The days of winter leisure are boring.

It's snowy outside, and women can spin and spin. Li Qinglin can only practice martial arts and read books every day. Sometimes he helps money and makes parts, and the rest of his time wanders around and condoms of rabbits.

Qian Duogui brought back more and more news about "North China Autonomy", and the content of the news became worse and worse.

News came from the end of October that on October 22, under the planning of the Japanese Tianjin secret service chief Damaotongzhen, the secret service instructed the Japanese ronin to collude with the gangsters and traitors and evil gentry of the Kawa, Changping, Wuqing, Sanhe to launch a riot. These rabbles attacked Xianghe County under the force of the Japanese military police. The county magistrate of the National Government fled and the county police were disarmed.

The Japanese army used the excuse that Xianghe County was in the "non-armed area" designated by the Tanggu Agreement, so the National Government was no longer allowed to send troops. The spies instructed the traitors and evil gentry to piece together the "temporary maintenance meeting" and elected the so-called new "county magistrate" to implement "autonomy". On the 28th, the National Government Hebei Provincial Government actually agreed to the mob's request.

On November 24, under the instruction of Japan, Yin Rugeng, an administrative inspector of the Luanyu region of Hebei Province, appointed by the National Government, launched the "Hebei East Incident". He issued a declaration of separation from the National Government in Tong County. On the 25th, Yin Rugeng established the "Hebei East Defense and Communist Autonomous Committee" in Tongzhou, and later renamed the "Hebei East Defense and Communist Autonomous Government", which separated the twelve Hebei East County Government from the rule of the National Government. From then on, Yin Rugeng became a hard-core traitor, and the Hebei East region actually became a Japanese-controlled area.

In early December, news came again that on November 26, under pressure from the Japanese army, the National Government appointed Song Zheyuan, the traitors Wang Jitang, Wang Kemin and others recommended by the Japanese side as members, and agreed to establish the "Hebei-Chahar Government Affairs Committee" in Peiping, which in fact would place Hebei-Chahar provinces outside the administrative area of ​​the National Government.

The Japanese army pressed forward step by step in North China, and the National Government gave in step by step. The Japanese used the name of "North China Autonomy" to achieve the goal of annexing North China, which made the crisis of the Chinese nation reach an unprecedentedly serious level.

The disaster of losing land and losing power, and the country and the country are destroyed is imminent. The crisis of the Chinese nation is unprecedentedly serious. The people of North China and the whole Chinese are angry. On November 18, under the leadership of the Provisional Working Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Peking University and Middle School Students Federation was established. On December 6, fifteen universities and middle schools in Peking issued a declaration, proposing: oppose North China's "anti-communist autonomy", demanding the National Government to fight against the traitor Yin Rugeng, and demanding the National Government to announce a foreign policy towards Japan, mobilize the whole country to fight against the enemy, and effectively open up the freedom of people's speech, assembly, and association.

Since receiving a warning letter from Nankai University during the summer vacation, Li Wancai has been much stricter in supervision of Li Lide. He not only asked Li Lide to write letters to tell him about his current situation, but also entrusted an acquaintance to secretly monitor Li Lide's every move.

At the end of November, the Pingjin student movement was in turmoil, the people were indignant, and the society was in turmoil. Li Lide's secret guardian sent a telegram to Li Wancai, saying that intellectuals and students were already in a large alliance, and there was a possibility of marches and demonstrations in Tianjin at any time. The military police of the North China garrison garrison that now occupy Tianjin are already arresting "anti-Japanese elements" everywhere, and students from Nankai University have been the focus of attention.

After receiving the telegram, Li Wancai was worried. His three sons and the eldest son followed him to manage the property, but his qualifications were limited and he was useless. The second son was sick for many years and his health was getting worse. Li Wancai had long stopped expecting him. This year, he asked Li Lide to go to the He family to find out, and He Chun used the excuse to continue his studies and declined the recent marriage request. The third son Li Lide has been smart since he was a child. He was admitted to university at a young age, and he was also his own son. He was Li Wancai's greatest hope for the future.

Li Wancai is not afraid of Li Lide spending money indiscriminately, anyway, his own money was spent in the end. Whether Li Lide can make a name for himself is not important to Li Wancai, but Li Wancai is afraid of Li Lide's personal accident.

