Chapter 36: Cleansing (10)

On July 1, 1855, Hong Xiuquan held a notice and read it with a cold face. This is Wei Ze's announcement to the entire Liangguang. At the beginning of the announcement, it was very clear that Wei Ze's Restoration Governorate had taken it as its mission to expel the Tatars and restore China, so it had once "cooperated" with the Taipin Heavenly State, which had the main purpose of opposing the Qing Dynasty. Hong Xiu, the king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, has no way, not only pretending to be ghosts, but also killing brothers for power. According to Hong Xiuquan's set of rhetoric, Yang Xiuqing, the king of the East, and Hong Xiuquan, the king of heaven, are brothers, but now they are fratricidal, which completely exposes Hong Xiuquan's religious lies.

Wei Ze strongly stated in the proclamation that he and the people of the Governor's Mansion did not believe in the religious system from foreign countries since the beginning of the rebellion, and from the beginning of the rebellion, they adhered to the concept of restoring China, and this attitude has not changed in the slightest from beginning to end. In order to maintain the purity of the expulsion of the Tatars and restore China, Wei Ze resolutely broke off with Hong Xiuquan. From then on, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom engaged in his Heavenly Kingdom, and Wei Ze continued to engage in Wei Ze's restoration of China. The two sides parted ways, and there was no longer anything to do with it.

After reading this, Hong Xiuquan slapped the notice on the table and stood up angrily. He stood up and walked back and forth in the palace, cursing that Weser would be damned and go to hell after death. The female officials standing next to them lowered their heads one by one, not daring to look at the angry Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan.

Even if Wei Ze pointed at Hong Xiuquan and scolded him, it would not make Hong Xiuquan so angry, what made Hong Xiuquan extremely angry was that Wei Ze's announcement used the words "pretending to be a ghost" to completely negate Hong Xiuquan's theocratic system. With the support of this theocratic system, Hong Xiuquan is the supreme king. Without the support of this theocratic system, Hong Xiuquan still has the title of Heavenly King, but he was completely demoted to a mortal who is nothing different. This is something that Hong Xiuquan absolutely can't bear.

Wandering back and forth like a completely enraged beast, Hong Xiuquan suddenly saw another freshly drafted edict on the table, he immediately pounced on it, grabbed the edict and threw it to the ground, and kicked it hard in anger. The edict made of yellow satin is quite strong, and no matter how Hong Xiuquan tramples on it, there is no trace of damage. Hong Xiuquan was really angry, he shouted: "Take this thing out and burn it!" Burn to ashes! ”

The female official hurriedly bowed her head and ran over, picked up the edict and ran out of the palace. Hong Xiuquan, whose chest was violently undulating, felt exhausted after this burst at this time, he returned to the chair and sat back in the chair dejectedly.

The edict was drafted by Hong Xiuquan, and the content was that Wei Ze's killing of Yang Xiuqing, the king of the east, was the arbitrary act of Wei Changhui, the king of the north, and was not instructed by Hong Xiuquan, the king of heaven. Hong Xiuquan had already killed Wei Changhui and chopped his body into pieces for public display. At this time, Yang Xiuqing's grievances had been cleared, and Hong Xiuquan set the day Yang Xiuqing was killed as the Ascension Festival of the Eastern King, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom would commemorate this important festival for generations. When the issue of the killing of the Eastern King was clarified here, Hong Xiuquan asked Wei Ze to return to the Kingdom of Heaven, whether Wei Ze was willing to come back or not, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom recognized that Wei Ze was the 6,000-year-old King of Qi who had made great contributions to the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom.

This edict can not be said to be unclear, nor can it be said that it is not low-voiced, Hong Xiuquan not only said that he was not angry at all because Wei Ze chose to leave, but also said that Hong Xiuquan was also responsible for Wei Ze's departure. With a stroke of the pen, Wei Ze became 6,000 years old in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Six thousand years old is the title that Wei Changhui, the king of the north, once had, and even the winged king Shi Dakai was only five thousand years old.

Of course, it was the Wing King Shi Dakai himself who made Hong Xiuquan dare to cut Shi Dakai's face so publicly. After escaping from Tianjing City, Shi Dakai first rushed to Anqing to ask other local forces for Wei Changhui, the king of the north. Since Wei Ze had already informed the generals of the entire Taiping Army of the situation of the Tianjing Incident, everyone also had some mental preparations for this situation. As the commander-in-chief of the Great Legion of the Heavenly Kingdom, which ranks first in terms of strength and combat effectiveness, Wei Ze took the initiative to announce that he was leaving, but the news actually made the local powerful factions a little afraid to act rashly.

In everyone's opinion, does the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan really have the ability to be hostile? Otherwise, it is difficult to explain that a powerful faction like Wei Ze did not make any resistance, but took the initiative to choose to leave the heavenly kingdom. After Shi Dakai sent a message to various local powers, the local people finally came to their senses. It turned out that Wei Ze was not afraid of the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan at all, but he was already desperate for Hong Xiuquan. After determining this, the local powerful faction immediately lost confidence in the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan and the Northern King Wei Changhui.

And the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan has gradually understood that Wei Ze is still righteous at this time, and Wei Ze broke away from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom naturally to protect himself, but Wei Ze at least gave Hong Xiuquan a great opportunity. If Hong Xiuquan had let Wei Ze take away all the relatives of Yang Xiuqing's killed subordinates in the Eastern Palace, Shi Dakai, who was also involved in the matter, would have no excuse to attack Hong Xiuquan. Moreover, after killing the East King, Wei Ze took the initiative to run away, and the local people naturally had great doubts about Hong Xiuquan's strength. will think that Hong Xiuquan has extremely strong abilities. If Hong Xiuquan had asked Zhang Yingchen to suddenly arrest Wei Changhui, the king of the North, at that time, and made clever use of the situation, I think the matter would have settled down long ago.

