Commander Yan didn't run into any trouble.

This day was as ordinary as any day after Commander Qi became the commander, but the slight difference was that Commander Qi's memory on this day was too bad, and he first forgot the major event of the opening speech of the normal school; When singing the "Song of Local Autonomy", because of the reminder of the adjutant Liu Jingrui, I remembered to go to the Guangqing Agricultural Machinery Factory. Commander Qi did not eat at school according to the usual practice, and he did not mean to despise or snub Mr. Sun, but the matter of Guangqing Agricultural Machinery Factory was very important, and it was agreed to go three days ago, and it was not okay not to go.

Guangqing Agricultural Machinery Factory does not make agricultural machinery, but specializes in guns, but is actually an arsenal. The commander has 100,000 troops, so naturally he must have his own arsenal, otherwise where will the weapons of the 100,000 soldiers come from?! What's more, Commander Qi himself has a strong interest in the research and development of various weapons.

Most of the officers and men of the self-defense army in Guangqing and Qing knew that the first batch of guns they used were developed by Commander Qi himself. At that time, in the early days of the implementation of Lianzhuang self-protection, the Self-Defense Forces were still militia groups, and their main weapons were shotguns lit with fire sickles. Commander Qi thought that the shotguns were too backward: first, it was difficult to kill the enemy with iron sand shots, and second, it was easy to make mistakes when igniting with a fire sickle at a critical time. Commander Qi pondered hard for a few nights, figured out a way, sent people out of the mountains to Luoyang, Kaifeng, Wuhan to run around, bought hundreds of different models of foreign oil fire, and then, sawed off half of the barrels of hundreds of bird guns, added a foot-and-a-half-long butt behind the barrel, embedded the fire, and made the first batch of tap muskets, thus taking the first step in Guangqing's first machine.

The first few earthen cannons and stone throwers were also tossed out by Commander Qi. The earthen cannons are all imitated according to the original earthen cannons of the fort in Guangren County. There is no stone throwing machine in Guangren County, and the commander himself has not seen it, but he has only seen an ancient book called "Wujing General Essentials", and he actually created it. That thing looks very inconspicuous, the heavy wooden triangular base supports a cannon rod, when it is lit, it has to fall on the iron stone and pull it by people, but the power is really not small, a bucket of two liters of gunpowder can throw more than a hundred zhang. In the autumn of the thirteenth year, a regiment of soldiers of the Feng army attacked Qinghe County, and was blown up by five freshly built stone throwers. With the initial experience, the commander created a hundred sons of the cannon, this kind of cannon is not as cumbersome as the catapult, four feet long, the charge is one liter and five he, the barrel near the muzzle of the gun has a more than one foot long nozzle, can be loaded with 100 solid lead bullets at a time, fired in parts, flexible and convenient, but also easy to carry, has been equipped with county militias for a long time.

Now these guns are outdated, and no one in the Self-Defense Forces uses them, and since the 17th year of the Commander Qi built a regular arsenal under the brand of an agricultural machinery factory, the weapons in the hands of the Self-Defense Forces have gradually been regularized. In the past, ten muskets could not be exchanged for one "made in Hanyang", and now, even if one "made in Hanyang" is exchanged for one "made in Guangqing", I am afraid that no one may be willing to change, and everyone says that their own "made in Guangqing" is good.

Guangqing Agricultural Machinery Factory can now not only make guns, but also make artillery, although it is not much, but can make more than a dozen every year, there are two main models, one is the imitation of the 20-year type 82 mortar, the other is the imitation of the 13-year type 37 rifle guns, two years ago, these two kinds of artillery have begun to equip the county self-defense forces, in general, each regiment can be spread to two.

At the defense meeting of the autonomous headquarters held last month, Commander Qi explicitly instructed Kong Yuewen, deputy director of the Agricultural Machinery Factory, to build him 150 guns within one year and equip him with two artillery regiments. Kong Yuewen complained bitterly, claiming that he could not take on this heavy responsibility. Commander Qi was very angry, and pointed to Kong Yuewen's nose at that time and said: Are you afraid of an egg?! The director of the agricultural machinery factory is my Qi Kuiyuan, I said that it can be completed, why can't it be completed?!

