Chapter 42: Stabilizing People's Hearts
In the city of Arequipa, Liu Pu stood alone in the courtyard and paced back and forth.
Seven or eight days have passed, and no news has come back from Li Mingyuan, and the chances of getting the treasure are getting smaller and smaller.
In the days after Li Mingyuan left, after the Chinese troops sent out to carry out the occupation mission left a part of the garrison troops, the main force gradually turned back to Arequipa, and with the return of the Chinese troops, there were not only a large number of supplies, but also tens of thousands of rescued Chinese laborers.
The southern part of Peru was occupied by the Chinese Independence Army, and all the Chinese workers in the occupied areas were rescued, and the total number of Chinese workers reached 120,000.
These days, Liu Pu is busy with the placement of newly rescued Chinese workers, and on the other hand, he has to arrange material distribution management, even with the help of Zhao Yan and Sun Bin, Liu Pu is too busy to stop.
Among the Chinese workers in South America, except for the Taiping Army, there are some people who are literate, and most of them are illiterate.
Liu Pu collected all the Chinese Independence Army's people who could write, and only a hundred people were gathered.
With 100 people, Liu Pukan ensured that the Chinese troops would not be in chaos.
However, Li Mingyuan was not in the camp for seven or eight days, and Liu Pu gradually couldn't hold back his position, and in the past two days, more than a dozen officers have come to ask Li Mingyuan about his movements, and Liu Pu used Li Mingyuan to take the cavalry regiment to train and block back, but this excuse didn't last long, and the others would find out about the abnormality sooner or later.
A quick knock sounded on the door, and Liu Pu temporarily put aside these worries.
"Chief of Staff, the treasure has been found, and the prince has ordered someone to be sent to carry the gold." The soldier who gave the order gasped and said happily.
"Great, order Brigade Commander Wang to lead the First Mixed Brigade to set off immediately." Seven or eight days of waiting finally came to fruition, and the troubles in Liu Pu's mind immediately dissipated invisibly, and he said excitedly.
In the vicinity of Lake Titicaca, Chinese soldiers kept moving gold out of caves and putting it on the grass, and then another group of soldiers carried the gold to horse-drawn carts, ready to wait for all the gold to be brought out before transporting it.
"Ergou, you found that the cave has made a great contribution, don't forget the old brother when it is developed in the future." The Chinese soldier who carried gold with Li Ergou said.
"I don't dare to think that it is the son of the world who really finds the gold."
"Ergou, don't be modest, if you hadn't discovered the cave, the prince wouldn't have found gold."
Carrying a box of gold in front of him to the clearing, the Chinese soldier stopped and said.
"Have you heard of a thing?" Li Ergou and the soldier carrying the gold sat under the tree to rest, and a soldier next to him said mysteriously.
"Iron Egg, what's the matter?" Seeing Yang Tiedan's solemn appearance, the soldiers who had taken turns to rest gathered around him curiously.
"Do you know why hundreds of people didn't discover the secret of the cave wall in the cave, only the prince found out?"
"Why?"
"For the Son of the world has the guidance of the Father in heaven."
"Impossible, if the Son of the World was reminded by the Heavenly Father, why didn't the Son of the World discover the cave?"
"Stupid, have you forgotten that the other soldiers were going back yesterday, and only Shizi insisted on waiting one more day?" Yang Tiedan said with disdain.
There were more and more people around Yang Tiedan, and most of them listened carefully to what he said.
"I tell you, it is said that the night before yesterday, the Son of the World saw the Heavenly Father again in a dream, and the Heavenly Father comforted the Son of the Son to wait one more day, and the gold would appear, so the Son of the World did not listen to the advice of the others and went back."
"Also, did you see the discovery of gold in the cave?"
"I was next to Shizi at that time,"
"I'm there too," a dozen people said, raising their hands.
"Since everyone is here, you should see the appearance of Shizi when he knocks on the cave wall, right?"
Yang Tiedan reminded a little.
"Shizi was still standing in the middle of the cave at that time, and then as if he had been guided, he walked to the wall calmly." A soldier recalls Li Mingyuan's performance at that time.
"According to what you said, I also remembered that Shizi was like a marionette, manipulated by others to walk towards the cave wall."
"Everyone has seen the performance of Shizi at that time, do you know who has behaved like this before?"
"Who?" The soldiers next to him were attracted by Yang Tiedan's successive questions.
"In the past, when the Heavenly Father descended on the East King, he had an expression similar to that of the Son." Yang Tiedan unveiled the mystery.
"You mean Heavenly Father has come down again?" The soldiers around him couldn't believe it.
"Of course, if it weren't for the Heavenly Father who came down to guide the world, how could the world son discover the secret of the cave wall."
"The Father has come down again, and the Father has not forsaken us." An old Taiping soldier whimpered and cried because of his excitement.
