The mage in the late Qing Dynasty

Songping Kunyang said: "I'm here to negotiate."

Zhao Chuanxin took a sip from his highball glass, lit a cigarette and said, "And I'm here to drink a cocktail."

"..." Songping Kunyang frowned: "I started smoking when I was ten years old, and I haven't smoked as much as you since I was fifty."

Zhao Chuanxin flicked the cigarette ashes: "Oh, I started late, at the age of twenty-two, so I will try my best to catch up with you."

"..."

Songping Kunyang was so anxious that he forgot what he was here for.

He sat up straight, took a deep breath, and said, "Master Zhao, how can the gangster stop?"

"What did the gangsters do?"

"The gangsters went to Tokyo and blew up the Imperial Palace. The gangsters also blew up the Bank of Japan, destroying more than six million yen."

"This is unreasonable, how can it be..." Zhao Chuanxin suddenly stopped mid-sentence.

Songping Kunyang seemed to capture something in his mind, but he couldn't grasp it for a while.

"What's there?"

"How can there be such a hateful gangster? It is really unreasonable. Zhao is good at reasoning and deduction. It is almost certain that there is something wrong with this bank manager. Maybe he is a gangster. He blew up the bank for more than one million."

"Oh?" Songping Kunyang was stunned: "Why are you so decisive? Also, why do you say more than one million?"

"Uh... intuition."

"Didn't you just say that you are good at reasoning and deduction? Now you use intuition to judge?"

"I'm going to go out and pee first, and we'll talk later."

"Hey, hey, isn't there a bathroom here?"

Zhao Chuanxin went out anyway.

More than a hundred meters away from the Fuxiang Tavern, several Japanese were sneaking around and peering through telescopes.

"Come out, come out."

"Give me the telescope. I can read lips and am proficient in Chinese, Japanese and Russian languages."

They saw Zhao Chuanxin going out with a cigarette in his mouth, looking angry.

The most important thing is that Zhao Chuanxin seems to be looking at them.

"If he wants to talk, shut up."

"What did he say?"

"He said - I'll go to school at eight in the morning."

"I'm still going to fucking late at night. Do you know how to watch it?"

"No, it's—I'm going to blanch you!"

"If you scold me, I'll beat you to death!"

"Oh, it was Zhao Chuanxin who said that, not me."

Of course, Zhao Chuanxin didn't come out to pee, he just made a tactical pee escape.

After all, the Peacekeeping Service does not allow open defecation.

When he went back cursing, Songping Kunyang said seriously: "Master Zhao, why on earth did you conclude that the bank manager is a gangster?"

"I'm not a professional. But I think this kind of thing is usually caused by insiders who are highly suspected of committing crimes. They bombed the Imperial Palace to cover up others' eyes, but they actually had ulterior motives. You can check all the important employees of the bank and you should gain something. Of course, don’t blame me if you find nothing. After all, I said, I’m not a professional.”

Baga.

Songping Kunyang is so happy to scold his mother.

Fortunately, I listened carefully to your nonsense for a long time.

His nostrils flared: "Mr. Zhao, let's talk business. Tell me, how do you stop being a gangster?"

"I don't know when bank managers will stop being so unscrupulous. However, if you are willing to give me 40,000 square kilometers of land, I will help you advise the bank managers not to continue committing crimes."

"This matter is not a trivial matter and needs to be considered in the long term. I hope Mr. Zhao can convince the bank manager in advance not to take action again before we reach an agreement."

"If you give it, you will give it. If you don't give it, you won't give it. What is negotiated or not negotiated? Will it be given or not?"

"Master Zhao, please be patient. After all, the sea is frozen. The commissioner will not be able to arrive for a while. I can't make the decision."

"Oh?" Zhao Chuanxin raised his eyebrows: "You can't make the decision, right?"

"Yes, please forgive me, Mr. Zhao."

"Don't worry, I understand you."

"If there's nothing else to do, I'll leave first."

Songping Kunyang was very happy because he succeeded in delaying time.

In the evening, when Zhao Chuanxin left the Fuxiang Tavern, Baisaka Qimei said: "Sir, I asked someone to heat your room. It's very warm."

After saying that, she raised her face and waited for the compliment.

Zhao Chuanxin thought that there was no frost on the warm windows in the room, and he said dissatisfiedly: "You are the only one who is troublesome."

Shirasaka Nome: "..."

