The news of the formation of the Magical Crusader by the Empire and the Church soon spread throughout the world, including the Celestial Empire, which was in a state of confrontation with the Empire for many years.

When it comes to the Crusaders, all countries have heard of it, and when the magic of the declaration is mentioned in the declaration, it has made most people a little confused, and they don't know what it means......

May 28, 1914 (June 21, 1914) in the Celestial Calendar, the imperial city of the Ming Empire, morning

At noon, the flag of the armor soldiers was exhausted, and the emperor set up six golden carriages to enter the Taihe Gate first, entered the palace, and waited for the eunuch beside him to take the jade crown and hosta.

The wide sleeves of the black and gold crown dress are tattooed with gold and silver sun and moon respectively, and the gold-red trimmed collar placket is tattooed with blue, black and gold dragon patterns from the chest and abdomen, waist to the hem.

Before and after the bronze slabs on the front and back of the emperor's jade crown, there are twelve gold pieces made of colorful silk ropes, and each gold is worn with twelve colorful jade beads, each with a distance of one inch.

The left and right hanging red silk ropes of the silk board are tassels, and topaz is hung on the tassels, which is used to hang down next to the ears, which is called Qiu Xuan Chong Ear (symbolizing the supreme dignity and dignity of the emperor), the hat roll is made of jade grass as the skeleton, (if it is winter, it is used leather), the jade crown is mounted with a black (blue-black, blue-blue) yarn dragon pattern, and the lining is composed of vermilion yarn.

It's gorgeous.

The eunuch gave the jade crown to the emperor to wear on the top of his head, put on the crown of the yellow robe for the emperor, and after arranging it, he handed over the hosta to the emperor, and the emperor personally passed the hosta through the new hole inlaid with gold sheets on both sides of the hat roll, and then sat on the golden seat behind the jade case in the main hall, waiting for the hundred officials to enter the court.

Shao leaning, Honglu Temple and other subordinate officials and eunuchs in charge of the master of ceremonies carried the watch case and waited in front of the hall before everyone entered the hall.

Knock, knock, knock, with the three drums in front of the palace, the long and low bell rang out, spreading far inside and outside the palace.

At this time, the hundred officials who were dressed in court clothes and stood outside the noon gate were ready to enter the court.

Tongzan, praise, the guard officer, the guards and Shang Baoqing (the five-grade official who holds the treasure seal, talisman plate, and seal) and many attendants entered the Taihe Gate first.

Then the Honglu Temple and the eunuch of the celebrant summoned the court loudly, and at this time, the civil and military officials were divided into two columns on the left and right, the civil officials 'north to west', and the military attache 'north to east'.

When the hundred officials marched to the front of the temple, they all began to bow down, get up and bow again, and then get up and enter the temple gate.

After entering the temple and standing in two columns, bow again and chant in unison:

"Long live my emperor! long live!

"All Aiqing is exempt from courtesy, and he is flat. ”

After the emperor said that, all the officials got up, and then looked at His Majesty, who was not wearing regular clothes but wearing a formal crown today, and they were all a little confused.

At this time, the celebrant eunuch shouted:

"Your Majesty is in the early court, and the ministers ——, have something to do early--nothing to retreat from the court-"

Accompanied by the shrill voice of the eunuch fell. The ministers began to look at each other, and finally looked at the first rank of the ministers, the cabinet chief assistant in a black official uniform, and the only one among the five rank officials in the cabinet, Zhang Hongyi, the only one who also held the official position of the first rank.

Located in the first row of the ministers, Zhang Hongyi, who was gray-haired, held the jade plate with both hands and took a step forward.

Zhang Hongyi's eyebrows are bright, his beard is long, and his brand-new court clothes are creased.

He looked up at the emperor wearing an official crown on the jade steps, and he already knew seven or eight times out of ten in his heart, knowing that His Majesty was going to break off state affairs today, and then said:

"Your Majesty! ”

"Master Zhang, please speak. ”

"Your Majesty, the old minister has been rewarded, the Yiren countries have recently expanded their armaments and wars, and the sword is direct, pointing directly at our dynasty, which has a menacing meaning. The thieves are not good, and Your Majesty must not take this matter lightly.

