In September, the Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, and the inside and outside of the new capital are filled with a festive atmosphere.

On both sides of the main street in the north of the city, rows of shops and inns continue to the end of the street, where a dense crowd of ordinary Chinese people walk through and stop in front of different shops to buy food, fruits or offerings to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival.

At the end of the street, two brand-new Chinese-style palace pavilions stand in the open spaces on the east and west sides.

The palace had just been built, and the red paint on the ten main pillars was even bright red.

The bustling street market quickly calmed down here, and thousands of Chinese outside the palace consciously lined up in six columns, ready to enter the palace to pay their respects.

The two palaces were not new palaces built for Li Mingyuan, but shrines dedicated to the god Taiyi and the fallen soldiers of Haotian.

In the early days of the Peruvian uprising, in order to boost the morale of the remnants of the Taiping Army, Li Mingyuan had to declare an uprising in the name of God, and after the formal establishment of the foundation in Rio Gran do Sul, the religious worship of God was no longer suitable for the future development of the Wehrmacht.

The worship of God is the transformation of Western Christianity introduced by Hong Xiuquan, and the God worshiped by the Taiping Heavenly Assembly is the God of the West, and the first step of Li Mingyuan's religious reform is to change the identity of God, and define God as the supreme god Haotian God worshiped by the Chinese ancestors in the pre-Qin period, Haotian God's name Taiyi, has been the supreme god worshiped by the Han people before the fall of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and later with the introduction of Buddhism and the influence of other religions, Haotian God Taiyi gradually faded out of the sight of ordinary Han people, It was replaced by the Taoist immortal system headed by the Jade Emperor.

Taiyi existed as the supreme god of the Qin and Han dynasties in China, and the name of Haotian God was roughly equivalent to the name and status of the god worshiped by the God Worship.

After redefining the identity of God, Li Mingyuan began to implement the second step: the reorganization of the God Worship Church.

Li Mingyuan summoned hundreds of scholars with meritorious names in the government, deleted the outdated and biased Western religious customs in the teachings of the God Worship Religion, added the nationalist content of patriotism and national self-improvement advocated by Li Mingyuan, changed the new doctrine into a propaganda book full of national beliefs and national self-improvement, and changed the original content of religious belief in the doctrine to a weak religious content that advocated primitive religious worship and opposed idolatry.

Compared with the general religious doctrine, the revised doctrine of the worship of God has lost the role of religious fanaticism, but has instead become a propaganda book for establishing a national spirit of self-improvement and self-reliance and good personal upbringing, completing the transformation from a religious book to a book on the reshaping of national beliefs, which is more in line with the current national conditions of Rio Grande do Sul.

After the reform of religious doctrine and religious customs and rituals, the name of the Worship of God was also changed to Taiyijiao.

Taiyiism is the state religion of Rio Grande do Sul, Taoism, Buddhism, and Christianity are legal religions, and the government advocates the national belief in Taiyiism, and at the same time does not interfere with the freedom of the people to believe in Taoism, Buddhism, and Christianity, but it strictly prohibits some religions that incite believers to fanaticism and refuse to integrate into Chinese civilization.

During the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the right to interpret the doctrine of the worship of God was in the hands of Hong Xiuquan, Yang Xiuqing and other high-level officials of the Heavenly Kingdom, and Yang Xiuqing, Hong Xiuquan and other five kings of Jintian Shouyi died one after another, and after the destruction of the Heavenly Kingdom, Li Mingyuan held a revolt of Chinese workers in Peru, and the right to interpret the religion of God worship fell into the hands of Li He.

Li Mingyuan was the only person who could verify the fulfillment of God's prophecy, and after the Chinese established the country in Rio Gran do Sul, the ordinary Chinese laborers who came from the expedition from Peru all the way worshiped Li Mingyuan as a god, so when a more logical and relaxed religious doctrine appeared, and the worship of God was renamed Taiyijiao, most of the people recognized the improved religion under the explanation of the preachers in the settlement, and a small number of believers who sincerely believed in the worship of God also chose to believe the statement put forward by Li Mingyuan under their fanatical belief in Li Mingyuan. Instead, they believed in the newly improved Taiyi Religion.

