How long does it take to get to China from Europe?
This question has different answers at different points in time,
If the answer to this question hundreds of years ago would have been one to two years,
If another 70 years pass, the answer to this question will be days.
And at this particular point in time, in 1900, the answer to that question was two months.
After two months of sea travel, Ender felt like his body was going moldy.
As a brass dragon, he prefers dry environments.
Although the environment at sea would not make Ander sick, staying in an environment he didn't like still made him a little listless.
In contrast, Angers is very adaptable to this kind of travel life.
Apart from chatting with Ander every day, his favorite thing to do is to hook up with those young and beautiful girls at the dance. Angers always behaves gracefully, which is completely different from the crazy attitude he showed during previous battles.
Sometimes Ander would like to go back to his old business and go find some young girls to talk about his life.
But this was the damn 1900s, a time when racism was prevalent. Every time Ender wanted to go anywhere, he had to use charm or invisibility to hide himself.
Because Chinese people were the lowest class in this era, they were not even allowed to enter dance halls or restaurants. They could only huddle in the lowest cabin like pigs and dogs, quietly waiting for the end of the trip.
To be honest, if Angers hadn't tried his best to stop him, half of the people on the ship would have jumped into the sea naked. Therefore, in the second half of the trip, Ander could only lie in the cabin and chat with Angers for a long time.
Now this damn journey is finally over. There is no more uncomfortable humid sea breeze, no more those damn white racists, and the passenger ship Ender is riding is finally about to dock.
Ender stood on the side of the ship with his luggage, looking at the ancient and new empire in front of him.
Foreigners in suits and Chinese with braids mixed together.
On one side is a giant wheel made of steel,
On one side is an ancient building made of wood.
This style is so fragmented, as if two creations from different time and space are mixed together.
"Huaxia, I'm back."
Ender thought silently in his mind.
"I'm sorry that I came back at this time and saw your most disgraceful side."
Ender turned his head, no longer looking at the skinny migrant workers on the dock, and silently calmed down his emotions.
Angers came over and told Anze that he was about to go through customs.
At this time, the customs of the Qing Dynasty were managed by foreigners, so they would not challenge Ander on the issue of hairstyle.
But you are likely to encounter problems when you leave customs.
Ender didn't care. Sometimes the power of magic is omnipotent, especially when it comes to dealing with interpersonal relationships.
When you are hit by a fireball, you will know how important it is to speak calmly.
Angers made up his mind to keep an eye on Ender to prevent him from doing something drastic.
Perhaps because Angers' appearance suited the customs officer's taste, the two of them passed the customs smoothly without much obstruction.
"What's next?"
Ander asked Angers.
"Go get something."
Angers was not unprepared for this trip to China, on the contrary, he was very well prepared.
Not far from the port, a row of Western-style buildings stands out among the surrounding Chinese-style buildings.
He hurriedly came to one of the mansions, took out the key, and opened the door of the mansion.
"The secret party has few preparations in the Far East. This foreign hotel is one of the safe houses in Shanghai."
Angers introduced.
"It looks pretty good. At least we have a place to sleep."
He shook his finger proudly.
"Come and show you something good."
Anger led Ander to the basement of the mansion.
The basement of the mansion is unexpectedly deep, with several secret doors in the middle, and wooden boxes piled one after another in the basement.
Angers took out his folding knife, pried open one of them, took out two rifles and threw them to Ander.
"Made in Germany, Mauser G98 rifle."
Not only that, Ender picked up the oil lamp in his hand and illuminated the basement.
Angers pried open boxes one after another.
Rifles, machine guns, bullets, and even explosives.
"There are so many guns, why don't you get a cannon?"
Angers pointed to the two innermost boxes.
"Two Krupp cannons, the most powerful ones."
Ender looked at these powerful equipment. With this power, twenty years later he would be a bandit warlord causing trouble for others.
"I thought you were more inclined to close combat."
"I only lean toward strength."
Angers responded.
"Okay, now we have the military equipment to overthrow a country, what's next?"
Ender asked.
Angers skillfully took out a revolver, loaded it with 6 bullets, and inserted it into his waist.
Although he uses knives more often, he still wants to try his teacher's attack method occasionally.
"The next step is to find Shan Yan's companion, our collaborator here."
"What are they called?"
"It seems to be called... Tiandi Hui."
When Ander heard this familiar name, he had the illusion that he had traveled through time into Jin Yong's martial arts.
In fact, the Heaven and Earth Society did exist in history, and it did take its mission to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty.
The Tiandihui was founded in Minzhou, Lu Shanyan’s hometown.
"Okay then, how are you going to find them?"
"Wouldn't it be nice to just ask someone on the street?"
"How is that possible? You are still too young, so let me go and join the Tiandi Society."
Angers was a little hesitant, he was not worried about Ender leaving alone.
Ender saw Angers' concerns and could only swear:
"I promise not to use magic on ordinary people, okay?"
At Ander's request, Angers finally handed over the joint task to Ander.
An hour later, Ander, wearing gray-white cotton clothes, was wandering around the Shanghai market.
The busy people nearby looked at the back of his head and turned their heads.
In this era, there are only two types of people without braids on the back of their heads:
One is a madman;
A person that no one can afford to offend.
Ender took this mission just to see how entangled the world would be.
After watching "The Deer and the Cauldron" played by Xing Ye, he thought for a long time that the Heaven and Earth Society were all a group of perverts who liked to get tattoos on the soles of their feet.
After finally arriving in this world, let him see what the world will be like.
So for an underground organization like the Tiandihui, where is the best place to find it?
The answer is obvious, that is the teahouse.
Nowadays, teahouses are a place for many people to go in their leisure time. Tiandihui, Paogehui, and Qinggang all use teahouses as their bases.
Ander quickly selected his target near the main road in the concession. It was a teahouse with many people coming and going. It looked like the business was doing well.
The three big characters "Yidongtian" are written on the plaque on the gate. It seems to be quite old.
"This is it, let's see if we can find any clues."
Ande walked into the teahouse, and all the tea drinkers inside were stunned, and the waiter also froze aside.
As everyone knows, there is a remarkable person in the teahouse: