Chapter 84: Overture to the Eastward Expansion (16)

After Zhang Yingchen's headquarters was taken over by Yang Xiuqing, the king of the east, the generals of the General Staff Department were nervous when they held a meeting. Regardless of whether Zhang Yingchen himself is active or passive, intentional or intentional, in short, he is no longer under Wei Ze's command, but has become the direct subordinate force of Yang Xiuqing, the king of the East. The generals of the General Staff are willing to follow Wei Ze to continue to work, and everyone cares not only about the East King Yang Xiuqing having taken away one of Wei Ze's troops, but what will happen to the East King in the future. Will it continue to deprive troops from Weze, or will it stop there?

Weeser no longer left the generals of the General Staff to draw up their own battle plans, and this time was not at all suitable for any action related to decentralization. "We continue to fight now, and since we can't carry out a two-sided attack, then we will fight alone."

After saying this, no one should talk to Wesser. Originally, the quadrilateral in the plan of the General Staff was under the management of Yang Xiuqing, the king of the East, and in a blink of an eye, there was only a point in the upper right corner, and the main force of Wei Ze, which occupied this point in Yangzhou in the upper right corner, fell into a rather embarrassing situation at this time. Originally, Wei Ze had great influence north of the Yangtze River, not only Zhang Yingchen's troops, but also Ji Wenyuan's troops to cooperate with the battle.

Now these advantageous conditions have been wiped out with Zhang Yingchen's actions. Yang Xiuqing has directly ordered Ji Wenyuan's department and Zhang Yingchen's department to merge together, and the two of them each have 10,000 troops, and the more than 20,000 troops after the merger are all fully loaded. After mastering this force, Wei Ze knew that this army had crossed the Yangtze River and returned to Tianjing City. Originally, there were 30,000 elites in Tianjing City, and after more than 20,000 new troops joined, the number of troops directly commanded by Yang Xiuqing was as high as more than 50,000. Relying on this army alone, Yang Xiuqing is afraid that he will be able to solve the Jiangnan battalion.

Ke Gongyu is Wei Ze's hardcore, and he was the first to jump out to object, "King Qi, the king of the east is not doing this authentically, you still have to worship him like this now." You don't feel heartwarming, but your subordinates still feel heartwarming! ”

All the generals thought so in their hearts, with Ke Gongyu taking the lead, everyone stared at Wei Ze with burning eyes. There was anger in the sight, but there was also a considerable amount of incomprehension. On weekdays, Yang Xiuqing, the king of the East that Wei Ze said, is an absolute Ming monarch, and everyone knows that Yang Xiuqing is a figure who is "possessed by the Heavenly Father". Even if people don't really believe it, China's very broad attitude towards ghosts and gods makes everyone agree with it somewhat. So after Yang Xiuqing did such a thing, everyone's surprise was also from the heart.

Looking at the expressions of these guys, Wei Ze was furious in his heart. There is a sentence that almost blurted out, "You have never been in a large state-owned enterprise!" ”

If you want to mix well in a large state-owned enterprise, your ability is of course the first, and at the same time, you must be able to correct your position and rectify your feelings. These days, Weeser has also been thinking about his own era, and he has been trying to find his place in this era. There are some results from thinking, but the results are not encouraging.

Wei Ze now lives in a feudal system, and the characteristic of the feudal system is that the layers of power are completely controlled by the layers of privileged strata. After the beginning of the industrial era, the social system gradually developed towards an industrialized society, and as a result, the privileged class was gradually eliminated. Weeser has heard a phrase from a European politician that "democracy is the process of constant elimination of privileges." This is better than the phrase "Democracy is good, it is good!" "It's too much to force.

In 1854, where Weize lived, Yang Xiuqing was a privileged person with countless privileges. Since Wei Ze connected to Qi Yuchang's line, all kinds of news began to spread to Wei Ze. Wei Ze didn't know if Qi Yuchang was a genius of intelligence or if he was useful. The news about Yang Xiuqing's very "domineering" in Tianjing City occupies a considerable space.

One of the things that Yang Xiuqing had said to Wei Ze before. Hong Xiuquan beat the pregnant palace maid to death, and Yang Xiuqing made a trick of the Heavenly Father in order to stop Hong Xiuquan's tyrannical behavior. first reprimanded Hong Xiuquan for this evil behavior, and Yang Xiuqing, who was still angry, ordered the rod to scold Hong Xiuquan. The purpose is to make Hong Xiuquan rise and remember.

However, the news provided by Qi Yuchang is very different from the version that Yang Xiuqing told Wei Ze, first of all, this palace maid has never been fortunate by Hong Xiuquan, so she is pregnant. Obviously, if Hong Xiuquan thinks that the palace maid is pregnant with his child, the king of heaven Hong Xiuquan is happy to be his father.

There is a very famous story in the Bible about the happy father, Maria is pregnant, and someone asks her, "Who did it?" Maria replied, "The Lord did it." ”

If Hong Xiuquan's palace maid concocted it like this, then Hong Xiuquan would have a younger brother or nephew. This is definitely not something that Hong Xiuquan can accept. What Hong Xiuquan is most afraid of is that someone will do something like this.

Qi Yuchang didn't know where he got the information when he wrote about it, and there was a little bit of a very insidious hint in it, so Wei Ze couldn't help but shake his head.

