Chapter 588: Male Soldiers' Self-Use 99 New

Chapter 581 Male soldiers use it for their own use

Liang Yao smoked a cigarette, sipped wine, and crossed his legs with interest as if watching a play, watching these southern gentlemen being drunk and sophistry.

In the decades-long debate and quarrel surrounding the issue of the survival and abolition of slavery, the theoretical level and thinking ability of both the North and the South have been tempered and improved, reaching a new height.

Liang Yao had no doubt that if there were northern industrial and commercial owners present, they would not hesitate to fight with the canes in their hands.

A few years ago, a Massachusetts congressman was crippled by a South Carolina congressman with a gold-encrusted civilized staff and was bedridden for two years.

Liang Yao noticed that even slave owners in the South had tough and moderate attitudes towards the abolitionists in the North.

The slaveholders with the toughest attitudes came from South Carolina, the stronghold of southern slaveholders, followed by Georgia and Virginia.

This is related to the slave-holding tradition of these states and the strong idea of ​​state rights. Although in the United States, people identify with the states much more than they identify with the federal government. But this problem was particularly obvious in the slave states of the South.

"Boss, why do I feel like these guys are scolding us?" Listening to these red-faced Southern guys shouting and scolding the Yankees in vulgar words, Zeiss next to Liang Yao felt that something was wrong. He always felt that something was wrong. The Southerners were cursing them too.

After all, the three West Coast states, especially California, the leader among the three West Coast states, are all industrial states like other northern states.

And his boss Liang Yao is the largest factory owner and capitalist on the West Coast.

"They are criticizing northerners, so what does it have to do with us westerners." Liang Yao didn't take it seriously. Due to its geographical closure and relative economic independence, the western region currently has no direct conflict of interest with the south. .

What's more, the west doesn't need black people from the south as a labor force. If there is a shortage of labor, it will be more cost-effective to sail directly to the Qing Dynasty to transport people. There is no need to compete with these slave owners in the South for slaves.

The southern states are positioned in the west as more of a provider of cheap raw materials and a dumping ground for industrial products and luxury goods.

"Your Excellency." The drunken Governor of South Carolina, Kingston, came to Liang Yao with the support of his servants.

"Governor Kinster, please take a seat." Liang Yao motioned for Kinster to take a seat.

"I wanted to make a special trip to visit you and discuss a business deal with you, but I didn't want you to come to Houston in person. I wanted to take this opportunity to discuss the business deal first." Kingst sat down on the sofa.

Seeing that Jinster started negotiating business with Liang Yao, other large slave owners in South Carolina also gathered around.

These slave owners came to them simply because they wanted to sell cotton to themselves.

After Buchanan took office, although he still adopted a conciliatory attitude, he hoped that neither the north nor the south would offend.

However, due to the growing power of the North in Congress, several bills to increase tariffs have been passed. In the past three years, U.S. tariffs have shown a trend of increasing year by year.

The profits of the cotton exported to Europe by these slave owners in the South were becoming increasingly meager. Coupled with the impact of the economic crisis triggered by the railroad crisis in 1857, the lives of the slave owners in the South were also worse than before.

The South Carolina planters heard that western merchants in Texas were buying and hoarding cotton at higher prices than northern merchants, and that California did not set up trade barriers to the inflow of goods from both the north and the south, so Kinster wanted to Liang Yao promotes South Carolina cotton.

"I think you want to discuss cotton business with me?" Liang Yao showed a very kind smile, "If it is cotton business, you can negotiate with the local Chinese businessmen."

Since getting involved in the chemical industry, Liang Yao has gradually lost interest in the relatively low-profit cotton textile industry and slowly withdrew from the field.

The cotton textile industry on the west coast is currently mainly carried out by Strauss, the governor of Liangzhou, and a large number of Chinese businessmen.

Liang Yao's business focus is mainly in the chemical industry, followed by gold mining, silver mining, industrial mining, machinery, military industry, shipbuilding and railways, which are more profitable and technologically advanced industries.

"It's useless to talk to them about this matter. I still need to talk to you." Although he was a little drunk, Jinster's mind was still clear. "To be honest, I want to barter for this batch of cotton." The transaction is in the form of goods, and we can even deliver the goods in advance without accepting cash.”

"Oh? Governor Kinster, what do you want to exchange your cotton for?" Liang Yao asked.

How could Jinster talk about business like this? He directly showed his trump card. There is only one reason for Kingst to do this, and that is that he really needs this batch of goods urgently.

Jinst looked up at the old guys surrounding him and said: "It's not mine alone, it's ours. We want to exchange this batch of cotton from you for a batch of arms. The price is negotiable. The only thing is The requirement is that it must be in stock and be delivered within 3 months!”

