"Hou Hongwen, what about you?" Li Chao asked, "Are you willing to join my command?" ”

"I do."

Hou Hongwen nodded busily, his expression solemn, as if he was solemnly swearing.

"Fang Zhengyang, what about you?"

"I do."

"Liu Qingwen."

"I do."

……

Li Chao ordered all the way down, and the captured soldiers came down all the way, all of them surrendered, and they all had no integrity, but in fact, it was not that they had no integrity, but that they were shocked.

Blooming flowers, palaces in the sea of clouds, this is a fairy-like means, and Huaxia, up to the emperor, down to the commoners, has always been in awe of the gods and eager to become one of them, the ancient emperors built a stargazing platform, eager to get in close contact with the gods, ordinary people burn incense to worship the Buddha, sincerely praise, and even the saints are worshiping ghosts and gods and staying away.

The Yellow Turban Rebellion at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the White Lotus Sect of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, which did not bewitch countless people to rebel in the name of religion, and now Li Chao is not the deception of the Yellow Turban and White Lotus, he is a genuine 'immortal law'.

"Okay, you are worthy of our Han family, and being able to stand up against the rule of the Manchu wild boar is not an insult to the blood flowing in your body." Li Chao said: "But you are all newly surrendered soldiers, there will be a period of observation, and after we confirm your loyalty, we will treat you as our own people and let you lead the troops to fight the Tartars." ”

"Yes." General Zhou nodded, expressing his understanding, throughout the ages, there has been no soldier who can be reused just after surrendering, if there is, it must be that the other party has a great reputation or knows it very well.

"Come on, help the soldiers unlock it, and then settle down, don't slack off."

In the next half month, Li Chao sent people to attack in four directions, each leading the army, with the most sophisticated weapons, like a sharp knife to tear through the defenses of Guangdong Province, and then quickly spread around, invading the surrounding area in the blink of an eye.

If you make a holographic map of Guangdong Province that changes in real time, then you can see four red pillars extending from the city of Guangzhou, and they divide the map into four parts, and then keep infiltrating the surrounding area, trying to dye the whole province of Guangdong in their own color.

When the map turns red, it means that Guangdong Province is under the control of the New Chinese Empire.

But this is also a matter of time, the Manchu court and the New Chinese Empire in terms of weapons and equipment is not at the same level, the confrontation between horse long knives and musket cannons, that is, in the early stage of the development of musket cannons can achieve a certain degree of victory, but with the development of musket cannons faster and faster, the range is getting farther and farther, the rate of fire is getting faster and faster, the carrying is more and more convenient, and the power is getting bigger and bigger, and the horse long knife can no longer have a way to gain an advantage in the battle against musket cannons, and what can be obtained is only disadvantage, And this disadvantage is getting bigger and bigger with the innovation of musket cannons, and in the modern earth, horses and knives are completely eliminated by musket cannons, even if it is the so-called advantage of the sea of people, under the impact of musket cannons, it is becoming more and more weak, especially the birth of nuclear bombs, which announced the arrival of the era of science and technology.

After the red pillar completely stained the entire map of Guangdong Province red, he immediately ordered Xie Li to make a copy of the industrial base in Qiongzhou in Guangdong Province.

The pillar of the new Chinese empire was industry, an industry formed by the integration of countless machinery and highly developed technology, and Li Chao won the support of the people by plundering wealth by industry, developing armaments by industry, and improving people's lives by industry.

What the people of this era want is very simple, just a stable environment of food, clothing, and stability, and when someone fulfills their wishes, they will loyally maintain Li Chao's rule.

However, before the people can enjoy this kind of life, they will first prevent the arrival of new things because of old ideas, such as the villagers in some villages in Foshan who refuse to pass through them by railroad on the grounds that it will destroy their feng shui luck.

No matter what the people of the newly established Ministry of Railways explained, those villagers just refused to let the railway pass them, and they even arrested the people who the Ministry of Railways had tried to persuade them, locked them in the ancestral hall, and made them kowtow to their ancestors and apologize.

In the end, Xie Li of the Ministry of Railways, who had no choice, could only personally invite Li Chao to Foshan to show the means of immortals.

"Break the ...... superstition with superstition." Xie Li sat in the bumpy car, opposite Li Chao, "I always feel weird, as if I am spreading feudal superstition." ”

"How can the existence of immortals be feudal superstition?" Li Chao sat firmly on this bumpy car, this bumpy car is not the first car in the world of "Pirates of the Caribbean", but it is the second car based on the first car, if you look at it from the perspective of people on modern earth, this car is not only ugly in appearance, slow in speed, but also spews black smoke when it is opened, like a black ghost, in fact, it is an unburned compound.

"If immortals really exist, how can science deny their existence?" Li Chao smiled faintly, "The end of science is God, although it is a bit irresponsible to push all the unknown to God, but this sentence also explains that science cannot explain everything, and there are many unknown things in science besides science." ”

"If one day, science discovers them, what science will do is not to exclude them, but to incorporate them into science and enrich science's understanding of the universe."

Li Chao knows magic and finds out where the force of the universe is located, and he wants the force of science and technology to support him to become a god, how can he be ignorant of science.

If the unknown is compared to darkness, then science is the light that pierces the darkness, and the more prosperous science is, the more knowledge it accumulates, and the deeper its understanding of the universe, the more darkness the light of science illuminates, and vice versa.

As for materialist atheism, it is just a theory, and it has no necessary relationship with science, he can pinch it up and use it casually, but he will not really regard it as a program of his own actions, to put it mildly, the so-called materialist atheism is just a piece of paper used to wipe the buttocks, and he will throw it away after wiping it.

So he promoted atheism in the world of "Original Fairy Tale: Sleeping Beauty", targeted to cultivate materialist warriors, but spread feudal superstition in the world of "Pirates of the Caribbean", this is not to say that he is a supporter of a certain theory, but he needs this theory to achieve his own goals, if he must say his faith, then his belief is technology, he is a member of the Cult of Science and Technology, and he will soon hold high the throne and become the god of the Cult of Science and Technology.