The mage in the late Qing Dynasty

Zhao Chuanxin, who had just killed Tachibana Koichiro, the commander of Japan's 19th Division, was standing in front of them, which was somewhat unreal.

Zhao Chuanxin gave John Bella a cool motorcycle, which made it even more dreamlike.

John Bellah shook his head, not feeling sober: "Zhao, Mr. Zhao, why..."

He doesn't understand.

But that motorcycle was really eye-catching and made him want to stop.

Zhao Chuanxin came to the carriage, lifted up the nearly three hundred kilogram motorcycle, and placed it easily on the ground.

He handed the car keys to John Rabe: "I regard you as a friend of the Chinese people. No matter what happens in the future, this is my intention."

According to the original history, this king saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in the future.

Although Zhao Chuanxin believed that as long as he was around, only the little devils would die.

But things are unpredictable. Who can say for sure how many years he will live?

Enemies like Nobuzumi Aoki who racked their brains to kill him were like crucian carp crossing the river, and he was more or less mentally prepared to be killed violently.

John Rabe was confused.

"Mr. Zhao, I can't..."

"Haha, you can, you can, take it, don't lose face, otherwise you will look down on Zhao. There is a movie called "The Bodyguard", and I am the producer. You can go and watch it then. Now I’m going back to Shanghai for post-production and promotion, take care.”

John Bellah hesitated to speak.

I want to say something, but I don’t know what to say.

There seemed to be something related to him, but it was so hazy that people couldn't see the truth clearly.

He watched Zhao Chuanxin take off his suit and put it on his shoulders, sit on the edge of the carriage, and hummed a song.

"Let me have another taste. Autumn wine, keep going south, it won't be long..."

The carriage drives away.

Morrison did not leave.

He didn't want to ride in that dirty carriage, and besides he had to teach John Rabe how to use a motorcycle.

John Rabe was so suspicious that he had to ask Morrison: "What does Mr. Zhao mean by this? Why did you give me a motorcycle?"

Other Siemens employees were all talking.

"Mr. Morrison, what brand of motorcycle is this?"

"This motorcycle is so bright it's scary."

“What are these lines for?”

Morrison asked John Rabe to ride on his motorcycle: "John, insert the key into the key door and open it."

"Now, press this to start the motorcycle."

John Rabe complied.

Rumble…

The exhaust pipe of the motorcycle began to smoke, making a deafening noise, and the body of the motorcycle shook uncontrollably.

To Zhao Chuanxin, the single-cylinder low-horsepower motorcycle looked like a piece of shit, but it made these people red-eyed.

"It can be started without shaking the handle?"

Morrison's forehead was sweating: "Mr. Zhao said that it uses the electric start system newly invented by inventor Nikola Tesla, and a battery is installed on it."

He is actually not very familiar with it.

"It's a gap now, hey, don't step on it..."

It was too late to speak.

The motorcycle jerked forward and then stalled.

Morrison had no choice but to ride up and demonstrate: "To do this, hold the clutch, start first, then put it into gear, slowly release the clutch and tighten the accelerator..."

There are three gears only if you add the neutral gear.

But this car has turn signals, headlights, front and rear brake pads, a shock-absorbing system, leather-wrapped foam seats, and stylish styling, so it still has a lot of fans.

After teaching the enthusiastic John Rabe, Morrison reluctantly got out of the car: "Mr. Zhao spent two months building this car himself and named it the John Rabe model. John , you are really unlucky, I can’t figure out why Mr. Zhao looks at you with admiration..."

John Rabe rode his motorcycle in a circle, screaming with excitement from the car.

Colleagues wanted to borrow the bike for a test drive, but John Rabe refused one by one: "This is a wedding gift from Mr. Zhao. On my wedding day, I will drive Dora around the capital."

My colleague was extremely jealous: "This car is worth at least 300 yuan, so be careful of it being stolen."

