mage in the late qing dynasty

Chapter 173 Unpredictable
Zhao Chuanxin originally thought that only Hong Kong was affected by the disaster, but he did not expect that the Jianghuai and other places were also flooded.Originally, this is an important area for grain production, but this year there is no harvest.

There are displaced people everywhere, with ten rooms empty and starving everywhere.

An old woman with gray hair in rags and tattered clothes saw Zhao Chuanxin and his party dressed well, leaning on crutches tremblingly, holding a broken bowl with gaping teeth, and knelt down directly to Zhao Chuanxin.

"Good people have good rewards, so show kindness."

After finishing speaking, kowtow to Zhao Chuanxin.

Dirty and dark face, chapped by the wind and sun.The silver hair was messy, dry and without a trace of luster, and it was also stained with dirt debris when kowtowing.

As he spoke, his lips quivered with hunger.

The whole group was stunned.

Flipping his hand, Zhao Chuanxin had a steamed bun in his palm.

"Old lady, take it and eat first."

He knew it was inappropriate to do so, but he really couldn't see people of his age kneel down to him.

Kowtow only to give a steamed bun, I don't know how many years of life will be lost.

The old lady's eyes lit up when she saw the fine white flour steamed buns.

Zhao Chuanxin is a particular person, he eats fine grains and coarse grains, but fine grains are like white flour, there should be no bran, and if there is no lump, the gluten must be finely sifted.

This steamed bun is much finer than what most people eat.

"Thank you, thank you, good people are rewarded..."

The old lady was stupid and tongue-tied, and couldn't say more good things, so she just repeated this sentence over and over again.

Besides the old lady, there were more victims. When they saw Zhao Chuanxin take out the steamed buns, they immediately became jealous and rushed forward to loot them.

Yinghua and the others turned pale.

They know how terrifying the rioters are.

He scolded Zhao Chuanxin in his heart for not having any social experience. At this time, he must either provide a lot of food, or stop meddling in his own business.

Gao Li made a sudden move, grabbed a man by the braid, kicked his calf, and the man fell down screaming.

Steady, precise and fast, he performed vividly.

Zhao Chuanxin drew out his gun, bang bang bang bang into the sky...and emptied the magazine.

"Do you dare to steal my things?"

The crowd dispersed like an ebb tide.

All of them stared at the steamed buns in the old lady's hand with fear and greed.

Zhao Chuanxin frowned, and scanned for a week: "Persist for a few days, and I will send food over in a few days. Whoever dares to grab the old lady's steamed buns now, I will kill him!"

It's not that I don't understand, it's just that it doesn't matter.

Whoever has the gun is the biggest. This is the rule of the game in this era.

He gathered the people behind him, including Yinghua and the others.

"There is not enough food to support Hong Kong Island, and now it seems that the disaster situation in the mainland is not optimistic. Let's study it, what should we do?"

Liu Guigui is very good at foreign advanced technology or munitions.

If it is food, he is a layman.

In the end, Yinghua said: "During the Daoguang period, the imperial court issued a decree that grain imports were exempted from tax, and goods could also be loaded out of the port. Siam has a lot of rice and its value is cheap, and the journey is not far away. Instead of us purchasing in the interior, we let merchants from the middle To make a profit, how about we go to Siam to purchase by ourselves?"

Zhao Chuanxin turned his head and looked at Liu Baogui: "This is up to you, do you dare to go to Siam?"

Liu Baogui grew up so big that he didn't even dare to think that one day he would go abroad.

Thinking of being alone overseas with no relatives and not even speaking fluently, Liu Guigui's scalp felt numb.

But he still bite the bullet and said: "Dare, why not?"

Now that you have money in hand, where can you pretend to be coercive instead of pretending?
Asking Liu Baogui to do things does not mean that he does not value his life and death.

After all, this great ancestor who was gradually being sidelined was also considered his ancestor, right?

Nodding, Zhao Chuanxin said to Gao Li again: "You bring someone to accompany Baogui and protect him. Mr. Lianzhi, please help me to contact an interpreter who understands Siamese, and go with them."

This is arranged?Yinghua was surprised, this Mr. Zhao didn't treat him as an outsider at all.

Zhao Chuanxin named the accompanying people from all walks of life one by one. Everyone has a task.

He is not stingy either, and he generously allocates financial funds for the expenses of carriage, accommodation and meals.

Yinghua shook a stack of silver dollars wrapped in oiled paper in her hand, and said to Liu Jiahui with a wry smile: "Mr. Zhao is a wonderful person. He acts like Meng Lang, but he can stand up to it at critical times."

Along the way, he had to communicate with Liu Jiahui every day.

And the "Ta Kung Pao", which he has written for many years, has always aimed at opening up the atmosphere, enlightening the wisdom of the people, inspiring the academics of Western Europe and the West, and enlightening the wisdom of our compatriots.

