Zeng Shuiyuan replied to the reply of the Eastern King to the British Minister Wen Han. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Wen Han received the reply stamped with the golden seal of the East King, and his heart was depressed, but he also had a hard time. And the king of heaven refused to meet, so he had no choice but to lead the foreigners on the warship and return to Shanghai.

After passing the warship "Halmis" in Yanziji, the British consul in Shanghi, Ali Guo, came to Wenhan's private room to discuss the countermeasures against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

"Sir, this time I came to Nanjing, but I returned in vain! I still insisted on that suggestion: to agree to the previous requests for help from Wu Jianzhang, the governor of Susong, and Yang Wending, the governor of Jiangsu, to send warships and soldiers, take military action, interfere with the Taiping army's attack on the Manchu government, and demand a good reward from the Manchu emperor while he still had a position to conclude a treaty! ”

Wen Han looked at this ambitious subordinate, and he knew that the reason why Ali Guo was so enthusiastic was nothing more than wanting to make some achievements, his term of office as Governor of Hong Kong Island and Minister to China was about to expire, and Ali Guo wanted to take over his position.

However, Wen Han preferred his other subordinate, Guangzhou Consul Bao Ling, to take over. Therefore, Wen Han did not like the ambitious and Scottish barbarian country of Ali very much.

"Aliguo, you are so insistent that we should take military action, but have you ever thought about how many warships and soldiers we still have in the Far East?" Wenhan asked the arrogant Scottish barbarian.

"This. Jazz, aren't there still French and American warships? Uniting our three countries should be enough to deal with the Taiping rebels. "Ali National Highway.

"Forget how that fool failed miserably? The rebels were not the Manchu cowards. Do you think that the king of the Taiping rebels just now was so confident in refusing to recognize the agreement signed between our Great Britain and the Manchus? That's because they have hundreds of thousands of rebels. Wen Han looked depressed, and when he thought of that defeat at the hands of the rebels in Guangzhou, he felt a pain in his heart.

Although he was in London at the time and did not participate directly, after all, it was the fiasco of the Far East Fleet of the British Navy that occurred during his tenure, which was a shame for his life.

"However, Ali Guo, the urgent report you gave me two months ago is commendable!" Wen Han thought that during his term of office, he still had to ask Ali Guo not to talk nonsense, so his face softened, and he patiently explained: "As soon as I received the report, on the one hand, I urgently reported to the Foreign Secretary in London, suggesting that as long as the Manchu Governor of Liangjiang or the Emperor asked us for help from the British, I would ask the Manchus to agree to 'unlimited access to all ports in the interior and along the coast, the establishment of direct diplomatic relations in Beijing, and the legalization of the opium trade', and as long as I agreed, I could send troops to help the Manchu government." ”

"On the other hand, I've already started to deploy troops to get there. Orders were ordered to dispatch the warship HMS Halmis from Malacca, another warship Salamant from Hong Kong Island, and the warship Ratley from Ningbo to dock at Shanghi and respond at any time. Even Hong Kong Island was left with only two warships. However, it is a pity that the Manchus did not have any high-ranking officials at the governor level and above to ask us for help, and the governor alone could not agree to our conditions. ”

After Wen Han finished explaining, seeing that Ali Guo seemed to have something to say, he continued: "Now the Taiping rebels have conquered the city of Nanjing. With control of the Yangtze River waterway, the Manchu government was losing ground one after another, and the situation was completely different. Therefore, I did some research and calculations with Midile and others, and finally came to the conclusion that in the current situation, the only thing Britain can do is wait and see, and maintaining a neutral policy is the wisest choice! Otherwise, if the Taiping rebels completely defeat the Manchus, and we help the Manchus, it will have the worst consequences for the British. ”

When Ali Guo heard this, he immediately understood.

To put it bluntly, you just can't press the wrong treasure. If they had helped the Qing government now, but the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had succeeded in the end, their position in China would have been extremely embarrassing. Moreover, even if the Manchu Qing Dynasty was victorious, it would have stepped in to help when it was not forced to the end of the mountain, and the arrogant Manchu court did not necessarily appreciate it, and it could not obtain benefits, so it was better not to help.

"However, Ali Guo, after we go back, we will arrange troops to protect it! At present, Guangzhou and Xiamen have been occupied by the rebel leader of the south, Shengwang, and Shanghi can no longer be occupied by the Taiping rebels in the north. Wen Han said in a serious tone.

Ali Guo hurriedly agreed. He remembered something, and said to Wen Han: "When I was in Tianjing just now, the marquis of the Taiping rebels seems to have secretly contacted Burbulon and Marshali behind our backs, and I don't know what the plot is? ”

"What? Is there such a thing? Damn Gauls and Yankees. Originally, they were asked to demonstrate to the Taiping rebels, but they didn't expect to be tied up with the rebels, and they must have secretly negotiated some kind of business, or made some kind of agreement. No, Ali Guo, after you return to Shanghi, you send someone to inquire from the French and the Americans, and you must find out. ”

Ali Guo agreed.

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Just as Britain, France, the United States and other foreigners returned to Shanghi, Hong Xiuquan, the king of heaven, who had just moved into the newly built Tianwang Mansion, at the suggestion of the king of the east, summoned the civil and military officials of the heavenly kingdom in Tianjing to announce some new decisions of the heavenly kingdom.

First of all, the Celestial Dynasty promulgated the system of acres of land, and at the same time as the system of acres of fields, it was incidentally announced that the Kingdom of Heaven would establish a system of township officials and establish local governments at all levels in all occupied areas.

This township official system, which was originally established in history until the autumn, also deviated because of the fanning of Feng Yunshan's butterfly wings, and was thrown out by Yang Xiuqing in advance.

