mage in the late qing dynasty

Chapter 957: Blowing the Assembly Call

Eating dry rice means that it also misses its fellow villagers.

Zhao Chuanxin thought of the Defu family.

Ganfan is the puppy adopted from Defu's family, but after growing up, he can no longer get along with his brothers and sisters.

Zhao Chuanxin was very suspicious about who its elders and fellow villagers were...

After eating and talking for a while, he felt itchy and went to the corner of the wall, where there was an iron frame with teeth, and rubbed it back and forth. After rubbing, he held the rag in his mouth, caught the dog hair, and threw it into a basket.

Seeing Zhao Chuanxin staring at him, Ganfan barked a few times: "It's normal, it's just shedding hair, someone will come to clean it up later. My nose can't stand too much hair, both humans and dogs should pay attention to hygiene."

Zhao Chuanxin: "..."

He stood up and patted his butt: "I have to go into the desert."

Dry food: "I have to go to bed."

Walking out of the restaurant, Zhao Chuanxin looked up at the sky.

The starry sky in the desert is exceptionally bright, slightly worse in winter and much better in summer.

When riding in the desert, you need to have a cool posture and ride fast.

It takes Zhao Chuanxin 7 minutes to reach the “unfinished building” of Peace College.

A thin layer of snow covered the newly built rock base.

Zhao Chuanxin wore sheepskin gloves, gently brushed the snow foam, looked at it with glasses, and said to Xingyue: "Give me the drawings."

Among his several bases, only Tianshangfei, a remote place, is the safest in the next few decades.

Thousands of birds and all-rounders.

Zhao Chuanxin stretched out his hand and gestured in the air, feeling like he was controlling a 3D projection, and Xingyue immediately changed the drawing.

Zhao Chuanxin built a sun shed at the center point. In the future, the soil in the sun shed will extend to other platforms and finally connect with the desert.

"Plan a more reasonable water supply channel." Zhao Chuanxin said: "This is the heart of Peace College."

He planned a scene in his mind. One day in the future, there would be a group of students graduating from the Peace Academy. They were the Jedi Knights of the Sky-Flying Peace Academy, shouting, "May the Golden Bell Cover be with you."

Then, braving the hail of bullets, they defeated the Japanese and Russians.

Zhao Chuanxin couldn't help but grin.

Under the starry sky, he dug a floor heating groove in the center of the rock base and built a glass-covered sun shed.

The mountains of excavated earth in the yard of the white house in Quetzalan were transported in batches to the base of the Peace College.

This amount of soil is just a drop in the bucket for Peace College, and can only be used as soil for the outer vegetation area because it is too poor.

After working for two hours, they returned to the flying restaurant in the sky and took out various materials, including soft gold, sound-absorbing cold iron, true vision crystal fragments, and various waste gems...

He placed the materials on a table in Nikola Tesla's laboratory, along with a letter introducing the materials.

Immediately teleported back to Lugang Town.

It was already midnight in Lugang Town.

Miao Cuihua was already asleep, and Zhao Chuanxin went out wearing his coat.

The street lights are bright on Linhai Road in Yanguang Street.

The once depressed Lugangling Village has now changed dramatically.

But in the middle of the night on New Year's Eve, as usual, there was a group of snotty kids running around with lanterns made of glass canning bottles, and among them was Jiang Mingxin.

The snot-nosed kids ran closer and saw someone on the road. They slowed down in hesitation, got closer, raised their lanterns and shone them, and said in surprise, "Uncle, you're back!"

DeFu is no longer the snotty kid he used to be.

He was already in junior high school, with a slightly long face, thin eyebrows with downward-curved ends, typical Manchu features.

Not all Manchus were loyal to the Qing court. Among the people Zhao Chuanxin knew, Zhang Rong was a typical anti-Qing Manchu, and an extremely crazy one.

Zhao Hongzhi, who was standing behind him, was wearing a cotton hat and had a highland red on his face. He sniffed his nose and said, "Uncle, Happy New Year. Give me a red envelope. I won't kowtow."

Zhao Chuanxin smiled.

He was wearing a coat, smoking a cigarette, and had a stack of red envelopes in his hand.

