The time when the Heavenly King Hong Tianfu received the envoy of the Guangfu Army was not long, because of Shi Dakai's interruption, the envoy was quickly sent down. The political commissar of the Luoyang Military Division looked at Hong Tianfugui's stubborn, helpless, and somewhat docile expression, and his heart was inexplicably touched.

Among the responsible persons at all levels of the Liberation Army, there are not no people with gentle personalities, but there is absolutely no one who will be manipulated by his subordinates like this, and as for the supreme leader, Wei Ze, is an extremely determined person. With a leader like Hong Tianfugui and a strong but inpowerful cadre like Shi Dakai, the political commissar is not optimistic about the future of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom at all.

Shi Dakai tried hard to state his reasons to Hong Tianfu at this time, or to the high-level of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. "Wei Ze is harboring evil intentions and trying to divide and disintegrate our army!"

The tone of this evaluation is intense, but the content is actually quite pertinent. Wei Ze is above board to divide the Taiping army. Shaanxi's living standards are far inferior to those in Jiangnan, and after the land reform, the productive forces in Jiangnan have exploded, and the living standards of ordinary people have surpassed, or even greatly exceeded, the living standards of small landlords in Shaanxi. For a core figure like Shi Dakai of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, of course, this "small profit" cannot enter their eyes. But the views of the Taiping soldiers at the bottom may be very different.

Wei Ze believed that a considerable number of Taiping soldiers really returned to their hometowns, and when they saw the changes in their hometowns, they would basically stay in their hometowns willingly. Weeser believed that the core of an army was the middle and low-level commanders, who lost a lot of people, lacked the will to fight, or after corruption and degeneration, the entire army lost its ability to fight. Shi Dakai and Lin Fengxiang are both very good commanders, and they have the ability to make those capable middle and low-level commanders work for them. As long as the middle and low-level commanders of the Taiping army were destroyed, the Taiping army was nothing more than the second Manchu Qing.

Shi Dakai is also very clear about this, and after listening to the news brought back by Lin Fengxiang, what he is most worried about is that middle and low-level officers will be affected. Although he knew that splashing dirty water on Wei Ze would inevitably bring many unpredictable risks, Shi Dakai really couldn't help it. A lot of times it's not necessarily good to do anything, especially when you're at a disadvantage. Therefore, the lesser of two evils, even if you know that the other method will bring bad results, you can only swallow it first.

Even if the other important ministers of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom did not see it so thoroughly as Shi Dakai, they also knew that once the people of the Taiping Army were in Wei Ze's hands, they would let Wei Ze pinch whether they were round or flat. Of course, they wouldn't agree to let their people go back to their hometown at will, and just when everyone thought that this matter would be over, Zhang Yingchen spoke, "If the King of Qi spreads this news among our Taiping Army, what will happen?" ”

Shi Dakai glanced at Zhang Yingchen with some annoyance, he had also thought about this problem just now, and this situation was the last thing Shi Dakai wanted to encounter. Originally, Shi Dakai wanted to arrange this time after the next court, but he didn't expect Zhang Yingchen to publicly poke out these words.

Retracting his annoyed gaze, Shi Dakai glanced at the kings and ministers, but saw that some of them had the same faces as usual, thinking that he had already considered this possibility. And the expressions on the faces of the other people changed, it seems that they were only afraid that they thought of this possibility after listening to Zhang Yingchen's words.

"If this is the case, whoever dares to escape will be dealt with by military law immediately!" Yang Fuqing said in a deep voice. Once this kind of thing happens, it is easy to trigger a chain reaction, and this kind of thing must be treated with strict punishment.

Hearing this, Lin Fengxiang's expression couldn't help but change. It's just that Lin Fengxiang has quite a city government, so he finally held back and didn't speak. But Yang Fuqing continued: "If anyone in the army dares to walk such rumors, they will also be beheaded!" ”

The crowd did not speak, the supporters did not have to speak, and the opponents found it inconvenient to speak. Seeing that Yang Fuqing's Jianyi could get the tongguò of the kings and important ministers, Lin Fengxiang couldn't hold back any longer, he opened his mouth and said: "It's all my own brothers, just blame it, why do you need to get beheaded?" ”

Lin Fengxiang is the oldest one in the Taiping Army, if it weren't for the failure of his Northern Expedition that year, he would be the king before Wei Ze. During the Tianjing Revolution, Wei Ze broke away from the Taiping army, and the forces of Yang Xiuqing, the king of the East, were uprooted from the vicinity of Tianjing City. In order to compete for the fruits of victory, there was another brutal battle between the kings. Shi Dakai forced Hong Xiuquan to kill Wei Changhui, the king of Yan, Qin Rigang, and Chen Chengrong, the king of Yan, and Chen Chengrong, and further wanted to force the king of heaven Hong Xiuquan to seal Shi Dakai as the main army division, but Hong Xiuquan of course resolutely refused. Seeing that the situation was almost out of control, Lin Fengxiang returned to Beijing to coordinate, and finally stabilized the situation.

