Section 756 A Quietly Rising Sect

Deng Shicai, like an old hen, regards the west coast of North America, especially California, which has the best potential for agricultural development, as his nest, and his eyes are staring at every corner without blinking. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

He pursued a policy of protecting armor in the delta region, and every town sent soldiers to guard it, thinking that this would stabilize the place, but he didn't expect that people were flexible, the harder the pressure, the more powerful the rebound, at this point, the civilian officials had an advantage over the generals, and Huairou was the only effective way to solve the resistance, but Huairou needed time and would never be accepted by military operations.

Therefore, although the rebellion cannot be said to be more and more intense, it has always existed, and while whites continue to leave California, whites continue to join the underground forces of resistance.

It is relatively good in the city, but it is beyond the reach of the country.

Also out of reach was the territory of the Taiping Army, the Sierra Nevada, which was now occupied by the Taiping uprising led by Li Xiucheng.

Deng Shicai's gaze couldn't penetrate here, as if there was always a layer of fog blocking his vision, he didn't care, the Taiping army was an ally, a reliable ally, and now provided a considerable part of the food and other supplies for the Ming army, as for whether the Taiping army completely listened to him, he really didn't care.

He never even cared about the land of California, all he cared about was this war, and since he went to the battlefield, his actions, his thoughts, all revolved around the war, and he never moved even a single distracting thought.

Including this siege and annihilation battle, he did not personally command, because he knew that someone was more suitable than him, and he transferred Zhang Kaishan from China.

Although Zhang Kaishan knew the French army best, through the First World War in Vietnam, he was also the only senior officer with combat experience in the modern army, and commanded the long-term siege of the French army, Deng Shicai could not find a reason to choose someone else over Zhang Kaishan, as for himself, he knew that he was not good at commanding battles on the spot.

So Zhang Kaishan is actually his white rise, as for Lu Yunqi, who has been fighting the front line, it is just his king, and after Lu Yunqi introduces the US army into the Grande River Valley, he will be replaced by Zhang Kaishan to command the siege and annihilation battle.

If you don't have distractions, you won't be distracted by distractions, but you will also not pay attention to external objects, and you will often miss a lot of things that you should see.

The layer of fog over the Taiping Army was deliberately created by someone, it was the panic and uneasiness in Li Xiucheng's heart, and it was the mysterious legend of Hong Xiuquan.

Hong Xiuquan was resurrected, and many people already knew about this matter, and it had been spread, but no one believed it, Deng Shicai didn't believe it, and the U.S. military didn't believe it.

Deng Shicai didn't even need to ask Li Xiucheng for verification, how could a person be resurrected after death, and it was even more impossible for a dead person who had been buried for more than ten years to be resurrected.

Li Xiucheng didn't spread it, and even deliberately blocked the news, because he didn't know what impact this matter would have if it spread, the Heavenly King, who had been dead for more than ten years, and the Heavenly King, who had only one head left, stood in front of everyone's eyes again with the body of a white American in full view.

This is the king of heaven, Li Xiucheng will not be wrong when he dies, but why did the king come back from the dead?

If you don't believe in the miracles of the King of Heaven at all, and don't believe that the King of Heaven has a mandate, it is impossible, otherwise Li Xiucheng would not have risked his life to rebel with him, but if you completely believe that Hong Xiuquan is a god, that is, the son of God, Li Xiucheng doesn't believe it very much.

But when Hong Tianwang's head was pressed on the white man's body and came back to life, at this time, he told Li Xiucheng that Hong Xiuquan was God himself, and Li Xiucheng would believe it, and he had to believe it.

But when this kind of myth and legend really happened, he felt panicked, he didn't know how he would treat them if he let other people know, especially the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he was not sure, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty would not allow King Hong to come back again.

According to Li Xiucheng's understanding, since the Ming Emperor could not care about dominating the world, he sent troops to the United States, presumably he attached great importance to the land here, and he must not allow others to get involved. Li Xiucheng knows the land of California too well, where the fields are fertile, suitable for growing rice and wheat, and there are gold and silver hidden in the barren mountains. There are also high mountains and rivers, which are the assets of the emperor.

Emperor Daming fought here, of course, to expand the territory, which Li Xiucheng was convinced of. But now that the King of Heaven has been resurrected, even if the King of Heaven does not plan to rebuild the Kingdom of Heaven here, can the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty really allow the King of Heaven to live here?

Li Xiucheng felt that if he was any emperor, he would probably not allow it.

