The mage in the late Qing Dynasty

The two brothers bickered and walked out.

Yao Bing hesitated for three seconds: "Brother, let's go to the venue first. Anyway, it won't close until midnight. Let's go around and come back to watch the movie again."

Benjamin Goldberg had this idea.

It's not just the movies that attract people to the Nanyang Industrial Exposition.

The two spent twenty copper coins to take a small train for a round and take a rough look.

After returning, they went to visit the special halls that interested them.

On the Lion Rock opposite the Nanyang Industrial Exposition Hall, the five big characters "Nanyang Industrial Exposition" were arranged by electric lights.

Many people were amazed.

But when they arrived at the Lubinfu Collection Hall, they found that there were seven big characters "Lubinfu Collection Hall" composed of neon lights of different colors.

"Wow, beautiful, beautiful..."

"What is this light called?"

"I heard it's called neon, which is the electric light produced by the industry of the God of War Zhao Chuanxin."

Zhou Shuren's students walked here and stopped to watch.

Zhou Shuren saw the pamphlets placed at the door and asked, "How much silver?"

Li Tonglong held up two fingers: "Two dimes."

"So expensive?"

Li Tonglong picked up a pamphlet with a special cover made of paper that was so shiny that you could see through it. It said: Lugang Town Journal Special Edition.

There were six photos below, all in color. One was a movie poster of Sun Yanguang, who was handsome but had a scar on his face, one was a movie poster of Wang's name change, one was a car photo, one was a female fashion photo, one was a radio, and the last one was actually a Roll King M1908 lever-action rifle.

Li Tonglong flipped through it a few more times, and Zhou Shuren and his students were shocked.

"This pictorial is really well made."

"What kind of paper is it? It's as bright as a mirror."

"How did you print the color photos?"

Li Tonglong said happily: "Two cents is a loss-making price, otherwise we can't afford to give it to hundreds of thousands of tourists."

The teacher and students were hesitating when Benjamin Goldberg and his brother came: "Yes, two copies, it's worth it."

Li Tonglong naturally recognized Zhao Chuanxin and his two apprentices, but he was not soft-hearted when collecting money.

Yao Bing hurriedly flipped through the pages: "Hey, senior brother, look at how beautiful this truck is, it was made by Juanwang Technical College."

"Junior brother, look, I've seen this beautiful woman, her name is Liu Jiahui, but it's a pity that she is much older than me, otherwise hehe..."

"Senior brother, why do you always think about older women?"

Because many students surrounded the two of them to read the "Lugang Town Journal Special Edition", it was inevitable to hear their conversation.

Zhou Shuren hurriedly said to the students: "Let's go into the museum to visit, don't listen to the conversation of these two ignorant guys."

Yao Bing immediately said: "Brother, let's go in too, they have many female students."

Benjamin Goldberg immediately retaliated: "Why do you always think about female students?"

Zhou Shuren almost tripped over the threshold.

As soon as he entered the exhibition hall, he saw two cars placed in the venue, one was a truck and the other was a covered car, with a square shape, full of technology, and a very cool shape.

This place attracted many foreigners to stop.

Liu Huaqiang introduced: "This is a Dayun truck with a wind and rainproof shed, a four-cylinder engine, 23 horsepower, and a payload of up to three tons. It is an updated product of the Roll King Jiyou Truck and the Roll King Jiyou II Truck. It was developed by our Roll King Technical College and has not yet been mass-produced. Currently, only reservations are accepted..."

Zhou Shuren was shocked: "Can Chinese people make foreign cars?"

Not only can they make cars, but the paint is also extremely bright. When the lights are on, it is simply blinding.

Some students shouted: "I know, I know, there have been King of Rolls cars in Hong Kong and Macau for a long time."

Some people heard that this tough and cool truck is called Dayun Truck, so they went up and hit the front of the truck with their shoulders.

Hua Liang, who was maintaining order nearby, saw it and stepped forward to stop them: "Hey, hey, why are you hitting our car?"

