Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

Next, it is busy with the planning and construction projects of Hollywood Town.

Hollywood.This is a small town built on a 1886-acre piece of land bought by real estate agent Harvey Wilcox in 0.6.

At the beginning, Wilcox's wife Deda was passing through Chicago on her way to California.She saw a building surrounded by holly trees and struck up a conversation with a woman.As a result, the Chicago woman said that the plant was called holly, and the English literal translation was "Hollywood", and her house was also called Hollywood.Deda remembers the name Hollywood, remembers Holly.

After coming to Los Angeles, Deida planted many holly trees.Although none of the holly trees Dida planted successfully survived.However, the land is still named after Hollywood.

After that, the couple built a lot of buildings here.Attracted some people to settle here, but also brought a lot of profits to their real estate business.

But a sudden financial turmoil made the Harveys almost bankrupt, and finally they had to resell the land to the state government. After several sales by the state government, no one was interested in the land.After Qiao Zhiyong came to California, he not only bought Hollywood, but also bought a large piece of land around this small town, because he had a huge plan for a movie kingdom brewing in his mind. While planning and building the central area, he also had to consider the surrounding supporting environment planning.

When the California government saw such a big customer, they were so happy that they couldn't help but immediately passed a bill to upgrade Hollywood from a town to a city-level region.The arrival of Qiao Zhiyong was warmly welcomed by Wilcox, a down-and-out real estate agent: "Mr. Qiao Zhiyong, on behalf of the residents of Hollywood, I welcome you to invest here! It has good municipal construction, and at the same time, the land is cheap and the living environment is quiet. From the noisy world, this place is as peaceful as another world..."

Qiao Zhiyong looked around, and said, "The downtown area of ​​Los Angeles is too lively, while the surrounding countryside has poor supporting facilities. Hollywood is relatively quiet and has some infrastructure. It's better for a film company to open here."

"Movie?" Wilcox was taken aback, because although movies can be seen in downtown Los Angeles, people in Hollywood have not seen such a new thing as movies.

"Yes! Movie! It's a thing invented by Edison. It can record the image of a person just like a photo. But the image on the photo is fixed and still. The picture of the movie is moving, and it vividly records what people are doing. The movements are like people living in the painting."

Wilcox's heart moved, and he suddenly thought, yes, why didn't I think of developing the film industry here at the beginning, but it's too late to regret it now, this land has already had nothing to do with my name.

Qiao Zhiyong said with a smile: "Soon we will show a movie in the open air for residents of Hollywood to watch. You are also welcome to come. This open air screening is free. It will be a meeting gift from our company to Hollywood."

Three days later, Qiao Zhiyong moved the Zhonghua Film Company here.The first thing the company did was to set up a local movie theater in Hollywood, which still showed "The Great Train Robbery". More than 300 local residents in Hollywood aroused strong interest in the movie, and the cheap consumption of only 5 nickels attracted the audience. I linger and forget to return, often watching more than a dozen movies a week.

Next, Zhonghua Film Company invited the most famous director Mérieux from France with a lot of money.

Merieux was originally a French stage magician and theater manager, and later established a "photo studio" in Montreuil, which is the earliest "studio" in the world.At the beginning, he saw a book "Magic" published in the United States, and was greatly inspired. He abandoned the practice of "scientific films" that shot location films and recorded natural phenomena, but was inspired by magic. I started thinking about "rehearsal film" and "deformation film".Therefore, when shooting movies, he used various methods such as optical effects, art, scenery, special effects, magic, stage mechanism settings, models, etc. to enrich the magic and imaginative artistic effects of movies.

He filmed the film of the same name based on Jules Verne's science fiction novel "Travel to the Moon". .Due to Mérieux's outstanding achievements in the film industry, he is known as the "movie magician".

Now Zhonghua Film Company has Edwin, the most successful commercial film director in the United States, director of "The Great Train Robbery", and Mérieux, the world-recognized art film master. With these two magic weapons alone, it is enough to make Zhonghua Film Company It is unique in the American film industry, and its scenery is unparalleled.

