mage in the late qing dynasty

Chapter 995: Recapture of Dongdao on February , the First Year of Xuantong

When Margot entered the room, she saw the father and son drinking soup.

"Sir, when did you come?" Margot asked in surprise.

"I told you, my father would come to find me." Zhao Lingjun looked at Margot sideways.

Zhao Chuanxin fed her a mouthful of complementary food and said to Margot, "I'll stay for one day and then leave."

"So urgent?" Margot was disappointed.

I don't know why I feel lost.

The complementary food that Zhao Chuanxin fed Zhao Lingjun was mainly rice noodles, supplemented by egg yolks, minced shrimp meat, and fish meat.

Margot then remembered and asked anxiously, "What did you give her to eat?"

Zhao Chuanxin announced the name of the dish, and Margot was shocked: "She can't eat meat yet..."

"Obviously, I can." Zhao Lingjun said with a smile.

Zhao Chuanxin touched her belly and felt that it was almost enough, so he put down the spoon.

Zhao Lingjun was about to pout, but Zhao Chuanxin had already taken out the cashmere blanket, and Zhao Lingjun immediately shut up.

"No problem, I'll take her out for a walk and come back later."

Soon, Wilhelmina learned that Zhao Chuanxin had arrived, and she started working quickly, eager to go home.

When she rushed back to Noordeinborg, Zhao Chuanxin and his father had not returned yet.

Zhao Chuanxin took Zhao Lingjun on a trip around the English Channel and landed on the British coast.

He pointed to the other side of the sea and said to his daughter, "That's France's Dunkirk. If Britain and France form an alliance and go to war with other countries, this will be the landing place. Of course, they will also retreat from here. By that time, France will definitely have been occupied by Germany."

He was talking about the Dunkirk evacuation.

Something that happened a long time later.

Zhao Lingjun stretched out his chubby little hand, pointed at the sea and said, "When I grow up, I want to swim across from here."

"Then you should swim to Calais. Dunkirk is too far away."

The two chatted for a while, and a British soldier patrolling the coastline came over and asked in a bad tone: "What are you doing here?"

Zhao Chuanxin held his daughter in his left hand and lit a cigarette with his right hand: "I'm here to spy on military secrets."

The soldier's eyes widened and he looked around: "What secrets can you get by bringing a child here?"

Zhao Chuanxin blew out a smoke ring: "You know it, but why are you asking?"

Soldier:"……"

The soldier was a little angry after being tricked. He pushed Zhao Chuanxin and cursed him, "Get out of here and go somewhere else."

If it were a white person, perhaps he would show a different attitude.

Zhao Lingjun stared with wide eyes, wondering how her father would handle the situation.

Zhao Chuanxin's hand arrived first after the last one came, and he grabbed the soldier's wrist and kicked the soldier's thigh with blunt force. With one kick, the soldier did a big split.

"Ow..."

It's such a pain in the ass.

The soldier wanted to touch the gun on his back, but Zhao Chuanxin dealt with it nonchalantly, raised his leg, and kicked the soldier in the cheek.

Snapped.

The soldier rolled his eyes and fainted.

Zhao Chuanxin confiscated his Lee Enfield box-action rifle, and Zhao Lingjun laughed with joy.

"My daughter, Dad is sleepy, let's go back to sleep."

When Zhao Chuanxin brought his daughter back to Noordeinborg, Wilhelmina rushed over to him as soon as he entered the house.

Lao Zhao has a princess in his left hand and a queen in his right hand.

Margot, who had been waiting with her camera, pressed the shutter at the right time.

Click...

Record the peak moments of Magistrate Zhao’s life.

But Zhao Chuanxin still told Margot and Wilhelmina: "Don't spread the photos."

He has too many enemies, so he never takes photos.

At one o'clock in the middle of the night, Zhao Chuanxin woke up, left a note for Wilhelmina, activated the energy fluctuation convergence rune fragments, and teleported back to the cabin on the mountainside.

The energy fluctuations converge with the rune fragments. One point is fixed, and the other point is located according to the position before transmission. No matter where Zhao Chuanxin is, he will return to the position before the transmission of Quetshalan after it is activated.

