It is said that after Yang Xiaoshan left Tianjing, Yang Xiuqing fell a stone in his heart, and there was no one in the court who could compete with him. Eliminating all hidden dangers, he focused his mind on the path of nationalizing the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Since the birth of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, it can only be said to be a religious army, not a country in the true sense. After breaking the camp in Jiangnan and Jiangbei, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom got a very rare period of peace, and Yang Xiuqing was very aware of the promotion of nationalization at this time, and if the Heavenly Kingdom wanted to continue to develop, it must be formalized and secularized.

So he did a couple of big things.

First, he abolished the system of separate camps for men and women, so that husbands and wives could live together. During the war years, it was necessary to separate camps for men and women, and the biggest contradiction in human beings was the contradiction in the distribution of sexual resources. The division of men and women into battalions is one-size-fits-all, and no one can solve this contradiction and prevent civil strife in the army.

But now that there is peace, people's basic sexual needs are brought from the bones, and blindly preventing them has brought greater disasters and turned sexual repression into sexual perversion. Some high-ranking officials raise beautiful boys as guards to cover people's eyes and ears, and engage in ** behind their backs, hurting nature and reason.

Yang Xiuqing saw the disadvantages of separating men and women, so he took the opportunity of his heavenly father to cancel the abstinence order and reunite the husband and wife. If they do not have a wife, they will be given wives successively according to the size of their official positions. At first, it was randomly arranged from above, sometimes the old man arranged a big girl, that was what he earned, and sometimes the young man was arranged to an old woman, and there was no way.

Later, the method of distribution was too rough, which caused a lot of complaints, especially the people who were divided into ugly girls and old women had very big opinions. In the end, Yang Xiuqing made a decision, a row of women's faces blocked, stretched out their hands, and those who had no wives went in to choose. You can only look at your hands, you can't look at your face, and the last person who holds hands is your wife, everything is providential and cannot be reversed.

Of course, not everyone has this treatment, they must serve in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom for more than two years, and only those who have military rank above the rank of captain have this treatment, and those who meet the standards will be issued a dragon and phoenix together, commonly known as "women's tickets", so that they are qualified to go in and hold hands.

Yang Xiuqing's approach conforms to the will of heaven, but it violates the morality of worshipping God, because in religion, this is called lewdness, which is the greatest evil, so the author calls this practice de-religiousization, that is, nationalization.

Second, Yang Xiuqing prevented Hong Xiuquan from comprehensively repairing the book. Hong Xiuquan, as a religious leader, called the Confucian classics and other subsets of scriptures and histories demon books, and completely banned them, and some of them could not be forbidden, and he revised them according to his own understanding of religion.

For example, the emperors in history he thinks that they can't be called emperors, because they are far worse than God, so the Tang Dynasty and Song ancestors in those books were all demoted to marquis by him, so some books were changed by him to be very ridiculous, such as Mencius seeing King Liang Hui was changed by him to Mencius seeing Liang Huihou. To this end, he also set up a special book deletion office to delete and revise books according to his own requirements.

Yang Xiuqing's mind was still sober and knew that he couldn't do this, so he openly and secretly stopped Hong Xiuquan's absurd behavior, and warned him through his heavenly father, "The book that has been passed down through the ages cannot be destroyed." Hong Xiuquan's plan to change and destroy books on a large scale was stillborn and failed to be fully promoted.

Yang Xiuqing attaches more importance to cultural people, and his subordinates have gathered many Jiangnan literati as his secretaries. Therefore, he destroyed temples such as monk temples and nunnery, but he never touched the Temple of Literature, because he knew that a country needed a large number of cultural people to build.

Third, he shelved the "Heavenly Dynasty Tianmu System", which was difficult to implement, and still collected taxes below according to the original method of collecting rents. If Hong Xiuquan's method is followed, not only will the rent not be collected, but there will also be a lot of contradictions.

As an actual administrative operator, Yang Xiuqing is all too clear about the difficulties. But his approach is undoubtedly contrary to Hong Xiuquan's religious feelings.

It can be said that Yang Xiuqing's various practices are secularizing the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and he wants to build the Heavenly Kingdom into a secular country.

With Yang Xiuqing's intelligence, it is impossible for him not to take into account the backlash of the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan.

Cheng Xueqi, who was beside him, also discovered Yang Xiuqing's worries, so he lost no time in saying to Yang Xiuqing: "Xia Guan heard that the Heavenly King is still studying how to revise the historical collection in the palace, and he is also very dissatisfied with the abstinence decree of the East King. ”

Yang Xiuqing's face changed and she didn't speak.

"King Dong, do you want to write an excerpt to comfort and comfort the Heavenly King?" Cheng Xueqi said tentatively.

"No need, these practices conform to everyone's wishes, and they are all for the good of heaven." Yang Xiuqing didn't take the king of heaven in his eyes.

"But there are a lot of complaints from the Heavenly King, and the lower officials are afraid that if the Heavenly King has a grudge against you, then 。。。。。。" Cheng Xueqi began to provoke the relationship between the East King and the Heavenly King.

"Afraid of what? Are you afraid of what he will do to me? Yang Xiuqing said disdainfully. The military and political power are in his own hands, and even the right to interpret religion is in his own hands, Hong Xiuquan is just a puppet in his eyes.

"After all, the Heavenly King is still the leader of the Heavenly Kingdom in name, if he really wants to be unfavorable to the East King。。。。。。" Cheng Xueqi hinted.

If Yang Xiuqing is not a little defensive against Hong Xiuquan, it is impossible.

So he found a time to write to Hong Xiuquan and asked him to name himself "Long live" to test the king Hong Xiuquan.

Hong Xiuquan got Yang Xiuqing's request to be sealed long live, it can be said that he was forced into a corner by Yang, and almost all the actual rights of the Kingdom of Heaven were taken away by Yang Xiuqing, and he couldn't imagine that he would even take away his nominal title.

At this time, Hong Xiuquan could be said to have killed Yang Xiuqing, thinking that Yang Xiuqing would sooner or later attack him and replace him, but he did not attack immediately, but temporarily endured it and approved the title of long live Yang Xiuqing.

On the other hand, Yang Xiuqing thought that Hong Xiuquan was really afraid of himself and let himself do whatever he wanted, and the last bit of defense against Hong Xiuquan was also dispelled. Although Yang Xiuqing is arrogant, he has a simple value, remembering the old love and bullying the brothers who got into trouble together, and he can't be poisoned, which is also a big weakness of his.

The struggle for power is life and death, Yang Xiuqing did not kill Hong Xiuquan, there are many reasons, and there is an important reason that he killed Hong Xiuquan and got too little, because the military and political power was originally in his own hands, and religiously his heavenly father also overshadowed the position of the heavenly king, so there was no need to take the risk of killing the heavenly king.

But Hong Xiuquan is different, first, Yang Xiuqing did not establish this Taiping Heavenly Kingdom according to his own ideals at all, in his opinion, the road of the Heavenly Kingdom is getting more and more crooked, Yang Xiuqing can be said to have destroyed his religious ideals; Second, if Yang Xiuqing is killed, the feeling of being under the fence will be gone, and he can become the king in the true sense.

So Hong Xiuquan made the first move.