Episode 12 No more slaves

Jiang Meilu held her forehead and closed her eyes, tired and troubled all day.

In the past two months, the heaven and earth in the north will become more and more difficult to control. In the past, the rudder of the Northern Heaven and Earth Society was nominally led by the chief rudder of the Southern Heaven and Earth Society, but in fact it was in the hands of the East Factory. Dongchang used the name of the head of the Heaven and Earth Society to control the underground organization of the Heaven and Earth Society in the Northern Qing Dynasty, support them, provide them with funds, training, and so on. Therefore, although the Nanming Heaven and Earth Association does not do its business all day long and acts as an underworld, the Ming government will turn a blind eye.

However, after getting the People's Guard in the hands of that annoying Xiang Xiaoqiang, he was trying to seize control of the Northern Heaven and Earth Society. One of the contact methods of the rudder in the north is in the East Factory, and the other is in the Nanjing Rudder, Xiang Xiaoqiang is uncle, and it is easy to catch it.

But for a while he didn't have much success. On the one hand, the People's Guard has not been established for a long time, and there are many things that are complicated by itself, and it is also fighting, and Xiang Xiaoqiang is too busy to do so, so he just has to try.

But not in the last two or three months. After the end of the war, the People's Guard Force also flourished and grew stronger, and Xiang Xiaoqiang officially married the daughter of the chief helmsman of the Heaven and Earth Society, and became a veritable uncle of the Heaven and Earth Society. In the past, the Southern Heaven and Earth Society was covered by the East Factory, but now that they have their uncle's People's Guard as their new backer, Qiu Laohu is also instigated by his uncle and begins to try to control the Northern Heaven and Earth Society by himself.

More than two months ago, Xiang Xiaoqiang went to Europe again. Leaving Daming for a long time seemed to be very unfavorable to him, but he took a high step and threw the whole mess to Princess Liaoyang to take care of. This is terrible, it is better than Xiang Xiaoqiang's own care. Princess Liaoyang is a good hand, and her work ability is much stronger than Xiang Xiaoqiang. In the more than two months since Xiang Xiaoqiang left, the People's Guard Force has flourished, and it has been taken care of very well from top to bottom. Princess Liaoyang continued to woo Miss Zheng for Xiang Xiaoqiang, and then maintained a close relationship with the palace.

What's even worse is that with the support of Princess Liaoyang, that "stomach ache" began to give orders to the rudders of the Northern Qing Dynasty in the name of the chief rudder of the Heaven and Earth Society. It's infuriating that those rudders in the Northern Qing Dynasty are still happy to listen to them.

In this way, the underground organization in the north has two bosses, the East Factory and the People's Guard Security Team.

Jiang Meilu thought, maybe the Baoding rudder is so big this time, it is the command of the People's Guard.

What does Xiang Xiaoqiang want to do?

…… Why is this Xiang Xiaoqiang so annoying!

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"Good! Good! In the commander's residence, Xiang Xiaoqiang slapped the table excitedly and looked at the telegram, "Baoding rioted!" Baoding rioted!! ”

The stomach ache on the opposite side and Xiuxiu looked at each other and smiled slightly, neither of them quite understood why there was another riot in the rear of the Northern Qing Dynasty, why Xiang Xiaoqiang could be excited like this.

What's more, the big riot in the Baoding Arsenal was not planned by Xiang Xiaoqiang. He just asked Baoding to "do a big job" and expand his influence, but he didn't expect to make a riot.

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Just two hours ago, the dormitory of the workers of the Baoding Arsenal was surrounded by military and police, and they searched from house to house. Originally, the search was nothing, and the people of the Northern Qing Dynasty were often searched, searched, and checked for letters. But this time it was completely different, not only did they search from house to house, but they almost went door to door to arrest people. The crime was to search for "Bright World" in their home.

Although the people of the Northern Qing Dynasty will definitely hide it carefully when they get the "Bright World", or destroy it after reading it, although the "Bright World" only has an eight-open paper, which is easy to hide, but this time the Baoding military police are a search and a quasi, as long as they enter the door, they will definitely "search out" within a minute, and then arrest the person. Moreover, this time, the arrests were all those workers who had families and houses, but those singles were not arrested.

This is obviously a large-scale framing of the victim, and the purpose is clear: to collect money. The reason why only those workers who have families are arrested is because their families will desperately raise money to get out sooner or less abuse. It's useless to catch those singles, and no one will send money if they are caught.

In less than an hour, more than 200 people had been arrested, and at this time, only more than 300 households had been searched, and there were still several thousand households left to be searched. This kind of "carpet" arrest frightened the entire dormitory, and a theory began to spread rapidly: this time the government has the greatest appetite, not only to arrest everyone, but also to extort all the family wealth, and there is nothing left.

As more and more people were taken away and the cries were getting closer, the entire dormitory entered a state of frenzy, and many people packed up their belongings and started to flee, only to be beaten and arrested by the military police on the periphery. Quite a few people were killed. People began to rush out in groups, and the military police opened fire, killing more people.

Spurred on by gunshots, blood, and thousands of workers escaping, the situation spiraled out of control. The anger that had been suppressed for too long finally broke out, and the entire Baoding Arsenal suddenly became an erupting volcano, and the people who were usually like sheep were now countless lions, and those hundreds of military and police officers became bloody corpses in an instant, and their guns were all in the hands of the crazy workers.

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In the sea of people in the dormitory area and the factory area, as if carefully planned in advance, there are people in each area who are agitating and directing, leading everyone to several important goals.