This saves a huge amount of faith power.

Lubin Prefecture and the capital are basically at the same longitude and have the same time. The Hague is 6 hours behind Lubin Prefecture.

Zhao Chuanxin asked his puppet servant to wash and shave him, and after breakfast he went to work as usual.

He had to finish his official duties early today so that he could have time to seize the Dongsha Islands.

Cui Fenghua had just arrived at the gate of Lubin Prefecture's government office on a camel and had been waiting for a long time.

He handed a telegram to Zhao Chuanxin: "Sir, this is a telegram from your apprentice Benjamin. It is of great importance."

Benjamin Goldberg was different from Jiang Jian. He didn't hesitate to tell the story directly: Master, I heard that there is a British strongman named Opin in Shanghai who insulted you as the sick man of East Asia. Zhang Zhankui was angry and led martial artists from Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei to Shanghai to fight for you. I happened to meet him and brought some dry food with me. Come quickly...

Zhao Chuanxin is quite sensitive to these four words.

Poor people, who could not even get enough food, naturally could not afford to smoke opium.

The problem lies mainly with the rich and powerful.

Many of the wealthy foreigners are fond of hunting and various sports. In addition, as their living conditions have improved in recent years, they are born tall and strong.

However, once the wealthy people in the country were addicted to opium, they became emaciated, with hunched shoulders and dull eyes. It was obvious who was superior to them when they stood together.

Are we really inferior to others? Not necessarily.

Since ancient times, people in the Central Plains have been tall and strong, while the vassal states are short and ugly.

In the Qing Dynasty, the situation was reversed.

However, they have only been civilized for a few years, and their tails are already sticking up in the sky.

What are you bragging about?

Zhao Chuanxin crumpled the telegram into a ball and threw it into the black lacquered iron trash can, where it landed accurately.

"Got it. I'll go back to work first. You can tell Zhang Heyan and Yao Shijie later that I'll be out for a few days."

At nine o'clock in the morning, Zhao Chuanxin finished his official business, left the Lubin Prefecture government office, and was sent to Bronze Eye No. 10 Dingdong Island.

The house he built on Dingdong Island was intact, but the surging sea water sometimes splashed onto the plank road and glass in front of the house, causing a thick layer of sea salt and feces from seagulls and other seabirds to accumulate on them.

When Zhao Chuanxin first arrived, a group of seagulls started screaming without any fear of people.

He had no good feelings towards these rogue birds, so he raised his leg and kicked a seagull away, and the rest of the birds soared into the sky.

He has buried gold underneath.

Seeing that there was nothing unusual, he got up and went down the mountain, riding on the third-generation dragon and galloping on the sea.

……

The Japanese were disgusting. At first, Yoshiji Nishizawa led his men to land on Dongsha Island, put up a plaster flag, and renamed it Nishizawa Island.

The Qing government's negotiations with Japan were fruitless, and later the Japanese became more aggressive, demolishing the Great King Temple, driving out local fishermen, and occupying the island.

Later, Zhao Chuanxin secretly killed Nishizawa Yoshitsugu, and the Japanese withdrew the plaster flag.

Zhang Renjun originally thought that Japan was afraid of Zhao Chuanxin and would withdraw obediently.

Unexpectedly, they just removed the plaster flag and the warships did not dare to sail nearby, but the merchants' fishing boats and cargo ships still traveled here.

They didn't occupy the land in name only, but used actual actions to tell Zhang Renjun: You want to drive us away? No way.

It's as hard to deal with as a dog-skin plaster.

Zhang Renjun sent Liu Yikuan, the captain of the Fu Bo ship, to the Dongsha Islands several times to survey the terrain. After being taught a lesson twice by Zhao Chuanxin, the Japanese no longer tried to stop him but only tried to trip him up secretly.

This time, Zhang Renjun sent the deputy prefect Cai Kang and Liu Yikuan to Dongsha Island to directly take over Dongsha Island without any more wrangling with the Japanese.