"Don't stop us, we are hitting the big luck."

Hua Liang: "..."

Benjamin Goldberg squeezed in and said: "You go to the intersection, wait for the green light to come on and stand in the middle of the road, sooner or later you will hit the big luck."

Hua Liang burst into laughter.

To produce cars, there must be many supporting products and rules.

Gasoline is a must, and there must also be qualified roads, traffic lights, and traffic signs.

At the same time, traffic rules came into being.

Zhao Chuanxin knew all kinds of traffic rules in detail, and taught them to King of Rolls Technical College, and they were responsible for the dissemination of technology and rules when selling cars.

Lubinfu and Lugang Town have already built traffic lights.

Those who knew laughed, and those who didn't know scratched their heads.

After seeing the trucks, we looked at the cars, and after the cars, we looked at the bicycles.

"There are three types of bicycles, one is called a mountain bike, one is called a road bike, and the other is a daily bicycle. They are all designed and produced by our Juanwang Technical College and can be reserved."

In terms of price, daily bicycles are less than mountain bicycles and less than road bicycles.

Zhou Shuren noticed the bicycle wheels: "Your wheels are well made. What is this?"

The students of Juanwang Technical College introduced: "This is called a tire. It is a rubber tire improved by our engineer Liu Yuanshan. She is also a professor of materials science reserved by our Juanwang Technical College."

Zhou Shuren was puzzled and felt: "Zhao Tangong has made some things in the past few years."

The students proudly puffed out their chests: "That's right, our principal is amazing. If you walk inside, there are many rare objects."

What objects?

Zhou Shuren led the students to line up and walk inside.

"This is a washing machine, a product produced by the joint laboratory of Tianshangfei and Philips. This is called a radio. It is a new machine developed by the famous inventor Nikola Tesla and Philips joint laboratory. We are building signal towers. In the future, every household You can listen to the news..."

The radio looked too complicated, so Zhou Shuren ignored it for the time being.

But the washing machine got him interested.

Someone turned on the water, threw in a few pieces of clothes that had been starched until they were almost rotten, turned the switch, and the washing machine began to rotate forward and reverse.

Of course not fully automatic, but fully manual.

Adding water is manual, there is no timer, the switch is manual, and the water is released manually.

In a word: you have the final say when to wash it off.

However, when the students started to dry their clothes, a group of teachers and students stared wide-eyed: "You don't need to wring it?"

An employee trained by Tianshangfei familiarly introduced: "This is called centrifugal force, which spins water dry. The two buckets here, one is a washing bucket and the other is a drying bucket, are extremely convenient. Only Mr. Nikola Tesla made them Only brushless motors can have such powerful power.”

Zhou Shuren pointed to the powder that the man poured into the washing machine and asked, "Then what is this?"

"This is called soap powder. It is specially used for cleaning. It is produced for washing machines. It is an accessory product. It is high-quality and low-priced. It can be pre-ordered like a washing machine. It is a must-have for lazy people."

This sentence "a must for lazy people" touches the hearts of many people.

These days, laziness is an absolutely derogatory term, and sometimes you may even get into a fight if you call someone lazy in person.

But the wonderful thing is that when merchants openly bring "laziness" to the table, customers are immediately desensitized.

It seems that being lazy is nothing special. I am lazy and I am justified. Lazy represents wealth, advancement, and high-level.

Zhou Shuren was not used to hearing this: "Lazy? Being lazy is not good."

Although the salesman had a northwest accent that was hard to change, he spoke eloquently: "The world has changed because of laziness. Carving words on bamboo slips was time-consuming and laborious, so lazy people invented paper. Weaving silk by hand was troublesome, so lazy people invented looms." Books are laborious, so someone invented printing. Walking is laborious, so there are cars. The civilization of this world is driven by lazy people..."

This set of fallacies sounded very reasonable at first glance, and it frightened Zhou Shuren, let alone the students.

