The mage in the late Qing Dynasty

Zhao Chuanxin told Li Jiangong that his name was Zhao Xin.

Li Jiangong rummaged through boxes and cabinets in his memory, but could not find such a number one swordsman in the northwest.

On the ground in the northwest, he saw too many swordsmen, but no one could use the three swords so quickly and amazingly.

He didn't know that these three swords included - Violent Armor + Starry Sky Root + Intelligent Gyroscope + Zhao Chuanxin's divine power.

How can it be done by ordinary people?

With the previous episode, the trip becomes interesting.

After Li Jiangong completely let down his guard, he spoke freely to Zhao Chuanxin about everything.

Of course, some people call this a fool, while others call it bold and straightforward. People with dirty minds always think of themselves as smart people.

In the late Qing Dynasty, there were many sanctimonious people, and there were even more people who liked to put gold on their faces.

Li Jiangong never said that he was "good", but Zhao Chuanxin saw his extraordinaryness from the stories he told.

One of the laws of the Qing Dynasty is extremely important - keep your head but not your hair, keep your hair but not your hair.

As the west wind spreads to the east, all kinds of bad habits need to be changed. This year, Cixi issued an order strictly prohibiting people from binding their feet. However, several people suggested cutting off the whip, but the court refused.

The Qing court believed that this was the foundation of their rule.

Li Jiangong was born into a poor family and once set up a stall selling hair ropes at the entrance of Shiqiao Lane in Linxia.

Headbands are a necessity because everyone has braids.

Li Jiangong also has a cow at home. His wife milks the cow every day and delivers milk to nearby families to supplement the family income.

He had several sons, and the two of them did small business together. Originally, they could still make some surplus after eating glutinous rice.

However, Li Jiangong was impassioned and informal.

In the neighborhood, whether Han or Hui, if this family was on the verge of freezing to death in winter, he would secretly take money to the firewood market to buy some thatch and send it to them; if that family was short of food and clothing, he would also help meet their urgent needs.

Others may be doing this to buy people's hearts and recruit people to work as swordsmen to do robbery, but Li Jiangong continues to make a living by doing his small business of headbands, and has been like this for many years.

Fire can't be contained in paper. One day his mother-in-law saw him delivering thatch to other people's homes, and she started crying.

There was a local celebrity from Longshang who was a Gongsheng student. He passed by and saw the excitement. After learning the truth, he felt that he was quite strange. Good people are too scarce in this era, so he gave him some capital and taught him how to do business to earn some hard money. .

In the northwest region where transportation is poor and information is not available, you can really make a little fortune just by making a few random sentences.

Relying on the Hexi Corridor, it is possible to transport the specialties of the northwest region to the outside, and then transport back the silk fabrics and tea leaves from the outside. Whether they are sold in bulk or handed over to local merchants, they can make a small profit.

Zhao Chuanxin was too lazy to do this kind of business even if he had an artifact like the Secret Realm Space, but for Li Jiangong, it was the secret skill of turning stone into gold.

He immediately ran back and forth and made a profit that made him grin from ear to ear. Not only did he return the money to Na Gongsheng, but he also had the capital to expand his business.

In a few years, he started with carrying a load and now operates a team of seven mule carts.

If it weren't for his intensified support for the poor in the neighborhood, the fleet would probably have reached more than ten vehicles.

Not only that, Zhao Chuanxin also learned that after he started a boycott of Japanese goods, the news slowly spread to the northwest, and Li Jiangong also participated in the boycott of Japanese goods.

The two had crossed paths thousands of miles away, but Li Jiangong didn't know this. In his words, he praised Zhao Chuanxin as the number one patriot.

When the bandits tried to kill him just now, he was able to let them go.

Zhao Chuanxin sighed: This is simply the Longshang Bodhisattva!

Li Jiangong sighed and said: "In the first few years, when I went out, I always reported my name to the Ma family. Unfortunately, after the death of the Ma Gang leader, the Ma family lost power. His son Ma Lin strictly ordered us not to use his reputation to buy peace. So much so that today's disaster..."

Zhao Chuanxin put down his scarf, took a sip of water from the bottle, and asked, "What's going on with the Ma family?"

Li Jiangong explained that the Ma family got its start from Ma Haiyan, who was Huihui. He was good at riding and shooting, and when he grew up, he joined the anti-Qing team.