Cai Kang led his men to the island, and the Japanese businessmen watched coldly from the side.

Cai Kang explained his intentions, and the Japanese businessman Mei Qiantaro sneered and said, "You want to take over Xi Ze Island? Fine. We can sell these wooden sheds and houses for 50 taels of silver. As long as you are willing to pay, we will leave."

Five hundred thousand taels of silver?

Liu Yikuan's eyes widened: "Why don't you go and rob?"

"Robbery is not as fast as your compensation." Mei Qiantaro said bluntly with a mean face.

Liu Yikuan: "You..."

Cai Kang was also furious, but at least he was not as hot-tempered as Liu Yikuan, a warrior.

He said coldly: "This is not Xize Island, this is Dongsha Island. Dongsha Island has been an island of our country since ancient times. Did you build here with our consent?"

"That's none of my business." Mei Qiantaro sneered, "You didn't agree, but you didn't disagree either. So if it's built, you have to pay for it."

Before setting off, Zhang Renjun had already anticipated the ugly faces of the Japanese.

He knew the future and told Cai Kang that if he wanted to pay silver as compensation, he should agree to it within a reasonable range to the Japanese to avoid any disputes later.

This was the Qing court's consistent style: to demand back their own land and pay compensation to foreigners. This had happened many times, for example in Hankou.

"Five hundred thousand taels of silver is impossible. I will give you 5000 taels of silver for the sheds you built, and 3000 taels of silver for the houses, a total of 8000 taels of silver."

"Sir, are you sending away beggars?" Cai Kang spat thick phlegm on the beach: "Ah... tui! Five hundred thousand taels of silver, not a penny less, otherwise please leave."

They treated this land as theirs.

Cai Kang was about to continue speaking when an unidentified object came speeding towards them from the sea.

The thing was so fast, almost like lightning, attracting everyone's attention.

A local fisherman from Dongsha Island knelt down immediately and said, "It's the Dragon King, it's the Dragon King, I can see the dragon's whiskers..."

The dragon whiskers he mentioned were nothing more than the rainbow particles ejected from the flanks of the third-generation swimming dragon.

In a few breaths, the thing approached Dongsha Island, slowed down, and opened the side door. Zhao Chuanxin came out and directly collected the third generation of Youlong, but he disappeared into the sea. The people on the shore were dumbfounded.

I thought the Dragon King had transformed into a human form.

Otherwise, why did that thing suddenly disappear when a human figure appeared?
Otherwise, why did that person just sink into the sea and disappear?

As they were watching, the sea water surged in front of them, and a figure rushed out of the sea and landed on the shore.

Zhao Chuanxin evaporated the moisture from his body and patted the salt left on his clothes.

"Who are you?" Mei Qiantaro pointed at Zhao Chuanxin without any fear on his face.

Everyone, including Mei Qiantaro and Cai Kang, did not recognize Zhao Chuanxin, but Liu Yikuan did: "You, you are Zhao Chuan... Lord Zhao."

The three words Zhao Chuanxin almost came out of his mouth, but Liu Yikuan changed his mind and realized that Zhao Chuanxin was now the prefect of Lubin Prefecture and he could not call him by his full name.

Zhao Chuanxin nodded at him, then lit up his cigar, looked around, and his eyes fell on Mei Qiantaro: "From now on, this land will belong to the Zhao family."

Mei Qiantaro laughed loudly: "Surname Zhao? Zhao, who the hell do you think you are? How dare you come here and speak so arrogantly?"

As he spoke, the Japanese fishermen, businessmen and thugs around him slowly gathered here.

Cai Kang immediately became nervous and kept giving Liu Yikuan glances.

But Liu Yikuan's expression was strange. He looked at Mei Qiantaro with pity and ignored Liu Yikuan's little movements.

Mei Qiantaro was so angry that he was about to speak, but he saw the tall man take out a scary large bow and a black and red arrow.

Seeing Zhao Chuanxin take out a bow and arrow, the Japanese around him drew their swords one after another, and the sound of clanging was endless.

