The mage in the late Qing Dynasty

Zhao Chuanxin had no way of knowing what was happening thousands of miles away.

He picked up August Victoria from outside.

When the grenadier threw a grenade, the air wave hit her and knocked her down, causing her to faint.

The German soldiers fled in a hurry and did not find the queen among the corpses.

When August Victoria woke up.

She pretended to be asleep and squinted her eyes to make sure she was not in danger, and then smelled the aroma of roast beef.

Turning his eyes, he glanced out of the corner of his eye and saw Zhao Chuanxin using tongs to turn over the fat and thin beef slices on the baking sheet.

What confused her was that there was no fire under the grill pan, but the beef on the grill pan was sizzling and oily.

Zhao Chuanxin's voice came: "When you wake up, look at it openly."

August Victoria was embarrassed to pretend to be faint, and the first thing he did when he got up was to straighten his appearance: "I remember I was outside, the bomb went off, and I was flying in the clouds. I can't remember what happened after that. Are you okay?"

Zhao Chuanxin bared his teeth and smiled: "I feel much better when I see you awake."

"..." August Victoria walked to the table and sat down: "Did you bring me back?"

"Yes, I think they don't care about your life or death at all. It's so cold outside, you'll probably freeze to death. You see, this is a private matter between me and William, and has nothing to do with you."

Zhao Chuanxin had concerns. He had just joined the Arms Limitation Committee and to avoid subsequent trouble, he had to characterize the matter as a personal grudge.

This woman was related to the British royal family. If she froze to death, wouldn't it be blamed on him?

There was a pile of dinner plates on the table, and Zhao Chuanxin picked up two, handed one to August Victoria, and placed the other in front of himself.

Auguste Victoria noticed Zhao Chuanxin staring at the plate and said, "This is a Damascus gold-inlaid dinner plate from Toledo, Spain. More than a thousand years ago, Toledo was captured by the Arabs. The art of gold inlay spreads there. You like this kind of Renaissance-style art, right?”

Zhao Chuanxin poured the dipping sauce into her dinner plate and nodded: "Yes, I am also a craftsman. I know that just these few plates will take a craftsman a long time."

August Victoria was slightly surprised.

Nobles know more, but they may not do it themselves.

Do we need to learn craftsmanship skills in order to get a beautiful plate?

She said: "Many European kings' swords were produced in Toledo, such as Napoleon's sword. If you like it, I have collected a dagger and given it to you."

Zhao Chuanxin's eyes lit up: "Donna, you are such a good person."

August Victoria couldn't help laughing.

Nothing could happen between the two.

Zhao Chuanxin is still a young man. Although August Victoria is well-maintained, she is still a rich little old lady. She is already fifty years old.

August Victoria saw another side of the butchers of the Far East.

The two of them were eating roast beef and dry bread. August Victoria couldn't help but ask: "Zhao, how did you roast the meat without a flame?"

"If you are not superstitious," Zhao Chuanxin said, "then just think of it as a magic spell."

"..."

It's good to burn out the Auguste Victoria CPU.

If you are superstitious, do you think he is God?

Thinking of this, August Victoria said kindly: "Zhao, I think you should fall into the arms of God. Killing is always bad."

She's sort of an evangelical.

Zhao Chuanxin took out a bottle of beer and took a sip: "What the hell? I threw myself into the arms of my junior brother? Don't be ridiculous! My embarrassing toes are almost scratching the earth."

"..." August Victoria couldn't accept it: "You mean, God is your junior brother?"

"Yes, have you ever seen a senior brother throw himself into his arms? Stop making trouble. If he dares to think that way, I'll beat him to the punch!"

"..."

What an arrogant pagan.

August Victoria frowned: "How old are you, how can you be God's senior brother?"

Zhao Chuanxin's face was filled with memories: "How old am I? I was born in the world about a thousand years ago. I remember that at that time, in our land, everyone drove chariots to fight, The people had no clothes and no food to eat. Later, there was a man named Ying Zheng who had great talents and unified the six countries. The old boy was in charge of everything. He was a little stricter, but he was still better than before. Later, I traveled around the world and listened. I talked about a guy named Jesus who was so eloquent that he bluffed everyone around. I taught him a lesson and told him not to resist, so he called me Senior Brother. That’s probably what happened.”

August Victoria was stunned.

She stupidly held up the knife and fork and forgot to eat.

Zhao Chuanxin's voice was as low as an evening bell, as far away as a mantra, and his voice stretched out over the years in the darkness, and his expression was impeccable.

