Tan Zhonglin was very dissatisfied that he had to dress neatly and blow the cold wind outside Guangzhou during the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival. However, everyone in the government and the public could now see that the imperial court relied on the army and the goddess to maintain its existence, so Tan Zhonglin himself
As a frontier official of the Qing Dynasty, you still had to get up early in the morning, go to the airport in Guangzhou, and wait for the new commander of the Shenji Camp to take the Yunzhou - called an airship in the West - and the additional troops of the Shenji Camp.
arrival.
Although it is only autumn, the weather this year seems to be extremely abnormal. It is extremely hot in summer, but there is an early chill in autumn. Tan Zhonglin was still wearing his summer official uniform. He stood in the cold wind for a while and hit several times in a row.
When he sneezed, the servant next to him hurriedly came up with a cloak, but the old man glared at him and said: "I'm not old enough to even stand this little wind!"
Tan Zhonglin stood in the cold wind. The group of officials from the Governor's Office of Guangdong and Guangxi and the squires in Guangzhou City behind him did not dare to sit down and could only stand together. The younger ones were better, and those clan elders who were older than Tan Zhonglin
They were all quite slanderous.
If the new commander of Shenji Camp was just the commander of the first battalion, he would definitely not be able to have the dignitaries of Guangzhou City gather together like this. Apart from her wearing a flower feather and military power, the most important thing
The reason is her identity.
The chief officer of the New Shenji Battalion who was transferred to Guangzhou was Yuan Weiting, the sister of Yuan Shikai, the Right Minister of the Ministry of Industry and the Inspector-General of Zhili. After Nie Shicheng died in the battle, Yuan Shikai took over all the training of the new army. It can be said that he currently controls the strongest routine of the Qing Dynasty.
Force. And this Yuan Weiting has very outstanding qualifications and powerful abilities. Everyone thinks that she is the most powerful competitor for the next emperor. The emperor of the Shenji camp is not hereditary, and there is no way for the Shenji to be hereditary.
After the death of the emperor, a new emperor will be born in the competition, and then crowned by the current emperor, becoming a symbol of the country.
One country has two emperors. This is the difference between the two eastern countries of China and Japan in this time and space and other countries. The difference between China and Japan is that the Japanese empress has the ability to interfere with the emperor's decision-making. This is mainly
This is because Japan is a small country and before it carried out modern military reforms, it did not have the power to effectively check Shen Ji. China is a vast country, and the Central Plains dynasty has maintained a nominal force of hundreds of thousands of conventional troops, so Shen Ji's role is greatly
has been reduced, so since the Song Dynasty, China's goddesses have begun to be subordinate to the emperor, and the reign name no longer changes with the replacement of the emperor, but is decided by the emperor.
But because Di Ji's own strength should not be underestimated, Di Ji's identity still has a great deterrent effect on people, especially those important officials of the court. Because if Di Ji wants to, she can easily kill them, but she cannot
Receive any punishment - who would punish the Emperor Ji, who is the symbol of the country's strongest power, for an official who can be replaced by others at any time?
Therefore, Yuan Weiting, who was a strong competitor for the Emperor and had a brother with a lot of troops behind her, could not afford to neglect her.
And this Yuan Weiting is also very arrogant. The dignitaries in Guangzhou have been blowing the wind for almost a morning, and her Yunzhou arrived belatedly.
Yunzhou slowly lowered its height and released the support for landing. The alchemy runes used for strengthening on the support shone brightly in the autumn sunshine, dazzling the faces of the dignitaries on the ground. Dozens of equipment were used before landing.
The neatly organized Shenji jumped up from the cloud boat and flew across the landing site in a battle formation. The whirlwind whipped up by the amplifier wings made the dignitaries shrink their necks, and someone could faintly hear someone cursing in a low voice amidst the roar.
Then Yunzhou's support made a heavy sound when it touched the ground. Almost at the same time, the military band that had been on standby began to play music. Naturally, the song played was the "General's Military Training Song" adapted from "Kaiser Wilhelm's Military Training Song".
