Jagged Warlord

In the autumn of 1915, Shangqiu finally ushered in a harvest year that had not been seen in many years.The farmers were happily harvesting the crops in the field, and their happy expressions were written all over their faces.

This year is also a harvest year for Shangqiu Industrial Park.

The first is to realize the self-production of batteries. In 1912, Hu Guoguang, an expert in modern electrical engineering in my country, founded China's first battery production plant, Guohua Battery Factory, on Qiujiang Road, Zhabei, Shanghai. In the early days, the factory specialized in the production of "Earth" brand and "Eagle" brand dry batteries of various specifications. .At that time, the Ministry of Communications of the Beiyang Government ordered a large number of battery products from the factory for many times, and provided them to the major telegraph and telephone offices in the country for internal use.

Later, due to the gradual expansion of the use of batteries as a product, the Ministry of Communications of the Beiyang Government decided to set up a professional battery production plant within the Ministry.However, Guohua Battery Factory and the battery factory affiliated to the Ministry of Communications were not skilled in technology and poorly managed, resulting in huge losses.Due to the dumping of a large number of U.S. "Yongbei" brand batteries in the Chinese market at ultra-low prices, the two early domestic battery factories were at a disadvantage in all aspects.In the end, Guohua Battery Factory and the Battery Factory affiliated to the Ministry of Communications closed down one after another.

Mu Xiangyue, who is rich in business vision, merged the two battery factories decisively, and still appointed Hu Guoguang as the manager.With the strong support of Huashang Company, the China Battery Factory founded by Hu Guoguang in Shangqiu Industrial Park has been able to produce various batteries including automotive batteries.

In addition, Mu Xiangyue also acquired a number of factories, and promoted their development through financial and technical support, and achieved excellent results.

Shanghai Wangyueji Machinery Factory imitated the first No. 3 universal milling machine in China.

Shanghai Wanchang Machinery Factory successfully imitated the first popsicle machine in China.

Shanghai Ruichang Machinery Factory imitated the first soda machine in China.

Qian Yongsen, a native of Wuxi, founded Qian Yung Kee Electric Co., Ltd. to manufacture a small DC generator for power supply and plating.

Shanghai Dalong Machinery Factory successfully imitated the first single-stage centrifugal pump in China.

Yang Jichuan, an accountant of Shanghai Yukang Co., Ltd. successfully imitated the earliest domestic electric fan in China based on the American singular electric fan.

Shanghai Rongchangtai Machine Factory and Xieda Machine Factory manufacture 4.5, 8, 11-foot and 12-foot lathes.

At this time, Li Mohan was not at ease. Mu Xiangyue was in charge of his business; Liu Musheng, Duan Qingxi, Wang Shihua and others were in charge of government affairs; Jiang Fangzhen was in charge of military training; , Wang Qinian and a group of military academies also fulfilled their duties.This allowed Li Mohan to get away and lie far away. He planned to go to Shanghai once to buy a batch of equipment for his arsenal.

At present, various warlords in China own a wide range of rifle models and different calibers, covering all kinds of standard rifles in service in major countries in the world, with calibers ranging from 6.5mm to 7.92mm.Li Mohan is currently using a 7.92mm rifle.But in fact Li Mohan prefers the 7.62 mm caliber.The specific gun type is difficult to decide between the Springfield type and the Mosin Nagant type. Both types of rifles are greatly influenced by Mauser’s design concept. The overall performance of the two guns is not much different.

Modern China can be regarded as a big country that imports arms. From the end of the Qing Dynasty to the first half of the 20th century, due to the fall of the Qing Dynasty and the congenital deficiencies of the Republic of China, the domestic political situation continued to be turbulent, and local regimes and warlords quickly formed vicious forces. The trend of expansion, the chaotic society of warlords and strife, inevitably made China the largest arms importer in the world at that time, just like the countries with frequent wars in Asia and Africa today, they almost became the most important arms of Western powers at that time. The arms dumping market.According to historical records, the total amount of China's net arms imports in the three years of Xuantong in the Qing Dynasty was 3 million customs taels.Germany used to be the number one country exporting arms to China. From 272 to 1911, arms from Germany exceeded 1913% of the total value of arms imported from China.In addition, due to domestic reasons such as revolution and civil war in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, there was an increasing demand for imported arms. A comparable number of imported firearms are imported.

