mage in the late qing dynasty

Chapter 1078 I just want a big brother now

When the news that British doctor Sixt Karl was a serial killer reached Britain, the British authorities immediately sent people to conduct a detailed investigation.

London police found irrefutable evidence in his home linking Chris Carr to at least three murders.

Unfortunately, Sixt Carr does not seem to be Jack the Ripper, and even if he is, there is no evidence to prove it.

This incident not only became a topic of conversation among Londoners, but also caused a sensation around the world.

Everyone fears psychopathic serial killers.

But no one has ever thought about what would happen when a killer meets a killer, or a pervert meets a butcher.

As a result, Zhao Chuanxin easily eliminated a threat to Britain.

Everyone felt sorry for it. If only Jack the Ripper could deal with Zhao Chuanxin, maybe some different sparks could be created.

This incident became the inspiration for many writers.

……

Zhao Chuanxin went back to Lubin Prefecture to visit his daughter.

His eldest daughter is Zhao Lingjun, his second son is Zhao Zhengze, and his third daughter is Zhao Nianzhen.

Gulizar was about to give birth, and Zhao Chuanxin had already named his unborn fourth daughter Zhao Songzhen.

Zhao Nianzhen in the cradle had his brows tightly furrowed and his mouth pursed, and he still looked sulky even in his sleep.

Zhao Chuanxin held his baby girl in his arms and exclaimed, "This is incredible. This is truly incredible."

Rebecca Levi asked hurriedly: “What’s wrong?”

Zhao Chuanxin said bluntly: "One year old can tell a person's future. I'm afraid Zhao Nianzhen has a stubborn temper."

"Nonsense." Rebecca Levi snatched her daughter away and said unhappily, "My daughter must be a lady. This is also your daughter, why don't you hope for the best for your daughter?"

"Why is being unruly bad?" Zhao Chuanxin retorted.

Rebecca Levy was speechless.

Zhao Chuanxin had the idea of ​​gathering several women together.

In this era, three palaces and six courtyards are really nothing.

However, he suppressed the thought as soon as it came to mind.

Life like that would probably be tiring, weird, and miserable.

That's fine now.

Ever since Wu Lien-teh held the press conference, Zhao Chuanxin's power of faith has grown rapidly, making him rich and powerful in a short period of time.

After leaving Fengtian, Zhao Chuanxin was isolated in the underground bunker for a whole week and has just returned to Lubin Prefecture.

After only one day in the company, he received a telegram from Hankou with follow-up news about Wu Yigou's sudden death.

The Governor of Huguang, Rui Cheng, asked the British Consulate for compensation, but was ultimately unsuccessful.

Not only did he pay the British consulate 20,000 taels of silver, he also paid out of his own pocket for Britain to have the Hanguandao pay pensions to the families of those killed by the British army.

Originally, the British Consulate demanded that they pay 60,000 yuan in compensation. Later, Qi Yaoshan of the Jianghan Customs and Zhang Biao, the commander of the army, negotiated with the British Consulate and finally reduced the compensation to 20,000 yuan.

The Dajiang Baihua Newspaper said: The foreigners abused our people, the authorities were corrupt and incompetent, and they actually paid compensation to the British consulate, which was ridiculous...

What Liu Huaqiang meant was that the matter should just be left at that.

Wu Yigou was laid to rest in peace, and the family of the deceased finally received compensation.

Although the process was humiliating, many people have accepted the result.

Zhao Chuanxin did not reply to Liu Huaqiang, but sent a telegram to the Xuantian Sect in Hong Kong Island, informing Li Zhitao to bring the elite of the Judgment Group to Hankou.

……

Tang Shaoyi, who was once the Minister of Posts and Communications, went to the areas outside the Great Wall for inspection after the plague ended.

In 07, when Tang Shaoyi was the governor of Fengtian and was in charge of foreign affairs outside the Great Wall, he proposed to introduce American capital to build railways.

The plan failed because of Japan's obstruction.

Later, Zhao Chuanxin contacted US Secretary of State Philando Knox, and at the same time pressured Tsarist Russia and Japan to successfully launch the railway construction plan.

It’s just that Lubin Prefecture and Lugang Town were high-profile in the early stages, but kept quiet and never publicized their work in the later stages, resulting in the outside world being unaware of the progress of the railway construction.

After the plague broke out, there was even less news about the railways.

Tang Shaoyi was so fascinated by American ideas that he had to go outside the Great Wall to see it for himself.

When he arrived in Longjiangfu, he found a ribbon-cutting ceremony being held outside the newly built Longjiangfu Station.

He led people forward to inquire: "What's going on?"