His education made it impossible for him not to be superstitious, he believed in the king of heaven, and he also believed that all emperors had a mandate of heaven and were all sons of heaven. He even thought that the king of heaven would not be resurrected in the Ming Dynasty, but he would be resurrected immediately when he arrived in the United States. I'm afraid that he was pressed by the luck of the Great Tomorrow, in that world, the Heavenly King couldn't fight the Great Tomorrow, and even the body that was pressed by others turned into white bones. You can only get out with your head. Then in the world of the United States, the luck of the king of heaven is like a rainbow, and he naturally wants to compete for the world. But the Ming Emperor also valued the world of the United States, and the two dragons competed, and he did not dare to guarantee that the King of Heaven would win.

He doesn't want to accompany the king to fight the world, he no longer has that ambition, he just wants to guard the fertile land of California, inherit the descendants, and spread the branches. But he absolutely couldn't watch the Ming Emperor kill the Heavenly King again here, he would rather be killed himself than have another misfortune for the Heavenly King.

But the Ming Dynasty continued to dispatch troops and sent millions of troops to the United States, and people could ask for the life of the king of heaven with one thought, and he Li Xiucheng was nothing more than to accompany the funeral with him, and he was not afraid of the funeral, what he was afraid of was that the king of heaven had hidden in the Americas, and he had to be taken by someone, he was really unwilling.

He couldn't do it himself, so he decided to turn to others for help, the rest of the Taiping Army was widely dispersed in the Americas, from Canada to South America, and Li Xiucheng was located in California, and there was no shortage of contacts, he didn't think about what to do with each other before, just to take care of each other, and now it seems that everything is the destiny of the underworld.

He kept writing letters to some Taiping army generals, asking them to come to California to participate in the Heavenly King, some should not be, but there should be.

Wang Haiyang and Yang Fuqing, who he valued the most, and were also the fiercest ones who fought with him back then, came, and after they saw the Heavenly King, they all sincerely surrendered and offered their loyalty again, and they assured Li Xiucheng that once someone harmed the Heavenly King, they would desperately disregard their lives and protect the Heavenly King's whole body.

Li Xiu's troops are less than 100,000, and the troops that can be used are only 50,000, and the troops in the hands of Wang Haiyang and Yang Fuqing are about the same, and the three of them can have 150,000 soldiers and horses, recruit rebels, recruit outlaws, and bring in 50,000, with a total strength of 200,000, which is also a large force.

But the development of the current situation is far beyond Li Xiucheng's imagination, he found that after changing the world, the luck of the Heavenly King seems to be erected again, and he has once again regained the appeal of the previous one.

He was able to inspire not only the rest of the Taiping Army, but also the second-generation Taiping soldiers, and even the native Americans.

At that time, the two Indian tribes in the Nevada Indian Reservation who witnessed the resurrection of the Heavenly King, under the leadership of the chief, came to meet the Heavenly King, and saw the head of the Yellow Race of the Heavenly King and the body of the white man.

Even a group of white people who witnessed the resurrection of the Heavenly King at that time, after the Heavenly King generously released them, many people went and returned, and even respected the Heavenly King as the Holy Son, bowed down to worship, and served left and right.

The king of heaven did not refuse to come, and he preached the scriptures every day, and he was able to speak not only in Chinese, but also in American, and after a few days of communication with the Indians, he could freely preach the scriptures in the words of the Indians.

These Indians were extremely superstitious, and after they worshipped the king, they immediately spread the miracles of the king to other Indian tribes, attracting more Indians to pay homage to the king.

Those white Americans, on the other hand, said that they had accepted God's mission, and after consulting the Heavenly King, they decided to become missionaries and spread the Heavenly King's teachings throughout the United States.

What Li Xiucheng didn't know was that the shock left by Hong Xiuquan's resurrection in his heart at that time was actually not as violent as the shock left in the hearts of the Americans and Indians on the battlefield at that time, because it was not the first time he had witnessed the resurrection of the Heavenly King, and these Americans and Indians had never seen such a miracle.

As for the reason why the charisma of the king is strong, it is related to other reasons. Hong Xiuquan is a person with strong incitement ability, this kind of person is also a kind of talent, some people are born to be scholars, some people are born to be instigators, Hong Xiuquan can't pass the exam, but he can incite thousands of people to work for him, there is no super talent, it is unreasonable.

And Hong Xiuquan's own skills are strong enough. In those years, he locked himself in the deep palace of Tianjing, and he did not waste his time in vain except for women. Especially after his first resurrection, Zhu Jinglun did not repair some functions of his body, and the king of heaven at that time was actually unable to get close to women. But the King of Heaven is still in the deep palace, and he wants to find an answer, an answer to why he can be resurrected.