Zhao Chuanxin took a sip of beer and sighed: "Although junior brother may be clever with his words, he is not a bad person. Too much talk leads to mistakes, and he was eventually killed one day. I am very sad. After staying for who knows how many years, I decided to return to my hometown. . So I drifted on the sea for a long time and drifted to an island. There were many savages on it. They saw my gorgeous clothes and wanted to steal my things. But you know, Donna, I always like to be reasonable. It doesn't make sense. I also carry a sword with me. At that time, I had hundreds of years of skills. I could kill these people in a river of blood. After that, they called me - Kuku God of War. . In modern times, this island was occupied by Americans and was called Honolulu, Hawaii.”

Jesus Christ... Auguste Victoria didn't know what to say.

Zhao Chuanxin continued: "Donna, you don't know, during the years when I was wandering overseas, I also passed through Germany, the British Isles, Greece and other places. At that time, you were still eating hair and drinking blood, and you were far from being civilized. I was often attacked The savages attacked, but how could they be my opponents? Because I come from civilization and I don’t like the savages forcing women, so I often save those trembling souls. And because my surname is Zhao, they have difficulty pronouncing it correctly, so it is called Zeus from time to time. The Latin word Zeus actually means God in Latin. Later, he was slandered as a clown who fell in love with his mother. It is really ridiculous that today, I am three thousand years old, and I have such a daughter, William. Dare you threaten my daughter?"

"You, you are talking nonsense..." August Victoria trembled because he subverted his three views: "Jesus is only the incarnation of God, so you cannot be older than God..."

Zhao Chuanxin was surprised that he actually didn't know much about this.

But the 1909 Academy Award-winning actor Lao Zhao's acting skills have reached perfection. He looked out the window in trance: "That's all, I know you won't believe it. Let me tell you this, the salt I have eaten is more than the wheat you have eaten in your life." There are more. The bridges I have walked are longer than those of you and William combined. For example, I learned how to roast beef without fire three thousand years ago, but unfortunately. He is not talented enough and can only play tricks, so his life is mediocre, with no highlights, and he will not survive today. Moreover, he often lies to everyone that he is the incarnation of God..."

"I, I seem to have seen people who can control flames in the Bible, I can't remember clearly..." August Victoria heard him say that he had noses and eyes, but he was doubtful and his faith was weakened.

At this time, Zhao Chuanxian finished a bottle of beer.

He held the wine bottle with his secondary limbs and placed it on the corner of the table.

It looks like it's vacant.

August Victoria's eyes went straight: "You are really..."

Zhao Chuanxin nodded: "That's right, I won't pretend anymore. I'm showing my cards right. I am his senior brother."

August Victoria's face was blue and red.

At this time, she believed that William II would be defeated.

If you fight against God, aren’t you asking for trouble?

Even though Zhao Chuanxin is not a god, he is a three thousand year old guy.

Who can beat a three thousand year old guy?

Who could defeat the man once known as "Zeus"?

Zhao Chuanxin looked at the sky outside, stretched out his hand, and a wind lantern appeared out of thin air in his palm. He snapped his fingers and the wind lantern spontaneously ignited.

Passing the lantern to August Victoria, Zhao Chuanxian said: "You go ahead with the lantern, remember to illuminate your face, don't let them shoot you as an enemy and become an unjust ghost."

August Victoria stared at the lantern in confusion for a while, then quickly shook her head: "I won't leave."

"Let's go." Zhao Chuanxin said earnestly: "If we stay until tomorrow morning, they are likely to launch an attack. An ordinary person like you, with a mortal body, will die after taking one bullet. And I, even if I take the largest caliber in the world, The artillery bombardment for three days and three nights will exhaust them to death."

Zhao Chuanxin has already developed a brave face like a diamond, and he can brag without blinking an eye.

In fact, among the enemies he has encountered, the German army has the highest combat quality, bar none, and it is still somewhat stressful.

No wonder he had heard people say before that the German army was almost the strongest on the surface during World War I.

In the end, Germany's internal strife was quickly defeated.

August Victoria hesitated.

She wanted to stay and collect more evidence, otherwise her faith would be shaken so much that she was not sure whether she could hold on to it in the future.

But Zhao Chuanxin's words were reasonable, and she might be killed if she didn't leave.

So he had no choice but to put on the coat given by Zhao Chuanxin and carry the wind lantern and go out.

