Volume 2 Jin County Chapter 26 The Foreigner's Affair (3)

"These foreigners are people who ask questions in universities, they can break feng shui, and they are the most famous 'feng shui' masters in the West." Zhang Yingquan laboriously explained.

"But he killed the creatures at the head of the village!"

"Go to the wolf's den and look for it, are there any cubs? …… Let's take a look! Zhang Yingquan himself is a mountain man, he knows that the wolves on the ground are all female wolves, wolves are different from humans, female wolves are a family that sits on the ground, has a fixed nest, and male wolves are married families, belonging to the category of living without a fixed place. Generally, the female wolf has cubs, the little wolf is big, and then the second litter, the wolf is very fecund, the female wolf in the prime of life is almost uninterrupted, where there is a wolf den, almost all year round, you can see the little wolf cubs.

Found a hole in the depths of the barren stone slope, the hole is small, not attracting attention, people can not enter, pry open the big stone, there is grass wool, the wolf nest is inside, sure enough, there are several half-sized wolf cubs, waiting to be fed, about to starve to death, this wolf is extremely anti-hunger, ten days and a half months without eating is fine, but the little wolf is not good, the village people are busy taking the little cub home to find food for it.

Found the little wolf cub, the village people are quiet, after the spiritual things are there, the patron saint of our village is still there, the head of the Jiang family also put a pillar of incense on this, praying to the gods, in the minds of the mountain people, the gods and ghosts, always in the first place, can only beg the heavens, the ancestors bless, non-brute force can do, a pillar of incense is lit, the old and young people are suddenly surprised, other things! Slave.

Or is this an unreasonable polytheistic country?! The mountain has a mountain god, the water has a dragon king, the land has a land father-in-law, the wolf has a wolf god, the snake has a snake demon, and every grass and tree has a spirit monster.

Man, mortal in the flesh, is the darling of the gods, sharing weal and woe.

What is God? In the eyes of the Eastern philosophers, it is the power of nature, which exists in all things in the world.

In the West, people from the monotheistic kingdom can't figure out the way if they want to break their heads, they also pet animals, animals survive because of people's favor, they teach barbarians, and they keep claiming to be 'humane'! The kind of 'humanity' that is extremely selfish, strange? This will be recompensed in the East! The people of the mountains believe in the way of Shinto, transcending all things, and anyone who breaks the way of natural coexistence is disrespectful, even if it is a human being, it must be a capital crime!

Two years ago, Jiangjia Village was one of the best villages in the mountains, so where is it? First of all, it produces rice, the village has 100 acres of fertile land, people call the hegemony land, that is, the flat land between the two mountains, there are mountain streams as the water source, the ancestors worked hard, carefully served into paddy fields, the mountain soil is fertile, the rice yield is higher than outside the mountain, this rice taste is extremely fragrant, it is called mountain rice fragrant rice, and the general people outside the mountain have no chance to enjoy.

Mountains and rivers have limitations, can not be expanded, can not move, paddy fields are so big, it is impossible to expand, this is already in the mountains, the grace of God, rare, open up the wasteland? OK! Highlands and hillside lands can only be dry lands that look up to the sky.

Jiangjia Village is all related by kinship, and an ancestor worships a stove of incense. In the early years, the ancestors made a rule, the 100 acres of land are not separated, forever owned by the same people, average labor, collective farming, the harvest after the autumn is distributed according to work, about the reclamation of other hillside land, their own efforts, the villagers have never had an opinion, a family, peaceful, satisfied.

Two years ago, when I walked the mountain (earthquake), the damage was not large, and the shaking was not terrible, and some people said that there was an extra crack in the slope of the rock wall on the mountain, which could reach into the arm, and that was it. But the mountain stream flow suddenly a lot smaller, slowly actually cut off, there is no water, the mountain stream has dried up for a whole year, this paddy field has also become a dry field, the old farmer has a saying: water to drought, must beg for food. Not to mention, it was predicted that this paddy field would be abandoned as soon as the years went on, and if you wanted to eat the previous mountain rice, you would have to work hard.

The breaking of the mountain stream is a major event, and the haze that lingers in the hearts of all people is related to the survival ...... hundreds of families.

Hopeful? Mr. Zhang lit a flame of hope for them.

In the past two years, Jiang Cun has invited Mr. Feng Shui, in the mountains, outside the mountains, monks, and laymen, let's put it this way! Within a radius of 100 miles, as long as you can invite the feng shui gentleman who can move, you have invited all over the place, Gao Xiang burned a few large baskets, if you talk about money, it will be even more sad, every family apportionment, the bottom of the cabinet is already clean. I have tried all kinds of tricks, and the door of the patriarch's house has changed in two directions, and it is completely in vain.

Today is different, foreigners break feng shui, can it work? Otherwise, what to do, wait for death? The chief soldier said that they are all famous 'feng shui masters' in the West, and they can't really do it if they can't carry it?!

Don't say it, there are really real 'Mr. Feng Shui' in this prospecting team, but it is just a 'Mr. Feng Shui' based on scientific knowledge.

There are two geologists in the prospecting team, a lady who is a hydrologist, and experts and scholars in mineralogy and physics. Prospecting team! Strange without these professionals?

Zhang Yingquan told the foreign devils about this matter, and they all agreed to try, and escaping with his life was more important than anything else. Zhang Yingquan asked everyone to take back their things, and before they left the cottage, hundreds of people knelt down in front of them, and they were the representatives of all households in Jiang Village, one was to ask for guilt, and the other was to ask Lord Yang to save the ...... of Jiangjia Village.

