America 1881: Legend of the West

About a month later, the railroad reached Roswell.

This time it didn't cause much of a stir, and it was completely different from the last time it opened to traffic in Lincolnshire.

It was so quiet that no major newspapers in New Mexico reported on the opening.

Because most of the residents of Roswell are Chinese.

Many of them have no need to come out.

Therefore, there are not many trains going back and forth, and most of them are freight trains transporting goods, machinery, supplies, and raw materials.

The mass-produced Roswell M1882 rifles and corresponding smokeless powder bullets were transported to various cities in the west via railways, and then entered gun stores around the world through various distribution channels.

There are more gun shops than restaurants on this continent.

People were not particularly interested in this new rifle at first.

Because compared with the previous guns, the price of this gun is not low, and the bullets are also special, using specialized bullets.

But after a female bounty hunter named Camilla used this gun to hit a target more than a thousand meters away in front of everyone on the outskirts of San Francisco.

Everyone present was stunned.

The photo of the beautiful woman holding a gun in her left hand and pointing at the target with her right hand quickly appeared in major newspapers in California and even the West.

As a result, this gun, along with the bullets it used, became popular in the West.

Any hunter, policeman, or even gangster with some financial strength would be proud to own such a gun as if they were following the latest trends.

The first batch of guns was quickly snatched up.

Roswell M1882, sold out.

Something else happened during this month.

For example, a new detective agency called "Border" has appeared in California, Kansas and New Mexico.

The person in charge of California, named Hanif, is said to have been a bounty hunter in the past. Their main business is to escort goods for wealthy people, and they are not involved in business in the city for the time being.

The person in charge of Kansas is the famous Wyatt.

They all fill, to some extent, the void left by the Pinkerton Detective Agency.

And in New Mexico, the man named White is back.

On his first day back, he threw his resignation through Harry Rivers' window.

Harry was sitting in his big chair smoking a pipe when he was unexpectedly hit by this shuttlecock-like envelope.

He opened the envelope and found a metal Pinkerton badge and a one-line resignation letter.

"Quit! Goodbye!"

Signed White.

Harry Rivers didn't even have time to think about why the paper said "see you later" instead of "goodbye" before he stormed to the window angrily.

He was going to settle the score with this rude bastard.

But White didn't even leave his back, he had already disappeared.

"Asshole! Don't ever get your last month's salary from me!" Harry Rivers yelled into the street.

However, the next day, he understood the meaning of "goodbye" on the note.

The Santa Fe office of the Border Detective Agency has opened.

The office location, according to Chen Jianqiu's instructions, was arranged opposite the Pinkerton Detective Agency.

In the following period, Harry found that more and more employees submitted their resignations to him.

The reasons for resigning were nothing more than physical illness and inability to do the job, or the border was beautiful, but it was too far away from home and I was homesick.

At first, Harry didn't care, because many of these employees were grassroots detectives, and some of them couldn't even remember their faces or names.

But soon, he discovered a problem.

After these people left, the remaining people on their side were basically eating and waiting to die, unable to even carry out the most basic work.

The entire New Mexico branch of the Pinkerton Detective Agency was paralyzed.

But those who resigned showed up at the Border Detective Agency opposite.

Harry suddenly became furious, put on his coat and hat, and angrily tried to find an argument with his pockmarked face.

Unexpectedly, when he walked to the door with his head lowered, he was rejected directly.

"Our person in charge said that idlers are not allowed in." A voice sounded in front of him.

Harry looked up and saw his old doorman.

At this moment, he is wearing the badge of his new club on his chest.

"When did you come?" Harry's face was almost crumpled with anger.

The guard never even submitted his resignation to him.

"Yesterday, sir." The guard was neither humble nor overbearing.

"I'm here to discuss business!" Harry snorted and said angrily.

He insisted on seeing White today and had a good talk with him.

"If you want to discuss business, please make an appointment."

"I'm here for an interview, and I'm quitting my job, so you're satisfied!" Harry roared at the doorman.

"Our person in charge said that we won't accept people above the supervisor level because they are all trash." The guard recounted truthfully.

"You!" Harry was hysterical with anger.

He raised his fist.

But the guard stared at him without fear, showing no sign of flinching.

Harry looked around and found that people passing by were looking at him strangely.

Finally he gave up and put down his hand.

The dignified head of the Pinkerton Detective Agency in New Mexico, and the former apprentice of Pinkerton's "Big Three of the West" Heilman, had a street fight with a young janitor. It was really inappropriate.

Harry glared at the doorman fiercely, turned around and walked towards the door on his side.

He returned to the office and plopped into his chair.

Harry's face turned red, and the more he thought about it, the angrier and more cowardly he became.

He rang the bell on the table and called two employees.

They are the few remaining people who can still work.

"Check! Check carefully! Find out what this Border Detective Agency is all about!"

White, who was working opposite, was in an extremely beautiful mood at this time.

He waved the banknotes given to him by Chen Jianqiu and poached employees of Pink Detective Agency who he believed had certain abilities.

In addition, Chen Jianqiu matched him with some young Chinese who knew English.

The Border Detective Agency is fully ready to start work.

He was busy taking over business, so he didn't have time to pay attention to his furious former boss.

In addition to the oil wells and refineries, the busiest thing in Roswell right now is the arsenal.

Chen Jianqiu's main focus during this period is to focus on the production here.

The molds and manpower for most parts were not a problem. Chen Jianqiu brought another group of qualified people from Juarez.

As for the parts that needed to be ordered from outside, Chen Jianqiu also let Browning find the source.

In addition, if there is anything more important, it is Hudson Maxim's gunpowder workshop.

The gunpowder workshop was placed alone in the wilderness.

Chen Jianqiu would hang out here from time to time.

Because the smokeless gunpowder produced here is kept secret from the outside world, and each process is separate. Even technicians often only know the process they are responsible for.

In addition, an explosives production line has just been installed here.

This raises the requirements for production safety to a certain extent.

Chen Jianqiu didn't want the entire Roswell to be blown up into the sky.

On this day, when he was patrolling outside the workshop, he suddenly heard an angry shout coming from the workshop.

"You! Stand up! Why isn't the nitrocellulose moistened? Do you know this will kill us?"

Chen Jianqiu broke into a cold sweat from behind.

He quickly walked into the workshop and saw Hudson Maxim reprimanding a technician.

This technician's name is Barco Pino, an Italian who is responsible for a pre-processing program for smokeless gunpowder.

At this time, he was lowering his head and was being scolded by Hudson Maxim.

"If it hadn't been for two rounds of cross-inspection inspections, we would all have to go to heaven now." The inventor, like Chen Jianqiu, was frightened just thinking about it.

Hudson looked at Chen Jianqiu.

It means that you are the boss and you can do whatever you want.

"Go and pay your salary and take the earliest train to leave Roswell." Chen Jianqiu said expressionlessly.

Safety issues are not negotiable here.

Barco Pino left the workshop dejected and got on a train heading east that same day.

As a new immigrant, he still needed a job.

So he decided to try his luck in New Jersey.