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 exam four times, and each time he lost his name to Sun Shan, he completely extinguished his passion for getting ahead through the guò department.

Since I want to be one of you, and you don't allow it, I'll leave you and do something else.

Once his idea germinated, it was out of control, and he really put it into practice.

The first thing he did was change his name to "Xiuquan". The meaning of these two words, the first is ordinary, the key is the second.

The word "whole" is taken apart as "the king of people". It can be seen that he is ambitious. If you don't give me an official position, I prefer 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 ambitions are on full display.

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

Explained together with his surname, Kun is the opposite 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, more extensive 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 that his father, who is a farmer, hopes that his son Jackie Chan's ardent hope is so strong in giving 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 in the examination room, they also hated the way of Confucius and Mencius, who dominated the examination and society at that time, and even deepened their hatred.

Because they originally wanted to use it as a stepping stone to enter the ranks of officials, but it turned out to be a chicken and egg beating, and they have endured ten years of hard work in vain.

Therefore, at that time, there was already a small popular Christian idea in China, especially in some cities in the southern trade and trade mouths, and naturally entered their vision, 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 it is simple, he only seems to understand.

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

Therefore, he was like a treasure, and whether it was in line with the situation at the time or not, he copied the words he liked.

In particular, those bad things are linked to what he himself opposes, and the main thing is to directly link the way of Confucius and Mencius with evil and strange, and to characterize the Manchu court and its officials at all levels as big demons and small demons.

It is a pity that his obvious take-it-or-leave-it-or-it-or-leave-it doctrine, his motive and attitude of serving me as the main one and serving me have been seen through and rejected.

As a result, when dealing with Christianity, he was treated in much the same way as he had received from the Manchu court. No one was willing to carry out even the baptism he desperately hoped for.

It seems that this dude is destined not to be officially accepted by any Orthodox organization. And the measures he took after his refusal were similar to those he had done with the Manchu court.

If others do not baptize him, he will come by himself. From then on, he began to baptize others.

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

He called the religion he founded the "Worship of God."

Subsequently, he and Feng Yunshan and others devoted themselves to recruiting members. However, his efforts had little effect in his hometown of Huaxian, 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 Huaxian County, Guangdong, and lived in this house. 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's concerns are not about people or finances.

Although his dream of being promoted to become a wealthy ancestor was shattered due to the failure of the imperial examination, he found his current faith, but deep down, he didn't know how much this faith would guarantee him and let him realize the dream he had modified.

Although several of his close 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, and made use of things like dreaming, which did make many people believe him, but he knew his own affairs.

Through Guò's 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 that he was kind and merciful to the world, but he didn't know how to love people 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.

In the end, whether such a belief is right or not, although he is very confident in himself, and he is always full of confidence in several of his close friends, let alone in the general church, but when he meditates late at night and faces his true self, he always feels that his heart is bottomless.

He also felt a headache for Yang Xiuqing, who had always helped him a lot. Although the latter gave Hong Xiuquan a lot of help in the release and promotion of strange dreams, this old man was out of control, addicted to doing such things, and had a tendency to take it as routine and routine.

Recently, many people have become accustomed to looking for him for anything that is 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 have to listen to his command.

Speaking of his dreams, he is not very sure what is going on now.

That was the third time he failed the prefectural exam. Originally, when he was in the county-level exam, he won the first place again as always, and he was confident that he would be able to get Xiucai in his hands this time.

He has really worked hard, preparing for the exam day and night, and has the courage to become a benevolent if he doesn't succeed.

The result was still disappointing. As the saying goes, the higher the expectations, the greater the disappointment. So he was tired and resentful, and he was seriously ill and bedridden for 40 days, during which 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.

Whether it was the providence in the dark, or whether his deep consciousness was still active at that time, freed from his control, the owner of this strange dream could not tell.

All he remembered was that the master he had met in a trance had asked him to be the ruler of the world, and to get rid of all those 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.

What follows was not what he had expected. Yang Xiuqing turned these vague dreams into a very certain providence, supplemented the unspecific and unclear links, and explained them with a clear purpose, that is, to serve Hong Xiuquan's dream of being the "king of people".

He also improved himself in this process, while establishing Hong Xiuquan. As a result, the current Hong Yang is neck and neck, and even higher. made Hong Xiuquan start to worry, I am afraid that the end 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 knew that the rebellion against the Qing Dynasty was a bow with no turning back, and either you died or I died. 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 don't 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.

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