The mage in the late Qing Dynasty

At the ditch beside the road, Zhao Chuanxin controlled the water flow to wash away the foul-smelling stains on his body.

At the same time, Xingyue asked Xingyue to open the "eyes" on the back of her head to see what was happening behind her.

The Emperor of the Desert did not send anyone down, and the Lord of the Underground did not come up to cause trouble.

Zhao Chuanxin narrowed his eyes.

The Desert Emperor has long known about the existence of the Underground Lord?

He took out a box of foreign wine and used the wine to repeatedly rinse and kill bacteria on his body, constantly thinking about the threat of the underground master.

In fact, no less than the Desert Emperor.

From what Dudu said, the underground master had been to the Sweat and Sweat Stolen Cave, and had even done something inside, and he had succeeded.

He turned into a pool of blood, but stood up again from the blood. The scene was so beautiful that Zhao Chuanxin could not imagine it.

Doesn’t there need to be a price for the immortal’s healing and rebirth? If necessary, it is no different than "I" coming back from the dead.

Zhao Chuanxin asked Xingyue: "Can you recreate the Dragon Breath Injector?"

Dragon Breath is currently the only way to inhibit their healing and rebirth.

Xingyue said: Yes, I have successfully stolen from Master Jia, but the black dragon core is priceless and we cannot buy it easily.

Zhao Chuanxin sterilized the shell of the soft gold armor, and then bathed and disinfected the furry Dudu. When the water soaked her hair, Zhao Chuanxin realized that her figure was far from as fat as it looked.

Just like a shaved Tibetan Mastiff does not look majestic.

The water vapor on Dudu's body evaporated, and after she rubbed it a little with her dissatisfied yells, Dudu became furry again.

When he returned to the safe haven of his fellow pioneers, Dudu said in surprise: "When did a house be built next to the sweat-sweat den?"

Zhao Chuanxin ignored her.

After entering the house, Zhao Chuanxin introduced Dudu to his brothers, sisters and craftsmen.

The brother and sister liked Dudu very much, but the craftsman rubbed his chin while studying Dudu's ethnicity while tutting in admiration.

The craftsman said: "I have never heard of Dudu's ethnic group in books or people's stories. I am going to do some research."

Dudu said to Zhao Chuanxin: "Is this called glass? Can you give me some? If you protect me, I will repay you. I never owe others anything."

Zhao Chuanxin was happy: "The way you repay me is to ask me for something, right?"

Dudu said: "You give me the glass, and I will go to the sweat-sweat den and exchange it for you for what you want."

Zhao Chuanxin curled his lips and said, "What do you want in exchange for what I want? That's good."

Zhao Chuanxin handed her a few plates and bowls on the shelf: "You can exchange them as you like. If you can exchange them for something of higher value than this, you will repay me."

Dudu said: "I have to choose it myself."

Zhao Chuanxin began to wonder if she was going to take her belongings and escape back to the sewer.

When the time comes, he exits the state.

[I said to Dudu: Take whatever you like. 】

Zhao Chuanxin cursed in his heart: You didn't make the glass of emotion, why are you being so arrogant?

[Dudu took some things, which weighed hundreds of kilograms, but easily lifted them out of the door. 】

[After a while she came back and said to me: Come quickly, I have already redeemed it, but I can’t move it. 】

[I asked her: If you can’t move something, how can I move it? 】

[Dudu said: Every time I change things, I can no longer move heavy objects. 】

[I’m curious, is there such a thing? 】

[I went to the Sweat and Profit Cave next door. There was a small translucent stone on the ground. There was a pool of liquid inside the stone, and the liquid was light green. 】

[I picked up the stone and found that it was not heavy. However, Dudu still couldn't lift it. 】

[I asked: What is this? 】

[Dudu said: This is the antidote. 】

[I asked: What is the antidote? 】

[Dudu held his own hair with his little hand and said: It is the antidote to all poisons. You will never be poisoned if you drink it. 】

Zhao Chuanxin was a little moved. What he was most afraid of was being poisoned by others.

His constitution and blood-locking membrane have extremely low resistance to poisons and are not easily decomposed. In summer, a mosquito bite will cause a big swelling. If a poisonous snake bites him, he may need to be cut repeatedly with a knife to remove the poison.

To a certain extent, winter is the safest season for Zhao Chuanxian.