Morrison listened and said disdainfully: "300 yuan? You really dare to think. The front and rear wheels of this car are made of aluminum alloy, and part of the car body is made of alloy metal. You can't even find it anywhere else. The front and rear wheels have brake discs, regardless of whether Is it the engine, the hydraulic shock absorbing system, the headlights, and even the lampshades are all the most advanced technology in the world. Coupled with the sophisticated and thick paint and the later polishing process, the price at Juanwang Automobile Company is 20,000 yuan? This car is a special one. It was a special wedding gift from Zhao Chuanxin to John Rabe. If anyone dares to steal it, I can guarantee that he will not see the sun the next day."

When he said this, everyone became even more jealous.

"Tell me, when did you meet Zhao Chuanxin?"

"You wouldn't have colluded with him to do anything bad..."

Jealousy makes people look hideous.

Morrison pressed the car key hard again, and then twisted it back: "Look, the handlebar is locked. If you want to steal the car, you have to put the car on a carriage and take it away. If you want to push it away, you can only drive in circles. "

Everyone exclaimed again.

To them, this is all black technology.

…

Zhao Chuanxin returned to Hong Kong Island first.

Gulizal's mother has arrived in Hong Kong Island.

The old lady couldn't let go when she saw Zhao Chuanxin, shouting at each adult.

Zhao Chuanxin put the car in the courtyard.

When Gulizal saw the car with a black silver-plated aluminum paint body, he pulled his braid and asked, "Brother Xin, I can't drive."

There are already many cars on the streets of Hong Kong Island.

But Gulizal had never heard of such a cool car.

There is a logo on the front of the car, which is a circle with the word "volume" added to it.

On the back of the car, the word "女罗" is written to represent the model number.

Zhao Chuanxin pulled the old lady, and she and Gulizar got into the car: "I'll teach you."

The car smelled like leather.

Zhao Chuanxian started the ignition and told Gulizar how to operate the electric lift window.

At this time, other cars had manual sliding windows. Where had she seen this?

"I have been in Mr. Li Guangzong's car, and the noise was much louder than this. You can't open the window like this. How can you do this?"

The sound insulation effect of the car is certainly not as good as that of later generations of luxury cars.

However, in 1910, Zhao Chuanxin said that his car was the second in the world, and neither Ford nor Rolls-Royce dared to claim first.

Because the electric system on the car is a battery modified by a weirdo in the "Code of Old Gods" using an energy gem converter. It is safe, environmentally friendly, and has plenty of power.

Zhao Chuanxin taught her how to handle the accelerator, brake, gear and handbrake while driving, and taught her the tricks.

The people of Hong Kong Island have seen cars, especially the people under Victoria Peak.

But when I see this novel and beautiful car, I still can't help but stop and point and comment.

Gulizal was eager to give it a try: "I've learned everything, let me try it."

Zhao Chuanxin took her towards the mountainous area of ​​Happy Valley and waited until the crowds were sparse before letting her drive.

Gulizar sat in the driver's seat.

The old woman behind and Gulizar's mother thought the car was easy to drive, so they both looked at Gulizar, waiting for her to make a move.

For a while...

Zhao Chuanxin couldn't help but ask: "Zar, do you want to wait until dark to see if the headlights turn on?"

"I, I..." Gulizar was at a loss: "What should I do first?"

Zhao Chuanxin smiled: "Let me teach you again. First, shift the gear to neutral and step on the brake. Start, step on the clutch, put it into gear, slowly release the clutch, and move forward..."

Gulizar complied.

The car made a loud noise and lurched forward.

The two women behind exclaimed.

The car extinguished the fire.

Zhao Chuanxin gave a thumbs up: "I can't even get up in second gear, so you just start in third gear. I'll call you master from now on."

Gulizal blushed and tried twice more, and the car finally moved forward.

Zhao Chuanxin shook his head back and forth, and the two women behind him also shook his head.

Zhao Chuanxin's smile gradually disappeared: "Zar, this car doesn't have a stereo either. Don't step on the accelerator like you're stepping on a drum. I'm going to make you shake your lunch."

He looked back at the two women in the back seat apologetically: I'm sorry for making you suffer.

He said: "Or let me do it."