Zhao Chuanxin held a cigar in his mouth and said, "The Zhao surname is not a good person. The Zhao surname has changed his mind. From now on, any Japanese who dare to land on this island will be killed."

As he said this, he shot the Poverty Arrow diagonally into the sky without even looking.

Zhao Chuanxin put away the bow and waved his hand.

The Poverty Arrow fell from the sky and pierced Mei Kentaro's crown.

Before everyone could react, Zhao Chuanxin continued to wave his arms, and the Chipin Arrow rushed left and right.

chi chi chi...

The rainbow particles would only leave a faint halo of flame in the daytime, and wherever they passed, the poverty arrows would pierce the Japanese one by one.

"what……"

The screams were endless, forming a symphony.

Zhao Chuanxin is the musician who conducts the symphony.

As the arms were waving, the Japanese on the island suffered heavy casualties.

Cai Kang's pupils trembled.

Liu Yikuan and the crew members and soldiers he brought with him widened their eyes.

There were also Japanese warriors who rushed towards Zhao Chuanxin with swords raised, but halfway through, they were pierced through by the Chipin arrows and fell to their knees struggling.

Seeing that he was not dead yet, Zhao Chuanxin waved his hands and pulled back and forth, and the arrow of poverty stabbed back and forth like the needle of a sewing machine.

Puff puff……

The Japanese man's body was full of holes and he let out heart-wrenching screams that made people's scalps numb. Finally, the lung lobe was pierced and the screams stopped.

Zhao Chuanxin swung his arm violently, and the arrow drew a large arc, piercing through half of the Japanese.

Finally, Zhao Chuanxin saw some Japanese who had been diving surface and waved his hands back.

The arrow of poverty was as sharp as a finger, piercing through the skull, diving into the water and then flying up again.

Zhao Chuanxin waved his hand, and the poverty arrow flew back. Zhao Chuanxin grabbed it and put it away in a smelly liquid tank.

Cai Kang took a step back and sat down on the beach, his face frighteningly pale.

Dozens of Japanese lives were taken in less than three minutes. It was so scary.

Someone exclaimed: "Flying sword, this is a flying sword of the gods..."

It's a flying arrow, not a flying sword.

Zhao Chuanxin looked at Liu Yikuan and said, "Go back and tell Lord Zhang that I will take over this island from now on."

Liu Yikuan was also there when the Erchen Maru was being dealt with.

He admired Zhao Chuanxin very much.

Liu Yikuan stammered: "Lord Zhao, but..."

Zhao Chuanxin raised his eyebrows and said, "No buts. The island belongs to China, but for now, the surname is Zhao."

"Yes, yes..." Liu Yikuan didn't dare to refute, and hurried to help Cai Kang: "Sir, let's go."

Cai Kang looked at Zhao Chuanxin, then at the frightened residents on the island, and he didn't dare to say "no".

He could only take a small boat with Liu Yikuan to the big ship, leave in a hurry, and go back to report to Zhang Renjun.

However, after boarding the Fubo ship, Cai Kang asked Liu Yikuan: "Who is that person? Is he a god?"

“Uh…” Liu Yikuan smiled bitterly: “Others call him the God of War.”

"Zhao Chuanxin?" Cai Kang asked in surprise.

"That's him."

"No wonder."

"Don't worry, my lord. We will report back to Governor Zhang. Governor Zhang will not blame us."

……

On Dongsha Island, there was a sea merchant named Liang Zhenfan who was a very smart man.

Just now, Zhao Chuanxin used the Chipin Arrow to kill people, which seemed like a magical technique. Everyone else was afraid, except Liang Zhenfan, who dared to approach him and get close to him.

Zhao Chuanxin took out two silver dollars and gave them to him: "Find some people to throw the Japanese into the sea to feed the sharks, regardless of the casualties."

Liang Zhenfan's body trembled. He was so cruel that he threw the injured down. The sharks came when they smelled the blood and bit them to death.

He quickly refused, saying righteously: "The Japanese are extremely hateful. We have long wanted to drive them away, but we are powerless. Now that you have offered your help, how dare we ask for money? But, old immortal, what if the Japanese come back to seek revenge?"

