mage in the late qing dynasty

Chapter 824: Zhao Chuanxin sets up a stall, it’s so shameful to lose a soul

In Manzhouli, the Karen soldiers deliberately led the prisoners in a circle around the city.

Hu Da said: "Sir, I dare say that the Russians in the city must have taken in Russian soldiers."

"Just take him in. There's only so much we can do." Zhao Chuanxin rode on his horse and said nonchalantly, "Do you know how many troops Tsarist Russia can recruit if they really want to overwhelm the country and start a war?"

Hu Da was stunned: "Two hundred thousand?"

Zhao Chuanxin held out five fingers.

Hu Da was stunned: "Five hundred thousand?"

An army of 500,000 people in modern firearms warfare is already unimaginable, and the new army is only 60,000 to 70,000 people.

Zhao Chuanxin shook his head and grinned: "Five million."

"hiss……"

The one who attacked was the Sauron man. He lost his temper due to the Russian's struggle and suddenly dug his fingers into the opponent's eyes.

The Russians are also very tough. They got up from the ground and had to pick up the old rifle.

When the people in the city saw that the Gray Ax Cavalry had won and that Qiu had done nothing wrong, some people boldly went out to watch the fun.

Now George Lynch knew why.

Could it be a joke?

Suddenly Zhao Chuanxin twisted his upper body.

Even if I have heard of it, I have never heard of it.

The Russian who came out of a shop, holding an old Bertin 1870 gun in his hand, shot Zhao Chuanxin.

In all his life, this was the first time he saw someone being able to dodge bullets?

"They thought they were no match for Mr. Zhao. Mr. Zhao fought a firearms war. I heard that Mao Zi had 6,000 soldiers, but he defeated them all. Look, he only had a few hundred soldiers."

He said, "Let him go."

Zhao Chuanxin grinned: "You're just kidding me!"

"what……"

The same is true.

Zhao Chuanxin's body rose and fell with the horse's back, he lit a cigarette and said: "It's not possible now. They can recruit five million soldiers but they can't produce enough weapons. You have also seen that the Russians are resigned to the situation. They are really As long as you are willing to endure hardship, there are examples of endless suffering. But don’t be afraid, most of the five million soldiers are farmers who go to the battlefield with guns."

Zhao Chuanxin could hear the whispers of the people on both sides of the street.

The Sauron man let go and stood up. The Russian's right eye was already bleeding, and his nose was also bleeding. That was where the Sauron man hit him with his head.

The Han, Mongolian, Russian and other people in the city were even more stunned.

"In ancient times, he was also a fierce general like Wei Qing and Huo Qubing."

George Lynch wondered: "Why?"

There were already Karen soldiers over there jumping off their horses and throwing the Naos to the ground.

Zhao Chuanxin dodged bullets, always dodging first and then shooting.

Pia…

There are Han people, Mongols, and Russians.

Otherwise, no one can move faster than the bullet.

This is the ferocity of the Sauron people who deal with wild beasts all year round.

Hu Da was stunned.

All reserves.

Hu Dashen thought so.

As a soldier, Hu Da naturally obeyed the order and stayed away immediately.

George Lynch: "..."

Zhao Chuanxin took out the Flying Fish Spine Whip and circled it above his head leisurely.

George Lynch's scalp was numb and his body was stiff on the horse's back.

"Oh, you are so young. Could it be that you are less than thirty years old?"

Zhao Chuanxin flicked the ashes of his cigarette with a calm expression, as if he didn't take the shot he just took to heart at all.

boom.

Suddenly he bared his teeth and told George Lynch and Hu Da: "Stay away from me."

"Look, the tall man on the horse is Zhao Chuanxin."

Next to him, George Lynch was equally shocked.

No matter how many soldiers there are, it will be useless without adequate training.

The Russian was a big man and struggled immediately.

The Russian stretched out his arm, and the flying fish spine whip was wrapped around his arm.