"Zhao Hongzhi, please stand aside."

Zhao Hongzhi was very familiar with this routine and stood aside obediently.

Defu smiled and kowtowed to him: "Uncle, Happy New Year."

Zhao Chuanxin sent a red envelope.

The snotty kids behind lined up to kowtow. Each of them received a red envelope, and they stood aside waiting, resisting the urge to open it.

"Big brother, Happy New Year." It was Jiang Mingxin's turn. She smiled and raised her pretty face to greet him cheerfully.

Zhao Chuanxin secretly gave her a big red envelope.

The little girl was not very good at math, but she knew how to feel the thickness of the red envelope, and she was overjoyed when she did.

Finally, after everyone had kowtowed, it was Zhao Hongzhi's turn.

Zhao Hongzhi said stealthily: "Uncle, I saw it. The red envelope you gave to Jiang Mingxin was bigger, so why did you give her a bigger one?"

"You are such a fool." Zhao Chuanxin stuffed an ordinary red envelope into his hand: "She is so pretty and you are so ugly, her red envelope is bigger than yours, isn't it natural?"

Zhao Hongzhi was filled with grief and indignation. He took the red envelope and said, "People say I look like my father, with handsome features."

In fact, what he said was true.

The old Zhao family, from Zhao Zhongyi to Zhao Hongzhi, both were good-looking and handsome. But the later ones became more and more ugly and it seemed that they were also shrinking in height.

By the time of Zhao Chuanxin's generation, he had grown taller, but his appearance was still not handsome.

"They lied to you." Zhao Chuanxin bared his teeth.

He summarized the impact of age on life trajectory based on not very extensive data.

People with good looks will have a smoother growth process, and the saying that appearance is justice is not just talk.

But people with good looks have a common problem: after they grow up, they are always unable to let go of their status and inner pride. They are very reserved in everything they do and lack the courage to burn their boats.

So usually they don’t become a big deal.

Of course, Zhao Chuanxin's data range is too narrow, so he might be wrong.

In short, he didn't want Zhao Hongzhi to think that he had an advantage in appearance.

Maybe one day in the future, he will realize: I am so handsome.

This would be better.

If someone else had said this, Zhao Hongzhi might have been skeptical.

But Zhao Chuanxin said that he really began to doubt his appearance.

After handing out the red envelopes, Zhao Chuanxin waved his hand and said, "Go back to sleep."

A group of snotty kids ran away with lanterns.

After running away, they opened them one after another.

I saw two very unfamiliar coins inside.

One is the German mark, each red envelope contains 2 marks and a 5-real coin.

The mark is just an ordinary mark, not a gold mark.

A group of snotty kids were confused.

"Defu, what is this money? How much is it worth?"

"Um... I only know that this is the Eagle Dollar, which is often used by the Americans. As for this one, it also has the Old Harrier behind it, so I don't know."

"In the past, we gave a dollar, but this year I think we should give more."

"Hmm... it's hard to say." Defu racked his brains but couldn't figure out the exchange rate. "I'll go back and ask my dad first."

"But once you finish asking, won't it be exposed?"

Every year when they receive red envelopes, they give the smaller part to their parents and keep the larger part in their pocket.

De Fu suggested: "This piece of eagle dollar is very small and must be worthless. Just hand it over."

When Zhao Hongzhi returned home, he gave the 5 reais coin to Zhao Zhongyi.

Zhao Zhongyi flipped the coin between his fingers and fell into deep thought: Is Chuanxin secretly going to Central America to rob banks?
After all, they had had crazy experiences of making money.

……

Zhao Chuanxin slept in Lugang Town.

The next day, he went to Zhao Zhongyi's home to pay New Year's greetings.

"Brother, Happy New Year."

"Happy New Year." Zhao Zhongyi was very happy.

Zhao Chuanxin stood with his hands behind his back, looking at the map hanging on the wall of Zhao Zhongyi's house. He pointed at a few thumbtacks on it and asked, "Brother, what do these places you marked mean?"

