"Congratulations to King Chung for turning 9,000 years old!"

Hong Xiuquan sealed the news that Li Xiu became nine thousand years old, and it was announced in the whole city as soon as possible, so Zhu Jinglun had already received the news, and the first thing he said when he saw Li Xiucheng was congratulations. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Li Xiucheng can still remain shocked, for him, these false names are not important, far less practical than real benefits.

"I dare not be honored in front of Your Majesty."

Li Xiucheng said politely.

Then he talked about the intention, he hoped that the Ming army would cooperate with the Taiping army to break through, and not ask the Ming army to fight to the death with the Hunan army, Li Xiucheng was very self-aware at this point, he felt that only he could help himself, and it was unrealistic to expect anyone, the reason why he sent a letter to Zhu Jinglun at that time was that at the most critical moment, he rushed to the hospital, and he did not just throw himself at Zhu Jinglun, in fact, he also voted for the Twist Army in Jiangbei.

Zhu Jinglun originally came to save this group of crazy people, and he was counting on them to drag the Hunan army, of course, he said that he was here to share the world with Hong Xiuquan equally.

So you can't easily agree, don't do it with benefits.

"Now that the Heavenly King has been able to govern, shouldn't he talk to me about dividing the world equally?"

mentioned this stubble again, Li Xiucheng was a little embarrassed.

Hong Xiuquan is now hiding in the deep palace again, let alone talking to Zhu Jinglun about world affairs, I'm afraid it is impossible to meet, unless Zhu Jinglun is willing to bow down to Hong Xiuquan, but this is obviously impossible, he doesn't dare to mention this request, if he mentions it, it is not an alliance, and he should be ready to fight with a force.

So he excused himself: "As the old saying goes, two dragons don't meet, Your Majesty is a dragon, and the king of heaven is also a real dragon, so you shouldn't meet." ”

Zhu Jinglun was quite displeased: "That's it, you people who believe in foreign religions don't talk about sincerity at all." ”

Li Xiucheng emphasized: "We do not believe in foreign religions, but worship God's ears. ”

Zhu Jinglun sighed: "It's you who want to share the world with me equally, I'm here, but you don't even talk about it, it's unreasonable." ”

Li Xiucheng also knew that he was at a loss, so he didn't talk about this matter for the time being, but only talked about military affairs.

"At present, the Hunan army is strong, and it is too early to talk about dividing the territory."

Zhu Jinglun was very helpless: "Okay, okay, if you want to fight the Hunan army, you can't help me." ”

Li Xiucheng said: "There is no need for the Ming army to fight, just use a warship to send my heavenly soldiers behind the Hunan army." ”

Zhu Jinglun snorted: "Just give the boat fare." ”

In this way, it became a business to talk about military affairs, but Li Xiucheng felt that it was quite cost-effective, a soldier only needed ten taels of silver, and he planned to send out 30,000 elites to attack the Hunan army from the rear of the Hunan army, and it was only 300,000 taels of silver, he had been operating in Jiangsu and Zhejiang for three years, where is the best silk production area in the world, the price of Huzhou white silk is at least two or three times more expensive than raw silk in other places, and he still has a lot of money in his hands.

He even bought 30,000 muskets from foreigners through smuggling, and the firepower of the Taiping army was stronger than that of the Hunan army. It's a pity that those muskets have been damaged a lot now, and he suddenly remembered that there were a lot of muskets in Zhu Jinglun's army, so he offered to buy a batch of guns.

Zhu Jinglun also agreed painfully.

Li Xiucheng can see that the so-called Emperor Ming is simply a money fan, as long as he gives money, he is willing to do anything, but it is simpler, like foreigners, he came for money, and he even suddenly had a lot of good feelings towards Zhu Jinglun.

After bargaining, he sold 30,000 rifles to Li Xiucheng for 20 taels of a gun, and now the rifles in Manager Hu's army are more than enough, because he has just shipped back 200,000 rifles from Britain, and he can't even equip more than that.

