The arrogance started from Chinatown

Chapter 244: Change Partner
Chen Zhengwei never thought that he could actually draw the manufacturing method of smokeless gunpowder from the system, not the formula but the manufacturing method.

I was suddenly delighted. With smokeless gunpowder, I could do more things.

In the same volume, smokeless powder has three times the energy of black powder, which can make the bullet have stronger propulsion, higher velocity, and less residue when it leaves the barrel.

This means that semi-automatic pistols, submachine guns and automatic rifles can be produced.

In addition, you can also make grenades with greater destructive power.

If I remember correctly, it would take at least five or six years for smokeless gunpowder to appear, but the development of smokeless gunpowder weapons in the early days was not fast.

He can skip many development processes and create some weapons that are beyond the current technological limit.

"Tens of thousands of Taiping remnants and more advanced weapons... Who the hell can do anything to me?" Chen Zhengwei felt that he could walk around the United States with his head held high in the future.

But after calming down a little, Chen Zhengwei realized that things were not that simple.

Even though we have the manufacturing method, it still takes a lot of time and investment to form a complete industrial process.

In addition, there are industrial production lines for firearms and ammunition.

These all require a lot of investment and will take time to pay off.

However, in Chen Zhengwei's view, these are just minor problems that require some time and financial investment.

Putting the paper with the manufacturing process of smokeless gunpowder back into the space, Chen Zhengwei opened the grid with gold edges again.

Master-level skill points can further break through the LV6 skills to LV7, which is what Chen Zhengwei expected and is also the most important.

The manufacturing process of smokeless gunpowder and this master-level skill point alone are worth fifty thousand US dollars.

0.7 attribute points, 3 ordinary skill points, and the second blue grid contains 2 mastery skill points.

When Chen Zhengwei saw the five familiar Peace 1 revolvers, he was stunned. He didn't expect that he could actually pull out the revolvers that he designed and manufactured.

The cost of manufacturing one of these pistols at my own iron factory is only $3, and five at only $5, yet I ended up spending $16 to pull it out?

"Fuck!" Chen Zhengwei cursed directly, some garbage had sneaked into the prize pool.

Ten boxes of penicillin V potassium tablets, ten boxes of cigars, three cartons of cigarettes, and a pair of dark green crocodile leather shoes.

“Where are the Liuwei Dihuang Pills?” Chen Zhengwei discovered that he had not drawn the most important thing besides the master skill points, and his look immediately became unfriendly.

He only had one bottle of Liuwei Dihuang Pills left, and he had hoped to get a few more bottles this time, but he didn't expect that there were none available.

But overall the harvest was acceptable. Chen Zhengwei plans to keep his promise tomorrow and give the queen a pig's head!

The original attributes are strength 1.9, flexibility 2.0, constitution 2.0
However, after the attribute reaches 2, 0.2 attribute points are required to increase it by 0.1, which is directly reduced by half.

Chen Zhengwei put 0.1 into strength, and then put the remaining 0.6 attributes into physique.

Chen Zhengwei felt a warm current flowing through him, and all the joints in his body were making sounds.

The whole person seems to be a little taller.

"Thanks to my unremitting efforts, my physical fitness has finally improved!" Chen Zhengwei exerted force on his muscles, causing his originally loose shirt to bulge out, as if it could break at any time.

Then he added a mastery skill point to Insight at LV5, turning it into Insight at LV6, and the prediction also became LV3.

Then, without thinking about anything else, just put that master skill point into Insight.

Suddenly he became Master of Insight Level 7.

At the same time, there is an additional explanation at the end: All dangers and opportunities cannot escape your eyes.

The prediction also changes accordingly, becoming Danger Detection LV4, which corresponds to the description of being able to see through everything. All dangers and opportunities cannot escape your eyes.

"Huh?" Chen Zhengwei did not expect this skill change.

From the literal meaning, prediction is originally just to judge the actions of other people within the field of vision, while danger detection is more about detecting potential dangers.

Chen Zhengwei grabbed a gun and pressed it against his temple, but he felt nothing.

Chen Zhengwei casually threw the gun onto the table and prepared to go out for a while to see how this skill performed.

Then he threw the remaining skill point into Shooting (Fine) LV4, turning it into Shooting (Fine) LV5.

At the same time, the firearms mastery level 1 also became level 2.

