Chapter 166: The Death of Heaven

Chen Dingtian communicated with Hong Xuanjiao and Feng Yuniang for a few days, and then they both felt that both parties were quite satisfied. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoBecause Chen Dingtian is a "knowledgeable" person, he needs to learn a lot as a translator, including the cultural history of various countries. Translation is not just about translating words on the translation software, translation software alone cannot replace the human brain translation for a long time. Because translation software is a machine, not a human. Because machines have no feelings, they only understand mechanical analogies, while humans can truly understand humanity. Unless the computer really has human intelligence and human emotion, so that it can completely replace human translation. However, whether or not computers can have human intelligence and emotions is an incomparably huge challenge, and it is a huge challenge for human beings, including ethics and various aspects. So until this ethical issue is resolved, computers will never be able to replace humans as the true core of translation.

Therefore, the translation industry has not only not withered because of electronic translation, but has become more and more high-end, and high-end translation talents are becoming more and more difficult to find, and those who have been hit are those low-end translators, and high-end translations are becoming more and more popular. Chen Dingtian is also this kind of high-end, he knows many ancient and modern Chinese and foreign cultures, although he may not be very proficient, but he has a wide range of knowledge. Soon had a good relationship with the two beauties, although it was not said to be "love", but it had laid a great foundation and established a foundation for the future overthrow. For this kind of woman, you can't push it down from the beginning, whether it is the East or the West, women are very conservative in this era. You can't go directly to the hotel to book a room as soon as you meet, like in later generations. What's more, these women are all very high-quality, and they are the best women in ancient China. If you don't really win their hearts, they can't be of use to you.

Although Mo Qing was very depressed, it was impossible for Mo Qing to stop it. Because if it is stopped, then the future plan will also be lost, which is also a loss.

However, Chen Dingtian knew that he couldn't communicate like this for a long time. Because Chen Dingtian is well versed in this, the so-called distance produces beauty, and if you keep meeting, it is easy to have aesthetic fatigue. So Chen Dingtian chose to leave after communicating with several beauties for half a month. Leave for a while and let these women digest it. These women were surrounded by female officers and guards, and there were no other men at all. When they leave, they will feel that they are missing "something" and will suddenly become uncomfortable. This is also a means to capture the old and indulge, and leave quickly at this time, which will help him capture the hearts of Hong Xuanjiao and Feng Yuniang at that time.

Chen Dingtian came to Jiangning City, which was renamed Tianjing, and it was still Shi Dakai's cousin Shi Machilan who received him.

"Dongwang is having a meeting with everyone, Mr. Chen, will you wait a minute?" Ishimachi asked.

Chen Dingtian said: "Is this very confidential? If it's not very classified, then take me to see what the hell they're talking about? ”

Ishimachi replied, "This ...... In fact, strictly speaking, it is not an absolute secret, and it is okay to check it out. ”

Shi Dinglan took Chen Dingtian to the so-called Tianwang Mansion, that is, the original Yamen of the Governor of Liangjiang, and then under the leadership of Shi Dinglan, it was easy to walk in.

However, this is obviously a meeting, and it is related to the future plan of the Taiping Army.

"I think we should launch a westward expedition to seize Anhui, Hunan, Hubei and other places, so that we can first occupy the south of the Yangtze River and stabilize our foundation before we can take the initiative to go to the Northern Expedition." Yang Xiuqing said.

But there was a female general in her early twenties, dressed in a yellow uniform, who said: "I am against it, I think we should take the initiative to go on the Northern Expedition, and occupy the capital after the Northern Expedition is attacked, so that the world can be decided." At that time, we can establish the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom with the King of Medicine as the lord of the country, and the real world is one family! ”

Chen Dingtian saw this female general in her early twenties, and he was also surprised, she was still a very beautiful woman. This woman belongs to the kind of temperament full of coldness in terms of temperament, although her face is very gorgeous, but it is extremely cold, and her speech is very cold, giving people a chill.

"This female general is Bian Sanniang, one of the three female generals of our heavenly kingdom. The three female generals of the Heavenly Kingdom, led by Hong Xuanjiao, the holy daughter of the West Wangniang, followed by Su Sanniang, that is, General Feng Yuniang. And in the end, it is headed by this Bian Sanniang. However, this Bian Sanniang supports the King of Heaven, and he is ...... to the East King Well...... Some dissatisfaction. Ishimachi said.

Of course, Chen Dingtian understands what this Shi Dinglan means, at present, Yang Xiuqing has almost hollowed out Hong Xiuquan's power, and this is what makes many old people in heaven dissatisfied. Yang Xiuqing vigorously promoted his cronies, because in the current situation, Feng Yunshan was actually more inclined to "scholars", and Feng Yunshan, the king of the south, was a scholar-type figure. Although Feng Yunshan survived this time and space and did not die prematurely, he was obviously more suitable to be a religious patriarch than a government official. Politics and religion are not the same thing, Yang Xiuqing is suitable to be a political leader, but Feng Yunshan is very biased towards the side of scholars, so he is obviously inferior to Yang Xiuqing in the struggle for power.

Coupled with the persecution of the situation, Yang Xiuqing is urgently needed to understand not only politics, but also military talents, so Yang Xiuqing came into being. As for Xiao Chaogui, he died too early to be able to appreciate his talent, and no one knows.

As for Hong Xiuquan, this heavenly king actually has some ability, but according to the original history, although he has the ability, he is even more powerful than many ordinary people. However, he is obviously unable to control the current situation, obviously he does not have the ability to become the leader of that side, the kind of leader who can fight the country, and he is not able to control the situation in the middle and late stages of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Therefore, although Hong Xiuquan is capable, his ability also depends on the historical responsibility he bears. Hong Xiuquan may be a good talent, but if he is asked to bear the "historical responsibility" of changing the dynasty and changing the destiny of the nation, he will obviously not be able to bear it. Therefore, Hong Xiuquan was tragic and put him on a historical mission far beyond his ability, which may be the reason for the decline of the Taiping Army in the later period.

"Yang Xiuqing and Hong Xiuquan are obviously a pair of tragedies. Yang Xiuqing has the ability to undertake this historical mission, but he does not have a corresponding identity that can be matched, so although he became the de facto minister of the Taiping Army, he couldn't really go that far. The natural disadvantage of his courtiers limited his room for development. But Hong Xiuquan didn't have this ability, but he cultivated Yang Xiuqing who had this ability, but later he was unwilling to be overtaken by Yang Xiuqing and launched the Tianjing Incident, which caused the decline of the Taiping Army, which has to be said to be a tragedy. Chen Dingtian thought.

In fact, according to the history of the Taiping Army, if the identities of Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing were changed, maybe the fate of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom would also change. Yang Xiuqing has the ability and can undertake this historical mission, but he does not have enough status and prestige. Because the Taiping Army has too many congenital deficiencies, he relied on religion to start, and his religious influence is too great, so Hong Xiuquan, the religious leader, is the nominal supreme leader, even if Yang Xiuqing has real power, he can't break through that step. Originally, in history, the Tianjing Incident, many people thought that it was Yang Xiuqing's mistake, thinking that Yang Xiuqing was too greedy for power, and finally forced Hong Xiuquan to launch the Tianjing Incident to clean up Yang Xiuqing, which caused internal turmoil in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and thus declined.

But in fact, who can really understand the difficulties in this, this Taiping Army started by relying on religion, and many middle and low-level backbones are Christians. Yang Xiuqing has this ability, but he does not have enough status to lead this force, after all, the influence of religion is not small. If Yang Xiuqing does not really achieve a veritable leadership position, then no matter how powerful he seems to be, there must be a emperor on it. Although this Hong Xiuquan did not have much power at the beginning, as long as he occupied the righteousness of being a leader, it was enough to completely restrain Yang Xiuqing, and Yang Xiuqing had to counteract through the so-called "Heavenly Father's possession".

So let the friction between the two sides get bigger and bigger, and finally fall out. Relying on religion to start a business is smooth at the beginning, but in the later stage, the religious society will go deep into internal entanglements and ********. Religion may be smooth at first and help unite people's minds, but in the middle and later stages, it will become a constraint on development. If it were another force, Yang Xiuqing might be able to directly usurp power, but the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which is based on this religion, obviously does not have this condition. Therefore, if the original historical Yang Xiuqing wants to get rid of this shackle, he has to challenge the identity of the supreme leader, otherwise he will always be constrained by Hong Xiuquan.

