From to 1935 2020

He made this improvement on the last day in Yan'an. During the test, he tried firing it nearly a hundred times in one breath without blowing up the chamber, and the effect was very good.When I returned to Shanghai this time, I saw that the equipment had arrived, and a lot of workers had been added here, so I simply placed an order for the following people as a work task.

On the same day, he operated according to the above process in the factory. After making two samples, he drew a few simple drawings on the spot and asked the workers to process them accordingly.

In the eyes of outsiders, these things are just metal covers and flanges with slightly weird shapes, and no one can see that they are weapon parts.

The future task of this factory is to produce some small hardware parts that cannot be processed in the base area for the time being, as well as to continuously manufacture simple bullet reloaders. , the workers here only produce some parts, and the other parts are produced elsewhere. The two are not combined, and the workers don't know what they are making.

The industrial plan in Yan'an is just starting now, and the relevant supporting equipment and personnel will be in place at the earliest after February next year.Some spare parts that are urgently needed and difficult to process can only be produced in advance through Huang Ke for the time being. After all, Shanghai's trade is developed, materials are easy to obtain, and the production conditions are much better than those in Yan'an, which has just started.

After simply giving instructions to the on-site technicians and pointing out some things they need to pay attention to during processing, Huang Ke left the factory and returned to the orphanage.

In the current orphanage, the number of abandoned babies and street children adopted is close to a thousand. The problem of overcrowded babies has caused both Elena and Huang Ke a lot of headaches... because there are always more people in the local area. Intentionally or unintentionally, send the child here.The reason is that the survival rate of infants adopted by this orphanage is too high...

Seeing the crying babies thrown in front of or near the orphanage, the two of them were a little scared to adopt—it’s not that they don’t want to adopt them, but there are too many of them...

In this matter, no matter how kind Elena is, she still feels powerless in the face of more and more "baby boomers".All she can do is to expand the size of the orphanage again and again. Another solution is to seek help from the society for adoption, but up to now, only a dozen or so infants have been adopted.

When Huang Ke returned to the orphanage, he would hear the loud crying from all the way. After all, it was an orphanage with hundreds of babies...

Imagine hundreds of babies crying at the same time.

Today's orphanage is divided into three parts, one is a nursery for infants, and the other is a home for children over five and under eight.The third part is the "Children's Home" for those over eight years old.Huang Ke's current idea is to raise them first, educate them for a while, and then send them to the Soviet area in batches - it will take [-] or [-] years from now to liberation. He is a good reserve army of the Red Army, a successor to socialism, and Huang Ke's own future team.Related matters, Huang Ke had already discussed with the high-level Red Army when he was in Yan'an, and Yan'an was making preparations to receive these children.

For some unexplainable reason, at Huang Ke's initiative, some children of martyrs from all over the country were also sent to orphanages as abandoned babies or children sold on the street.

Among the children of martyrs sent here, Xiao Huang Ke has been looking for someone intentionally. This person is his "old senior" in Jiaotong University, and he also went out from Jiaotong University. A super bull.But little Huang Ke couldn't find his name in the list of martyrs and orphans handed in by Pastor Dong.

It wasn't until January that he resumed contact with Big Huang Ke that he figured out from there that the man's father hadn't died yet, and it would take four years before he died in history.And now history has been changed...

"Well, no matter what, I have to find that person and get him to study at Jiaotong University! In the future, my team, the Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering of Jiaotong University must not lose this person!"

As for the other children over eight years old in the orphanage, Huang Ke is no longer raising them for nothing...

Here in the nursery, some older children have been assigned to help adults take care of infants over three years old, mainly to play with them.The older children have to work in the orphanage and do what they can.It's not that Huang Ke wants to save a few hired workers' money to exploit child labor, but to let these children understand the hardships of life early.This kind of layman's work is not done every day, but comes in rotation, and there are some small gifts or pocket money rewards afterwards.