But he was very cautious and immediately wrote:

[I asked the craftsman to go to the slums of the Upper South Side to find a beggar and give him a gold coin as long as he was willing to drink a sip of water. 】

[The craftsman came back soon with an old beggar. I carefully punctured the stone, poured the light green liquid inside into the test tube, and took a small sip for the old beggar to drink. 】

[The old beggar’s eyes were very strange, as if he was looking at a group of rich fools. 】

[After a long time, the old beggar showed no reaction. He asked: Can you give me the gold coins? 】

[I gave him a gold coin. 】

Zhao Chuanxin hurriedly wrote:

[I told the old beggar, if you come again in ten days, I will give you another gold coin. 】

He had to see if it was a chronic poison.

[The old beggar left happily, and then the mint manager came. 】

[The general manager of the mint was really polite. He smiled and asked me: Fearless Pioneer, I heard that you found the lost item? Can you let me see it? 】

[I gave my brother and sister a secret wink, telling them to be on guard, because the Mint Master was an official of the Desert Emperor. 】

Zhao Chuanxin wrote again:

[I kept two heat source gems privately and showed the remaining stolen goods to the mint manager for inspection. 】

Because the thief was not caught, the reward of two heat source gems was lost. Zhao Chuanxin simply withheld the gems himself, and Xingyue did not stop him.

[After the mint manager inspected it, he said to me: Twelve heat source gems are missing. 】

Zhao Chuanxin guessed that Dudu had stolen it, as she had said before.

[I said: Sorry, this is all I found. There are some sick people hiding in the sewers of the palace. They are thieves, but they are very difficult to deal with. They are called the undead and are almost impossible to kill. I managed to escape from there, and that was all I could do. 】

Using the undead to push back, the Mint Manager would have a hard time distinguishing between true and false. Zhao Chuanxin didn't believe that he dared to go down to confront the underground master.

[The director of the mint is a very gentle person. He nodded and said: You have done a good job, but I still have to agree on the value ratio of the stolen goods as agreed. If there are twelve heat source gems missing, I will give you a discounted reward of 50,000 gold coins. , you can tell which rune fragments you want worth 750,000. 】

Xingyue Tips: There is 1 parent series rune fragment with a unit price of 100,000 gold coins, and 20 sub-series rune fragments with a unit price of 30,000 gold coins. There is a 50,000 gold coin reward left. Ask him for the rune fragments worm silk substrate.

Zhao Chuanxin complied.

[The Mint Director nods: Yes, I can make the decision. 】

[We have completed the handover of lost items and bounties. 】

Zhao Chuanxin teleported the thing back and closed the "Old God Codex".

Xingyue said: Through my observation of your fighting skills, I found that the knife is not suitable for you, and the double-edged lightsaber is more lethal. You give me a piece of the best steel I have, and I'll grow you a sword with strong runes.

Zhao Chuanxin saw Xingyue controlling the puppet craftsmen to grow a slender eight-sided sword on a piece of armor steel produced by the Krupp Arsenal in Essen, Germany.

This piece of steel represents the most advanced metallurgical industry technology in Germany.

The sword body is straight, the blade is extended by two-degree arcs, the sword grid is integrated with the sword body, and the sword hoop and sword neck are integrally formed behind the sword neck.

If it were manually forged, it would be impossible to forge the sword into this state.

Xingyue took out the remaining soft gold to make the soft gold armor, first planted a handle around the neck of the sword, and then planted a black and white scabbard.

This is the power of runes.

Zhao Chuanxin looked hot and asked Xingyue: "Can I master the strong rune and grow a car?"

Xingyue said: As long as the metal material is suitable, it can be grown, but only the metal part can be grown, not the others.

Xingyue handed the sword to him, and Zhao Chuanxin took it and looked at it carefully. The blade was one meter long, the blade width was 3.6cm, and the handle was 30cm long.

He thought the sword would weigh five kilograms, but after he got it, he found that it was not that heavy, maybe around three kilograms. The sword seemed to be hollow. Zhao Chuanxin knew that rune fragments and circuits needed to be installed inside.

Except for Zhao Chuanxin, no one else can wield this sword.

Zhao Chuanxin stabbed straight, slashed left and right, covered the head with white clouds, moved the sword, turned back, wiped the body and slashed, turned around and teased...

If this were an ordinary sword, it would not be easy to use on the battlefield.

