Although the world map brought by Matteo Ricci is not accurate, the general pattern can still be felt by the scholars and doctors in the late Ming Dynasty.

Even the old emperor knew that the empire he ruled was not the whole of the world.

But when he received his son's letter, he couldn't help but inform the princes of the world and ask them to help him capture the fugitive named Wang Haoxian.

This is partly because of anger. The anger of the Wanli Emperor against his favorite son being used as a puppet has shaken the entire city of Beijing for a long time.

On the other hand, for an emperor, he wants his rule to extend to every corner of the known world.

But things are not as easy as he imagined, and Corning, who is tasked with the task of unifying the world, does not have any legal territory at the moment. Although his sphere of influence had expanded to the territory of Beizhili, and with the acquiescence of the old emperor, most of the original White Lotus Sect leaders were included in the Black Lotus Sect's system after Surrender.

Among them, Wang Dahua, Zhang Ting and others in Jingshi Cuihua Hutong are the most active.

As for Zhang Cha's daughter in the assault case, she has basically recovered under Kang Dafu's treatment at this time. Although she was incorrectly prescribed during her treatment, which led to inevitable sequelae, she is now able to live a normal life.

Now, she has become a member of Cuihua Hutong, and she is always paying attention to the every move of the life-saving benefactor back then.

As for her father, Zhang Cha, Kangning originally had a chance to save him. But the old emperor started too quickly, and the old emperor was not prepared to let too many people leave bad associations about this matter. He has successfully beaten the Wenchen of the prince's department, and he is not ready to continue to talk about Zhang Errand.

Therefore, Zhang Cha has been secretly executed. Corning on the go. Missed an opportunity to save him.

But the Red Seal Sect he believed in had hidden without a trace in the process of this crackdown, and it seemed that he had completely severed relations with Wang Sen's forces.

Kangning's time in King Fu's mansion was very leisurely, but it was a pity that he didn't have enough time to enjoy it.

"Are you leaving?" Zhu Changxun found Kang Ning in a daze in the garden, "Now we can be regarded as a lifelong friendship." Do you know. I thought it would be a few more years before you were qualified to be my friend. ”

Kang Ning smiled and took the tea handed over by Zhu Changxun, and said, "I really didn't expect you to pick a friend and talk so logically." I originally thought that friends were more dependent on fate. ”

Zhu Changxun himself took a sip and said, "Traversers are all lonely. So we are destined to need friends. Traversers are easy to betray. Because of the knowledge they have, everyone lives like an emperor. So I pick friends. I really can't be irrational. ”

Corning smiled, "Then I'll save trouble." ”

"I don't think so." Zhu Changxun said with a smile, "I've been here longer than you, but the status of the prince restricts my actions." And I also have a fatal flaw, which is that I am not used to the way of life here. But I don't want that old bastard Qin Ming to see it. So I've been carefully disguising myself, which makes me even more friendless. And you, in fact, need to disguise more than me. I think you may have more trouble choosing friends in the future than I am. Because your identity is more complicated than mine. ”

Kang Ning gently poured the tea in the cup, in Zhu Changxun's puzzled gaze. He said slowly: "Actually, it's not bad to have a friend who knows the roots. At least you can help me share my loneliness. Unlike those who have already left us. I can only pay tribute to them with tea instead of wine. ”

"Do you have a big loss this time?" Zhu Changxun asked out loud, only to understand that Kang Ning was not talking about people in this life, "Are you thinking of those old friends?" ”

"Hmm." Corning nodded, he knew that this old friend was talking about those old friends from the previous life, "Don't you want to?" ”

"Yes." Zhu Changxun's eyes looked into the distance in confusion. His voice became hoarse, "But I can't go back." Even if they were able to go back, they wouldn't recognize me. Who made me a soul wearer? The look is very different. ”

Corning sighed: "I'm also a soul piercing." Even if I go back, my parents won't recognize me. Moreover, I am a soul after death. Maybe the memorial service has already been held. The body has also been cremated. ”

The two fell silent. No one spoke for a long time.

