The arrogance started from Chinatown

Chapter 291 Smokeless Gunpowder is Made
In Panama, Wen Bingzhong sat in the yard basking in the sun and laughed heartily.

"I told you I'm lucky, right? I don't know what you're worried about!"

"You almost lost your life, Boss Wen, but the only thing that's still tough is your mouth!" A man in his thirties beside him laughed.

"Who said that? Why don't you try it?" Wen Bingzhong was immediately unhappy.

Then he added: "They are in San Francisco, I don't know what's going on with them!"

“I really want to fly over there right now!”

"No matter what, it's better than Peru!" said the man next to him, and then said: "I heard that there are Chinese workers here too. They were all deceived and came to the plantations. On average, they don't even survive for five years!"

"Moreover, the French are going to build a canal here, and it is said that they will recruit a lot of Chinese workers! They say they are recruiting Chinese workers, but they are being sold here like pigs!" The person who spoke had a look of anger on his face.

They were sold to Peru, so they are particularly sensitive and empathetic to such things.

Wen Bingzhong frowned upon hearing this, and after a while he sighed, "Forget it, we can't care so much. Let's just live our own lives first!"

"When I get to San Francisco, I'll take a look at the situation there and have a chance to talk to Mr. Chen."

"If he is willing to save these people, they are lucky. If he doesn't want to do it, no one can force him. He is already a great favor to save us!"

Wen Bingzhong is quite clear about this.

The two chatted for a long time, and then Guan Qianbo came to the manor, sat down and said:
"We will return the day after tomorrow. Your body has not fully recovered yet. Stay here for another half a month. They have a ship carrying coffee beans to San Francisco."

"No need, I'll go with you. I want to see what the farm over there looks like! To be honest, my farming skills are rusty!" Wen Bingzhong said cheerfully. He felt that there was nothing wrong with his body.

"Even if you go, you won't have the chance to farm!" Guan Qianbo revealed a little.

Since Chen Zhengwei asked him to bring the medicine to save Wen Bingzhong, he will definitely use it when he returns.

After all, there are more than 10,000 Chinese, and 5,000 of them need to be reorganized into security companies.

We must definitely pick some people out there to use.

Wen Bingzhong's own reputation is not very high, and is even slightly worse than Chen Yonglu's.

He is only in his thirties, and he is brave and daring, a righteous man, and his life was saved by Chen Zhengwei.

This kind of person is the most suitable candidate.

"Land is very cheap in the United States. I want to buy a few acres and plant something. Over the years, I have dreamed more than once of the scene of farming at home when I was a child." Wen Bingzhong laughed.

……

"Mr. Governor, are you trying to tell us that Leland Stanford was beaten to death by his own bodyguard?" In the governor's office, two well-dressed men looked at William Evanston Owen.

"Is this how you want us to respond to Washington?"

"At least this is the result of the investigation. You can ask our Attorney General or investigate it yourself." William Evanston Owen didn't care about the person in front of him.

Although they are from Washington, the US government has little influence on internal affairs.

This is especially true in California.

"We will visit Mr. Smith!" The two nodded.

As for the fact that Leland Stanford was beaten to death by his own bodyguard, no one with normal IQ would believe it.

They then visited Eisenximi and received the same answer.

The two men came out of Eisenximi's manor and looked at each other. It was obvious that the California side had reached a consensus.

The two then sent a telegram to Washington.

Half a day later, the two received a telegram.

There was only one location on the telegram, San Francisco.

The two men immediately realized that Washington wanted them to go to San Francisco to find out what happened.

Even Washington can't bypass the California and San Francisco governments to deal with this matter, but they have to figure out what happened.

……

"Only 80,000 US dollars?" Chen Zhengwei looked unhappy.

"After all, the city government's budget is limited, and this $80,000 is the limit that can be squeezed out!" Darren, the mayor's secretary and deputy, then said with a hint of flattery:

"One hundred thousand dollars seems like a small number to Mr. Chen, but the budget of the San Francisco City Government is not large..."

Although the mayor was extremely angry with Chen Zhengwei, he did try his best on this matter.

Especially after what happened with Leland Stanford, the state was taking this lightly.

If there were still some people in San Francisco who were proud of their status before, now everyone knows that Chen Zhengwei is a madman who dares to do anything and kill anyone.

For the sake of his entire family's lives, Anthony did his best.

But in the end, only $8 was squeezed out, so Darren was simply asked to negotiate with Chen Zhengwei.

"But I also brought the plan for the new school. The new school will be located in Telegraph Hill and will cover an area of up to two acres! This will reduce some costs..."

Telegraph Hill is located northeast of Chinatown and southeast of North Beach, close to these two areas. There are many parrots on the mountain.

It is one of the few areas in downtown San Francisco where schools can be built.

Moreover, building a school there can reduce a lot of demolition costs.

"That's it!" Chen Zhengwei said, "I will entrust this matter to a construction company, and they will communicate with the municipal government."

He had just opened a construction company and poached the management from other construction companies, and he also sent some other people in.

After all, the United States will be in a stage of rapid development in the next few decades, and San Francisco will also have a large amount of urban infrastructure in the next two years.

In particular, these infrastructure projects require the employment of a large number of workers.

How could Chen Zhengwei miss this opportunity?