First, the telephone bus leading to the outside of the factory was cut off. Almost at the same time, the telegraph room was also occupied. Baoding Arsenal is in the suburbs of Baoding, already close to Mancheng County, the front does not take the village and the back is not a store, cut off the telephone bus, the arsenal and the outside world can not be contacted, has become an island.

Immediately afterwards, a few more men with hundreds of workers surrounded the residences of the factory officials, stormed their houses, and hacked to death a dozen officials from Niu Zhongqing and down. Mu Long'e was so frightened that the was about to come out, and he kept shouting, "I am the imperial court", no one listened to him at all, and he was also hacked to death. The bodies of the officials who are usually the most hated were thrown down by opening the windows. Mulong's forehead was also thrown down.

The corpses of the men were quickly stripped naked, blurred with flesh torn by the angry people, and slammed into the wall one by one.

The largest part of the workers, about four or five thousand people, led by a few others, opened all the finished warehouses of the arsenal, took out guns and ammunition, and quickly armed everyone. These are all workers in the arsenal, who are usually more skilled at fiddling with these weapons than soldiers, and now thousands of workers have become thousands of soldiers in the blink of an eye.

Among the tens of thousands of workers, most of them are singles, and most of these people are young men with strong blood, who make the most trouble, killing corrupt officials and snatching weapons, most of which they do. But the small number of family workers were at first dominated by anger, but they soon came to their senses. I follow these singles boys together, what should I do with my wife and children?

At first, the people of the Heaven and Earth Society were still hidden among the workers, but they were secretly agitating and directing, and now they have all come forward. They stood in their respective crowds, climbed to a high place, and shouted:

"Brethren! Before tonight, it was the corrupt officials who called the shots, and now, it's up to us to decide! ”

The surroundings burst into cheers.

They continued to shout:

"Brethren! …… From today onwards, we will no longer hold back!! …… We took weapons and fought against the corrupt officials!! We are going to kill all the beasts that eat people and don't spit out their bones!! …… From now on, we will no longer be slaves!!

"Oh!! …………”

"From now on, we would rather die standing than live on our knees!!"

"Oh!! …………”

The whole factory resounded with frantic cheers. They have a feeling: they have swallowed their anger since they were born, and today they can finally stop holding their breath, and they can finally spit out a thousand rainbows in their chests, and they are standing like a real person.

…… This feeling has never been felt before, it is simply enjoyable! Even if you die the next day, it's worth it!

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The Baoding Arsenal stocked up with enough light weapons to arm several divisions was now carried out, unpacked and piled up on the ground, and the workers were rapidly distributing. These weapons were produced by their own hands, and they knew more about weapons than they knew about their wives. They are elated, picky, and choose what suits them best.

Although the workers of the Baoding Arsenal are only ordinary people, at this moment, their individual equipment is even more luxurious than that of the most elite Eight Banners Division. One steel helmet per person, one rifle with a bayonet, one light machine gun for every three or four men, one Luger pistol per person, a grenade with a belt, and a chain of bullets hanging diagonally from the chest, like Rambo.

There are two main types of standard light machine guns in the Northern Qing Dynasty, one is the imitation of the Soviet-style turntable machine gun, and the other is the Czech type that is being imitated all over the world. One is 7.9 mm and the other is 7.62 mm. There are also two main types of rifles, one is the imitation Mauser 98 rifle, and the other is the imitation Japanese 38 rifle. One is 7.9 mm and the other is 6.5 mm. Therefore, the Qing army was also famous for its miscellaneous weapons and chaotic calibers.

The people of the Heaven and Earth Society instructed the workers to choose the right weapons, and shouted:

"Brethren! Take the Czech type for light machine guns! Take the Mauser 98 for the rifle! …… Brethren! Take the Czech type for light machine guns! Take the Mauser 98 for the rifle! ……”

Soon, the workers in the know understood. In the future, we will have to do it with the imperial court, and it will definitely be difficult to replenish, so the most important thing is to unify the caliber and ensure the universal use of ammunition!

So, those who had originally taken the turntable machine gun and the 38 big cover quickly threw it down and went to the weapon pile to get the correct one.

The lads all know that light machine guns have strong firepower, and they all like to hold light machine guns, and they don't like to hold rifles. But the light machine gun is very heavy and requires two people to operate, so the person with the machine gun is controlled at about a quarter. In this way, it is still far higher than any army in the world. In terms of small arms firepower alone, they even surpassed the People's Guard.

The warehouses where the 7.9mm bullets were stored were also opened, and the workers directly knocked down the boxes of steel bullets and cast iron bullets, and the boxes of pure copper bullets were picked out by familiarity. These are specially supplied to the Eight Banners Division. Now all the copper bullets have been moved out. In addition to the more than 3,000 workers who had families and did not want to follow them, the other 6,000 workers loaded as much ammunition as they could, and several logistics teams were formed on an improvised basis, each with several tricycles, which were loaded with bullets, grenades, mortars, and artillery shells.

The people of the Heaven and Earth Society also directed the workers to carry the food, and the food in the canteen was carried empty, and in addition to each person carrying two days' rations, each tricycle was also full of food.

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"Brethren!! Quick action!! Hold on!! The officers and soldiers are coming!! We want to go up to Taihang Mountain before them!! ”

Cheers rang out throughout the plant:

"Go to Taihang Mountain! …… Go to Taihang Mountain!! …… Upper Taihang Mountain!! …………”