Bailuyuan, I am Bai Xiaowen

Chapter 68 Markets
Hei Wa's business has been settled.

With the money given by Bai Xiaowen, I bought some household items.

He was looking for work outside, and even replaced a piece of land.

Tian Xiao'e fed two chickens at home, and her life was fine.

Last year, Bai Xiaowen worked on the translation work for more than half a year, and he translated the book of Ji Kede completely, with 80 million words, which means he earned more than 700 yuan.

Nearly two hundred were used, which means there are still five hundred oceans left.

Originally, I thought about continuing to do translation work, but the printing office didn't need it anymore.

Many things change with time. They are needed for a period of time, but may not be needed after that period of time.

Bai Xiaowen is still very grateful to Director Lin of the Publishing House. After all, he earned more than 700 yuan from him.

There are still more than 500, the money needs to be spent, land?If it was Bai Jiaxuan who had so much money, he must have chosen to buy land.

Bai Xiaowen was thinking about buying a gun.

Guns are the most important thing, and there are quite a few for 500 yuan, and you can buy seven or eight guns for some money, plus the guns of the bandits in the space, there are almost ten guns.

Ten guns, ten men, that's how a military squad is organized. At the very least, it's no problem to protect a village and be able to resist bandits.

Guns are much stronger than blunderbusses and bows.

Bai Xiaowen had this idea before the summer vacation, mainly because this time, the bandits have become more violent recently.

A group of bandits called Bailang were new arrivals. They seemed to be from Henan. They did some things on the plain. They didn't seem to have heard much about the particularly poor people. After all, they had no money.However, there were many cases in the city and by traveling merchants passing by.

Because of this, Bai Xiaowen's thoughts on buying guns are getting bigger and bigger.

In this year, banditry is serious in Northwest China.The damage is so severe that it is rare in history.Even many soldiers are bandits.

People buy guns to protect themselves.All kinds of guns have become popular goods. As the saying goes, if there is demand, there will be a market.Gun dealers from all walks of life are like crucian carp crossing the river.

The guns they sell are long and short, the short ones include revolvers and box guns, and the long ones are made in Hanyang and Czech.

Gun dealers sell old guns, but the prices are not low.

A revolver costs about 15 yuan.

An old Hanyang made asking price is about 18 yuan.

It is reported that a landlord in Yuanshang exchanged grain for a Hanyang made one, and later bought an old Czech one for 23 yuan.This kind of rifle was considered a good guy at the time, and it was imported.

As for the box gun, most people really dare not care about it, it is too expensive.But some people buy it.One is rich and big families who own more than [-] or [-] mu of land.There is also the bandit leader.

Most of the box guns brought by the gun dealers are in packs of ten rounds or six rounds, and there are many domestic products, and very few imported foreign ones.A domestic imitation ten-ring box gun is priced at sixty or seventy oceans.These are very expensive and few people buy them.

Bai Xiaowen has already inquired about it during half a year in the provincial capital. There are several black markets in the provincial capital, and there will always be gun dealers.

I went out in the middle of the night, and came to the black market at three o'clock in the morning.

There are many people selling things.

They are mainly those selling antiques. The ancient capital of Chang'an has a lot of old objects.

There are many customers and vendors.

There are generally second-hand goods shops and some long-term stalls that set up stalls in the black market. Since there is no stall fee and no tax, the business of the black market is extremely booming.

A lot of people came.

There are many antiques, and there are also many fakes.

But in this day and age, even if it is a fake, there is a high probability that it is from the late Qing Dynasty.

There are many things, true and false are confused, good and bad are mixed, there are real ones, and it is easy to buy fake ones.

Clothes, antiques, jewelry, clocks, hanging goods, miscellaneous items, furniture, among which there are many commodities of unknown origin, even stolen.

There are a lot of unknown origins.

Only then did they come to the black market to sell it.

Bai Xiaowen walked around the black market for a while. He came this time to find gun dealers, and his purpose was very clear.

Buy arms.It is not appropriate to be aboveboard, so I found a piece of cloth to cover my face.That way, no one will ever ask yourself.

"Do you want the goods? How much?"

Bai Xiaowen: "As long as there are seven or eight pistols, it will do."

"Seven or eight?"

That's a big deal for gun dealers.

Bai Xiaowen: "Not that much?"

"Yes, but I have to call someone. Now, I only have two pistols here."

Several gun dealers know each other and can cooperate.

Some gun dealers belong to the same organization.

Bai Xiaowen: "Can you show me your two pistols?"

"of course can."

The gun dealer took out two pistols more discreetly, "Look, they are all good things, new guy. This one, a box gun, is a small military officer in the provincial capital. He has no money, so he sold the gun directly. This one, Browning, is fun. Let’s see if this gun looks good. I stole it from a foreigner. It’s good. There are several other guns, some of our brothers picked them off from dead people during battles in other places. Although it is not authentic, guns are always good. What, do you want it."

Most of the guns on the black market come from wrong sources, or they are robbed, stolen, resold, or smuggled.A great chain of interests.

In the Northwest, the two biggest businesses are tobacco and arms.

Especially the black lump drug cream, there are still human races in Bailuyuan, and it has been banned repeatedly.

Tobacco and arms are not only the northwest, but may also be the two largest businesses in the country.

Bai Xiaowen expressed satisfaction with these two guns.

A better pistol will cost a lot more than a rifle.

Asked: "How much?"

"A gun is thirty oceans, and a gun is forty oceans. The price of the bullets has to be calculated separately."

"It's a bit expensive."

"It's expensive. Look at the quality. It's new. You can get the lowest price anywhere you go. I think you should be a student. To tell you the truth, I did a student business last year. Last year there were gunshots in the downtown area of ​​Chang'an City. Someone assassinated a warlord."

The great warlord Liu Xiazi had been kicked out of Chang'an City a few months ago.

Bai Xiaowen agreed and bought these two first.

"Sir, do you want anything other than a pistol?"

He sold the gun and made a business, and he was happy.

Bai Xiaowen is a big client, so he hurriedly asked again.

"Anything else?"

"If you have money, you can sell machine guns."

He took Bai Xiaowen to another gun dealer.

Eight more pistols were bought.

There are also four grenades.

Each pistol was equipped with about fifty bullets.

It's just that the bullet is a little less.

In order to test whether the guns can work, each gun was fired twice in the space, and there was no problem.

All the goods together cost more than 400 oceans.There are only 100 oceans in space.

(End of this chapter)