1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 2 Occupation

The dizziness didn't last long. After about six or seven seconds, Ning Qi came back to his senses. Seeing that Tao Donglai was putting away the green light thing, he couldn't help but wonder, "You dragged me up the mountain in the middle of the night. Came here to see this electronic flashbang you made?"

"This is not an electronic flash bomb, this is a wormhole controller." Tao Donglai said solemnly: "The green light you just saw is actually a wormhole that can connect two time and space. It's another time and space."

"Haha, it's not ridiculous!" Ning Qi pointed to his nose and said, "I've known you Tao Donglai for more than ten years, but I haven't found you to be so bragging. Do you dare to be more reliable? ?"

Tao Donglai didn't laugh, neither did the other three, they just looked at Ning Qi quietly.

Ning Qi shrugged helplessly and said, "Well, even if what you said is true, prove it to me."

"Follow me." Tao Donglai's tone was calm, as if he had expected Ning Qi's reaction.The other three did not speak at all, and it seems that this is not the first time they have experienced such a thing.The more calm these people were, the more uneasy they made Ning Qi.

After walking behind Tao Donglai for a while, Ning Qi finally realized that something was wrong. At this moment, the surrounding environment was too dark, and the visibility of the road was not so bad when we came here. After all, Yuexiu Mountain is prosperous. Standing on the mountain, the whole sky is illuminated by the lights at night, but now there is no trace of city lights in the sky above the treetops.Tao Donglai's flashlight pointed directly at his feet and only illuminated a very small area, which caused Ning Qi, who was following behind, to stagger to keep up.

Tao Donglai suddenly stopped and turned off the flashlight, so the entire team stopped immediately.Ning Qi vaguely saw the other four squatting down, and he also squatted down subconsciously. He heard Tao Donglai say softly, "Look ahead."

Ning Qi squinted and looked forward, and his heart was shocked. The Zhenhai Tower actually had a few strings of lanterns hanging from the eaves, and the city walls downstairs extended to the left and right, and there was no end in sight in the dark night.

"No, there must be something wrong with this!" Ning Qi only felt a panic in his heart for no reason.He also visited the ancient city wall near Zhenhai Tower, and the best-preserved section is only about 200 meters away. The city wall he saw in front of him is not only full of battlements and enemy towers, but also far beyond 200 meters as far as he can see. The trees within the steps were also cut cleanly, and no one within this distance could avoid the surveillance of the guards on the city wall. This was not at all the ruined ancient city wall of Yuexiu Mountain that I had seen before!

"Let's go, let's walk along the city wall for a while." Tao Donglai's voice clearly reached Ning Qi's ears in the quiet air, awakening him from his deep thoughts.

So this small team hid in the woods and continued along the direction of the city wall.Judging from the location between him and Zhenhai Tower, Ning Qi was quite sure that he should be near the Guangzhou Art Museum, but not only did there not have any art museums here, but even the mountain path he walked on when he went up the mountain disappeared without a trace.And on the city wall that curved along the mountain, you could clearly see sentries patrolling with lanterns.In fact, no more evidence is needed, Ning Qi can already be sure that his current situation is just as Tao Donglai said - he has passed through!I really crossed!

Sure enough, he didn't go very far, further evidence confirmed Ning Qi's guess again: a city gate appeared at the extension of the city wall.Ning Qi clearly remembered that he had seen an introduction about the ancient city wall of Guangzhou in the Zhenhai Building. The city wall on Yuexiu Mountain was built by Zhu Liangzu, the Marquis of Yongjia during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, and this city gate must be the small north gate built at that time.In the 13th year of the Chongzhen reign, the northern city of Guangzhou was expanded, heightened and thickened on the original basis, and the city wall reached a height of two feet and seven feet, but the city wall seen before him was obviously not that high, only two feet at most, so Ning Qi I came to the conclusion that the time and space I am in now should be a certain period between Ming Hongwu and Ming Chongzhen.

The five people crouched in the bushes for about half an hour, and Tao Donglai didn't seem to have any intention of leading the group to visit other places, so he returned to the previous camping place along the route he came from.

Ning Qi only reacted after entering the tent: "Then can we go back?"

"Of course." Tao Donglai took out the "wormhole controller" and pressed a button.

Ning Qi was mentally prepared this time, the dizziness time was shorter than the previous one, and he stepped straight out of the tent as soon as he regained consciousness—that’s right, he had already returned to the original time and space, and he could faintly see that scene in the distance. The neon lights on the roof of the 200-meter-high Pearl River International Building.

Ning Qi was so shocked by this short one-hour journey in time and space that he didn't even ask any questions on the way back to the hotel.It wasn't until he returned to the room groggy that he remembered that when Tao Donglai broke up in the parking lot just now, he seemed to have said that he would come back to interview him in the morning.After the previous events, Ning Qi is almost certain that the people headed by Tao Donglai were planning to go to the Ming Dynasty to do something, and they called themselves to Guangzhou to show this miracle, the purpose must be to pull Join yourself!

