Jagged Warlord

"What's the situation?" Li Mohan hurriedly asked

"Look, Commander." Pei Yuqing took out a handful of bullets from his pocket, "This is a bullet made with a new machine and matching molds, it's not a watery bullet."

Bao Dongsheng also took out the machined trigger and said, "This is not a water-filled part."

"What?" Li Mohan quickly grabbed a bullet, and looked carefully under the light, "This is the Springfield 0.30-06 rifle bullet, which is the bullet used by the US Springfield m1903 rifle."

"What kind of general is this, what kind of gun is it?" Pei Yuqing asked

At that time, although China's arms were of the IWC brand, they were mainly German and Japanese, and there were also a small amount of Austro-Hungarian and French rifles. American arms were not popular in China, and they were rare. It is not surprising that Pei Yuqing didn't know about them.

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.

The m1903 rifle, named Springfield rifle because of its manufacturer Springfield Armory, is also translated into Springfield rifle.As the standard rifle of the U.S. Army, it was the standard equipment of the U.S. Army in World War I.At the same time, it is also a well-tested old gun that has experienced two world wars.

Could it be that he hit the right button and bought a production line for Springfield m1903 rifles?Thinking about it carefully, this is actually quite good. Anyway, I originally planned to find the US imperialism as a backer, so it is only natural to keep the same weapons as the US imperialists.However, it is a big project to change weapons, from machine guns to rifles, which involves tens of thousands of guns and hundreds of millions of bullets.

Li Mohan thought for a while, and said to Pei Yuqing and Bao Dongsheng: "Don't say anything about this for now, you guys will give birth in secret first, and then I will tell you what to do later."

"Is this okay?" Pei Yuqing was a little worried, "The bullets don't match the guns, so the guns in the hands of the tens of thousands of SS soldiers are all fire sticks?"

"Why not. I'm not in a hurry, why are you in a hurry?" Li Mohan patted his chest and said, "That's it, but be sure to keep it secret. In addition, light and heavy machine guns must be made according to the caliber of this bullet, and they haven't been produced yet. Just follow this production, change the caliber of the ones that have already been produced, and sell them if they can’t be changed.”

Pei Yuqing and Bao Dongsheng nodded, and hurried back to the factory.

Li Mohan straightened his collar and went back to the banquet hall, only to see that Franken was drinking a little too much, his tongue was a little too big when he spoke, and his American English with a southern accent was even more incomprehensible.

Li Mohan thought that you, an old beauty, are really good at cheating, so he got ruthless and poured Franken a bottle of sweet potato burn.The alcohol content of this kind of home-made liquor is no worse than that of whiskey, but Franken was put directly in it, and he vomited in a mess.

"Hahaha." Li Mohan seemed to have won a battle, "Send him to rest."

Li Mohan didn't drink much by himself, but he was slightly drunk.He hung up a call to the Lin Jianqiu newspaper, "Hi, are you still busy?"

"Well, busy, what's the matter?" Lin Jianqiu's phone came from the sound of a typewriter. The "Voice of China" newspaper is equipped with a Chinese typewriter newly invented by Qi Xuan, a student studying in the United States in Shandong.Prior to this, Qi Xuan reported the description of the typewriter he invented to the manager of students studying in the United States and referred it to the Ministry of Education, and please refer it to the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce.The Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce uses the typing machine made by Qi Xuan, which is easy to use, has a complete structure, and the printed characters are still clear. It is specially approved to grant a patent for 5 years according to the temporary handicraft medal as an encouragement.

"So hard? I'll bring some supper to see you." Li Mohan said

"No. You are here, I can't do anything." Lin Jianqiu replied

"Being so focused on work. That's it. I'll come right away." Li Mohan hung up the phone, asked the driver to pick him up, and then bought some stewed meat and mutton on the way.

Arriving at Lin Jianqiu's newspaper office, when Lin Jianqiu saw so much mutton, he gave Li Mohan a charming look, "So much mutton, I know you have no good intentions."

"Me? Oh!!!" Li Mohan didn't react for a while, but soon he did.

At noon the next day, the office phone of Shang Yifu who was going to have lunch suddenly rang. Shang Yifu had already walked to the door of the office. After hesitating for a while, he turned back and picked up the phone. Shaw... what?"

Putting down the phone, Shang Yifu hurried to Li Mohan's office and knocked on the door, but no one opened the door.

"Secretary Shang, the commander-in-chief didn't come this morning." The guard standing at the door said.