Those thumbtacks were inserted in neighboring countries such as Cicheng, Heping, Sanshui, Huitian, Baiyan, and Chongjin, all the way to Vladivostok, which was occupied by Tsarist Russia.

Zhao Zhongyi looked around and saw that no one heard the two people talking, so he lowered his voice and said to Zhao Chuanxin: "Look carefully, if you connect these places into a line, the map of our Lugang Town will be complete."

Zhao Chuanxin took a deep breath and said, "You want to take advantage of the situation and seize the territory?"

It's more than complete, Lugang Town is almost a province of its own.

It seems that this ancestor of mine had a kind face, but I didn't expect that he is now full of ambitions to invade the land of neighboring countries. He wants to emulate the American devils and draw the border straight and flat.

Seeing Zhao Chuanxin's shock, Zhao Zhongyi smiled and said, "Chuanxin, you are too serious. We are not interested in the territory. We just want to help the people of neighboring countries get rich together. We are kind and pure."

I Chao, the rich will help the poor, and we will all achieve prosperity together, right?

How shameless.

Zhao Chuanxin understood.

When the Japanese attacked the Koreans, they contacted their emperor and a group of ministers who were unwilling to aid them, signed a secret contract, and then plotted to seize the land.

He is familiar with this routine.

Use a few small cards to play a series of king bombs.

Zhao Zhongyi, with his thick eyebrows and big eyes, also became swelled.

Zhao Zhongyi seemed reluctant to talk about this matter. He changed the subject and asked, "Chuanxin, did you go to Mexico to rob money?"

"That's not true." Zhao Chuanxin denied it. "I'm not interested in money. I've never touched money. I'm also a person who doesn't have any vulgar interests."

"..."

It is right to use the other person's way to repay the other person's body.

Zhao Chuanxin did not stay in Lugang Town for long.

After giving Miao Cuihua a few drafts of clothing designs, he arrived at the outskirts of Lugang Town, put on the Chaos Armor, spread out his inner and outer wings, flew into the air, pulled up the wing membrane, and glided to the Yalu River. On the other side of the river was Zhongjiang County. Zhao Chuanxin looked down from a high place and felt that the river as the boundary was indeed not beautiful and looked messy, which really needed to be changed.

It should extend all the way to Huadi County by the sea, well... then it would be much more reshaped.

Why hadn't he thought of that?

In fact, it’s not his fault that he didn’t think about it. It’s just that he has been a thorn in the side since he was a child, and he always picks on the hard ones.

At this time, Bangzi looked pitiful, like a homeless stray dog.

But to the north are ferocious tigers and hungry wolves.

Zhao Chuanxin instinctively ignored the stick.

But Zhao Zhongyi was different. He often led people to patrol the Yalu River. At first, he only prevented people from secretly transporting timber along the river and managed illegal logging.

Later, as I watched more, I gradually began to have other thoughts.

In fact, if you want to be truly complete, you should start from Dandong, stretch eastward all the way to the seaside, and to the north should be Lugang Town.

But Lugang Town’s appetite is currently too small to swallow such a large piece of territory.

Thinking of this, Zhao Chuanxin, who was a thousand meters above the ground, began to breathe rapidly.

Think about it, in the future, the chicken head will not be a chicken head, but a big square head.

It’s really beautiful.

Going forward, there are snowy forests and boundless, densely covered mountains.

It makes people feel proud all their lives.

Xingyue looked for favorable flying conditions for Zhao Chuanxin and headed eastward.

Zhao Chuanxin sometimes flew into the air, sometimes fell, turned flexibly, and rolled over at every turn to show off his skills. He has already mastered the basic skills of gliding.

After nearly three hours, we finally saw the East China Sea.

The outer wing remained unchanged, while the inner wing was folded in. Zhao Chuanxin closed his arms and legs, and dived downward with his head heavy and his feet light.

When it was only more than 30 meters away from the rough sea surface, the inner wing "whoosh" spread out again, and the shorter outer wing flipped over, like a parachute to stop the falling speed.

The wing membrane opens again.

He braked suddenly like a hawk stalking its prey.

The strong wind blew him all over the place, so Zhao Chuanxin simply folded all the wings, twisted his waist and abdomen, turned 720 degrees in the air to relieve the force, and then reopened the inner and outer wings and wing membranes.