The canteen of the orphanage was also expanded due to the need to provide food and drink for more than a thousand young children.There are more than a dozen workers working in the back hall—the ones who can work in the orphanage are either the underground party and its family members, or the old Red Army sent by the Yan'an Central Committee to protect Huang Ke. The orphanage is now the largest "bandit gang" in Shanghai. nest".

In the cafeteria of the orphanage, there is a dough making machine kneading dough mechanically. This machine is made by Huang Ke.It is easy to knead enough steamed bun dough for thousands of people.When Huang Ke came to the back hall, several adults working in the canteen were bringing more than 20 children to make steamed buns here.The material for kneading dough is a mixture of sorghum, corn flour and other miscellaneous grains. Several older children joined hands to help. scent.

Seeing Huang Ke and Elena, the "real owners" of the orphanage, coming, all the children respectfully shouted to them, "Hello, Dean."

Huang Ke glanced at the canteen chef wearing a chef's white hat. His surname was Luo and his name was Huiming.

Because of the large-scale zero-yuan purchase incident in Changsha, the comrades sent by the central government to Huang Ke's side "showed their faces" in Changsha, and had to replace another group of people.Some of the soldiers protecting Huang Ke were arranged in the orphanage as hired workers, some were waiting as guards in the small hardware factory, and some followed Huang Ke and Elena as bodyguards.

As for Luo Huiming, the leader, because he worked in the cooking class in the early years, he was arranged to be the head chef in the canteen of the orphanage.

The cooking class, similar to the "wearing sea soul shirt", is the strongest hidden occupation in the red regime.Luo Huiming, the former squad leader of the cooking squad, is actually a combat hero with a higher rank than Liu Changfa in the Red Army.He was also one of the seventeen warriors who rushed to cross the Dadu River. At that time, he was the platoon leader and the hidden leader of the soldiers protecting Huang Ke and Elena.

Some of the steamed buns were put into the nearby carts, and some older children from the orphanage were pushed out of the orphanage by the adults, and began to deliver steamed buns to beggars on the streets of Shanghai.

Elena and Huang Ke followed the steamed bun distribution team and looked at the group of people around the cart receiving steamed buns. They were all ragged beggars.

Since Elena gave out porridge and food in Shanghai on a regular basis, the number of "roadsiders" around the orphanage has decreased a lot, but it's only a "reduction".Shanghai at the end of December was already very cold. Recently, due to the drop in temperature, the number of frozen corpses cleared from the streets of Shanghai every morning began to increase again.

For the convenience of relief, most of the time it is simply "porridge", and the occasional steamed buns are the most popular food for beggars on the beach. Because the portion is large, each person gives two, you can eat a lot full.

In fact, the steamed buns made in the canteen of the orphanage are not delicious.In addition to the traditional staple food materials such as sorghum, corn, millet and a little flour, ground orange stalks, corncobs, wild vegetables, even bean cakes for horses, and "edible sundries" such as bean dregs left over from making tofu are added. The taste was very unpalatable, but this was a special request from Huang Ke.

Luo Huiming, who participated in the Long March and ate countless wild vegetables and grass roots, is an expert in this area. According to Huang Ke's instructions, the steamed buns he made are not bad in nutrition, but the taste is definitely "you can eat it but it's not delicious." " level.

For Huang Ke's approach, he, the old Red Army, understood it very well.

Luo Huiming said: "During the Long March, if we had such steamed buns every day, we would have saved a lot of sacrifices."

It’s not that Huang Ke is stingy, it’s just that this is how the poor people who really need food to prolong their lives can eat it—because this is a lesson learned, when Elena used to put out the relief steamed buns, it was because they were so good and hardworking, what is it really? Everyone came to grab it.

"Every time I see people starving to death outside, I feel sad and powerless. I know this kind of small kindness is useless, but if I don't do something, it always makes me feel uncomfortable... .In fact, what I can save is only a few people in the surrounding area."

The scene in front of her made Elena think of her own world once again. Little by little tragedies of hell had happened in the desperate 20 years before the dusk of the end.

