The heavily guarded Nanyuan Palace always reminds people of legends such as the sound of candle shadows and axes.

Finally, we talked about the Tomb Beast.

"If you have a secret weapon, won't the foreigners have it? Our corruption is not a weapon, but here! Wang Shizhen pointed to his heart, "Back then, President Yuan Da had unlimited rights, not an emperor, but an emperor." He actually braved the disapproval of the world, except for the villains and ministers around him, isn't it the emperor's dream in his heart? surnamed Yuan's family in the world, Duan Qirui, Feng Guozhang and other Beiyang bigwigs, there is no chance to go up, so they also secretly demolish the wall. ”

"What about the revolutionary party in the South?"

"When Song Jiaoren was assassinated, the real culprit behind the scenes was unknown, and they raised the flag to rebel first. Now, what kind of military government is Sun Wen engaged in to protect the law, colluding with the warlords of the Gui and Yunnan factions, and borrowing money from the Japanese to lose his sincerity, he is simply a scum who splits China and lures wolves into the house! ”

Wang Shizhen's evaluation of the revolutionary party is diametrically opposed to what Qin Beiyang heard in Shanghai.

"Qin Beiyang, are you willing to stay in the army and serve my Beiyang direct line?"

"In the army?"

"Okay!" Qi Yuanshan patted him on the shoulder, "Like me, wouldn't it be majestic and happy to lead the troops on horseback and fight in all directions?" ”

Qin Beiyang remembered the occupation of his ancestors for generations, and the coffin of the little prince of the Tang Dynasty who came to Beijing to find this time, shook his head categorically: "Your Excellency, the villain is a craftsman by nature, and he has no intention of wearing a military uniform, and he has no talent for fighting. Only when I was young and ignorant, I thought about becoming a naval officer. ”

"Haha! Navy? You are not from Fujian, so save this heart! ”

Wang Shizhen means that the navy of the Republic of China is mainly Fujian, inherited from the Fujian Shipbuilding School in the late Qing Dynasty, and the senior positions are almost monopolized by the Fujianese. The successive naval chiefs of the Beiyang government, such as Liu Guanxiong and Sa Zhenbing, were almost all from Fuzhou.

"Sa Zhenbing? Isn't it one of the last survivors of the Beiyang Naval Division. ”

Qin Beiyang wanted to play Tai Chi to get by. When he saw that his father was forced to go to the battlefield and that the tomb beast had become a murder weapon, he was extremely disgusted with the Anhui line, the direct line, and the Feng line.

The dignified Prime Minister and Chief of the Army, who has been patient with the nobody: "Tell me the answer - stay or go?" ”

Qi Yuanshan tugged at Qin Beiyang's sleeve: "Say it quickly!" ”

"Let's go."

Wang Shizhen raised his pistol and aimed it at Qin Beiyang's eyebrows.

The bullet was hidden in the chamber of the gun, five centimeters away from Qin Beiyang's skull.

Qi Yuanshan saw that it was not good, and immediately knelt down and begged for mercy: "Uncle, my brother has an upright temperament and offends many words, please bear with me!" For the sake of his great achievements in the Battle of Wusong, I beg to spare his life! ”

"Stay or go?"

Qin Beiyang looked at the muzzle of the gun and the "Dragon of the Beiyang" fearlessly, and calmly replied with one word: "Go." ”

"Qin Beiyang, you are the chief mechanic of the Nanyuan Arsenal, the son of Qin Customs, a former Qing imperial craftsman. I reuse you, because my father has been used by Xiao Xu of the Anhui lineage, and the tiger father has no dogs, so you should be used by our direct line. ”

"Your Excellency, the villain will not let the Tomb Beast fight for the warlords."

Wang Shizhen's muzzle shook twice, Qi Yuanshan closed his eyes, and waited for the gunshots to sound and blood splattered five steps......