Hula...

It slowly approached the sea level, folded in the inner and outer wings again, retracted the wing membrane, and plunged into the sea like a cannonball.

When he floated up, he jumped out of the sea like a carp leaping over the dragon gate and took out the second generation of Youlong.

Without taking off the Chaos Armor and just opening the mask to breathe, Zhao Chuanxin rode on the sea and arrived at the west of Sakhalin Island in three hours.

He first teleported to Eye No. 14, which was under a fir tree on a mountainside 20 kilometers west of Bo'an Village, and went to the Varonai River Valley to see the confrontation between Japan and Russia.

Then teleport to Eye No. 13, Ikeda Foreign Products Store, and see the town where the Japanese devils live.

He changed into a suit and woolen coat in the rooftop pavilion, carried an oak cane and wore a wide-brimmed hat and walked in.

"Welcome, how can I help you?"

Seeing that he was tall and dressed in a suit and that Zhao Chuanxin had his hat pulled down, the clerk thought he was a foreigner and spoke to him in English.

Zhao Chuanxin nodded: "There's not much you can do to help."

Shop assistant: "..."

He smiled and said, "Then take a look for yourself."

The clerk went about his own business and after a long while he heard no movement from inside. He walked over to take a look, but no one was there.
The clerk thought that the customer must have left on his own because he was busy.

But why are the shelves so empty?

Zhao Chuanxin came to Sakhalin Island to scout the area, but he never left empty-handed, so he had to buy some goods when he left.

After strolling around Sakhalin Island, he teleported back to Lubinfu.

In the afternoon, he used the energy fluctuation convergence rune fragments and went to the white house in Quetshalan.

"come over!"

The Chihuahua limped closer.

Zhao Chuanxin opened a can of food he got from Ikeda Foreign Products Store for it. The can was already filled with technology and hard work, and he believed that eating it would help it live a hundred years.

Zhao Chuanxin put the stolen things into the underground fortress warehouse.

As daylight rose, Juvencio Torique arrived.

"Mr. Constantine, is this the dog you adopted? What is its name?"

Zhao Chuanxin said, "Come here."

Juvencio Torric came closer. "Now can you tell me what it's called?"

"come over."

Juvencio Torric came closer: "Do we have to be this close to tell you?"

Zhao Chuanxin pushed him away with disgust: "Good boy, don't be so stupid next time. Just call it when I say its name."

"..."

Zhao Chuanxin suddenly remembered the broken glass and asked him, "What is Urquidi Gomez doing now?"

"Signor Constantine, Urquidi spent a lot of money to find a priest, including Father José Terreros, to say the Gregorian Mass for his brother, and it will take thirty days."

Zhao Chuanxin thought for a moment and said, "Come on, take me to see your father."

Juvencio Torric scratched his head. "You'd better not see him. He lost his temper early in the morning and beat Villa Gálvez to vent his anger. I tried to stop him and he almost beat me too. Fortunately, my aunt helped to stop him."

Zhao Chuanxin said: "It's okay, just lead the way, I will influence him with kindness and love. The universe is infinite, and truth, goodness and beauty are eternal."

Juvencio Torique had no choice but to take him there, saying as they walked: "But Father José Terreros said that even God could not warm my father's cold heart."

Zhao Chuanxin grinned: "What does Jose Treros know? He is a man who was born to play with himself. Profits and losses come from the same source. If you listen to him, your moral standards will decline."

Just thinking about the good things that guy has done makes my scalp tingle.

Juvencio Torric's brain stem was knotted and he didn't understand what was going on.

The two of them walked along a gravel-covered path that seemed like it could never be swept clean. They startled a pheasant from the Bald Cypress bushes, and a scorpion, disturbed by the sunlight, hid in the cracks of the rocks.

When they arrived at the manor, Juvencio Torric, who was as afraid of his father as a tiger, said, "Sir Constantine, please wait here. I will go and inform him."

Zhao Chuanxin was not in a hurry at all. He squatted in the yard and teased the termites that crawled out from nowhere.