But as for the lightsaber, as long as it's not raining or foggy, any sword, gun, sword or halberd will break if touched or shattered by rubbing, Zhao Chuanxin can handle it at will.

You don't need to use force to put the flesh and blood on a person's body, it will be injured if it touches it, and it will be cut into two pieces if you use a little force.

Xingyue understood Zhao Chuanxin's body structure and power characteristics, and made the sword suitable only for him.

Zhao Chuanxin didn't blush and was out of breath. He put the sword back into its sheath and threw it to Xingyue: "Okay."

Xingyue said: Give me your flying fish spine whip, four digging puppets, and 29 light knives. I will give you a surprise tomorrow morning. You can go to bed.

During the battle with the Desert Emperor, Zhao Chuanxin picked up a lot of light knives, some of which were corroded by the dragon's breath and only had their handles left. Zhao Chuanxin knew that what Xingyue wanted was the light blade rune fragments and energy gems inside.

But these are basically all he has in stock.

With the puppet craftsman, Zhao Chuanxin can sleep peacefully every night.

Within a radius of 500 meters, not even a cockroach can escape the star-moon sensor.

When Zhao Chuanxin lay down, he was still thinking: Maybe when he gets tired in the future, he can occupy a small territory. There will be no one else but himself, and he can rob anyone who dares!

This can be done.

…

While Zhao Chuanxin was sleeping peacefully, Anqing, a straight-line distance of 200 kilometers to the east of him, was bustling with activity.

The cavalry camp in the west of Anqing City and the artillery camp in the east of Anqing City raised fire as a signal around nine o'clock in the evening.

Xiong Chengji asked the artillery battalion leader: "Will you surrender?"

Guandai scratched his neck: "I would rather die than surrender."

"Okay, I'll help you!"

Xiong Chengji waved his hand, and the artillery battalion officers and soldiers who had already been incited to rebel by him swarmed up and severely injured the pipe belt.

At the cavalry camp in the west of the city, someone asked the leader: "Will you surrender?"

Guan Biao said with a murderous look on his face: "Okay, okay, you dare to rebel, I..."

Before he finished speaking, the man chopped him to the ground with a knife!

The people in the east and west of the city rebelled together. As agreed, they quickly marched towards the ammunition depot. Xiong Chengji led the joint horse artillery battalion and rushed directly to the infantry barracks outside the city. They burned the barracks with fire and refused to surrender. The infantrymen fled in all directions.

Xiong Chengjixiong said with high spirits and increased confidence: "Let's go, we have our people in the city to support us, and great things will happen today!"

He thought well.

Because Zhu Jiabao, the governor of Anhui, went to Taihu Lake to hold a parade. This parade was also held last year, and Zhao Chuanxin caught up with it at that time.

However, when Zhu Jiabao learned that Cixi was mad at Zhao Chuanxin and left with Guangxu, he immediately secretly returned to Anqing.

Like Xu Shichang outside the pass and Wang Buying, the prefect of Liangzhou, Zhu Jiabao immediately deployed defenses in the city.

They were all worried that the news of Cixi's poisonous murder of Guangxu would spread all over the country and that they could not be suppressed at all. At a time when people's hearts were unstable, it was inevitable that thieves would cause trouble.

Xu Shichang and Wang Buying were passable, but Zhu Jiabao's defense was caught off guard.

Xue Zhe, Fan Chuanjia and others in Anqing City did lead people to provide support, but they were immediately discovered by the Qing soldiers deployed by Zhu Jiabao, and the two sides fought together.

When Xiong Chengji led the horse artillery battalion to rush towards the Anqing city gate, he found that all the city gates were tightly closed and the walls were densely packed with Qing soldiers.

He frowned, thinking that something might have happened unexpectedly, but he had no choice but to shoot. He held out hope that Xue Zhe and Fan Chuanjia could arrive in time to respond.

How is the result?

Until Zhao Chuanxin got up from Bagong's house sleepily, Xiong Chengji's troops outside Anqing City suffered heavy casualties. Xue Zhe and Fan Chuanjia's troops inside the city were equally miserable, but Anqing City was impregnable.

After Zhao Chuanxin got up, he saw that Xingyue had been busy all night long.

He shook his head and put on his glasses.

Xingyue said: Come, try your lightsaber.