Sure enough, when Zhao Chuanxin returned, he saw that the glass of the bedroom on the third floor of the stone tower was as transparent as a water-purified air tank.

Looking outside and looking in, it is clear.

There is no longer any way to replace him with a puppet slave wandering around the window to hide from others.

Zhao Chuanxin felt hot, took off his pajamas, came to the window and looked into the distance.

In the distance, a group of people stared here with binoculars.

"It's so warm and he's only wearing underwear."

"Wait a minute, why are there four big characters embroidered on his underwear - Behemoth?"

"Baga, what evil have I done? Why do you let me see this?"

"Wait, he's talking again. Why is he talking to himself?"

"What did he say?"

"He said - the cold will make you have diarrhea!"

"No, what he said was - look at you being paralyzed...what do you mean? Paralyzed?"

"He went back and was out of sight."

Zhao Chuanxin changed his clothes, flashed out, and rode the three-generation dragon to Tokyo.

After he docked, he teleported to Matsumoto Tower on Eye 25, and then went to Asakusa.

The winter nights here are brightly lit, and there are monkey charmers, cheap photographers, street performers, jugglers, sumo wrestlers, clay figures and lollipop vendors everywhere.

There are many foreigners with blond hair and blue eyes wandering on the streets, and everything they see is strange.

Here, the brothel is not called a brothel, but is disguised by the name "Archery Hall".

But Zhao Chuanxin knew what this place was about as soon as he saw the smug Japanese girls who were wearing makeup, holding long pipes in their mouths, and taking small steps.

"Sir, come in."

Zhao Chuanxin frowned: "Go in?"

"..."

Don't tell me, don't tell me, there are a lot of gadgets that Zhao Chuanxin is interested in here.

Such as prints, such as dolls.

You have to be convinced that Xiaoguizi makes things very delicately. After all, it is small in size and every resource must be cherished, so it strives for excellence.

Zhao Chuanxin saw the early work of printmaking artist Yoshi Tsukioka - "Lamp Ghost".

In Japanese legend, a lamp ghost is a lonely ghost who cannot be reincarnated because he was too attached to someone during his lifetime.

In the print, a hateful-looking lamp ghost holds a lantern with a name written on it, waiting for something on the dark road.

There was a hint of sadness in the horror, and he really had a hand.

Zhao Chuanxin became interested as soon as he saw it and asked, "How much is it?"

"Sir, it's ten yuan."

Zhao Chuanxin stood with his hands behind his back: "If I say that I want to take this print and go to the Spiritualist Society to set off fireworks to pray for blessings later, will you give me a cheaper price?"

The Tokyo Spiritualist Club is the predecessor of the Yasukuni Shrine.

"Ah..." The vendor hesitated: "Okay, nine yuan, no more."

Passing by a British Japanese soldier, Zhao Chuanxin struck out as fast as lightning, pinched his sword with his sword, took out his wallet, took out nine yen yen and handed it to the hawker.

The vendor saw it so clearly that he couldn't help but be confused.

Good guy, you stole so blatantly and then used the stolen money to shop?

His face became serious, so serious that he reached out fiercely... and took the money.

"Sir, the print is yours."

Immediately afterwards, Zhao Chuanxin used the money in the British devil's wallet to buy three sets of clay dolls.

These dolls all look like foreigners and are painted.

In Tokyo, when it comes to foreign faces, they must have blue eyes, red hair, big noses, etc. They look ugly, but they are also interesting and cute.

After doing this, Zhao Chuanxin went to the ninth section of Chiyoda District and plundered all the closed grocery stores owned by Mitsui.

Then it took off, floated above the Tokyo Spiritualist Club, and dropped the first XY10 type firework of the day.

boom……

Extraordinarily brilliant.

The second XY10 type firework today was placed in a grocery store.

boom……

A vendor selling prints was stunned when he saw the brilliant firelight of the Tokyo Spiritualist Club: "The blessing that that gentleman is praying for must be very great..."

…

Zhao Chuanxuan sent Quite Shalan.

The morning in Qutsaalan was a bit cold.

He sat down on a lounge chair outside the White House Tavern, tightened his collar, took out the "Code of the Old Gods" and inserted it into it.

According to the bibliography required by Xingyue, Zhao Chuanxin transferred books from the Pioneer Partner Haven.

Before exiting the state, Zhao Chuanxin casually flipped through the Fearless Pioneer Diary.

[I used underground passages to secretly transport several residents of Rune City who were dissatisfied with the new emperor to the Vanguard Partner Haven. 】

Zhao Chuanxin said: Boring.