Therefore, I admire the avant-garde Liu Jiahui very much. As long as you are not blind, everyone can see his thoughts to some extent.

But Liu Jiahui doesn't seem to have a cold, because Yinghua has a wife and children.

Besides, she couldn't hold others in her heart at this time, so she just smiled: "Captain Zhao is tired and lazy, but his heart is very good."

Zhao Chuanxin went to send a telegram to Freddie Pavelt, the housekeeper on the other side of the ocean, asking him to buy grain from the Americas and ship it to China, especially Brazil, a major grain producer.

The Americas are also one of the largest production areas. Although the transportation process is long, it can just catch up with the lack of food supply here.

Maybe it will come in handy at that time.

After leaving the telegraph office, he met two men in suits and ties, one Japanese and one white.

Why can he recognize the Japanese at a glance?

The traitor head, Ren Danhu, is a short man less than 1.6 meters, with a typical small Japanese appearance.

In Shanghai, the Japanese are like the dogs of the British.

Therefore, Zhao Chuanxin guessed that the white man next to him was British.

Sure enough, he spoke with a British accent: "You don't need to report the natural disasters in China to China, do you? Does your newspaper want to inform the local grain merchants?"

The Japanese have to raise their heads to face each other: "No, this is about the national economy and the people's livelihood. Our country's food has been in a tense balance for a long time, and any troubles cannot be ignored. I am worried that the natural disaster in China will affect Japan's food prices."

The two were talking and entered the telegraph office.

There was a grudge before, and Zhao Chuanxin never reported it.

When the Japanese assassinated him, he just protested in the newspaper, which was harmless. Perhaps both the big powers and the Qing court were watching him as a joke.

Hearing what the Japanese said, some thoughts flashed through his mind.

Japan's "Meiji Restoration" was undoubtedly very successful.

After the Russo-Japanese War and Japan's victory, many people with lofty ideals in China rushed to study in Japan one after another, wanting to imitate Japan to learn how to strengthen the country.

This wave of studying abroad has a wide-ranging impact.

But behind these successes, there are also foreshadowings of certain crises.

Zhao Chuanxin's thoughts turned, and the corner of his mouth couldn't help showing a smile.

He said hello to Liu Jiahui who was still staying in Shanghai: "Go to Hong Kong Island, Mr. Yinghua and others will accompany you, and we will take care of each other."

Liu Jiahui was surprised and said, "Aren't you going?"

"No matter how many people go to it, food cannot be produced out of thin air. I will find a way from other places.

By the way, Mr. Miyuki, do you know the Japanese translator? "

This visit to the supervisory team to attract people from all walks of life is a good step forward.

These people have connections from all over the world, especially Yinghua who runs "Ta Kung Pao".

Many things depend on him.

Yinghua didn't know what to say.

I want to get close to Liu Jiahui these two days to see if there is a chance to sublimate their "charity friendship", but I can't say a few words because I'm so busy.

He lost his initial enthusiasm, and said angrily, "I don't know any Japanese translators here, but I do know a few students studying abroad in Japan."

Originally, Zhao Chuanxin didn't intend to make it clear that he wanted to go to Japan.
But when Yinghua said that he knew someone in Japan, he hurriedly said: "Okay, please contact Mr. Yaozhi and let him pick me up in Japan."

Yinghua: "..."

After leaving the customs, Zhao Chuanxin felt that he was busy all night.

I don't have time to read newspapers and pay attention to the current situation in China.

It wasn't until he got on the passenger ship bound for Japan that he was free to read newspapers on the deck with the sea breeze.

Unexpectedly, there were news about himself and the Lugang Town Charity Association in several newspapers.

In addition to singing praises, there are also some voices from the folk.

Students and young people from all over the country appealed to Zhao Chuanxin to support this and that, and some even wanted him to expand the insurance team and accumulate armed forces.

Zhao Chuanxin scoffed.

He is rich, and he has some means, and he often likes to make things happen.

But this does not mean that he has the ability to lead an honest army now.

Do you think that anyone can be a commander, and anyone in the world can fight?

Simply whimsical!

Could it be that everyone thought that as long as he was a time traveler, he would have the ability to turn the world upside down?
Think more.

Those who travel through must personally take part in the battle to provoke the rejuvenation of the nation?

Who stipulated it?
starting point?
Some people also reported in the newspaper that Zhao Chuanxin was rich and capable but did nothing, vowing that compared to revitalizing the country, disaster relief and so on are small ways.Guarding one-third of an acre of land and inserting it like a nail among the ambitious Japanese is the way to bring disaster.

Harmful!
Putting down the newspaper, Zhao Chuanxin looked at the sky at 45 degrees, and he couldn't help feeling worried: "The world slanders me, insults me, laughs at me, and stays for a few more years, just watch him!
Excellent people are always easy to be misunderstood! "

Suddenly there was a soft voice behind him, asking with an English accent, "Sir, what are you sighing about?"

