Dominate the Country

"Pah."

The sound of gunfire broke the silence in the southwest of Jinling District, and the explosion that followed woke up the people in Jingrun Community and its surrounding residential areas.

However, many residents on the street had just stuck their heads out when they were "pressed" back by the military and police on the side. I don't know when, both sides of the street were already filled with armed military and police, and some military and police were squatting under the feet of black-backed and yellow-bellied military dogs with their tongues sticking out.

The gunshots continued.

Jinling District is located in the southwest of Nanjing, not too far from the palace, but not very close. Chen Ming was still immersed in his sleep, only Chen Ding was waiting for the result he expected with a spirited face.

Li Hao even came to the scene in person - Jingrun Community.

It was not obvious when entering the community, but after entering the villa area from the residential building area, Li Hao found that there were military and police with guns everywhere.

As the nephew of the queen and the cousin of the prince, Li Hao is now the vice chairman of the Council of State. Although this is not an official position, it is much more comfortable than the third or fourth rank officials. Even the third rank officials in those key departments dare not say that they have more influence than the vice chairman of the Council of State.

Li Hao insisted on going forward and taking a look, and saw that the soldiers were hiding behind the walls or crawling on the roofs around the two or three villas in the north, and the entire villa area was under strict surveillance. The doors of the other houses in the villa area were all closed. From time to time, groups of soldiers with guns came forward, knocked on the doors one by one, entered the house to search, and the owners also cooperated with the soldiers' actions honestly.

Although the enemy was determined to be in several villas in the north, no one dared to guarantee that there were no other people hiding outside.

The gunshots in the north were dense and never stopped. Li Hao was also a soldier, and he could tell that the gunshots were all from the hands of the surrounding military and police, and their purpose was not to hurt people, but to suppress the opponent. The gunshots fired by the surrounded enemies were very rare.

Jingrun Community is a famous high-end community in Jinling District. The community is not only well-greened, but also has mountains - rockery - water, and the distance between buildings is quite large, especially in the villa area.

The three villas are in a trapezoidal shape, and the terrain at the south entrance is relatively open, with at least 50 meters of grass and flower beds. Of course, the soldiers confronting the villas are not alone in the open space, but use riot shields to set up the first line of defense, followed by sofas and wooden quilts, which are impossible for bullets to penetrate. In some places, sandbags were erected, and then covered with quilts splashed with water, and the lethality of the bullets was almost zero.

However, the three villas are not ordinary solid, because they are typical Gothic buildings, and the main body of the building is not wood but reinforced concrete. There are only three such Gothic villas in the entire Jingrun community, and now they are all in the hands of the gangsters. Even the designer and real estate company of this Jingrun community have been arrested by the police. Because the police suspect that these are all related.

Gothic buildings are very solid, with bricks on the outside and reinforced concrete inside, just like three small bunkers. And there are enough windows in the house, and each window is not big. The light flashing on the window of the house is the enemy's gunman. Normal counterattack is fine, the most important thing is that the enemy has a sharpshooter.

Li Hao has also been a soldier for more than ten years. He really doesn't have the military talent. He retired from the army at the age of 35 and joined the Advisory Council. However, no matter how untalented Li Hao is, he has been on the battlefield. Just showing up that time, he has seen the battlefield.

"The enemy has now exposed a total of five long guns and several short guns. Whether there are other weapons has not yet been found. But the enemies here will definitely not be all of them."

Such a cunning bandit will not put all his eggs in one basket.

Liu Chengshan's secretary carefully reported to Li Hao that Li Hao could not stay on the front line any longer. Because the total military and police operation was about to begin. At this juncture, Liu Chengshan was no longer on the front line, but Liu Chengshan was not in the mood to talk to Li Hao at this time.

At this time, Li Hao suddenly saw the secretary's eyes looking behind him. Li Hao looked back and saw a group of soldiers dragging a 60-caliber hexagonal cannon out of the stone road behind a villa.

"Boom boom boom..."