Gulizar pouted and said stubbornly: "No, I have to open it."

This bad day is finally over.

In the evening, Zhao Chuanxin went to the post office and called Li Guangzong: "Can't your secretary who looks like Liu Jiahui know how to drive? Ask her to come over tomorrow and teach Gulizar how to drive. I have something else to do and I have to go first. "

Those wireless mobile phones manufactured by Star Root Companion were placed in Internet companies in several cities for daily communication.

That thing was modified by Nikola Tesla to be able to transmit telegrams and picture faxes at the same time.

The operations of Internet companies are entirely supported by these wireless mobile phones.

In this way, Zhao Chuanxin returned to the primitive era, making phone calls and telegrams to go to the post office.

When others look for him, they can't find him easily.

Li Guangzong's face turned red when he heard this.

Regarding the fact that the secretary looked like Liu Jiahui, I thought she was unaware of it, but it turned out that my husband had already noticed the clues.

He coughed: "Okay, Master."

…

Benjamin Goldberg fuck, Rachel Cross is coming to Shanghai.

The reason was that Zhao Chuanxin asked her to score the movie.

Seeing Zhao Chuanxin finally arrived, Rachel Kervis had an ambiguous face and watery eyes, and stepped forward to say hello: "Ethan, are you okay?"

"Rachel, I feel better when I see you."

Zhao Chuanxin said in his heart: After seven years and seven years of marriage, her eyes were almost itching.

"..." Seeing that Li Shutong was there, Rachel Kervis restrained herself a little: "Ethan, how did you grow your brain, and why do you have so much beautiful music?"

Most of them didn't give Li Shutong a chance to play.

Zhao Chuanxin likes listening to music, and he prefers pure music to pop songs.

Thanks to this, there are endless soundtracks in my mind.

But he couldn't compose music, and the music in his head was often incomplete and needed Li Shutong to improve it.

Zhao Chuanxin lit a cigarette and said, "This is how a genius's brain works. Xi Shuang, are the piano and drums ready?"

Li Shutong nodded.

Zhao Chuanxin and the other three began to tinker with the soundtrack.

Internet theaters and Internet lobbies everywhere are flooding the Internet with advertisements.

After all, it is a large-scale production, and it is also a love action film. Herbert Ponting took a huge risk by directing a feature film for the first time. Zhao Chuanxin must at least recover the cost, otherwise he might as well donate 100,000 yuan directly to the disaster area.

Three days later, the movie "The Bodyguard" began to be screened simultaneously.

Zhao Chuanxin sat in the theater wearing a shirt and a Humboldt hat, feeling quite uneasy.

Seeing this, Herbert Ponting comforted him: "Mr. Zhao, please don't worry, I won't let you down. Besides, don't you care about the box office?"

"I lied to you." Zhao Chuanxin gritted his teeth and said, "If you mess up, I will beat you to death."

Herbert Ponting looked at Zhao Chuanxin in disbelief.

That's not what I said at first.

Even though he was a hundred times more confident, he also became anxious at this time.

The script of this movie is adapted from the movie "The Bodyguard" of the same name that Zhao Chuanxin had seen, starring Kevin Scottner.

The original movie tells the story of a retired agent who works as a bodyguard for a female star.

Not recognized at first, sparks develop between the two.

There's love, there's fighting, there's gunplay.

The male protagonist of this movie is still a bodyguard, but the heroine is based on the feminist and female principal Du Qingchi.

The heroine, who comes from a prominent family, is determined to promote equality between men and women and devotes herself to education.

The family was born in an era where sons were valued over daughters, so they were naturally opposed to it.

But the heroine insisted on going her own way and started a girls' school.

As a result, he was slandered by all walks of life and even personally attacked.

Her family hired a bodyguard for her, that is, the male protagonist.

The appearance of a man in a girls' school is quite explosive, so he is looked down upon and boycotted.

Such an adaptation actually fits the social background of this time completely.

