Qiu talked about what kind of hard work the Chinese president Jing Gan was fighting, Zhu Erdian Xiaoya Nanyuan can't do it, this is the job assigned by the British government. He had to finish.

So he followed Yan Huiqing to Nanyuan Air Base, and when he arrived at the place, Li Zanhe, the director of the chamberlain, had been ordered to wait in Nanyuan, and as soon as he saw Zhu Erdian, the president's first cronies immediately led Yan Huiqing and Zhu Erdian to the Nanyuan target scene to meet the president.

The Nanyuan Range is part of the school yard of the air base, and it is the place where the garrison of the air base conducts shooting exercises.

After arriving at the shooting range, I heard the sound of shooting from the shooting range, but the sound of gunfire was sparse, and it was night, it didn't seem like the soldiers were doing their daily shooting practice, and when they got closer. Yan Huiqing and Zhu Erdian understood. It turned out that the president was shooting at the target, and a group of soldiers gathered to the side to watch the president play with guns.

It would not be accurate to say that it was a target, because there was no target in sight, and Mr. President was just standing on the range, holding a long gun, and firing into the open space in front of him, where several broken ammunition boxes were standing. There are also some sandbags, which can be hit anywhere.

It's night, and it's pitch black. Only a few searchlights provided illumination at the scene, and the gunshots were particularly clear in the darkness, which would have caused panic among the citizens if they were in the city.

Seeing that the president was on the rise, Yan Huiqing and Zhu Erdian didn't bother, and stood aside. I watched the president perform marksmanship with the soldiers, and when I asked, I realized that the president was not showing off his marksmanship here, but testing the gun.

The spear in the president's hand has a long history. It is called the "national shotgun", which is a kind of civilian shotgun specially produced by the arsenal for civilian use.

This is actually one of the security enhancement measures, mainly aimed at eliminating military firearms scattered among the civilian population.

Since the end of the Qing Dynasty, the situation in the country has been turbulent, and there have been several large-scale wars, and a huge number of military guns have been scattered among the people, which is very unfavorable to public security. In the course of the engagement. The armies of the north and the south fought many times in Henan, Hebei and other places, and lost a large number of military guns and ammunition in the battle, and these weapons were quickly dispersed to the people, such as Manlixia rifles, Mauser rifles, Lebel rifles, large and small golden hook rifles, water bead rifles, starry rifles, new and old Hanyang-made rifles, Chuntian rifles, etc., as long as the rifles equipped in the armies of the north and south at that time, you can now see that some of the rifles fell into the hands of the villagers, and some rifles fell into the hands of bandits.

Not only rifles, but also many pistols are scattered among the people, and these short guns that are easy to carry concealed are even more harmful to public security, and in addition to the loss of the battlefield, there are also many military weapons that are actually brought to the people by the troops of the warring parties who have been scattered and have not been able to collect. A few years ago, some bandits who were very famous in Zhuo Jing used to be soldiers.

In the troubled times, the imperial court is unreliable, so the small people can only learn to protect themselves, this kind of thinking has further exacerbated the proliferation of civilian weapons, coupled with the smuggling of arms dealers from various countries, all parts of the country have been full of arms, take the three eastern provinces as an example, from the beginning of the First Sino-Japanese War, after the Battle of Gengzi, the Russo-Japanese War, the entire three eastern provinces can be seen everywhere The military rifles made by various countries can be seen everywhere, in the territory of the three eastern provinces, basically large families have guns for self-defense, especially in the era of rampant horse bandits, where there are horse bandits, there is a Lianzhuang Association, It is impossible for the United Bank to be bare-handed. They also have bullets, which are enough to fight the bandits. In those turbulent times, these self-defense forces somewhat suppressed the rampant banditry. When the power of the local government is lacking, it is a self-preservation strategy for the small people, but at the same time. These scattered military weapons are also widely used in ordinary civilian fights.

Since the United Front came to power. Under the full encirclement and suppression of the central government, the large number of bandits in the country were basically eliminated. The troubled times are basically over, in this situation. The disposal of the large number of military-style weapons in the diaspora has become a serious problem for the central Government.

Military weapons, with their high power and long range, often serve as a powerful force in the local government to oppose central government decrees, and on the other hand, these military weapons are hidden among the civilian population and are likely to be used for criminal activities by those who take risks. Especially those short guns that can be carried covertly.

In the civilian arms trade. The price of a short gun is often several times higher than that of a long gun. This can reflect the popularity of short guns from one side.

On the question of how to deal with the wartime arms that were privately held by the people, there were two main opinions in the central government: one was that the "liberal faction" advocated learning from the United States, using soldiers to serve the people, and issuing licenses to all gun bearers, and the other was that the "strict faction" advocated learning from Japan and simply banning the private possession of gunpowder.

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Both opinions have their own disadvantages, and at first the "strict faction" prevails, but in the end, after comprehensive consideration, the center finally decided to take the middle course. After the compromise between standardizing the management of civilian weapons and prohibiting the dispersal of military weapons among the people, this concept of "national hunting rifles" emerged.

The "national shotgun" is actually a single-bore gun. This shotgun has no rifling, uses shotguns and single-headed rounds, has a short range and is not very accurate, and its peculiarity is not only that it can only be loaded with one bullet at a time, but also that its structure is not a common pouting type, but a rotating pull-back bolt like the Mauser rifle, which allows the gunner to familiarize himself with the operation of the Mauser rifle and the Hanyang-made rifle and the maintenance of the bolt.