Liu Chengshan was not polite at all. Although he also wanted to easily solve the opponent, if he made too much trouble at this time, the Chen Han government would not look good. But the enemy's gunman's shooting skills were very accurate. The military and police who attacked before were not careful and were ambushed by the enemy. Two were killed and two were injured on the spot. So, don't worry about your face, clean it up as soon as possible.

A hexagonal shell came out with a whistle, accurately hitting the gate of the villa in the middle, and exploded with a bang. The shell easily blasted a big hole in the gate, and then another shell went over, hitting the window of the villa in the middle, and the house was in a mess.

The military and police in Beijing brought more than just one cannon.

When the dust in the villa settled, Liu Chengshan could see the mess in the villa through the open window and gate through the telescope. The shell had smashed a big hole in the wall inside.

The battle was over in less than half an hour.

A total of five criminals were killed and six were arrested in the three villas. Seven long guns were confiscated, including two sniper rifles, twenty short guns, more than 500 bullets of various sizes, twenty simple grenades, and five explosive packs. In addition, there were more than 30 gunpowders, a batch of saltpeter, sulfur, and willow wood.

Liu Chengshan and Li Hao sweated after seeing the statistics. With so many guys, how much trouble could they cause if they really got angry. The entire empire will be disgraced, the old emperor will be very angry, and the new emperor will be even worse.

But this is not the time for Liu Chengshan to get angry. He still needs to interrogate the arrested people as soon as possible, obtain confessions from them, and arrest the remaining party members.

Even Chen Ming was shocked when he received the news after dawn. If dozens of grenades and powder packets exploded in the crowd, he was shocked when he thought about how bad the impact would be.

"Let the Ministry of Foreign Affairs meet with the British immediately and raise serious questions about them."

"But..., Father, that person who was shot can't prove that he is a British person? And even if he is a British person, he has no close connection with the British government..." Although Chen Ding's face was still very angry, Chen Ding's expression was still very angry. Ming's words obviously made it difficult for him. There is no evidence that the British government was involved in this matter.

"Is the British government involved? Don't think about any evidence on this matter. Just say what you think. Do the British have any doubts?" Of course there is doubt. And as long as there is doubt, wouldn’t it be over? "Whenever you have doubts, just confront them. If you just say this verbally and it doesn't fall into the literal meaning, why should you mind?"

Chen Ming looked at his eldest son and felt a little regretful in his heart. This son was raised by him to be too well-behaved and too gentle. But in today's world, such an emperor is more in line with China's interests, right?

As a time traveler, Chen Ming has changed the entire world and seriously distorted the trajectory of history. He is not sure whether the successor he has chosen is the most suitable. Only time and history can judge this.

Chen Ming had a mission today. After breakfast, he needed to try on clothes.

Yes, the emperor's crown robes are different from those of the Supreme Emperor. Although there were no specific regulations in this regard during the Tang, Song and other dynasties in history, the results of some scholars' research are more of the same. But this rule has been changed by Chen Ming, because if the Chen Han Dynasty can pass on it in the future, the Supreme Emperor may arrange one or two more.

According to Chen Ming's 'rules', the emperor's crown and robes are equal to the emperor's in terms of specifications. The twelve crowns and twelve chapters will not become the thirteen crowns and thirteen chapters. The emperor's dress Only the details will change, the main body will not move.

For example, the color of the previous mianfu, which is no different from black, can be turned into pure black. The top and lower skirt can be changed from pure red to yellow and purple, but the knee-covering in front does not need to be changed. , still bright red.

Chen Ming won't have many opportunities to wear the imperial uniform in the future, but no matter how few, he still needs to wear the expensive imperial uniform.

To be honest, Chen Ming doesn't have many clothes. He has been the emperor for forty-one years, and including the previous prince, he only has less than twenty pieces of crown clothes from the beginning. Just fifty or sixty pieces. The annual uniforms, including military uniforms, will not exceed twenty pieces in a year. But the value of these twenty pieces of daily robes may not be as valuable as one crown robe.

It's not that Chen Ming has no money, nor is he a stingy Emperor Daoguang, but he really feels bad for spending the money.

