A "snap." ”

The silence in the southwestern part of Jinling District was shattered by gunfire, and the explosions that followed woke up the people of Jingrun and its surrounding residential areas.

However, as soon as many households on the street stuck out their heads, they were 'pushed' back by the military police on the side. I don't know when, both sides of the street were already full of armed military police, and some military policemen were squatting at the feet of black-backed and yellow-bellied military dogs with their tongues sticking out.

Gunfire continued.

Jinling District is located in the southwest of Nanjing, not too far from the Imperial Palace, but not very close. Chen Ming was still immersed in his sleep, only Chen Ding was waiting for the result he was looking forward to.

Li Hao even came to the scene in person - Jingrun Community.

When he entered the community, it was not obvious, but after entering the villa area from the residential building area, Li Hao was now full of military police with guns.

As the queen's nephew and the prince's cousin, Li Hao is now the vice chairman of the Senior Affairs Yuan, although this is not an official, but it is much more comfortable than the average third or fourth official. Even those who are in the third rank of the key departments dare not say that they have more influence than the vice chairman of the senior council.

Li Hao insisted on stepping forward and glanced at it, and saw two or three villas around the north, and the soldiers were either hiding behind the wall or prostrate on the roof, which was to see the entire villa area as tight. The doors of the other houses in the villa area were all closed, and from time to time groups of soldiers with guns came forward, knocked on the doors one by one, and searched the houses, and the owners of the houses also honestly cooperated with the actions of the soldiers.

Although the enemy was identified in a few villas to the north, there was no guarantee that no one else would be hiding outside.

The gunfire in the north was dense and never stopped. Li Hao is also a soldier, and he can hear that the gunshots are all from the hands of the surrounding military police, and the purpose is not to hurt people, but to suppress the opponent. The guns fired by those surrounded by the enemy were very rare.

Jingrun Community is a well-known high-end community in Jinling District, which is not only well greened, but also has mountains, rockeries, and water, and the distance between buildings is quite considerable, especially in the villa area.

The three villas are in a trapezoidal shape, and the south entrance is relatively empty, with at least fifty meters of grass and flower beds. Of course, the soldiers confronting the villa were not alone in the open field, but erected the first line of defense with riot shields, followed by things like sofas and wooden quilts, which could not be penetrated by guns. In some places, sandbags were erected and covered with water-splashed quilts, and the lethality of the guns was close to none.

However, the three villas are not generally sturdy, because they are typical Gothic buildings, and the main body of the building is not wood at all, but reinforced concrete. There are only three such Gothic villas in the entire Jingrun community, and now they are all in the hands of bandits. Even the designers and real estate companies in this Jingrun community have now been arrested by the police. Because the police suspect that these are all related.

The Gothic building is very sturdy, with a brick outer layer and a water of reinforced concrete inside, almost like three small pillboxes. And there are enough windows in the house, and each window is not big. The one who shone in the window of the house was the enemy gunner. Forget about fighting back normally, the most important thing is that the enemy has a sharpshooter.

Li Hao is also a soldier for more than ten years, he really doesn't have that military talent, and he retired from the army at the age of 35 and entered the Advisory Bureau. However, no matter how talented Li Hao is, he is also a person who has been on the battlefield, so he looks at the 'battlefield' almost when he shows his face.

"The enemy now has a total of five long spears and several short guns, and whether there are any other weapons has not yet been discovered. But the enemies here are definitely not all they have. ”

Such a cunning bandit would not put all his eggs in one basket.

Liu Chengshan's secretary carefully reported to Li Hao that Li Hao could not stay on the front line. Because the total of the military police is about to begin. At this juncture, Liu Chengshan is no longer on the front line, but Liu Chengshan is not in the mood to talk to Li Hao at this time.

At this time, Li Hao suddenly saw the secretary's eyes looking behind him, Li Hao looked back, but saw a group of soldiers dragging a 60-caliber hexagonal cannon out of the stone road behind a villa.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

Liu Chengshan was not polite at all, although he also wanted to solve the opponent easily, if there was too much trouble at this time, the Chen Han government's face would not look good. However, the marksmanship of the enemy gunners was very accurate, and none of the military and police who attacked before were careless, and were ambushed by the enemy, and two were killed and wounded on the spot. So, don't worry about face, clean up early.