Faced with the growing threat from the north, Kinster was eager to formalize the South Carolina militia. Regularizing the militia requires a lot of financial resources and arms.

As for money, these wealthy slave owners in the South will naturally not be short of money. As for arms, the North has now strictly restricted the flow of arms into the South. It has been difficult for Kingster and others to purchase large amounts of arms from the North.

Orders from the Virginia Arsenal and the Texas Arsenal have already been placed for a year. It will take at least a year to order arms from these two arsenals, which is unacceptable to Ginstor and others.

The Chinese merchants active in the southern states can get slaves from Southeast Asia and Japan, as well as some sporadic arms for them.

But the arms that these Chinese merchants can get are mostly old guns such as Brown Bess and Springfield M1842, and the quantity is not large, which cannot satisfy the appetite of Ginstor and others.

What Ginstor and others need is a batch of arms with sufficient quantity and advanced performance to arm the militia of South Carolina.

Arms? Ready-made?

It's not that California doesn't have ready-made arms, but these ready-made rifle stocks are all General Liang M1857 rifles, which Liang Yao keeps for his future military expansion.

Moreover, as a single-shot, rear-loading rifle that uses a metal shell, the performance of General Liang M1857 rifle is too advanced at this time and it is not convenient to sell. At present, only the three main regiments of the Western Brigade and the three veteran militia regiments have completely completed the replacement of General Liang's M1857 rifles.

However, there are also spot stocks. In the armory of Jinshan, that is, San Francisco, there are still 3,500 second-hand Walter M1851 rifles that have just been retired from the militia.

Liang Yao originally planned to use these retired rifles to support the Indians' anti-genocide cause and exchange them for some local products to supplement their family income.

Since Jinster and others need arms, it doesn't matter if they sell them to them. Liang Yao's moral bottom line has always been very flexible. Anyway, the demand for cotton in the West Coast is also very large, and he is not worried that these cottons in South Carolina will be smashed in his hands.

Liang Yao just doesn't know whether Jinster and his gang of southern slave owners will dislike these male soldiers' 99% new second-hand rifles for their own use.

Although the training intensity of the militia in the West Coast region is greater than that of the militia in other states, the militia has not participated in high-intensity wars, so these second-hand Walter M1851 rifles are in good condition, even better than the retired guns in the three regular standing regiments of the Western Brigade.

"There are still 3,500 Walter M1851 rifles in my armory. Although these rifles are not brand new, they are not often used and are well maintained, so these guns are in good condition." Liang Yao said, "If you don't mind, this batch of rifles will be delivered to you this month."

For the preparation of war, the South is still more sufficient than the North. These slave owners in South Carolina are now thinking about regularizing the militia under their hands.

It is no wonder that they were able to beat the Northern Army to flee in panic at the beginning of the war.

"Walter M1851 rifles? Can they be delivered this month? That's great." Hearing that Liang Yao had ready-made Walter M1851 rifles to deliver, Jinster and others couldn't help but shine. "It doesn't matter if the rifles are old, as long as you can attach more ammunition to each rifle, it's just... the quantity is too small." "How many rifles do you need?" Liang Yao asked. 3,500 rifles are enough to equip three infantry regiments, which is not enough. Liang Yao is very curious about how many rifles Jinster and other slave owners want. "12,000 rifles, 12,000,000 rounds of bullets, 30 large Napoleon guns (12-pound field guns), 60 small Napoleon guns (6-pound field guns), 90,000 rounds of shells." Jinster reported the number of arms he wanted. Hearing this huge number, Liang Yao almost spit out the tea in his mouth. These slave owners in South Carolina have a very big appetite. "I'm afraid I can't get so much stock for such a large number of arms." Liang Yao thought for a moment and said, "I can contact my uncle for you and let his arsenal produce the arms you need. Let him produce the remaining 8,500 rifles, as well as ammunition, shells and field guns, and deliver them within a year. Is that okay?"

The Sacramento Arsenal is currently fully producing General Liang's M1857 rifles and Sacramento guns. The original production lines of Walter rifles and Napoleon guns have either been transferred to the Austin Arsenal in Texas or to the Xiangshan Manufacturing Bureau in Guangdong.

The order for the Austin Arsenal in Texas has been scheduled for a year later. If you want to take this order now, you can only give it to the Xiangshan Manufacturing Bureau in Guangdong.

"Okay." After a period of discussion, these slave owners in South Carolina agreed to this plan.

After finalizing the order, Liang Yao asked Zeiss to discuss the details with the slave owners in South Carolina.

The demand for arms was so great that they only thought about buying them instead of making them themselves. It can only be said that these slave owners in South Carolina had a little foresight about the future situation, but only a little.

They still believed that the upcoming war would end in two or three months, and that stockpiling a batch of ammunition would be enough to cope with the upcoming war.