So it’s really just me being lazy and being reasonable.

The salesman was very proud: The young gentleman's words were really irrefutable.

This quote comes from Benjamin Goldberg.

Furniture and wood products from Lubin Prefecture, fashionable clothes from Lugang Town, military clothing and labor protection supplies jointly produced by Lubin Prefecture and Lugang Town, water pumps jointly produced by Lugang Town and Hong Kong Island...

"Teacher, look, I've never seen the material used in gloves like this before?"

Zhou Shuren stepped forward and found that the materials for easily worn parts such as the fist edges and palm edges were novel, as were the clothes, pants and boots next to him.

He asked the salesperson, who said: "This is the exclusive material of our Linlu outdoor equipment. It is high-tech. It is the only one in the world that has no semicolon. The foreign army also wants to order from us, and has already signed a contract of 100,000 yuan." A huge order..."

An ocean of 100,000 yuan made the surrounding teachers and students gasp.

Zhao Chuanxin originally didn't plan to sell it because Fearless Pioneer spent all the money.

He had to make new rules with the Fearless Vanguard. From now on, the brothers would settle accounts openly and import some materials from the "Code of the Old Gods", process them and then export them, and each would make their own trade difference.

Zhao Chuanxin's industry is on the right track and there is no need for him to continue investing. The gold coins earned from the "Old God Code" are spent in the "Old God Code".

There was also an exhibition of Miao Cuihua's fashion clothes upstairs, including lace, stockings, and all kinds of women's clothing with cutouts, short skirts, and low collars. All the female students were blushing.

Especially when there is a hairy girl acting as a live model, the eyes of the male students light up when they see it.

"Modern than us in England."

“It seems Paris’s design philosophy is out of date.”

Students who can understand foreign languages ​​translate the foreign devils' words for the others.

In a word: Zhao Chuanxin has made a lot of money!

At first Zhou Shuren wanted to silently calculate how much Zhao Chuanxin could earn, until he found that it was difficult to estimate at all.

The Nanyang Industry Association attracted nearly 400,000 spectators, many of whom came from the United States, Japan, Tsarist Russia, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and other countries. They formed reference groups to visit here.

If it is of a commercial nature, it is inevitable to spy on information and find out the truth.

Zhao Chuanxin's place is simply a gathering place for foreigners.

A Japanese came to the weapons exhibition hall and asked: "What kind of gun is this?"

Ning'an, who returned from traveling across the ocean from the United States, took down the Lugang M1907, deftly removed the magazine, and started loading bullets into it: "This is the Lugang M1907 semi-automatic pistol produced by Freddy Arms Manufacturing Company in New York, with a capacity of 15 rounds. , the gun has a short recoil automatic mode, a locking iron swing, a double-action firing mechanism and a hammer-rotating firing mechanism, but the firing pin has a special structure and is a two-section type, crushing all pistols in the world today. "

The Japanese's eyelids twitched wildly.

Finally, Zhao Chuanxin finally started selling the kind of pistol he used.

I don't know how many Japanese people died under this gun. The Japanese wanted one but couldn't get it.

There was no way, Lugang Town and the Beishui Army were not equipped with this gun, and in the battle with Zhao Chuanxin, the damage was only unilateral to Japan, so it was never captured. It was Zhao Chuanxin who seized their weapons and ammunition...

When the Japanese intelligence agency analyzed Zhao Chuanxin's combat power, weapons were a very important indicator.

The Japanese asked: "How much?"

Ning An tucks her middle hair, revealing a face that can no longer be said to be handsome, but should be said to be handsome: "23 US dollars, slightly more expensive than the horse brand roller."

The horse brand luzi sells for 20.5 US dollars at this time.

So it’s not that expensive, after all, the ammunition capacity and performance are there.

The Japanese's eyes lit up: "Just wait, I, I'll go back and consult, maybe I need to purchase a batch."

