Journey Through the Plane of the Lord God

After the initial panic, the residents of Shanglu discovered that the bomb dropped by the Taiping rebels, although it exploded with a loud noise, did not kill anyone. Instead, colorful pieces of paper were flying in the sky and scattered on the ground. So,

Some brave people stopped running in panic, bravely picked up a piece of drawing paper, and held it in their hands for inspection.

"There are so many people in this painting!"

"This kid is incredible, he's actually wearing a dragon robe!"

"Yes, look at these people, their clothes are so gorgeous!"

"Are these costumes?"

These were the comments made by the lower-class citizens in Shanglu City District, the ragged cooks, aunts, maids and other manual workers after seeing the patterns on these drawings.

Their faces, which have been devastated by this era and are numb, bear half the panic caused by the Taiping air raids and one half the surprise of discovering strange things.

At this time, the Taiping Association's propeller planes quickly withdrew after dropping these drawings that had no "lethality" at all. In addition to being able to see a group of huge Taiping Association military airships, they were still slowly approaching Shanglu.

Beyond the urban sky.

This huge city with a population of over a million fell into a strange state of silence after a brief period of panic.

Compared with the lower-class civilians in Shanglu who can only understand the images on the drawing paper but cannot understand the words on the drawing paper, the scholars, businessmen and gentry in Shangluzhong, the magical capital, can now be said to have been released by the Taiping Society.

The news revealed on the drawing paper was so shocking that my three views were about to be shattered.

On the most prosperous commercial street in Shanglu City District, most of the businessmen and gentry who used to think they were the upper class in Daqing had already fled out of the city in a hurry as soon as the airship appeared in the sky.

But there was still a small group of about a dozen well-dressed businessmen and gentry who did not leave due to various concerns.

They gathered together boldly and were extremely conspicuous on this empty street.

These were Daqing people who immediately picked up the drawings scattered by the Taiping Society and looked at them. They often read foreign newspapers in the Western concessions and had some knowledge of the existence of the Taiping Society.

These people all know that the Taiping Society has a very good reputation internationally and has good business credit. When it captured Canada five years ago, it did not indiscriminately kill white civilians.

"Brother Qingzhu, is this true?"

A fat Shaoxing businessman wearing a scholar's green shirt and a melon-pipe hat, with a broken face, took the drawing paper he had just read carefully three times and asked the person beside him.

He was engaged in maritime trade with Japan and often traveled between the vast land of China and Japan. He had heard of the name of the Taiping Society more than once.

But even so, the horrifying news on these drawings still filled his face with fear.

"The emperor, the queen mother, and all the dignitaries in the court were really wiped out by the traitors of the Taiping Society?"

Standing on the right side of the fat businessman was a landowner whose hometown was Shaoxing, whose surname was Li, Fu, and Qingzhu.

"Shh, Brother Danian, please keep your voice down!"

The landowner had just recovered from the shock caused by the previous air raid, and now he gradually regained his senses and said in a low voice.

"How can we, the common people, evaluate the news about the emperor and the queen mother, who are heavenly beings?"

"I wonder what Mr. Wang thinks?"

He changed his tone and handed over the words to a gentleman who had a reputation for raising people standing opposite him.

"From what I can see, it must be fake!"

"Where is the capital? The imperial city's braided guards are highly skilled in martial arts. There are hundreds of thousands of elite green battalions around, and there are hundreds of cannons alone!"

"If we really encounter a strong enemy, we will definitely call on the governors and governors of all provinces in the world to lead the elite Qinwang!"

"How could it be possible to be attacked by the rebels without any sound?"

This gentleman, known as Wang Juren, specially emphasized the tone when he mentioned the four words "silent and silent".

Wang Juren was one of the people present who had traveled to and from Peking, the capital, many times. He had gone to Beijing four times to take the imperial examination in recent years, but unfortunately he failed to pass the exam even once.

"Yes, the Juren Master is right!"

"Although this Taiping rebel is coming in a menacing manner, it is impossible for him to be so powerful and attack the capital silently!"

The person on the other side with a moustache was a tall, round-waisted businessman. He vigorously shook the drawing paper in his hand, attracting the attention of everyone present.

"Everyone, the patterns on these drawings are most likely formed using magic rubbing."

As a businessman under the tent of King Mengbian Khan, he looked up at the approaching Taiping airship and continued in a deep voice.

"But being able to create such a huge force, the Taiping Society should not be underestimated!"

Although this star has not yet developed to the era of photo-ps technology, it did have extraordinary power after all.