The old minister hereby asks His Majesty to issue an order to plan military aircraft, discuss countermeasures, step up the reorganization of the armed forces, and decide major events as soon as possible, so as not to be unable to deal with the thieves and soldiers. ”

"Well, I have already heard about this matter, and I want to discuss it with all of you, but I don't know what the ministers think?"

"Your Majesty, Wei Chen thinks that there is no need to worry too much about this matter. ”

"Oh, what do you mean by that?"

The one who spoke was also the third prince with Zhang Hongyi, and the official uniform was tattooed with a Zhengyipin pattern decorated with cranes, Liu Wenbo.

"Since Emperor Taizuwu of the Ming Dynasty, the world won by the Jin Ge Iron Horse has been passed to His Majesty through twenty-eight emperors, all of whom are Ming lords and virtuous monarchs.

Sitting firmly in the country for nearly 600 years, and to Zheng He Zheng Zu Master, led me to the Ming Dynasty to take a thousand boats, a million heavenly masters, went to Haiyu, passed on my culture, and sued the name of my country.

In the past 600 glorious years, even the rise of foreigners in the past 100 years, the reform of Daxing industry, and the world-leading foreign guns and cannons a few decades ago have not been able to crush the imperial fortune of our Ming Dynasty.

Besides, now I have a million armor in the Ming Dynasty, and the cities, soldiers and horses, and taxes are several times that of foreigners.

The Celestial Empire sits on Shenzhou, and there are countless talented and handsome people in the world.

If we talk about the strength of military technology, now my Ming guns and artillery skills are well-made, the soldiers are well-trained, and the coast is full of Xuanwu cannons, but all the Yi people have a little wind and grass can not avoid the ears and eyes of our Heavenly Empire throughout the subject countries, if you talk about military strategy, my Ming Dynasty has Sun Sheng's art of war since ancient times, far better than Yi people's tactics a hundred times.

Not to mention diplomatic schemes, governing the people, cultural etiquette... Wait, needless to say, even if the foreigner drives the steam train, it is difficult to look at the back of my Celestial Empire!

Therefore, His Majesty only needs to tie up the Tsar in the north, stick to the coast, and widely distribute heavy artillery, so you can sit back and relax, so with all due respect, the person who is worried about Taishi Zhang is really a minor disease of scabies, and if you treat it too strictly, you will inevitably be laughed at by all countries, and it will lose the prestige of our Heavenly Empire. ”

"Mrs. Liu's words are wrong!"

A minister who was also in the civil service queue stood up excitedly when he heard this.

"The old lady mentioned Sun Sheng's Art of War, but she didn't know that Sun Tzu started with a cloud: soldiers, the major affairs of the country, the place of death and life, and the way of survival, must not be ignored. Now I don't know what the military strength of the foreigners is, what kind of establishment they belong to, how dare they slack off?"

It was the capital Shuntianfu Yin and Li Jing who spoke.

Mrs. Liu glanced at him, touched the jade plate in his hand and continued:

"Lord Li is too worried, I am surrounded by countless heavy artillery along the coast, easy to defend and difficult to attack, the city wall is solid, and now the national strength of our dynasty is far better than that of previous dynasties.

If the foreigner dares to come, he only needs to put more Xuanwu cannons on the city tower, and the foreigner will only hit the stone with an egg.

To insist that the only person to worry about is the Tsar of the North, so His Majesty only needs to send more envoys to bring the treasures of the Celestial Empire to the Tsar.

Then the lords of the subject countries and neighboring countries of Zen were enshrined, and those who were called the princes of Jin and the princes of Jin were given gold and silver to calm their hearts. So that the countries deeply feel the holy grace of our emperor, destroy their rebellion, and stabilize their loyalty, so that our dynasty is solid. ”

"What Taifu said is extremely true. ”

"What Taifu said is very true. ”

Many of the scholars in the left column under the jade steps echoed one after another.

