When Mai Ke and the others were full of hope for the future of Chaoyang outside Jintian Village, in a fairly tidy village courtyard, a young man who was not young was hiding in a corner of the wing, sometimes full of loss, sometimes full of anger, and full of confusion about the future.

I don't know if this is his first sleepless night.

This young man's original name was Hong Renkun, and he took the Xiucai examination four times, and each time he fell behind Sun Shan, he completely extinguished his passion to get ahead through the imperial examination.

He couldn't help but be annoyed!

My heart is full of resentment and resentment: Since I want to be one of you, you are not allowed, I will not let you go, and I will leave you to do something else.

Once this kind of thinking germinated, it was like the Yangtze River going east, never going back, and like a wildfire ignited in the high autumn weather, it was out of control.

And it's not just about thinking about it, it's actually putting it into practice.

The first thing he did was change his name to "Xiuquan".

The meaning of these two words, the first word is ordinary, and the key is the second word.

If the word "all" is taken apart, it is the "king of people"!

It can be seen that he is ambitious.

Hmph! If you don't give me a half-official position, I want to be the king myself!

In this way, the local pronunciation of "Henai" in "Xiu" is "I Nai", and his newly changed name becomes "I am the king of people".

His ambition is evident from this name change.

In fact, his original name was very grand and meaningful.

Explained together with his surname, Kun is the equivalent of Qian, which is the earth, Ren is the meaning of benevolence, Hong is the meaning of vastness, and the earth of course contains people. Wider than people.

If a person can give people great benevolence, then this person is naturally the king of men.

However, then again, when he changed his name, he was fighting bulls angrily, and he may not have thought of this meaning at all.

It can also be inferred from this. His father, who was a farmer, expressed his ardent desire for his son Jackie Chan to show how strongly he gave him this name.

He changed his name and made up his mind, and his whole person changed.

Some of his relatives and friends were also willing to follow him and rebel against those officials who were also dissatisfied with them for a long time.

Since these people were inspired by the frustration of the examination room to rebel against the imperial court, they also hated the way of Confucius and Mencius, who dominated the examination and society at that time, and even hated it even deeper.

Because they wanted to use it as a stepping stone to enter the ranks of officials. The result was that the chickens flew and the eggs were beaten, and they survived for ten years in vain.

Therefore, at that time, there was already a small popular Christian idea in China, especially in some cities in the southern trade mouth, which naturally entered their eyes as one of the options to resist, attack, or even replace the way of Confucius and Mencius.

Hong Xiuquan's first contact was with popular books written by Liang Fa, who claims to be China's first Christian pastor.

Although these readings are simple, he only seems to understand them.

I don't know if I don't understand, and some of the words in it are exactly what he is looking for. It can be used to counter the Manchu court forces and the mainstream ideas of Confucius and Mencius.

Thus he was found to be a treasure, whether or not it was in accordance with the circumstances. Copy his own favorite words.

Especially those bad things and ugly existences, Hong Xiuquan linked them with the things he opposed, the main thing is to directly link the way of Confucius and Mencius with the evil and the opposite, and characterize the Manchu court and its officials at all levels as big demons and small demons.

It's a pity that his obvious take-it-or-leave-it-ism. The motivation and attitude to serve me is easy to see through and reject.

Therefore, in his dealings with Christianity, he received much the same treatment from Christian priests and others as he received from the Manchu court.

Even the baptism he desperately desired. And no one wants to do it for him.

It seems that this dude is destined not to be officially accepted by any Orthodox organization.

After his rejection, he responded to Christianity in much the same way as the Manchu court.

If others do not baptize him, he will come by himself.

Just as the Manchu Qing did not give him official work, he made himself king.

He made a start in baptizing himself, and from then on, he began to baptize others.

The Christian pastor thought him was unreasonable and would not preach to him, so he went straight to God himself, according to his own account.

He called his religion the "Worship of God." Subsequently, he and Feng Yunshan and others devoted themselves to recruiting members.

However, his efforts had little effect in a small area of his hometown, and it was not until he moved to the Zijin Mountains in Guangxi where the Hakka people gathered, that there was encouraging development.

Hong Xiuquan came here from his hometown in Guangdong and borrowed the house where he lives now.

The house belonged to Wei Changhui, another of his good friends.

Here they worked together to develop members of the Worship of God and to prepare for the uprising that had been planned for a long time.

In terms of numbers, there are already 20,000 members of the Worship of God, although this number includes the entire family, and the actual adult male combat strength is only a quarter.

However, in an emergency, the elderly, women, and children can all go into battle.

In terms of material preparations, there are several families that have joined the Worship of God Church with a lot of wealth, and they are willing to do everything they can to support him, so they can at least support their short-term needs, and there will be no shortage of food and grass.

Not far from the house where he lived was a workshop for making weapons, and the sound of tinkling and banging was heard day and night.

Hong Xiuquan's main concern now is not personnel and finances.

Although his dream of being promoted to become wealthy and glorious because of the failure of the imperial examination was shattered, and he found his current faith, deep down in his heart, he didn't know how much this faith would guarantee him and allow him to realize the dream he had modified.