Zhao Chuanxin lightly knocked on the horse's belly.

The hippopotamus accelerated under his crotch.

laugh……

The sharp sawtooth severed the Russian's arm.

"what……"

With one eye blind and one hand broken, this person is considered a waste.

Let him live, live well after becoming a waste, and let him remember today's lesson for the rest of his life.

The eyes of the people in the city jumped wildly.

What kind of thing are you using? Why is it so sharp?

The blood stains on the flying fish spine whip spread throughout the whip, and it automatically contracted, buzzing...

A piece of blood mist bounced up.

George Lynch was choked and coughed violently: "Cough cough cough..."

Then he blurted his face and saw that his palms were full of blood.

You don't need to look in the mirror to know that your face must be scary and bloody.

As if nothing happened, Zhao Chuanxin put away the flying fish spine whip and continued walking with a cigarette in his mouth.

There is a stone prison in Manzhouli, which was built by the Russians.

After the parade, these prisoners were imprisoned.

Half of the prisoners were imprisoned, while the other half had to work, digging holes to bury the bodies and washing the ground.

Hu Da led the troops, while Zhao Chuanxin took several soldiers of the Gray Ax Cavalry Regiment and George Lynch to the Dongqing Railway Company branch in the city.

There was a Russian man in a suit and leather suit in the room who was packing documents.

Seeing Zhao Chuanxin entering the door, he suddenly raised his head, his body became stiff, and the expression on his face was tangled.

Zhao Chuanxin pulled a chair and sat down: "Send your name and position."

"I..." Daniel hesitated.

Zhao Chuanxin raised his eyebrows: "Huh?"

Daniel's body was trembling: "I am Daniel, the deputy general manager of Dongqing Railway Company."

Zhao Chuanxin tapped his fingers on his thigh: "In Manchuria, besides the military depot, what other institutions do you have?"

Daniel poured beans through a bamboo tube: "There are courts, prisons, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Police Department..."

Zhao Chuanxin turned around and said: "Yang Sang'a, write down these departments and locations, and ask people to drive them away later. In the future, Manchuria will be taken back by Lubin Prefecture, and Tsarist Russia will not be allowed to establish any administrative units."

Yang Sang'a nodded and obeyed, awkwardly writing and drawing with a fountain pen.

He is not used to using a hard pen and does not like to write from left to right.

But this is the request of Lubin government officials, and it is considered the first reform.

The hard pen is easy to carry and can write quickly from left to right to prevent wet ink from smearing on the paper.

Daniel swallowed: "This...isn't good."

Zhao Chuanxin listened happily: "No? What I, Zhao Chuanxin, say is law here."

Zhao Chuanxin?

Daniel had some guesses, but after Zhao Chuanxin admitted, he still trembled.

Daniel thought for a moment and then had the courage to ask: "Mr. Zhao, if other departments drive us away, what about our Dongqing Railway Company branch?"

Zhao Chuanxin knew at a glance that this person was very cunning: "You have to stay and cooperate with our land port tax collection work."

Daniel did not continue to resist consciously, and nodded cooperatively: "It should be."

Zhao Chuanxin needs to lead the party, and he thinks Daniel is quite suitable...

Zhao Chuanxin looked at this place: "Your Dongqing Railway Company branch can stay in Manchuria, but this place has been expropriated by our Lubin Mansion."

Daniel's expression froze.

how to say?

It first became the first station of the Dongqing Railway, and later it gained popularity and gradually became a town. Strictly speaking, Manchuria was an affiliated territory of the Dongqing Railway Company, and it was provided as official land free of charge.

Therefore, the Dongqing Railway Company occupied the most central and prosperous location and built a house as a branch here.

Daniel was confused: "Mr. Zhao, I can't make the decision on this. It needs the signature of our general manager Horvat."

