The arrogance started from Chinatown

Chapter 264 I want to have a man-to-man gunfight with that bear
"Boss, there are bear footprints here, and they are new, no more than two hours old!" A Mexican man in his forties stood up and said to Chen Zhengwei.

This Mexican is an old man on the farm and the best hunter. His wife works as a farmhand.

When I took over the farm, I kept the couple as well.

Recently, he was the one who took Chen Zhengwei to the mountains to look for bears.

After three days of searching, they finally found the bear's tracks. Chen Zhengwei immediately said to the others, "Don't shoot for a while! I want to fight it alone!"

At this time, Chen Zhengwei was wearing hunting clothes and boots, and so were the others around him.

"Brother Wei, it's too dangerous!" one of the men said immediately.

"The bears have just emerged from hibernation and are in urgent need of finding food. This is when they are most violent!" the Mexican also advised.

"It's just a bear!" Chen Zhengwei sneered. With his predictive skills, what kind of danger could there be?
Others couldn't persuade him, so they could only look at Lin Changning.

"He is born in the year of the donkey! No need to persuade him!" Lin Changning frowned while holding the shotgun.

She had some confidence in Chen Zhengwei's skills, as he had a terrifying insight into the future.

She always suffered losses when fighting with Chen Zhengwei.

And she had a little misunderstanding about bears.

The bear she remembered was a Malaysian bear a little over a meter tall that she had seen in Southeast Asia. If she was given a knife, she could kill it.

Although she knew that the bears in California were much larger, she had no idea how big they were.

After searching for more than an hour, they finally found the grizzly bear squatting by a stream fishing.

The grizzly bear noticed the person coming and immediately stood up and roared.

When he stood up, he was over 350 meters tall and weighed at least kilograms, with a mouth full of fangs, like a giant beast.

"Don't shoot, I'll do it myself!" Chen Zhengwei was a little excited.

"No!" Lin Changning objected immediately. This bear was much bigger than what he remembered. Human power could not fight against a beast of this size.

"Brother Wei, it's too dangerous, let's just forget it!" The other thugs also spoke up.

"You don't understand, dueling is a man's romance!" Chen Zhengwei sneered, then jumped off the rock with a shotgun in hand and strode towards the grizzly bear.

At the same time, he laughed loudly and said, "Come on, let's have a fair gunfight between men!"

Lin Changning: ???

Ma Zai: ???
Everyone's expressions suddenly became tense.

Lin Changning wanted to kick Chen Zhengwei, so this is the one-on-one fight he mentioned?
Those thugs also looked confused.

I was just excited for nothing.

"What did the boss say? You just let him go down like this?" The Mexican saw Chen Zhengwei jump down, his face full of worry.

After all, it concerns one's own job.

"The boss said he wanted to have a one-man gunfight with the bear..." said the henchman.

"Okay..." The Mexican's expression did not ease up, and he reminded everyone: "Be careful, bears are very resilient and have thick fur. One shot may not kill them! When wild animals are injured, they will be even more terrifying."

"We have to get closer too, and be ready to shoot at any time!"

After the Mexican finished speaking, Lin Changning jumped down with a gun in hand and followed not far away, ready to shoot at any time.

The other men also jumped down.

Seeing an upright two-legged ape walking towards it, the hungry bear became enraged and pounced on it.

The distance between the two sides quickly narrowed.

Thirty meters, twenty meters, ten meters...

The bear was running on the ground, causing everyone to feel a slight vibration under their feet, as if a carriage was rushing towards them.

Especially since Chen Zhengwei hadn't fired a shot at this time, he just stood there waiting for the bear.

"Brother Wei!" Those thugs suddenly panicked.

"No one is allowed to shoot!" Facing the grizzly bear rushing towards him, Chen Zhengwei felt that the momentum of this large grizzly bear was indeed terrifying, and its speed was also surprisingly fast, no slower than a galloping horse, and it was right in front of him in the blink of an eye.

Coupled with the Grizzlies’ size, they give off a sense of being unstoppable.

The moment the grizzly bear pounced on him, Chen Zhengwei instantly predicted that the grizzly bear would open its mouth full of fangs and bite directly at the junction of his shoulder and neck.

When the other henchmen exclaimed and Lin Changning raised his gun, Chen Zhengwei kicked off and rushed out, twisting his body and changing his hand from the gun handle to the muzzle, and swung the shotgun towards the grizzly bear's face.

And the grizzly bear just opened its mouth wide and pounced on the place where he had just stood, as if putting its face under the butt of a gun.

Chen Zhengwei swung the butt of his gun firmly on the grizzly bear's nose. The grizzly bear groaned in pain and even stopped moving. Then it turned its head and bit Chen Zhengwei again.

Chen Zhengwei had already grasped the handle of the gun and put the muzzle directly into the grizzly bear's mouth.

boom!
With a gunshot, blood spurted out from the back of the grizzly bear's neck, and then it fell to the ground with a bang, twitching a few times before it died.

"It's quite exciting!" Chen Zhengwei loaded the bullet with a click of the tongue, and then fired another shot at the grizzly bear.