There are 30,000 elites attacking from behind and in front of the city, Zhu Jinglun believes that it should be certain to deal with the exhausted Hunan army that has been besieging the city for three years, and he has no time to wait for the result here, so let Li Xiucheng discuss directly with Chen Ada in the future, he plans to return to Guangdong.

Zhu Jinglun didn't plan to let his army enter the city, they were very good in Xiaguan, where are the barracks built in rows now, stockpiled sufficient supplies, built strong positions and batteries, and at the same time wedged a nail on the Yanziji in the rear of the Hunan army, if the Hunan army planned to attack Xiaguan, Yanziji could respond, and in addition to Xiaguan here, the cannons on the city wall of the Taiping army could also be hit, and the Hunan army came to attack here, and was attacked by the cannons of the Ming army outside the city, the cannons on the city wall, and the cannons of the navy on the river on the river were sandwiched on three sides, It is estimated that Zeng Guoquan would not have taken the risk of fighting such a war.

When leaving, Zhu Jinglun asked Li Xiucheng that he would take the missionaries with him.

Because of the suspicion of plotting to assassinate the Heavenly King, although those missionaries were not lit with sky lanterns, they were all put on death row, and let them die here, it was to get into trouble, there were not only American missionaries here, but also French and British, in case the British and French troops came, Tianjing still did not fight.

Li Xiucheng didn't take those missionaries seriously, and directly agreed, and sent them to the post house that night.

Zhu Jinglun also quarreled with several missionaries, because the missionaries refused to accept the claim that Hong Xiuquan was God's second son, and they believed that it was a complete heresy, an evil sorcerer, and should be burned at the stake.

I didn't expect myself to play so mysteriously, these people's beliefs have not wavered at all, but Zhu Jinglun asked rhetorically, why do they believe that Jesus died and rose again, and they don't believe that Jesus has a second brother, they said that the Bible is not written, Zhu Jinglun asked them if the Bible was not written more than 2,000 years ago, maybe God has given birth to several sons in the past two years, it is this sentence that made these missionaries explode, and also said that Zhu Jinglun was a heretic.

In fact, they were not so radical, Christianity was not as radical as Catholicism, and those who set fire to the pagans were mainly done by Catholics, Lin Lezhi These people, although they believe in piety, but in this industrial age, they all went to school, and even went to college, Lin Lezhi graduated from Emory College.

Otherwise, he would not have been hired as a translator by the Cantonese Dialect Museum, you must know that what he has to do is not to be a translator for people, but to translate books, which requires a high degree of professional knowledge, especially the knowledge of natural sciences, in order to accurately translate those scientific readings.

But the stimulus they received was too great, and the resurrection of the dead appeared, the most critical thing was that they also pretended to be the bridge of Jesus' resurrection, and what was even more depressing was that they really couldn't argue that Hong Xiuquan really came back from the dead, whether it was a soul corpse or a fake death, so he was resurrected in front of everyone, especially in front of them, which made them unacceptable in their own hearts at first, and people with firm beliefs were also prone to extremes, and at this time their temperament on this side was hooked.

Zhu Jinglun was not interested in quarreling with them, and told them that he would leave early tomorrow morning and hoped that they would go with him.

Maybe they were fortunate after a night of calmness, or maybe they really didn't want to stay in Tianjing, a place that made them feel hopeless, they honestly got on a warship with Zhu Jinglun the next day and went to Shanghai.

Before they came, it had been spread all over Shanghai that the king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had risen from the dead, and the major newspapers had reprinted the news, and as the parties concerned, as soon as these missionaries came ashore, they were quickly approached by the newspapers, and they refused to be interviewed, but their attitudes were also published in the newspapers, and in order to attract attention, many newspapers simply said that the priests of several major churches acquiesced in the matter.

