029 In a mess
"Do you know that there is a warship made of pure steel in the West now. You heard it right, it is made of pure steel. From the keel to the shell, it is made of steel, and it is powered by coal. There is a large boiler in the warship that relies on the power of flames to surround the sea..."
"On the North American continent, people invented the technology of transmitting voice thousands of miles. Even if people are hundreds or thousands of miles apart, as long as a wire is connected, they can instantly transmit intelligence information to each other. They call this technology a telegraph machine..."
"There is also a ball that can fly to the sky, which can float directly to the top of the white clouds with people. Any ambush on the earth cannot escape his eyes. As long as a soldier blew the flag, even if Sun Wu is reborn, you will not be able to ambush in front of such an enemy..."
"Oh, by the way, there is another kind of ship that is very strange, called a submarine that can hide the entire hull underwater, sneak up on the enemy, and run away after fighting..."
What Xiao Letian said was so exciting, he didn't care about the old men's beards and stared at the table, slapping the table and cursing people. More and faster chapters were invited. The young people were stunned, and the top prostitutes even took out paper and pen to start shorthand. It is very likely that some people in Baihualou will say this storytelling tomorrow. It is called the master of Western learning and the verbal battles with scholars, or simply called foreigners talking nonsense.
Xiao Letian said it very well, but it may not be pleasant to others. Just when Xiao Letian talked about a heavy machine gun called Gatlin, Luo Haoluo Hanlin suddenly said, "Mr. Xiao, is what you said true?"
"Nonsense, nonsense! Look at this is the great master of Western learning you advocate? It's just a joke..." Wang Hanlin was very involved.
Xiao Letian took a sip of tea and moistened his throat. "Don't you believe it? Then what if I'll make a bet with you? Let's go directly to the US Embassy, and I even send you overseas to see it with my own eyes after paying my own travel expenses. Please come with more and faster chapters."
"If I was talking nonsense, then I swear here that I will not be an official in my life, and I will also let my descendants give up the path of an official... But what if I win? Are you willing to resign and not be an official, and then the three generations of descendants will not go on the official career?"
Xiao Letian's words blew across Baihua Tower like the cold wind, and even the prostitutes were stunned. In the feudal dynasty, they used their career as bets and also bet on their descendants, which was even more cruel than gambling for life. For a moment, everyone stopped talking, and even Wang Lao Hanlin was silent.
"What's wrong? I'm mute! Didn't you be quite eloquent just now? Didn't the saint say 'You can die in the morning and night', and you are not afraid of death, but you are still attached to the official position? Hahaha, it turns out that you can only show off your verbal skills..."
Xiao Letian picked up the cane on the coffee table beside him, raised his head and dried the wine on the table. "Brother, I'll be ready for the wine, so I won't be with you anymore, but I'll say one more thing. Now this world is a major change that has not been seen in three thousand years. The outside world is running forward thousands of miles a day. Although we were running in the front in the past, we are now much behind."
"One step is wrong, every step is wrong. If one day foreigners drive the steel giant ship I mentioned at Dagukou, the shells on it can explode into Zhengyangmen in just one round. When the heavy machine gun that fired tens of thousands of bullets was mounted on the city wall in an instant, when you are all slaves of the country, please don't forget that in the spring of the fourth year of Tongzhi, there was an overseas lonely guest who wanted to make the Qing Dynasty prosperous and strong, and wanted to tell everyone the secrets of foreigners..."
"If there really is one day, I don't know who our descendants will scold you! I'll say goodbye..." After saying that, Xiao Letian raised his legs and seemed to walk out.
"Stop it! It's really unruly. How could our Qing Dynasty allow you, a two-divine devil, to act so wildly!" Mr. Wang Shizheng was so angry that his beard shook. As a great scholar who was educated in traditionally, the thinking in his mind was already deeply rooted, and he had long been completely repulsive of new things.
In addition, he was old and was still old in Hanlin. Even the emperor and the empress dowager were polite when they saw him talking. It was precisely this reason that made the old man spoiled a temper that was to rely on his seniority. Today he came to Xiao Letian to slap his face, but he didn't expect that he would not beat him up. Instead, he taught this shameless second Japanese devil a lesson. First, he used a bad spell to block everyone's mouth, and then alluded to himself that he would become an eternal sinner.
It would be strange if the old Hanlin could bear this kind of insult. As soon as he got angry, the old Hanlin didn't say "You, you... you are a barbarian who is unfaithful and unfilial, forgets benevolence, righteousness, courtesy and wisdom!"
"You are unfilial to give up your ancestors' tomb and join foreigners. You are rude to the government and don't leave any braids. You are unfaithful. With the help of foreigners, Ling Wei, the head of the Interior Affairs Office, the second master Lian, who robs the concubines who occupy others, and even causes Fan Jian to separate from his brother. You are unkind and unrighteous..."
"How can you be so shameless in the world? Poor Fan Jian's only daughter becomes your plaything, you are a thief... I ask you, did Master Lian suffer a stroke? Have you occupied the tiger girl in the Taihang Mountain caravan..."
Good guy, now it can be considered as poking Xiao Letian's lung duct. He updated the first time that he really didn't expect that such a bastard literati would actually involve women in order to suppress his reputation, and he was full of nonsense.
This was the Qing Dynasty when feudal ethics were the most severe. Once this basin of dirty water was poured onto Xiao Letian and Hu Niu, it would be completely impossible to wash it. Xiao Letian, a modern person, was not afraid of anything and did not care about such things, but Hu Niu cared about it. At that time, the little girl would be sprayed to death by public opinion, and even suicide was possible.