"You're taking too much risk!" Lin Changning walked over quickly, pointed the gun at the grizzly bear, and there was a hint of complaint in his words.

She almost shot him.

"From now on, I am also a man who has fought a bear in a one-on-one fight, and it was hand-to-hand combat!" Chen Zhengwei said with a smile. He didn't think it was that dangerous.

Anyway, did he fight the bear in a one-on-one duel? Did he fight hand-to-hand?

The other henchmen also rushed over and kept flattering him.

"Just now I was so far away that my legs went limp from fear, but Brother Wei didn't even change his expression!"

"Especially when Brother Wei just took two steps to the side and dodged it, then turned around and hit the bear in the face with the butt of his gun. I couldn't help but shout out, but I held it back for fear of disturbing Brother Wei!"

Although everyone was bragging, they also truly admired him.

When such a huge beast rushed over, Chen Zhengwei took two steps to the side and turned around to swing the butt of his rifle at it when the grizzly bear was about to pounce on him.

No panic at all.

This mentality and courage alone are unmatched by others.

Not to mention that after he swung the butt of the rifle at the grizzly bear's face, he simply changed his hand to hold the gun handle, put the muzzle of the gun into the grizzly bear's mouth and fired.

Regardless of whether anyone can perform this move, Chen Zhengwei's move is extremely smooth and natural, with a kind of violent beauty.

"Brother Wei, how did you do it? Teach us!" The men started to speak up.

Lin Changning was feeling somewhat happy in his heart. Chen Zhengwei's movements were clean and neat, which was definitely not something that ordinary people could compare to.

This guy sleeps until noon every day and never practices boxing, yet he is so good at it.

If he could concentrate on practicing martial arts, he would definitely be able to leave his name in history!

"Otherwise, how can I be your boss?" Chen Zhengwei was in a good mood and laughed.

"Boss, that's awesome!" The Mexican also came over and gave a thumbs up.

"Take off the head with the skin, and then take off the bear's paw!" Chen Zhengwei commanded everyone to dismantle the bear.

"Brother Wei, do you want a bear whip?" a thug asked with a smile.

"Take it back and use it to nourish the scholar!" Chen Zhengwei said with a smile. He thought the scholar should need this.

The group didn't come down the mountain until it was dark. Everyone on the farm at the foot of the mountain was shocked to see such a big grizzly bear head with the entire bear skin.

Especially Qiao Niang, who was very startled.

Chen Zhengwei liked their reaction very much, so he had the bear head and skin made into a specimen, ready to hang it on the wall of his office when he returned.

...After staying on the farm for another two days, Chen Zhengwei and others returned to San Francisco.

"It's just too far! It would be great if we had a car!" Chen Zhengwei said on the way back. In fact, the farm is only more than 40 kilometers away from Chinatown, and it would take less than an hour to drive there.

But the speed of the carriage was slow. The four-wheeled carriage was heavy, and the road was not very good. It could only travel six or seven kilometers in an hour.

"Isn't this a car?" Lin Changning turned to look at her.

She was quite happy on the farm these days. It was much more comfortable here than the cramped Chinatown. Looking out the window, she could see endless wine racks and large fields for riding horses.

"Not this kind!" said Chen Zhengwei.

In fact, the Otto four-stroke engine had already been invented.

It is estimated that it will not be long before single-cylinder and two-cylinder engines appear, and the conditions for producing cars will be met at that time.

It can be said that new technologies are born every day at this time and there are business opportunities everywhere.

Electricity, light bulbs, telephones, cars, airplanes, medicine, smokeless gunpowder, new guns...

Products that are commonplace in later generations have just been or are about to be conceived in this era, in this era of continuous emergence of new technologies.

We set off at noon and returned to San Francisco at night.

Along the way, Chen Zhengwei still did not encounter the gang he was thinking about, which made Chen Zhengwei quite regretful.

After a night's rest, he got up at around 11 o'clock the next day and called Rong Jiacai over for morning tea.

"Brother Wei, sister-in-law! How was your trip? I heard that Brother Wei killed a bear?" Rong Jiacai asked with interest after sitting down.

"Hand-to-hand combat!" Chen Zhengwei immediately became interested.

"A bear that was as tall as two men and weighed six or seven hundred pounds rushed towards me. They were all scared silly. Then I swung the butt of my gun at the bear's face, and the bear burst into tears!" Chen Zhengwei boasted, patting his thigh.

"Brother Wei, so powerful?"

"You've already said it, I'm Brother Wei!" Chen Zhengwei laughed, then thought for a moment: "You know I killed the bear, but don't you know I'm a hand-to-hand fighter? Are those guys so ignorant?"

"They lost their bonus this month!"

"And Xiwen, your bonus is gone too!"

"Senior Brother, I didn't say anything..." Li Xiwen felt particularly wronged.

"You lost your bonus because you didn't say anything! Why are you so tight-lipped about such a thing?" Chen Zhengwei scolded with a smile.

"This talk is like a woman's crotch, tight when it should be tight, loose when it should be loose!"

