Chapter VII: Usurpation of power
So far, there are only two people Hong Tiangui can trust, one is Yang Yujiao, and the other is Hongying, which is his trust in the gods.
"Inform Concubine Yang and let her take care of the king's diet and daily life during this time." Hong Tiangui commanded. For his other three concubines, Hong Tiangui has also seen them, although they look good, but they are younger than Yang Yujiao, and when they see him one by one, Hong Tiangui doesn't like it, and he has never let them serve him after he crossed. Yang Yujiao's name in the palace is Yang Xiuhuan, and apparently someone helped him change his face before he was chosen. Hong Tiangui, the person behind her, has also mastered it, but he doesn't have the strength to deal with it for the time being.
"Hongying, you go and arrange the guards of the Young Heavenly King's Palace, and when the Heavenly King comes to visit me, you have to create an opportunity for me to be alone with the Heavenly King." Hong Tiangui said in a deep voice.
Hongying nodded, although she was accused of God, she didn't know that she was accused of God, after all, she was only partially altered in her memory, and she didn't remember it at all when she was accused of God. This is also an important reason why Hong Tiangui can trust her.
The Young Heavenly King's Palace launched a secret transfer, and Hong Ying, as a female official of the Heavenly King's Mansion, has an elite female soldier team under her command, numbering twenty people, who are usually responsible for patrolling and guarding the Young Heavenly King's Palace. This can be regarded as the elite force that Hong Tiangui can mobilize at present.
The next day, the sun was very high, Hong Tiangui didn't get up, Chen Ke, the attendant of the Heavenly King, got a report from Hongying, the young Heavenly King Hong Tiangui was sick, and the imperial doctor was unable to diagnose and treat it!
Chen Ke didn't dare to slack off, and quickly reported to the Heavenly King.
"Guifu is sick?" Hong Xiuquan frowned, he still took a very fancy to this eldest son, because Hong Tiangui was the heir of his kingdom of heaven after a hundred years.
"What does the Imperial Doctor say?" There are also imperial doctors in the Heavenly King's Mansion, because except for the Heavenly King, who is a god, everyone else is a mortal and will get mortal diseases, so it imitates the Illumination system, and there are also imperial doctors in the Heavenly Kingdom.
"The Imperial Doctor can't see any disease, so he doesn't dare to diagnose and treat it at will!"
Hong Xiuquan's face became solemn, for people in this era, illness is likely to be life-threatening. Hong Xiuquan was quite diligent in sexual affairs and gave birth to many children, but nearly half of them died young, which shows how difficult it was to raise a child under the conditions at that time.
"This king is going to take a look!"
In the end, it is the relationship between father and son, Hong Xiuquan can't be hard-hearted.
The King of Heaven drove the palace of the Young Heavenly King, followed by ten female officials and thirty female soldiers, full of pomp.
Hong Xiuquan saw Hong Tiangui, whose face was flushed and his breath was sluggish, and a look of nervousness flashed on his resolute face.
"Guifu, what's wrong with you?" Hong Xiuquan asked, with a hint of concern in his voice.
Hong Tiangui, who was lying on the bed and pretending to be sick, flashed a touch of guilt in his heart. No matter what, Hong Xiuquan is not bad to his son, but now he wants to deceive him and seize his power.
"Heavenly Father, your blessing is very uncomfortable, please pray for the blessing of the Father!" Hong Tiangui said weakly.
Hong Xiuquan's expression was solemn, and he had the heart to summon the imperial doctor, but looking at Hong Tiangui's appearance, he obviously believed in his own "god" more than the imperial doctor.
"Guifu, you are a demigod, you have a small half of a mortal in your body, and this illness is also a small half of a mortal illness, so you need a mortal doctor to see you. Rest assured, you are the Son of God, and no mortal disease will hurt you. Hong Xiuquan said.
Hong Tiangui showed an aggrieved look on his face, grabbed Hong Xiuquan's hand, and said, "Heavenly Father, can't you accompany the child for a while?" ”
Hong Xiuquan looked at his weak son, sighed, and waved his hand to let the attendant retreat.
"Guifu, tell me how I got sick with my father?" Hong Xiuquan also saw Hong Tiangui yesterday, why did he get sick inexplicably today.
"Heavenly Father, look me in the eye." Hong Tiangui spoke.
Hong Xiuquan was stunned and looked at Hong Tiangui's eyes.