Resurgence: World War II Chapter 477 Pre-war Deployment

In Kunming, Yunnan, Cai E, a legendary figure who is romantic and full of ambition to serve the country, is wearing a brand-new uniform of the Chinese Imperial Army General, sitting in the meeting hall of the temporary official residence.Just the day before, he had just received an appointment order from the Ministry of the Army, appointing him as the commander-in-chief of the Third Imperial Army. From now on, his troops will be organized into the Huwei Army, and they will go south from Kunming to Leiguping, an important town in Burma, to suppress the rebels.

"Songpo, this time our army moved south to fight in Burma. I always feel a little panic in my heart. I don't know why. I always feel that if we go to Burma this time, I have a bad feeling. I always feel that something will happen. It's like that." Chief of Staff Tang Jiyao has been with Cai E for many years, and it can be said that he is Cai Songpo's confidant and favorite general. Of course Tang Jiyao was also promoted.

"The journey to Burma will never be smooth, but we soldiers take obedience to orders as our bounden duty. The Supreme Command ordered us to fight in Burma. The rebel army entrenched in Burma has only four divisions, namely the 18th Division, the 33rd Division, the 55th Division and the 56th Division, but we have the strength of three legions, and they are well-equipped. Surround me. The imperial court gave us several times the enemy's strength, just to use our advantages in numbers and equipment to wipe out the rebels in one fell swoop. If we still lose the battle, I, Cai E, will have to die to thank the emperor. " Cai E said seriously.

"But Songpo, can you be sure that the rebels will only keep four divisions in Burma? Will they not send more troops?" Tang Jiyao was obviously a little afraid of Yuan Shikai's way of using troops.

"But you also need to know that at the beginning, the rebel army did not invest many troops in Burma and Vietnam, only about a few divisions. Do you think the rebel army will devote all these twenty or so divisions to On the battlefield in Burma? Hehe, I said you are too sensitive. It is impossible to think about it. You know, when they fought Burma, the Zhenwei Army led by Feng Yuxiang had already fought against the rebels in Laos. Yuan Shikai was able to draw It’s good enough for the four divisions to stay in Myanmar, so don’t be too sensitive, it’s okay, our troops can’t be defeated or dragged down. Yuan Shikai is cunning and cunning in officialdom, but in terms of war, ten Yuan Xiangchengs are tied Together they are no match for me, Cai Songpo." Cai E said confidently.

Tang Jiyao sighed and said nothing more.

"My lord, the Supreme Command has sent a telegram, which contains a list of equipment we need." Deputy Chief of Staff Gu Pinzhen came to Cai E with a telegram.

"Oh? Bring it for me to see!" When Cai E heard that it was a list of equipment, he suddenly regained his energy. He flipped through the list and asked, "Have we counted all the equipment we have?"

"Hehe, I've counted it a long time ago. Here, look!" Gu Pinzhen took out a list and gave it to Cai E as if by magic.

Cai E compared the two lists of weapons and equipment, he seemed very satisfied, and kept nodding, "The emperor is still sympathetic to us, and he added so many good things at once, this time it is really enough for Yuan Datou to drink a pot .”

"Our rifles mainly include Huaxia Type 95 rifles, Mauser Type 98 rifles, Liyi rifles, German MP-18 submachine guns, and our country's fast submachine guns." Gu Pinzhen introduced to Cai E.

"How many?" Cai E asked.

"Basically, we can guarantee one man in total." Gu Pinzhen said seriously, "Among them, the main rifles equipped are Huaxia Type 95 rifles and Liyi rifles."

"Why is there no Huaxia Type 98 rifle?"

"This...the production of this kind of rifle is still very limited, and most of them are equipped by the Ministry of the Army for Feng Yuxiang's Zhenwei Army. However, the Huaxia 95 and Liyi rifles are world-class rifles, and their performance in all aspects is better than that of the Mauser 98. It's on par." Gu Pinzhen explained.

