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In the past few days, Bourbulon not only had many friendly and harmonious conversations with His Royal Highnesses King An and King Ning of the Celestial Empire, but also accompanied by His Royal Highness King An, visited the women's military camps, factories, trading houses, and farms in Tianjing, and even went to the homes of ordinary people to attend an ordinary wedding. When he, his attachés, like all the guests, were laughing at the scene of the bridegroom carrying the bride into the house, he couldn't help but look at His Royal Highness King An, who was happy next to him, and asked softly, "His Royal Highness King An, what kind of rule is this?" ”

Lin Haifeng laughed, "No one has ever set this rule. Maybe it's just a genuine yearning for women's liberation. ”

Bourblon nodded, he thought about it seriously, in the few days he had been in Tianjing, he had indeed not seen the kind of woman with bound feet that he had seen before. Men wear braids and women wrap their feet, which is a symbol of this ancient country.

Tianjing's personal witness made him gradually transform the beautiful understanding of this place from the beginning into admiration in his heart. There is no such barbarism and unreasonable policies as the legend says, and the people live in peace and comfort. A very simple example, in his opinion, is enough to show how deeply rooted the world harmony and equality that he advocates and pursues here, that is, he has never seen any ordinary people who would come and kneel down to His Royal Highness the Prince of the Celestial Dynasty beside him.

What made Bourblon feel even more admired and surprised was that he never imagined that in this group of people who were cursed as "savage, ignorant, and rude mobs and bandits", there would be two special characters, King An and King Ning. Not only are they fluent in English, but they also know the history of France inside out. They know the Arc de Triomphe, they are familiar with the Marseillaise, and they are free to tell of the five dynasties that France has built during the more than 1,000 years of the royal era. also clearly knows that in the changes of all these dynasties, no force has been used, let alone the shadow of blood and sword. They knew that the revolution of the French people that stormed the Bastille finally brought France out of the era of royal power and realized the transition from royal power to civil power. In their conversations, it was evident that Bourblon always had a special affection for the two failed republics of France.

When it comes to Napoleon I, the pride of France, the king of Ann is even more precious. He could start with Napoleon's coup d'état on the 18th of the Fog Moon, overthrowing the Directory and establishing a three-man government, such as Napoleon's defeat of the Austrian army at Marengo, which forced the dissolution of the Second Anti-French Alliance. When Austria, Britain, and Russia formed the Third Anti-French Alliance, Napoleon led his army eastward to respond to the battle, and won victories in the great battles of Ulm and Austerlitz, forcing the Russian emperor and the Austrian wolf to flee. He can even say what the great poet Heine once exaggerated when the French army entered and occupied Berlin, "Napoleon blows Prussia with one breath." Of course, he also remembered Waterloo and deeply regretted the final destination of this great military genius.

In a word, Bourblon felt in his heart that these two young princes had far more knowledge in their brains than themselves. However, there were many, many more things that could surprise him even more, and when he came to the station of the Red Army Teaching Brigade and had not yet entered the gate, the surprise turned into a complete shock.

"Salute!" With a crisp and loud shout, two young heroic soldiers dressed in khaki military uniforms, wearing red star military caps inlaid with red stars on their heads, and leggings, like a person, with the rifle in their left hand close to their bodies, straightened their right arms across their chests, and saluted His Royal Highness King An and the guests.

Lin Haifeng returned the salute, turned his head and smiled at Burbulon, "This is the guard of our Celestial Empire, the teaching brigade of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Then, he introduced Chen Yucheng and Tan Shaoguang, who had just come out, to Burbulon one by one.

The simple, bright, seemingly unpretentious military uniforms are the young brigade commanders who are almost still children. In addition to being shocked, Bourblon also made a point to check that they did not have long braids, nor did they have the usual long hair of the soldiers of the Heavenly Army. It's a truly modern army. He couldn't understand how such an army could come out of thin air.

Under the guidance of Chen Yucheng, Lin Haifeng walked towards the training ground and said to Bourblon, "Our China is different from your country, since the "Yin Ge Xia Order" in the 16th century B.C., there has not been a change of dynasty, not by force or under the threat of force, most of them are rivers of blood and corpses are piled up. After the establishment of the new dynasty, there was not a single time that it was not overthrown by force in the end, and in thousands of years, there were only two times when the commoners were the regimes established by uprisings, that is, the Han and Ming dynasties, but they also failed to end well. Why, this is the question of the thinking of those in power. Although they were commoners before the establishment of the dynasty, they became emperors in high terms when they established the dynasty. The emperor of China is different from your king, because the emperor is above the law, the country is his, not the people, and the family is his. The outbreak of your French Revolution was mainly due to the people's yearning for freedom and the pursuit of a better life. But we are different here, people have rebelled only because they are on the verge of starvation, and they have to rebel in order to survive. The same is true of our revolution. Therefore, we need a strong new type of army to protect the best interests of the people, eliminate the opposition forces, and consolidate the state power. ”

He pointed to Chen Yucheng in front of him and smiled, "We hope that ourselves, and our next generation, will also change the person in power alternately in peace, and whoever can do good things for the people will come to govern." Those who cannot act for the good of the people must give way, otherwise the Guards will not agree. It's better not to do that. ”.

Regarding King An's big words, Burbulon seemed to understand something. He looked at this King An with a smile and thought for a moment, "So, may I ask Your Highness, what does your Celestial Empire want to build the country into?" If the emperor in Beijing is overthrown, what will happen in the future? I heard that your Heavenly King is the actual Emperor. ”

"Mr. Minister is wrong." Lin Haifeng shook his head, "Since we have not yet unified the whole country, we are still in a state of military or semi-militarization, and our various government agencies are still gradually improving, of course, including many policies. The King of Heaven is the spiritual leader of our Celestial Empire, and he does not care about political affairs, and all political affairs are managed by our Prime Minister Dongwang. I have repeatedly said that we have only one purpose, that is, to get all the ordinary people living in the lowest strata of society to stand up and no longer be cattle and horses for anyone, but to be masters themselves. ”

"Then what His Royal Highness King Yi'an means, you won't need the emperor?" Bourblon seemed to finally get it.

Lin Haifeng looked at him and blinked his eyes, "If it is in your country, do you say that the current imperial system is better, or the previous republic is better?" ”

Burbulon smiled and quickly diverted the topic, "When I came to Tianjing, what impressed me a lot was the several palaces of your Celestial Empire. Of course, your palace is beyond my imagination. However, the construction of the Heavenly King's Mansion and the East King's Mansion is enough to make people staggered just by looking at it from the outside. As you said, you are still in the beginning, and if you are so arrogant now, it will always affect the future. ”

"Extravagance is unacceptable at all times." Lin Haifeng nodded, "The construction of the Heavenly King's Mansion shows that when the officials of the Heavenly Dynasty entered the city, they still had the idea of the supremacy of imperial power. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was established, and the capital was fixed, always trying to reveal the power of the Celestial Empire. In fact, that is contrary to the original intention of our Heavenly King, who advocates that everyone build a society of great harmony under heaven, who will be willing to imprison himself. It's the people below who did the bad thing. Most of the work in Cité Soleil has now been stopped. As for the East Palace, and other palaces, you misunderstand our purpose. Of course, you can't be blamed entirely on this, it's to blame a lot of us here for bad habits. ”

As they spoke, they had already arrived at the training ground. They first reached the east side of the field, on an undulating slope, where the spy company was each wielding a special engineer shovel more than a foot long, sweating and digging trenches and personal bunkers.

It's already November, and Chen Tingxiang, the commander of the spy company, is still bald and half-naked. As soon as he saw that the brigade commander was coming with His Royal Highness King An and many officials and foreigners, he quickly jumped out of the half-dug personal bunker. He grabbed the military cap on the ground and buckled it on his head, and shouted, "Salute! ”

Lin Haifeng waved his hand, motioning for everyone to continue their own affairs, and then pointed at Chen Tingxiang and smiled, "Chen Tingxiang, you company commander have to get off to a good start, if you wear so little, what should you do if you get sick?" ”

Chen Tingxiang scratched the back of her head and smiled, "Your Highness, our health is good, so we won't be looking for us when we are sick." ”

Lin Haifeng snorted and glanced at Chen Yucheng, "You and the Red First Army are both training in the excavation of individual bunkers, how about it, is your brigade commander compared to your company commander?" ”

"Him?" Chen Yucheng glanced at Chen Tingxiang and stretched out his little thumb, "Your Highness, he is not my opponent." ”

"Really?" Lin Haifeng glanced at Chen Tingxiang, who was obviously unconvinced, "How about it, let's try it?" ”

"It's better than that, so that our brigade commander won't be convinced." Chen Tingxiang spat at the palms of his two hands twice, clenched the sapper shovel in his hand, and looked at the brigade commander with a pair of big eyes.

Chen Yucheng took off his shirt unhurriedly, took a small shovel from the soldiers beside him, looked at Chen Tingxiang, leaned close to his ear and whispered, "Let's talk in advance, whoever loses will have to wash all the clothes for others." He said this for a purpose, this Chen Tingxiang, the name is full of fragrance, but he is usually a well-known sloppy ghost in the whole brigade, when it comes to washing clothes, it is a lawsuit, often either the central government sues this, or begs for that, I can't even think of my own pair of smelly socks, and I am willing to move my own fingers. In the company's miscellaneous squad, and even a few platoon commanders, there was no one who hadn't washed his clothes. Chen Yucheng usually gasped for this and him.

Chen Tingxiang listened to the brigade commander's words, and his face began to heat for a while, and his eyes immediately lit up again, hehe, brigade commander, brigade commander, as long as you don't regret it when the time comes, then our old Chen will have picked a big bargain for nothing. "Don't beat you!" Thinking of this, he hurriedly leaned into the brigade commander's ear and gave a word of advice.

Lin Haifeng didn't know what the two of them were doing in private, and when he saw that the two of them were ready, he smiled and waved his hand, "Let's start!" ”

Seeing Er Chen take a step forward and squat down at the same time, the little shovel flew up and down, he turned his head to look at Bourblon again, and continued the topic just now, "Some of us always like to call the place where the official rests his house. For example, a few days ago I was in Zhenjiang, and I originally lived in a post station, but some people were willing to call it my temporary palace. Therefore, it is necessary to look at the problem comprehensively. Dongwangfu is not just a place for Dongwang to rest, or a private garden, it is the State Council of our Celestial Empire, many departments of the government are located in it, all the officials are concentrated there, and there are many people to live in it. In fact, the Beiwang Mansion used to be the garrison headquarters of Tianjing, and now it is the Ministry of Finance of the Celestial Empire, and the Wing Wangfu is the seat of the future Ministry of Defense of the Celestial Empire. A country must always have the dignity of the country, and sometimes it still has to be done on the face. Just like the day you came, the reception banquet was very large, and if it were not for our State Council to entertain you, the king's palace would have to take all the houses first. ”

Speaking of this, he laughed hehehe, "There is no such magnificent building in the entire Tianjing that can compare with the Forbidden City in Beijing, even the Palace of Versailles, which your King Louis XIV took 28 years to complete, and we can't hope to match it." ”

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