Yang Xiuqing sent a detailed work to copy the Shengguo Tianmu system implemented by the Taiping Holy Kingdom in the area around Hunan, and Yang Xiuqing finally formulated the same "Heavenly Dynasty Tianmu System" as the original Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in history, and incidentally, announced the full establishment of the township official system.

All localities at all levels practice a system of rural commune organization that integrates soldiers and peasants. Each of the two Sima has jurisdiction over twenty-five families, the commander has jurisdiction over one hundred, the brigade commander has jurisdiction over five hundred, the division commander has jurisdiction over two thousand five hundred, and the military commander has jurisdiction over twelve thousand five hundred.

This is a form of society in which public ownership is taken to the extreme. In addition to farming, every family is required to grow mulberry, raise silkworms, weave cloth, raise chickens, pigs, etc., and all harvest shall not be privately owned, except for the grain that may be left to receive new grain, all shall go to the holy treasury. And every wheat, and beans, and flax, and cloth, and silk, and chickens, and dogs, and all kinds of money, shall also be in the public possession.

As for all the weddings, full moons, and happy events (i.e., funerals, because the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom takes the death of a person as a great event, it is a great event, so it is called a happy event), all use the state treasury, but they are limited according to the rank, and the whole country is the same, and no more money is used. The rest of the widows, widows, orphans, loneliness, and disability are all supported by the state treasury.

For the establishment of township officials, where the prefecture and county are initially determined, that is, the army is divided into regions, the military commander and the lower officials are established, and the state and county are ordered to compile household registers, and the officials below the military commander are publicly promoted in the township, and the provincial vote is submitted and issued to each household.

Originally, before the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom built its capital Tianjing, it conquered countless states and counties along the way, but none of them were stationed, and they just grabbed some money and food and gave up.

However, since the establishment of the township official system, the prefectures and counties of Suoke, in accordance with the provisions of the Tianchao Tianmu system, have used the military system to organize the people, and the people have openly elected township officials at all levels below the military commander level, and they have been appointed by the Celestial Dynasty to supervise the army and the general system, and have begun to govern the localities.

Since then, the kingdom of heaven has also had its own territory. However, the people in Nanjing were not peasants, and there was no land to plant. Historically, the system of acres in the Celestial Dynasty has never been truly implemented. However, due to the appearance of Feng Yunshan, no one could have predicted what changes would occur in this world and history.

Secondly, planned by the Eastern King, the Heavenly King announced the implementation of a comprehensive supply system for the Holy Treasury in Tianjing.

The king of the east sent the old brothers of Guangxi and the women of Guangxi to worship the backbone of the God Sect, first to publicize the principle of common ownership and sharing to the people in Tianjing City, and then to publicize the system of acres of land in the Heavenly Dynasty, and at the same time announced the abolition of the land ownership system of the landlords and gentry and all the official gentry, and all property was put into public ownership and filled into the holy treasury. It is required to realize a peaceful world where "everyone in the world is even, everyone is full of warmth, and everyone has a field to cultivate".

The Heavenly King, on the other hand, personally held a grand lecture in the newly built Christ Temple, preaching the principles of emancipating women and abolishing Confucianism and all other evil cults.

In addition, the Heavenly King announced that the Taiping soldiers and all the people in the entire Tianjing City should be separated according to their genders, and a men's and women's pavilions would be set up. Originally, the people in the city, whether they were husbands and wives or children, had to be separated in the men's hall and the women's hall.

For a while, the people in the city cried and begged, but were forcibly driven to the men's hall and the women's hall by a group of old Guangxi brothers, hundreds of men wanted to resist, and were immediately beheaded by the Heavenly King Imperial Forest Army holding a card knife, and the rest ran into the men's hall in fright, and no longer dared to resist and make trouble.

The king also announced that all the people in Tianjing City should restore Han dress and keep long hair as a sign of anti-Qing resistance. But all haircuts, shaves, and shaves are all demonic spirits, and beheadings are not left.

As a result, the people of Nanjing City, who were sad, cut their braids one after another, and kept their hair that was not half short and not long, hoping to grow their hair as soon as possible and not be caught by the heavenly soldiers as a demon.

At this time, in a men's hall next to the west gate of Nanjing, hundreds of men of different ages were following an old Guangxi brother with a red scarf on his head, reciting the doctrine of the Heavenly King.

And a handsome young man with a hideous expression secretly said to himself: "If only Shanxiang's girl was still in Nanjing!" Dedicate her to the king of heaven, maybe I, Fu Xueji, will be able to become the uncle of the country, and I will soar from now on! ”

However, before the young man named Fu Xueji could have a perfect dream, he was pulled out by the old Guangxi brother with a red scarf on his head, and scolded with a scolding face: "Lao Tzu finally set up an altar in the men's hall to preach, but you dog thief deserted Lao Tzu!" Recite the doctrine of the king of heaven to Lao Tzu, if you can't memorize it today, you will have ten rods, and if you can't memorize it tomorrow, you will have twenty rods, until you recite it or the rod will be killed. ”

Fu Xueji's face turned pale, and he glanced at the Taiping soldier with a red turban on his head viciously, and reluctantly followed: "The fields of the people are all the fields of the Heavenly King (Heavenly Father), and the rice grains obtained every year are all collected by the Heavenly King (Heavenly Father), and a large mouthful of rice is given every month, and the small mouth is halved as a health fund." …… The principal and interest of the shop are all the principal and interest of the king (Heavenly Father), and the people are not allowed to use it, and it always belongs to the Heavenly King (Heavenly Father). In this way, the soul can ascend to heaven, but if it is not, it is an evil heart, that is, a demon, and it cannot ascend to heaven, and its sin is extremely great. ”

.......... (To be continued.) )