Whether it is Shi Dakai or Yang Fuqing, they all have the experience of breaking away from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and it is Lin Fengxiang who has always followed the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. After Hong Xiuquan's death, the winged king Shi Dakai couldn't overwhelm Lin Fengxiang with his qualifications. On the whole, Lin Fengxiang is the mainstay of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Now that Lin Fengxiang has spoken, the loyal king Li Xiucheng immediately said: "King Zhang is right, they are all his own brothers, if you make a mistake, you can punish it, what is killing the head?" ”

How could Yang Fuqing listen to the words of such a junior, he said loudly: "If it is something else, then it is indeed enough to punish it." But this matter is not a trivial matter, it is a major event that shakes the morale of the military. If someone dares to take the lead, someone will dare to follow. If this continues, there will be a peaceful day in the entire army's heart. It's better to kill it directly to deter other people with bad intentions. ”

After hearing this, Zhongwang Li Xiucheng sneered, "Is this about Jiangxi?" ”

As soon as these words came out, almost everyone's faces changed. Li Xiucheng pointed out that the matter in Jiangxi can be understood in two ways, one is that Shi Dakai abandoned the city and did not leave, and watched Lin Chengrong, who was guarding Jiujiang, being killed, and the Hunan army had the power to counterattack from then on. The other is that Li Xiucheng led his troops south, and in Jiangxi and Hunan, he received more than 100,000 Taiping Army soldiers who had broken away from Shi Dakai's command and "returned to the dynasty for thousands of miles". Regardless of what Lee so-sung was referring to, the people in the leadership position at the time did not order the pursuit and killing of the detached.

The people in the leadership position did not hunt down the detached at that time, nor did they kill the unstable in the army, and in the end they all failed. Li Xiucheng is mocking: "Is it possible to learn from previous failures?" ”

With these words, the biggest scar in the Taiping Army was revealed, and Yang Fuqing's face changed greatly. As the last leading general of the Dongwang family, when Shi Dakai ran away from Jiangxi, Yang Fuqing also took his younger brother Yang Yiqing to lead the troops and leave with Shi Dakai. It's just that after the failure of the attack on Zhejiang and Fujian, Shi Dakai went to the south of Jiangxi again, entered Hunan, and then went to Guangxi. Hong Xiuquan sent an envoy to Yang Fuqing to say that because he was disappointed with Shi Dakai's ability to attack Zhejiang and Fujian, coupled with Hong Xiuquan's assurance, Lin Fengxiang's endorsement, Yang Fuqing finally returned to Tianjing.

Shi Dakai ran away with his own purpose, and Yang Fuqing could fully understand Shi Dakai's despair of the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan. However, Yang Fuqing repeated it several times, and he felt that he was more pitiful than Shi Dakai in a sense, and perhaps more despised.

Now Li Xiucheng has ruthlessly uncovered the old things, which made Yang Fuqing's feelings fluctuate greatly, he was annoyed and angry, pointed at Li Xiucheng and said, "What do you mean by this?" ”

Before Li Xiucheng could speak, King Chen Yucheng spoke, "When it comes to killing brothers at every turn, if the brothers violate military law, smoke big cigarettes, or defect to the enemy, they will be killed." But if you don't have any of these, you just shout and kill, what is this? ”

"I don't think it's appropriate to kill people like this!" Ning Wang Weijun said. Yang Fuqing actually has nothing to do with Yang Xiuqing's eight poles, but the names are similar, and everyone needs to win over talents at the beginning of breakfast, Yang Xiuqing recognized Yang Fuqing as his brother of the same clan, and Yang Fuqing also became the national sect. Wei Jun is the real brother of Wei Changrong, the king of the North, and when Yang Fuqing colluded with Shi Dakai, an important behind-the-scenes promoter of the Tianjing Change, because he was worried about his own safety, Wei Jun was still in the battle sequence of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, always fighting for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Hong Xiuquan later named Wei Jun as the king of Ning, which also has the meaning of resting things and calming people.

There was a confrontation when he ascended to the court, and Lin Fengxiang didn't want to see this confrontation at all. King Zhong Li Xiucheng was personally promoted by Yang Xiuqing, King Chen Yucheng was the nephew of Chen Chengrong who was forced to death by Shi Dakai, and King Ning Wei Jun was Wei Changrong's younger brother. Of course, these three people will not follow Shi Dakai, let alone really treat the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan. All three of their relatives died at the hands of these two people.