Although several of his sworn friends, Yang Xiuqing, Xiao Chaogui and others, spent a lot of energy on his life experience and why he did what he is doing now, and even imitated some precedents in history to make use of things like dreaming, which did make many people believe him and make a lot of trouble.

But he knew his own business.

Through repeated speculation on Liang Fa's material during this period of time, he also believed more and more in his heart that there was such a creator, and he also believed in his love and mercy for the world. However, he doesn't know anything about how to love and how to save people.

Especially for himself, he had always self-righteously believed that he was different and did not need to be saved by the Creator, but that he was about to be given the great task of saving others.

Is this a belief right or not? Although he showed great confidence, he was always full of confidence in several of his close friends, not least in the general congregation.

However, whenever he meditated late at night and faced his true self, he always felt that he had no bottom in his heart.

He also felt a headache for Yang Xiuqing, who had always helped him a lot.

Although he gave Hong Xiuquan a lot of help in the release and promotion of the dream, this old man was out of control. Doing such things is addictive, and there is a tendency to take it as routine and routine.

Recently, many people have been accustomed to looking for this Yang Xiuqing if there are any things that are difficult to explain, so that this person with the ability to reach the heavens can obtain the words of heaven and answer questions.

If this situation develops, won't it be a loss of power? I'm afraid that it won't be long before I, Hong Xiuquan, will have to listen to his command.

Speaking of his dreams, he is not very sure that he can tell what is going on.

That was what happened after he failed his third prefectural exam.

Originally, at the time of the prefectural examination. As always, he won the first place again, and he is confident that he will be able to get Xiucai in his hands this time.

He's really put in the effort. Preparing for the exam day and night, there is a great courage to succeed if you don't succeed.

As a result, the sky did not go according to people's wishes, and in the end he was disappointed.

As the saying goes, the higher the expectations, the greater the disappointment.

He was so tired and resentful that he fell seriously ill and was bedridden for forty days. During this period, he was even unconscious for seven days.

It was during these seven days that the dream took place.

He told a few of his friends about the matter, and his original intention was just to expect them to share their worries and doubts, and there was no other meaning, let alone an official version of the explanation that was later processed.

Was it the providence in the dark, or was his deep consciousness still active at that time? Freedom from his control, the owner of his dream is indescribable.

All he remembered was that the Lord he had met in a trance had asked him to be the ruler of the earth and to get rid of all who had corrupted his creation.

In order to fulfill this request, the Lord promised him to help him. The only thing that cannot be surpassed is that he can only be a king, not an emperor.

Hong Xiuquan has no intention of opposing this, and he never allows anyone to violate it.

Even after he really became the king of heaven later, he always kept his word.

The beginning was fine, but the rest of the world was not what he had expected.

Yang Xiuqing turned these vague dreams into a very certain providence, and supplemented the non-specific and unclear links, making them clear and concrete.

And the explanations have a clear purpose, which is to serve Hong Xiuquan's dream of being a "human king".

Yang Xiuqing is also in this process, while establishing Hong Xiuquan, he also improves himself.

As a result, the current situation of Hong Yang is neck and neck, and Yang is even higher than Hong.

Hong Xiuquan began to worry, I am afraid that the tail will not be big in the future.

At this critical period, Hong Xiuquan felt very troubled by such uncertainties.

This confusion was not resolved, and he was at a loss as to what the future would be.

He and his main assistants all know that the rebellion against the Qing Dynasty is to open the bow and not turn back, and either you die or I die.

At this point, there's nothing to hesitate about.

But why do you do this, but after you succeed, you are not sure about the results, which is very bad.

Hong Xiuquan suddenly remembered that when he went to Fucheng to take the exam before, Liang Fa once gave him another book, called "The Holy Book of the New Testament", and told him to read it carefully.

What he didn't know was that the book was actually only one volume, the Gospel of Matthew.

After he came back, although he didn't invest a lot of time in reading comprehension, he also read it a few times and became more familiar with the contents.

At this time, he vaguely remembered a scripture that said that when something could not be solved, pray for the help of the Savior.

So he looked through the new edict again and determined that the relevant text was 21:22.

Normally, although he has a certain reverence for the Creator, he has always believed that it has no direct relationship with himself, and he has never had the desire or habit of praying and supplication.

This time, he suddenly felt an irrepressible desire in his heart to bow down to the Lord whom he had always felt so majestic, and to ask for his guidance and help.

So he turned back and went into the inner chamber, closed the door, fell on his knees on the hard ground, lifted up his hands, and said, "Lord of heaven, show me the maze." Tell me, I believe you right. Teach me how to deal with my friend's transgression. ”

When the prayer was over, he continued to kneel on the ground. After waiting for a while, seeing that there was still no movement, I was going to get up, thinking a little self-deprecatingly, it seems that I am like this, no matter how sincere I am, begging others is fruitless.

"Kneel and don't move. Suddenly, he heard a voice. "Your sincere prayer has been heard. You wait for a day, and he will send someone to help you. ”

If Mai Ke heard this voice, he would definitely feel familiar.

(To be continued.) )

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