"What kind of god are you?" Zhao Chuanxin spat, "My name is Zhao Chuanxin, the prefect of Lubin Prefecture. I will be in charge for two days. If the Japanese come to seek revenge, I will send them away."

"Mr. Zhao?" Liang Zhenfan was stunned. "Do you know a chivalrous man nicknamed "Swift Wind Swordsman"?

"That's me too."

"Ah this..."

When the people around heard this, they were no longer afraid: "You are the Swift Wind Swordsman, no wonder you look familiar..."

The last time Zhao Chuanxin came, he called himself the Swift Swordsman.

Then they started cursing: "Damn Japanese..."

From what Zhao Chuanxin said, this island will be under his protection from now on, so what can the Japanese do?

Zhao Chuanxin looked at the dried seagrass in the wooden shed and said, "From now on, sell all of this seagrass to me. I'll take as much as you want. No need to transport it. I'll pick it up right here."

Some are happy, some are sad.

At least Liang Zhenfan looked worried.

He is a maritime merchant, coming here to collect marine products and take them back to sell. Zhao Chuanxin collects them on the spot, so what should he do?
Zhao Chuanxin needed a manager, and Liang Zhenfan, who was bold but careful, was just the right person for him, so he said, "You are responsible for collecting, and I am responsible for picking up the goods. You can make money, but don't be too ruthless. I need you to help me look after this island."

Liang Zhenfan was flattered.

Everyone looks at Zhao Chuanxin from a different perspective. Warriors look at Zhao Chuanxin's fighting ability, businessmen look at Zhao Chuanxin's financial strength, politicians look at Zhao Chuanxin's governance ability, and women covet Zhao Chuanxin's beauty...

Liang Zhenfan knew that Zhao Chuanxin was a wealthy man, extremely rich.

In terms of wealth, even the richest man Sheng Xuanhuai was no match for him.

Liang Zhenfan heard from others that Zhao Chuanxin had swindled a large sum of money from foreigners on that Chinatown in the United States, making the foreign tycoons eager to eat him alive.

Now that I have the opportunity to cooperate with Zhao Chuanxin, whether I can make money is secondary.

"Mr. Zhao, I will definitely help you take care of Dongsha Island."

Zhao Chuanxin smiled.

He planned to stay here for two days to prevent the Japanese from coming with warships to seek revenge.

He built a flagpole on the east side of the island and hung a large flag with a black background and gold edges, with the words "Zhao" written on it.

There is a stone tablet next to the flagpole, on which is inscribed: Zhao Chuanxin took back Dongsha Island on March 1909, 3, February 30, the first year of the Xuantong reign.

Dongsha Island was neither cold nor hot at this time. Zhao Chuanxin placed a lounge chair on the beach and felt very comfortable as his feet were gently brushed by the waves.

He opened the "Code of the Old Gods" and transported less than 10 kilograms of sea grass, which was about the amount of 120 balls of sand.

He did it on purpose.

[I am selling seaweed at the entrance of Haishi Xujing Apartment. ]

[According to the market price, 1 ball of sand costs 5000 gold coins. ]

[Someone immediately purchased 10 gold coins.]

[Among those who heard the news, some did not have enough gold coins to pay, so they used goods to exchange for goods.]

[In a moment, all the 120 balls of sea grass were sold out, totaling 10 gold coins, 10 low-level blue crystals, and 4 heat source gems.]

Zhao Chuanxin's eyes glowed green.

[I'm going to the Sea City Virtual Realm Bank to withdraw gold coins.]

Zhao Chuanxin transferred all the gold coins back.

[When I was about to leave the bank, I was stopped.]

[The one who stopped me was Elder No. 9 of the Haishi Void Realm. ]

[I didn't expect that selling sea grass would alarm the elders of the virtual realm. ]

[The Elder of the Void Realm said: Where did you get the Sea Man Grass? How much do you have? Hand it all over.]

These words made Zhao Chuanxin very angry.

(End of this chapter)