Chapter 6: No wonder Tianjing is different from Shanghai
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The use of newspapers to expose the shamelessness and morale of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and to publicize and promote national culture and national heroes is, after all, only a means to strike at the enemy's arrogance and boost the morale of the army and the people, but the real strength comes from its own development.
Due to the concerted attention of the government of the Celestial Empire, the autumn of this year was a rare harvest year for the vast number of peasants. China's peasant culture is low, and perhaps it also reveals some ignorance, and is even ridiculed as ignorance. However, for the first time, the family was full of grain, and finally did not repeat the kind of peasants who were worried about tomorrow all day long, and did not need more persuasion and education, even for today, they must enthusiastically pay public rations, take up arms, pick up flat burdens, push carts, or join the heavenly army, or defend their homeland, or support the children and soldiers who fought bloody battles in front.
The expansion of the armed forces has become the most important and easiest task for local governments at all levels to accomplish for more than half a year.
Hong Xiuquan received his brother Hong Renji in the Golden Dragon Palace. Hong Renji's return at this time made Hong Xiuquan extremely happy. This is not because Hong Renji is his earliest believer in God worship, and he is his younger brother, the key is that this brother did not catch up with the Jintian regimental camp in time back then, and has stayed in Hong Kong for all these years in order to avoid the pursuit of the Qing demon, and now he is the same as Lin Haifeng and Zheng Nan, who can speak fluent foreign and know a lot of new things outside. Hong Renji's return made him feel that he had another die-hard supporter.
Lai Hanying was originally fledgling in Luzhou, and the momentum of development was very good, and if it continued to develop like this, once it was used, Lai Hanying would naturally be one of his backbones. How do you know that Wei Changhui, who seems to be submissive to himself, actually cut off this arm of his own. Although Wei Changhui also sent a secret letter afterwards to excuse himself in every possible way, he still couldn't accept it. After all, Lai Hanying is his brother-in-law, and he is always a family at all times, and the current shape is like this, the general trend is the same, and of course Lai Hanying has to implement the unified deployment of the command. Besides, what's so bad about a place that has developed? Only when the people are rich can the soldiers be strong. This Wei Changhui, singing against the tune is not supposed to be sung like this!
Forced by the form, he had to think of other plans. He decreed that his two brothers, who were idle at home, Zantianhou Hong Renfa and Jingtianhou Hongrenda, in the hope that they would make a difference. Of course, he didn't know the abilities of his two brothers, what can he do, let's grasp some due power first.
This matter is not like the usual Jin Feng edict, and it was quickly affirmed by Yang Xiuqing, the king of the East. This also made Hong Xiuquan happy for a while. Now, with such a Hong Renji who is comparable to anyone else, it's no wonder that he is not beautiful.
"Have you seen the robe?" Hong Xiuquan looked at Hong Renji with a smile, "Didn't King Dong say that he had any arrangements for you?" ”
"I've seen it." Hong Renji agreed. This time, he was able to come to Tianjing via Shanghai and plunge into the fiery revolutionary tide of the Heavenly Kingdom, and he was very grateful to King An, who was still in Shanghai, and it was King An who sent someone to pass through the newspaper in Hong Kong, and when recruiting skilled workers, he specially contacted him so that he could return. After more than half a month of careful observation in Shanghai, he felt both novel and puzzled.
What is new is that in less than a year after the recovery of the Celestial Army, Shanghai presented a scene of true equality and fraternity everywhere. The so-called Anwang Mansion is actually an extremely ordinary courtyard mixed in the middle of the house, if there is anything different from ordinary people, it can only be regarded as two guards with guns at the door. In that small courtyard, he saw with his own eyes that ordinary city people or surrounding peasants who thought they had suffered injustice, mourning relatives to find this palace without a royal sign. I also saw with my own eyes how King An, who was called the "evil god" or "living Hades" by some haters, patiently listened to the outpouring of those guests, and even his expression changed with the change of visitors. In the end, he always called people to leave satisfied.
This is the king of the Celestial Empire who has removed the royal robe on his body, and no aspect of his life can show the grandeur of the prince. The prince is like this, and it will naturally work up and down. Traveling around Shanghai, including Suzhou, the capital of Jiangsu, where he made a short stop on his way back, he did not see a single official office similar to that of the past, let alone a ceremony such as a government and a hall. In the words of King An, "The officials of our Celestial Empire are the slaves of the people, and our responsibility is only to solve problems for them, and the greater the official position, the greater your responsibility." ”
He had been to the factory area under construction in Songjiang, where there was a future power plant, a steel mill, an arms factory, etc., and An Wang called him the future Oriental Industrial Corporation. He also inspected the foreign cloth factories, new-style garment factories, flour mills, oil mills, and so on in the city, all of which had a bearing on the vital interests of the people. Speaking of the school, he was even more surprised, a large number of schools are all over the county, no matter how far or near the students are, they are all managed by the school to eat and drink, and the accommodation is convenient. Students learn about ancient national culture and learn arithmetic.