"The food production in this world is actually enough to feed everyone! But in this world, countless people still starve to death every day!"

Elena clenched her fists and said bitterly.

"I understand you!"

Huang Ke held her right hand.

"Rome was not built in a day. The same is true for the country! A perfect world where everyone can eat and clothe themselves, have a place to depend on when they are old, and a perfect world to support their children. It depends on you, me, and others to work together to build it little by little. Yes. Unlike when we first came to Shanghai, we have already found countless comrades! This corrupt and dark world, one day, we will smash it to pieces—but now, what we need most is money! A lot A lot of money..."

Elena grabbed Huang Ke's hand and leaned her body to the side, getting closer to him.He and she turned their heads to the HSBC Bank building not far away at the same time.

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Half an hour later, Huang Ke and Elena arrived in front of the HSBC building in a car.Behind the two people's cars, there was another small truck carrying goods.

After the two came out of the car arm in arm like a couple, the Indian guards at the gate of HSBC quickly came up to welcome them respectfully.

Soon, the manager of the bank was also alarmed.

In the past few months, Elena's deposits in HSBC have exceeded tens of millions of dollars. Although most of the money was spent quickly, as the most famous "Golden Princess" in Shanghai, she has long been the favorite of the major banks. Liked "premium" customers.

Pan Hannian, who was the "horse boy", came forward and said to the manager of HSBC, "We have a large sum of money to be deposited in HSBC!"

Huang Ke and Elena stood on the side arm in arm in the posture of "Master and Madam", while eight "savage men" who were also full of aura and full of evil spirit walked down from the truck behind them. With the help of the staff, five bulky and large boxes were lifted off the car in succession.

"Four hundred kilograms of gold bars, 20 silver dollars, plus a box of antiques! All deposited in HSBC!"

The gold bars and silver dollars are all the "hard currency" of this period. As for the box of antiques, they are stored in the HSBC preservation cabinet.The two took out so much hard currency on the grounds that they wanted to use it as collateral for commercial loans, and this is a good thing that makes people happier than direct deposits in banks.

Naturally, the manager of HSBC was very happy. While quickly organizing people to help count the gold bars and silver dollars and appraise the quality, he enthusiastically led everyone to the back hall.In the process, Huang Ke and Elena also used the excuse of visiting and took a look around the HSBC vault. ——Although according to regulations, ordinary people are not allowed to enter the vault, but VIP customers have always been an exception.

As for antiques, they are placed in HSBC's safekeeping room.The reason for the two is also very simple. The outside world is not peaceful recently, and HSBC's security here is reassuring.Hearing what they said, the people from HSBC Bank took the initiative to lead the two to visit the security around the building, patting their chests and expressing that it was absolutely safe.

After a little dealing with the HSBC people and completing the on-site investigation, Huang Ke and Elena took their leave and left, handing over the rest of the loan business to Pan Hannian, his "handyman".Then the two held hands and wandered around the HSBC building like lovers.

Only then did Huang Ke notice that the storefronts of foreigners here in the concession were decorated with lights and festoons, full of the atmosphere of the Chinese New Year.

It turns out that today is Christmas Eve......

But he didn't think about it that much, he still happily held Elena's arm, and walked shopping with her while stepping on the spot.This feeling of making revolution while falling in love is very good.

As the financial center of the British in the Far East, the HSBC building itself has strong protection. The bank itself has more than two rows of mercenaries protecting it, and the mercenary barracks of the "Universal Merchant Group" are only a few hundred meters away. If there is any abnormality, they will dispatch the whole army.

It is not advisable to attack by force. It is also very dangerous to play burglary and burglary as before.Not long ago, the zero-yuan purchase incident and the burning incident caused all the powerful and wealthy forces in the concession area to strengthen the walls of their homes. Here, HSBC Bank even installed live spiked barbed wire on the walls. .

The way Huang Ke planned the robbery was to buy a house near HSBC Bank, then dig a long tunnel leading directly to his underground vault, and then enter the vault from the underground to start zero-yuan purchases.