Ning An twitched the corner of his mouth. Zhao Chuanxin had already expected this scene: "Then you have to hurry up. The order has been scheduled for the second half of 1911."

An American asked about the Juanwang M1908 lever rifle: "Can you introduce it to me?"

Ning An took it off and introduced it in English with a New York accent that he was already very proficient in: "Juan Wang M1908 lever-action rifle, six-round ammunition capacity, firing .280 caliber pointed bullets!"

The American exclaimed: "What? Pointed bullets?"

Lever-up rifles, because of their construction, can usually only fire round-nose bullets.

But one advantage is that it has a high ammunition capacity.

Apparently, this gun sacrifices ammunition capacity by firing pointed bullets.

Ning An nodded: "In order to increase the power, it is specially designed to fire pointed bullets, because the internal structure of this gun is very special. Look here, there is a bullet capacity counter. Once you fire a round, the counter will change once, letting you know how much is left in the gun. Shoot bullets."

Click.

Ning'an loaded the handguard and pretended to take aim. At first glance, he knew he was a man who often shoots.

The American's eyes were bright. He was just a gun enthusiast: "Is this the gun that Zhao Chuanxin used?"

Zhao Chuanxin had expected this scene, and Ning An started to brag: "Yes, Mr. Zhao likes this gun very much, and it is the standard gun of his cavalry unit, the Gray Ax Army. He uses this gun on horseback." With the help of God, it can be a good gun for daily hunting, including hunting bears, deers, and wild boars..."

Yao Bing went upstairs and his eyes lit up after hearing this: "They actually sell guns here? Senior brother, I'm going to buy one."

Benjamin Goldberg hurriedly stopped him: "You can buy whatever you want. The boss behind the production company of this gun is your senior brother. I will give you one as a gift."

Yao Bing was confused: "Do I need to give gifts during this solar term? Then how can I return the gift?"

"Just give me a gift worth more than one hundred dollars, senior brother."

Yao Bing licked his fingers: "Senior brother, I'm not good at math, but I feel like I'm at a loss."

"You miscalculated."

The Americans over there listened to the two children talking so brazenly, and sneered: "Children these days are really boasting. He actually brags that he is the boss behind the scenes."

Ning An smiled meaningfully: "That's not necessarily the case."

Zhou Shuren led the students out of the Lubin Mansion Collection Hall and sighed: "The foreigners in the hall couldn't help but marvel and praise. It can be seen that the science and technology under Zhao Chuanxin have reached the forefront of the world! I heard that their gasoline is different, Volume Wang’s car must be filled with Wang’s gasoline, it’s really awesome.”

"Teacher, is Zhao Chuanxin really that powerful?"

Zhou Shuren nodded: "When I was in Japan, some Japanese people hated him to the core, but many people regarded him as their idol. Of course, this is also related to the strong temper of the Japanese people."

"Teacher, can you tell me about Zhao Chuanxin?"

Zhou Shuren said: "What I know is just hearsay. But last year, I almost had an encounter with him. Lubin Mansion invited me to hire me as a teacher, but I refused. It was too cold outside the customs..."

When Zhou Shuren took students to Jiangxi Hall, he also met a fellow student named Xu Jilong.

Xu Jilong entertained them warmly and gave each of them, teachers and students, a fine porcelain teacup with the inscription: "In memory of the Nanyang Quarantine Association, presented by Xu Jilong."

Everyone couldn’t put it down.

Arrive at the Dongsan Province Pavilion.

"Come on, everyone, there is actually a fortune teller over there. As long as the name matches the birth date, he will make a painting or carve a piece of wood or stone as a gift on the spot."

Zhou Shuren was also attracted and followed the students.

Apart from anything else, the man and woman in front of this stall are already very attractive.

Look at the woman first. She has a high nose and deep eyes. Her skin is as fair as snow. Under her cowboy hat are long shiny braids. I don’t know how much effort it took to braid them.