At this time, Chen Dezhong, the political envoy of Sanpintong, stood up and said:

"Your Majesty, the Taifu's proposal is very good, and our ministers think so. Please let Your Majesty give the Taifu advice, give the countries treasures, and spread heavy artillery along the coast, so that if the foreigners dare to come, they will be defeated and retreat!"

The emperor was not in a hurry to speak, he was waiting for another group of people to speak, he only wanted to set up the stage for the time being, and the singing was left to the ministers.

Sure enough, as soon as Chen Dezhong's voice fell, a minister from the left column stood up, this time it was Xu Fengchun, the second rank of the Inspectorate:

"What you have discussed, or let the young officials hear it at first glance, and feel that it seems to make sense, but if you think about it, you will know that it is very inappropriate, you need to know that I have said to Mr. Lizhou, the lion and the elephant fight the rabbit, and also use all his strength, and the enemy is still the Yiren who has been increasing in the strength of the thieves in the past hundred years.

Seventy years ago, silk fabrics, porcelain, tea and other unprecedented commodities of our dynasty were greatly loved in the land of Yiren, but the goods of Yiren were not marketable in our dynasty, and the result was that the Yiren empire was in a constant trade deficit, and all the silver of Yiren flowed into our dynasty.

Since then, the despicable people have begun to ignore the ban of our dynasty and sell cigarettes in order to obtain illegal profits and solve their trade weakness.

Lord Lin, who was the governor of Huguang at the time, sent people everywhere to smoke gunpowder, but there were seizures and all of them should be burned down, so the people were dissatisfied.

Then the army came to invade our dynasty, but the ships of the foreigners were strong, even if they were as strong as our Celestial Empire, it was almost difficult to resist, but there were still two real people in the court at that time, so I really don't know what the result was.

Besides, it was only sixty years ago that the Yiren Empire united with its state France, invaded our territory again, and hit me until I reached the gate of the Imperial Palace.

If it weren't for Marshal Zhang Hongyi, who was then the Guanglu doctor, and his sacrificial adjutant, Lady Hongye, who led all the soldiers to fight a bloody battle, how could you talk about it here? And now, Hongye has passed away, and Taishi Zhang is also very old, and there is no real person alive in our country today.

Although the Westernization reform of the old ministers, our dynasty is indeed becoming stronger and stronger now.

But if your arrogant and conceited remarks today are heard by the deceased emperors and foreign ministers, how chilling will they be? If you follow your proposals, in the future, because of the slackness of your great officials, I will be ruined for 600 years, how will you assume this responsibility? What kind of face do you have to go to see the 27th Emperor?"

Xu Fengchun's indignant question made Mrs. Liu and the others a little speechless, so they had to reluctantly ask:

"Do you still have to work hard and waste money to kill overseas, and fight to the death with foreigners, is Lord Xu satisfied, the foolproof garrison is called slackness by Lord Xu, so what does Lord Xu have to say?"

The Emperor looked at the arguing ministers and thought to himself that it was almost over, so he interrupted:

"Okay, don't fight anymore, Aiqing's worries have their own reasons. Although it is an indisputable fact that my Ming Dynasty is getting stronger and stronger, it is also necessary not to forget the strength of foreigners and the national shame, so what is the best way for Zhong Aiqing to preserve the national strength and not lose the majesty of our Celestial Empire, but also to repel the invading enemy?"

The emperor looked at the many ministers in front of the jade case and looked around.

In the end, it was Master Zhang Hongyi who stood up, and he seemed to be a symbol of wisdom forever.

Zhang Hongyi said:

"Your Majesty, the old minister thinks that Your Majesty can no longer hold the concept of preserving national strength and going to the land of projectiles with the Great Heavenly State, and he can no longer be obsessed with the prestige of the Heavenly Empire.

On the contrary, now is the day of the national crisis! Your Majesty will not be allowed to have any reservations! Please make up your mind as soon as possible!"