However, because HSBC is located in the central area of ​​the concession, most of the nearby houses are "big buildings" with famous people and rich owners, and there are very few private houses of ordinary civilians.Huang Ke planned for a long time, and finally the closest house he could buy was more than 200 meters away from the HSBC vault building, separated by a road.

It is not an ordinary difficulty to dig a 200-meter-long tunnel. Ventilation and drainage all need to be considered.In addition, it is not a small technical problem to locate the fixed point and not "dig it crooked".In addition, uncertain factors such as ground subsidence that may be caused by tunnel excavation must be considered and prevented.The amount of work is so large that it is definitely not as easy as "zero yuan purchase" in Hollywood movies where you can just punch a hole and get in.

And at this time, near the HSBC building, a group of people with camera equipment were taking pictures on the road outside. Among these people, there were foreigners and Chinese hired workers, making it seem very lively.But it was Christmas Eve, and there were already many foreigners in the Shanghai Concession, so it was not surprising that such a group of people appeared here.

Huang Ke knew that they were "support" from the Soviet Union, and they were professionals appointed by Stalin himself.The photographic equipment held by this group of people is actually a disguised surveying and mapping equipment, which is used for precise surveying and mapping.

Regarding this plan, Huang Ke prepared extremely meticulously. Some comrades who departed from Tianjin Port not long ago and went to Vladivostok with the Soviet ship were specially sent to the Soviet Union to receive technical training on "how to dig tunnels".

Huang Ke's plan also received strong support from the Soviet Union, especially Comrade Stalin.When Huang Ke and Pan Hannian first contacted the Soviet agents in Beiping, in the box they handed him, apart from ten kilograms of rifampicin, there was also a detailed robbery plan formulated by Huang Ke himself.

When Huang Ke was about to implement this plan with the approval of the Central Committee of the Red Army, he specifically notified Stalin, mainly to obtain technical support from him.

Digging tunnels for "purchasing at zero yuan" is not so simple, but also a precise project with extremely technical content.Without the help of surveyors, digging a 200-meter tunnel underground, God knows where it will end up. Even an error of one meter may cause the entire operation to fail.

In this matter, as "Georgia's chief actionist financial planner", Comrade Steel can be said to be Huang Ke's "grandfather".

When Stalin got Rifampin, he also saw the detailed plan made by Huang Ke himself. For a moment, Stalin's memory returned to the time when he was a young man more than 30 years ago.

In order to raise funds for the revolution, he personally planned and successfully robbed the National Bank of Georgia.Afterwards, he was arrested and imprisoned because of accidental exposure, and was tortured, but he refused to confess and did not betray anyone. He got the nickname "Steel" in prison-this is also the origin of the name Stalin.

The high-level statement of the Red Army is: as long as this plan is successful, the Red Army can obtain a large amount of revolutionary funds.The words behind it were not uttered, but Stadt understood: In the future, the Soviet Union only needs to provide supplies and no more money.Although he knew that this plan was crazy, he also thought that the current group of Red Army people were really making revolution with their feet on the ground, rather than treating him as a winner!

When looking at the plan submitted by Huang Ke, Stalin laughed with a pipe in his hand,

"This sea snake is just like when I was young! This is what a real Bolshevik looks like!"

His heart resonated, and his intimacy with this mysterious "sea snake" instantly doubled. With the mentality of "experienced and professional", he carefully reviewed Huang Ke's robbery plan and made some supplementary suggestions in his own hand. Finally, he ordered his subordinates to go to the prisons of the Soviet Union and find those "professionals" who had done such things to conduct a second evaluation.Afterwards, Soviet architects and mining workers were mobilized to conduct technical "feasibility" discussions and repair the gaps again.

Then there was this scene that happened near the gate of HSBC.

Among the group of people pretending to be taking pictures, Huang Ke found a famous familiar face in history.

"Lu Chishui! He came back from the Soviet Union so soon, the first stop will be here!"