It wasn't until the sun was already setting in the west that Corning said slowly, "Actually, we can go back and have a look." Do you remember all the seafood we sold? ”

"Of course I do. The behind-the-scenes boss of the Black-Cloaked Society, a guy named Huang Lin, never seemed to worry about the laws of the Dark Forest. He probably thinks his golden finger is strong enough. Even if he came to the end of the Ming Dynasty, he was not ready to hide his falls. ”

"It's not that he doesn't worry about the laws of the dark forest, it's that they can already perform light particle strikes."

Zhu Changxun swallowed his saliva before he said, "It turns out that it is already a high-end civilization than us." ”

"yes. So I'm going to go and learn from it. Corning said unhurriedly, "By the way, let's see if we can get his golden finger." Anyone who reveals his presence can be hit hard in the Dark Forest. Any traverser is a threat to other traversers. If you and I still want to bounce happily in this world, we can't let that guy stumble. ”

Zhu Changxun nodded, then slowly stood up and said, "I'm glad I didn't send you three times in a row and don't reply." ”

Kang Ning remembered the stalk in "The Three-Body Problem", when Ye Wenjie got the first message from the Three-Body World, which was three consecutive sentences "Don't answer!" ”

It was the kindest reminder of the Earth in the Dark Forest. It's just ignored by Ye Wenjie.

But something similar didn't happen in front of Kang Ning's eyes, he looked at Zhu Changxun and couldn't help laughing: "The earth and the three-body problem are now standing together." We also found singers. Whether it's Qin Ming or Huang Lin. We're all going to take on a challenge. ”

Zhu Changxun nodded and said, "Think about how powerful the singer is. A simple two-way foil turns the entire solar system into a painting. Qin Ming's treachery and Huang Lin's strength are all qualified to turn us into playthings in the painting. You and I will fight hard. ”

Corning clapped his hands and said, "I'll strike first this time." Huang Lin lives overseas. Even if something happens, it won't attract too many people's attention. After we have eaten this cake and have a certain strength, we can start to deal with the conspirators. ”

"Yes. People who don't have strength are too easy to be played to death by conspirators. ”

After the discussion was settled, Kangning left the Fuwang Mansion the next day as originally planned. Set off for Yizhou.

According to common sense, she should go to Ten'tsu, board the ship of Huanglin directly, and go to the Ryukyu Kingdom to begin his journey of fighting.

However, the Red Lotus Sect is still gradually encroaching on the land of the White Lotus Sect in Yizhou and its surrounding areas. Although Li Chunfang's defeat has been decided, he is still resisting stubbornly.

According to the latest information, he is now moving to the Tenlai area. However, in this process, Li Chunfang needs to face the interception of Qingzhou Mansion first.

On Kangning's way back to Qingzhou, Red Lotus led the assembled Red Lotus Sect army. With an absolute numerical superiority, he attacked Li Chunfang's troops north of Fulai Mountain.

However, due to the serious lack of combat skills of the Red Lotus followers, most of the new recruits were untrained peasants, so this large-scale battle evolved into a large-scale weapon fight.

Although the local government sent security forces, the number and scale of both sides were quite strong, so that the catchers had no room to play at all.

Over the next few days, both sides were in motion. The main force of Li Chunfang's department tried to escape as soon as possible. But most of the attached forces simply couldn't keep up with their movements, eventually. In addition to the main force, his subordinates were surrounded between Changshan and Ma'er Mountain near Zhucheng.

Two days later, they announced their surrender and were broken up and reorganized into the Red Lotus Cult.

And Li Chunfang led the main force to flee into the territory of Laizhou Prefecture.

According to the original history, this year's Laizhou prefect should be the key to the king. But in order to help Shi Ziming, he walked up and down. In the end, he got the official position of deputy envoy of Shandong according to the judge, so the imperial court sent Langzhong Lou Jiude of the Ministry of Industry to serve as the prefect of Laizhou in advance.

Lou Jiude has not been in office for a long time, and he does not know much about the situation in China. But one thing was clear to him. Ever since Wang Sen's rebellion plot was revealed, he had always been on guard against the secret churches in the territory, especially those members of the Luo Zu Sect who had close contacts with Wang Sen.

As a result, he was not guarded. After intensifying the surveillance, the members of the Luo Zu Sect believed that the imperial court might deal with them and Wang Sen together, so they rose up one after another.

Luo Zujiao is slightly different from Eastern Mahayana in that they have many innovative mutually beneficial and win-win models in the economy, and they do not rely purely on scriptures to fool people. Therefore, their popularity in the local area is not even comparable to Wang Sen.