Zhao Chuanxin turned his head in astonishment, and saw a British woman wearing a white striped high-necked shirt and a waist-length skirt, looking at him curiously while holding an exaggerated lady's top hat.

The winking eyes are shyly closed, and the red lips are gradually smiling. The figure is slightly oversized, and the blonde hair is tied back.

Zhao Chuanxin is known for his "knowledge of people". When he saw her, keywords immediately popped up in his mind: blond, amateur.

This is his natural talent that he usually hides well.

how?

Can Guo Xiaosi's exclusive action attract the opposite sex at this time?
After that, the movement of looking up at the sky at 45 degrees will have to be shown more.

Zhao Chuanxin had a desolate expression: "I'm sighing, although I'm handsome, I can't be proud.

Looking around, who is not Yushu Linfeng? "

Puchi, the woman covered her mouth and laughed, her body trembling.

Zhao Chuanxin's pupils contracted, and he could faintly see dark waves surging under the loose clothing.

It should be said that Britain and France boasted of fashion at the moment, but the woman's clothes were too loose, so much so that Zhao Chuanxin almost ignored the lady's figure just now.

Damn it, how can a man with connotation ignore the "inner" beauty because of his sweet appearance?

Don't be so superficial in the future!
"Sir, you are so funny."

"Ma'am, I've only had the sea breeze on my journey, and you are undoubtedly the most dazzling scenery at present."

There was smoke in the woman's eyes: "Really?"

The Asian man in front of him is unusually tall but not bloated at all, and his skin is rare and delicate.I can't say how handsome he is, but the corners and contours on his face reminded her of the karst landforms of Guilin, Guangxi that she visited in Guilin, China, after hundreds of millions of years of erosion.

Although it has the texture of sculpture, what is washed out is not as generous as marble, but forms a kind of visual enjoyment with the sharp and delicate facial features.

And he dresses in a style that is pleasing to the eye.

Zhao Chuanxin's eyes were burning: "Really, don't you turn around and meet love?"

Leaning on the ship's side with one elbow, he stretched out his hand and lowered his head to touch the smoke. The sea breeze blew away his thick, shiny and powerful hair.

Taking out a cigarette, he asked the other party: "Would you like one?"

The woman took the cigarette, and Zhao Chuanxin lit it for her.

The woman exhaled smoke, elegantly held the cigarette between her cheeks, and said with a smile, "Are you showing love to me?

However, I have a husband who works at the Kobe Suzuki Trading Company and is Japanese.My name is Zena Keith.

Why don't you introduce yourself? "

To say that women in Britain, the United States and other places are not yet popular with "tanning".Zena Keith's skin was fair, and Zhao Chuanxin felt that the drowned body soaked in the water for three days was not as white as hers.

Zhao Chuanxin said in his heart: Whoever has a husband or not is not all brother's stinky sister!

Besides, my husband is Japanese.

"Ethan Zhao, gender male, I like you!"

Zena Keith has never heard such "earthy" love stories.

Laughing again, the soot was shaken off.

Zhao Chuanxin said in his heart that if you continue to laugh, he loves to see the way your smile is trembling.

After laughing for a while, Zena Keith threw the cigarette she hadn't smoked into the sea and said, "It's too windy here, why don't we find a place with less wind to talk."

Right in the middle.

"On the whole ship, only my room has the least wind!
By the way, I invite you to drink a glass of 20-year-old whiskey! "

When he was in the United States, Zhao Chuanxin was familiar with this kind of thing.

At this time, there is a vague concept of openness in Europe, America and other places.
Very exciting!
Joke, it's the beginning of the [-]th century, who can't drive?
In China, he honestly looks like a monk. It's all because of psychological barriers. He always feels that everyone he meets is several generations older than him, and the better the relationship, the better.

But he never refuses any foreign girl.

It is meaningless to marry or not, suitable for all ages.

Zhao Chuanxin's cabin is naturally first class, the largest room, the best location, and a balcony outside.

Zena Keith was surprised.

Originally thought that Zhao Chuanxin just had a good skin, but now it seems that he should also have a lot of money.

She was even more interested.

Pour the wine, drink two sips, and the interest will be high.

The two chatted for a few words, and the rest of "making friends with martial arts" was a matter of course.

Zhao Chuanxin laughed: "Be careful, that sword will be very powerful when it penetrates!"

Sure enough, very good, very good,
Every time A draws a critical strike, Zena Keith's blood volume plummets in an instant!
The shape of the boat is good, and the ups and downs of the waves will naturally make you feel!

One gives everything, one bears all.

Even for Zhao Chuanxin, this car was caught off guard.

After an unknown amount of time, Zhao Chuanxin and Zena Keen strolled side by side on the deck.

A Japanese man of about 1.7 meters came to meet him: "Zena, where have you been, I have been looking for you for a long time."

(End of this chapter)