Just as Tianyi Normal has no principal, Guangqing Agricultural Machinery Factory does not have a factory director. Commander Qi is not only the principal of Tianyi Normal School, but also the director of the agricultural machinery factory, and everyone thinks that Commander Qi is well-deserved.

As a principal, I have to attend the opening ceremony of the school; As the director of the factory, the affairs of the agricultural machinery factory cannot be left alone. Therefore, as soon as Commander Stibek came out of the Tianyi Normal School, it was only natural that the commander's head should be full of guns and artillery.

Commander Yan didn't talk about the guns and weapons he was keen on along the way. The names of the agricultural machinery factory and Kong Yuewen were not even mentioned. According to the recollection of the adjutant Liu Jingrui after the incident, when Sitie Beike galloped from Tianyi Normal to Taohuagou Guangqing Agricultural Machinery Factory, Commander Qi only stared at the goose-winged willows on the side of the road and the trimmed Hetian in a daze, until he saw the car enter Taohuagou, before he sighed and said thoughtlessly:

"As long as the war starts, the land we have worked so hard to remediate will be complete."

Liu Jingrui was unprepared for the topic of Commander Qi, was stunned for a moment, and asked timidly:

"Let's ...... Who are we going to war with? ”

The commander was silent.

Liu Jingrui asked more carefully:

"Yes...... Is it with the old Chiang of the south? Or is it the day of the north...... Japanese? ”

The commander didn't seem to hear it.

Liu Jingrui didn't dare to ask. Commander Qi didn't say a word until he got out of the car and entered the factory. Liu Jingrui therefore concluded that Commander Qi did not know about the conspiracy of Lao Chiang and the Theater Commander's Department at that time, let alone the conspiracy of the Japanese. Later facts proved that there was no information about the start of the war and all kinds of unusual signs that led to the start of the war on that day, and if there were, the brilliant commander would not have gone to the normal school to give lectures or to inspect the Guangqing Agricultural Machinery Factory. It is very likely that the commander will terminate all normal activities, convene an emergency meeting, and carry out a general military mobilization of the eight counties, as he has done in the past when crises came.

When he went to the Guangqing Agricultural Machinery Factory for lunch, Commander Qi's mood was already very good, he talked and laughed, and he also toasted Kong Yuewen, the deputy director of the factory, three glasses of wine in a row, and Kong Yuewen was very happy.

Liu Jingrui was sitting next to the commander at that time, and he saw Commander Yan's every move very clearly.

As soon as Commander Qi sat down, he said to Kong Yuewen with a red face:

"Brother Yuewen, you deserve to have been an engineer in the Hanyang Arsenal, and you have moved the Hanyang Arsenal to Taohuagou! Come, brother, drink, I, the eldest brother who is the commander, will toast you on behalf of 100,000 brothers! ”

Commander Yan tilted his face and poured a full glass of wine into his mouth. Kong Yuewen, who was as thin as a shadow, also drank the wine in the cup.

After eating a mouthful of food, Commander Qi picked up a second glass of wine:

"Brother Yuewen, this glass of wine is my eldest brother who is the factory director, I respect you, your brother made me 200 guns and twelve cannons a month, and gave my eldest brother a long face, come, drink!"

So, Commander Qi drank, and Kong Yuewen had no choice but to frown and drink along.

When toasting the third glass of wine, Commander Yan didn't eat at all, only wiped the wine foam on the side of his mouth, and then took the cup:

"Brother Yuewen, what should I say about this third glass of wine, brother, well, let's say so, your brother uses our Taohuagou as a Hanyang factory, and you use the same set that you used to deal with Lao Jiang back then to deal with my ......eldest brother."

Kong Yuewen's face changed color:

"Gong Yan, this ...... Where does this begin? ”

Commander Qi laughed and said:

"At the meeting last month, didn't you say that those concoctions couldn't be made? In just one month, twelve cannons were built. Isn't there twelve in a month, and one hundred and forty-four in a year? Won't my two artillery regiments be built, big brother? ”

"Gong Yan, this ...... This ......"