When she reached the door, she turned back and asked again: "Zhao, are everything you said true?"

"If you believe it, there will be it; if you don't believe it, there will be nothing." Zhao Chuanxin kept it secret.

He stood up and cleared the plates.

Finding that August Victoria hadn't left yet, Zhao Chuanxin pulled out a sly smile.

You're not giving up yet, are you?

He suddenly turned his head and smiled at August Victoria, then his figure flashed and disappeared under her nose.

Auguste Victoria shuddered violently and ran away.

Zhao Chuanxin just appeared in another room.

He said to Xingyue: "You make me ammunition tonight."

Xingyue said: "It's hard for a clever woman to make a meal without rice. We have no fuel or gunpowder."

Just as Zhao Chuanxin was about to speak, he heard footsteps.

Xingyue projected the image of the next door on her glasses, and saw August Victoria holding a dagger, gently placing it on the table, clasping his hands together and muttering a few words piously, and then turned and left.

It turned out that he was going to get "sacrifice" items for Zhao Chuanxin.

Zhao Chuanxin went back and picked up the dagger on the table and looked at it.

The scabbard of the dagger is made of Toledo Damascus and is inlaid with gold. It is decorated with gorgeous flowers, plants and geometric patterns, as is the handle. Pull out the short sword, the back end of the sword is inlaid with gold, the front end is inlaid with silver, and the body of the sword is Damascus steel.

Zhao Chuanxin couldn't tell whether it was forged from real Utz steel, but the dagger was gorgeous and sharp, at least it wasn't ordinary.

Sure enough, there are still some good things about the European royal family.

It was an unexpected surprise. Zhao Chuanxin put away his dagger happily.

Where does this make sense?

He is the one who deceives and deceives with his clever words.

He also didn't let go of the dinner plates and took them with him.

After being interrupted by Auguste Victoria, Zhao Chuanxin forgot what he was going to say and simply went to sleep.

The next morning, Xingyue manipulated the black puppet craftsman to wake him up.

Zhao Chuanxin stood up in a hurry: "The German army is coming?"

The black puppet craftsman shook his head: "No, I will ask you to get up early and refresh the "Old God Code"."

Zhao Chuanxin yawned and took out the "Code of the Old Gods".

[The craftsman said to me: I have bribed the natural guardians, but we lack enough goods. The residents of Brilliant Oasis have different needs from those of Rune City. 】

[I asked: What do they need? 】

[The craftsman said: The Brilliant Oasis is in urgent need of a batch of metal. In addition, their moongrass production has decreased due to climate reasons and they lack night lighting plants. I found out that the reason they were short of metal was because they wanted to make weapons. Nature Guardian said that in order to overthrow the Desert Emperor, Brilliant Oasis and Mirage allied to fund the rebel leader. But now that the alliance is disbanded, Haishixujing will eventually go to war with Brilliant Oasis. 】

Zhao Chuanxin said "Hey".

Xingyue said this before.

I taught it to guess correctly again.

[But we don’t have metal or lighting plants in our hands. 】

Zhao Chuanxin smiled slightly and wrote:

[But those are not problems. 】

Are you still worried about not having metal in Berlin, the industrial capital?

[Xingyue said: There are a lot of desert oil roots in the Brilliant Oasis, which we can exchange with materials. 】

[The craftsman said: We are located on the border. If there are bulk goods transactions, it can save trading time and costs for the Brilliant Oasis merchants, and they will definitely be willing to cooperate with us. It's just that this will reduce the trade volume of Rune City, and I'm worried that the new emperor will take the opportunity to cause trouble. 】

[I said: There is no better way at the moment. Who asked him to arrange for us to survive here? What's more, if the biggest desert storm in thousands of years really happens, the new emperor will have nothing to worry about. 】

[The craftsman said: I heard from the natural defenders, the natural science academicians of Brilliant Oasis, who used natural science to deduce that a huge desert natural disaster will hit, maybe it is the desert storm you mentioned. 】

[I said: Go to the border and tell the natural guardians to let the Brilliant Oasis merchants come to the Pioneer Partner Haven tomorrow and we can trade. Remember to ask them to bring desert oil root. 】

[The craftsman takes the order and leaves. 】

[I continue to expand the Pioneer Partner Haven. 】

[I use intertwined plant roots to fix the foundation, which is to build complex and dense cabins under the dunes until the building is exposed above the dunes. I built a passage under the dune to connect another tower. 】

[I built a high platform base with walls on top to prevent wind and sand. I will fill it with black soil later. In the future, this place will be full of greenery and will be a safe haven for pioneer partners. 】

[I built around the main tower in order to surround the main tower area with buildings to resist wind and sand before that unprecedented storm struck. 】

Zhao Chuanxin closed the "Old God Code".