How much effort does a crown gown take?

Compare the Manchu and Qing Dynasty dragon robes. The latter's dragon robes are made of goose yellow satin, finely embroidered with colorful clouds and water, and are entirely made of foreign gold. It requires 680 embroiderers, 285 foreign embroiderers and 26 painters. . The total amount of labor and silver required for each dragon robe is 392 taels, 2 cents, 1 cent and 9 cents.

There are many differences between Chen Han's crown robes and the Manchu robes, but the cost is not inferior. Moreover, the good thing about the Manchu Dynasty that 400 taels of silver could be used to make a dragon robe has long been lost in the Chen Han Dynasty. The imperial robe cost tens of thousands of Chinese yuan, which really made Chen Ming feel that it was unnecessary.

But when he stood in front of the mirror wearing the crown robe of the Supreme Emperor, at that moment, Chen Ming really couldn't tell what he felt.

Do you miss power? There is no such thing.

This world is no longer challenging for him. The entire America is destined to become the land of the Chinese, and half of Africa is firmly in the hands of China. That Abyssinian, like the British in India, is China's turtle in the urn, and sooner or later it will be stewed into a pot of nourishing tortoise soup by China.

As for the technology here, no matter how far away it is, Chen Ming is really beyond his reach.

Unless Chen Ming can invent the telegraph now, China's dominance will come to an end when it touches the Caspian Sea.

Fighting further to the west, even after Tianfang World felt threatened and united with the Westerners, Chen Ming was confident of winning the final victory. But how practical is such a victory?

Chen Ming does not have millions or tens of millions of landless poor people to immigrate.

And what can the local indigenous people do?

Deportation?

Where to expel?

By then the whole earth will be Chinese.

And to commit genocide, that is impossible.

Should we let the Mongols and Kazakhs go, or the Persians who took refuge in Chen and Han? So does the land they conquer belong to them, or does it belong to China? Since the land does not belong to the Chinese, what is the flavor and meaning of this war?

Chen Ming thought very clearly that in a short period of time, before the next technological revolution, China has grown to its maximum. What China needs next is to work hard on its internal strength. Just like the previous forty years, China's blood will spread to every inch of the American continent. Let the rich America become richer and stronger.

Let China thoroughly digest the extremely delicious food of America, and then subtly annex India, even if it continues to leave Bengal to India.

For the Europeans who cannot occupy land even if they fight, what Chen Han needs is not to destroy them, but to make them surrender obediently.

This is the task of the ongoing war.

Compared with the insects in South America who have lost their ability to resist head-on and can only rely on space to exchange time, the lighthouse country in North America is also unable to bear the heavy responsibility. The main battlefield of this East-West War is in Russia, and it has always been in Russia.

Here, the strength of both sides has climbed from the initial 200,000 people to the current million-strong army.

This is the arena that determines the fate of both sides, a life-and-death arena where only one person can come out alive.

Chen Ming has absolute confidence in the battle here. Because his empire has endless war potential, which is absolutely unmatched by Europeans.

Chen Ming's confidence in victory is not his own golden finger. He can achieve the current threat in this life, and the force of this golden finger is not absent, but it is by no means crucial and indispensable.

The knowledge of the time traveler is more important than the golden finger.

So Chen Ming's confidence in victory has never been his "superpower", but Chen Han's current time and space are unparalleled. This is his reliance.

So when the bell of victory finally rings, what will Chen Ming get?

He will get the surrender of the European world that suffered heavy losses, and he will get the submission of the whole of Europe.

At that time, he will really become the king of the whole world, the captain of this planet.

In such a war whose outcome has been determined long ago, will Chen Ming still be reluctant to give orders to it?

Power is really not very attractive to Chen Ming now. He is not Qin Shihuang, and he has never thought about immortality. Chen Ming's brain is very clear, so the power without the challenging world is really not attractive to him.

In his bones, Chen Ming is an angry young man.

His desire for power is to change China's tragic fate in modern history, to strangle the beacon country in its cradle, and to slap Europe's face hard...

And now, all of this, he has done.