The three girls stood in the wind, their hearts turned their minds, and the Heavenly Sword Daoist who had already taken off his robe walked out of the lower cabin in a hurry.

"The three princesses have just received the news that the Heavenly King has abdicated, and the Young Heavenly King has succeeded to the throne as the new Heavenly King! Now the situation in the entire Heavenly Kingdom has been completely stabilized, and our army is still defeating the Zeng State Domain in the southwest! The Heavenly Sword Daoist's face was full of excitement.

"Really? That's great! The three daughters were overjoyed.

"Tell us what's going on?" Concubine Xi asked a little anxiously.

To be honest, no matter how she thought that the situation in the heavenly kingdom was not good for Hong Tiangui, how did he reverse the situation?

"It was Missionary Smith who got the news from the British troop carrier returning home, and it should have been within a few days of our departure. I have already taken the news of the three princesses to the West through the merchant ships bound for the East, and I have calculated that it will take a month at most for the King to get news of the three princesses. ”

"Great! Shall we go back? Concubine Shi Fengxia shouted excitedly. I left my hometown and found that my hometown was good.

"No, let's go on to the West, I want to see what Great Britain and France are like, and I heard Missionary Smith say that the strongest army in the West is not England and France, but Prussia, and I must see this." Xiao Qingwei said.

Concubine Feng Yuyin groaned for a while, she also had the urge to go back in her heart, but thinking of the Western medical books she had obtained from Missionary Smith was undoubtedly a great temptation for her who was obsessed with medical skills.

"Since the King of Heaven is okay and the news has been passed back, let's go to the West to see and see. I hope the king doesn't blame us. Feng Yuyin's words undoubtedly set the tone for the three daughters to go west.

At this time, Hong Tiangui didn't know that his three princesses had gone to the West, to be honest, he really didn't know much about his four concubines, and he couldn't say that he had any feelings. But after all, it is the concubine of the Heavenly Kingdom, plus Shi Fengxia, the daughter of the Winged King Shi Dakai, Hong Tiangui and the princes of the Heavenly Kingdom are concerned about this, even the loyal king Li Xiucheng and the servant king Li Shixian, who are preparing for war in the east, have taken time out of their busy schedules to express their attention to this matter, and have allocated a certain amount of manpower to find out.

At this time, neither side was ready for war, but on the contrary, the two sides maintained the greatest restraint, and the whole territory of China entered a rare pre-storm calm.

The Kingdom of Heaven took advantage of this rare period to accumulate strength and lay a solid foundation, while the Manchu Qing Dynasty was also constantly negotiating with the Western countries, especially the main battle faction led by the Empress Dowager Cixi proposed to unite the Western countries and form a multinational coalition to jointly strangle the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. With the defeat of Zeng Guofan, more and more ministers above the Manchu court supported this matter. With the help of the Sino-Russian "Treaty of Beijing" and the Sino-Russian "Treaty of Survey and Demarcation of the Northwest Boundary", two unequal treaties, Tsarist Russia forcibly occupied more than 1.5 million square kilometers of land in the Qing Dynasty, and Tsarist Russia, which had long coveted the rich land of the Manchu Central Plains, was obviously not satisfied. The conditions provided by Tsarist Russia were extremely favorable, sending 100,000 troops, all weapons and equipment were borne by Tsarist Russia itself, and it could continue to increase troops if necessary.

This move was unanimously rejected by the Manchus, and this result was completely unexpected and even incomprehensible to Tsarist Russia.

The reason why the Manchu court rejected it so much was not to safeguard the integrity of the country's territorial sovereignty, but because the three eastern provinces were not ordinary places for the Manchu Dynasty, they were the place where the Manchus rose, and they were the roots of the Manchu Dynasty. After the Second Opium War, under the leadership of the Empress Dowager of the Two Palaces, the Manchu Qing Dynasty gradually stabilized, and the impact of the Anglo-French invasion of China has been eliminated.

Of course, the Manchu Qing Dynasty also needed Russia to send troops, and the combat effectiveness of the Tsarist army was still very strong, but the conditions needed to be carefully discussed by both sides, and it was impossible for the three eastern provinces to be discussed, and it was not impossible to talk about other places.

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom naturally got the news of the Manchu Qing's moves, and this time Hong Tiangui did not remain indifferent, and he carried out a large-scale verbal and written attack on the Manchus' traitorous behavior of seeking glory through the Taiping Daily, the first official newspaper in the Heavenly Kingdom. Hong Tiangui took matters into his own hands, personally listed the ten major crimes of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and at the same time called on the Han people all over the world to unite and jointly drive the Manchus out of the Guan. Even Hong Tiangui misappropriated the slogan of the father of the nation in later generations: "Drive out the Tartars and restore China!" ”

For Hong Tiangui's move, the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the West were naturally extremely concerned, and the content of the Taiping Daily was sent to Beijing City in an expedited manner of 800 miles, which caused the Manchu Dynasty to be angry, and the Empress Dowager of the Two Palaces angrily reprimanded the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom for bewitching the public, but the Manchu Dynasty did not have its own newspaper, and the Empress Dowager of the Two Palaces, who had no way and could not swallow this breath, threw this hot potato to the southward Minister Prince Gong Yi, at this time Prince Gong Yi? Having already traveled south to Shandong, he was given full authority to deal with the matter on the way.

Prince Gong also felt that it was extremely tricky, he couldn't go to the territory of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and ask Hong Tiangui to ban the publication of the Taiping Daily!

Later, his confidants and aides gave him the idea that he could fight back with the help of newspapers founded by foreigners in Shanghai. Prince Gong accepted this suggestion, and his staff jointly wrote a crusade against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which was sent to Shanghai in an expedited manner of 800 li for publication by the British and French newspapers.

Unexpectedly, this move detonated the budding public opinion circle in China. Newspapers founded in the Western countries in the concession were reprinted one after another, and many people saw the huge business opportunities contained in this matter, and even one Shanghai newspaper had the audacity to send people to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to demand that the Taiping Daily be distributed in Shanghai.

Hong Tiangui couldn't ask for it, but he understood the importance of public opinion too well from later generations, especially in this era when the people's wisdom was not opened, and a small number of cultural people learned about this era through newspapers and books. If the Kingdom of Heaven can control the direction of public opinion, it can completely reverse the impression of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the hearts of orthodox literati, and attract the talents of this era to be used by the Kingdom of Heaven as much as possible.

Different from the flood of newspapers in later generations, the newspapers of this era are extremely weak in terms of circulation mode and circulation, Hong Tiangui keenly sees the hidden opportunities in small newspapers, and will naturally support them vigorously.

Hong Tiangui personally instructed that Wan Pengfei, the first propaganda minister of the Kingdom of Heaven who had just taken office, personally led people to Shanghai as a special envoy of the Kingdom of Heaven and put on a war of words with the Manchus.