In accordance with the deletion of the "national hunting rifle" and the application and management of gun licenses, in accordance with the relevant laws formulated by the central government. "Ten guns, that is, breech guns, can be without a gun license. But this breech shotgun must be accompanied by a gun photo. One shot, one shot, strict management. While bringing troops to the people, the threat to law and order should be minimized.

After the relevant measures were introduced, the next step was to implement these measures, for those who had previously applied for a gun license, the implementation of "new guns for old guns, and for those who do not have a gun license, all weapons will be disarmed within a time limit." In addition, only personnel with special statuses, such as military, police, constitutional, and special personnel, can hold short guns. and members of paramilitary organizations such as militias and revolutionary guards.

This is a controversial policy, and Congress actually barely passed the law before the adjournment after several heated debates, and then the law was introduced, but as long as the "national shotgun" was not designed and test-fired. This policy will not be implemented.

Now, the "National Shotgun" has completed the finalization test, and it is about to be approved by the president for industrial production, and one of the reasons why Zhao Bei will appear at the Nanyuan Shooting Range tonight is to personally test the performance of this shotgun.

In Zhao Bei's view, this kind of shotgun is more powerful than enough for civilian anti-thief and military scraping training, and because the bolt structure of this shotgun is basically the same as that of the new Hanyang-made rifle, it is conducive to the training of new recruits in the army. Zhao Bei immediately approved this "national shotgun." After the mass production was completed, the strip was approved on the spot to the Ordnance Industry Administration, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs was told to cooperate.

However, in just half a year, hundreds of thousands of breech-loading military rifles were collected from the civilian sector, a large part of which were collected from people in the former military circles, such as the Anhui Haoqiang Jiang Guidi, and the inspectors of the Ministry of Internal Affairs cleared out more than 5,000 military rifles of various types from Jiang's manor. And this batch of rifles was originally supposed to be handed over to Xiong Chengji and others to rebel against the Zhao riot.

So, in a sense. The central government's seizure of military weapons is in fact a precautionary military operation. Minimize the attack power of Zhao Bei's potential political enemies.

However, to be honest, Zhao Bei's other purpose of opposing the proposal of the "strict faction" to completely ban gunpowder was not simple, in his strategy, the grassroots organization "Hoe Society" of the township and forestry did not gather with bare hands. At the same time, however, it is not possible to inflate the armed forces of local tyrants, so he chose the middle way on the issue of civilian defensive weapons.

Of course, the reason why Zhao Bei rushed to Nanyuan. And not just to test this "national shotgun." His main self-interest was to hold a military conference on the issue of the Air Force Exhibition in Nanyuan. Just use the free time after the meeting to test the power of the "National Shotgun" for yourself.

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As soon as he finished testing the performance of the shotgun, he saw Yan Huiqing rushing with Zhu Erdian, because the chamberlain had already reported the purpose of Yan Huiqing and Zhu Erdian rushing to Nanyuan in advance, so Zhao Bei was not particularly surprised by the British minister's verbal protest and solemn intersection.

"Mr. Minister. For your verbal protests. I can understand that, as for the British government's questions, I can also give you an answer. But this is not the place to talk, let's go inside and talk. ”

Zhao Bei invited Mor Erdian into a dormitory building on the edge of the school grounds and had a detailed conversation with the imposing British minister in a reception room.

The British government questioned why the two large ocean-going assault ships had been sent to demonstrate off the coast of Singapore. In this regard, Zhao Bei has already had a countermeasure, in fact, when he gave Lu Ping an order, he had already thought of a rhetoric, and now he is just using it to perfunctory the British.

"Mr. Minister, it seems to be a misunderstanding that the British Government asked why the Central Government had sent the attack ships "Green Forest" and "Red Eyebrow" to Singapore, and that the Central Government's order to the Raiding Fleet was to search for and attack the Japanese fleet. Perhaps it was because the commander of the fleet had made a deviation in the execution of the order, which caused a misunderstanding of the British government. On behalf of myself, I would like to apologise to the British Government, and I can immediately give the Fleet Commander an order to leave the waters off Singapore as soon as possible. ”

Regarding Zhao Bei's explanation, Zhu Erdian was not satisfied. In fact, he is also wondering if this is a new adventure for this "mad president", after all, this man has always been arrogant, and no one dares to guarantee that he will not take risks in the South Seas. Considering his decisive military action against Japan, it is no wonder that some in the British government are suspicious, and now that war is going on in Europe, Britain simply does not have enough forces to devote to the Far East. At such a time, more is better than less, and it is out of this consideration that the British Government has taken a surprising position of tolerance, which had been left behind, lest the British Government would have ordered the colonial authorities in Singapore to expel the Chinese attacking fleet by force. Where would they tolerate the other party wandering leisurely off the coast of Singapore?

In Zhu Erdian's view, China's attack on the fleet was a scoundrel.

Although there is an old Chinese saying, "There is no tiger in the mountains, the monkey is the overlord", and now the British tiger is planning to compete with the German lion, and cannot take care of the Far East for the time being, but the tiger power is still there, isn't China worried about Britain defeating Germany and then turning back to revive the Far East tiger might?

International politics is particular about speculation, but speculation is not so rampant, compared to China's rogue performance, Italy's performance is already very good, and the British government is afraid that the Chinese rogue will teach the Italian Zhongshi badly.