"His Royal Highness the King of the East, I will truthfully convey your words to His Majesty the King of Daming. Now can I ask you a question? About the religious. ”

"Religion?" Yang Xiuqing, the king of the east, knew what the other party wanted to ask, and immediately waved his hand, letting the left and right retreat, leaving only the guards of the camp who could not hear the voice, and then said: "Mr. Te, this king understands what you want to ask." He paused, and then said, "Our heavenly Father is not the same God as yours. What we worship is not your Western God, but our Chinese God. ”

Ever since Hong Renji introduced the general situation of Western Christianity in Luoyang, Yang Xiuqing knew that Lu Dao had nothing to talk about with those foreign devils. The core of the doctrine of the Worship of God is that the Heavenly Father's brothers descend to the earth, and the Heavenly Father himself and the Heavenly Brother still play possession from time to time. This set of ghost tricks will also fool the soil buns in the mountains of Guangxi and Xiangxi, and when they arrive in the Central Plains, few people believe it, and it is even more of a dream to fool foreign devils. And it is impossible to change the doctrine of the Worship of God to authentic Christianity. In this way, what kind of God possession does Yang Xiuqing have? Without God's possession, how can he have the power alone? Now the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is the biggest God, Jesus is the second, and Hong Xiuquan is the third!

Yang Xiuqing, who holds the power of God's possession, is the de facto supreme religious leader of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and Yang Xiuqing will not let go of this power even if he dies, otherwise he is really not far from death!

Therefore, Yang Xiuqing now simply separates the God Worship Association from Christianity and becomes an independent religion, so the foreign devil Trigo has nothing to say.

Trigo sighed and said, "In that case, then I will report to His Holiness the Pope that the Worship of God is a new religion, not a branch of Christianity. ”

Yang Xiuqing said: "It should be like this. ”

Trigo added: "Then can the universal church set up a church in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom?" What about spreading religion? ”

"No." Yang Xiuqing said in a deep voice. "In the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, only the Worship of God Society can preach. The rest of the religions are not preached. ”

There's no room for bargaining! Yang Xiuqing figured it out early in the morning. He is not Zhu Jishi, the throne depends on the ancestors, the second depends on the silver, anyway, he doesn't rely on God, so he is not afraid of foreign devils to preach. The kings of their Taiping Heavenly Kingdom rely on religion to deceive people's hearts, and they can't tolerate any other religion to steal business!

At this point, Trigo had nothing to say, so he could only get up and take his leave. I was going to Jiangnan to convey Yang Xiuqing's proposal of the "Northern and Southern Dynasties" to Zhu Jishi. After the end of the meeting with Trigo, another foreign devil was taken to the Western Mansion of the Old Summer Palace, this person was the British minister to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Aliguo, who went to Beijing with Trigo.

Probably tasted the sweetness and power of foreign guns and cannons, Yang Xiuqing's attitude towards foreigners in this time and space was much more polite than in history - the Taiping army relied on Zhu Jishi to supply foreign guns and cannons before, and when Beijing City fell, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was likely to start a war with Zhu Ming, and then they could only count on buying foreign guns and cannons from Westerners. However, the "gift" that Ali Guo brought to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom this time made Yang Xiuqing overjoyed.

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"If you can hold it, you will be able to hold it! I still have an army of 100,000. There is also the impregnable city of Beijing, and the ......"

End of November. In the outer city of Beijing, above the Yongding Gate Tower, Emperor Daoguang looked at the dry moat below and muttered such words. The first line of defense of the huge castle in Beijing was the outer moat, which was several meters wide and two meters deep. However, autumn in Beijing is quite dry, and the water level of the moat cannot be maintained by rainfall, so water must be diverted from the Yongding River. However, after the siege of the city, the Taiping army cut off the water source flowing into Beijing from all over the city, and without the replenishment of water sources, the moat naturally dried up and ran out of water.

After the outer moat dried up, the Taiping army's offensive against Beijing began. On November 22, that is, this morning, the Taiping Army Brigade was dispatched, pushing dozens of cannons, dozens of shield carts, rushing carts, and carrying hundreds of ladders for climbing the city, slowly pressing towards the Yongding Gate of Beijing. The leader who commanded the siege was Xiao Chaogui, the king of the west, and Li Kaifang, the "main general", and Lin Fengxiang, the "prime minister", were the deputies of the king of Xiao Xi.