The scene on the painting with the Emperor and the Queen Mother prostrate on the ground was taken for granted by these well-established Daqing secular people and was made using foreign magic and Taoism. They did not even think about the aspect of "possibly actually happening" because it was so real.

It's incredible!

However, just because these people don't think so doesn't mean that the remaining leaders of the Daqing Dynasty in this city don't think so.

"This, how is this possible!"

Lin Tiande, the governor of Shanglu Prefecture, was wearing a dark blue official robe and was sitting high on the main seat in the lobby. His hands holding the telegram could not stop trembling.

"How could Lafayette issue such an appalling imperial order?"

He looked at the table next to him. The servant had just presented a piece of drawing paper. The familiar figures on it were the same as those of the big shots in his memory, and he could not help but shudder.

"Could it be that the capital..."

Just when he looked anxious and kept muttering something to himself in a low voice.

General Shanglu Garrison and Braided Inner City Manager Germa strode in. After saluting him, he spoke very quickly.

"Master Lin, I have arranged for the government officials in the mansion to guard the surrounding areas."

"And the six thousand warriors of the twelve braided tribes also entered various key areas of Shanglu under my order!"

"But the number of our people is still too small!"

Emperor Taizu of Daqing, who established the policy of braiding hair and eating food, never imagined that Shanglu, which was just an ordinary county town at that time, would become a city with a population of one million today, three hundred years later.

China's giant city.

Therefore, the twelve capable warriors with braided hair who were stationed here to eat were only six thousand people. Naturally, they were far from being able to defend such a huge city and resist the attack of the invading enemy.

"In addition to the Taiping airships in the sky, have the Taiping rebels' landing troops been found on the sea?"

After Germa finished her report, Lin Tiande, the receptionist, stood up quickly and walked over to ask.

"Reporting to your lord, my general's subordinates have not found the bandit's landing force on the sea!"

"Master Futai, the first priority is to ask the imperial court for instructions immediately and ask Lafayette to send a secret telegram of the Tiger Talisman to allow the Green Camp army outside the city to enter the city."

The "Tiger Talisman Secret Telegram" in Germa's words is actually two sets of yin and yang special telegrams composed of cipher text that were specially set up by the imperial court to imitate the "Tiger Talisman" of past military orders after wireless telegraphy technology was introduced to Daqing, China.

Before the local governor or governor mobilizes the army, he must first ask the imperial court to issue a "Yangwen" secret telegram. The military orders of the frontier officials will be effective only after they match the "Yinwen" secret telegram issued by the imperial court to the garrison commander.

"General Germa, where is the tiger talisman's secret power now?"

Hearing the words of the braided general Germa, Shanghai Governor Lin Tiande's face became even sadder.

"I doubt, I doubt, that the capital may really be like the drawing papers distributed by those Taiping rebels. Something big went wrong!"

After he finished speaking with a wry smile, he handed the imperial telegram he had just received from the Peking court to Germa.

Germa took it and took a look at the face of a rough man with braided hair. His expression immediately changed.

Because this telegram was not at all an urgent military response to the "Taiping rebel invasion" sent to them, but a direct order to them to surrender unconditionally to the Taiping Society...

An hour later, the giant airship that had arrived directly above Shanglu City began to rain down white umbrella flowers. A solemn-looking paratrooper of the Taiping United Army parachuted directly to Shanglu, fully armed.

The center of the city.

After receiving the last telegram from the capital, the "surrender" order, Shanglu Governor Lin Tiande and Braided General Germa were directly "banned" from the radio by the Taiping Society. They were unable to immediately contact and give orders to the outskirts of Shanglu City.

The green camp troops stationed entered the city to defend it.

In front of the Taiping airborne troops equipped with advanced equipment such as semi-automatic rifles, rocket launchers, and one-man mortars, the "slight" resistance of the braided warriors and government officials in the city was broken down in a single stroke.

The brutal form forced these two officials and generals of the Daqing Dynasty to "wisely" surrender to the Taiping Airborne Forces.

From then on, on the penultimate day of December 1863, starting from the appearance of the airship in the sky, Shanglu, a magical city with a population of one million, officially became Taiping in just 8 hours.

The city that will shelter you.

Moreover, because of its excellent port environment and basic transportation facilities, it quickly became an important material transfer point and strategic outpost for the Taiping Army to unify the country.

Shanglu, the magical capital, also became the first large Chinese city to be successfully captured by the Taiping Union Army in the all-out war to unify China launched after successfully capturing Beiping...