He invested in researching all the original Bibles that could be found, and even traced back to the source, even the Jewish scriptures were well known, and even spent a lot of money to obtain ancient books, various legends, various versions of the Bible, and even Muslim scriptures, native Buddhism, and the scriptures of the White Lotus Sect, and he needed to find his origin from the records of these religions.

But he did not find it, but he was proficient in most of the teachings of the great religions of human society, from the Sanskrit scriptures of India to the parchment of the Jews, and he even sent people to the Jewish community in Kaifeng to find ancient Jewish scriptures that had been passed down for hundreds of years to study.

Although he did not find the answer, in his heart, he had formed, or comprehended, a whole set of religious essences, and when he said it, it was naturally a great truth, which made people listen to it like drinking fine wine.

The doctrines he explored or comprehended may have little impact on Li Xiucheng and others, but for the Indians who believed in primitive religions, it was like finding God.

The beliefs of the Indians are still very primitive, they believe in almost everything, and their beliefs are also very fragmented, and they are extremely vulnerable to infection when they encounter a big propagandist like Hong Xiuquan. And Hong Xiuquan doesn't know why, his memory is very strong, and he only needs to communicate with the Indians for a short period of time before he can analyze and comprehend the language of the Indians.

The beliefs of the Indians are easy to replace, but the whites are also infected by Hong Xiuquan, so it is a little too much to say.

In fact, it is mainly in the United States, where the beliefs are extremely complex, even for white people, it is quite complicated, not only the various religions of Europe spread here, but even the Mormon Church, which is regarded as a heresy by the Orthodox Church, can find soil here, Salt Lake City in the east of the Sierra Nevada is established by Mormons, and there are more than a dozen such cities in the United States.

Not every white person has a firm belief in God, and there is even a religion with Satan as the object of faith, so it is not surprising that among the thousands of white soldiers who experienced the horrific scene of Hong Xiuquan's resurrection, a few have been converted.

After Hong Xiuquan took Christianity as the original, added Oriental Zen machines, Indian philosophies, and reconstructed a set of religious theories, it is not surprising that they felt that they had the destiny to spread this "truth" to everyone in the American way, and decided to put aside all worldly distractions and become a God-worshipping missionary.

And Hong Xiuquan's teachings are extremely attractive, people who believe in Christianity, for ordinary people, the biggest ideal is probably to be able to go to heaven after death, not to hell, but the things after death are ethereal and can be used by religion, but it is difficult for people to feel the intuitive impact.

Hong Xiuquan's doctrine is that he does not wait to go to heaven after death, he came down to earth to create a small paradise directly on earth.

For some Christians, it is not attractive to live to see heaven without waiting to die.

Although this kind of nonsense about creating a paradise on earth, the soldiers of the Taiping Army have long been tired of hearing it, and the Tianjing occupied by Zeng Guofan is not the little paradise in the mouth of King Hong. But for white people, it's still very new. Think about it, more than 1,000 years after Jesus' death, another Son of God came down to earth and then, by God's will, led believers to build a little paradise on earth, what a great undertaking, if they could participate in it, they would be saints just like the disciples of Jesus back then.

No one could have imagined that Hong Xiuquan's theory would burst out in the magical land of the United States.

But the speed of his spread has exceeded Li Xiucheng's imagination.

With the spread of the Indians from tribe to tribe, and the white soldiers from town to town, and even directly into the U.S. military to preach, the worship of God quickly spread in the United States.

Most people think that light is the fastest, but there is one thing that is likely to be faster than light, and that is thought.

When one person spreads ideas to another, it is very slow, but when 10,000 people spread to 10,000 people, it is very fast, and when 100,000 people appear, there is no need to spread it, but it begins to attract others to take the initiative to accept it.

Quietly, in less than half a year, the Worship of God suddenly formed a climate in California, USA. Countless believers flocked to the mountains of Nevada to worship the Son in their hearts, and on the western side of the Sierra Nevada, they began to build a city like Mormon Salt Lake City, which they called Little Paradise.

But at this time, the only person in California who has the ability to nip this religion in the bud, Deng Shicai's gaze has never stayed in the Sierra Nevada area, his gaze has enveloped the whole of California, and he has always paid attention to the reaction of the world.

The London negotiations failed, the Ming and the United States did not reach an agreement, the war will continue, and this time Deng Shicai can take the initiative to attack.