After falling on the bed, Ning Qi couldn't sleep peacefully. The Ming Dynasty, a feudal dynasty that ruled China for nearly 300 years, this great era that has disappeared in the long river of history, has become so within reach!As a history buff, as a fake fan, Ning Qi will never let go of such an opportunity to realize his dream, but it is not so easy to make up his mind to let go of everything now and go back to the time and space hundreds of years ago matter!

Tao Donglai's group of four came at eight in the morning, and Ning Qi opened the door with a pair of panda eyes and welcomed them in.

It was Bai Kesi who spoke first: "Mr. Ning, I think you should now understand which period in history you saw before, right?"

Bai Kesi's remarks sounded a bit like an exam, but Ning Qi had already deduced it many times, and he had nothing to hide so far, so he just told his conjecture.

After listening, Tao Donglai nodded and said, "Your speculation is indeed correct. To be precise, it should be the sixth year of the Ming Dynasty's Apocalypse, which is 1626 AD."

Ning Qi couldn't help but be stunned: "How do you know such an accurate time? You have already had contact with the Ming people of that time and space?"

Tao Donglai shook his head and said, "That's not true. If I dressed up as a modern person rashly appeared in Guangzhou at that time, I would most likely be directly tied and beheaded as a Japanese pirate. The reason why I know the time is because the last time I I stayed there until dawn, and I used a telescope to see the notice posted outside the city gate, the inscription was the year of Tianqi Bingyin, and Lu Menglong, the inspector of Guangdong."

Tao Donglai put forward such clear evidence, that the ancient city wall and the city gate were also seen by Ning Qi with his own eyes, and it was consistent with the previous speculation, Ning Qi had no doubts about this, so he could only ask helplessly: "Then we can tell now. Me, what is your purpose?"

"I hope you can join our team." Tao Donglai said while pointing at several people present one by one: "We are going to use this wormhole to go to that time and space."

"What are you going to do? Selling cultural relics or becoming an emperor? Also, why did you choose me?" Now that the truth has been revealed, Ning Qi has relaxed a little, and his tone has become more relaxed as he speaks.

"What to do in that time and space is not imposed on you after we decide, but we make the decision together. Mr. Ning, as you said yesterday, the power of an individual is actually very weak in front of an era, so we need to Build a strong team first, make full preparations, and then go through the journey." Baix took Ning Qi's question and replied, "The reason why I chose you is mainly because of Boss Tao's suggestion. There are three reasons. First, you are business management. Professional background, with certain professional skills and knowledge in management, which is very important for us to build a team with a reasonable structure; second, your job is a university teacher, if we want to take root in another era, then education and culture can be said It is one of our foundations, and your understanding of the education system is exactly what we need; third, Boss Tao said that you have a relatively in-depth study of history and culture, especially the history of the Ming Dynasty, which will help us formulate future development plans. Very helpful too."

"One more important point, you are someone I can trust, Tao Donglai!" Tao Donglai added, with the kind of smile that Ning Qi was familiar with.

After Ning Qi finished listening, he closed his eyes and meditated silently, and the others were not in a hurry to disturb him.This kind of silence lasted for about 5 minutes before Ning Qi opened his eyes and said: "I have another question, if you really organize a team to travel to the past as you said, will you not plan to go there after you go?" came back?"

"I'll answer this question." Tao Donglai took out the "wormhole controller" again and put it on the coffee table in front of Ning Qi: "I got this thing by accident three years ago. Having used it more than ten times, we found that this thing will display a scale when it is turned on. After repeated research, we believe that it is the mark of its service life. There are still about one third of it left, that is to say, We still have about a year to a year and a half to use. And the size of this wormhole is controllable. Last year, Baix and I went to the no-man's land of the Taklimakan Desert for a test. This controller can at least make the wormhole Zoom in to a distance of 500 meters in radius. Such a large space should be enough for us to form a large team and carry a considerable amount of materials. The problem we have to face is not whether to return to this time and space, but to realize that in the end A crossing will definitely be one-way, and from now on, make full preparations for this crossing that is bound to come.”

"A year to a year and a half..." Ning Qi touched the slag on his chin with his fingers and pondered: "To prepare all kinds of materials and at the same time to recruit people, the time is too tight, and you may not be able to complete the preparatory work you want to achieve. "

"Actually, the preparations started a year ago." Baix pointed to himself: "Boss Tao and I started planning the preparations last year. We brought in Yan Chujie and Gu Kai half a year ago."

Ning Qi glared at Tao Donglai and said, "Okay, you are Tao Donglai, you have the nerve to say that you trust me, you can play alone, and it took a year for me to join the team even after forming a team?"

Tao Donglai smiled and said, "You have wronged me. I asked you to come to Guangzhou in August last year. You said you couldn't come to the provincial party school for further education. Do you remember?"

Ning Qi thought about it, and it seemed that this was really the case, and said angrily: "I was studying at that time to add weight to the evaluation of the title of associate professor. Of course, I can't just leave... Besides, I don't know your side. It's so weird."

"It's not too late now!" Yan Chujie patted Ning Qi's shoulder vigorously: "Joining the party on the line of fire, just made a great contribution!"

"How is it? Join us?" Tao Donglai asked Ning Qi with a hopeful expression on his face.

Ning Qi thought about it for a while, and finally nodded heavily. At this moment, the faces of the five people showed a relaxed expression.

(End of this chapter)