There was a commotion outside the Berlin City Palace.

At this time, the German Army still advocated offense, and its combat plans were mainly based on offense.

But that doesn’t mean they didn’t pay attention to trench warfare.

Many people call the Russo-Japanese War T0 World War.

The reason is that this war rewritten the way the world fights.

For example, various countries saw how Tsarist Russia used static trenches, grenades, power grids and other tactics to make the Japanese use thousands of lives to fill them.

Japan did win, miserably, and miserably.

So when Zhao Chuanxin looked out, he saw a "curtain" of cavalry deployed on Schinkel Square, between buildings, and on the Avenue de France on the other side of the river. They held telescopes to conduct reconnaissance, wandered around, and provided flank cover.

Large-caliber siege guns were deployed on the other side of the river, and the artillery was loading cannonballs, but no one acted rashly. They did not want to fire directly on the Berlin City Palace, but they were just preparing for the worst.

The engineer column moved forward, carrying sandbags and trotting to the square in front of the palace. After unloading the sandbags, regardless of whether they were neatly stacked, they came from the northwest corner and left from the southeast corner.

Two miles away, the Wuyangyang "Gray Wilderness" dispersed battalion and company-level units into smaller marching columns and spread out to form a skirmisher line.

The skirmisher line is more dense, with only two steps between soldiers. When they enter a one-mile range, they will make a leap forward.

It’s spectacular to observe from a high vantage point.

They raised their guns and cocked them, but did not fire because they could not see a valid target.

Zhao Chuanxin set up a camera on the third floor and captured the shocking scene of the "Spiky Helmet Jungle" under the Berlin City Palace from various angles.

He ran to the rooftop of the building to take an overall shot.

This was an extremely rare military operation by the most powerful country on earth at the time. Zhao Chuanxin at least left some meager information for his troops to refer to.

Zhao Chuanxin knew why Wilhelm II did not order the cannon to be fired. The Berlin City Palace represented not only a building, but also the dignity of a paralyzed child.

It would make William II feel embarrassed to rely on the Berlin City Palace to be riddled with holes in exchange for Zhao Chuanxin's head.

On the roof of St. Hedwig's Cathedral, 400 meters away in a straight line to the west of Zhao Chuanxuan, Field Marshal Leopold Maximian and Prime Minister Bertmann Hollweg were holding telescopes to observe the battlefield. .

They saw that the German troops had surrounded the Berlin City Palace from all sides. According to the advice given by Hans von Plessen, they set up heavy guards at the place where Zhao Chuanxin was most likely to escape, and waited for work behind the bunker.

Leopold Maximian said firmly: "Zhao Chuanxin cannot escape even if he has wings, attack!"

The messenger cheered up and left in a hurry.

Bateman Hollweg also felt relieved.

Leopold Maximian was a veteran, the son of Prince Regent Leopold of Wittelsbach and his wife, Princess Auguste of Austria. However, he still devoted himself to the military. He served as an artilleryman and fought against the Prussians in 1866. In 1870, he cooperated with the Prussians and defeated the French army as a soldier of the First Army of the Bavarian Royal Family.

In 1905, he was promoted to field marshal.

Veterans never die.

With his command, Bateman Hollweg felt extremely at ease. This veteran was much more reliable than William II.

The attack horn sounded, and the residents of Berlin watched the excitement from a distance.

They are very unfamiliar with Zhao Chuanxin.

This guy from the Far East really has the heart of a bear but the courage of a leopard.

Someone raised his fist and shouted: "If necessary, I am willing to carry a gun and rush to the front line. Anyone who dares to act wild in Berlin, no matter who they are, will pay the price with blood!"

It was a cold morning in Berlin, and the haze turned the sky gray.

This person's words received a fierce response from the silent crowd: "Pay the price with blood!"

Soldiers wearing Field Locke military uniforms marched step by step with straight faces and eight nickel buttons fastened tightly.

Those who wear two straight bars on their collars are the former Imperial Guardsmen, and those who wear one straight bar on their collars and have red piping on the front are grenadiers.

On the rooftop of the Berlin City Palace, a plume of smoke floated up. It was cigar smoke...