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Chapter 2: The Wind Rises (3)

Suo Kui’s meeting was very grand this time. Jidu brought hundreds of officials to the Yamen and the island’s prefecture and counties, and they stood all over the hall.These people are not dressed in official uniforms with tonics and black hats with wings, as in the play, but like Suo Zhongwu who entered the stage early, wearing heavy court clothes from head to toe:

The Wen Chen is a crepe gown with a Jinxian crown, a well-cut square heart, covering the knees. The first few of them are relatively high-grade, and a shaggy mink tail is inserted across their head; the general's neck is nothing like Wen Chen The difference is that they wear Suo Zhongwu's martial arts of the same style on their heads, and two flounders proudly inserted on both sides of the crown, shaking violently as they progressed.

Yes, it shakes violently.When each official entered the hall, they first handed over their swords and then changed their shoes into shoes, and then trot quickly to their respective positions.This is called "stepping", and it can't be easily grasped. Six people stumbled on the way and were reprimanded on the spot by the servant of the palace.

Lao Kuigao looked down at all this leisurely, the smile on his face seemed as if there was nothing, and the hands and feet hidden in the robe were motionless like a Buddha.After he spoke, he was even different from the local boss who had eaten Haisai. Not only did he behave in a reserved manner, he also spoke in a gentle breeze. A steamer could be stuffed between words, and the most basic greeting was more than a hundred. Years are still long.

Suo Zhongwu was first shocked by the boss's bizarre performance, and then angered by the slow tone of voice, making him feel more uncomfortable than scratching with steel claws.The reason why he was able to endure it was entirely because of the hundreds of civil and military officials in Linyuan Prefecture. Although these people's words and sentences were succinct, they spoke faster than modern people, and they were not just nonsense.

This incident really surprised Suo Zhongwu.He originally thought that when the civil and military officials saw the "messenger" who hadn't seen for a long time, they would surely sigh with emotion, and maybe they would even shed pain on the spot.However, whether civil servants or military generals, there are no more than three nonsense words after the "initiation of the envoy", and all kinds of numbers are endless, and you may not be able to keep up if you lose your mind.

Ever since, standing on the coral stone floor tiles, relying on a pair of ears to listen to the lecture, Suo Zhongwu actually got a preliminary understanding of the Henghai Eight Countries:

At present, the total population of Linyuan Prefecture is 210,000, and the total number of households in the eight countries is 1.9 million, which is more than that when the boss of Kui first crossed. The most elite of Linyuan Prefecture’s dental soldiers has a total of 16 There are 20,000 soldiers, and all of them are equipped with flintlocks. The glass factory left by the boss is still prosperous. Ordinary wealthy households can also use glass to decorate windows. The steel industry is booming, with monthly production. All are in short supply......

/Line up and shoot.glass.Ironmaking and steelmaking.It's really a lot./

Suo Zhongwu concealed his face with the wat board, making a face of indulgence.Who hasn't read a novel of crossing these days?Of those things that the traversal must do, Lao Kui really didn't pull down any of them.However, apart from the three youngest things Xiaobai knows, Linyuan Prefecture is not without new things. Some of them sound very rare:

For example, according to the model left by Lao Kui, Gong Cao Yamen developed practical steam engines by himself, and railways and paddle steamers have already started operation; for example, the local military and civilians have figured out another type of struvite through actual combat and practice. Usage, in addition to refining nitrate and fertilizing fields, it can also be bombarded when necessary; for example, manned submarines have participated in actual combat many times, but because the raw materials (alien-body giant ammonites) cannot be guaranteed, the total number of eight countries is only more than ten. That's it.....

Suo Kui opened his eyes when listening to these achievements, and praised "the officials for their hard work" several times.Suo Zhongwu also found it interesting, but the more he pondered deeper, the more he felt that the taste was wrong:

There are too many inventions related to the military, right?Moreover, Lao Kui crossed over twenty years ago, and left seven years ago. He broke through the first industrial revolution so quickly, and the speed of development is too exaggerated. It is comparable to a frantically open gold finger routine novel.There is also the number of household registrations. Twenty years that was a generation's time. As a result, there were 1.9 million households in the past, but now they have only "increased". It's not right, really wrong.

There is a pen on the side of the wat board, and it is a hard pen made of charcoal.Suo Zhongwu looked at the pen holder made of jade, wondering if he should write these questions on the board, and asked the eunuch to send it to the throne to ask for understanding.Doing so will definitely cause the palace servants to roll his eyes and break the principle of "silence is gold", but Suo Zhongwu always feels that it is impossible to take no measures, and his chest is like an ammunition box pressed down. The more he thinks about it, the more he feels that something is wrong. The more I think about it, the more I feel out of breath--

"Boom."

There was a noise from the ceiling.Very light, like a sparrow jumping on the duty post.The Jedu judge who was speaking immediately raised his head and looked over his head. The civil and military officials also put down the watboard one after another, and looked at the source of the sound with a pair of glasses.

Suo Zhongwu's back was swishing cold sweat.There is nothing trivial about the imperial palace. You have to deal with the smallest things seriously and prepare for the worst."Your Majesty," he bit his scalp and said, regardless of the appropriateness of the honorific name, he went down the wrong way:

"Safety comes first. Why don't you just leave it today and go back?"

He didn't wait for Suo Kui's answer, and he didn't usher in the reprimand from the servant in the palace.At the same time as the word "Go" was exited, the soldiers guarding the back building outside the hall suddenly burst into a hustle and bustle. Officers and non-commissioned officers blew bamboo whistles and led the soldiers to line up battle formations under the white marble steps.For a time, there were heads of people on all sides, chaotic light and shadow through the glass windows, first across the hundreds of civil and military officials who looked at each other, and then all the way to the gold-painted and silver-painted main hall beam rafters——

"Boom!"

A loud noise hit the roof, and the Panlongzaojing in the center was suddenly shaken.Pearls and greens fell one after another, and pieces of gold leaf bloomed. From south to north, the whole hall was like being beaten by Kuafu, shuddering with the naked eye.Countless dust rushed out of the beam rafter interface, and a mass of sand fell into Suo Zhongwu’s neckline in an unbiased manner; Lao Kui jumped up from the imperial couch, but was protected behind him by two court ladies on the spot, one on the left and one on the right. The fan stood in front of Jidushi like a shield wall.

Civil officials and military commanders responded equally quickly.Some people pulled their sleeves, some didn't take their crowns, and some pulled off the obstructive knees, but they were still a step late.But after hearing a platoon of guns, gunfire and gun smoke filled the outside of the hall. Countless shadows roared and slammed into the doors and windows with the explosion of a wasp.

Hundreds of pieces of glass shattered immediately, and even the window lattices were knocked and scattered.Accompanied by the ear-piercing clatter, the crystal fragments swept across the window like a shotgun, and the nearby eunuchs and Yushi could not escape, and they were cut to pieces in the blink of an eye.