing the model M1888 vertical sight to the model 88 fixed arc sight.
Although the two changes did not affect the internal structure.
However, it allowed the third batch of Hanyang products to be more suitable for the people of Yan and Huang.
Not only did it increase the stability and range, but the improvement of the watch also increased the accuracy.
However, the annual production of the Hanyang Munitions Factory had long been divided up by the warlords.
"The thousand or so spears my father mentioned are all this kind of initial stage sleeve guns, right?”
Jiang Haifeng turned to look at the scar-faced man and asked.
The scar-faced man nodded in shame.
"Eldest Young Master is right. However, even this kind of old gun was something that he had managed to obtain over the years.”
Jiang Hai Feng nodded.
It wasn't because Jiang Tianwen wasn't capable enough.
It was a characteristic of this era.
Although there were many warlords in the Land of Yan Huang, there was a common trait that could be found by tracing back to the source.
Most of them were from Beiyang.
Only with this identity could they have enough background to participate in the warlord disputes.
Even Marshal Zhang of Fengtian had pathetically little equipment before he was appointed as the commander of Beiyang.
Beiyang's group of people had internal strife, but they weren't stupid.
Just like how those empires restricted the flow of guns into the Land of Yan Huang, the Beiyang people also restricted the flow of guns from non-Beiyang factions.
Living in this era, no one wanted to find another opponent for no reason.
Let's not talk about anything else, just the bandits from all over the world.
With just a few guns, he could rob people.
In the eyes of the warlords, these bandits were robbing their own things.
If they didn't restrict the flow of guns, they wouldn't have had food to eat.
But now, no one's restrictions were enough to pose a threat to the Jiang family!
Jiang Haifeng handed the old sleeve back to the man in front of him.
Looking at the child leaning against the scar-faced man, Jiang Haifeng squatted down and put his coat on the child's tattered cotton coat.
The scar-faced man and the two men were stunned when they saw Jiang Haifeng's actions.
Jiang Hai Feng stood up and smiled at the two people in front of him.""It's been hard on you all these years. It's the Jiang family's responsibility to let you live in such a place.”
The two men's eyes turned red when they heard Jiang Hai Feng's words.
"What are you talking about, young master? If it weren't for the Jiang family, we would have died in the hands of those warlords and mountain bandits a long time ago.”
"Those in military uniforms robbed our food. When those bandits came down the mountain and found that there was nothing to shoot at, they slaughtered the village in anger.”
"We're already extremely lucky to be alive.”
Jiang Hai Feng nodded.
He had seen it before he came.
The loyalty of these people to the Jiang family had reached level five, which was the highest level.
The greatest kindness in this world was to have someone to take care of you when you were about to die and to have someone to help you when you were hungry.
And when there was no hope for revenge, someone would give him hope.
Even if it was just a trace, it was enough to support them to continue living.
Jiang Hai Feng turned around and looked at the scarred face." These guns are too old. If you use them to kill people, you will only die in vain."”
"Since the Jiang Family took them in, we will not watch them bleed in vain.”
The scar-faced man's eyes were filled with shock when he heard Jiang Hai Feng's words.
"Young Master, do you mean to change guns? But where did the spear come from?"
Jiang Hai Feng smiled. This would allow the Jiang family's division to have a true division level equipment!”
It was time to use the 500,000 yuan.
Jiang Haifeng turned to look at the two men in front of him and said indifferently,""Let the people of this mountain gather
Equipment was not a problem.
The problem was that he had to see if these people were worth the firearms before equipping them.
Just two people were not enough to prove it.
If these people were really worth it, then this forest would be the real starting point for the rise of the Jiang family.
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