Zhao Chuanxin took the lightsaber. The hilt had the same switch as the light saber's hilt. After turning it on, Zhao Chuanxin's sleepiness disappeared.

Ordinary light knives only have a light blade on one side. There is a risk of breaking when the light knives are used to cut each other.

The eight-sided sword is also called the eight-sided sword.

Zhao Chuanxin's two-sided six-edge and double-edged blades each have a light blade.

Not to mention the double-edged edge and the tip of the sword, even the spine, sword, and sword wax can have a cutting effect if casually slapped on it.

A sword with "thorns" all over the body.

Zhao Chuanxin bared his teeth. It seemed that he would never be able to use one move - Su Qin carried the sword on his back.

Because that will hurt yourself.

Xingyue handed the flying fish spine whip on the ground to Zhao Chuanxin.

Zhao Chuanxin discovered that Xingyue had cut a slit at the end of the spine, but when the flying fish spines spread out in a straight line, they happened to be in the gap, and the flying fish spines would spread out and fall into twenty pieces.

Each flying fish spine is inlaid with light blade rune fragments and sub-sequence rune fragments.

Xingyue said: The lightsaber has 8 built-in energy gems and 8 light blade rune fragments. You no longer have to worry about the weapon breaking when fighting puppet soldiers. Flying Fish Spine Whip, each flying fish spine has light blade rune fragments, sub-sequence rune fragments and 1 energy gem. The handle has additional energy gems and mother-sequence rune fragments. I will show you the effect.

On the glasses, Xingyue simulated various operating scenarios of the Flying Fish Spinal Whip for Zhao Chuanxin, and Zhao Chuanxin's blood surged when he saw it.

Finally a decent AOE damage weapon.

Xingyue said: I have made a training plan for you. I know you like actual training. Maybe you will have a chance to practice today.

What opportunity is Xingyue talking about?

Belgian Consulate.

Franzhi had just finished communicating with the French Consul General in China, Du Lifang.

As the consul of the small country of Zuer, the reason for Frankie's entanglement with the Qing court was not Belgium's national power, but the fact that France and Russia were behind it.

When something like this happened, Frankie naturally contacted France and Russia immediately.

Du Lifang's reply to him was - just wait and see what happens.

Frankie was so angry that his orifices were filled with smoke and he was furious.

God damn, just wait and see!

It's not you who are emotionally hurt.

At this time, a staff member hurriedly came to report: "Your Excellency, Consul, there are 200 French troops stationed outside Li Xing Yang Company. Jose and Akerman, two important partners of Li Xing Yang Company in Shanghai headquarters, requested the French Consul General in China, Du Lifang, to protect their concession. property."

Frankie clenched his fist and then unclenched it.

He stared out the window helplessly and said nothing.

After a while, he quickly sent a telegram to the Russian consulate to communicate.

Tsarist Russia gave similar opinions to France.

Frankie was wandering around the room like a hot ant.

Finally, he told his subordinates: "Go and get the dossier of articles that have been copied over the years. By the way, go to the French and Tsarist Russian embassies and get the vice-documents of articles that they have signed with the Qing court over the years."

In the end, Tsarist Russia, Germany, and the United Kingdom all gave him the honor to lend him the files, but France did not agree.

Frankie watched the sun getting higher and higher, and couldn't care much anymore.

He took to the streets with a large pile of files, and the poor Belgian soldiers seemed not to be defending, but to line up to welcome something.

He wandered anxiously back and forth on the street. He was obviously not hot, but his forehead was dripping with sweat.

Finally, around ten o'clock in the morning, a black and white figure appeared at the door of the Belgian Concession.

It is inappropriate to say that the Belgian concession was because the Qing government did not recognize the status of their concession.

Zhao Chuanxin is here.

Carrying the sheathed lightsaber, he came here swaggeringly, opened his visor and looked at the Frankie and Belgian soldiers in front of him.

These soldiers wore M1893 style flat-topped cylindrical military caps with a red hat band and a gold royal cap badge on the front. Wearing an M1906 dark blue double-breasted coat, an M1896 magazine pouch, and a black belt...

Overall it looks more French.

Zhao Chuanxin couldn't help but sneered when he saw that there were only a few dozen of them, but they were all dressed up and dressed up, as if they were about to go through a battle.

"Frankie, in one sentence, do you want to give in or not?"

Zhao Chuanxin asked him calmly while carrying his sword.