Over there, he really felt that it seemed that they were slowly creating an ideal paradise according to their ideals back then.
It was precisely because of this that he was puzzled, he couldn't understand why the young and strange prince had the same thinking as he had arrived at after years of research in Hong Kong, and Wang An obviously knew more about Western countries than he did. He also privately asked the people around King An, wanting to know about the life experience of this person who was not from Jintian, but was able to get a high position as the prince. However, he was disappointed, because in different mouths, the answer was the same, and everyone was extremely proud to tell him, "Your Highness is God, the true God from heaven!" ”
God? He didn't believe it. Whether it is a god or a ghost, it is just deliberately created by scholars and scholars for their own different purposes.
Just as the king of heaven asked, as soon as he arrived in Tianjing, he first met Yang Xiuqing, the king of the east, which was also a reminder given to him by King An in advance, and the king of the east was the real presiding officer of state affairs. The first time they met, he had a very good impression of Dongwang, this fierce bandit leader who was clamored to be arrested by the Manchus, was actually a kind and honest man. However, whether it is between his eyebrows, or his words and posture, there is always an irrepressible domineering atmosphere. Compared with the Heavenly King brother in front of him, Hong Renji couldn't help but sigh secretly. Now Brother Hong has more grace on his body, and it is difficult to see the heroic posture when he smashed the tablet of Confucius back then.
Hearing the Heavenly King's question, Hong Renji woke up from his thoughts, and his body owed, "I've seen it, Brother Dongwang asked the younger brother for advice, whether he is willing to engage in diplomacy or education." ”
"That's not going to work." Hong Xiuquan blurted out, and immediately, he shook his head lightly and laughed, "What do you mean?" ”
"The younger brother has just arrived, so he should abide by the arrangement of the eldest brother and the East King."
"Although he didn't catch up with Jintian's regimental camp at the beginning, my brother is still the founding hero of the Kingdom of Heaven, and he should be entrusted with a heavy responsibility. Diplomacy and education have no real powers, and should be engaged in military affairs and participate in national politics. In this way, I and Qingpao will be accommodating to see if there is a better position. In addition, with your qualifications, you should still be crowned a marquis first. As soon as the two brothers Haifeng and Zheng Nan came, didn't I immediately become king? Hong Xiuquan smiled, "I believe that you must become the pillar of the Celestial Empire." ”
"The little brother will, please rest assured!" Hong Renji nodded, and asked suspiciously, "What is the background of King An and King Ning?" ”
"This ......" Hong Xiuquan was stunned and muttered, "They all came from heaven and were sent by Heavenly Father to save the Celestial Empire." ”
"Is there a god?" Hong Renji stared at Hong Xiuquan with wide eyes.
"They came down from heaven to earth in front of me and the officials of the Celestial Empire." Hong Xiuquan Hong Xiuquan smiled slightly, and his smile was a little bitter.
That's really the case! No wonder, no wonder Tianjing, although it was more prosperous than he imagined, still felt that there was something inferior to Shanghai, Hong Renji thought.
Hong Xiuquan took a sip of tea, then put down the cup, and looked at Hong Renji as if very casually, "You have been in Shanghai for a while, what do you think of the situation there?" ”
"It's still quite good," Hong Renji smiled, "Brother is really good at employing people, when the younger brother was in Hong Kong, he once seriously analyzed why the great powers were stronger than us, and he also had some superficial views on the future direction of the Celestial Empire, but I didn't expect that King An did more thoroughly than the younger brother imagined." In Shanghai and Jiangsu, the officials I met liked to say that King An said, 'If anyone gets along with the common people, I will tell them to never get along.'" Hehe, if the officials everywhere can do this, the younger brother dares to predict that the Celestial Empire is an iron bucket that no powerful enemy can defeat. ”
Listening to Hong Renji's praise of Lin Haifeng, Hong Xiuquan seemed to be quite happy on the surface, but he was a little awkward in his heart, why did this brother have this kind of thought just a few days after he came into contact with that Lin Haifeng? "Well, Haifeng is a good one, of course, and King Ning in Tianjing. It's really a great blessing for me to have them, aren't you good, do it well, you may not be inferior to them. Hong Xiuquan closed his eyelids slightly, and said meaningfully, "The Hong family doesn't have a few talents, and in the future, our Hong family's country will still rely on our brothers!" ”
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