Chapter Twenty-Eight: Danger is Exhausting
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On the Yangtze River, thousands of boats compete for the stream.
The morning mist had just cleared, and it was time for the ship's passengers to have breakfast.
However, there was a passenger ship, no one went to eat, and they were all staring at a teenager at the bow of the boat.
In one of his hands, he held three hard-boiled eggs.
It is not uncommon to hold three eggs in your hand, but what is strange is that these three eggs are stacked one by one, and they are stacked together, and they are always stable on the undulating river boat.
After a while, the young man holding a stack of eggs noticed that more and more people were gathering around him, and he couldn't help but smile, "Aren't you going to have breakfast yet?"
As he spoke, he lifted the butter cake in his left hand and ate it slowly.
The onlookers realized that they were hungry and went back to the cabin to eat.
The boy who holds the egg is none other than Ji Aojian.
He boarded the passenger ship to Suzhou yesterday. I woke up this morning and bought a few eggs and a pancake from the boatman, and suddenly my mind moved, so I went to the bow of the boat and folded the eggs.
For today's Ji Aojian, if he doesn't practice some kung fu every day, he feels like he is missing something. It's just that the blue sky above the boat looks too stupid, so he holds the eggs up and doesn't fall down, and hones the subtle strength control skills, which can be regarded as a way to practice God.
After breakfast, people gathered around to see Ji Aojian's eggs. After a long time, one of the guests asked, "Little brother, why don't you have the eggs in your hand yet?"
Ji Ao kendao, "I can still support it for a while, uncle, what's wrong with you?"
The guest sighed, "I'm tired of looking." β
Everyone agreed, always feeling that this stack of eggs was going to fall, but it never fell, and they couldn't stand it all the time.
Another kind-looking old man said to Ji Ao, "Little brother, you practice acrobatics, right?"
Ji Aojian nodded.
The old man said, "Our boat is going to Suzhou, where it is a good place to sell tricks, and your unique skill must be very popular." β
Ji Ao Jian said, "Old man Xie Jiyan." β
The old man added, "But you have to remember that all performances must be ordered to the end, so as to make the audience most interested." If you persist in practicing for such a long time, you can't delay it like this when you perform, otherwise everyone will get tired of watching it, and no one will be willing to reward you. β
Ji Aojian thought about it, and said with admiration, "Your old man's words really make sense." β
Another guest asked curiously, "Little brother, what is the name of your ability to build eggs?"
Ji Aojian thought for a while, and an idiom flashed in his mind, "This kung fu is called dangerous." In fact, stacking three eggs is nothing, and the ancients could build many more eggs than that. β
During the Spring and Autumn Period, in order to enjoy himself, Jin Linggong wanted to build a nine-story building, which was not completed for three years, making the people miserable. Minister Xun Xi thought of a plan, and first used twelve chess pieces to build together in front of Jin Linggong, and then laid nine eggs on top. The entourage on the left and right was so nervous that they didn't dare to take a breath, and Jin Linggong couldn't breathe, and said, "It's so dangerous! Jin Linggong asked what was more dangerous, Xun Xi said: "King, you build a nine-story platform, three years will not work, men do not plow, women do not weave, the treasury is empty, once the foreign enemy invades, the country is in danger, isn't it more dangerous?"
After this allusion was said, everyone looked at each other, remembering that the twelve chess pieces and nine eggs were piled up in a high pile, and it was even more difficult to breathe.
Ji Aojian had other thoughts in his heart, that Lord Xun Xi, the soft energy is used so exquisitely, maybe he is a martial arts master, right?
But I saw a big man with a meaty face suddenly snorted heavily, "Isn't it just a kung fu that sells tricks with one hand, and it is so mysterious that even the ancients of the Spring and Autumn Period have to move out and put gold on their faces." β
Ji Aojian looked at him, and saw that this person had strong muscles and bones, strong qi and blood, and he also looked like he had practiced kung fu. However, this person's momentum is not restrained, the sense of power is too full, obviously on the control of subtle strength, there is no strength, will he disdain himself.
The big man was glanced at by Ji Aojian, and suddenly felt a tingling pain in his eyebrows, and he was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth.
It turns out that when the eyebrows are hidden and the front is strong, the gaze that can compete with the sharp edge of the blade is naturally as sharp as the edge, and the eyes can stab the opponent to the center of the eyebrows.
Ji Aojian lowered his eyelids, "This kung fu is really nothing, it's just a mouthful of food." β
The big man wanted to taunt a few more words, but remembering his sharp eyes just now, his heart sudden, and he secretly thought: This kid's gaze is like being able to kill, so it's better to be careful and don't conflict with him again.