An incredible country, an incredible group of people.

The water of this stream does not come from the mountain catchment, and there is only one possibility of breaking the flow, and the underground river is blocked. At present, there is only one way to deal with it, bury explosives near the blockage point, carry out explosions, and shake and dredge, this selection of explosion points is a professional job, mortals don't know anything, and they must be foreign 'feng shui masters'.

Put the incense burner, pay homage to the sky, a group of foreigners are dizzy, after watching the 'performance', go up the mountain, collect feng shui.

Along the dry source up, there is a mountain fault, this fault layer has a new imprint of the mountain, Ms. Yang is worthy of being an expert, at a glance it is estimated that eight or nine is not far from ten, this is common sense for them, she asked the general soldier to come to a lot of explosives, along the direction of the section, select five positions, respectively, bury explosives, one cannon to try, each cannon interval of one day, observe the source of movement, after the third cannon is fired, not long after the source begins to moisten, the sound of gurgling water at night, people are excited to sleep.

Early in the morning, the prospecting team came to the head of the village, only to see that the villagers had gathered at the edge of the stream, and the stream was rushing down, smiling faces, tears, and hopes, intertwined, and Jiangjia Village was boiling for the first time in two years.

The villagers stopped Ms. Yang, knelt down, and said, "Guanyin Bodhisattva descends to earth!" ”

"Tom! Tong! Tong! Kowtowed, the interpreter explained what Guanyin Bodhisattva was, and the foreign lady burst into tears with excitement, obviously she understood the meaning of the mountain people, and she touched the most simple group of people in the world.

The prospecting team went to the barren stone slope to visit a few wolf cubs before leaving Jiangjia Village, which is the most vivid and terrifying memory of their lives.

The simplicity and ignorance of the mountain people are a true portrayal of this mountain......

Hang they did not stay long in the mountains, it is said that the western part of the mountain is also affected by the war, bandits are everywhere, the whole territory of Jiangxi has no place to stay, can only sigh, the time to come to the Qing country is not right, the prospecting team has no choice but to return the original way, by boat left, I heard that it is to go to the north by way, Zhang Yingquan did not go to send, after the bit sent away Hauge, and came to the general army.

"Lord Commander, what Hague asked me to pass on to you when he left."

A long cloth bag, open to see, two guns, are the world's best two representative rifles: one is, Dresser M1841 rear-loading smoothbore rifle; The other is a Française-Mine-loading rifled rifle. It's so precious!

"Hague said that he likes the barracks of adults, is optimistic about the soldiers led by adults, likes the mountains, and loves the mountain town even more, and will definitely come again!"

Zhang Yingquan continued to be busy with his telegraph, now the only trouble is that the wire, this wire is made of a copper wire and a steel wire, the copper wire has good conductivity, and the steel wire has high strength, John proposed, first set up the line between Shanzhen and Jinxian, the distance is short, the iron core wire should be no problem, the current technology of the Shanzhen Iron Factory, pulling the wire is not a problem. It is the insulating cladding of the wire, winding is a little troublesome, first manually wrap the wire, and then consider the use of the machine, if this is successful, it is the first in the Qing Dynasty, and it sounds exciting.

John and Han Tianfu were busy directing the erection of the line, from the mountain town to the mountain pass, buried along the side of the fast lane, the elevated line into the city is a bit troublesome, I am afraid that the strength of the iron core line is not enough, John's method is a bit stupid, one is not enough for two, first pave it and then say, what he pursues is a sense of achievement.

Zhang Yingquan focused on the preparation of the code, the so-called Mo period code, in his understanding, is the standard requirements of the tick sound, as well as the permutation and combination of the corresponding numbers, English only 26 letters, good arrangement, can be translated literally, Chinese can not be like this, can only send and receive numbers, and then according to the secret bottom of the "password" or the clear bottom of the "clear code" of the page, line, row corresponding to the word, this clear bottom choose to use the Kangxi dictionary, the secret bottom, temporarily specified.

The newspaper operator first cultivated the little girl, she is literate, has learned Arabic numerals, and is also dexterous, the key is loyalty, her own big girl! It's not a burden to use, the mountain town is handed over to her, and there is a cloud cover, rest assured. Jin County is also easy to do, let Zhan Erlian get started first, slowly train people, and then hand over the construction of the telegraph network and personnel management to him, this machine has to be responsible, his own family, it is very suitable.

The newspaper coach can only be himself, in fact, he has not operated, only the principle, the knowledge of later generations, enough to explain all this, he belongs to the kind of people who can't chant the scriptures and can preach the scriptures.

It was lively for more than a month, all completed, and the simulation training was also satisfied, John rushed back to the mountain town with the equipment and Xiaoya, and made an appointment at noon tomorrow, when the sun was overhead, the first test signal was carried out, and the mountain town called.

When noon came, the eldest girl entered the cave room, and it was really the first .......

"Tick tick ............." The electronic sound was clear, not in a hurry, and after a while of translation, Zhan Erlian excitedly reported to the chief soldier.

"The message said: Congratulations to the chief soldier, I am very happy, and the mother and daughter are safe!"

"Huh?" I have been so busy in the past two days that I forgot about it: "Call back, this official will rush back to the mountain town!" ”