The onlookers said excitedly: "The section from Longjiang Prefecture to the north bank has been completed and the ribbon-cutting ceremony is just underway. This year it will be completed to Ai-Huan."

Tang Shaoyi perked up: "The newspaper didn't report it?"

"The Lubin Prefecture keeps a low profile and never publicizes anything. They just set off a string of fireworks and call it a day. Every time they repair a section, they come here once."

Tang Shaoyi asked: "What about going south?"

The man shook his head: "South? I don't know. Do we have to repair it to the south? That's incredible!"

Tang Shaoyi simply went to Hulun City to visit Zhang Shouzeng, the general manager of the Foreign Affairs Bureau of Lubin Prefecture.

"Heyan, are you only building the railway from Longjiangfu to Ai-Huan?"

Zhang Shouzeng smiled but said nothing.

Tang Shaoyi asked, "He Yan is very talented and good at negotiation. You should understand that such things can be kept secret for a while, but not forever. Besides, I will not reveal a single thing during today's conversation."

Zhang Shouzeng didn't hide it from him on purpose, he just felt that Tang Shaoyi was an official of the Qing court, and although he was now idle at home, he might make a comeback someday.

The two sides nominally belong to the same country, but essentially they are not in the same camp.

He admired Tang Shaoyi's talent and ability, but he also despised Tang Shaoyi's capitalist thinking that whoever feeds you is your mother.

Zhang Shouzeng heard this and said meaningfully: "There are several key points, Xinmin, KLQQ, Lugang Town, Longjiang Prefecture, Ai-hui..."

Not a word more.

Tang Shaoyi immediately felt a sense of kingly dominance.

He was a smart man and understood immediately.

Originally, the United States wanted to build the Xinmin-Fengtian Railway, which would run from Xinmin outside Fengtian to Faku, and then slowly extend northward to Longjiang Prefecture, and then to Ai-Huan.

Zhao Chuanxin continued the original American plan and extended several branch lines, from Xinmin to KLQQ and Faku to Lugang Town.

Tang Shaoyi saw Zhao Chuanxin's potential ambition.

For example, the Fengtian section starts from Xinmin and can be connected to Fengtian at any time.

As Longjiang Prefecture is the middle point, there is no need to extend the railway to Lubin Prefecture because it overlaps with the Daxing-Anling section of the Eastern China Railway.

In the future, as long as we take back this section of railway, we will be able to connect to Hulunbuir grassland.

The same is true for the railway to Lugang Town in the east. The branch line of the South Manchuria Railway has not been repaired, and now a transfer is required, but in the future, as long as the South Manchuria Railway is seized, the entire line can be connected.

No wonder they acted so low-key. After completing the construction of various branch lines, they only needed to seize Japan and Russia to directly open up their Ren and Du meridians.

He bid farewell to Zhang Shouzeng and headed west into the Hulun grassland.

He was shocked to find that the various wings of the prairie were now connected by trams.

In addition to trams, there are roads.

Road workers cut the weeds on the roadside and consolidated the sides of the roadbed.

The road was flat, even smooth, and pitch black, stretching as far as the eye could see.

There are poles on the roadside with telegraph and telephone lines installed on them.

There was a large truck spewing exhaust gas, carrying ten sheep on the road. When it arrived near the road construction workers, it honked its horn to ask them to give way.

Factories line the railways, roads and tram tracks.

Tang Shaoyi hurriedly got off the train with his entourage.

He took the tram. It cost one copper coin to go from Solon to Chenbarhu, and another copper coin for the next stop, and so on.

The tram windows were open and I could smell cow, horse and camel dung outside.

The bus was full of people, and those without seats had to stand and squeeze.

The tents on both sides grew wildly along the Hailar River like mushrooms after an autumn rain.

Generally speaking, the population on the grassland cannot be dense except in towns, and livestock need a certain amount of pasture space.

But the people here obviously do not rely solely on herding for a living.

Tang Shaoyi asked the passengers on the bus: "If they don't herd livestock, what do they do for a living?"

The passengers were amused: "Fur processing, working in coal yards, mines, forestry farms and ironworks, crossing the border to buy and sell furs, slaughtering livestock, selling meat... What's the word for the official goods bureau? That's right, regulation. The official goods bureau does not allow people to live anywhere they want. The pastures are planned and you can't fish out all the fish. You can make money by grazing, and you can also make money by slaughtering livestock. In Lubin Prefecture, you will never starve or freeze to death."

Tang Shaoyi nodded: "Last year, there was a serious flood outside the Great Wall. Wasn't Lubin Prefecture affected?"

"How can a river flood without suffering any damage?" "Did anyone starve to death?"