At this time, someone said, "Gusu has arrived." β
Ji Aojian looked sideways at the outside of the ship, and sure enough, the boats on the river were dense, and all kinds of merchant ships and passenger ships entered the port like fish, converging into a busy port scene.
When Suzhou became the world's factory in the Great Heavenly Empire, it was the largest port on inland waterways, and even if it was ranked together with seaports, it could enter the top 10.
As he was admiring the group of ships in front of him, suddenly a huge black shadow shrouded him, and the passenger ship under his feet swirled, as if it was about to be sucked by a powerful whirlpool. The ship's owner hurriedly hit the rudder again and again to stabilize the hull.
The black shadow covering the passenger ship was the shadow cast by a huge battleship, and the tall side of the ship was arranged with a full three layers of guns, and the dense muzzles of the guns moved with the hull of the ship, and the black hole was aimed at the passenger ship and moved by, shaking the side silently.
The huge hull of the ship interfered with the current of the channel, causing countless small boats to sway along the way.
Ji Aojian froze. ThisγIsn't this the sail battleship often seen in movies and television related to the Opium War?
One after another black and heavy muzzles moved past him, Ji Aojian felt as if there was tens of millions of pounds of pressure on his heart, his heart shook violently, and he spat out a mouthful of blood, and the eggs in his hands could no longer be held, and all fell to the ship's board.
The people on the passenger ship were alarmed and hurriedly shouted, "Little brother, little brother, what's wrong with you?"
The old man hurriedly shook his hand and said, "His mind is shocked, don't come around and disturb him." β
He sat down with Ji Aojian and sighed, "Young man, you haven't seen that foreigner's warship, but you were frightened for a while. β
Ji Ao Kenshin said, how could I not have seen a sail battleship, I have seen it a lot in movies and television.
Even if I hadn't seen the real thing, I am afraid that not all the people on the ship had seen foreign warships, so why was I the only one vomiting blood?
He thought about it for a while, and suddenly realized that it was precisely because he had a strong mind and was extremely sensitive to danger that he felt the greatest pressure.
As a traverser, Ji Aojian knows the power of the cannon very well, and the sense of oppression on him from the muzzle of the cannon is stronger than that of the hidden front in the center of the eyebrows, just now under the muzzle of dozens of cannons, it is dozens of times the pressure, and no matter how strong the mind is, it can't withstand it.
The use of this mind should be the same as the exertion, and it should be able to be retracted and released freely. If you blindly raise your mind to sense danger, you may magnify the pressure beyond your limit. No wonder Xiao Su said that Zhou Tian's spiritual sense could only be used until the ninth turn of qi and blood.
Ji Aojian took a few deep breaths, relaxed his attention on the battleship, and asked, "How did this foreigner's warship sail into the Yangtze River?"
Xin said that the imperial court had lost the battle and ceded the right of passage of warships in Neijiang to the foreign powers?
The old man sighed, "In the past, foreigners still did business along the coast below Fujian and Taiwan. Last time, the warships of the Dragon Soul Gang were almost completely wiped out by the foreigners, and their merchant warships sailed all the way to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and also broke into the Yangtze River. β
Dragon Soul Gang, isn't that the fleet of the sixth sister? The sixth sister can't pull away now, is she busy with the aftermath?
Ji Ao Kendao, "Doesn't the imperial court have anything to deal with?"
"What can the imperial court do?" a young scholar on the ship shook his head and said, "The Zheng family's fleet, although it drove away the red-haired devils who occupied Taiwan two hundred years ago, but in the past two hundred years, there has not been much progress in the warships built. The warships of the English Kingdom are almost all a ship with 100 guns now, and with the current sailors of the imperial court, it is in vain. β
Ji Aojian was silent in his heart, judging from the style of this sail battleship, the West has rumbled into the orbit of the industrial revolution, and the gap between China and the West has been completely widened. In a few decades, Europe will usher in the era of ironclad ships, and its combat power will be beyond China's reach.
He looked at the few eggs he had dropped on the board, and his mood was very gloomy, the country was so in danger that he was really in danger.
The young scholar sighed, "Now it can be said that it is a great change unseen in three thousand years, and my Huaxia has reached the point of life and death. β
Ji Ao Kendao, "Is there any way Brother Tai?"
