On a sunny day, there are no clouds in sight, and it is a good weather to preside over the kneeling ceremony. On the exercise ground, more than 2,000 newly converted brothers of the Heaven and Earth Society will hold a ceremony to bow down to God here. This ritual of worshiping God is similar to the folk memorial ceremony in Guangxi, there are sacrifices, and you also have to kowtow and burn incense. It's just that from now on, you can only worship God, and the other folk gods are all demons, not only can they not worship but they all have to be defeated, which is called cutting evil and keeping righteousness.

There is a long table on the stage, on which are placed a row of pigs, cows, sheep and other sacrifices, and a pair of large incense burners are placed in front of the table, and the smoke is filled. Accompanied by a burst of gongs, drums, and trombones, the brothers of the congregation of heaven and earth each took a stick of incense and bowed to God.

After everyone knelt down, Shi Dakai boarded the stage. He was dressed in a yellow robe today, with a red scarf on his head, a long yellow cloak on his shoulders, and a purple belt tied around his waist, with a piece of jasper inlaid in the middle of the belt. He held the hilt of his sword with his right hand, and stood on the stage with a majestic attitude, the sun shining on his resolute face, which looked particularly tall and mighty.

Shi Dakai raised his hand to instruct the drum music to stop, and then shouted to everyone in a loud voice: "Hello brothers! ”

Everyone responded: "The stone lord will be mighty." ”

Shi Dakai smiled, "The brothers have entered our Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and we will be a family in the future." Here I would like to read to you again the military regulations of the Taiping Army: 1. Obey the orders of heaven; 2. Obey orders, abide by the constraints of the leader, and do not be willful, pushing forward and backward; 3. There is no crime with Minqiu, and those who steal, steal, injure, kill, burn, and ** will be beheaded without forgiveness; Fourth, those who work together and retreat from the battle are killed; 5. No property shall be concealed privately, and the income of the gentry of the government shall be confiscated for public use. Have you heard clearly, brothers? ”

Everyone replied: "Obey the military order." ”

Shi Dakai cleared his throat and announced loudly: "By the will of the Holy Lord, Zhang Zhao will be appointed as the military commander, Luo Xuan and Hou Zhi will be the brigade commander, and the rest of the positions will correspond to the commander of the pawn, the two Sima, and the commander of the army in the order of the original size. Brothers may not be able to speak well for a while, but they will slowly become accustomed to it in the future. From now on, we are the Taiping Army that kills the evil and keeps the righteous and kills the demons, everyone must strictly abide by military discipline, live and die together, and build a paradise on earth together. Now I'm going to give you the flag. ”

"Before the flag is awarded, we will severely punish a man in front of everyone, some of this person's brothers may know, he is still preaching for everyone in the army these days, but yesterday we found out that he had a hundred taels of silver tickets in his possession. According to the Taiping Regulations, those who secretly hide more than five taels of silver will not be forgiven, and today I will cut off the head of this kid in front of everyone to sacrifice the flag. Shi Dakai's face was majestic, and his face was full of solemnity.

"Bring the three dogs up." Shi Dakai beckoned to the stage.

Sangouzi was escorted to the stage by a team of executioners, and at this moment he was naked, his long hair was scattered over his shoulders, and he knelt on the ground with a sluggish expression.

"Sangou, what else do you have to say?" Shi Dakai gave him a chance to leave his last words.

"The villain deserves it, brothers, don't learn from me, my end is a lesson of greed for wealth. Finally, please be able to use your hands and feet to be able to die a happy death. "The three dog people are about to die, and their words are also good.

Shi Dakai sighed, "Brother over there, don't blame me, the military order is like this." Even if it were me, I would not be spared. Give him a good hand, execution! ”

The executioner pressed the head of the three dogs to a stake, raised his axe, and cut it down the crack in his spine. The three dogs' heads fell to the ground with a click, and they died in Huangquan.

Everyone in the audience exclaimed, and secretly reminded themselves in their hearts that they must not violate military discipline, and the three dogs in front of them are vivid examples.

"Flag!" Shi Dakai beckoned the drummer to play the music again, and solemnly handed over a military flag to Zhang Zhao's hand. "Master Zhang, after you go back, let the brothers hand over all their private property, and after all the handing is over, you will change into the clothes of the Taiping Army, and you will officially join the Taiping Army. Our fifteen brotherhoods have been continuing to preach in your army, and I hope you don't have any ideas, these are the rules of the above. Shi Dakai told very seriously, he really didn't want anything to go wrong.

"Yes, yes, we will do it, and the stone master will rest assured." Zhang Zhao was a little nervous at this time, thinking about his belongings in his heart, but he was very reluctant to pay a lot of money, but he also remembered the fate of the three dogs just now, and he didn't dare not pay it, he was very conflicted in his heart, but he still agreed to it verbally.

