Chapter 041: The undercurrent is surging
Xu Feng hurriedly pulled the big man up, and the big man said, "The little one is called Liu Dazhuang!" It's the people of Liujia Village outside the city, and the people in the village are looking forward to it early and late, and finally the gods are here! Grandpa Tenjin, you must go to our village and sit down. β
Xu Feng glanced back at Xiao Taohong, she was looking at Xu Feng with silky eyes, and said, "Brother, you can go, I'll go back first." He turned around and left.
Liu Dazhuang hurriedly shouted: "Sister, let's go together." But little RosΓ© walked away as if she hadn't heard.
Xu Feng couldn't bear Liu Dazhuang's kind invitation, so he had to follow him, Liu Dazhuang was very excited, pulled Xu Feng, three miles of the road, walked in ten minutes, walked far away to the entrance of the village, he shouted, the village is not big, a spread of ten to a hundred, after a while the whole village came out, the stars surrounded Xu Feng like the moon.
This Liu Dazhuang seems to be popular in the village, and his prestige is quite high, after he said, the whole village believes that Xu Feng is a god descending from heaven, in the blink of an eye, the village kills chickens and sheep, and a flowing water mat is placed in the open space in the center of the village, and Xu Feng is naturally pressed on the upper seat.
The custom of Chinese villages, the head of a village is responsible for the elderly and virtuous, this village is no exception, an old man picked up a wine bowl, walked to the center of the crowd, the crowd suddenly quieted, the old man's voice is like a bell, said: "God opened his eyes today!" Sent the gods to us! Since the ** son (the name of the Russians) came, it stopped raining, and the livestock stopped laying cubs, today, we will do it with the ** son! β
After speaking, with a wave of his big hand, he slammed the porcelain bowl on the ground, and with a loud sound, four or five young students stood up on each table, smashed the bowl on the ground, and said, "Yes!" the a**! βγ
The old man said, "Descendants, let's eat and drink first!" Let's do it together tonight and kill those ** people in one go! β
Everyone threw off their cheeks and started eating, Xu Feng was stunned, and as soon as the old man sat down, he hurriedly asked: "Village chief, who are the ** people you want to kill?" β
The old man said, "It's some monsters with crosses, who are drawing people to believe in their ways all day long!" β
Xu Feng thought for a while, and knew that the ** son he said should be a Russian missionary, Xu Feng was shocked, he knew that the Boxer Rebellion in the history of Lu Dao was caused by the lesson plan, and it seems that the history is strikingly similar.
Xu Feng asked, "How many of them are there?" β
The old man said: "They built a church at the Jingling Mountain Pass, and there were many people and a lot of guns. β
Xu Feng thought to himself: "I don't know why this Jingling Mountain has such a strange name. Xu Feng wanted to ask, but he didn't ask, after all, there was something more important to ask, he asked, "How are you going to deal with the fast gun?" β
The old man laughed and said, "You give us some mana, where can those fast guns kill us!" β
Xu Feng thought to himself that he could never fight the Russians, he was not afraid of the Russians, he was unwilling to watch these simple and kind Chinese send them to death!
So he pretended to smile mysteriously: "Village Chief, when I left Heavenly Court, the Jade Emperor personally said to me, now, is not the time to move those **." β
The old man was taken aback and asked, "Then the Jade Emperor didn't say when he would be able to get rid of the ** son?" β
Xu Feng smiled: "Well, the secret of heaven must not be revealed." β
The old man smiled and said, "Okay, let's listen to the god master, and then find a ** son to settle the account!" β
What Xu Feng didn't know was that the legend of the god sitting on the flying jade unicorn, holding the Qiankun bow in his hand, shaking the sky, and helping the Qing Kingdom to fight small Japan, was spreading rapidly in Shandong, Zhili, and Mukden, although in the legends of various places, the mount weapons of the heavenly gods were different, but these legends undoubtedly greatly inspired those Chinese who had the most simple patriotic feelings, and the fuse of the eight-nation alliance to invade China, the Boxer Rebellion, was already on the line.
And the Japanese are sneering at this turbulent land, waiting to reap the benefits!
Hirobumi Ito sat on a ship bound for England, sitting quietly at his table, holding an open copy of Adam? Smith's "The Wealth of Nations", his eyes were fixed on the page, but he didn't read a word of what was written on it, he was thinking about how to strangle Lin Yuan's power.
It has been Ito's habit for many years to use a book to inspire thinking, and his thoughts are like the sea outside the porthole, endless, and finally, his thoughts become clear little by little, "Go to the army to fight a certain one, and then to fight a certain fight." A smile slowly appeared on his grim face, "Lin Yuan, Great Qing Kingdom, let you die without a place to be buried." β
The ship docked at the British port, and the British Foreign Secretary Kimbery greeted him at the port, and this time Ito Hirobumi visited the United Kingdom in a private capacity, so he did not arrange the reception according to the high etiquette between countries, which also gave Ito Hirobumi a lot of freedom.
Kimbery took him to the British Prime Minister's office, where the Prime Minister, Earl Rosebury, received Ito Hirobumi, and the two exchanged gifts. β
In the center of the painting is a young man with wings, holding a sharp sword, pointing to his right, on which is a Buddha statue riding a huge fire dragon; To his left, a group of gods watching, and in the margins below the painting is written in German: All the peoples of Europe unite to defend your homeland and faith! Embedded in the frame is a piece of paper with the name of the painting written on it: TheYellowPeril (literally translated as "**")
Ito Hirobumi said with a smile: "This young man is the archangel Michael, the bravest warrior of God, the god on his left is the protector of European countries, this Buddha statue should refer to our Japan, and this giant dragon should refer to China, right?" β
Roseberry frowned, and thought, "I just told the attendant yesterday, and Ito Hirobumi is coming today, so I must put this painting away, why didn't anyone accept it?" β
Roseberry smiled and said, "How can Mr. Ito understand that?" β
Hirobumi Ito laughed and said, "Don't be mistaken, Mr. Roseberry, there is a mistake in the painting I am talking about, which means: This Buddha statue has been trampled under the feet of a dragon, does Mr. Roseberry understand what I mean?" β
Rosebury didn't quite understand this oriental metaphor, he didn't speak, and Ito laughed, "Mr. Roseberry might as well take a look at this picture." As he spoke, he took out a photo, which was the photo of the Beijing ship, and the one Ito Youheng looked at during their discussion.
Ito Hirobumi said with a smile: "The battleship in the photo will have a displacement of more than 80,000 tons, I wonder if the British Empire is capable of building such a ship?" β
Although Roseberry was not from the navy, he also understood what it meant to have a displacement of more than 80,000 tons, and the British Empire could not build such a large ship! Whether or not such a large ship can be built is not only a matter related to the navy and shipbuilding industry, but also a matter of a country's comprehensive national strength.
The reason why the British Empire was able to dominate the world was because of the cutting-edge technology that led the world, but now this technical advantage will soon be gone, Rosebury couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, he said: "Where did this photo come from?" β
"This photograph was taken during our war with the Qing state, which had secretly developed such an advanced weapon," Ito said. β
Roseberry looked at the ** picture, he is a collector, this painting was originally commissioned by the German Emperor Wilhelm II to the court painter to paint, he finally got the copy through various channels, but what he didn't expect was that the dragon in the painting had spewed flames, and the whole of Europe, this land under the protection of Jehovah, was about to fall into the hands of the infidels!
Roseberry smiled indifferently and said, "It's time for us to join forces with the Great Japanese Empire!" β