Journey Through the Plane of the Lord God

After meeting Huang Han, the commander of the Taiping Army, for the first time, George Mars, the hereditary Earl of the British Kingdom of St. George, left a very deep impression on the first Taiping high-level official he met.

This elite member of the feudal aristocracy did not force his anger and reprimand the Taiping Army for their invasion; nor did he feel sorry for himself and demand better treatment from the Yellow Han.

Instead, they met and immediately after taking the initiative to salute, they asked Huang Han whether the weapons used by the Taiping Society, especially the behemoth airship suspended in the sky, could be sold.

There is no doubt that Huang Han at that time did not have the authority to tell the count the answer immediately. Instead, after this short meeting, he reflected the count's thoughts in detail to the center of the Taiping Society, which triggered extensive discussions among the top leaders of the Taiping Society.

In the end, it was Hong Tiangui who decided to meet this extraordinary-looking feudal nobleman in person.

The Taiping Society will always be involved in international trade in the future. If this nobleman can see the power of the Taiping Society with his own eyes, he can become a bridge between the Taiping Society and the outside world, eliminating the need for some old people who do not understand the Taiping Society's power.

The contempt of mainland countries is also a very good thing.

Therefore, on June 30, 1858 AD, at the invitation of Hong Tiangui, president of the Taiping Association, Taiping City welcomed a special guest.

After nearly half a month of being detained in a comfortable environment but basically isolated from the outside world, the former governor of the Canadian colony, Earl George Mars, did not know that he was about to become the first person in history to step into this future peace.

The first Western feudal aristocrat to be personally received by the great helmsman of the later Taipingist movement in the Holy Land of Islam.

He got off a small transport airship, straightened his hair that was a little messy from the shock of watching the scene in the clouds in the sky, and then strode onto the station prepared for him by the Taiping Society and docked outside the Taiping City Wall.

Under the civilian airship lift next to the main road, there is a noble carriage captured from the occupied Vancouver city.

Ta! Ta! Ta!

Accompanied by the crisp sound of horse hooves ringing in my ears.

Count George Mars patted his chest with his hand to calm down his nervousness, then opened the curtains on both sides of the carriage and looked out to the outside world.

The Earl was naturally very curious about the strange force that defeated him and annexed the entire land of Canada. He observed everything in the outside world with his eyes and tried his best to obtain more information about this powerful city.

As a result, the first impression made him extremely surprised!

Clean, unparalleled clean!

Although it cannot be said to be clean from dust, after all, in this era, it is unrealistic to make such a request.

But at least from the perspective of Count George Mars, the city's roads and public facilities on both sides of the road are similar to the foggy capital of St. George, which seems to be always shrouded in a fog, dirty and messy, with sewage flowing across it.

It can be said that there is a complete difference.

In the foggy city, except for the neighborhoods occupied by a few wealthy people, most urban areas are still at a stage where there are no public toilets, feces and urine are rampant, and mountains of garbage are piled up.

Compared to the scene of a trash can almost every distance on the roads of this mysterious city, the Count had to feel a little ashamed.

The Earl was even keenly aware of a janitor from Taiping Fortress using these trash cans when he entered a road intersection.

Those trash cans that usually have two throwing openings have a foot pedal underneath. When the cleaner steps on it, the top lid opens, containing a layer of quicklime for disinfection.

Thanks to the fact that the carriage that the Earl was riding in was originally prohibited from entering the city, the pedestrians on the street raised their heads and curiously looked at this carriage that was "exceptionally" driving in the city.

Count George Mars noticed that these passers-by all looked rosy and looked good, showing that they were well-nourished.

Although the fabrics of the clothes most of them wore were not very good in the eyes of the Earl, they were still clean and tidy, far superior to those of the ordinary St. George citizens in the foggy city.

He finally found a few patched clothes among the pedestrians, but they were also made of the same texture and color of cloth. You couldn't tell if you didn't look carefully. Some of the patches were so symmetrical that he doubted whether they were done intentionally.

Ornamental decoration.

Most of these pedestrians were very young, and many were riding strange two-wheeled vehicles, driving quickly but orderly on both sides of the road.

The buildings on both sides of the road are very tall, and the houses are all square and square, without the unique style and decoration of Oparo's classical architecture.

A wide red cloth with a strip of red on it, with some square characters written on it that made the count always feel a little familiar. The slogan made of it is the most common scenery in this mysterious city.

In every block that the count's carriage passed through, there was a towering, upright civilian airport lift platform designed with steel bars to land small cargo airships.

The cigar-shaped cargo airships, which looked very fantastic to the ear, were more than half the size of Dongfeng trucks before Hong Tiangui crossed them. They were painted in various eye-catching colors and rose and fell from time to time from the steel grid on the lift platform to the outside world.

They were interspersed among the square buildings in the city, making the Earl feel a different and strange sense of beauty.

Of course, what surprised Count George Mars even more was that after the carriage he was sitting in entered the city, it had already traveled more than a dozen streets and turned five or six corners, but he did not find a single beggar who belonged to this city.

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Not only that, he didn't find any call girls standing on the streets in places where the carriage passed by with very dense crowds, nor were there any lower-level municipal officials who were common in foggy cities, arrogantly reprimanding citizens.

This city of unknown forces is filled with an ordinary and egalitarian atmosphere that makes Count George Mars feel very uncomfortable and should not exist in his world view.

However, before Count George Mars could observe more, the carriage he was riding in turned the last corner.

A central square of a town as beautiful as a garden appeared in the earl's eyes.

Behind the square dotted with many green plants is a huge building nearly 50 meters high with a striking round red roof and an oval cylinder as a whole. This was rebuilt from the former conference building this year.

The Taiping Central Building is used as a collective office by senior executives of the Taiping Association.

The carriage drove the Earl to the side of the central building, in front of a long corridor. Of course, the current Earl of Mars did not recognize the square words "Taipinghui Historical Corridor" on the door plaque in front of the corridor.

Now that they have decided to communicate and even develop trade in the future, the senior leaders of the Taiping Society headed by Hong Tiangui have no plans to be secretive at the moment.

Of course, Hong Tiangui himself had no intention of personally solving the numerous doubts in the mind of this feudal nobleman.

Therefore, he first asked Count Mars to visit the "Historical Corridor", one of the most important collective ideological education bases of the Taiping Society, before the meeting, to deepen the understanding of both parties, or mainly Count Mars, about the Taiping Society.

knowledge and understanding.

"Hello Mr. George Mars!"

The person who greeted the Earl was a young man with short hair who was wearing a dark blue Chinese tunic suit and had a pen in his breast pocket, followed by two central building security guards.

"I am Zhou Liren, the receptionist of the Taiping Society's Foreign Affairs Department."

The young man's St. George's dialect was very authentic, which made the count feel very comfortable listening to him in this strange place.

"First of all, on behalf of Comrade Hong Tiangui, President of the Taiping Association, I would like to welcome you."

"Let me first introduce to you the history of our Taiping Society!"

There was no complicated greeting method as Earl George Mars imagined. The young man's words went directly to the topic. He turned sideways and gestured to the Earl in a ceremonial manner with his hands, and then greeted the Earl with a freshness that was basically unknown in this era.

With a crisp style, he decisively led the count directly to the historical corridor...