In the eleventh year of Tongzhi, Ma Haiyan surrendered to the Qing court and was enrolled in the military.

During the Boxer Rebellion, Ma Haiyan was transferred to Gyeonggi to garrison.

He fought against the Eight-Power Allied Forces in Gyeonggi Province and won a sixth-grade military medal. He also followed the fugitive Cixi to Xi'an.

Why did the Ma family lose power?

Just because the Gan army fought too bravely, Ma Haiyan's team was too brave, and the Eight-Nation Allied Forces won, so they were punished.

Zhao Chuanxin was stunned: "I'm Zhuo, this is the first time I've heard of someone being punished for his bravery in battle!"

Li Jiangong smiled bitterly: "Who says it's not the case? In fact, I am deeply ashamed of using the name of the Ma family to buy peace, and there is nothing I can do about it. After the death of the leader of the Ma Gang, the Ma family brother, the elder brother Ma Qi, took over the deployment of his father. But Ma Qi Qi was very murderous and would kill people at every turn. And Ma Lin was greedy for money. During the riots, he took the opportunity to rob property and sell wool and fur goods. I once purchased goods from him and found that the blood of herdsmen was still stained on the fur..."

Generally speaking, Ma Haiyan is a principled person.

But his two sons are nothing.

What Zhao Chuanxin didn't know was that Ma Lin's son Ma Bufang later became a native emperor and a great warlord in the northwest. When he fled, it was said that he carried so much gold that the plane was wiped out...

While chatting along the way, the bandits did not come back to find a place.

When it got dark, we rested at a pointed station.

Zhao Chuanxin felt somewhat guilty when he saw that Nikola Tesla's face was full of exhaustion and he was beating his waist after sitting down.

While replenishing the spent bullets of Mosin Nagant, he said: "Nicholas, after Fengxiang is over, I will take you to feel the wind and lightning."

Nikola Tesla gave a weak, wry smile.

The wind is blowing fast, which means the bone-chilling cold.

The daytime temperature here is only one or two degrees. At night it can even reach below zero.

He knew how fast Zhao passed his salary, was he afraid he could freeze him into a popsicle?

Li Jiangong bought mutton, a chicken and several eggs along the way.

Zhao Chuanxin diced the mutton, stir-fried, and stir-fry the meat. After the fat was gone, add onions, ginger, garlic, pepper, chili, salt, sugar, and soy sauce, and continued to stir-fry until it was colored, then added water and simmered.

Li Jiangong was stunned for a while.

"Brother Zhao really knows how to cook?"

If roasting mutton is nothing, Zhao Chuanxin's hard-earned knife skills and spoons can already be held on the counter. In addition, he has all kinds of cooking tools and seasonings at his fingertips, which is dazzling.

"Yes, when I travel around the world, people give me the nickname - Food Manager, Xin Zhao."

"..."

Li Jiangong said to himself that your swordsmanship is as sharp as a sword and your marksmanship is as good as a god. This nickname is just a bit unreasonable. If it spreads out, will it make the swordsmen in the northwest laugh out loud?

When Nikola Tesla was hungry, he once told Zhao Chuanxian that he should eat less meat and more vegetable staple food at every meal... At this time, he forgot all about it.

He asked anxiously: "When can I eat it?"

Zhao Chuanxin gave Li Jiangong a cigarette, lit it and puffed on it and said, "Don't worry, the food manager will never disappoint you."

Twenty minutes later, he opened the pot, added water, diced potatoes and radish, and continued to simmer, but the soup became thicker.

Nikola Tesla finally lost his temper and said: "The coachman and the others have finished eating. By the time you finish cooking, we will be freezing to death."

In fact, Li Jiangong was also swallowing hard.

Zhao Chuanxin slowly smoked another cigarette. After fifteen minutes, he opened the pot and put the homemade instant noodles into the pot.

The noodles were cooked, and the noodle soup was divided between the two of them. Before they could wait to use their chopsticks, he stopped them and said, "Wait a minute..."

Li Jiangong couldn't say anything, but Nikola Tesla said angrily: "What are you waiting for?"

Zhao Chuanxin took out Shanxi mature vinegar and fried chili oil and poured some into the bowl: "Okay, you can eat it!"

The two of them started to stir up the noodles and sucked them...and then their pupils began to dilate!

I was writing until midnight and I was hungry. I cooked a bowl of instant noodles. I could add an egg. Do you dare to think?