The young scholar grabbed his turban and said very distressedly, "There is such a huge difference between our country and the Westerners, the classics of the past dynasties are useless, the sages' speeches are useless, and the prospects are not good." β
Originally, when China was in the crisis of partition among the great powers, especially after the First Sino-Japanese Naval War and the Gengzi Incident, the scholar class and the Chinese people were generally disappointed and abandoned Confucianism, and went to study and introduce all kinds of new ideas and theories from the West.
Now, the young scholar in front of him has begun to realize the uselessness of reflecting on Confucianism, but he has not yet taken a step to find a new path.
Ji Aojian's determination and love for martial arts in the past half a year suddenly swayed.
No matter how high your martial arts are, you are afraid of kitchen knives, let alone guns?
The young scholar suddenly said, "Extraordinary situation, maybe extraordinary people have to be born to break the situation." β
Ji Aojian was stunned, are you waiting for the savior to appear?
So who will be the savior of this world?
As a crosser, he seems to be the best candidate, otherwise why would he have crossed over?
So how can I be a savior, in the context of this era, the most conventional route seems to be to go to the science and technology tree, enrich the country to train troops, and sweep away foreign criminals?
However, it seems that the idea of a novelist that the technology tree alone can save the country. The Westernists poured the power of the imperial court and worked hard for 30 years, but they were still wiped out in the First Sino-Japanese Naval War. Crossing the crowd and taking a group of people to climb the technology tree, what is the difference between it and the Westernization movement.
For modern history, Ji Aojian has always believed that the most important thing is the change of thought. However, the introduction and popularization of new ideas will not happen in a day.
Don't think about it so much. Ji Aojian sighed, there is still a younger sister at home waiting for the nine turns of qi and blood to save her life, and she has to cultivate to a first-class master no matter what.
The big man with a full face was impatient, and reprimanded, "You young boys only know how to shake your head and sigh, and don't care about the foreigner's ship. β
This person belongs to the type of person who is not angry or dissatisfied with anything he sees, and he picked up a few eggs that Ji Ao's sword fell on the ground, and smashed them out.
The sail battleship had sailed more than ten feet away, but the big man was so big that he smashed the egg into the stern.
The young scholar's face changed, and he said angrily, "You man, are you going to kill a boatload of people?
The big man panicked, "They can't be so cruel, right?"
Ji Ao's sword ears are extremely good, and he heard someone on the stern deck of the battleship in the distance, and someone seemed to curse. He got up and looked, and saw a tall blonde officer at the stern of the warship, condescendingly, pulling out a huge bow almost as high as him, and then a long arrow flew off the string and rushed towards this side.
It's not a cannon, it's not a gun, it's a bow and arrow with a cold weapon?
But this long arrow was as fast as a meteor, and its strength was amazing, and it made a whining sound in the air that broke through the air, and it fell towards the big man with a whistling sound. Although this big man has great strength, his body is very clumsy, and he is about to be hit by an arrow in the chest.
A hand reached over and grabbed the shaft of the arrow, the body of the arrow still trembled, and the bright arrow was only less than three inches away from the big man's body.
The big man broke out in a cold sweat and hurriedly said, "Little brother, thank you for saving your life." β
The person who rescued him was naturally Ji Aojian, who had practiced the hidden edge of his eyebrows.
After he grabbed the shaft of the arrow, his face turned a little pale, and his palms were almost numb because of the force on the arrow.
The old man exclaimed, "How can this foreigner's bow and arrow be so powerful? β
Ji Aojian had already recognized it and said, "This is the English longbow." β
The English longbow required a man over six feet tall, and he had been trained rigorously since childhood to pull such a strong bow. History books say that firearms put an end to the era of knights in full armor, but in fact, the English longbow has long turned the heavy cavalry into a sieve, which is far more powerful than the early muskets.
It is precisely because of the amazing damage and speed that even after entering the age of firearms, the longbow is difficult to be eliminated in the army. When it was finally eliminated, it was defeated only by the cheap cost and ease of training of the musket, not because it was not powerful enough.
The officer just now only shè an arrow, but in fact, the average longbowman shè shè 12 arrows a minute, and the speed of breech rifles in the future is only half of this number. And a good longbowman can even produce fifteen or even twenty long arrows in a minute.
Ji Aojian asked himself, if within fifty steps, the longbowman could continue to shè arrows at the fastest speed, and he would not be confident that he would be able to catch it.
It turns out that in the era of the Industrial Revolution, do Westerners still practice ancient martial arts?
He looked at the three-story artillery battleship in the distance, holding the long arrow in his palm, and his somewhat shaky heart of martial arts training was firmly re-established.
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