"King Zhang, what did you see and hear about this trip to Nanjing?" Wing King Shi Dakai asked Lin Fengxiang.

Since the defeat of the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan returned to heaven, what the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was most afraid of was that the Guangfu Army would suddenly kill him. Since the city of Heaven was moved from Nanjing to Chang'an, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom knew that it was only a matter of time before it was swallowed by Wei Ze. Hong Tianwang is a very face-saving person, no matter how he pretends to be a façade when he is alive, he always has to say something that he is the only master in the world. After King Hong returned to heaven, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom honestly sent people to Nanjing to send some congratulatory gifts to Wei Ze during the Spring Festival.

This kind of almost tributary action did not cause any opposition in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and if Wei Ze's Liberation Army came over, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom would naturally refuse to stand still. But if Wei Ze was really willing to recognize the status of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom as a vassal in the northwest, most of the top brass of the Taiping army would happily accept it.

Last year, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom sent an envoy with no identity, but the Guangfu Army only sent a section chief who did not enter the stream to receive it. Although the upper echelons of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were annoyed, they did not dare to really dissociate with the Liberation Army. This year, Lin Fengxiang simply went into battle in person.

Whether it was the Liberation Army or the Taiping Army, they never had any diplomatic exchanges with the Manchu Qing officials. Correspondingly, the Guangfu Army always had certain contacts with the Taiping Army before forcing the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to move its capital. Therefore, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was completely wiped out by the Guangfu Army, and the Taiping Army can still continue to exist in the northwest. In Lin Fengxiang's view, the peace without communication in the past two years is by no means a good thing, and there is a great danger in it.

"It's hard to put into words." Lin Fengxiang sighed, his expression full of worry.

Shi Dakai didn't see any imminent danger from Lin Fengxiang's expression, he asked tentatively, "Could it be that King Qi has made any requests?" ”

When King Hong was alive, everyone no longer dared to publicly call Wei Ze the King of Qi, and after the King of Heaven returned to heaven, this title became popular again. Calling Wei Ze by his name, they neither had the courage nor felt that it was appropriate. Of course, the generals of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom did not dare to call Wei Ze emperor, so the title of King of Qi became a fixed title again. Shi Dakai likes to be called like this, and if he is called like this, he can still show the status of the Wing King, at least the status of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is still a little higher than Wei Ze.

"I saw King Qi this time, and King Qi still said the same thing, hoping that we can go to Xinjiang." Lin Fengxiang replied with a regretful expression. Wing King Shi Dakai may still have a little psychological advantage in the face of Qi King Wei Ze, but since the Tianjing Change, only Hong Xiuquan and Shi Dakai in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom have a higher status than Wei Ze, and everyone else's status is below Wei Ze. Under the four directions of the king is the prince with a fief, even if a patriarch like Lin Fengxiang gets the title of king, in terms of status, he has to kneel when he sees Wei Ze. Not to mention that Wei Ze's strength is now a hundred times stronger than back then.

The construction of letting the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom go to Xinjiang is not something that Wei Ze has only proposed now, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has been in contact with the Guangfu Army in the past two years. Shi Dakai asked, "What did King Zhang see along the way?" ”

"Everything you see along the way is full of energy, trains and ships, and high-rise buildings everywhere. I live in a four-story building. There are electric lights, a bathtub in the hut, and hot and cold water at all times of the day. The thatched pit is not squatting, but made of white porcelain, just sit on it, and when you press it after using it, you will flush it yourself......"

Wing King Shi Dakai listened to Lin Fengxiang talk about Nanjing's current luxury, and there was a hint of mockery on his face. Shi Dakai has a very clear and lofty temperament, and he is more disdainful of indulgence and pleasure. Wei Ze is so poor and extravagant, no matter how you look at it, it is the appearance of a dead country. If Wei Ze himself got himself to the end, Shi Dakai would only clap his hands and applaud.

After Lin Fengxiang finished narrating, he sighed, Shi Dakai knew that Lin Fengxiang and Wei Ze had a good personal relationship, and he thought that Lin Fengxiang felt some regrets about Wei Ze's depravity. But Lin Fengxiang continued: "The place where I live is a relatively famous hotel in Nanjing, and since it is famous, I naturally want to talk about some pomp. Later, I went to some people's homes and found that their homes were not much different from where I lived. After saying this, Lin Fengxiang couldn't help but sigh again.

Shi Dakai knew that Lin Fengxiang was not a person who told nonsense, and there were many people in his entourage, as long as Shi Dakai inquired, he would immediately understand the truth and falsehood. Lin Fengxiang's sigh was because he saw the difference between Wei Ze and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. This difference represents the difference in strength between the two sides. According to Lin Fengxiang, this gap has reached an appalling level.

"Since Nanjing is the capital, I think it's much better than other places." Shi Dakai put forward his opinion, "But I don't know if King Zhang can go to other places to take a look." ”

Listening to Shi Dakai's urgent question, Lin Fengxiang slowed down his voice and said, "I went back to my hometown Wuyuan this time. ”

Shi Dakai couldn't help but widen his eyes, from Chang'an to Nanjing, two months back and forth is a very normal time. He never expected Lin Fengxiang to run back to his hometown Nanning Wuyuan. From Chang'an to Guangxi, plus the middle to Nanjing to see Wei Ze, what kind of speed is this. Based on Shi Dakai's understanding of the speed of movement, there is no way to get from Chang'an to Nanning in two months, let alone a round trip in two months.