After the worship and flag-awarding ceremony ended, the team of the Heaven and Earth Society returned to their camp.

Zhang Zhao paced back and forth in his barracks, the serious military law of the Taiping Army shocked him, and he now regretted a little in his heart to join the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, thinking that he had some friendship with Shi Dakai and could take care of some of it, but now it seems that this is impossible.

Just when Zhang Zhao was contradictory, there was a knock on the door from the barracks, "Who?" Zhang Zhao asked.

"It's me, Hou Zhi." Outside, Hou Zhi whispered back.

"What are you doing here? Come on in. Zhang Zhao was a little irritable in his heart, and his tone was not very good.

Hou Zhi pushed the door and walked in, and when he saw Zhang Zhao's expression, he immediately understood a little in his heart. Zhang Zhao sold it through a middleman, and he didn't have 100,000 taels of silver, but 80,000 or 90,000 yuan, but this money was his heart, and he was definitely reluctant to hand it over. "Big brother, do we really have to hand over all our money to the Taiping Army?"

"What if I don't pay it? As you can see today, you have to cut off your head for five taels of silver. Zhang Zhao sighed heavily.

"That's the money we got in exchange for our lives, we can't cheapen the Taiping Army for nothing." Hou Zhi's face became gloomy, and his face was unwilling.

"What can you do? Fifteen nails have already been sent, and they can't hide them if they want to, and sooner or later they will be discovered, and then we will not have enough dozens of heads to cut off. Zhang Zhao stopped, sat on the stool in frustration and sighed.

"We haven't officially joined the Taiping Army yet, we can still go!" Hou Zhi carefully observed Zhang Zhao's expression.

"Where to go? Out of Wuxuan is the territory of the Qing court, and we have nowhere to go. Zhang Zhao shook his head and vetoed.

"Let's go to the imperial court!" Hou Zhi figured out Zhang Zhao's reluctance to give up money, and finally said his plan.

"What do you say? You can be quiet, this is the territory of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Zhang Zhao was taken aback by Hou Zhi's words.

"Big brother, I already saw it when I came in, and they were all my own people. Let's go to the Qing army, the court didn't manage the Taiping army so strictly, I have a way, I just inquired with the king of Xunzhou, and now the court is overwhelmed by the Taiping army, and they will be resettled if we vote for it. Hou Zhi showed his hole cards, this guy has long been unwilling to stay in the Taiping Army, and he has already found a way back.

"Outside the king? That middleman of yours? Is it reliable? Zhang Zhao was a little tempted when he heard it.

"Of course it's reliable, for so many years, he hasn't lost a sum of money from us. We are both old friends, and if we really want to talk about genealogy, I can still call him uncle. Hou Zhi patted his chest and swore an oath.

"Can the brothers below agree? What do you say on the other side of the second master? Zhang Zhao felt that it was impossible for Luo Outline to agree to vote for the imperial court.

"The surname Luo is not all the way with us, and he still thinks that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom army is strict and can achieve great things! has been completely brainwashed by them. Let's not take him, he has a deep blood feud with the court, we are different, we only seek wealth, and there are not so many lives under him. I have already contacted three old brothers, and they are willing to go with us, and as for the others, we first lied to them that they were going out to inspect, and when we really got to the court, they couldn't help but disagree. Hou Zhi really had a premeditated plan, and he wanted to coerce more people to go as his own capital.

"As far as we are, can the court take a fancy to it?" Zhang Zhao is still a little worried, not counting the Luo outline, he has only a thousand people, and I am afraid that the court will not look down on it.

"Big brother, don't you have some friendship with that person surnamed Shi? Let's trick him and use his head as the capital to surrender. He is a great official of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the court that killed him did not give us a pair of red top belts. I estimate that I have to at least be a military attache general of the third rank. As soon as Hou Zhi remembered the moment Xiao Cui was killed, he was furious, and he gritted his teeth against Shi Dakai.

"Zheng Sanpin?" Zhang Zhao's heart moved, he used to be just a catcher, if he could really be a general, it would really be a glorious ancestor, "Then I will entertain Shi Dakai in our camp tonight for dinner, and we will 。。。。。。 "Zhang Zhao's heart is horizontal, what is the righteousness of the brothers, as long as they can be sold at a good price, they will be sold. Count your surname Shi unlucky, who made your head so valuable.

"Okay! Big brother, just wait for your words! I'll go and prepare, and take the head of the person surnamed Shi in the evening, and let's go out of the camp to Xunzhou. Hou Zhi's neck turned red with excitement, as if the glory and wealth were beckoning to him.