"Are you behaving yourself?" Lin Changning glared at him, and stabbed Chen Zhengwei's waist with his left hand like a knife.

"We're one of us, why are you keeping a stern face all day long?" Chen Zhengwei sneered. Damn, it hurts quite a bit.

This girl didn't hold back when she attacked.

But you have to hold back!
As they ate and talked, Chen Zhengwei asked about the Chicago man: "Has the telegram been sent?"

"Yes! The address of the telegram was written down in the notebook they brought with them. I had them taken out one by one and beat them up before interrogating them. Only after I was sure there was no problem did I send the telegram!"

"I guess the next time they come, there will be a large group of people!"

"Calculate the time and arrange for a few people to find a house outside the Auckland train station and live there, and keep an eye on it day and night!"

"Let them get a telegraph wire! And get them a telegraph operator."

"As soon as anyone in Chicago comes out of the train station, I want to know."

"Kill them as soon as they leave the port!"

"I guess if we beat these people up, they'll be crippled! In a local gang, there are only a few dozen people who dare to fight, and most of them just want to make a living." Chen Zhengwei said casually.

In fact, it's not just those gangs that are like this, but also Chen Zhengwei's subordinates.

He has more than a thousand people under his command, but there are only two or three hundred real gunmen who dare to fight and fight, and the rest are just trying to make a living.

This was because he had many of his fellow clansmen from the two villages who had followed him all the way from the casino in Sullivan's Alley to the present.

However, if all goes well, he will have several thousand more gunmen under his command in more than half a month, although it will take some time to train them.

Ordinary gangs do not have his business acumen and cannot support so many people, usually only two or three hundred.

There are not many people who can actually be sent out to do the work.

"How's the slot machine going?" Chen Zhengwei asked again.

"We have produced more than 30 units so far, but the workers are not familiar with them, so the production is not very fast. But once this group of people become familiar with it, the output will increase soon." Rong Jiacai said.

"Take me there to see it later!" Chen Zhengwei said after thinking for a while.

After dinner, Chen Zhengwei and Rong Jiacai took a bus to the south area of ​​Shichang Street.

Jews in gentlemen's suits, who used to be seen everywhere on the streets, now have fewer of them.

The carriage first passed the original Home Run Cigarette Company and Hill Tobacco Company, both of which have now been renamed Fog City Tobacco.

"Now all the cigarette factories in San Francisco are ours! We are also engaged in retail tobacco." Rong Jiacai said with a smile.

Some low-level workers cannot afford cigarettes, so they usually smoke pipes or chew tobacco. Although this market is not big, it is a business that they do by chance.

Although the price of cigarettes only increased by 10%, the profit increased by 20%.

The entire San Francisco tobacco market had an annual profit of nearly $200,000, much higher than that of a medium-sized iron factory.

"Not only cigarettes, but also cigars, coffee beans and smuggled liquor are ours!" Chen Zhengwei said with a smile.

After passing the cigarette factory, we arrived at a factory near the river.

As soon as Chen Zhengwei and his companion got out of the car, the factory's thugs came over to meet them.

"Brother Wei, Brother Xiucai!"

"Lead the way and let's go in and take a look!" said Chen Zhengwei.

After entering the factory, I saw that the factory was divided into several areas, and every two workers were polishing, installing and debugging a slot machine.

"These workers are newly recruited, and their speed is a bit slow. Once they become proficient, they will be faster!" Ma Zai introduced.

"How can this not be slow?" Chen Zhengwei turned around and said, "Two people make a slot machine. Each of them has to be proficient in all the processes. It would be strange if the speed could be fast."

"Let each person be responsible for only one component. A few people will be responsible for making the outer shell, a few people will be responsible for installing the glass, a few people will be responsible for making the wheels, a few people will be responsible for making the joysticks, a few people will be responsible for pasting the drawings, a few people will be responsible for installation, and a few people will be responsible for debugging..."

"Let them not worry about anything else except the work they are supposed to do! Just do one thing, and they won't even have to use their brains, so they will naturally speed up!"

Rong Jiacai pondered for a moment, then praised: "Brother Wei still has a solution, this is a good idea!"

Although I haven’t tried it yet, just thinking about it will tell you that making slot machines this way will definitely be faster!

"Nonsense, no one knows how to do it better than me!" said Chen Zhengwei.

The assembly line that even children know about had not yet appeared at this time!

"Brother Wei, you have never worked in a factory!" Rong Jiacai said with a smile.

"I have never worked as a worker, but I have a brain!" Chen Zhengwei pointed to his temple!
"That's why I always tell you, you must use your brain when you go out to do things! The brain is a good thing!"

“All our factories will do this from now on!”

　Please excuse me, there will only be one chapter today.

　　I recently adjusted my work and rest schedule, and my sleep hasn’t been very good in the past two days. I wake up after sleeping for six hours every day, and I feel sleepy all day long.

　　I was so sleepy yesterday that I could hardly open my eyes, but I managed to finish writing 7,000 words, with a lot of typos.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)