Of the remaining three skill points, Chen Zhengwei directly gave two to Waltz LV3, turning it into LV1.

He felt that he was the most handsome guy on the dance floor.

Chen Zhengwei's current panel has become:

force 2.0
Flexible 2.0
Physique 2.3
Insight (Master) LV7, Shooting (Excellent) LV5, Sanda (Excellent) LV4, Danger Detection LV4, English LV3, Waltz LV3, Gun Mastery LV2, Toughness LV1, Throwing LV0.

Chen Zhengwei looked at the panel and pondered for a while, and suddenly thought of a question.

As the ability to see the smallest details improves, the derivative skill Prediction advances to Danger Detection.

So if Sanda continues to improve, why will the derivative skill Hardness be advanced?
Will it be so hard that it can't be softened?
Chen Zhengwei clicked his tongue and suddenly felt a little excited.

Then he took out a Peace 1 type revolver from the space, grabbed it with both hands, and quickly disassembled the gun into parts.

"More precise!" Chen Zhengwei took a look and found that the Peace 1 model extracted from the system was obviously much more precise than the one hand-made at the iron factory.

He rarely used guns bought on the market before, so he didn't notice this much.

Not only can the guns drawn from the system be put away at any time, but they are also more reliable.

After sorting out his gains, Chen Zhengwei walked to the mirror and looked at himself. The clothes were a bit tight and a bit short.

I have grown about two centimeters taller!

Then I took out a ruler and measured it, and sure enough, my height became 1 meters.
I put on my coat and went downstairs. I paid attention to the thugs I saw along the way. My original predictive ability was still there and had not changed at all.

"Mr. Chen!" The guests in the casino on the third floor greeted Chen Zhengwei when they saw him.

"Brother Wei, why do I feel like you've grown taller again?" Lin Rongcheng came forward.

"You just noticed it? I've been growing taller recently!" Chen Zhengwei smiled. Thanks to his unremitting efforts, he has been making progress!
"Arrange a carriage, I'll go down for a ride!"

A moment later, Chen Zhengwei was sitting in the carriage. He didn't notice any danger along the way, nor did he understand the purpose of this danger awareness.

In the end, I could only return to the casino in disappointment.

It seems that this skill can only be learned when you are in danger.

……

The next day at noon, Chen Zhengwei got up from Wanyun's bed yawning, smoked a cigarette, and went out for morning tea.

At the same time, ask someone to find Green.

"Boss!" Green now has a clear understanding of his position, especially since Chen Zhengwei promised to give him shares in the security company in the future, he has worked even harder.

"Sit down. Have you ever had Cantonese dim sum? Try it!" said Chen Zhengwei.

"I've tried it before, but never so many!" Green looked at the table of dishes in front of him with a smile on his face.

I have to say that Chen Zhengwei is indeed a good boss.

If only he could forget the moment he poured boiling water on his crotch.

"Did they find out last night?" Chen Zhengwei asked as he ate. "Yes! They brought the goods back to their territory and then changed carriages to deliver them to a garment factory in the south part of Market Street."

"I didn't know the situation inside the factory. I was afraid of being discovered by them, so I didn't dare to follow them in. But after two hours, those carriages left empty!"

"Just keep an eye on that area for the next two days," Chen Zhengwei ordered.

The next step is to find an opportunity to burn this batch of goods and then kill Jamie Mays.

This batch of goods occupied all the funds of the Jews, and they even borrowed some of it. As long as this batch of goods was gone, the Jews would collapse.

Any organization of any size will fall apart on its own if its funding chain is cut off, without anyone else having to do anything.

After all, those thugs need to eat.

At that time, he could also take the opportunity to swallow up some of Jamie Mays's power.

Although Jews have a low status in the United States, they are still useful and can be asked to do some dirty work.

Moreover, Jews are widely distributed in the United States, from the East Coast to the West Coast, everywhere.

While Chen Zhengwei was having morning tea, two ships stopped at the port.

A middle-aged man with dark skin came down from a boat. He was wearing a hunting suit with exquisite workmanship and materials, and he was accompanied by a few people.

After getting off the car, these people got on a carriage and left.

Then we came to a house.

"Boss!" The house was filled with strong and fierce men, who immediately stood up when they saw the man.

"Tell me, what exactly happened and what the situation is in San Francisco now." The middle-aged man was Juan.