Regardless of this, when Yang Xiuqing asked for a cane to scold Hong Xiuquan, Wei Changhui, the king of the North and others, were also there. At this time, Hong Xiuquan had been pressed down, and Wei Changhui, the king of the north, hurriedly threw himself on Hong Xiu's body, and he begged the "Heavenly Father" to let Hong Xiuquan go, and scolded him Wei Changhui. In the end, Yang Xiuqing really dragged Wei Changhui down and played a board.

This news did not surprise Wei Zeduo, and he had seen a lot of bastard leaders. To Wei Ze's surprise, Yang Xiuqing didn't do anything to Wei Ze until now, which showed that Yang Xiuqing was already very polite to Wei Ze.

Obviously, Weeser's group of guys didn't have that kind of awareness. They also had a sense of disillusionment, which could not help but make Weeser sigh that people in agrarian societies were really more stupid and ignorant than people in industrial societies.

After thinking for a moment, Wei Ze pondered his words and said: "We want the East King to stop moving our people, there is only one way, we have been fighting, and the East King really has no reason to move our people." ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone was even more surprised. Ruan Xihao asked with a puzzled face, "Why didn't the East King move us before?" ”

Without waiting for Wei Ze to explain, Wei Changrong had already explained, "At that time, we were doing things that other people couldn't do, and Dongwang didn't believe that we could do these things at all, but besides us, no one else was willing to do those things." Naturally, he'll have to wait and see if we can get a result. Dongwang is not stupid, if it takes half a year to complete something, he will also give us half a year. ”

Fortunately, the brothers in the General Staff have been tempered for a long time, and they have gone through a lot of tempering in order to complete the ideas outlined by Wei Ze. Therefore, the cruel reality that the East King only made full use of Wei Ze's troops was thrown in front of him, and everyone did not jump like thunder, or be disappointed. All the brothers stared at Weeser again, waiting for him to speak.

Seeing the situation at this point, Wei Ze also said briskly: "Brothers, now that I am the King of Qi, I will definitely have my own territory in the future, everyone follow me, I will not let my brothers down." If you think you have a future with me, stay here. If you think there is a future for following others, then I won't stop everyone! ”

"Hey! Chief of the General Staff, if you think that the brothers rebelled only for the sake of fame and official positions, then you would underestimate the brothers, right? Ruan Xihao immediately shouted.

"Don't! I rebelled for the sake of fame and office! But I don't think this fame and official position is enough, I really want this little heavenly kingdom! Ke Gongyu said.

Lin Asheng has always been not very talkative, and at this time he actually said in a stern tone: "I followed the king of the south who ascended to heaven in Guangdong, and I want to join the Taiping army in this heavenly kingdom." Chief of the General Staff, you said how Hong Tianwang was unreliable, and I believed the Chief of the General Staff. Chief of the General Staff, you said how reliable the East King is, and I also believe the Chief of the General Staff. But in this situation, the king of the east is also so unrighteous towards people. If the Heavenly King and the Eastern King are both such people, Chief of Staff, you have to tell me whether this little Heavenly Kingdom can be built, and how it should be built. ”

This statement is very representative, and the brothers of the General Staff agree with it. Wei Ze's heart moved, and he asked: "I want everyone to vote now, which of you is the one who established the Little Heavenly Kingdom in truth, then raise your hand and show me!" ”

As soon as the words fell, Lin Asheng immediately raised his arms high. Ke Gongyu, Ruan Xihao, Ju Junfeng, and others raised their hands one after another, and then even Lei Hu and Wei Changrong raised their hands a little embarrassed. Wei Ze knew that the reason why these two people were embarrassed was not because they felt embarrassed to raise their hands, but because they felt that they actually really believed that the Little Heavenly Kingdom could be built, and they thought that they had this kind of "childish" idea, which made them feel very embarrassed.

This result surprised Wei Ze, who definitely didn't believe that it was possible to build such a thing as the Little Heavenly Kingdom. But Wei Ze could also see that his subordinates were sincerely looking forward to the establishment of the Little Heavenly Kingdom. This kind of political ideal is indeed an extremely important reason for uniting them under the banner of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

"If that's what you really think, I'd like to ask you a question first. We have gone through a lot of hardships from Guangxi to here. Which victory was accomplished by what gods? Which enemy did the gods help us kill? The sun is shining, the rain is drenched, mosquitoes bite in summer, and flea bites in winter. Everyone still trains troops, builds weapons, investigates, learns, and calculates every day, and only then can they win the battle. What do you think? Weser asked.

After hearing such words that completely denied the gods, all the generals were silent.

And Wei Ze didn't want these people to establish an atheistic belief right away, he continued: "I still support the East King, why should I do this. Because the king of heaven is only a king, he is nothing but being considered a god to descend to earth. Dongwang is the supreme commander of the Taiping Army, and I don't say how capable we are of war. I only said that among the nearly 300,000 Taiping troops, if we give orders to others, everyone will not listen to us. But as soon as the king of the east gave the order, everyone really did something. And the king of the east can still lead everyone to victory! On this point, I support Dongwang! ”

"In addition to fighting, the king of the east will also bully us!" Wei Changrong said very unhappily.

"That's another story. In this way, I just need everyone to work hard with me for another year, and if you don't want to follow me after a year, then go with you. But this year, I only need you to do one thing! Weeser said.

The eyes of all the generals fell on Wei Ze, Wei Ze looked back at everyone's puzzled eyes, and he said: "What is this world like, I want to tell you the true face of this world that I have realized!" ”

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