As soon as they rebelled, Lou Jiude immediately mobilized troops to quell the rebellion, but the armed forces under his control were limited and were quickly repulsed. The prefect of Dengzhou, Tao Langxian, was originally ready to support one or two, but unexpectedly, the scale of the uprising in his territory was not small.

As a result, after Li Chunfang entered the territory of Laizhou, his movement speed increased rapidly. Moreover, the defection force from different directions is not small, which allows him to quickly recover.

In desperation, Lou Jiude and Tao Lang first complained to Jinan and Beijing successively. Unexpectedly, Ji Nan and the capital's replies turned out to be the same, and they both said: "Wait, wait for the Qingzhou Mansion Regiment to practice and suppress." ”

But where is the Qingzhou group training?

Tuanlian, who had originally planned to land near Gaojiagang on the north side of Qingzhou, immediately turned to Laizhou Bay after receiving the order. A few days later, it landed in the capital city of Laizhou. But they are far from the front line of the battle, and they still need to walk the entire north-south distance of the Jiaodong Peninsula.

At this time, their big boss behind the scenes had just led the cavalry into Shandong. By the time they entered the territory of Yuncheng County, half of the 1,500 war horses had already died.

Xu Hongru warmly received Kang Ning and his party within his sphere of influence, and the two sides reached an agreement. Corning will continue to supply seafood to Xu Hongru in the future. Xu Hongru no longer developed in the direction of Qing'zhou and Jinan, but wanted to expand in the areas of Chengwu County and Shanxian County in southwest Shandong, and even crossed the provincial border and infiltrated in the two directions of Guide and Xiao County.

In fact, they can also develop to Puyang and Dongming in the west, but it is closer to Shi Ziming's sphere of influence, Jinan Mansion and Dongping Mansion, so they wisely did not mention it. lest Corning think that their development plan has a clear, government-specific purpose.

But they didn't know that Kang Ning had already seen that it was impossible for Xu Hongru not to rebel. Even if he did not rebel, Emperor Wanli would explain the aftermath and let his descendants accurately force Xu Hongru to rebel in the second year of the Apocalypse.

The old emperor was still guarding Qin Ming's demagogy, and used all the skills of the traverser to renew the life of his Ming Dynasty. But in fact, even Qin Ming didn't believe in this statement. He betrayed the secrets of the Traveler to those in power, just to become the high-ranking Traveler.

A traverser who doesn't want to start with his own hands is not a good traverser. Qin Ming, a traverser who is parasitic on the Yellow Spring, will sooner or later become the object of spurning by all the traverser class.

It's just a matter of time.

After resting for a few days, Kangning crossed the Grand Canal and continued to Qingzhou Mansion. As soon as he entered the territory of Qingzhou Mansion, he received a message that made him frightened.

A young man named Che Yongzhang, with a dozen of his brothers, shot hundreds of rebels with his homemade crossbows.

The matter had already attracted the attention of the prefect Tao Langxian. He sent a henchman named Tong Bunian to Fushan County and passed on the pattern of the self-made bow and crossbow of the car inspection.

When Corning saw the pattern, it was when he was most frightened.

"Pulley Bow!"

Although Mozi had already explained the effect of pulleys in his writings, Confucianism has been restricting the world's thinking for a long time, and not too many people have realized the importance of this thing.

But Corning knew that the most popular assassination weapon of the twenty-first century was the off-center crossbow, which was based on a pulley bow and equipped with an upper sight and had a range of up to two kilometers.

At the same time, a similar device can be separated from the bow and crossbow and used to wind a strong crossbow. This small piece of equipment, based on the principle of movable pulleys, could be transformed into a foot-operated winding machine, when the time came, even children as young as seven or eight years old could wind heavy crossbows.

This is the real weapon of militarism.

Kang Ning never believed that there were immortals in Penglai Pavilion in Dengzhou Mansion, but he was willing to treat this person as an immortal.

A person with extremely strong hands-on ability, no, a time-traveler with extremely strong hands-on ability, is worthy of this title.

Because most of the traversers have poor hands-on ability. That man is the god of mortals.

Kang Ning suddenly remembered the conversation with Zhu Changxun.

It seems that it is time for him to choose his friends rationally. (To be continued.) )