"Where's the submachine gun?"

"Hey, although the Ministry of the Army allocated Huaxia 98 to the Zhenwei Army, it gave us a lot of fast submachine guns. It seems that the Ministry of the Army treats us well. It's really good to allocate such a new type of submachine gun to us."

"If we are equipped with a Hanyang Type 98 submachine gun, it will be great!" Tang Jiyao's eyes lit up when he mentioned this submachine gun.

Gu Pinzhen was confused, as if she had never heard of these two submachine guns before, "Is this submachine gun very powerful? Is it better than the Quickly and MP-18 submachine guns?"

"Huh, thanks to you being the deputy chief of staff, you have never even heard of the name of Hanyang 98! This submachine gun has never been mass-produced, and it has always been priceless in the world's arms market. I don't know if it is better than those two How much better is a submachine gun?" Tang Jiyao lost no time in showing off his ordnance knowledge.

Gu Pinzhen scratched her head in embarrassment, not knowing what to say.

"Go on, machine gun, what equipment does our machine gun have?" Cai E asked.

"Our light machine guns are mainly equipped with 9mm machine guns produced by the Imperial Jinling Machinery Bureau. In addition, there are Type [-] light machine guns, Type [-] light machine guns and Czech light machine guns."

Cai E nodded in satisfaction, "Continue."

"Heavy machine guns mainly include the Maxim heavy machine gun, the Type [-] heavy machine gun from the Northeast Arsenal, which can defend against air, and the Type [-] and Type [-] heavy machine guns. Machine guns, large calibers, even airships made in Germany can be shot down with a single shot."

"Well, yes, yes, where's the pistol?"

"The pistols mainly include Mauser shell pistols, China-made 98-type pistols and Browning series pistols."

"Oh, it's a pity, there is no desert saber, that is the most classic pistol!" Cai E sighed.

"Desert Saber? What kind of pistol is this? Why have I never heard of it? Which country produced it?"

"China."

"???"

"Okay, stop thinking about it. If you think about it, you may not know the origin of this gun. You don't need to talk about grenades and grenade guns. Let's talk about artillery." Cai E stood up Looking at the military map and asked.

"As for the artillery, there are mainly German Krupp cannons. I won't say much about the specific models. On the list, there are also Type 37 90mm rapid-fire guns from the Northwest Military Industry Bureau, Type 150 70mm light mortars, Type 75 105mm heavy mortar, Type 75 150mm curved infantry gun, Type [-] [-]mm mountain gun, Type [-] [-]mm mountain gun, Type [-] [-]mm field gun, Type [-] [-]mm field howitzer. Yes, and the Northwest Military Industry Bureau gave us the name of the six doors, I heard they are very powerful." Gu Pinzhen thought for a long time but did not say the name.

When Cai E heard it, he turned around suddenly, his face was full of surprise, and asked, "Is it a rocket launcher?"

"It seems to be called a rocket launcher. The name is quite strange."

"Great, great, it's a rocket launcher, it's a rocket launcher, the God of War, it's unexpected that the Ministry of the Army is so generous, it will give us the most cutting-edge rocket launcher to try our skills, and it will send six of them at once. It's really unexpected Ah ha ha……"

"Commander, what's so strange about the rocket launcher? I seem to have heard of this name and never seen it before. Could it be that it is really so powerful?" Gu Pinzhen asked a little puzzled.

"Old Gu, you don't know how amazing the power of the rocket launcher is. It can target both the air and the ground. This self-propelled rocket launcher is installed on the chassis of a truck, equipped with a rail-type directional device, and can be mounted on 16 A 132mm tail rocket, with a maximum range of about 5500 meters, is the most advanced land combat weapon in the world today, do you know what foreigners call this weapon?"

"what is it call?"

"Reaper's scythe!"

Gu Pinzhen took a deep breath, "It seems that the Ministry of War is really too generous to us."

"By the way, do these artillery have enough ammunition?" Cai E asked eagerly.