However, after Hong Xiuquan understood this, the matter was completely out of his control. Although Wei Ze has made outstanding achievements in the past few years, he has a great reputation. However, he is the king of Qi after all, and his qualifications are far inferior to those of the kings of Yong'an. When Yang Xiuqing, the king of Shandong, who was behind Wei Ze, was finished, Wei Ze's influence and appeal could not reach Yang Xiuqing's Cheng dΓΉ at all.

Wing King Shi Dakai is completely different, and his qualifications as the kings of Yong'an are naturally second only to Yang Xiuqing. When Yang Xiuqing was alive, Shi Dakai was also in charge of the central operations together with Yang Xiuqing, and his appeal and influence were great. Soon, the powerful factions in the local area who were completely disappointed in Hong Xiuquan came forward one after another, asking the winged king Shi Dakai to preside over the affairs of the central government and be responsible for dealing with the killing of Yang Xiuqing, the king of the east.

Although it was a little late, Hong Xiuquan still captured Wei Changhui, the king of the north, and reorganized the army of Tianjing City. After Wei Ze ran away, he let his two clan brothers grasp the military power of Tianjing City, and let Zhang Yingchen lead his troops to hold the line of Zhenjiang in Changzhou, which became empty after Wei Ze ran away.

However, Shi Dakai is scheming, insidious and cunning after all. He did not wait stupidly in Anqing, but in the Western Expeditionary Army, Hu Yihuang, the king of Yu, died of illness, and the Prime Minister of Dongguanzheng, Luo Xuan, ran to Wei Ze and returned to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's Western Expeditionary Army to master the military power. In the face of the aggressive posture of the Hunan army in Jiangxi, Shi Dakai announced that he would fight the head of the Hunan army and defend the safety of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. He entered Jiangxi with the Western Expeditionary Army and firmly controlled the military power.

In the face of Shi Dakai's aggressive attitude, Hong Xiuquan finally killed Wei Changhui and sent Wei Changhui's rank to Shi Dakai's military camp after repeated thinking. However, Shi Dakai continued to make demands, and after pretending to focus on protecting the relatives of Wei Changhui, the king of the north, he proposed to kill Qin Rigang, the king of Yan, and Chen Chengying, Zuo Tianhou. Qin Rigang and Chen Chengying are not the people of Wei Changhui, the king of the north, but the cadres of the king Hong Xiuquan. Where is Hong Xiuquan willing to give in. Fortunately, Zhang Yingchen was quite capable, leading 5,000 troops to resist Zhang Guoliang, the Qing army who was approaching Changzhou and began to rebuild the Jiangnan camp.

Hong Xiuquan, who had a chance to breathe, hit Wei Ze with his idea, if Wei Ze could be invited back to Tianjing City, the situation of Wing King Shi Dakai's dominance in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom would be completely changed. By now, Hong Xiuquan can see very clearly that Wei Ze and Shi Dakai are not all the way at all. There was no collusion between the two sides from the beginning, and there was no intention of merging after that. Wei Ze is strong, above Shi Dakai, he is just the best candidate to balance Shi Dakai. Only then did Hong Xiuquan write an edict to Wei Ze, asking Wei Ze to return to heaven and crown Wei Ze as 6,000 years old.

However, such a beautiful idea was completely broken by Wei Ze's inscription, and after seeing Wei Ze denying the theocratic system of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom from the root, Hong Xiuquan understood that Wei Ze was not only not a person with Shi Dakai, but also a person from him Hong Xiuquan.

After being angry and resentful for a while, Hong Xiuquan finally calmed down temporarily. can defeat Yang Xiuqing, Hong Xiuquan is by no means incompetent. He may not be as proficient in military affairs as Yang Xiuqing, and he may not be as proficient in administration as Yang Xiuqing, but Hong Xiuquan is by no means a layman in politics. One can even be called a master.

The first person ordered someone to rewrite the edict asking Wei Ze to come back, and Hong Xiuquan sent the edict to various places, announcing his official action of inviting Wei Ze back. Wei Ze's attitude is one thing, Hong Xiuquan's attitude is another. Even if he knew that he couldn't call Wei Ze back, Hong Xiuquan had to prove that he did his best.

After doing this, Hong Xiuquan informed the three prime ministers of the Northern Expedition in Anhui and Zeng Lichang in Yangzhou that Hong Xiuquan was ready to rebuild the system of commanders of the five armies. And these four people will be the new commander-in-chief of the Fifth Army. Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang are the old subordinates of Xiao Chaogui, the king of the West, and Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang are Jintian's old brothers, and as imperial guards, they were once very loyal to Hong Xiuquan. Ji Wenyuan and Zeng Lichang are Lin Fengxiang's subordinates and have always been more reliable. After Shi Dakai mastered the Western Expeditionary Army, these four people have not had much contact with Shi Dakai.

Although Yang Fuqing has no direct relationship with Yang Xiuqing, he is regarded by Yang Xiuqing as the same sect and has obtained the status of Guozong, which is the surviving Dongwang lineage. Wei Changhui's younger brother Wei Jun is naturally a member of the Northern King line. Although both factions have deep contradictions with the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan. However, Shi Dakai himself is just insidious, and he was also an accomplice when he killed Yang Xiuqing. In the matter of killing Wei Changhui, Shi Dakai was the main promoter.

After controlling the three prime ministers of the Northern Expedition and Zeng Lichang, who was very good at fighting, Hong Xiuquan still had the ability to continue to fight against Shi Dakai. However, Hong Xiuquan also made other preparations, and after dealing with the affairs outside the Outer Heaven Capital City, he ordered someone to invite Qin Rigang and Chen Chengying to see him.

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