As the music played, Yunzhou's upper armor opened, and the flagpole stored inside slowly rose during flight. The three flags on it were fluttering in the wind. The top one was naturally the Yellow Dragon Flag of the Qing Dynasty, and the five-color governor flag of the Beiyang New Army was below it.
, further down, is the camp flag of the Yuci Shenji camp. Yuan Shikai, the elder brother, still maintains the courtesy of a courtier to the Qing Dynasty, but his sister openly usurped the Beiyang military flag to the Yuci camp.
Above the flag of Shen Jiying with a yellow background.
Seeing this situation, several old officials from the Daoguang period began to shake their heads, and out of thin air, they lamented that the generals of the country would not be able to conquer the country.
While the old scholars shook their heads, Yuan Weiting appeared at the top of the springboard extending from the Yunzhou with a sword at her waist and a sword all over her body. Unlike Xuedeba who tended to use abilities to form a shield to resist attacks, Yuan Weiting was mainly equipped with physical protection.
A, in terms of defensive power alone, physical armor is better than shields, because after all, there is alchemy-strengthened armor as a "support" for defense, and the protective ability developed on top of that will consume less of Shen Ji's mental energy.
Much more, but the shortcomings are also obvious: Shen Ji can only be protected.
However, these are not important to the dignitaries present. What they are more concerned about is that it is just a formal acceptance ceremony. It is understandable that the goddess is released at low altitude to establish her power. Today's protagonist is covered in murderous aura.
What is he going to do? Many people looked at Tan Zhonglin. Lu Chuanlin, the governor of Guangzhou, even leaned into Tan Zhonglin's ear and whispered: "Sir, this... what kind of medicine is Yuan Dutong selling in the gourd?"
Tan Zhonglin rolled his eyes at Lu Chuanlin, and the meaning was clear: "Who should I ask if you ask me?"
Yuan Weiting didn't say anything, she just stood at the top of the springboard and looked down. Her long, unfettered hair was flying in the autumn wind, like a black cloak.
Her right eye shines with a strange red light. It is said that in her early years, she heard from her brother Yuan Shikai that the West had developed a magical prop that could exponentially enhance the dynamic vision of people and even gods. It could also be used as a weapon when necessary.
After she verified that this kind of prop actually existed, she cut herself in the face with a knife and changed into this crystal that was a fusion of alchemy and force-guiding technology.
From then on, this red light became a nightmare that could never be erased from the hearts of those who were enemies of the Yuan family.
The enchantress with burning eyes.
Now, she was scanning the crowd below with her eyes that exuded a strange light, like a god looking down at the common people.
Finally, the red light fell on those goddesses in the Guangzhou Shenji Camp who had not been dragged away by Nie Xueqiu. From the moment Yunzhou landed, these guilty goddesses all knelt on the ground, looking like they were waiting to be punished.
"kill."
Very simple words came out of the enchantress's mouth, as if she was chatting about the weather.
But the slaughter began.
The subordinates of the enchantress swooped down from the sky and opened fire on the unprepared goddesses with their weapons, without any hesitation or mercy. The beautiful bodies of the enchantresses were smashed like fragile eggs, and blood flowed out.
and internal organs spurted out from the broken body and scattered all over the ground.
The massacre came to an end in just a few seconds, and death came so quickly that the dignitaries present had no time to react. Their brains seemed unable to accept the killing in front of them, and they were desperately trying to explain it with some other reason.
The miserable look in front of me.
Yuan Weiting jumped lightly and came from the end of the springboard to the ground. When she landed, her armor made no noise at all.
"Why did the military music stop?" The Enchantress glanced at the frozen military band with her red eyes and asked coldly, "Keep playing the music. Don't play that military training song for the commander. I want to listen to Beethoven's E flat major No.
Three Symphonies.”
"This...this is too difficult..."