A loose long skirt is covered with a thin patchwork denim shirt with lace cutouts on it. It is cool and the delicate white skin of the shoulders and collarbone can be vaguely seen.

On her feet were a pair of semi-high-waisted cloth shoes, exposing part of her snow-white calves.

This is a different style compared to the thick-faced and hairy girls at the Lubin Mansion Collection Hall.

Lu Xun was worried that his students might mistakenly think that he was staring at someone because of lust, so he quickly explained: "This is not a foreigner, but a girl from our frontier. She also has a high nose and deep eyes, but this girl is extraordinarily beautiful."

Look at the man next to him. He is wearing a pair of matching cowboy hats, with sunglasses under the hat. His thin cheeks are covered with thick short beards. He is wearing a white T-shirt, big pants, and matching pair of half-high-waisted cloth shoes.

You could call him handsome, but he doesn't seem to be that handsome.

You might say he's not handsome, but his face with sharp edges and thick beard is particularly attractive.

In addition, he is tall with broad shoulders, and his arm muscles bulge out of the cuffs of his white T-shirt half-sleeves.

There are some paintings on display in their exhibition hall, including pencil drawings, pen drawings, wood paintings, and copper engravings.

The painting style is unique, and the signature is - Zhao Xin.

When Zhou Shuren and the others approached, they heard the man talking to the stall next to him.

"You actually abandoned such a beautiful woman from the northwest and why did you paint? It's true."

The tall man bared his ridiculously neat white teeth and said, "From the moment I knew that no matter how beautiful a woman was, she had to wipe her butt even when she was pooping, I no longer believed in Blue Lotus."

Zhou Shuren stumbled and almost fell down. Fortunately, there were students holding him up.

I don't know why I always fall down today.

It’s really a disgrace to the scenery and dirty to the ears.

As they approached, the man said without raising his head: "Take the paper, write down your name and birth date and put it in the box."

One student asked: "What does this mean?"

The beautiful frontier woman explained with a smile: "Help you calculate."

"Measure what?"

“Calculate whether you can buy it for zero yuan, or whether you have to spend a lot of money to buy the art here.”

“What does zero dollar purchase mean?”

"It's just a free gift."

"Huh? You can actually give it away for free?"

A boy of fourteen or fifteen years old next to him said: "Yes, my name is Shen Dehong, and I got a painting made by this gentleman on the spot for free."

As he said that, he happily took it out to show off.

This is a pen and ink painting with complex lines, fullness, distinct layers and strong texture.

This kind of painting technique, which uses the density of lines to express the sensitivity of objects, is mostly unheard of in the audience.

The painting shows a series of viaducts, with densely packed cars on them, trains flying through the air, tall buildings, and planes in the sky...

This painting is nominated as - Mao Dun.

Some students muttered: "All the words are written wrong. It's a contradiction, not Mao Dun."

But Zhou Shuren said "Hey": "This is the technique of the French printmaker Doré. But the content in this painting is incredible..."

The students quickly asked Dorey who he was.

Gustave Doré's paintings have influenced generations of people, and many films of later generations have borrowed his sense of imagery.

But Zhou Shuren didn’t know much about him, he just liked his illustrations.

The student began to write and put into the wooden box.

“Can I buy it for zero yuan?”

"Sorry, can't."

It's like a lottery.

It's just that this lottery is too mysterious. I don't even look at it, just put it into the wooden box?

Zhou Shuren also wrote and devoted himself to it.

The man suddenly raised his head: "A person from Zhou Shu? Named Hencai? A person from Shaoxing, Zhejiang?"

Zhou Shuren stood in front of the table and said blankly: "Does this gentleman recognize me? How do you know what I wrote?"

"I can pinch and calculate." Zhao Chuanxin bared his teeth and smiled: "Very good, Shuren, you can buy it for zero yuan."

After that, he picked up his pen and started painting.

The surrounding teachers and students first whispered with envy and hatred, and then exclaimed: "This painting is too fast..."