"I'm not a warlord. Soldiers win with courage and resourcefulness, and do not rely on demons, and I don't want to use your tomb beast as a weapon. Everyone has their own ambitions, and I, Wang Shizhen, will never be strong, so let's go. ”

The muzzle of the old hero "Beiyang Dragon" fell, Qin Beiyang knelt down on one knee to thank him, turned around and ran out of the gloomy Tuanhe Palace, and the German-made telescope was left alone on the table.

Walking on a snowy night in the wilderness of Nanyuan, thinking of being held to the head by the muzzle of a gun just now, Qin Beiyang had palpitations. On second thought, a traditional soldier like Wang Shizhen is destined to be eliminated in the era of airplanes, tanks and submarines.

"Beiyang!"

Qi Yuanshan's shout came from behind him, and he chased him out of the Nanyuan Palace, quite like Xiao He Yuexia chasing Han Xin.

Qin Beiyang turned around and smiled slightly, helped his panting brother and said, "Yuanshan, you go back, I'm fine." ”

"You! I really don't know what to say about you! ”

"Are you afraid that Lord Wang Shizhen will shoot me with one shot?"

"How is it not possible? In today's dog-world, human life is not as good as mustard! An officer can shoot a soldier at will, an overseer can be a street man, let alone the Prime Minister and Chief of the Army? If you want to kill someone, you don't even need to move your fingers, you roll your eyes, and your own subordinates will do it for him. ”

"Yuanshan, it's not the first day you know me. I'm the kind of person who walks all the way to the dark and doesn't hit the south wall and doesn't look back! ”

"Did Anna tell you that you are extremely talented, but your social intelligence is simply imbecile!"

Qin Beiyang replied timidly: "Well, she said it, and Inspector Ye also told me." ”

"Westerners say that intelligence is to use the brain, and to interact with people is also to use the brain."

"Isn't it the same thing?"

Qi Yuanshan was so anxious that he was incoherent: "Hey! This uses the brain not the other with the brain! ”

"I understand, I just don't understand the world, and I don't understand the complexity of people's hearts."

"Beiyang, your mind is too simple. Even if you are talented, you will suffer outside! You're a big fool in this regard! I don't know how to compromise and bow my head, I don't know how to be duplicitous, I don't know how to protect myself, I always go straight, and I hurt myself and others. ”

"Did I hurt you?"

Qin Beiyang's words changed, making the atmosphere of this conversation more and more embarrassing.

"I'm sorry, I ...... I'm just worried about you. The moonlight of Bai Huahua shone on the snow of Bai Huahua, and Qi Yuanshan hooked his shoulder from behind, "Beiyang, I advise you to go back." In this troubled era where the barrel of the gun has the final say, let's be comrades in the army together, just like Liu Guanzhang, fight the world together, sit on the country together, what kind of little craftsman are you going to do? ”

"What's wrong with craftsmen?"

"Those who work hard govern people, and those who work hard govern people - this is the wise saying of our ancestors!"

"Yes, everyone wants to be a person who governs people, but they don't want to be a person who governs people, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, it is better." Qin Beiyang kicked the snowball, "Everyone has their own ambitions, don't force them!" Far away, you will still be a good brother in the future! ”

Qi Yuanshan grabbed a ball of snow and smashed it on Qin Beiyang's back: "It's time for your temper to change!" What a bull! ”

"I'd rather be a grave beast!"

The boy's voice drifted far away in the snowy night of Nanyuan.

At dawn the next day, Qin Beiyang walked out of the big red gate of the Nanyuan base, took off his Beiyang military uniform, carried the Tang knife given by his father, and hugged Qi Yuanshan goodbye. Jiuse followed at the feet of the master, a man and a dog, walking on the white land, silent, towards the Beijing city wall crawling in the winter of North China......

Qin Beiyang went to find the boy who died 1,200 years ago.

Detective Ye Kenan told him that the coffin of the little prince of the Tang Dynasty in Bailu had been sold by the Shaanxi warlords to one of the top antique dealers in the capital, Longxi Hall in Desheng Gate.