Emperor Zhu Shijing of the Celestial Dynasty was shocked when he heard this, and Taishi Zhang's words were really unexpected to him, and he hurriedly asked:

"Why did the Taishi say this?"

"Your Majesty, as far as the minister knows, the Demon Guided Crusader of the Yiren Empire is not an expansion in the general sense, their so-called Magic Channeling is actually using a new technology, combined with their so-called electrical technology in recent years, to extract and mobilize the power of heaven and earth in the human body, and attach it to the weapon.

Relying on the increase in technology, it exerts a power comparable to the power of our dynasty's cultivation of top-level exercises, and the masters with deep internal strength are full of strength, and according to detailed reports, the empire of the people is ...... I'm afraid that there is more than one real person who can use immortal arts......"

"Real people?"

As soon as Taishi Zhang said this, everyone was shocked.

The Celestial Empire is still martial, so since ancient times, there have been people who have continuously absorbed the power of the essence of heaven, earth, sun and moon through the creation of exercises, and refined, purified and compressed the power of heaven and earth into internal force.

Nowadays, there are countless people who practice internal strength, and there are many famous masters, but real people are still hard to find, strictly speaking, all martial arts practitioners of the Celestial Empire can be called cultivators.

The so-called real person is able to continuously compress the internal force in the body, constantly refine and purify, and through the accumulation of huge internal force and countless times of re-purification and compression.

The ultimate essence energy is stored in the body, which is constantly washing the marrow and changing the structure of the body.

The level of complexity is like opening up a world in the body.

Therefore, it is possible to do the miraculous thing of stuffing a huge amount of Kunpeng (a huge amount of heaven and earth power or internal force) into a bottle a few inches high (in the meridians of the human body and the inner world) without leaking out.

After years of tempering, the internal force has changed from quantitative to qualitative, and finally turned into the purest immortal power.

Therefore, real people can use the magic of the immortal arts, which can affect the surrounding events on a large scale by changing the principles of the world.

However, the real people in the West seem to call immortal magic magic, and the real people they have always participated in the war have used immortal arts that are all small-scale and have great limitations in ability, and most of them have not yet come to the cannonballs.

This may be because their internal force (magic power) has never been refined, purified, and compressed by the exercises, so that it is not as powerful as the Celestial Empire's True Immortal Method, and even many masters and half-step real people in the Celestial Empire can deal with real people with unpeculiar digital abilities at the same time.

So in general, the Imperial Magicians are surprisingly weaker than the real people of the Celestial Empire.

(But also because Westerners rely purely on the circulation and absorption of talent, resulting in reaching a certain age.) The number and probability of innate magic users appearing is much higher than that of the Celestial Empire, which complicates, purifies, and compresses magical power. ）

Among those who have seen a real person with their own eyes, only Taishi Zhang Hongyi has resisted the imperial coalition forces of the Yiren with the real person, and it is even rumored that his dead adjutant, Hongye, is a half-step real person cultivator.

"The Demonic Channeling Technology is a brand new and unimaginably powerful technology. I am afraid that the changes it can bring far can far exceed the great industrial reform that the Yi people began more than 100 years ago. ”

Zhang Hongyi ignored the ministers who were confused, but continued to say heavily.

"Your Majesty, although after the master's long technique, our dynasty's technology has also led the world, but this leadership by no means includes the Yiren Empire, the Divine Sun Yao Empire!"

The ministers behind Zhang Hongyi were in an uproar.

The emperor was not angry because Zhang Hongyi said the honorific title of the enemy country, but asked thoughtfully:

"Then according to the words of the Taishi, the situation is really so serious, what should I do?"

Zhang Hongyi clutched the jade plate with both hands, took another step forward, and said:

"What Mrs. Liu said, although it is all a child's opinion, but there is another point that goes to the key, the northern tsar. ”

Liu Wenbo was embarrassed when he heard this, but he didn't have a seizure on the spot.

Zhang Hongyi continued:

"It has been more than two months since the enemy has been massively expanding its army, and the war between the Yi and the Tsar in the north has never ceased.