Buzz!
Hong Xiuquan felt that his brain was confused, and his whole expression became sluggish.
Hong Tiangui was overjoyed and succeeded, but he didn't expect it to succeed once.
"Father, from today onwards, you have lost all interest in the affairs of the court, you have to retreat and cultivate the Shinto, and leave all the affairs of the Kingdom of Heaven to the Young Heavenly King Hong Tiangui to take care of. Tomorrow morning, the court announced that the young king Hong Tiangui will be in charge of the country, and you will live in seclusion in the harem and do not ask about political affairs. In order to prevent Hong Xiuquan from being affected, Hong Tiangui repeated this order over and over again. This also made his mind control time continue to prolong, and in the end, Hong Tiangui and Hong Xiuquan fainted at the same time.
Outside the Young Heavenly King's Palace, Hong Ying was talking to Chen Ke, and the twenty female soldiers of the Young Heavenly King's Palace had already invisibly guarded the entrance and blocked the Heavenly King's attendants.
Chen Ke frowned, she had been on the battlefield and had an inexplicable sense of crisis. Seeing Hongying and the female soldiers under her command again, Chen Ke's brows couldn't help frowning.
"Your Majesty has been in for a long time, I'll take a look!" Chen Ke spoke.
"Lord Chen, slow down, the Heavenly King and the Young Heavenly King father and son are talking, Lord Chen is better not to disturb." Hongying stopped Chen Ke and said.
Chen Ke's brows furrowed even deeper, and he said in a deep voice: "Hongying, what are you going to do?" ”
"Don't do anything, Lord Chen, you really don't fit in at this time!"
"Get out of the way, I'm your boss!" Chen Ke was a little angry, although Hongying was the concubine of King Gan, she was a female official of the Heavenly King's Mansion when she entered the Heavenly King's Mansion, and her other identities were useless.
"Lord Chen, the young Heavenly King has a deep affection for the Heavenly King, and at this time, the father and son are alone, and outsiders such as me should not disturb him." Hongying said in a deep voice.
The uneasiness in Chen Ke's heart became heavier and heavier, and she stepped forward to push Hongying away.
Hongying did not retreat, and the two of them were at a stalemate.
"Do you believe I killed you?" Chen Ke said in a deep voice.
Hongying held the hilt of the sword in her hand and drew the sword with a thud.
"Master Chen, don't force me!"
"You ......" Chen Ke's face was gloomy, and her hand was tightly clenched on the hilt of the sword, but she didn't dare to draw the sword at will. Because Hongying took out his sword, the twenty female soldiers of the Young Heavenly King's Palace also drew their swords one after another and confronted the Heavenly King's guards.
"No one is allowed to step into a single step without the orders of the Heavenly King and the Young Heavenly King." Hongying said murderously.
The two sides confronted each other and refused to give in to each other, but it was quiet in the palace of the Young Heavenly King.
Hong Xiuquan opened his eyes, his mind groggy. He looked at Hong Tiangui lying on the bed, his expression was indescribably complicated.
Halfway through, he sighed, turned around and pushed open the palace door and walked out.
Seeing the tense situation outside, Hong Xiuquan was furious.
"Presumptuous!"
Everyone was shocked and knelt down in horror.
"Go back to the Double Ten Palace!" Hong Xiuquan didn't say much, and left angrily.
Chen Ke didn't dare to ask more, looked at Hongying coldly, and quickly left with Hong Xiuquan with his concubines and female soldiers.
Hong Ying's expression was cloudy, and she quickly entered the dormitory and saw Hong Tiangui who was unconscious.
"Your Highness, Your Highness, what's wrong with you? Go to Xuan Taiyi! Hongying panicked, she couldn't figure out what was going on.
"No need, leave it to the poor road!" A burly figure walked in, he was the Taoist Heavenly Sword who was taken in by Hong Tiangui.
"Do you have a way?" Hongying went to the doctor for some diseases.
The Heavenly Sword Daoist nodded, took out a small porcelain bottle from his arms, poured out a dragon's eye-sized turquoise pill from it, and sent it into Hong Tiangui's mouth.
Hong Tiangui, who was originally pale, gradually turned ruddy after taking the pill, and his breathing became stronger.
An hour later, Hong Tiangui woke up and found the Heavenly Sword Daoist who had left.
"What did you give me?" Hong Tiangui asked in a deep voice. For this Taoist priest of unknown origin, Hong Tiangui maintained great vigilance.