In modern China, the trading firms engaged in importing arms were mainly concentrated in Shanghai and Tianjin.According to historical records, between 1843 and 1846 in Shanghai, the number of foreign firms increased from 11 to 25.Among them, the foreign firms that sell imported arms mainly include Dias, Maddens, Xintailai, Naneng, Madelong, Qiongji, Swire, Tailai, Desheng, Hong Kong Nanli, American "Lammington" manufacturing plant, and so on.

At this time, Shanghai was already the leading big city in the entire Far East.There are many buildings on the street, red wine and green, and the flow of people is bustling.It made a group of iron arhats and guards from the countryside stare wide-eyed, even reluctant to blink, for fear of missing something.Li Mohan watched all this calmly. Although he had never been to Shanghai, both Shanghai and China still had to face decades of deep suffering.

If Li Mohan wanted to buy American products, he would go directly to the office in Shanghai. If he wanted to go to the Lammington factory, he had to go through Zhapu Road.Just near the intersection of Kunshan Road and Zhapu Road, several Japanese seemed to be fighting with someone.Fighting with them, one is a foreigner, and the other seems to be a Chinese policeman from the concession.

"Don't meddle in your own business~!" Li Mohan said to Tie Luohan and others who were watching the excitement: "It's important to do business."

"Oh~!" Tie Luohan responded

"Baga~ Chinese people dare to beat me?" A Japanese who was besieging and beating foreigners and Chinese on patrol shouted in Japanese Chinese

Li Mohan, who had just taken a step, was immediately frozen as if someone had tapped his acupuncture point.

Tie Luohan also heard this, and asked cautiously: "Marshal, what is a Chinese man?"

Li Mohan turned his head, looked at the group of Japanese whose average height was less than 1.6 meters [-], and replied: "That's what the Japanese devils specially used to scold us Chinese."

"What?" A group of guards were full-blooded young men. When they heard this, they suddenly became angry, and Tie Luohan's fists were clenched. "Commander, let me beat these grandsons to death."

"Then how?" Li Mohan shook his head

"But~?" Tie Luohan's forehead was full of veins.

"Of course you can't beat him to death, but you don't have to beat him to death, just break his hands and feet~!" Li Mohan said slowly

"Yes~!" Tie Luohan was overjoyed, and waved to the other guards, "Brother, beat his grandma." The guards cheered and rushed forward.This group of guards are basically big men from Shandong, and those three-inch little devils stand straight up to their chests.With the addition of the new force of Tie Luohan, the situation immediately turned one-sidedly. Several little devils were beaten into pig heads, and they were trampled under their feet by the boys in the guard class.

At this time, the beaten Chinese policeman struggled to get up, blew his whistle several times, and then limped to thank Tie Luohan.

Tie Luohan said with a smile: "They are all Chinese~ Seeing injustice on the road, it is right to draw your sword to save each other, but don't thank me, thank our commander if you want to."

Hua Zuo was about to limp and walk towards Li Mohan again. Seeing that he was injured, Li Mohan took the initiative to walk over and said, "Brother, you are injured, sit down and rest now. Tie Luohan asked someone to look around, Are there any other patrols, tell them to come over and help."

Then Li Mohan helped Na Huabu to sit down slowly on the side of the street, and asked him: "Are you a policeman in the concession, and the Japanese dare to beat you?"

Hua caught with a wry smile and said, "I saw that the Japanese were chasing and beating the foreigner, so they stepped forward to question him. Who would have thought that they would beat him without asking any questions. By the way, my name is Ma Fuan. May I ask this gentleman's name?"

"Li Mohan~!" Li Mohan replied

"Li Mohan?" Ma Fuan muttered to himself, this name seems to have been heard before

At this time, more patrols arrived here under the leadership of Li Mohan's guards, and they took away the troublemaker Japanese.

Li Mohan noticed the foreigner who was struggling to get up again, so he stepped forward and helped the foreigner up.

"Thank you." The foreigner said in English

"You're welcome, are you British? American?" Li Mohan asked in English

The foreigner replied: "I am an American, and my name is Franken."

"Why did you fight with the Japanese?" Li Mohan asked

Franken straightened his hair and said, "That's a long story."