Great Jin Kingdom, Wuji Valley, outside the Immortal Gate.
Emperor Daoguang's fat figure is riding on a horse. He is wearing a large armor with a yellow background and nine dragon patterns embroidered with black thread. He also has a gun helmet on his head. He looks majestic, but Somewhat outdated.
Thousands of soldiers with two yellow flags who were as outdated as him, all wearing ancestral cotton armor and antique gun helmets, lined up behind them, just waiting quietly. There are also a group of officials wearing flower feathers and standing neatly around Daoguang.
At first glance, the Jin Kingdom, which has been in Central Asia for more than a hundred years, is not only poor, but also looks quite outdated and superstitious... Just look at the costumes of their so-called "Great Jin Heavenly Soldiers" I know how outdated they are!
This is simply an ancient army that traveled through the time tunnel from more than a hundred years ago! Although the breech-loading rifles they carry on their shoulders, the breech-loading mountain guns and water-cooled machine guns placed on both sides are no worse than similar equipment used by the British Army. But this kind of military thinking is already outdated, too outdated!
It was already the 1830s, and the Ming Dynasty and Europe were already making rapid progress on the road to the second industrial revolution, and armored warships were already crossing the oceans. However, there is still a "immortal civilization" in Wuji Valley. People dressed as Taoists and nuns are everywhere. They don't believe in science and just know how to do divination when something happens. He looks completely uncivilized...
In the past few decades, British adventurers from India have entered the Wuji Valley from time to time. After their inspections, the reports they wrote to the Governor-General of the East India Company showed that the country of Dajin was ignorant, backward and vulnerable. It was recommended to send an expeditionary force to enter and force it to Accept the protection of the British Empire.
However, due to the joint guarantee of the security of the Jin Dynasty by the two great powers, the Ming Dynasty and the Rakshasa Dynasty, the British Indian authorities were greedy but not courageous. Moreover, the Jin Kingdom did not seem to have much oil and water, and it would only have strategic value after being captured. There is no financial benefit.
Therefore, the British-Indian authorities and the British Colonial Affairs Office spent a long time trying to figure out the abacus (a technology as advanced as the abacus, of course the British would copy it), but in the end they still refused to engage in this loss-making business.
And Britain's abandonment is not a good thing for the Kingdom of Jin... This shows that even the British robbers despise this bad land of the Kingdom of Jin!
This is like a robber coming to someone's house. Looking at the house with bare walls, looking at the dilapidated house, and seeing that several people in the house are naked, he is about to become extremely vicious. In the end, he can only sigh in sympathy and leave empty-handed. And go...can this be considered a good thing?
In the eyes of Emperor Daoguang, the "Fortune Teller Emperor" of the Kingdom of Jin, this is a trap, and he will be poor for four generations!
To solve this trap, according to the photo books, it is to trap the dragon to ascend to heaven, but the way Zhuge Weidao gave him to break the situation is to trap the dragon to beg for food... one ascends to heaven, and the other begs for food, it doesn't work!
Thinking of this, Emperor Daoguang sighed and asked He Shen, the first physiognomist of Dajin beside him: "He Shen, I have been reading the photo books left by Nalan Mingzhu these days, and found that to break the dragon trap, you have to use The trapped dragon ascends to heaven...what do you think?"
He Shenxin said: "You are the trapped dragon. Isn't ascending to heaven just... to raise your braids? The purpose of the trapped dragon ascending to heaven game is to trap you until your braids are curled up! You won't be sleepy once your braids are curled up. Xianfeng will be the one to trap you." ..."
Of course, He Shen didn't dare to say this. If he did, he would start to lose his hair!
While He Zhongtang was trying hard to make up lies and "deceive the emperor", Yu Hui, the ambassador of the Ming Dynasty who was very close to Daoguang and He Shen, suddenly shouted: "Here they come! Lin Zhongtang and the others are coming!"
coming?
Emperor Daoguang quickly took out a telescope and looked forward, but there was nothing! Not to mention people and horses, there is not even the sand and dust raised by hundreds or thousands of horses running on the grassland!