"If I hadn't gone back to Wuyuan to see my family, I wouldn't have known that it was Wuyuan at all!" Lin Fengxiang's voice became intense, "Wing King, can you believe that Wu Yuan now eats rice every day and has meat every day?" ”

Poof! Shi Da laughed, of course he knew what virtue Wuyuan was in that poor place, and the popular ballad in that area was "New debts in June, new rents in October, two crops make grain, and there is no grain all year round"; "Eight hundred Miao Jiang Pavilion Jiajia, scattered for thirty-six lawsuits, the team of foxes and tigers, villages and villages riding horses and eating meat. Riding a horse and eating meat and hoeing money, hoeing to seven hoes is pitiful. (There is a proverb in the local hoe: one hoe for officials, two hoes for officials, three hoes for Jiacha, four hoes for soap subordinates, five hoes and six hoes for people, and seven hoes to their own homes)". Needless to say, eat rice every day, and have meat every meal. If the locals don't starve to death, it is impossible for Lin Fengxiang and others to rise up and rebel.

Because what Lin Fengxiang said was too exaggerated, Shi Dakai couldn't help laughing out loud for a while. After laughing, he immediately regained his composure, "What the hell is going on?" ”

Lin Fengxiang told about what he saw and heard in Wuyuan. In fact, there is no shortage of land in Wuyuan, but it is all dry land with a high location. Without water for irrigation, dryland cannot be used as farmland. The local climate in Wuyuan is good, with sufficient light and heat, abundant rainfall, mountains and rivers, but in fact, there is no shortage of water at all.

The Guangfu Party has a set of criteria for judging each region, and Wuyuan is positioned as a tobacco, sugarcane, cassava, peanut, forestry, breeding, and fishery breeding area. The people divided the land, and then closed the mountains for afforestation, built reservoirs, and built irrigation canals. Wuyuan is a contiguous land, so tobacco, sugarcane, and farmland are all cultivated in contiguous areas on a large scale. In some areas prone to soil erosion, full afforestation and bamboo planting can stabilize the soil and increase income. The animal husbandry industry is invested by the government, and the farmers are engaged in it themselves. After paying the public grain, the local grain is enough for their own food, as well as cash crops such as sugarcane, tobacco, and forest trees. As long as it is not the kind of person who refuses to work hard even when he dies, how can local life be bad?

The rice tube is full, and cassava can provide starch. After sugar cane is extracted, bagasse can also be fermented to make wine. Chicken, duck and fish are fried in local peanut oil and then combined with soy sauce, soy sauce and spices provided by the supply and marketing cooperatives to make various flavors. After eating and drinking, they came to root the cigarettes produced by the local tobacco factory, and the food of the people of Wuyuan was quite good.

Moreover, Wuyuan is not short of land, and also meets the conditions for applying for tractors, and after mechanical farming, the manpower of the local people has been liberated. Lin Fengxiang was full of praise for these big iron bulls.

Shi Dakai came to listen to Lin Fengxiang with curiosity at first, but when he heard it, he suddenly raised his face and said loudly: "King Zhang! Don't talk about it! Even if the martial arts have changed so much, it is not the same as other places. Guangxi has been poor for so long, how can it be that it has become more martial in more than ten years! ”

Even if he was scolded by Shi Dakai, Lin Fengxiang was not angry. If the object of the complaint was not Shi Dakai, Lin Fengxiang actually didn't want to introduce his experience of going home. Lin Fengxiang saw it with his own eyes in his hometown and investigated it personally, and then he immediately chose to flee from Wuyuan. Lin Fengxiang knew that if he continued to stay at home, he would completely lose the courage to return to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Nineteen years ago, Lin Fengxiang joined the Taiping Army and embarked on the road of rebellion. At that time, he also thought that if he overthrew the Manchu Qing and seized the world, he must make his hometown better. Returning to his hometown after leaving his hometown for 19 years, Lin Fengxiang found that the bright future he envisioned for Wuyuan back then was at most 20% of Wuyuan's current situation.

The hometown has become better, and Lin Fengxiang is of course happy from the bottom of his heart. But this kind of happiness is also torturing Lin Fengxiang's heart. The relationship between the Taiping Army and the Liberation Army is complicated, and they are still hostile forces in nature. After seeing the cultural and martial arts of the Guangfu Army, why was the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom hostile to Wei Ze? Is it just with the little soldiers and horses in his hands now? No matter what choice others will make, Lin Fengxiang's heart feels very empty.

When Wei Ze turned Lin Fengxiang's hometown upside down, Lin Fengxiang's only reason for confronting Wei Ze was entirely for Lin Fengxiang's personal reasons. The upper echelons of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom already had their own vested interests, so Lin Fengxiang had to stand on the opposite side of Wei Ze for these interests, and even had to fight Wei Ze to the death in order to protect these vested interests.

I embarked on the road of rebellion for the betterment of my hometown......

For the sake of the group I belong to, I have to find a way to kill the person who made my hometown a better place......

After clearly understanding this logic, Lin Fengxiang also clearly found that he had lost the courage to fight against Wei Ze.