However, under the religious system of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, this step was very difficult. This is just like the emperor of Japan, the emperor is a deified figure, so that although those shoguns have been overthrown by the emperor again and again, they cannot really usurp the throne. If the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom arose from religion, it was also religious factors that laid the foundation for the subsequent downfall. Yang Xiuqing has the ability, but he can't break through the shackles of religion. And Hong Xiuquan is incapable, but he is not willing to be a nominal leader of a religion, and he also wants to regain power.

In this way, the contradictions between the two sides were irreconcilable, which led to the later Tianjing Incident, in which the truly capable leader Yang Xiuqing was killed, and a large number of talents promoted by Yang Xiuqing, and the talents who really did practical things in the Taiping Army were also involved and killed as Yang Xiuqing's henchmen. Those who had the ability to do practical things were killed one after another. Even Shi Dakai, who was not originally Yang Xiuqing's party in the end, couldn't look at it and wanted to intercede for those who really did practical things. But in the end, Hong Xiuquan forced Shi Dakai, the last one who had the ability to pick up the beams, and Shi Dakai finally had to leave the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to fight alone and finally die in battle.

"The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom must die inside in the end, not outside!" Chen Dingtian whispered.

When Shi Machilan next to him heard this, he was immediately frightened and gasped. Shi Dinglan is not the kind of woman who has no culture, on the contrary, several so-called female secretaries around Yang Xiuqing are also very educated. The top of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was not as pedantic as the Manchus, and on the contrary, they would not deliberately prohibit women from learning culture. Therefore, in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, although the status of women is actually not as high as that of men, it is obvious that the level of education is higher than that of the Manchu Dynasty in the past, and female soldiers, female generals, and even female prime ministers have also begun to emerge. Although they don't necessarily really hold real power, they are obviously in a much higher position.

So Shi Dinglan listened to Chen Dingtian's words, combined with the current situation, and immediately knew what Chen Dingtian meant. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom did not die outside, but inside. This is the religious essence of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which has planted cause and effect, so Hong Xiuquan is the nominal supreme leader, but he does not have the power of the supreme leader, which makes him dissatisfied. Therefore, Hong Xiuquan regained power, but he did not have the ability that this historical mission should have, which led to the later tragedy. However, Yang Xiuqing had this ability, but in the face of the congenital deficiency of the Taiping Army, he had to be forced to choose the most difficult path, which led to a conflict.

"In the process of conquering the world, religion is a sweet poison. Maybe it can be very fast at the beginning, but in the later stage, it will become a factor restricting their development, and the time is also fate! Chen Dingtian said.

If we compare fighting the world to the so-called cultivation of the Tao, then fighting the world in an upright manner may be difficult at the beginning and face many difficulties, but the more you go to the back, the easier it is, and it is the practice of cultivating the right path. However, relying on religion to win the world, it may be easy to unite people's hearts through religion at the beginning, and can rely on various feudal superstitions to unite people's hearts. But the more you get to the later stage, the more you face political shackles. They relied on religion to unite people's hearts, and in the end they had to defend the authority of religious superstition. Relying on superstition, in the end, it is impossible to break through superstition. Relying on religion will end up producing a very anti-religion. The feudal superstitious religious groups and secular power competing for interests will only hold them back.

The West also had a dark Middle Ages, and it was only by breaking through the shackles of religion that it developed. And those countries in the Middle East, because their religion is too stubborn, cannot really develop in the end. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was also facing this problem, and relying on religion as the initial development may have been relatively smooth. But in the middle and late stages, it has become the biggest shackle, a shackle that cannot be broken through. This is like the demon path in the system, it is quick and easy to cultivate at the beginning, and it is easy to form combat effectiveness, but in the middle and late stages, it will suffer from it.

"The death of the kingdom of heaven is in religion. Success is also Xiao He, defeat is also Xiao He! Chen Dingtian whispered. (To be continued.) )