"Where is it?" Daoguang asked, "Ambassador Yu, you didn't get the date wrong, right? On what date did Lin Zhongtang arrive in Yili?"
"I arrived the day before yesterday," Yu Hui replied with a smile.
"What?" Daoguang was really dumbfounded when he heard this, "It's two thousand miles from Yili to here, and it can be reached in two days? Lin Zhongtang can't come even if he expresses eight hundred miles!"
This is what the Kingdom of Jin relies on!
When an ordinary army reaches the front line, it takes fifty miles in one day, and it takes at least forty days to cover two thousand miles. And when the old soldiers of the enemy division were tired and walked outside Xianmen Pass, the Dajin soldiers were already ready and ready to work.
Therefore, the two thousand miles from Yili to Xianmenguan are not even on a flat road, and there is no need to think about railways. Therefore, it was impossible for Lin Zexu to cover these two thousand miles in two days!
Thinking of this, Emperor Daoguang said to Heshen with a bit of complaint: "Heshen, why don't you ask more clearly?"
He Shen quickly explained: "Your Majesty, I had to report a month ago that a Ming Dynasty envoy consisting of more than a thousand people entered the border checkpoint and came to Xianmen under the escort of the border guard. The day is almost here. ... Yesterday at noon, it was reported that we were a hundred miles away. If we hurry up, we will almost arrive today."
Daoguang looked back at Yu Hui and found that Yu Hui was looking at the sky with binoculars. However, before Daoguang could ask questions, Yu Hui explained with a smile: "Those are the people from the Army Advisory Group. They left early." It will probably arrive tomorrow. Those arriving today are people from Lin Zhongtang and the Navy. They arrived a month late, but they have arrived now!"
"Are you here?" Daoguang was stunned, "Where are you?"
Yu Hui smiled and pointed to the sky: "The navy is not at sea, but in the sky!"
"in the sky?"
Emperor Daoguang and He Shen were both stunned. Then they both raised their telescopes and looked in the direction of Yu Hui's finger. They were both shocked.
In the sky, there were ten huge oval objects floating impressively. Driven by the propellers rotating on both sides below the oval objects, they were slowly flying towards his head!
"Is this... an airship? I didn't expect Lin Zhongtang to fly here in an airship." This Daoguang was quite knowledgeable, and he could tell at a glance that those floating in the sky were all airships.
"Dragon! Dragon!"
He Shen suddenly started shouting at this time.
Daoguang said smoothly: "Where are the dragons? Just a few airships."
He Shen shouted: "Your Majesty, the big guy on the airship has a dragon painted on it... Your Majesty, this is a sign that the trapped dragon will ascend to heaven!"
Daoguang was inspired, and he quickly picked up the telescope and took a closer look, and then he saw a flying blue dragon painted on the outer shell of the leading airship in the sky.
"The trapped dragon ascends to heaven, this is the trapped dragon ascending to heaven!" Daoguang, who has believed in fortune telling all his life, was excited. This time he finally believed that his poor life was about to be changed, and he actually started crying with joy.
At the same time, in the cabin of the "trapped dragon ascending to the sky" airship, Zhuge Weidao stood beside Lin Zexu with a smile, raised his hand and pointed at the Eight Banners soldiers below and said: "Lin Zhongtang, don't be fooled by these Eight Banners veterans. They were deceived by their rustic clothes, these Eight Banners soldiers are all strong and strong, and no one smokes heavy cigarettes."
Lin Zexu was stunned for a moment: "Big smoke? It doesn't sound like a good thing..." He paused, "Daozi, will you really strengthen Emperor Daoguang's determination to go south by causing the trapped dragon to ascend to the sky?"
"Of course!" Zhuge Weidao said with a smile, "Zhongtang, this is not only the trapping of the dragon to ascend to the sky, but also Daoguang's success and encouragement to Daoguang. Now that he has an airship that can travel thousands of miles, his Wuji Valley is no longer safe. !”
