America 1881: They Call Me Legend

Chapter 352 Return to Roswell
Ambassador Hunter was in a daze.

He felt as if he had been fooled.

"Mr. Chen, I mean"

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Chen Jianqiu.

He grabbed Hunter by the shoulders, pulled him closer, and whispered to him, "Brother, actually, I don't mind being a British citizen."

Hunter was a little confused.

What, just, bro?

"But American citizenship, I still have some use for the time being, how about this, how about you give me dual citizenship? I don't force you to have titles or anything like that."

Hunter's eyes widened:
"The British Empire does not recognize dual citizenship! Isn't the nationality of our British Empire worse than that?"

Before he could say the following ugly words, he was interrupted by Chen Jianqiu:

"No hurry, no hurry, let me give you a promise first, okay? Don't worry, I won't sell things to the US military for the time being. When the time is right, I will definitely go to serve Her Majesty the Queen, okay?"

Pointing at the machine gun, Chen Jianqiu whispered in Hunter's ear:
"Do you want a machine gun? Do you want an exclusive secret bullet? There are many other good things that are being developed in the future."

His next sentence cut into the ambassador's heart:
"I'll tell you a piece of news. France is also doing these things, and I guess it's coming soon. Do you want to figure it out yourself?"

The ambassador seemed to be poured with cold water from top to bottom, and immediately became refreshed.

He turned around and straightened his collar:
"Okay, let's do this! Go to England as soon as possible to establish a company, and I will talk to Chile about signing a joint development agreement for saltpeter mines with your company."

Chen Jianqiu patted Hunter on the shoulder, smiled and walked away.

He looked across the South Pacific beyond the harbor.

Time to go back.

It has been nearly a year since I left Roswell.

During this year, he has been conveying some important matters to Roswell through letters, such as the construction of new railways and investment in Mexico.

The rest were handed over to Danny and Asuka.

The matter here has come to a conclusion. As soon as the armistice agreement is signed, Iquique will be under control.

After everything was done, Chen Jianqiu and his soldiers set off on their way home again.

And this time.

Ricky Davis, the captain of the ship that had brought them to Chile, was on his way to Chile.

After DuPont fell into the sand in Chile, the captain could only start shipping fruit and wine beside his ship.

As Chen Jianqiu's reputation became more and more popular along the western coast of Chile, the captain finally knew who he brought over on board.

However, when he returned to Ensenada again, he received a shocking news.

The Juarez-Ensenada railway has already started construction.

Therefore, this time he came to Chile, he was already carefully considering whether to stop in Iquique.

Or, stop for two days and run?

But when he got off the gangway of his ship and stepped onto the pier, he found that Chen Jianqiu was already waiting for him there.

"Captain, has the railway been repaired?" The young Chinese businessman looked at him with a smile.

The captain was taken aback.

"How did you know I was back?"

"There are people on my side looking at the sea with binoculars every day. As long as your ship's paint job hasn't been changed, you can definitely be spotted."

Willing to gamble to lose.

Ricky Davis is not considered a decent person in the upper class, but he is a well-known veteran gambler in various port casinos, and he is not bad for his money.

"Tell me, how much saltpeter are you going to bring back this time?" The captain shook his head.

"Full."

After another month, Chen Jianqiu finally returned to Roswell.

In the year he was away, in addition to the extension of the railway to Juárez, other businesses were also flourishing.

Sanjiang Bank has already opened from Lincolnshire to Albuquerque, and the next branch should be in Santa Fe.

This bank has two points.

One is well-funded, and the other is more important, that is, safety.

No one dares to rob this bank.

Bank manager Greg Okafor is smug.

He was going to wait for Chen Jianqiu to come back to discuss with him whether he could obtain business licenses from other western states and open branches in California or Texas.

Refinery business is as steady as ever.

Before Chen Jianqiu set off, he hired some people who had left Rockefeller and several chemists to develop new products while transporting kerosene to Mexico for sale.

This is a steady income.

After the ordnance factory ran out of saltpeter and nitric acid in stock, it suspended the manufacture of smokeless powder and Roswell 1882, and resumed the production of older models of guns.

Gun stores put up signs saying they were temporarily out of stock and told them they would start offering ammunition again in a few months.

Because from the letter sent by Chen Jianqiu, Browning learned that such days would not last long.

And when the team to Chile returned to Roswell with saltpeter, the acid workshop next to the explosives factory resumed operations.

At the first meeting of the Roswell Science and Technology Committee after returning, Chen Jianqiu gave Ma Keqin and the others a big box.

Inside are real American bills.

"This is your patent share for this year." Chen Jianqiu said.

Hiram Maxim looked at the happy Browning and his brother, and was a little dazed: "My guns haven't sold much this year?"

"It's sold, it's still a big order, this is the estimated share." Chen Jianqiu handed him an envelope.

Ma Keqin opened it suspiciously.

Inside was a letter of appointment.

"We are about to invest in the construction of an arsenal in Kent, and I will hire you as the chief engineer and head of the company there." Chen Jianqiu said.

He patted Ma Keqin on the shoulder: "You are a family man. I told you there that your son deserves the best education."

For a moment, Hiram Maxim didn't know what to say.

What surprised Chen Jianqiu the most was the Border Detective Agency.

Pockmarked face White's pockmarks did not decrease, but Pinkerton was "killed" by him and was defeated.

After the New Mexico state government officially outsourced a lot of government operations to the frontier.

Regardless of whether it is visible or shady, they are all handled by White, which has accumulated a great reputation for the Border Detective Agency.

Harry and his Pinkerton detective agency can receive less and less business, and the grassroots employees he recruited are also unbearable.

Not to mention the investigation of Chen Jianqiu and the Border Detective Agency.

William Pinkerton nearly threw himself against the wall as he looked at the reports from the New Mexico office.

There is no shortage of expenses at all, but the item of income is gradually approaching zero.

In a fit of rage, he directly disbanded the New Mexico branch, and Harry, the person in charge, was simply kicked out.

And the entrustment they received from Henry Dupont to investigate the whereabouts of their company's personnel was gone.

At this time, DuPont and the Gunpowder Association encountered even greater troubles.

The person in charge of them in South America hasn't heard from them for several months, and it seems that they are missing.

There are even rumors that he was deeply involved in the saltpeter war.

The remaining employees either resigned or returned to China, and no one made it clear about the disappearance of the person in charge.

Henry Dupont wondered what the responsible man was doing behind his back.

The fact is that all American companies can no longer mine saltpeter in Chile.

If they really want to buy, they can only go to the British to buy second-hand goods.

This made those companies in the association who were accustomed to using cheap saltpeter anxious like ants on a hot pot. They began to cross the sea, each showing their special abilities, and thinking of their own methods.

But basically all had little effect.

And Henry Dupont was also scratching his head to think of a way.

However, at this time, a company outside the association suddenly offered an olive branch to the members of the Gunpowder Association.

Not only does it have access to get saltpeter, but it is also willing to share its saltpeter with everyone at a more suitable price.

The boss of this company is named Chen Jianqiu.

(End of this chapter)