"Is this the Hanlin of the Qing Dynasty? He made up random things, slandered and used rumors to destroy other people's reputation?" Xiao Letian was completely furious. He exuded an aggressive murderous aura all over his body. He was not a weak scholar without any power. He really dared to kill people.
Xiao Letian has five direct lives in his hands. His invisible murderous aura made the scholars and prostitutes in Baihua Tower feel cold as if a gust of cold wind has passed. At this moment, in a small box on the top floor of Baihua Tower, a man suddenly hummed in surprise.
"Awesome! The scholar actually has murderous aura? This guy is really interesting..."
At this time, Wang Hanlin also took the initiative. He was not purely indignant to find Xiao Letian today. He charged Fan Ru 200 taels of money, and even the great scholars around him also collected Fan Ru's money.
These mercenaries jumped up one by one and pointed at Xiao Letian's nose and scolded him.
"Bold madman, Brother Hui is a third-rank Hanlin. How could he wrongly accuse you, a barbarian..."
"Her uncle Fan Ru has already told us about the ugly things you and Hu Niu have done. Who do you want to hide from? Even if you hide from the world, the blue sky on your head will not forgive you..."
"Let him come and kill him, don't stop me, let him come and kill him... I, the king of kings, are full of righteousness, why would I be afraid of him, a traitor? At worst, I will die with you..."
After saying that, Wang Shizheng was going crazy and wanted to bypass the round table and fight Xiao Letian desperately. Several old men next to him quickly broke up the fight, and the table was entangled and beaten up all the wine and food.
Xiao Letian was now sneering. He secretly gave a wink to the little Saimen in the corner of the room. The smart Saimen had already started to secretly take pictures. Anyway, the hall was brightly lit, and there was no need for flash to fill the lights, and no one paid attention to the secretly take pictures.
Wang Hanlin was held up like a tiger, cursing, pointing his fingers, and his feet were covered with soupy dishes. The old man had completely become the incarnation of justice, citing classics and rhymes, and he wanted to use the five thousand years of Chinese culture to fight against the two Japanese. At that moment, he had already transformed into the patron saint of Chinese culture. As long as he was in the Western powers, no one could destroy the Qing Dynasty.
The madam in Baihualou was already crying and her face was full of tears. She didn't expect that a good literary career would turn into a martial arts fight in the end. Tomorrow, all brothels in Beijing would have to laugh at her.
In the Baihua Building, men were arguing, women were crying, cursing, and many were persuading fights. Several tables of banquets were beaten up during the thrust. Until the end, Luo Hao, Luo Hanlin and Wen Xiu, Wen Zhangjing, two hard-core fans of Xiao Letian, took advantage of the chaos to escort the overseas lonely guest. The two kept bowing with guilt.
"Brother Luo, Brother Wen, you don't have to blame yourself. There are so many people who have been stupid in the Qing Dynasty. You don't have to feel sorry for them. In two days, I will be the host and invite two brothers alone in the Fan Mansion." After that, Xiao Letian took a foreign carriage and left the Bada Hutong.
Just as the carriage started, a figure came in and it was Xiao Letian's personal guard Sima Yun. "Sima Yun, from today on, you have been watching Wang Shizheng. What he ate, what he wore, and who he met, even if he went to bed with that woman, you will remember it clearly. If you dare to scold my wife, I can't kill him!"
"Abide by the order!" Sima Yun flashed and disappeared into the night of Beijing without saying a word.
The overseas loner Xiao Letian left, and Wang Hanlin became much more energetic like a victorious cockfighting cockfighting. Under the gaze of many literati and poets, he proudly left Baihua Tower. Most of the other literati have dispersed, and of course, some people who are not very careful hugging a few beautiful women to spend together, which is their own business.
When Baihua Building was completely quiet, a small crack in the remote private room on the second floor suddenly opened, and a pair of hawk eyes looked around the hall and then shrank back.
"Jiu Shuai, Xiao Letian has left, and Wang Hanlin has left..." There is only a lonely table of wine and food in the private room, and there is also a middle-aged man in his forties. He is the so-called Jiu Shuai.
"Go away?" Jiushuai slowly rotated his wine glass, watching his amber daughter Hong spinning in the cup and whispered to himself, "Talent, what a fucking baby talent. Eagle, remember this, keep this Xiao Letian tight, except in danger of life, don't take action, your task is this in the near future, go."
As soon as Jiushuai finished speaking, the eagle suddenly flashed and couldn't see clearly what was going on. The person had already turned out from the window, and there was no sound at all.
Jiushuai was the only one left in the room. He suddenly smiled, "Brother, I didn't want to go back to Beijing in advance, but I didn't expect that such a strange man appeared in Beijing. I'm not in vain! I really want to see, is your elm-head really not enlightened?"
At this time, he suddenly shouted, "Come on, call me the most beautiful girls in Baihua Building. I'm going to drink today. I'll take it down in the second half..."
Jiushuai roared, and suddenly more than 20 men in black flashed out of the black alley in front and behind Baihua Building, and pulled out the lancets and rushed into the private rooms one by one. In a short while, the remaining few bare-butt literati were bombarded, and they didn't even have time to wear the clothes.
"Who are you? Langlang Qiankun..." Before he could finish speaking, something yellow in the arms of these literati suddenly appeared. After a closer look, it turned out to be ten taels of gold ingots.
Chapter completed!