The best way now is to take him home and have his own care at home. No matter how capable Li Lide is, he cannot escape his stubbornness. Li Wancai acted overnight and informed Li Qinglin to drive him to Tianjin the next day, and he wanted to take his son home.

Li Qinglin had more than a month left to get married. He estimated the journey and felt that it would be no problem to walk back and forth, so he agreed to Li Wancai.

Before leaving, he brought more than a dozen oceans and was preparing to go to Tianjin to see if he could buy a vernier caliper. Qian Duokui made a gun, but he would compare it one by one before taking action. There are more than 40 parts of the box cannon, and after comparing one by one, he would not have high production efficiency. So Li Qinglin had long wanted to buy a vernier caliper, draw the drawings of the parts, and then let Qian Duokui produce and inspect according to the drawings, which would save much trouble.

In the middle of winter, the weather is cold and the ice and snow on the road are very cold, which is conducive to the driving of the rubber wheel truck. Li Wancai put two strong mules on the rubber wheel truck, one to drive the shaft and the other to pull the shaft. On the road, two mules had to be replaced with each other, in order to quickly arrive in Tianjin.

When Li Wancai went out this time, he also brought a young man of sixteen or seventeen years old. The young man's nickname is Xiao Liuzi. Xiao Liuzi has a good face, has fair skin, is not tall and thin, but he is very energetic. At first glance, he is a person with a very active mind and good job.

Li Wancai was sitting in the carriage, Li Qinglin drove, and Xiao Liuzi was also sitting next to him. The two of them were talking nonsense and passing the time.

The place where the two of them sat was called the front plate, which was left between the pole and the carriage for the driver to sit. Behind them, there was a long strip wrapped in a broken sack, which were two large 38-inch guns.

The Japanese Type 38 rifle is a manual bolt-type rifle. Its prototype is a Thirty-year-old rifle and a Type 35 naval rifle. Its design is improved from the German Mauser rifle.

During the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese army used these two rifles in northeast China to fight against the Tsarist Russian army. During the use, it was discovered that there was a very small dust in mainland China that could enter the bolt, causing poor operation. Later, under the leadership of Sakanashi Akira, the inventor of the 30-year-old rifle and the Type 35 naval rifle, it was carefully designed and improved by Major Kijiro from the South to simplify the bolt and the joint cover and equipped with a dust cover that acts with the bolt.

Since the gun was finalized and produced in the 38th year of Meiji (1905), the Japanese army became the "Type 38 Infantry Gun". The Chinese people had an arched dust-proof cover on the bolt, commonly known as the "Type 38 Large Cover".

Since the 38th large cover was set, its guns and bullets have been exported to warlords across China, and in Liaoning and Taiyuan arsenals have also been imitated in large quantities.

The gun is of excellent quality, with a long barrel of the gun body, a long aiming baseline, a small ammunition diameter, and a small shooting recoil, so it has high reliability and high shooting accuracy. However, it is precisely because of the small diameter, the design of the rifle of the gun bore, and the shape of the warhead, that the bullets fly stably, and the effect of penetration after hitting the target, and the lethality is insufficient.

Chinese people have always thought that it "walking one eye at a time", so it is not popular at present. Currently in the black market, it is famous for its low price. Li Wancai does not need to be used for a long time, but just buys a gun to defend itself. Naturally, he chose to buy a few at a low price. Before leaving, Li Wancai asked his boss to train them suddenly, so that they could at least start at that time.

In addition to carrying two long spears, Li Wancai also carried two box spears with him. At this time, the soldiers and bandits were rampant, and the soldiers and bandits were all in the family. People who traveled far away often carried self-defense weapons in case of emergency.

"If you have money but not money, go home for the New Year." It has been nearly the same time since then, even the poorest families have to buy some New Year goods. Squire and merchants from all over the country are transporting grain and local products to the city for sale, and various industrial products such as tobacco, alcohol, food and salt to the countryside. People come and go on the road, and big trucks are one after another. Maybe they often go out with Li Wancai. This little Liuzi knows a lot, and he is not a dull man. He chats and talks with Li Qinglin along the way. Although it is cold and far away, Li Qinglin is not lonely on the way.

Before we knew it, Tianjin arrived!
Chapter completed!