The area was surrounded by Belgian people, most of whom were workers and their families who had built the railway.

At this time, Zhao Chuanxin felt like a cowboy duel in a small town in the western United States, and he was the ultimate villain boss who stole money, land, and women.

Defense on this scale was just a joke to Zhao Chuanxin, nothing more.

In front of everyone, Frankie couldn't help but look so servile.

He coughed, pulled out the file from a pile of documents, and read loudly: "In the fourth year of Tongzhi, 1866 AD, Article 41 of the Sino-Belgian Trade Treaty, Biguo's ship had no other intention, or it sailed in due to theft. No matter where China says it, everything will be provided with food, sweet water, repaired ships, and local officials will take proper care of it. This article is on page 250.

In the 27th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu, 1901 AD, the seventh paragraph of the "Xin Chou Contract between Countries" states that the Chinese state promised that each country should be independent, always keep troops, and protect embassies. This is on page 1006. Paragraph 9: The Chinese state has promised that the various countries will jointly decide on a number of places to station troops in order to ensure that the passage from the capital to the sea is not in danger of being cut off..."

Zhao Chuanxin: "..."

Seeing that Frankie was in a hurry to seek medical treatment but still wanted to make a show of it, Zhao Chuanxin waved his hand: "Ah, okay, okay, do you think these old sesame seeds and rotten millet are of any use?"

Frankie: "..."

Zhao Chuanxin reiterated: "Just asking you, do you want to withdraw?"

Frankie had no choice but to say: "Mr. Zhao, in 1898, we signed the "Detailed Contract for the Renewal of National Loans on the Lu-Han Railway" and the "Lu-Han Railway Operation Contract" with your government. Your Lu-Han Railway was financed by us. People helped build it, is this how you repay our Belgium?"

"What's the matter, the Qing court didn't give you wages? You borrowed the money, earned it back, and didn't miss a penny in interest. How are you still acting like a good boy after making a profit?"

"Ah, this..." Frankie was speechless, and then said: "I paid the wages, but I bought these 600 acres of private land with 10 taels of silver per mu."

Zhao Chuanxin bared his teeth and smiled: "Don't say that I, Zhao Chuanxin, took anything by force. Isn't it just 6,000 taels of silver? I paid for it, and you have to move out of here within three days."

"..." Frankie said loudly: "Your Majesty Ting Zhangzhidong agreed to redeem it with 818,000 taels of silver..."

Zhao Chuanxin laughed: "They are stupid, do you think I am stupid too? What tricks are you playing that you don't know enough about? I'll give you 6,000 taels of silver. Sign the contract now. I don't care about any shady activities between you. Get out of here right now, otherwise I will make your blood flow like a river today!"

Everyone says Zhang Zhidong is incorruptible, but is Zhang Zhidong really incorruptible?

He often did interesting things, using 818,000 taels of silver to redeem the land that Belgium had originally bought for 6,000 taels of silver. This was not the first time that this happened.

Is Zhang Zhidong an idiot? Just because Belgium delayed for seven or eight years, he had to pay 136 times the price to redeem the land?

As early as 1904, Hubei candidate Dao Zalhali signed a contract for six "Chu Tai" class Yangtze River gunboats with Japan's Kobe Kawasaki Shipyard Commissioner Shimoto Twenty Thousand.

This is in accordance with Zhang Zhidong's instructions.

After the purchase, an additional order was added to the contract—an order for four more torpedo boats.

Torpedo boats are a thing of the past. Nowadays, destroyers with stronger firepower are emerging in the world. The waters of the Yangtze River are not suitable for torpedo boat maneuvers.

The 120-ton torpedo boat purchased by the Beiyang Fleet only cost 57,000 taels, while the "Chen" class torpedo boats of the Nanyang Navy with the same displacement were also more than 200,000 taels cheaper than the torpedo boats purchased from Japan.

It can be seen that some people are ugly when eating, such as Li Hongzhang. Some people eat elegantly, or at least appear elegant, such as Zhang Zhidong.

Damn the incorruptible and famous officials of ZTE, Zhao Chuanxin doesn't believe it, whoever believes it is the second best.

He made a big fuss in the Hankou Concession last year, which directly ruined Zhang Zhidong's drama. Now Zhao Chuanxin comes to collect it himself, and only spends 6,000 taels, without giving him a cent more.