"No."

"..."

Tang Shaoyi pointed to the road that ran parallel to the tram tracks and asked: "Why is that road black? Why is it so smooth and without any ruts?"

The passengers were not surprised: "That's called asphalt road. It cost a lot of money to build it. It's so thick and solid. You'll understand when you step on it."

There are no street lights in uninhabited areas, but there must be street lights wherever there are people.

Tang Shaoyi also saw thousands of acres of fertile fields that stretched as far as the eye could see.

They are all neatly cut mature fields.

He gasped when he saw it.

I Chao... This is much more awesome than when it was under the Qing Dynasty.

When you arrive at Lubin Prefecture, in addition to the extensive tram network, there is also the terrifyingly wide main road.

Tang Shaoyi saw the streets were full of cars.

One of the cars is particularly cool, with a shiny black body, a "Roll King" logo on the front, and the word "Shi Lan" written on the rear. The wheels have no spokes but are one-piece molded, with thick tires and a high chassis.

Through the car window, Tang Shaoyi could see a tall and plump foreign woman sitting inside, driving the car attentively. When she reached the red and green neon lights, the red light came on and the car waited there for the neon light to turn green, even the horse-drawn carriage and the bicycle were no exception.

Tang Shaoyi had been to the United States. Except for the lack of skyscrapers, Lubin Prefecture was not much different from modern cities in the United States. In terms of the number of cars, it even had more.

"Zhao Chuanxin is truly a rare genius!"

Under Zhao Chuanxin's governance, Lubin Prefecture was no worse than Hankou, known as the Chicago of the East, or the prosperous Shanghai and Tianjin.

Tang Shaoyi sighed that he was not as good as him.

……

Zhao Chuanxin returned to Hankou.

He drafted a letter in his office in the Ba Gong house and asked Liu Huaqiang to deliver it to the Consulate in the British Concession.

Liu Huaqiang hesitated: "Principal, as things develop to the later stage, I, I..."

"Don't be fussy, just say what you want to say."

Liu Huaqiang said: "After much investigation, I found that Wu Yigou died suddenly due to illness. A foreign detective arrived at the scene first, and then an Indian policeman was called in. He was not kicked to death by the policeman as the drivers said."

Zhao Chuanxin grinned: "Then the British shot and killed Hankou civilians, is this true?"

"true."

"Send the letter."

British Consul General in Wuhan, Francis Farrow, was in a good mood.

Although some time ago, rickshaw pullers went on strike, besieged the police station and caused some trouble.

It doesn’t matter. As always, the British Concession finally got rid of its anger.

"Whether the Chinese are right or not, they are making the concessions they deserve," Falles told Stanley Wyatt-Smith, a diplomat at the British Consulate in Hanoi.

Stanley Wyatt Smith pursed his lips with some concern: "But don't forget there is another person - Zhao Chuanxin. Zhao Chuanxin never gives in."

"Zhao Chuanxin?" Fares raised his voice: "If Zhao Chuanxin comes, he must apologize. The rickshaw driver was just being unreasonable."

"But we killed innocent people."

"There are no innocent people. Who told them to riot and besiege the police station?" Fares said smugly, "Zhao Chuanxin has not made any move, which means he knows he is in the wrong. Besides, Tsarist Russia and Japan are enough to make him anxious."

As he was speaking, a staff member came to report: "Liu Huaqiang, president of the Student Union of Juanwang Technical College, sent a letter."

"Bring it here."

Fares tore open the envelope, took out the letter and read it.

As he read on, his face gradually turned pale.

Stanley Wyatt Smith asked curiously, "Consul, what happened?"

Fares handed him the letter: "Read it yourself."

Stanley Wyatt Smith looked at the signature first.

The signature is Zhao Chuanxin.

Zhao Chuanxin put forward three points in a concise letter: First, release the detained rickshaw drivers immediately. Second, return the 21 yuan compensation paid by the Jianghan Customs. Third, civilians were killed or injured, and the British Consulate was required to pay million yuan in resettlement fees within two days. Failure to pay would be at the British Consulate's own risk.

Stanley Wyatt Smith was sweating profusely as he watched.

He screamed in his heart: I'll tell you, I'll tell you, he won't let it go, you just had to listen, now...

Fares's face was as dark as the bottom of a pot: "Zhao Chuanxin is really too much. We only asked them to pay 60,000 yuan in compensation, but he actually asked us to pay 2 million yuan?"

Stanley Wyatt Smith hesitated and said, "Our consulate can't come up with two million dollars."

"Even if I can give it to you, I won't give it to you." Fares said firmly, "This is not our fault, it's their fault."