"How many signatures are there?" Zhao Chuanxin stamped out his cigarette butts on the floor: "It is our land. I can take it back if I want. Letting you use it for free for so many years is enough to pay for the building itself. Huo Huo Ervat counts a few, if he wants to sign it, go and ask him if he dares to come and sign with me."

Daniel took two steps back and lowered his head.

He was sure that Horvath would not dare to come.

Although this place was expropriated, the public officials of Lubin Prefecture did not move here immediately.

Because there is still a division of Tsarist Russian troops in the north on the way.

If we don't deal with them, who would dare to come to work?

So this place temporarily became Zhao Chuanxin's own office.

In the evening, Hu Da asked Zhao Chuanxin: "Sir, how should we fight with the Russian troops coming to reinforce us?"

"I predict that they will be on foot and horse, with the artillery behind them." Zhao Chuanxin leaned back in his chair and looked at the military map on the wall and said, "Tomorrow we will go north and give them a head-on blow."

Hu Da thought about today's casualties and said with a wry smile: "Sir, they have artillery this time, so they can't fire like this."

If you hit someone like this a few times, they'll be gone.

Zhao Chuanxin laughed and said: "They don't have cannons, and they don't have cannons if they have them."

In fact, they are not needed this time, but Zhao Chuanxin still wants them to follow him to watch the battle, so that they can at least increase their experience points.

After a small meeting, Zhao Chuanxin went to Dalai Lake.

Stepping on the misty traveler, we entered the center of the lake.

I opened the "Code of Old Gods" and just wanted to get some sand. [Sang Ling said: Why do you always delay? 】

The dead spirit is currently the only... creature that can sense Zhao Chuanxin's renewal of the "Old God Code"?

No one can tell what it is.

As the old saying goes - it has existed since the beginning of the world.

Zhao Chuanxin wrote:

[I said: Wait a minute, I’m busy with something and I’ll be online later. 】

After taking the sand, he plunged into the bone-chilling lake water.

This is deep water.

Build a base underneath as usual, and the base needs to be thick enough.

A "big rat" was lying on the water. It was frightened by Zhao Chuanxin who had just appeared, and immediately approached him.

Zhao Chuanxin took a look and saw that it was an otter.

He touched the otter's belly. The creature was not frightened.

Zhao Chuanxin ignored it and continued to dive into the water to build a house.

Walls need to be thick enough to prevent water penetration.

The inner walls needed to be extremely smooth, which took him a lot of time.

The four walls stopped just half a meter above the water. Thick fused quartz glass was laid on the four stone walls to prevent water seepage.

The part of the wall that protrudes from the water is embedded with fused quartz glass, and a glass channel and spiral staircase extending downwards are deliberately made.

An upward staircase was made outside that was level with the lake.

Working until midnight, Zhao Chuanxin pumped water out.

The water swept away the remaining dust from the wall.

The stone walls are thick enough to resist water pressure.

At this time, the width of Dalai Lake was about 17 kilometers and the longest length was 34 kilometers. People's eyesight is limited and it is impossible to see clearly that there is a building in the middle of the lake.

We'll have to wait until next month when the lake becomes frozen again, but we'll have to wait for the temporary emergency.

He opened vents and chimneys, and still built a fireplace.

When the flames rise, the underwater cabin feels warm.

Zhao Chuanxin took out a simple wooden bed from the secret realm, put on the quilt and slept peacefully.

Lying on the bed, open your eyes and see the starry sky.

He took out the "Code of Old Gods" and opened it happily.