The cries of the Taiping veterans alarmed the soldiers who were carrying the gold, and they all looked this way.
Li Mingyuan also heard the cry of the veteran, stopped the work in his hand, and stepped forward.
After listening to Tie Dan's explanation, Li Mingyuan waved his hand to make all the soldiers stop what they were doing and gather around him.
"Brothers, some brothers say they saw Heavenly Father possess me, and I can tell you that it's true."
Li Mingyuan glanced at the soldiers on all sides majestically, and continued, "In the past, the Heavenly Father possessed the East King, so the East King was able to command the Taiping Army to win the battle.
Later, the Heavenly King killed the Eastern King without authorization, which caused the dissatisfaction of the Heavenly Father, and since then, the Heavenly Father has never descended to earth, and the Taiping army will only fail on the mainland without the guidance of the Heavenly Father. After Li Mingyuan said this, he paused, leaving time for the soldiers to react.
Yang Xiuqing, the eastern king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, had unique military capabilities, and most of the early victories of the Taiping army were achieved under his command.
Yang Xiuqing pretended to use his Heavenly Father to go down to earth to grasp the power of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and was later killed by the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan.
Yang Xiuqing's prestige in the Taiping Army is very high, because Heavenly Father is possessed, and in the hearts of most Taiping Army, Yang Xiuqing's status is higher than that of Hong Xiuquan.
After Yang Xiuqing's death, the Taiping army was defeated and retreated, and was finally suppressed by the Qing army, and the remnants of the Taiping army were exiled to South America.
"If the King of Heaven hadn't killed the King of the East, we would have defeated the Qing army long ago and established the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth." One of the soldiers below said indignantly.
"The King of Heaven and the King of the East are both sons of the Heavenly Father, and it must be the King of Heaven who killed the King of the East and angered the Heavenly Father, so the Heavenly Father did not descend to the mortal world later."
The soldiers below were dissatisfied, and most of them expressed their dissatisfaction with the Heavenly King's killing of the East King.
The Taiping Army in South America was different from the previous Taiping Army, experienced the Tianjing Incident and the destruction of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the remnants of the Taiping Army did not have blind superstition about the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan, but because he killed the Eastern King, the responsibility for the destruction of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was blamed on him, and most of the soldiers were dissatisfied with Hong Xiuquan and even full of hatred.
"Brothers, stop and listen to me." Li Mingyuan spoke up to stop the discussion below.
"Heavenly Father told me in a dream that this gold was the last gift that Heavenly Father would give us,
And the Father also told me that the fertile land and climate of the southern region of Brazil are ideal locations for the establishment of a nation.
Heavenly Father calls us to abandon the desert areas of southern Peru and move to southern Brazil to rebuild the kingdom of heaven.
Brothers, are you still willing to obey your Heavenly Father's instructions? Speaking of the back, Li Mingyuan said loudly.
"Believe in the Father to the death." What answered Li Mingyuan was a roar that resounded through the valley.
The power of faith is endless, and the remnants of the Taiping Army were originally discouraged by faith and desperately stayed in the mine waiting for death.
Li Mingyuan's arrival rescued them from despair and death, and regained a trace of faith.
With the support of a trace of faith in his heart and the desire for life, the Chinese Independent Army, under the leadership of Li Mingyuan, continued to attack and fight for more than a month, and finally eliminated the army in southern Peru and gained a respite.
Li Mingyuan gave them faith again, so in the hearts of the Chinese workers in South America, Li Mingyuan was the leader chosen by the Heavenly Father to lead them to rebuild the kingdom of heaven.
"The Father told me at the end of his dream that the way had been shown to us, and that from now on, the Father would not come down to earth again, and that the rest would be for us to work on ourselves."
It was impossible for nearly 400 tons of gold to hide from the Chinese soldiers, so Li Mingyuan pretended to be given by the Heavenly Father to stabilize the soldiers below.
Religious belief can strengthen the faith of soldiers in war, but establishing a country based on religion is very detrimental to the future development of the country.
Therefore, Li Mingyuan used the excuse of the last Heavenly Father to point out the strategic attempt to move into southern Brazil, and on the other hand, blocked the possible adverse effects of religion after the founding of the country.
The existence of faith is necessary, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Li Mingyuan will reform the worship of God, retain the core idea of equality for all people and equality between men and women, add some ideas of patriotism, self-esteem and self-confidence, and eliminate fanatical beliefs and other bad contents.
The reformed worship of God will help unite the Chinese workers in South America and accelerate the development of the country.
Li Mingyuan's speech was a success, and the 7,000 soldiers present once again strengthened their worship of him and expressed confidence in moving into southern Brazil.
Although Li Mingyuan said that his Heavenly Father would no longer descend to earth, the soldiers felt lost, but thinking of Li Mingyuan, the leader chosen by Heavenly Father, the soldiers were full of confidence in the future of the Chinese Independent Army.