[This matter was discovered by the new emperor, who sent troops to surround the sweat-sored den. 】

Zhao Chuanxin: Wipe?

[I walked out of the building and was watched by the eyes of the devil. Many Rune City sand soldiers were infected with the devil virus. 】

Zhao Chuanxin: Oh.

[I spent all my savings to integrate the sand bandits and resist the tyranny of the new emperor. 】

Zhao Chuanxin: Wang Defa...

After closing the "Old God Codex", Zhao Chuanxin could not calm down for a long time.

While he was plundering the Japanese bank, the Fearless Vanguard wasted all the money he had worked so hard to earn from selling Hairencao.

Zhao Chuanxin slapped his thigh directly: "I seem to be in conflict with the emperor!"

Nicholas II, William II, Guangxu, old emperor, new emperor.

Fortunately, he had previously transferred the bulk of the money and used it in Lubinfu Bank. It was all his hard-earned money.

When Agure Ida woke up, Zhao Chuanxin told him: "There is a batch of goods in the warehouse. You can open a grocery store in the town. There is also a set of clay figures. Please help me pass it on to Juvencio Toric. That It's my gift to him."

They are all Japanese.

"Don John Constantine, are you leaving in a hurry again?"

"Yes, I will stay here permanently when the time is right."

“When is the right time?”

"When Emiliano Zapata attacks the Mexican court."

What Zhao Chuanxin was waiting for was actually the Mexican Revolution.

He knew little about it and could only take one step at a time.

On the second day after returning to Sakhalin, when Zhao Chuanxin got up and went to the Fuxiang Tavern, he found more beggars on the streets.

The exiled prisoner whose hand he had broken off saw Zhao Chuanxin, holding up his splinted hand and showing a toothy smile: "Sir, my bones have been reattached by the doctor."

Zhao Chuanxin didn't even look at him: "Calm down, this is not a medical miracle."

Exiled prisoner: "..."

Zhao Chuanxin sighed to Nomi Shirasaka: "I gradually fell in love with Sakhalin."

"Why, my lord? Is it because you feel happy to see the free people of the Peacekeeping Bureau living and working in peace and contentment?"

"That's not the case. I just think Sakhalin is more of a fool."

"..."

…

The project that has brought the most traffic to Zhao Chuanxin recently is not "Gangster Fireworks".

But "Sakhalin Journey".

Because many people are skeptical about the gangster fireworks case, after all, the victim insisted that he was not killed by the murderer!

How powerful is a great movie at this point?

In 1903, American director Edwin Bout filmed "The Great Train Robbery."

The film is based on the social news of a mail truck being robbed. It tells the story of a group of bandits who robbed a mail truck and were eventually hunted down by the police.

The movie adopts split shot method, with 14 shots showing 14 scenes, with an average length of 14 meters per shot.

Switching back and forth between the two perspectives of police pursuit and robber escape, forming time and space jumps and transitions, creatively developing the ellipse of the film's narrative and the unique coherence of its time and space structure.

This film set the tone for the Western genre.

For the next decade, the film dominated the silver screen and brought popularity to nickelodeon theaters.

Do you dare to think that a movie will last ten years and remain popular?

However, when "Sakhalin's Journey" came out, filmmakers all over the world went crazy.

For various reasons, the movie is only played in cinemas owned by Zhao Chuanxin.

But I can’t help but tell overseas filmmakers the content, narrative structure and lens language of the film.

French newspapers called Zhao Chuanxin the "father of film language."

Because "Sakhalin Journey" actually has more than 500 shots.

It’s incredible now.

How many scenes are there in "The Great Train Robbery"?

The newspaper said: In the hands of Zhao Chuanxin, the basic unit of film language is not the scene, but the shot. He has almost established the rhetoric of film language. This film controls the audience's field of vision, frequently changes scenes without restrictions, and abandons the drama method that insists on the unity of time, place, and action. According to the needs of narrative and performance, Zhao Chuanxin carefully composed the pictures, edited organically, and freely controlled space and time. Editing is no longer a simple splicing of scenes, but a complex method of creating atmosphere and mobilizing the audience's emotions. When the protagonist is riding a horse and running wildly, there are three shots, the front left, the rear left, and the most outrageous thing is that there is a follow-up shot from above. This is puzzling. How did Zhao Chuanxin do it? Isn't he a warrior? In the cinema, the audience can see the actors' frowns and smiles through the big screen. Zhao Chuanxin highlights the actors' expressions through close-ups and close-ups. This is simply amazing...