Zhu Jinglun was not interested in caring about these, and asked Xu Rongcun about some information, especially the situation of Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang, and found that these two people took advantage of the opportunity when Zeng Guofan surrounded the Taiping army in Tianjing, and began to frantically sweep the Taiping army forces in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, maybe they thought too much, Zhu Jinglun suspected that this move was probably instructed by the Manchu court, and they did not dare to let the Hunan army immediately defeat Tianjing, and also occupy Jiangnan, in their opinion, the Hunan army at this time has developed to a degree that is more fearful than the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Yi Xin and Cixi are two masters of power and magic, and now they have begun to target Zeng Guofan, on the one hand, they do not give them military salaries, and on the other hand, they are desperately cultivating opponents for Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang are both in order to balance the Zeng brothers and were helped on the horse, sadly these two people have been Zeng Guofan's staff, according to the Confucian point of view, these two people are considered to be Zeng Guofan's students, but unfortunately they really can't find a useful talent among the children of the Eight Banners.

For more than a year, Li Xiucheng was trapped in Tianjing, and the Taiping army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang was leaderless, and Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang attacked from two directions, basically recovering all the Jiangnan base areas opened up by Li Xiucheng.

Last month, Li Hongzhang's army captured Changzhou, the last Taiping military town outside Tianjing City, and had joined up with the Hunan army to completely besiege Tianjing City.

Zuo Zongtang in March, captured Hangzhou, control the whole territory of Zhejiang, but he did not stop, but has been pursuing the Taiping army south, has been pursuing Li Shixian and Wang Haiyang into Fujian, and finally he will eliminate the last Taiping army in the Meizhou area, and Meizhou is the Jiaying Prefecture of Huichao Jiadao, which has entered the border of Guangdong. In other words, Zhu Jinglun is likely to fight with Zuo Zongtang's troops first.

The three loyal ministers of the late Qing Dynasty, Zhu Jinglun, the army of Zeng Guofan, have seen it, and Zuo Zongtang's army is about to see it, but Li Hongzhang may not be able to meet it later.

Among them, Zhu Jinglun attaches the most importance to Li Hongzhang's Huai Army.

Li Hongzhang is a very interesting person, he is far inferior to Zeng Guofan in terms of execution, he once organized a training regiment and was defeated, went to Jiangxi to join Zeng Guofan as a staff member, Zeng Guofan has the habit of eating breakfast with officers, life is very regular, go to bed early and get up early, but Li Hongzhang is a casual person, he sleeps late, loves to sleep lazy, everyone else goes, he doesn't go, the soldiers come to invite him repeatedly, he loses his temper and doesn't go, and finally Zeng Guofan personally came to invite, he didn't dare not go, since then under Zeng Guofan's command, he has worked hard and changed all bad habits.

But once he took power, Li Hongzhang became casual again, and he did things very casually, because he killed prisoners, he turned his face with Gordon, the general of the Changsheng Army, and Gordon was even bent on finding Li Hongzhang to duel.

Zhu Jinglun also attached great importance to this Gordon, and before leaving Shanghai, he told Xu Rongcun to collect intelligence as soon as possible, especially Zuo Zongtang's troops, and Li Hongzhang's troops, especially to pay special attention to this Gordon's movements, and report back to Guangdong within a month.

I didn't stop in Shanghai, I went straight south, and I also met Pan Shicheng's fleet on the way, which was full of grain and other materials, and planned to take advantage of the opportunity of the Tianjing trade road to make the first pot of gold, which was very good.

Ten days later, on June 20, Zhu Jinglun returned to Guangdong.

As soon as I got off the boat, I knew that something had finally happened in Guangdong that I didn't want to see, and almost all the opposition forces took action.

The Eight Banners soldiers stationed in more than a dozen counties of Guangzhao Luodao rebelled, killed the officers and then marched to Guangzhou, and Jiang Yili's troops in Guangxi began to march towards Wuzhou, and even his own father-in-law, Zhang Qianshan, who was entrenched in Nanshao Liandao, began to mobilize troops and drove towards Guangzhou, and for a time they were embattled. (To be continued.) )