Herbert Ponting had his own ideas, but for his first feature film, he really didn't dare to mess it up for Zhao Chuanxin, so he executed every shot drawn by Zhao Chuanxin meticulously and never allowed any sloppiness.

Zhao Chuanxin looked at it for a while and felt relieved.

Just listen to the reaction from the audience around you.

"This woman is so beautiful."

"It's actually Chen Zhen!"

"No, that's not Chen Zhen. Chen Zhen is from "Fist of Fury"."

Of course, the starring role is Sun Yanguang.

On the left side of Zhao Chuanxin is Rachel Kervis.

Rachel Kervis made little movements with her feet at first.

But as I watched, I found it difficult to extricate myself from taking on the role of a movie character, and gradually stopped.

Zhao Chuanxin also nodded frequently after watching it. Herbert Ponting shot the shots he wanted, such as shoulder-level dialogue scenes, oblique shots when big events are about to happen, bird's-eye shots of chaotic scenes and martial arts montages. , the split focus when the male and female protagonists have emotional collisions and conversations, as well as romantic establishing shots, etc...

There is a scene where the male protagonist is riding a bicycle and driving the female protagonist through the alleys with strong atmosphere in Shanghai.

This shot is a bit complicated, requiring tracking shots from the front, close-up shots of side faces, and capturing the conversation between the two.

When she saw this, Rachel Kervis's eyes were blurred and water mist appeared.

On the screen, the heroine on the back seat of the bicycle holds the waist of the hero in front of her. The two of them get closer and closer and say: "You can show me the rising mountains, the rushing sunset, the stars in the sky, the crops growing like crazy, or The puppy at the village gate, the sparrow resting on the tree, even if you just let me hear the wind in your place, how can I have nothing to say? "

After this sentence, the background music of "Memory Tickets" is connected, in which Rachel Kravis sings "um" softly, but the sound is not loud, it is ethereal and does not overwhelm the focus.

Rachel Kervis was directly brought to tears by the atmosphere.

However, Zhao Chuanxin next to him made a big fuss: "It's not that he has nothing to say, he just doesn't want to talk to you. This woman is really stupid!"

"You...shut up." Rachel Kervis was furious, and then said: "I have decided that after returning to Lugang Town, I will divorce Samuel."

"..." Zhao Chuanxin hurriedly tried to dissuade him: "Don't get excited. Love is all fake and illusory. It only lasts for three minutes. The old couple's eloquence and the urn are eternal."

"Shut up."

The seven-year itch is second best, mainly because men and women have been living together for a long time. The advantages of both parties are covered with an aura of invisibility, but the shortcomings are like stacking buffs that can blind both parties' eyes.

If dogs bite dogs for a long time, they will infect each other with rabies.

Unless both husband and wife are interesting people, the couple is in name only, but they can be brothers.

Li Shutong, who was on the right hand side of Herbert Ponting, was shocked: "This piece of music sounds nothing special at first, but when placed here, the singing seems to be echoing in the alleys, as if something is about to break, and the feeling of fear scattered in the memory..."

The male protagonist was ostracized when he first arrived, but he repeatedly showed his skills to be accepted by the girls' school. Finally, when the female protagonist was giving a speech in public, he was assassinated by a male chauvinist. The male protagonist swooped in and took the bullet for the female protagonist.

At this time, Zhao Chuanxin was shocked to find that the audience actually stood up.

Sure enough, the theme of love endures for a long time, and even great events in troubled times insist on it...

The audience doesn't understand. They don't know that Zhao Chuanxin and Herbert Ponting used soft focus to enhance the beauty of the heroine. They don't know that close-ups can highlight the affection between the hero and heroine. They don't know that various tones and compositions make the hero and heroine look as beautiful as immortals. Son……

They just think it looks good and love to watch it.

The ending is not tragic. When the camera turns at the end, it turns out that the male protagonist is not dead.

They met on the Bund, hugged each other, and even kissed.

The audience cheered and screamed.

In the past, they watched foreign movies about waltzing and kissing, and basically regarded them as the kind of small movies they watch now to seek excitement.