[The sand people guides are more experienced than the caravans, and the route they choose is absolutely safe. 】

[We walked for three days and finally saw the towering city wall standing in the desert. 】

[We were shocked by such a majestic desert miracle building. 】

[The guide of the sand people said: The desert emperors of all dynasties built the city of runes and plundered and exploited our slime. They must pay taxes and tribute to him every year. I won’t go to Rune City, because the walls and city of Rune City are filled with the Emperor’s True Vision Crystal, and he is monitoring everything here. 】

[I heard great resentment from the sand people. 】

[I asked him: The caravan leader said that the desert emperor was militaristic. What was going on? 】

[The sand people guide said: In the cursed desert, there is only death but poverty. He exploits us. Wherever there is oppression, there is resistance. Those who dare to resist are destroyed by his legions. He also expanded his territory outwards, slaughtering those who were disobedient, as well as those desert nobles who held runes in their hands, hoping to snatch their runes and make them surrender. It has been fifty years in a row, and there have been constant battles. 】

When Zhao Chuanxin saw that "I" had been slow to ask about business, he wrote:

[I asked: Do you think we can see the Desert Emperor? 】

We still need to get the third old sacred altar from the Desert Emperor.

[The Sand People guide shakes his head: He won’t see anyone, the puppet will deliver orders for him. However, he monitors every corner of Rune City. 】

Zhao Chuanxin scratched his head.

This is fucked up.

[The sand people guide said goodbye to us and before leaving, he invited me to return to their tribe as a guest. 】

[Rune City has four gates: southeast, northwest and northwest. 】

[The city gate is also tightly packed with sand soldiers, lazily leaning against the door and looking at everyone who comes in and out. 】

[We, who were obviously from other places, did not come forward to question us and let us go straight into the city. 】

[I discovered that on the towering city wall, there was a pillar every few hundred meters, with pink crystals on the top of the pillars. 】

[The craftsman told me: This is the True Vision Crystal. It is said that the rune mastered by the Desert Emperor is called True Eye. 】

[I asked the craftsman: What exactly are runes? Is it a gem, an ordinary stone, a piece of wood, a piece of paper, or worm silk? 】

[The craftsman shakes his head: Only everyone who masters the runes knows what the runes are, and they won't tell us. Only rune fragments empowered by the rune controller have value, otherwise they are just ordinary worm threads. 】

Zhao Chuanxin wrote:

[I asked: So, what are the abilities of the rune fragments empowered by the Desert Emperor’s True Eye Rune? 】

[The craftsman pointed to the true seeing crystals and puppet soldiers everywhere in the city and said: Did you see it? The true eye rune fragments can make the eyes of puppets, and can install true seeing crystals for surveillance purposes. 】

Zhao Chuanxin's heart moved.

Are rune fragments equivalent to chips?

If true-sight crystals could be used to create surveillance cameras, how would the monitors view the images?

Could it be that it's a devil's crystal?

Zhao Chuanxin thought of his broken devil's crystal glasses. If he could get the devil's crystal here, he could ask the weirdo to make another pair of glasses for him.

He asked whatever he thought:

[I asked: How do monitors peek into the screen? 】

[The craftsman shakes his head: I don’t know. 】

[Then he said excitedly: Rune City is a city of knowledge and a treasure house. I will study here. My dream is to become a third-level and ninth-level craftsman. 】

Zhao Chuanxin bared his teeth and wrote:

[I said: OK, work hard and have a dream. What if you succeed? It's just that you don't even have a copper coin on you, so where will the tuition come from? 】

【artisan:……】

[Rune City is a miracle in the cursed desert, and its prosperity shocked us. 】

[Outside the city is an endless desert, but there is a cave inside the city. There are flowers, plants and trees here, and the spring water is drawn from the underground river in the desert, and the mechanism is used to drive the gushing spring water. 】

[Buildings several stories high can be seen everywhere, and there are rows of shops on both sides of the street with a dazzling array of goods. 】

[We entered a restaurant and had a meal of vegetables and meat specializing in Rune City. The elf scout treated us. 】

[I discussed with the elf scout: Can I borrow some money? Otherwise we'll be sleeping on the streets tonight. 】

[The elf scout looked so distressed that he almost gritted his teeth before agreeing to lend me two gold coins. 】

Zhao Chuanxin spat: "This is a dead dog. You are such a bad little thing."

