Being an otaku in the world of American comics

#549 - Turbulent

In the past six months or so, Liang Yue had been wandering around outside, engaging in petty theft and other minor misdeeds, which could be said to have yielded quite a few gains.

Meanwhile, the women holding down the fort at the academy, while also supervising the construction of the mountain gate, had also achieved significant results and reaped considerable rewards.

The most important achievement was, of course, that after this period of adjustment and adaptation, the children in the academy had finally become accustomed to the rhythm of life here.

They gradually began to calm their minds and immerse themselves in it.

And with a certain foundation in reading and writing, the teachers would invariably incorporate fragments of Daoist knowledge into their lectures.

Whether it was an anecdote about the deeds and legends of the ancients, or an analysis of a few allusions and technical terms.

These were, of course, deliberate efforts by the women, methods they had discussed and devised during meetings with the teachers.

Subtle influence, gradual progress~

In addition, over the past six months, many more students had been arriving from all over to enroll in the academy.

Bringing certificates issued by the Republican government, they were personally escorted by their parents.

These people were naturally the three hundred promised places that Yuan Datou had offered to win people's hearts and gather momentum for himself.

This group was a mix of boys and girls, young and old, mostly children aged five or six, eight or nine, but there were also a few elderly people who were already over fifty.

They mostly came from famous and influential families, scholarly households, and wealthy families from all over China.

Of course, there were also quite a few descendants from the families of military officers who had previously belonged to Yuan Datou's faction.

Like attending a fair, they all flocked together in the previous two or three months, enrolling in teams.

As a result, the mountain academy now had more than five hundred people residing there as students alone.

For a time, the campus became more lively, no longer as quiet as before, and began to bustle with activity.

In addition, because the students in the academy came from complex backgrounds, covering almost all levels of the Republic of China, there were many conflicts in their views and ideas.

To this end, the women had come up with many ideas and worked hard.

For example, during the six months that Liang Yue was away, the academy added many sports facilities and specialized venues.

Sports and game equipment such as parallel bars, swings, climbing poles, climbing nets, and trampolines were only the basics, and various basketball courts and badminton courts were also developed.

There were two newly completed large football fields alone!

One was built in a valley at the foot of the academy's mountain, and the other was arranged in parallel with it.

However, due to the insufficient area of open space, most of them were excavated inside the mountain…

In short, the establishment of these sports venues provided the necessary objective conditions for the integration and cooperation of students.

The academy organized a wave of sports events almost every few days.

In addition, the mountain gate residence on Mount Taibai was now nearing completion.

Over the past six months, with the continuous addition of funds and high-level construction technicians from various places, the original design drawings of the mountain gate had been revised again and again.

From the beginning, strictly following the Daoist laws and traditions, the architectural style that complemented the mountain's terrain had gone astray all the way, and as it was being built, it moved towards an unknown grand narrative…

Among them, Saya-chan, Teacher Shizuka, Alwen, and others were naturally the most meritorious.

Especially in recent times, with Liang Yue away from home, and without his presence and suppression, the women had all returned to their nature and began to let themselves go.

A well-built large Taoist temple was forcibly turned into a post-modern online game style by them.

Many inappropriate or overly expensive mountain terrains and landforms were like playing with building blocks in their hands.

Demolishing and falling from the east, under the simultaneous flight of milling handles and iron hoes, they could be tidied up in an hour or two.

Various alpine streams and waterfall landscapes were even more readily available, appearing as soon as they were said to exist.

Shocking the many workers and laborers on the spot, who then directly called it a miracle.

Then, the style of this mountain gate project began to deviate, and a group of architects began to have a surge of inspiration, and new design plans were frequently released.

After more than half a year, the buildings on Mount Taibai had already changed their appearance, from the original Taoist temple cluster-style architecture to a non-descript, yet magnificent and awe-inspiring palace…

Liang Yue didn't have anything to say about this.

Anyway, he didn't care about this expense. Having just returned from a trip abroad, he was really flush with money. As long as he could guarantee the daily benefits and salaries of the workers, he didn't care about anything else~

However, unlike the small circle created by Liang Yue's academy and sect mountain gate, the entire China could be described as turbulent and stormy during the six months or so that he was away from home.

Simply put, Yuan Datou ascended the throne, and then Yuan Datou abdicated~

The interval between them was less than half a year, just like a farce.

During the process, people from all walks of life were indignant, students went on strike, workers went on strike, merchants closed their markets, and soldiers even staged armed uprisings in various places.

For a time, the flames of war were raging and the smoke was everywhere.

Even many of the local military officers who were originally under Yuan Datou's command participated in this armed struggle against him.

The situation, which had at least been peaceful on the surface, took a sharp turn for the worse.

For a time, the entire China was like an angry tiger, howling wildly, and slapping itself in the face.

Yuan Shikai, who had originally gained fame for forcing the Qing Emperor to abdicate and kicking the Manchus out of the game, was now labeled as a regressive and national sinner under the propaganda and attacks of many forces.

Yuan Datou was obviously unprepared for this.

Originally, he had certainly expected that someone would oppose him and attack him for becoming emperor, but he absolutely did not expect that this wave of opposition would come so fiercely…

It was simply one wave after another, almost continuous~!

Moreover, the inside of his own camp also experienced successive collapses and unstable foundations.

Those wealthy gentry and dignitaries whom he had pinned his hopes on and specially offered a large number of places in different sects to win over, did not participate in the opposition to him during this period, at least not openly.

But at the same time, they did not clearly stand up to support him, but very cunningly chose to sit on the sidelines and adopted a strategy of not helping either side.

In secret, they accelerated the pace of兑现 the promised places, and sent the outstanding younger generations of their families to Liang Yue's mountain academy.

At the same time, they once again donated money and goods to the mountain gate, and sent a batch of construction workers over, hoping that their sect could be completed as soon as possible.

Seeing this situation, Yuan Datou was furious for a time, but he was helpless.

After all, even the army in his hands was not very obedient to him now, and the military power actually under his control was insufficient, the hearts of the Beiyang faction were scattered, and he was surrounded by enemies on all sides.

In terms of reputation alone, he was not enough to convince the public and subdue all parties.

So, under this situation, after only forcibly maintaining the emperor's dream for a few months, Yuan Shikai gloomily announced his abdication and stepped down in a hurry.

Disheartened, he then fell ill and collapsed directly on the sickbed…