He was in Panama negotiating a business deal with the local government.

Contracting plantations and building roads.

Since the smuggling route had to pass through the Isthmus of Panama, he had been operating on the Panamanian side and even funded Panamanian political parties.

However, a telegram was suddenly received that something went wrong in San Francisco and Carlos was captured by Jamie Mays.

This is a combination of new and old grudges.

Juan immediately took a boat back to San Francisco. In addition to the few people he brought with him, another group of people would arrive in the evening.

After hearing what his men said, Juan's face showed no expression, only cruelty and coldness in his eyes.

"Carlos must be dead!"

"Jamie Mays...it's time to settle the previous score with him!"

Now that the trading companies in San Francisco have come to a halt, they are losing money every day.

"In San Francisco right now, the most powerful group is the Chinese?" Although he had known this from the telegram before, he was still somewhat surprised after hearing the situation here in person.

There are many Chinese people in his plantation in Cuba.

They were all sold as piglets.

These Chinese people spoke their own language and had all kinds of bad habits, but they worked very hard, were good at learning, and their prices were very low, so no one would care even if they died.

"Yes, now the largest club in San Francisco is his, and it only receives San Francisco's wealthy people and politicians."

"I heard that Jamie Mays also has shares in that club. Jamie Mays was there when it opened. They have a partnership!"

Juan thought for a moment and felt that he should go meet the Chinese man.

As for cooperation… as long as there is enough benefit, the other party can simply change partners.

……

When Juan got off the boat, another ship was also docked at the port.

"Is this America?" Wen Bingzhong looked at the busy port in front of him. The port was paved with neat and clean stone slabs, and there were two- or three-story stone buildings. It was completely incomparable to the dilapidated Iquique.

There were iron steamships anchored in the distance, busy workers at the dock, and pedestrians in well-dressed gentlemen's uniforms walking down the street. Wen Bingzhong's eyes were full of anticipation.

In fact, he had no idea about America.

The United States is now just an ordinary country, known as the overseas province of Britain.

Not to mention him, a Chinese worker mining in a mine, ordinary people in most South American countries have never even heard of the United States.

His understanding of the United States came from what he heard from Situ Ye and others on the ship.

Now his first impression is prosperity and wealth.

"Finally I'm back! Why is this shore shaking so much?" Situ Ye got off the boat and jumped a few times on the ground.

But the ground beneath my feet is still shaking!
Fortunately, this experience has happened before.

"Let's go! Don't stand there! Go back and take a good bath, and then find a woman. It's been so suffocating on the boat these days!" Guan Qianbo came down from behind and said.

"When can I meet Mr. Chen?" Wen Bingzhong turned his head and asked.

"Are you going to stink up Brother Wei?" Situ Ye said with a joking smile.

"Go take a shower and change your clothes first. Knowing you're coming, I guess Brother Wei will see you soon!"

Situ Ye then turned around and greeted the others, especially the ones sent by Schultz. After agreeing to have a drink together, they got into their carriages and left.

Along the way, Wen Bingzhong saw many Chinese working at the port, all of which were heavy labor.

"How much money can they earn? Is it enough to eat?" Wen Bingzhong asked.

"As long as you don't owe usury, your salary will be enough to feed you to death!" Guan Qianbo laughed.

"They were paid $4 a week for six days' work, which was 50 cents a day."

"At 13 cents a pound of steak, you can eat steak every day."

Hearing this, Wen Bingzhong felt as if the ground was covered with silver.

Compared to the mines in Iquique, this is paradise.

Along the way, Wen Bingzhong looked greedily at everything around him, the pedestrians around him, the "tall" stone buildings, the "neat" road surface, everything seemed very orderly.

And there are those Chinese people wearing gentlemen's clothes.

Those people, like Situ Ye and Guan Qianbo around him, were all Mr. Chen's men.

Guan Qianbo told him how to tell the difference.

Look at the hat on his head.

Mr. Chen's men all wore a kind of wide-brimmed soft hat, which is said to be called Chinese soft hat here, and they had no braids.

Apart from that, ordinary Chinese people all wore bowler hats.

Because that kind of Chinese soft hat has another name, it is called thug soft hat.

As for the braids, more and more Chinese people in Chinatown are cutting off their braids. In the past, it could be used to identify whether they were Chen Zhengwei's men, but now it can't be used to distinguish them.

(End of this chapter)