Commander Yan walked up to Kong Yuewen and patted Kong Yuewen's thin shoulder affectionately:

"Don't'...... It's ......, one cup is drunk, two cups are drunk, and three cups are filled, let's pour it! For our two artillery regiments in the future, your brother will pour this glass of wine for my eldest brother! ”

Kong Yuewen was helpless, pinched his nose and poured it, just poured the wine down, didn't care about the vegetables, and said to Commander Qi in a hurry:

"Gong Yan, in the current situation, our factory can't make more than 100 cannons a year!"

Commander Qi chewed a piece of chicken in his mouth, and asked with a whining voice:

"Why can't you make it?"

"The seamless steel pipe and the required equipment could not be transported in, and the mouth of the rift river was sealed by the garrison of the 37th Division of the Guerrilla Supervision Office of the Theater Commander's Department, and Commander Li of the Supervision Office issued a death order, saying that as long as there is a seamless steel pipe flowing into our area in the future, it will be dealt with by military law!"

Commander Qi smiled indifferently:

"Because this can't be made?"

Kong Yuewen frowned:

"How...... How to build? ”

Commander Qi laughed:

"It seems that I, the factory director, still have to be the director! Without me, the factory director, who is the commander, your brother can't have fun! ”

Kong Yuewen asked suspiciously:

"What are the tricks of the Gong?"

Commander Qi said:

"I have known for a long time about the blockade of the mouth of the rift. It was known a month before the lockdown. There's our inside line over there in the theater commander's department. As for me, I have already made arrangements, and I am here for this purpose. Your brother listened: tomorrow send someone to Wu Qijing at the Guangren headquarters to collect the money, get 100,000 sheep tickets, and hand them over to Sun Zhongxiao, the deputy commander who shoots the deer, and Deputy Commander Sun is responsible for bringing in the steel pipes and iron materials from the occupied area for you within ten days. However, the director of the factory will give you a wake-up call, now our sheep tickets are bullish on Wang's fake reserve coupons and Lao Jiang's fiat currency, and you have been deceived by Deputy Commander Sun! ”

"It turns out that the Duke of Qi has already built a second transportation line in the occupied area!"

"Yes! You can't have the heart to hurt others, and you can't have the heart to defend people! Although the commander supports Chairman Chiang, he still can't be unaware of the miscellaneous hairs in the chief's department! I expect them to seal the estuary again, so I'll be ahead of them! ”

Kong Yuewen asked:

"If you do this, will you be exploited by Commander Li of the Commander's Department? Will they accuse us of collaborating with the enemy? ”

Commander Commander slapped the table:

"Bastard! Steel pipes and iron materials were brought in from the occupied areas, not from us, and it was the enemy who funded us and communicated with me, so how can it be said that we are the enemy and collaborated with the enemy! Don't worry about these things, just make me more machine guns and cannons, I can't cook with firewood and rice, I have to beat your brother's ass according to the rules, understand? ”

Kong Yuewen nodded:

"Yes, Gong Qi, I see!"

Liu Jingrui remembered in a trance that it was probably at this time that the phone on the coffee table next to the wine table rang, he picked up the microphone and asked, finding out that it was Wu Qijing from the Guangren County Headquarters calling, and hurriedly handed the microphone to Commander Qi.

Commander Qi took the phone and got angry after a few words:

"Tell the Commander's Department of the War Zone, I don't want someone to say no, it's useless to urge! Haven't they already sealed the mouth of the rift? What else can you do to let those miscellaneous hairs use it! The little bastard surnamed Zheng is in charge of him! In our Guangqing wheel, he can't speak! ”

Commander Yan dropped the phone with a "snap" and returned to the table to drink.

Only then did Liu Jingrui discover that Commander Qi had something on his mind. He saw Commander Qi pour two or three glasses of wine alone with a dark face, and then saw Commander Qi walk to the telephone again with heavy steps, shake the phone of the Guangren County Headquarters, and talk to Wu Qijing, deputy ** of the Autonomous Committee and chief of staff of the Self-Defense Army.