"But……"

"You go and get 20,000 yuan..." Fares thought for a moment and said, "No, you get 30,000 yuan, return 20,000 yuan to Zhao Chuanxin, and 10,000 yuan as compensation."

After all, he still didn't dare to confront Zhao Chuanxin head-on.

Stanley Wyatt Smith did not move: "Who will pay the money then?"

"You go and deliver it."

"..." Stanley Wyatt Smith was unwilling: "But I haven't lived long enough, can you send someone else?"

……

Two days after Zhao Chuanxin leased the border to Britain, he returned to the sky to meet Nikola Tesla.

He handed the newly purchased Star Root companion to Nikola Tesla and said: "The phone you built is too big. Can it be reduced to the size of a brick? I have already given it a name, it's called - Big Brother."

Nikola Tesla stared at Zhao Chuanxin and said, "Absolutely impossible."

Zhao Chuanxin hated bulky telephones, even though they were wireless and could enable real-time communications around the world without the need for communication satellites or signal towers.

Nikola Tesla said: "In the telephone made by the Star Root companion, there are too many electron tubes and circuits, as well as batteries, and it is impossible to shrink it."

Zhao Chuanxin's eyes turned: "Have you ever thought that circuits can be compressed and integrated?"

"?"

Nikola Tesla's head was full of question marks.

Zhao Chuanxin took out a pen and paper, drew a board, and drew a circuit on the board: "If I use an insulating board and draw the circuit with conductors on it, won't those complicated and dense circuit problems be solved? I can stack insulating boards layer by layer. As long as the design is appropriate, it is completely feasible."

Nikola Tesla stood there in shock. After thinking for half a minute, he looked at Zhao Chuanxin in shock: "How did you come up with this idea? But where can we get such insulating boards?"

Zhao Chuanxin said: "I can make glass, heat the glass, draw the glass solution into wire, weave the wire into cloth, and apply resin on the cloth to form an insulating board. After drawing the circuit, I stack the glass fiber cloth layer by layer."

"Even if what you said is feasible." Nikola Tesla stared at the blueprint: "Where should the electron tube be placed? How to connect the lines between so many layers of insulating boards?"

Zhao Chuanxin drew the emitter and base, and then the collector and base. The signal is input from the former and output from the latter: "This will amplify a strong signal. We use this amplification effect to make a transistor that is smaller than a matchstick and can be inserted into these boards. As for the connection of the insulating board, we only need to punch holes and plate copper. The conductive holes can connect the current of all layers, the non-conductive holes are used to fix screws, and the blind holes are only drilled to a certain layer..."

Nikola Tesla was shocked by Zhao Chuanxin's imagination.

How did this person come up with this idea?

It seems like a wild idea, yet it seems completely feasible.

When Zhao Chuanxin was a child, he liked to tear down the house. He would take old TVs, disc projectors and other things into pieces. After taking them apart, he could not put them back together and was beaten badly.

I have a relative at home who specializes in electrical appliance repair.

Zhao Chuanxin has been a troublemaker since he was young. He likes to ask questions that make people furious.

Later, I gradually understood some basic knowledge about circuits and actually built a wired controller to modify an electric toy car, which could control the toy car to move forward and backward.

If his parents had not forced him to give up this hobby and concentrate on his studies, perhaps he could have become an electrical engineer instead of light industry - selling goods through live streaming.

Nikola Tesla looked crazy: "I need Benjamin to come back, immediately. Make the insulating fiberglass board quickly."

Zhao Chuanxin nodded: "The plague has just passed, so the trains are just starting to run, but Benjamin is on his way. The board will be delivered to you before dinner."

The sand was ready-made. Zhao Chuanxin first used a mud trowel and gloves to gather the sand into a tower to make glass. He then used the old god's crucible to melt the glass for drawing.

The difficult part was weaving, which was handed over to the black puppet craftsmen and puppet slaves, and Zhao Chuanxin coated it with white resin taken from the "Code of the Old Gods".

Sure enough, before dinner, Zhao Chuanxin handed the thin insulating board to Nikola Tesla.

Nikola Tesla conducted the experiment and found that it was indeed insulated. He was overjoyed and said, "This will definitely shock the world. Zhao, if we succeed, you will go down in history!"

Zhao Chuanxin smiled slightly: "Nikola, I don't want to leave my name in history now, I just want a big mobile phone now."

It’s just like some people in later generations don’t want to achieve anything, but they are willing to spend their money to buy an Apple computer.

He didn't spend a lot of money to buy the Star Root companion creature, but it cost him 500,000 gold coins, and this money must not be wasted.

(End of this chapter)