Soon, Juvencio Torric ran out again: "Mr. Constantine, you can come in with me."

Camilo Torick sat on a rattan chair, smoking his pipe with a sinister look on his face, and asked coldly, "Stranger, what are you doing here?"

Zhao Chuanxin said bluntly: "Your subordinate Urquidi Gomez always brings people to smash my windows. I think you should take care of it."

He also thought that this matter was instructed by Camilo Torick.

As a result, the cold-blooded and cunning landlord frowned and asked, "Why would he do that?"

Zhao Chuanxin, who is owed many Oscars, has reached an unprecedented level of understanding of acting. From the expression on the landlord's face, it can be seen that he really didn't know about this.

He shook his head: "I don't know, maybe I'm ten thousand times more handsome than him and he's jealous."

Camilo Torick was silent for a few seconds, then suddenly said, "Stranger, I don't like you."

"Fuck..." Zhao Chuanxin shrugged: "You don't like me, right? Did I come here to live for you to like me?"

Camilo Torric: "..."

What he said was very fucked up, but it seemed to make sense.

He said: "Foreigner, I warn you not to cause trouble recently. Because I heard that the governor may come to visit Quetzalan in the near future, which is a big event."

"I said the city gate tower, and you said hip bones and elbows." Zhao Chuanxin looked upset: "Since you don't speak properly, when the governor comes, I will have a mental breakdown and cry and say that there are evil forces in the town who smashed my windows..."

“You…” Camilo Torik glared at Zhao Chuanxin and said, “Okay, go back. I’ll tell Urquidi.”

Zhao Chuanxin shrugged, turned and walked out.

Standing outside the door was a charming woman, it was Juvencio Torque's aunt, Ignasia.

She wrapped her silk shawl trimmed with gold around her chest and abdomen.

This makes the scale more apparent.

For some reason, Zhao Chuanxin remembered a poem: My strength is as great as that of a mountain and my spirit is as overwhelming as that of the world.

Seeing Zhao Chuanxin staring at a certain place, Ignasia glanced at him coquettishly and said, "Stranger, Juvencio likes the little toy you gave him very much, but it's a pity that it was damaged by his father."

Zhao Chuanxin said cheerfully, "You're welcome. I'm very clever and skilled. If you're curious, you can come another day and I'll show you the magic circle technique."

Ignasia covered her mouth and laughed: "Maybe I will really go and see it for myself."

Zhao Chuanxin went out and saw the shepherd boy Ajure Ida.

Zhao Chuanxin's heart moved: "Ajulei, I'm short of a janitor, do you want to change your job?"

Aguilera Ida had been inspired by Feliciano Carranza and was disappointed by his hasty departure.

After hearing what Zhao Chuanxin said, he blurted out: "Mr. Constantine, can you have enough food?"

"We have the means." Zhao Chuanxin said proudly, waving his hand: "Corn cakes are enough for you!"

"..."

I thought it was some delicacies from land and sea.

But it's enough, better than chewing bean dregs to fill your stomach.

Aguirre Ida threw away his stick, re-enclosed the corral, and shouted in the direction of the hacienda: "Don Camilo Torric, I will no longer herd your sheep."

After Zhao Chuanxin threw 50 shengtaifu to Ajure Ida, he told him to take good care of the house, not to let anyone break the glass and to clean the room, and then teleported back to Lubin Prefecture.

……

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, the call to assemble was sounded in Lubin Prefecture.

There are now three armies and one police force in Lubin Prefecture.

One cavalry battalion, one infantry regiment, and one artillery battalion.

The cavalry was drawn from the Grey Axe Cavalry Regiment, and the infantry was drawn from the Blizzard Squad.

The rest of the troops will guard the crystal together with the Patrol Bureau.

There was no oath-taking ceremony and no pre-war mobilization.

Except for Zhao Chuanxin, Hu Da, Hu Er, Che Hezha and Badanga, no one knew what to do or where to go.

The troops were divided into two groups. The Grey Axe Cavalry Regiment advanced towards South Bell Lake, while the Blizzard Squad Mountain Battalion headed towards the northwest border...

(End of this chapter)