Hong Xiuquan's original name was Hong Renkun. He took part in the imperial examinations and failed three times in a row. After failing the third time, he fell ill at home and was bedridden for forty days. In order to recover quickly, he changed his name to Hong Xiuquan. The name Hong Xiuquan later became a communication code and a political prophecy when he established the God Worshipping Religion. His surname "Hong" was formed from "3821". "3821" was the code word of the God Worshipping Sect, and it was the sign of the establishment. His name "Xiuquan" was formed from "He", "Nai", "Ren", and "Wang". As the pronunciation of "He" was similar to "I", it was pronounced as "I am the King of Men". In other words, Hong Xiuquan was a leader sent by God.
This kind of mysterious behavior had always been a characteristic of Hong Xiuquan when he established the God Worshipping Religion. In history, this Heavenly King Hong died of illness when the Xiang Army besieged Tianjing City in 1864. Now, he lived for another four years. In history, most of Heavenly King Hong's later years were spent on writing the scriptures of the God Worshipping Religion. In these four years, Heavenly King Hong wrote a lot of content. When the generals of Tianjing Chang 'an City thought that they no longer had to read and memorize these stupid scriptures, they felt extremely relaxed.
If Heavenly King Hong only wrote the scriptures himself and read them for fun, no one would deprive Heavenly King Hong of his hobbies and fun. But in the last few years, Heavenly King Hong not only wrote the scriptures himself, but also forced everyone to learn to memorize them. Heavenly King Hong's relatives even said, "If Vézé lets the children learn his books, we must let everyone in the Heavenly State memorize his books!"
Vézé not only wrote the textbooks and required the children to learn to memorize them, he also made all the examination system revolve around this knowledge. What was even more outrageous than Heavenly King Hong was that Vézé even created a Xinhua dictionary, which even stipulated the common language. All the generals of the Taiping army knew about this.
However, after the generals of the Taiping Rebellion finished reading Vézé's books, they knew that Vézé only wrote mathematics, physics, chemistry, and language. The only thing that was named Vézé was the Vézé Periodic Table of Elements. The periodic table looked weird, and the generals of the Taiping Rebellion could not understand it at all. However, they also knew that Vézé's periodic table was not about how wise Vézé was, nor was it about how everyone had to serve Vézé willingly.
Therefore, after the death of Heavenly King Hong, the shock caused by the Taiping Rebellion was definitely not because everyone had lost the person they admired the most. After Hong Xiuquan killed the King Of The East, Yang Xiuqing, the various kings immediately started a bloody massacre. Since then, Heavenly King Hong's position in everyone's heart had become completely ordinary. He was the nominal leader of the Kingdom of Tianping, but he was just a human being like everyone else.
After being "escorted" from Nanjing to Chang 'an by the Liberation Army, the generals of the Taiping Rebellion no longer felt that there was no second sun in the sky. Not only was Manchu Qing still alive, but there was also a strong man like Vézé in China. The survival of the Taiping Rebellion was no longer in the hands of the Taiping Rebellion. The moment Vézé thought that the Taiping Rebellion was no longer necessary, the Taiping Rebellion would perish.
After the death of Hong Xiuquan, his son, Hong Tianfugui, naturally became the new Heavenly King. If Hong Xiuquan was a tiger, then this kid was just a cat. Moreover, Hong Xiuquan had been instilling in Hong Tianfugui that he was the rightful ruler, so naturally, he should rule the world. Therefore, this cat was not a healthy cat. It could be called a sick cat.
After the Liberation Army's envoy arrived in Chang 'an, Hong Tianfugui had no idea that something big had happened. The envoy was received by the two real leaders of the Taiping Rebellion, Wing King Shi Dakai and Zhang King Lin Fengxiang.
To show respect, Vézé let the political commissar of the Northern Command, Kurosawa Tsuyoshi, act as his representative. Be it Shi Dakai or Lin Fengxiang, as long as Vézé did not go in person, they had long forgotten who the generals under Vézé were. In the era when they were colleagues with Vézé, Hu Cheng and his group of people were nothing in their eyes.
"I wonder what the Wayne Brothers are planning?" Lin Fengxiang asked straightforwardly. Before Vézé's envoy arrived at the Taiping Rebellion, other than Hong Xiuquan's relatives, the important officials of the Taiping Rebellion had already discussed it. Everyone was not optimistic about the current situation. If they could separate the world and maintain a small court in the northwest, it would be best. However, no matter how they looked at it, Vézé would not agree to this. If Vézé did not agree, the next best option was to maintain a separate regime, but nominally submit to Vézé.
"His Majesty has a suggestion. I wonder if you would like to hear it?" Kurosawa Tsuyoshi answered straightforwardly.
Hearing that there was only one option, Lin Fengxiang and Shi Dakai remained calm. However, Kurosawa Tsuyoshi noticed that both of them could not help but narrow their eyes.
Of course, Lin Fengxiang was very nervous. When Vézé only gave one suggestion, those who did not accept Vézé's suggestion would be annihilated. In terms of friendship, Vézé had saved Lin Fengxiang's life and helped Lin Fengxiang many times. Lin Fengxiang owed Vézé a great favor. However, when Vézé insisted on annihilating the Taiping Rebellion mercilessly, Lin Fengxiang had no choice but to fight Vézé to the death.
After calming himself down, Lin Fengxiang asked, "I wonder what the Wayne Brothers' suggestion is."
Kurosawa Tsuyoshi took out a map and spread it on the table. He pointed at it and said, "We, the Liberation Army, heard that the Taiping army had almost wiped out the entire northwest, and the rebels, who were shouting about annihilating the Han Dynasty, have all fled to Xinjiang. If the Taiping Rebellion is willing to surrender to the Min dynasty and send troops to Xinjiang to wipe out all the rebels, we can accept a semi-independent status. "
The first half of this request was still within Lin Fengxiang and Shi Dakai's expectations. The Taiping Rebellion could not become a regime on equal footing with Vézé. When the Taiping Rebellion moved from Nanjing to Chang 'an, everyone in the Taiping Rebellion, including Hong Xiuquan, knew about it. The reason why Hong Xiuquan, the Heavenly King Hong, wrote the scriptures that required people to be infinitely loyal to him was that he wanted to get rid of this idea from their minds.
The Taiping army did not expect Vézé to be so patient. He waited until Hong Xiuquan was dead before he came to negotiate. If Hong Xiuquan was still alive, no one knew what would happen.
But the second half of this suggestion was completely unexpected. Lin Fengxiang and Shi Dakai did not expect Vézé to ask the Taiping army to march into Xinjiang.
"Marching into Xinjiang? What about Shaanxi and other places? "Lin Fengxiang asked.
"These territories will, of course, be handed over to the Min dynasty." Kurosawa Tsuyoshi gave a clear answer.
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