"A Divine Pill is an elixir refined by the master. His Royal Highness has consumed drama, and if he does not recuperate immediately, he will have to worry about his life. Heavenly Sword Daoist said frankly.
Hong Tiangui's face was not good-looking, he looked at the Heavenly Sword Daoist coldly, and asked in a deep voice, "Do you know the God Control?" ”
The Heavenly Sword Daoist shook his head and said, "My master should know that my master is a scholar of heaven and man, and he knows astronomy and geography, and there is nothing in this world that he does not know." The Heavenly Sword Daoist's face was full of admiration, which made Hong Tiangui even more curious about his master.
"There you go!" Hong Tiangui didn't continue to ask, and I'm afraid he couldn't ask anything really useful.
"Now it's just a matter of being patient." Hong Tiangui's expression was solemn, and victory or defeat was in one fell swoop.
The next day, the Heavenly King, who had always been lazy, suddenly issued an edict to summon his ministers, which shook the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the twilight.
King Hong Renda and King Hong Renfa did not dare to slack off when they received the order of the Heavenly King, they did not think much about it, thinking that this was the first large-scale court meeting after the New Year, and it was just that the Heavenly King wanted to show his existence.
Therefore, all the officials and princes above the five grades were summoned. Ganwang Hong Renxuan is naturally there. He carried two military edicts in his arms, and as for whether they could be issued, it depended on whether Hong Tiangui's promise was useful.
At the beginning of the court meeting, except for Hong Tiangui, everyone else bowed to worship, and seeing the pious attitude of some officials, Hong Tiangui had a new understanding of the ruling power of religion.
"Ladies and gentlemen, this king is preaching the decree of the Emperor of Heaven today, from now on, this king will retreat and concentrate on cultivation, and all the affairs of the Kingdom of Heaven will be handled by the Young King of Heaven, Guifu, you are the prince of the Kingdom of Heaven, and there are important rules for replacing the King of Heaven in supervising the country, you must work hard in politics and lead the Kingdom of Heaven to spread the glory of the Emperor of Heaven and Brother Tian."
Hong Xiuquan's first edict caused an uproar in the court.
Hong Renfa and Hong Renda were surprised at first, but finally calmed down. The Heavenly King doesn't take care of political affairs very much, but it is a sharp sword hanging over his head, whether it is to go to retreat and cultivate, the young Heavenly King is a hairy child, and it is easier to fool. What's more, the feelings cultivated by the previous gifts are still there, and it is easier to grasp.
The face of the Ganwang among the ministers was full of shock, and the eyes that looked at Hong Tiangui were full of disbelief.
It worked! He actually succeeded!
As Hong Xiuquan's brother, he knows Hong Xiuquan's character too well, such a stubborn and self-serving person is willing to let go of power? Could it be that Hong Xiuquan did this on purpose? Is the purpose to test the Young Heavenly King?
"Guifu will abide by the decree of the Emperor of Heaven and die for the great cause of Heaven." Hong Tiangui said loudly.
Hong Xiuquan nodded, and an inexplicable look flashed in his eyes.
He immediately got up, took his female officials back to the backyard, and threw the civil and military officials and the huge court to Hong Tiangui so simply.
Hong Tiangui turned around and looked at the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs.
"Meet His Royal Highness the Young Heavenly King, Young Heavenly King Chitose Chitose Chitose!" Hong Renda reacted very quickly, a man of fifty or sixty years old, and his movements were even more swift than that of a young man.
Hong Renfa was not slow, the two biggest magnates of the dynasty knelt down, and the other civil and military officials naturally did not dare to slack off.
Hong Tiangui nodded, and ordered someone to move a chair and put it under Hong Xiuquan's chair. After all, he was a young king, and he was not qualified to sit on that chair.
"Do you have any reports?"
"Returning to the young king, the kingdom of heaven is peaceful and peaceful, and there are no vulgar troubles!" Hong Renda said loudly. Hence the echo of a large number of officials.
Hong Tiangui remained silent, remembering all the officials who echoed him, and couldn't help sneering in his heart.
His gaze looked at Hong Renxuan and nodded slightly.
Hong Renxuan understood, stepped forward and said loudly: "Minister Hong Renxuan has something to report." ”
The court was shocked, and looked at Hong Renxuan in amazement, especially the Fu King Hong Renda's face instantly became ugly.