But this scene didn't arouse that kind of desire. It was so beautiful that people couldn't have any evil thoughts.

After the movie ended, Li Shutong, Herbert Ponting, Rachel Kervis, Sun Yanguang, Zhao Chuanxin and others went out. Some viewers went back to line up to continue buying tickets, and some were attracted by the department store next to the theater. .

Because last time Zhao Chuanxin discovered that after the screening of "Fist of Fury" and "Guanshan Sword", many people with daggers and Guanshan Swords appeared on the streets.

There are also people who bare their breasts and show off their skinny chests, thinking that they can be as attractive as the muscular protagonist, but they are repeatedly looked down upon and lose their face.

He suddenly thought of advertising and movie peripherals.

He had previously planned to donate all the box office proceeds from this film to the disaster-stricken areas.

He doesn't have to make any money at the box office, but he's not ambiguous about the money from peripherals.

My dear daughter-in-law, let me settle the accounts.

Miao Cuihua's clothing company has to pay advertising fees, and then she will appear in the movie, and by the way, she will appear in the Internet department store next to the theater.

In addition to clothing, there are alarm clocks, fruit knives, belts, watches, necklaces, bicycles used by the male protagonist in the film... diaries, fountain pens, hairpins, jewelry boxes used by the female protagonist...

When Herbert Ponting saw the audience rushing to buy these peripheral products, he couldn't help but admire Zhao Chuanxin.

"Mr. Zhao, you are not only a master of film lens language, you are also a business wizard! Really, I have traveled all over the world and I have never seen a genius like you!"

Li Shutong looked at this scene and said: "Now I know that movies are more influential than dramas."

However, Zhao Chuanxin looked at some men and women looking in the mirror and playing with their hair and said, "Look, there is about to be a trend of shaving heads all over the country."

Everyone suddenly remembered the scenes in the movie where the male protagonist had meticulously short hair, which made him look more handsome, and the female protagonist said that the woman's forehead was ugly when she shaved her head, and she spread her hair out on the street to look stunningly beautiful.

Not to mention the audience, the main creative staff will inevitably be moved.

Li Shutong pursed his lips and said, "Charcoal Man, this little movie can actually influence people's hearts, making them cry, laugh, shave their hair, and change their clothes. The effect of reform is immediate. If you make a movie to petition for the establishment of a constitution, wouldn't it... "

Zhao Chuanxin sneered: "Don't even think about it."

The Qing court will wait until next year at most. If the Revolution of 1911 does not come as expected, then Zhao Chuanxin will do it himself.

Is it time to establish a constitution like this?

As soon as the movie "Bodyguard" was released, people's dissatisfaction with the Qing court reached its peak.

The Qing government donated 100,000 yuan to Japan for disaster relief, but allowed the people of its own country to go hungry.

But Zhao Chuanxin's Internet Cinema donated more than 1,000 yuan to disaster-stricken areas in China every day, and continuously donated 13,000 yuan in ten days.

The major newspapers reported overwhelmingly.

"Ta Kung Pao" said: Anyone who spends 10 copper yuan to buy a ticket is doing good deeds; but a newspaper report once, to promote the Internet cinema, is to feed the people in the disaster area dozens of mouthfuls. However, the imperial court's allocations are either diverted or squandered, and spending twice as much as usual is a result of the abuses that have occurred over the years...

You have ten big bucks in your pocket, take them to the cinema to enjoy the light, shadow and sound effects, pictures and music. When you come out, you will feel happy and do good deeds at the same time.

Why not?

Imperial officials and agencies at all levels only want to pick on the skin, or make donations to Japan, without looking at what the people of their own country are doing...

Come November.

When Yao Jia of Lubin Prefecture learned about this, he sighed: "The magistrate's behavior is difficult for ordinary people to figure out. He gives away one yuan to earn two yuan, and he also buys reputation. How could I be so stupid, and why do I need a share of the box office? I am so stupid, so stupid." …”

Just as he was sighing, Zhang Shouzeng came in a hurry: "Oh no, Shijie, something big has happened. There's a plague..."