"Really?" Yuan Weiting put her thumb on the guard of the waist knife, pushed the knife an inch out of the scabbard with a click, and revealed the shiny blade.
So the conductor of the military band stood up straight tremblingly and began to conduct the band, but his hand holding the baton was covered with sweat and he almost dropped the baton.
Yuan Weiting strode up to the shocked dignitaries amidst the music of the Third Symphony in E flat major, which only had orchestral parts - the Heroic Symphony.
"This..." Tan Zhonglin felt that cold sweat was breaking out on his forehead, but he still bravely faced it, "This, Master Yuan, what are you doing? These goddesses have never listened to the evil words of the traitor Nie Xueqiu.
A loyal minister, and the power of the goddess is the country..."
"Master Tan, how can you ensure that these goddesses have not listened to Nie Xueqiu's monstrous words? Nie Xueqiu was transferred to Guangdong to rebel for several months. Her thoughts may have influenced those who stayed. By then, she would be suppressing the rebellion.
These goddesses defected in battle, Mr. Tan, can you bear this responsibility?"
Yuan Weiting spoke so righteously, as if the truth was really on her side, which made a group of people behind Tan Zhonglin look at each other.
"However, Shen Ji is a treasure of the country after all, and these ten people are like this..."
Yuan Weiting raised her right hand and interrupted Tan Zhonglin: "If it is to suppress the rebellious party, it does not matter if the combat power of more than ten goddesses is missing. If it is a war with foreigners, what will happen if there are more than ten goddesses?"
In another time and space, Tan Zhonglin was one of the few officials of the Qing Dynasty who stood at the forefront of fighting against the French occupation of Guangzhou Bay. He was a typical example of traditional feudal loyal ministers. These words naturally did not sit well with him, but facing the situation that had not yet happened before him
With the dried blood, he could only shrink back...
The victorious enchantress raised her chin high, curved her mouth and showed a wild smile. Her right eye sensed the master's mental fluctuations and radiated an even stronger red light.
"It seems that Mr. Tan has fully understood it. Come here, send a telegram to the court, 'We have found out that the remnants of the Shenji camp in Guangzhou are still rebellious, so we can take precautions before they happen. With the second proposal of the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Mr. Tan Zhonglin, 12 of the remnants will be killed."
People are in the court of law.'"
In this time and space, due to Nie Shicheng's early sacrifice in the Sino-Japanese War of 1898, Yuan Shikai monopolized the military power in the capital, and her sister was the most powerful candidate for the aging Emperor Ji. Coupled with Nie Xueqiu's defection, Yuan Shikai and his faction gained further
Opportunity to purge the dissidents in the New Army. At this point in time in 1897, the Yuan family's power was much stronger than in the previous time and space, to the point where they could unscrupulously coerce local officials and cover the sky with one hand.
Seeing that her subordinates were ordered to leave, Yuan Weiting hooked her fingers at the guard. The guard understood the situation very smartly and respectfully handed an eyepatch to Yuan Weiting's hand.
When Yuan Weiting covered her strange red eyes with a pure black eyepatch, everyone present - including the soldiers brought by Yuan Weiting quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
"Master Tan, before I came here, I heard that there is a very famous guy in Guangzhou. I wonder if you have time to introduce him to me?"
Tan Zhonglin was stunned for a moment, and then realized who she was going to visit.
"Master Yuan has come a long way and is tired from the journey. It's not too late to rest for a few days before making arrangements." It may be because Yuan Weiting put away the red light in his eyes, or it may be that the passage of time has allowed him to regain the calmness of an official.
, Tan Zhonglin’s response sounds much more confident than before.
"No need, I like to cut through the mess quickly. What's more, this new official has only burned one of the three things he has done since he took office."
At this time, many timid people present were frightened. The remnants of the Shenji Battalion were in the first position, and Lin Youde was in the second position. Who should be burned in the third position?
So many people secretly began to pray for Lin Youde, praying that this upstart in Guangzhou could be more resistant to fire - it would be best if he could directly resist the fire.