At this time, French films occupy a pivotal position in the world's film industry. Currently, their influence exceeds that of the United States.

The French filmmakers' popularity directly brought Zhao Chuanxin to the altar of the film industry.

France strongly demands the release of "The Journey to Sakhalin".

If this film can be released in nickelodeon theaters in the United States at this time, Zhao Chuanxin can make a lot of money.

But there's a problem.

At this time, the American Film Patent Company was in a monopoly.

This year, Edison led seven film producers in the United States, including Edison, Biograph, Vitalgraph, Selig, Essenai, Rubin, and Carlisle parent company, and then joined forces in Foreign companies with branches in the United States, such as France's EMI and Mérieux, joined forces to form a film patent company.

Abbreviation: MPPC.

This alliance company has only one goal: to curb the growing number of independent film producers and limit their development by charging royalties.

There are many rules, which are cumbersome and annoying.

First, the standard length of a film is one reel or two.

Second, theater exhibitors must use their equipment for a fee of $2 per week.

Third, the actor's name is refused to appear on the screen.

Fourth, it does not sell, but only rents videos.

Fifth, sanctions are set to threaten exhibitors. They cannot show films from non-member companies and cannot rent projection equipment from non-member companies.

Anyone who knows Edison can see that the above rules are very Edisonian.

Edison = the representative of the inventor class who ate alone.

Edison can be said to have single-handedly promoted Hollywood, because in the next few years he would force independent filmmakers to leave the East Coast and move to California for development, moving filming back and forth across the border to avoid suppression.

However, Zhao Chuanxin came out with "Sakhalin Journey", which seemed to have another choice.

Yao Jia has received many unexpected telegrams and phone calls recently.

"Hi, hello, I'm Yao Jia, the general manager of Lubin Prefecture's Bureau of Government and Goods."

"Making a movie?"

"Exhibitor?"

"What the hell? Are you asking us adults to kill Edison?"

Yao Jia couldn't laugh or cry.

What's even more outrageous is that white boxer Jeffress came to him.

It’s just that this guy spoke with an arrogant attitude: “I watched your movie, and to be honest, the leading actor boxed more like a clown. However, the skills he showed were so-so, and I’m willing to buy him for $5. Technology, let him..."

Yao Jia interrupted him directly: "Fuck you, you still have 5 dollars, you can save it to buy burning paper to pave the way for yourself in advance. You can pretend to be a rich man in front of me, Yao Shijie, you can urinate on the ground and look at it." !”

If you say $50,000, Yao Jia might be interested, but who would be interested in $5?

Jeffries was stunned by the scolding.

"Do you know who you're talking to?"

"I'll blanch your mother. My name is Yao Jia, and I'm in Lubin Mansion. Come here and stand in front of me and tell me who you are. If you can see the sun the next day, I will have your surname Jie!"

To say that Jeffress wants to buy technology, we must also talk about the opponent he is about to face - black boxing champion Johnson.

This black man defeated almost all the white boxing champions at this time.

Then he became a thorn in the flesh of white people.

Jeffries was both a white supremacist and unable to resist the high bonus of $100,000, so he decided to fight Johnson.

However, he also understood that Johnson was too strong and it would be difficult to defeat him with his methods.

Then he saw Zhao Chuanxin teaching Peter Grebin boxing skills.

He couldn't help but be moved.

Although Yao Jia was annoyed, he also saw the benefits of movies.

He had connections, resources, and was also a good businessman.

But he wanted to be like Zhao Chuanxin - silver out, US dollars in, white house back, and a tough guy who killed a lot on Wall Street.

But how can he get involved in the American movie market?

Then, he received the latest news - Japan's Tokyo Soul Society was bombed!

"I'm so angry!"

"Your Excellency is mighty!"

...

Meiji, Katsura Taro and Yamagata Aritomo were really irritated.

Meiji slammed the table and roared: "This is too much!"

Katsura Taro said: "He must be taught a lesson."

When Japan declared war on Tsarist Russia, Yamagata Aritomo disagreed.

In his view, war is purely for political purposes.

As long as political goals can be achieved, war should be avoided.

Instead, he said, "I think we should hand over South Sakhalin to Zhao Chuanxin. Apparently, our plan to delay time has failed, or he has seen through it. Can teaching him a lesson stop him from bombing us?"