The Reformation in Rio Gran do Sul did not make much of a splash and was soon carried out in the country, and at the same time, the construction of temples dedicated to the god Haotian and the commemoration of the fallen soldiers were also carried out.

Due to religious considerations, the construction of the temple began in February 1869, two months after the Reformation, and the construction of the Valhalla, where the memorial tablets of the fallen soldiers were placed, was later than the temple, and the ground began on March 12.

Purely from the economic aspect, it is not difficult to build the Valhalla, and more than 1,000 Chinese workers can complete the construction of the shrine within half a year, but it is easy to build the shrine, but how to place the list of worshippers in the shrine is a big problem.

Li Mingyuan was the heir of Li Shixian, the prince of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the reason why he was able to call on Chinese workers to hold an uprising was largely due to his status as the prince of the prince.

The identity of the prince of the prince brought Li Mingyuan the most needed appeal in the early days of the uprising, and after the country stabilized, the identity of the prince of the Taiping Heavenly King also brought him a lot of trouble.

First of all, the titular rulers of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were Hong Xiuquan and his heirs, although Hong Xiuquan died of illness, nine of his ten sons died, and only the youngest son was left in the countryside and was never heard from. However, some ambitious people are likely to act in the name of Hong Xiuquan's descendants, or even participate in the internal affairs of Rio Gran do Sul to find trouble for Li Mingyuan.

Li Mingyuan is a person who likes to plan ahead, even if Hong Xiuquan's youngest son is lucky not to die, and at the instigation of someone with a heart, he delusions about seizing power in Rio Gran do Sul, Li Mingyuan also believes in the loyalty of his subordinates and ordinary Chinese people, and will not obey Hong Xiuquan's son's orders.

However, even if Hong Xiuquan's descendants could not shake Li Mingyuan's rule over Rio Gran do Sul, it would be something that Li Mingyuan did not want to see to cause damage to the already stable domestic order.

Enshrined Hong Xiuquan in the Valhalla of the Protector is tantamount to acquiescing to his status as the leader of the heavenly kingdom, and some people with flexible minds may have undue ambitions, so after hesitating for a long time, Li Mingyuan took the initiative to raise this issue, and after discussing with Liu Pu, Chen Guozhu and other senior generals of the army, it was decided not to enshrine Hong Xiuquan's tablet in the Valhalla of the Protector, but only to enshrine the generals and soldiers who died in the battle with the Qing army and other enemy troops.

Li Shixian is Li Mingyuan's nominal father, in the eyes of Liu Pu and others, Li Mingyuan is the monarch of Rio Gran do Sul, Li Shixian is the founder of the national cause of Rio Gran do Sul, when the Principality of Rio Gran do Sul was established, Li Shixian should be given the title of honorific title, and posthumously crowned Li Mingyuan's ancestors for more than three generations.

Chen Guozhu, Li Sandou and other guards left by the king had vaguely proposed this matter to Li Mingyuan, but it was not approved by Li Mingyuan, and the Protector Valhalla was completed, excluding Hong Xiuquan from the list of offerings, and Chen Guozhu and others once again established Li Shixian in the first position of worship.

On the one hand, he did not agree to give Li Shixian the title of honorific because he was worried that the movement on the side of Rio Gran do Sul would be too big and arouse the vigilance of the Manchu government, and on the other hand, Li Mingyuan planned to correct the names of Li Shixian, Li Xiucheng and other Taiping generals after conquering Argentina.

There are realistic considerations for delaying the time to give Li Shixian the honorific title, and the sacrificial soldier who takes Li Shixian as the first sacrifice in the Valhalla to protect the country can not only highlight Li Mingyuan's legal rationality as the heir of the king, but also achieve the purpose of promoting the martial spirit of the Chinese.

After determining the first person to be sacrificed in the Valhalla of the Protector of the Country, Li Xiucheng, Chen Yucheng, Shi Dakai, Luo Xuan, Su Sanniang and other senior generals of the Heavenly Kingdom also ranked according to the opinions of everyone.

Li Xiucheng and Chen Yucheng were the two most important young generals in the late Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and considering that Li Xiucheng was Li Shixian's cousin, Li Mingyuan ranked Li Xiucheng's tablet in the second place after Li Shixian, and Shi Dakai, Xiao Chaogui, Chen Yucheng, Luo Xuan, Su Sanniang and others were arranged in turn.