The man named Lu Chishui, dressed like a handyman, mixed in with the group of photographers.During this period, he noticed that Huang Ke and Elena "passed by". They exchanged glances, and then turned their heads away as if they didn't know each other.

Huang Ke knew that according to the plan, he would meet with Huang Ke tonight to carry out the handover.

As the "business" grows bigger and bigger, Huang Ke's underground party organization will inevitably need to increase its manpower.

This time, HSBC's zero-yuan purchase plan was carried out by Lu Chishui and another group of people. People on Pan Hannian's line did not have contact with each other as much as possible, and most of them did not know each other. ——Because the operation cycle of this action plan is too long, and the matter is too big, the British will definitely investigate it afterwards, and it is very important to keep it secret.

That night, at a secret joint location in Shanghai, Huang Ke and Lu Chishui completed the joint under the guidance of an intermediary arranged by the organization.

Not long ago, when Stalin carried out a major rectification of the personnel in the Soviet Union, Lu Chishui also suffered a certain impact: he was sent to a mine in the Soviet Union as a member of Wang Ming at that time, and he dug coal for a whole month.

Then one day, he was suddenly released early, and the counter-revolutionaries told him that he had passed the severe test of revolution and proved himself to be a Bolshevik who could bear hardships, and now he could be sent to China to carry out a arduous mission. Task.

Then, Lu Chishui, who didn't know what it was like in his heart, was brought in front of Stalin, saw Huang Ke's plan, and knew that he was a "secret agent" who was named and asked for by Chairman "Li Runshi"......

Then what happened was that Lu Chishui was sent to the mine again to receive more professional "tunnel-digging training". After completing all relevant professional training, he was sent to China recently.

When Lu Chishui came to Shanghai, after completing the surveying and mapping task, he would first return to Yan'an to hand over the chairman with relevant materials and Huang Ke's opinions, and then return to Shanghai after February next year to start the follow-up "pit digging operation" ".

The reason for the delay of three months is that there are still many preparatory projects to be completed: such as the drainage project of the tunnel, the "renovation project" of the old house that has been bought, and the order of related equipment.The HSBC Bank is close to the Huangpu River, and the water in the river seeps heavily underground. When the ground is dug three feet deep, water will seep out of the soil. If the drainage works are not done properly, the tunnel will be flooded within a few meters of digging.

As for the renovation of old houses, adding walls and the like, this is also necessary. The tunnel is more than 200 meters long, the amount of earthwork is so large, the construction period is long, people come in and out, and it is necessary to make relevant preparations in advance to prevent such "accidents" from being seen and discovered by outsiders from a height.

Robbing a bank is really a technical job!Especially this kind that can be recorded in the annals of history...

Although Comrade Steel had successfully robbed the National Bank of Georgia's vault, he was quickly caught by the police because he didn't pay attention to some details.But Huang Ke's plan was much bigger than his, so naturally he had to be more cautious.

After Huang Ke and Lu Chishui finished their discussion, they parted ways and said goodbye.Huang Ke returned home by car, it was getting late.

At the door, he looked at his watch, and it was twenty minutes to twelve.

Outside the orphanage door, he looked up to Elena's room, where the lights were out.The relationship between him and Elena developed rapidly in the past few days, and every day his hands would walk around Elena's body to "replenish the magic".

However, apart from the first day, Elena refused to let him "make progress", "talk and talk" and mess around. Bite", even the "welfare" for sleeping with a sister at night has been cancelled.

"Today is Christmas Eve! I am also doing it for the revolutionary cause, even my personal love career has been delayed."

Little Huang Ke thought of his self in another time and space, or what the other "half" of his body had experienced, but he thought in his heart that no matter what he said at night, he must knock on the door of Elena's room, It will never happen that a person hugs a cold blanket and spends Christmas Eve alone.

With this thought in mind, Huang Ke first returned to his residence, and the moment he opened the door, the sound of "Happy Birthday" music rang in his ears.

Someone opened the "Happy Birthday" music box the moment he opened the door.