Shang Yifu asked, "Do you know where the commander-in-chief has gone?"

The guard shook his head, "Secretary Shang, you don't even know, and I don't even know."

"Really." Shang Yifu walked back and forth a few times in a hurry, but happened to meet Liu Musheng who was coming towards him.

"Master Liu, do you know where the commander-in-chief is at the moment?" Shang Yifu asked hurriedly

Liu Musheng was startled, shook his head and said, "I don't know either. What's the matter, is there something urgent?"

"Hey!" Shang Yifu dragged Liu Musheng into the secretary's office and said, "The Japanese are making trouble again in Shandong."

It turned out that the call Shang Yifu answered was from Jinan Xiao Wenlong, and the volunteers exchanged fire with the Japanese near Weixian again.

After the armed occupation of the Jiaoji Railway, in order to occupy the Jiaoji Railway for a long time, Japan deployed troops on the nearly 400-kilometer long railway line in an attempt to permanently occupy it.Fangzi Town, which is located between Qingdao and Jinan and belongs to Weixian County, became the place where the Japanese army garrisoned troops second only to Qingdao and the command center for the defense of the entire Jiaoji Railway because of its unique geographical location.The Fangzi Civil Affairs Bureau was established, and the town became an important administrative institution stationed by the Japanese invaders on the railway line.From the beginning of the Japanese occupation, Fangzi became the largest military base outside Qingdao.

During World War I, the Japanese chemical industry developed rapidly, and the consumption of raw salt increased sharply.After the Japanese invaders occupied Qingdao, they violated the treaty and built additional salt farms, and plundered and transported a large amount of raw salt back to China.At the same time, under the protection of the military, Japanese businessmen frantically trafficked illicit salt along the Jiaoji railway line.Once they were seized, Japanese businessmen denied them, the military sheltered them, and the consuls stationed there tried every means to prevaricate them. Incidents of besieging and beating Chinese anti-smuggling personnel occurred from time to time.

Japan exported a large amount of arms to Europe, but the country lacked these non-ferrous metal raw materials.Japan's domestic demand surged, and prices rose sharply.Chinese copper coins (made by the official minting bank) contain 50% copper and 25% zinc. At that time, the value of copper and zinc contained in copper coins exceeded the value of the currency.From the beginning of 1915, all kinds of Japanese entered the mainland from Qingdao along the Jiaoji line, buying copper coins everywhere.Some Japanese traders also engaged in copper coin smuggling under the guise of traveling. Not only along the Jiaoji line, the copper coin smuggling activities continued to spread to the inland.The ignorant Chinese sold copper coins to the Japanese for petty profits, turning a large amount of precious money into a pot of copper water and zinc water.

At the same time, in order to consolidate its colonial rule, Japan organized a large number of immigrants. In 1914, Japan’s Qingdao Garrison Command stipulated that from that day on, with the permission of the Japanese side, foreign populations were allowed to immigrate to Qingdao even if they had no property relationship. On December 12, the Japanese government announced that Qingdao was open to Japanese residents.Since then, a large number of Japanese began to flock to Qingdao, spreading to the cities and towns along Jiaoji.

When the Japanese came to China, they needed houses and land. According to the relevant treaties between China and Japan, foreigners had no right to rent or buy houses or land outside of commercial ports and church sites.Even if the railway is attached, there are restrictions on the area and distance. Outside the limit, it is regarded as the mainland.However, after the Japanese army invaded and occupied the Jiaoji Railway, the Japanese rented land and built houses at will in places along the line where commercial ports had not been opened, and bought acres of land to build houses outside the land attached to the railway. Do not rent or buy, forcibly occupy.In Jiaoxian, Gaomi, Changyi, Anqiu, Qingzhou, Weixian, Changle, Boshan and other places where the Jiaoji Railway passes through, the Japanese "leverage the power of the army to rent when they want, and to buy when they want to buy. If you want to occupy it, you will occupy it, just like a land without people." If there are those who are unwilling to sell, they will be tempted by profit and force, and they will not stop until they fail to achieve their goals.

All the tricks and deeds of the Japanese revolve around one purpose: to permanently occupy Jiaozhou Bay, Jiaoji Railway and the areas along the line.Of course, this was only the first step of Japan's colonial expansion.The wide-eyed eyes of this evil wolf have already aimed at the whole of Shandong, and it is trying to use this as a breakthrough to expand into the mainland of China and then annex the entire land of China.