Chapter 20: Flood Rumors, Gun Factory
"Zhou Ye's words, everyone heard them clearly?" Zhao Zhuzi pretended to be a tiger and shouted: "If you hear it clearly, you will go home and arrange it immediately, and we will meet at the ferry at noon and take a boat to the city." Zhou Ye's personality, the big guys know it, and if you follow him, you will definitely not be able to suffer. ”
Zhou Laishan pretended to pat his chest boldly and said: "I still have some savings, and I am willing to follow my brother and send two oceans of settlement allowance per person, and if you don't want to follow me, I won't force it." When we meet in the future, we are still good friends and good brothers. ”
can make Mrs. Yang try her best to be vigilant, so that Zong Baichuan and others regard him as a thorn in their side, Zhou Laishan is not in vain, and he does have some ways to win over and develop his cronies. Now that he is going to the city, he naturally doesn't want to be alone, he wants to occupy a place in the detective team, but he doesn't want to be just a small messenger.
For Yang Tianfeng, who is in the upper position, many things do not need to be done by himself, with the help of Zong Baichuan and the old men of the Yang family, he only needs to make a plan.
Old Mrs. Yang seemed to really leave it alone, and let Yang Tianfeng give orders as the head of the family. He didn't even care about Yang Tianfeng's desire to fight against the water, as if he didn't know about it. But Yang Tianfeng knew that such a major event would definitely not be hidden from the old lady, and Zong Baichuan would definitely report it to her, which would not be able to escape.
Yang Tianfeng didn't want to spend his brain guessing the old lady's thoughts, nor did he want to waste time exploring the old lady's thoughts. Because he is convinced of only one thing, that is, a mother's care and love for her child is the most sincere and the most trustworthy affection in the world. When a child is in danger, the mother will not hesitate to step forward, even if it is at the expense of herself.
The plan proceeded quickly, and as the grain in the granary of Yangjiayuan was loaded onto a truckload and transported to Wohugang, a few miles away, a plausible rumor began to spread in Yangjiayuanzi. The young master of the Yang family had a dream that the flood came from the west, surging and unstoppable, submerging all the miles in this area.
For this reason, Mrs. Yang was uneasy, and specially invited Zhang Shenxian from Baima Beach to predict the good fortune. After Zhang Shenxian calculated, he decided that this was a foreign dragon violating the realm, fighting with the local river god to win, and it was also a warning omen of the disaster that God had descended from the dream of the loyal young master of the Yang family.
Although there were no newspaper broadcasts, the speed with which the rumors spread was still surprising, at least Yang Tianfeng thought it was magical.
In fact, according to the formula of "the strength of the rumor = the importance of the event × the uncertainty of the event", it is not difficult to understand that when a critical moment such as natural disasters or social **** comes, people are often more anxious. At this time, unexpected things will continue to happen, and rumors will be spread through word of mouth, which will distort the original facts.
"Immortals fighting, is that a joke? Don't you be earth-shattering, the angry waves are monstrous? ”
"I haven't watched "Water Man Jinshan", shrimp soldiers and crabs will be everywhere, the water on the flat land is too deep, and there is an ocean along both sides of the river, and people and animals will not escape."
"Hehe, the gods are fighting, we mortals can't see it, but the cost of worshipping the river god will be spread on the heads of our people."
"It's the old rule. Whoever makes a lot of money will be able to make a stroke. I heard that the young master of the Yang family has bought two little girls who look exactly the same, and they are for the river god. ”
"This army is in chaos, what kind of sacrifice to the gods are tossing, and don't let our people live?"
"Hehe, over the years, who has cared about the life and death of the ordinary people. However, seriously, the Yang family is transporting things to Crouching Tiger Hills, and they are also digging trenches outside the garden to build a polder wall, maybe there is really a flood? ”
"If there is a real flood, it will be miserable, this is seeing that the crops in the field have not been confiscated, and they have been washed by the water, not to mention that this year's rent cannot be paid, and even the family's chewing grain will be soaked in soup!"
"Look at this water situation, this day, it's not like it! Maybe it's just to scare us. ”
"It's too early to say anything, let's see how the Yang family tosses, right?"
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In the northeast corner of Yangjiayuanzi seven or eight miles of road, there is a sand hill. This hill has a very peculiar shape, from east to west, with a big head and a thick waist and a long tail, looking from afar, it looks like a tiger lying with its head held high. This is the famous Crouching Tiger Gang among the eighteen gangs.
Wohu Gang is covered with tall poplar trees, and under the shade of verdant trees live 100 families, most of whom are tenants of the Yang family, and only a few households have some land.
This is the location of the old house of the Yang family, since the Yang family developed, in the town to build a new house, the old house is vacant. Although the old mansion was empty, the guards on the post were not negligent. Because here, there is a gun repair factory of the Yang family.
Nanyang Bei Tingfang also started from the Ganmin League, but his momentum far surpassed that of the Yang family. Beshi has more than 20,000 guns, and his official position is the commander of the Wanzhi militia, and his power is the strongest.
The reason why Bei Tingfang was able to sit big was that he had a Houzhai gun factory, which had more than 400 workers in its heyday, and had 38 sets of various machines, including four large lathes of more than one zhang, powered by German-made 15 horsepower diesel engines, and could mass-produce rifles, dazzling hand-held machine guns, heavy machine guns, 150 mm cannons, 82 mortars, etc.
According to statistics, from its establishment in 1929 to 1940, a total of 20,000 rifles, 1,500 hand-held machine guns, 5,000 light machine guns, 200 heavy machine guns, four 150-mm cannons, 156 82 mortars, more than 100,000 shells, and a small number of pistols were produced.
And the Yang family of Voryang, that is, Yang Tianfeng's father, under the advice of Zong Baichuan, also ambitiously wanted to do a great career and reach the level of Bie Tingfang. The Yang's Gun Factory is a capital, although it started late (production only began in 1932), it is not as large as the Houzhai Gun Factory, and the output is high. However, among the various militia groups at that time, there were indeed few people who had this kind of vision and were willing to make such a large investment.
The gun factory has more than 10 machines, two steam engines, can repair guns, can also make bullets and grenades, and in its heyday even made 25 rounds of dazzling hand-held machine guns and 82 mortars.
It is precisely by relying on such strength that Yang Tianfeng and his father Yang Zongjing once served as the commander-in-chief of the Voryang People's League. It's just that after Yang Zongjing's death, Yang Tianfeng went to Japan to study and traveled to Germany, and the Yang family lost its strong figure and was suppressed and contained. The expenses of the gun factory are also too large, the cost remains high, and the follow-up financial resources are difficult to support, and it is on the verge of semi-shutdown, and gradually loses its due position.