After Darren left, Chen Zhengwei still felt a little dissatisfied with the $80,000 he had just extorted from the city government.

But this is all we can do for now.

Then Chen Zhengwei got up and got on the carriage and left the city. On a farm about ten kilometers away from San Francisco, there are now several small wooden buildings and two brick and stone buildings under construction.

On the periphery, a number of wooden fences were built, and some Chinese workers from Peru were busy working on them.

Chen Zhengwei's carriage stopped directly in front of a small building.

"Weige!"

"Is there anyone in there? Is the thing made?" Chen Zhengwei asked excitedly.

"They said they had made it, so I sent someone back to inform Brother Wei!"

"Let them come out and bring what I want!" Chen Zhengwei said. Turning his head, he saw a thug taking out a cigarette and trying to smoke. He kicked him and cursed:

"There's gunpowder inside, be careful or it'll explode to death!"

The thug quickly put away the cigarette.

"No one is allowed to smoke here!" Chen Zhengwei said to others angrily.

The others were killed in the explosion...the problem is that he is still here.

As for the thugs sent earlier, they already knew about this.

Soon, Gibbs, the chemistry teacher from Yale University who was sent here earlier, came out of the small building with two students and said:

"We have prepared what you want. This gunpowder burns faster than the current gunpowder, releases more heat, produces very little smoke, and releases a lot of gas when burning... Who invented this gunpowder? Does it have a name? Why have you never heard of it before?"

Then Chen Zhengwei saw the gunpowder in his hand, which was a gray-black gelatinous substance.

"How stable is this thing?" Chen Zhengwei asked first.

"It's much better than expected! We tried using other things as stabilizers, but none of them were as effective as diphenylamine," Gibbs introduced.

"As for the production process of this thing, it is also very simple... As long as you are careful, there won't be any big problems. Of course, we did encounter some dangers before... Mainly when trying to use other things as stabilizers...!" Gibbs said again.

In fact, early smokeless gunpowder was not stable. The smokeless gunpowder production process in Chen Zhengwei's hand added diphenylamine as a stabilizer, which made it much more stable than ordinary smokeless gunpowder.

The other two students looked at Gibbs with complicated expressions.

If it weren't for Gibbs, the two would have already prepared this kind of gunpowder...

Although Gibbs was a chemistry teacher, he was a theoretical chemist and was better at mathematics than experiments.

Because of his clumsiness, several of them were nearly killed in the explosion.

"Cut this into small pieces!" Chen Zhengwei said to Gibbs, then took out a few bullets from his pocket and threw them to his henchman: "Remove the primer, pour out the gunpowder inside, and then put this new gunpowder in and see the effect!"

Then Chen Zhengwei watched everyone cut the gunpowder into small pieces, stuffed them into the cartridge case, and installed the primer again.

Another target was brought here!
"You try it!" Chen Zhengwei asked his men to take the gun and shoot.

boom!
"The sound is so loud?" The henchman was startled. The sound of the bullet was much louder than before.

"The recoil was also a lot stronger, and I almost twisted my wrist!"

In addition, only a slight amount of smoke came out of the muzzle, unlike the previous black powder bullets. After firing two shots, people's vision was blocked by the smoke.

Chen Zhengwei smiled. When he heard the familiar gunshot, he knew that the bullet must have broken the speed of sound.

Today's revolvers use black powder bullets, and the bullet speed out of the muzzle is only 250 meters per second, so the sound is much smaller.

Chen Zhengwei took another revolver from his henchman, fired a few shots at the target, and then walked over to check. Sure enough, the original target hole was much deeper.

Smokeless powder bullets are superior to current black powder bullets in terms of speed, smoke, and residue after firing.

In other words, you can make machine guns, automatic rifles, submachine guns and semi-automatic pistols yourself!

"What do you want?" Chen Zhengwei turned around and looked at Gibbs and others with a smile on his face.

"Can I leave here?" Gibbs asked subconsciously.

"You can leave after a year. After all, this gunpowder needs to be kept secret for now!" Chen Zhengwei said.

A year later he could get Gibbs to swim back to the East Coast from San Francisco.

After all, the gunpowder formula cannot be leaked.

"Well, some of the equipment we need hasn't arrived yet. Can you get them quicker?"

Chen Zhengwei looked at the two students. Compared to Gibbs, the two students seemed more useful.

"I'll double your wages, and I'll have some women sent over!"

"Besides that, you need to pay more attention to the lab's affairs. There will be a lot of people working here in the future!"

The two students were delighted, not only because their salary had doubled.

More importantly, Chen Zhengwei obviously values the two of them more, which makes them full of confidence in their future.

Chen Zhengwei asked about the manufacturing process of gunpowder and the issues that needed attention. Then after returning, he asked Rong Jiacai to arrange people to build a factory on the farm.

Not only will he produce gunpowder, he will also be setting up a factory that assembles guns and bullets there.

There is no safer place than a farm covering dozens of square kilometers.

"Go and get Greater Poland..."

Soon, Greater Poland was found in Chen Zhengwei's office.

"boss!"

"Send a few people to Smith & Wesson and Winchester to recruit some weapons R&D and testing personnel for me!"

"It's best if you have a family, and bring them along!"

"You can offer a higher price and just double their salary!"

"Don't tell them the specifics until they get here!"

(End of this chapter)