"Brother Wu? Is the Zheng Lingbao who signed the special office still gone? Well, tell him, and at the same time telegraph to the chief's department, on the day of shooting the deer border, the puppet army has signs of stupidity, and the commander must be on guard, if there is a mistake, he will be ashamed of the nation and the locality. And this commander is also the autonomous committee**, on the occasion of spring ploughing, the agricultural affairs are busy, and you can't get out, so I appointed your brother's representative to participate. Yes, there you go! You're still the chief of staff of the Self-Defense Forces, so you're going to wear a military uniform tomorrow......"

Liu Jingrui knew that the meetings mentioned by Commander Qi on the two telephone calls were military meetings presided over by the Theater Commander's Department, and they had to be held almost once or twice a year since the formation of a stalemate with the Japanese army in October 30. According to the division of the theater commander's department, the eight counties of Guangqing under the chairmanship of Commander Qi are the third defense region, and as the supreme military and political chief of the third defense region, this kind of meeting must be attended. But the commander didn't pay attention to this, and the chief's department was polite to him, so he went; You're welcome, he violated the interests of the eight counties of Guangqing, so he didn't go, and he refused to pay the apportioned grain. And the greatest benefit identified by the commander is the unblocking of the rift estuary. The mouth of the rift river is unblocked, the tobacco and material production capacity of the eight counties of Guangqing can be transported out, and the steel and private goods outside the mountain can be transported in, and the eight counties in the mountain will not worry about underdevelopment. The Theater Commander's Department is well aware of the mystery, and it is not the first time that the mouth of the river has been sealed, and it is not the first time that the commander has refused to go out of the mountain for a meeting and refuse to apportionment of grain. Therefore, Liu Jingrui did not feel new or strange.

However, the pistol captain Lu Baotian was a little puzzled by the second phone call that Commander Qi took the initiative to shake, and whispered to him: In the past, Commander Qi said that if he didn't go to a meeting, he wouldn't go to a meeting, so he didn't need to spend so much tongue at all, what kind of representative to send, what happened to the commander this time? Is there any hidden worry? Commander Qi returned to the table after making the call, and Lu Baotian was speechless.

The air on the wine table was a little dull, and Lu Baotian and Kong Yuewen both stared at Commander Qi in a daze.

This made Commander Qi feel strange.

Commander Qi pointed a bowl of meat with chopsticks and said:

"Hey, eat, eat, what are you doing sitting stupidly?"

So, everyone ate it, and so did Commander Qi.

Commander Qi told a joke to everyone while eating:

"There is a countryman who goes to the kiln, and the ** in the city doesn't want the countryman to do it, so he asks the countryman to make the hole in the wall in the room. The countrymen didn't understand the rules of the kiln, and thought that the city people were making holes in the walls, so they stuck the guy in it. I never thought that the old bustard who opened the kiln on the other side of the wall was playing cards with a few guests, and the guy poked the old bustard's back, and the old bustard was furious, and decided that the ** hospitality was not kind, and ordered ** Tong Suo to be honest and honest. **Helpless, stripped naked and lay on the bed, but the countrymen didn't do it, and looked at the lower body of ** for a long time. **Annoyed, ask: What do you see? Countryman: Let's see if there are still four people playing cards inside, and don't accidentally poke anyone's back......"

Everyone laughed, and so did Commander Qi, and after laughing, Commander Qi said:

"This commander has concluded that the countryman is not our Guangqing!"

Lu Baotian asked stupidly:

"Why?"

Commander Qi said:

"It's very simple, under the rule of this commander, we don't have the bad habit of prostituting prostitutes in the eight counties of Guangqing. The year before last, there was a guy who went out to the mountains to prostitute and came back with a big plum sore, and Lao Tzu killed him the next day! ”

Everyone looked at each other and remained silent.

This is the end of the meal.

After eating, Commander Qi left the Guangqing Agricultural Machinery Factory, and drove back to Guangren County, the headquarters, according to the original plan, to participate in the spring security chief meeting of the three hundred and twenty-seven guarantees of eight counties held by the General Union Security Office, to reward the model security chief and punish the dereliction of duty.

Liu Jingrui remembered that when he left the Guangqing Agricultural Machinery Factory, it was about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and the commander's memory seemed to be very good, not only remembering to rush to the General Union Security Office at 3 o'clock, but also remembering to attend the monthly routine meeting of leaders from all walks of life after the end of the general meeting......