Spy Under Sky Chapter 290

"Master Lin, just tell me what you want us to do!" Liu Xuan said.

Gavin Lin reached out and picked up a pen, wrote a string of secret words on the paper, handed it to Liu Xuan, and said: "You immediately go to Chen Zuichen, the leader of the Songhu Garrison Headquarters Investigation Brigade, show him this note, and ask him to get you 50 grams of TNT explosives and bring them back."

"TNT?" Liu Xuan reacted immediately. "Stationmaster Lin, are you planning to make a bomb? Isn't 50 grams too little? Why don't you ask Team Leader Chen to help us get more?"

After TNT was used in World War I, it was quickly introduced to China by Chinese weapons manufacturing experts. In the 1920s, the four major arsenals, including the Shanghai Arsenal, Jinling Arsenal, Hanyang Arsenal and Gongxian Arsenal, had developed a considerable capacity to produce TNT explosives.

Although the Shanghai Arsenal was forced to stop production after the January 28th Shanghai Incident in 1932, and then the machinery and equipment of the arsenal were sneaked into the other three arsenals, the Songhu Garrison Command, as a paramilitary department to maintain public security in the Shanghai area, must have kept a considerable stock of TNT explosives. Therefore, Liu Xuan suggested that Gavin Lin ask Chen Zui to help them get more TNT explosives.