After the change in Tianjing, it was Lin Fengxiang who came out to persuade and work hard to resolve the contradictions. Lin Fengxiang transferred Wei Jun as his deputy, and tried to persuade Yang Fuqing to return to the kingdom of heaven. He himself was the head of the three prime ministers of the Northern Expedition, and after the Tianjing Change, he was supported by Li Kaifang and Ji Wenyuan, and Lin Fengxiang himself had no intention of forming a small group. But with Lin Fengxiang as the center, a force was naturally formed. Among the thirteen kings of the Heavenly Kingdom before King Hong was forced by Wei Ze to move the capital, at least six of them supported Lin Fengxiang.

Unlike Yang Fuqing's annoyance and anger, Shi Dakai has long lost this childish attitude towards problems. He knew very well that it didn't matter whether it was murder or not, the prince of Lin Fengxiang's faction actually did not oppose killing, and their current unequivocal opposition was just an excuse to play. The Tianjing Revolution was the fratricidal slaughter of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom itself, and it was certainly the total explosion of countless contradictions that had accumulated before the Tianjing Change. It also buried the reason for the huge internal estrangement within the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

At that time, the initiators and main participants were basically finished in cannibalism, Shi Dakai was actually very suspicious of Wei Ze's role in the Tianjing Change, if it weren't for the fact that Wei Ze, the king of Qi, was in charge of the Dongwang Mansion before Yang Xiuqing was ready to force the seal to live the ban, but Chen Chengrong, who was actually the henchman of King Hong, openly said, "The East King should have been long lived!" The King of Heaven is far inferior to the King of the East! "King Hong may not be able to make up his mind to launch the Tianjing Rebellion.

Therefore, Shi Dakai's conclusion is that Wei Ze has actually discovered the signs of the change in Tianjing a long time ago. He made full use of the Tianjing Change, and Hong Xiuquan got rid of Yang Xiuqing. When the only person in the world who can restrain Wei Ze dies, Wei Ze will no longer have any obstacles, and he can fly freely. to carry out the plan he had planned for a long time.

Shi Dakai also had this feeling, Yang Xiuqing was like a mountain pressing on Shi Dakai's head, he could threaten Shi Dakai at any time, and he could kill Shi Dakai at any time. The reason why Shi Dakai supports the change in Tianjing is to get rid of such feelings. From this point of view, Shi Dakai didn't think there was anything wrong with Wei Ze making such a choice, he understood and even supported Wei Ze's choice.

is also a person who is deeply involved in the change of Tianjing, but now Wei Ze is clean, and the whole world, even the Taiping Army, feels that Wei Ze is clean, and he and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom do not owe each other. No one questioned Weese's morality. On the contrary, Shi Dakai is burdened with heavy sins. Compared with the two, Wei Ze got a thousand times more than Shi Dakai from the Tianjing Change.

Shi Dakai is Shi Dakai after all, and he doesn't blame Wei Ze until now. The change of Tianjing was an extremely deep wound for the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom, and the wound was also suppurated. If you don't squeeze out the pus, the wound will never heal. In this sense, Wei Ze is still much smarter than Shi Dakai. Shi Dakai had too many entanglements with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and he would never be able to wash away the mark of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom on his body. However, Wei Ze was able to pass the death of Yang Xiuqing, the king of the East, and completely severed his connection with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

If there is anything to regret, Shi Dakai just regrets that he didn't see this clearly. Wei Ze could leave the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but Shi Dakai couldn't. If he could do it all over again, Shi Dakai would never make such a wrong choice again.

With this kind of awareness, Shi Dakai said calmly to the kings and generals: "Brothers, if it was I, Shi Dakai, who said some words about King Wei Ze of Qi before, let everyone think that I, Shi Dakai, am shirking responsibility. Then I can only say that you brothers are wrong. I have something to say to you today. ”

After finishing speaking, Shi Dakai turned to the Heavenly King Hong Tianfugui, "Heavenly King, today's deliberations have ended. Let's disperse! ”

Hong Tianfu was extremely curious about what Shi Dakai was going to say, but he also knew that he didn't have any real appeal to Shi Dakai's important ministers at all. Pursed his lips and wanted to say that he also wanted to hear Shi Dakai tell the previous story, but Hong Tianfugui still didn't say it in the end.

And the kings and important ministers exchanged glances with each other, and the change in Tianjing was a hurdle that everyone couldn't overcome, and it was also a bloody past that everyone didn't want to mention at all. And Shi Dakai actually wanted to completely uncover this past, and the shock in everyone's hearts was incomprehensible. Different from the strong curiosity of this generation of Heavenly King Hong Tianfugui, many of us strongly don't want to listen to Shi Dakai tell about the past, if they don't know that they can't go, many people are afraid that they will run away immediately.