[The windows of the Cursed Desert are dark and covered with translucent cloth. Although the sun is bright, all the shops need lights to illuminate. The craftsmen said that those lights are the grease of sea monsters and deep-sea giant fish brought from the Red Island. Made by boiling. 】

Zhao Chuanxin's eyes widened.

Blanch...the business opportunity has come.

He poured out the remaining sand and made two pieces of glass to send over.

He wrote:

[I bring glass to sell. Each piece of glass costs twenty... no, fifty gold coins. 】

It is said that during the Kangxi period, a three-foot-square piece of glass was worth two houses. I don’t know if it’s true or not, but in the era before glass, it was enough to ask for a few random prices.

[I have never done these things before, and I am embarrassed to sell them on the streets again. But the siblings volunteered and said they could. 】

Zhao Chuanxin secretly cursed that he was useless, what was there to be embarrassed about setting up a stall? Are you still being reserved? It depends on me.

He opened the Holy Light Channel and entered it.

Oops...

The size of this city astonished Zhao Chuanxin.

It is larger than any city on earth.

The width of the street is comparable to the main roads of first-tier cities in the 21st century on earth. In the middle of the uphill slope is a hard road made of mucus mixed with sand, and on both sides are human-shaped steps that are as wide as a normal road.

Such a wide street is almost crowded with business travelers and pedestrians, which shows its prosperity.

There are green shades on both sides of the street to provide shade, and a fountain flows out at every section to water the vegetation. The rest of the water flowed into a sink and ended up somewhere unknown.

In addition to the yellow square buildings on the street, there are also numerous tents, all of which are merchants setting up stalls.

The products range from daily necessities to food to weapons and equipment, books, vegetables, fruits, grain, clothes... everything is available.

Various unknown insect shells and animal bones have become embellishments and decorations here, or can be made into practical tools, or even made into boxes to hold items.

There was a huge skeleton of an unknown creature standing high, at least five meters high, with a flag hanging on it, with a giant black beetle painted on it.

You can see a towering tower standing in the center of Rune City from a distance. It is the emperor's palace.

Water flows from the aqueduct extending from the palace, irrigating the giant beetle shells to create a dark and shiny hanging garden.

Zhao Chuanxin couldn't smell it, but he could imagine that Rune City must be filled with a faint floral fragrance.

What a luxury!

This city can be said to be rustic, but it can also be said to be gorgeous.

Earth is because the buildings have no other color and are all made of yellow sand.

It’s gorgeous because even some noble buildings are decorated with sky gardens, and they’re so colorful.

But for some reason, the windows of the palace were also dark. Instead, the glass at the top of some noble buildings was made of crystal with low transparency.

There are so many good things that Zhao Chuanxin doesn't have enough eyes.

It's as if the richest people in the cursed desert are concentrated here.

He couldn't wait to take out a piece of cloth and put it on the ground and put two pieces of glass on it: "I sell glass. Opportunities don't come every day. Take action when it's time. If you miss today's good opportunity, the price may double. Install the windows Glass smiles every day, there is no regret medicine if you miss it today..."

The brothers, sisters, elf scouts, and craftsmen all looked at Zhao Chuanxin in shock.

Even the mourning soul muttered in Zhao Chuanxin's ear: "What a shame."

That’s not to mention the rest of the people on the street.

In an instant, a large crowd of people gathered around to watch the fun.

"What is glass? Is it some kind of crystal?"

Zhao Chuanxin introduced: "Crystals are nothing! Can crystals have such transparency? Look, glass is used as a window, which can block the wind and cold, but it seems that it is not installed, and the room is bright and bright, and he lives in it. Doesn’t it smell good?”

"how much is it?"

"Fifty gold coins." Zhao Chuanxin opened his mouth wide.

"How many?"

"When a family buys home goods, fifty gold coins is not much. As long as you are willing to spend a few dozen gold coins, you can bring light home. Take a good look at the glass, it is a family heirloom, and it is indispensable for wealthy people..."

(End of this chapter)