The Rise of the Writers of the Republic of China

"Stop the civil war and unite against Japan!"

"I'd rather die than be a subjugated slave!"

Zhou Hexuan rode a rickshaw through the cold and windy streets of Beiping. A parade composed of hundreds of students on the street was holding up placards and shouting slogans, and citizens along the way stopped to watch.

The parade in Beiping is a small fight, and the real big parade is in Nanjing.

At the beginning of the month, thousands of students from various schools in Peiping lay on the tracks for three days and three nights, forcing the railway bureau to leave for Nanjing, and joined forces with thousands of students from Shandong to hold demonstrations.

After the students arrived in Nanjing, they were divided into "radicals" and "moderates". The "radicals" stayed at Central University, and the "moderates" lived at Jinling University. They went to the streets every day to hold demonstrations, which made the Nanjing Nationalist Government a mess.

But the college students at this time are the pride of heaven and cannot be easily offended. The Nanjing authorities comforted and cared for them: each person was given two military blankets, and each meal consisted of two meat dishes, two vegetables and one soup, plus bread, butter and biscuits for dessert. If you visit the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum and visit the city and have no time to go back to school for dinner, you can also eat for free at any restaurant in the city with meal coupons.

At the beginning, the students threw away all the cheap food, but later it was estimated that the money was not enough, so they could only reluctantly accept it.

Just three days before Chang Kaishen announced his resignation, it was the 18th time (since September 18) that Chang Kaishen personally spoke with the parade students. The "moderate" student group was appeased and returned home after a day of sightseeing organized by the Nanjing authorities, while the "radicals" continued to march and demonstrate.

Two days later, thousands of students from more than a dozen schools in Shanghai came to join, and middle school and college students from Hangzhou, Anqing, Wuhu, Suzhou, Wuxi and other places also came one after another. Central University.

On the morning when Chang Kaishen announced his resignation, the students first came to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and smashed the signboards, cars, tables and chairs, doors, windows and filing cabinets of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Then the students went to the Central Party Headquarters of the National Party, where the Fourth Plenary Session of the National Party was being held, and the students met the bigwigs of the National Party.

The students clamored for Chang Kaishen to come forward to show their attitude, and Lao Jiang sat there calmly, looking like he was watching the show—he had just been forced to announce his resignation from the Communist Party and the commander-in-chief of the armed forces. Things are out of his control.

Chen Mingshu, commander of the Beijing-Shanghai Garrison, and Cai Yuanpei, a bigwig in the education sector, stood up. The former was in charge of security, while the latter was in charge of persuading students.

Cai Yuanpei didn't say a few words, and was caught by the students together with Chen Mingshu, and the guards next to him quickly shot into the sky to warn them. The gunshots completely angered the students. A female student named Xue Xun from the Peking Art Academy slapped Cai Yuanpei in the face, and other students also started beating her.

After beating Chen Mingshu and Cai Yuanpei, Xue Xun shouted the slogan "Catch Chang Kaishen alive" and rushed to the party headquarters. Ever since, the bigwigs of the Nationalist Party fought with the students in the aisle. Tables, chairs and benches smashed into each other, and glass and chandeliers shattered.

There are different opinions about this farce, and it is difficult to sort out the clues.

However, many people on both sides must have been injured and injured. The commander of the Beijing-Shanghai Garrison was knocked out by the students, Cai Yuanpei was taken hostage by the students, and the students who caused the most trouble were also arrested.

When Zhou Hexuan saw the news in Beiping, he couldn't help imagining Chang Kaishen's reaction at that time. Lao Jiang should be gloating, let you unite to force Lao Tzu to go to the field, Lao Tzu will not play with you now, you can deal with it slowly on your own.

"Sir, we're here!" The rickshaw driver reminded.

This is a wasteland between Peking University and Xishan. Zhou Hexuan took Sun Yongzhen out of the car and walked, and several students came to greet him immediately.

Zhou Hexuan smiled and said, "How is the experiment going?"

"Mr. Zhou, please test the results." A leading student said happily.

These are all students from the Scientific Research Department of Peking University. Zhou Hexuan made some gadgets from memory and asked them to help with research and development experiments.

I saw some messy things lying on the open space, including moulds, stoves, wood, charcoal, bellows, gunpowder... fragments and bits and pieces, which looked like the lowest level of small workshop utensils.

The students quickly started to work, and a small iron furnace was erected...

(The specific production steps have been harmonized, please forgive me.)

Back and forth, it only takes 50 minutes to make a grenade. If the manpower is sufficient, multiple grenades can be made at the same time.

This whole set of grenade production equipment has a well-known name in later generations-seven people back!

When the enemy strikes, seven people can carry the equipment and transfer. Moreover, the materials used are extremely rough and common. If there is no charcoal and charcoal, you can even use corncobs to burn charcoal instead.

This thing was invented by a certain militiaman in the Republic, and it was later printed into a book and vigorously promoted.

As long as they are literate and smart people, they can rely on the methods recorded in the pamphlets to use scrap iron, wood and black powder to mass-produce homemade hand grenades at low cost, which is very suitable for guerrillas behind enemy lines.

"Try the power!" Zhou Hexuan said.

A student pulled the matchlock, and the tail of the grenade smoked quickly. After a few seconds of throwing it out, it exploded with a "boom".

Zhou Hexuan ran over to check the situation and found that the power of this thing was so small that even the shell casing was not completely shattered, and the iron casing split into four or five pieces and scattered all over the place.

After all, there is no good product if it is cheap, and it is enough to hand it over to the guerrillas.

Zhou Hexuan planned to print hundreds of copies of "Seven People's Back" and let people secretly take it to the Northeast. The Anti-Japanese Volunteers there should like it very much. Surrounded by the Japanese army, it was difficult to transport donations and materials. What the anti-Japanese volunteers needed most was this kind of rustic "military technology".