A hexagonal cannonball came out of the chamber with a whistling sound, and accurately hit the gate of the villa in the middle, and exploded with a bang, and the cannonball easily blasted the gate open a large hole, and then another cannonball passed, or the villa in the middle, hit the window, and the house was in a mess.

The military police in the capital pulled more than just a cannon.

When the dust in the villa fell silent, Liu Chengshan could see through the open windows and doors through the telescope the current situation in the villa, and the shells smashed a big hole in the wall inside.

The battle was over before half an hour.

A total of five criminals were killed and six arrested in the three villas. Seven long guns, including two sniper rifles, 20 short guns, more than 500 bullets of all sizes, 20 improvised grenades, and 5 explosives packs were seized. In addition, there are more than 30 gunpowder, saltpeter, sulfur, and willow wood in batches.

Liu Chengshan and Li Hao sweated down after seeing the statistics, so many guys, how much trouble could they make if they really had a seizure. The whole empire will be disgraced, the old emperor will be angry, and the new emperor will be even worse.

But this is not the time for Liu Chengshan to be angry, he still needs to interrogate the arrested people as soon as possible, get confessions from them, and arrest the remaining criminals of the Yu Party.

Even Chen Ming, who was after dawn, was startled when he received the news. If dozens of grenades and gunpowder packets exploded in the crowd, he himself was shocked to think about how bad the impact could be.

"Let the Foreign Office immediately meet with the British and raise serious questions about them."

"But ......, father, can't the man who was killed prove that he was an Englishman? And even if it is British, the British government has no close connection......" Although Chen Ding's face was still very angry, Chen Ming's words obviously made it difficult for him to do it. There is no evidence that the British government was involved.

"Did I say there was a British government involved? Don't think about any evidence in this matter, just say that you think it is not proven, do the British have any suspicions? "This is, of course, doubtful. And as long as there is doubt, isn't it over? "As long as there is suspicion, you will go up, and you will only say it verbally, and it will not fall into the literal Shanghai, do you need to mind anything?"

Chen Ming looked at his eldest son, and felt a little regretful in his heart, this son was raised by him too well-behaved, and he was too gentle. But in today's world, such an emperor is more in line with China's interests, right?

As a traverser, Chen Ming has changed the whole world, and has also distorted the trajectory of the long river of history, and he can't say whether the heir he chooses is the most suitable, only time and history can judge this.

Chen Ming has a task today, and after breakfast, he needs to try it on.

Yes, the emperor's crown dress is not the same as the emperor's crown dress. Although there are no specific regulations in this regard in the Tang and Song dynasties in history, the results of some scholars' research are more the same. But this rule has been changed here in Chen Ming, because if the Chen Han Dynasty can be passed on in the future, the emperor may still arrange one or two.

In Chen Ming's 'rules', the crown of the emperor is equivalent to the emperor's in terms of specifications, the twelve crowns and twelve chapters will not become the thirteen crowns and thirteen chapters, and the emperor's dress is only a minutiae, and the main body will not move.

For example, the color of the previous crown dress, which is no different from black, can be turned into pure black, the top and bottom, and the bottom can be changed from red to yellow and purple, and the knee cover in front does not need to be changed, it is still red.

Chen Ming will not have many opportunities to wear a crown dress in the future, but no matter how few it is, this expensive crown dress still has to be done.

To be honest, Chen Ming's clothes are not much, he has been the emperor for forty-one years, plus the previous crown prince, there are less than twenty pieces of crown clothes from the beginning, plus the gowns, a total of only fifty or sixty pieces. The annual regular uniform, plus the military uniform, will not exceed twenty pieces a year. But the value of these twenty regular garments together may not be comparable to that of a crown garment.

Chen Ming didn't have no money in his hand, and he wasn't a stingy 'Daoguang' emperor, but he really felt sorry for the money.