Although the Yi people have a strong army, their crusaders have not yet been formed, and at present, they only rely on the army and the tsar to fight in Mozik, so they still declare war on our dynasty, which is a taboo for soldiers.

We only need to march together by land and water, so that the Yi people are caught in a bitter battle on many fronts.

In this way, even if he is given dozens of real people, it will be difficult to affect the battle situation in great depth.

Therefore, Your Majesty can quickly send a fine and capable lobbyist to the north, meet the Tsar, and find out the stakes and promote the Tsar's alliance with our dynasty.

At the same time, a cadre was selected to take command, to build a strong naval division, pretending to attack the water, but in fact, marching from Mongol to Mozik and joining forces with the Tsar to attack his army.

When the enemy sees our army attacking, the morale of the army will be greatly disturbed, and if this can be done, the enemy army will be defeated, and our army will be victorious, and then we can take advantage of the victory to march and smash the country!"

"Taking the initiative to attack? I'm afraid this is not going to seriously damage the vitality of our country. ”

Mrs. Liu sneered when she heard this.

Zhang Hongyi did not respond to him, but continued to admonish:

"Your Majesty, there is no other choice, our dynasty must take the initiative to attack, otherwise there is a danger of destroying the country and extinction at every turn!"

"What Taishi Zhang said is extremely true!"

"The last generals all thought that what Taishi Zhang said was extremely true!"

At this time, some of the Wenchen in the left column and most of the military attachés in the right column spoke in unison.

"You guys are alarmists!"

At this time, Chen Dezhong, who was behind Mrs. Liu, was not afraid of the anger of the public.

Zhu Shijing looked at Zhang Hongyi, a well-known old minister, and then looked at the military attachés on the right who supported him, and there was a trace of displeasure in his heart.

"Taishi, according to your words, who should be the commander?"

Hearing this, the Taishi leaned down and said:

"Your Majesty's crown today is official, and you have summoned foreign ministers to the palace in advance, which shows that Your Majesty has long attached great importance to this matter!

It's a pity that although the old minister has the heart to go to the battlefield again and make contributions to our dynasty and His Majesty, the old minister is eighty and four this year, even for cultivators, he is already dying.

Although His Majesty's ministers are still tough, if it weren't for the pure internal force in his body, the old minister would have become a piece of loess...... The old minister intends to recommend Prince Zhu Shikai as the commander of the Liangjiang Water Division, and he will not disappoint His Majesty's holy will. ”

Zhu Shijing listened to the old advice of the jade stairs, who was still quite tall and straight, leaning over, and hearing that he recommended his brother, and suddenly felt a little unbearable for the displeasure just now.

Then you have to say yes.

However, before he could speak, Liu Wenbo knelt down and cried:

"Your Majesty! The Taishi is old, I'm afraid he's confused, don't listen to the Taishi's words and mislead the country!

For the sake of the people, the ministers can only stick to their wills, and they must not go to war! If Your Majesty insists on obeying the words of the Grand Master, the ministers will crash to death on this great hall. ”

After that, some ministers behind him also knelt down and cried:

"Don't listen to the words of the Grand Master, Your Majesty!"

"Think twice, Your Majesty!"

Zhu Shijing, who was already lacking decisiveness, suddenly fell into a dilemma, he thought for a while and said:

"Let me think about this matter again...... Let's retreat first. ”

Zhang Hongyi hurriedly said:

"Your Majesty, there's no time to think about it, the Empire's magic guide army will soon—"

"Your Majesty has a will, retreat from the dynasty-"

Before Taishi Zhang finished speaking, the eunuch called out to retreat.

"Alas......"

Zhang Hongyi sighed helplessly, and then looked at Liu Wenbo, who was about to leave surrounded by all the ministers.

Gritted his teeth, he said hatefully:

"The dog with a broken spine is misguided by the master and the country. ”

Liu Wenbo didn't seem to hear it, and walked out of the hall with a group of civil servants proudly......