How much effort does it take to wear a tiara?

The Manchu dragon robe to compare, the latter one by one goose yellow satin, fine embroidered colorful clouds, all-ocean gold dragon robe, need to use 680 embroiderers, 285 embroidery foreign goldwork, 26 painters. The total amount of silver for each dragon robe is 392 taels and 2 coins and 1 cent and 9 cents.

Chen Han's crown robe is very different from the dragon robe of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but the cost is not inferior. Moreover, the Manchu Qing Dynasty's good thing that 400 taels of silver could make a dragon robe has long been found in the Chen Han Dynasty, and that crown robe is a matter of tens of thousands of Chinese yuan, which really makes Chen Ming feel unnecessary.

But when he stood in front of the mirror in the crown dress of the emperor, at this moment, Chen Ming really couldn't say what he felt.

Nostalgia for power, right? This is nothing.

The world is no longer challenging for him, the whole of America is destined to become the land of the Chinese, and half of Africa is firmly in China's hands. That Abyssinia, like the British in India, is the turtle in the urn of China, and sooner or later it will be stewed into a pot of nourishing Wang Ba soup by China.

And in terms of this technology, no matter how far away it is, Chen Ming is really beyond the reach of the whip.

Unless Chen Mingneng invented the telegraph now, China's dominance would come to an end when it touched the Caspian Sea.

Further to the west, after the Heavenly World felt the threat and joined forces with the Westerners, Chen Ming was also confident that he would win the final victory. But how much practical significance does such a victory have?

Chen Ming didn't have millions, tens of millions of landless and destitute people to immigrate.

And what about the local natives?

Eviction?

Where to expell?

Then the whole world will be Chinese.

And to commit genocide, that is not possible.

Should the Mongols and Kazakhs, or the Persians, who had taken refuge in Chenhan, be allowed to go? Is the land they have laid, or does it belong to China? The land is not Chinese, what is the taste of this battle, and what is the meaning?

Chen Ming thought very clearly, in a short period of time, in the days before the next scientific and technological revolution, China has grown to the extreme, and what China needs next is to work hard to improve its internal strength. As in the previous 40 years, the blood of China was spread to every inch of the American continent. Make the rich America richer and stronger.

Let China thoroughly digest the delicious delicacy of the Americas, and then subtly annex India, even if it continues to keep Bengal to India.

For the Europeans who could not occupy the land even after fighting, what Chen Han needed was not to destroy them, but to make them obediently submit.

This is the task of the ongoing war.

Compared with the bugs in South America that have lost their frontal resistance and can only rely on space to exchange time, the lighthouse countries in North America are also overwhelmed. This time, the main battlefield of the East-West War was in Russia, and it was always in Russia.

Here, the strength of both sides has grown from 200,000 troops to a million-strong army today.

This is the gladiatorial arena that maintains the fate of both sides, and only one can live out of the life and death ring.

For the battle here, Chen Ming has absolute self-confidence. Because his empire has an inexhaustible potential for war, which the Europeans can never match.

Chen Ming's confidence in victory is not his own golden finger, he can achieve the current threat in this life, the power of this golden finger is not impossible, but it is by no means vital and indispensable.

The insight of the traverser is more important than the golden finger.

Therefore, Chen Ming's confidence in victory has never been his 'ability', but Chen Han's incomparable national strength in time and space, which is what he relies on.

So when the bell of victory finally rings, what will Chen Ming get?

He will get the surrender of the European world, which has suffered a lot of losses, and he will get the submission of all of Europe.

At that time, he will really become the king of the whole world, the captain of this planet.

In such a war whose outcome has been determined early, will Chen Ming still be obsessed with giving orders to it?

Power is really not very attractive to Chen Ming now. He was not Qin Shi Huang, and he never thought of immortality. Chen Ming's brain is very clear, so the authority of the challenging world is really not attractive to him.

In his bones, Chen Ming is an angry young man.

His desire for power is to change the tragic fate of China in modern history, to strangle the lighthouse country in infancy, and to slap Europa in the face......

And now, all this, he has done.