Today's battle is the first battle of Beijing's offensive and defensive war, although Emperor Daoguang does not know military affairs, but there is still the common sense that the first battle must be won. That's why he took the risk to appear on the Yongding Gate Tower, but he didn't swagger out in a dragon robe as a target, but dressed as an ordinary Qing military attaché, under the protection of Mu Zhang'a and Ner, the minister guarding the city, he went up to the city tower to take a look.

Needless to say, the military formation of the Taiping Army was naturally very neat. Xiao Chaogui, the king of the west, is the number three person in the kingdom of heaven, and his left and right armies in the west hall are also considered elite, and Yang Xiuqing also sent the right army of foreign guns under his command, and more than 40,000 people advanced to a place one mile away from the city, stopped and formed a formation as usual, and began to erect artillery - the foreign artillery of the West Palace army is also an earthen cannon, and it will take some time to set it up.

"Your Majesty, just see here, the Cantonese bandits will bombard the city in a while, the city tower is dangerous, let's retreat first......"

Mu Zhang'a, who was accompanying Daoguang, saw that the Taiping army was setting up cannons, and he was terrified in his heart and persuaded Emperor Daoguang to retreat.

"I won't retreat! I'm going to oversee the battle myself! ”

Emperor Daoguang is also single, anyway, this time it is more auspicious and less, if he dies on the battlefield, it is considered heroic, and it is good to have an explanation when he goes down to see his ancestors.

"Your Majesty, the Cantonese bandits will be cannon in a while...... This cannon doesn't have long eyes...... "Ner's forehead also followed suit."

"I'm the real man! Is it mortal artillery fire that can be wounded? I heard that Zhu Rebellion often comes to the battlefield in person, so I can't be as good as a pseudo-rebel, right? ”

As soon as these words were blocked, Mu Zhang'a and Nerjing had nothing to say, although the two of them agreed in their hearts that Zhu Jishi was more like a true son of heaven than Emperor Daoguang, but they couldn't say it in front of Emperor Daoguang, right?

"The king of the west, the king of the east means that there is no need to attack the city today, fill in the moat first, and start digging tunnels tomorrow to break the city with the siege method of the cave ground."

Li Kaifang was gearing up, and Xiao Chaogui, the king of the west who was eager to take down the city of Beijing, was nagging in his ear. Now the prestige of the kings within the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is, of course, Yang Xiuqing the highest, on the one hand, he has the exclusive agency of "God"; On the one hand, they won a hundred battles and led the Taiping army to the city of Beijing. The prestige of Xiao Chaogui, the "Jesus", is getting lower and lower, how will he mix up in the future if he doesn't fight a good fight?

"Master Li, you just wait and see! This Beijing city ...... It's wrapped up in Xiao someone! Xiao Chaogui took the reins, rode forward, and got closer to the city of Beijing.

At this time, the artillery of the Taiping Army was erected, and it began to bombard the head ......of Yongdingmen!

In Yuanmin Garden, the meeting between Yang Xiuqing and British envoy Ali Guo continued.

"Your Majesty, you've seen the power of ammonium oil explosives and Bessemai rifles, haven't you?"

Hearing Ali Guo call himself "the king", Yang Xiuqing's face slipped with a hint of pride. Today was the second meeting between him and Ali Guo, and yesterday the two of them also met, and on behalf of the British government, Ali Guo presented Yang Xiuqing with a batch of ammonium oil explosives and Besse wheat foreign guns - those things were ordered by the Manchu government from Jardine Matheson, and now they are actually received by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom! I really don't know how Emperor Daoguang will feel when he knows about Daoguang?

"Mr. A, the explosives and foreign guns are very good, thank you very much." Yang Xiuqing frowned slightly, and asked again, "I heard that this ammonium oil explosive and Bese Maiyang gun are both produced by Zhu Jishi's factory?" ”

Ali Guo shrugged his shoulders and said with a wry smile: "Your information is very well-informed, these weapons were purchased from the Jason-Churchill Company in the United Kingdom, and the largest shareholder of the Jason-Churchill Company is the Jishi Company, and Zhu Jishi himself owns more than seventy percent of the shares of the Jishi Company. ”

"So Zhu Jishi is rich, right?" Yang Xiuqing asked again.

"Of course," Ali Guo nodded, "he must be the richest man in the world, not one of them!" ”

"Richer than the Emperor of the British Empire?"

"Of course," laughed Aliko, "Your Majesty, I suppose you understand the magic of money, right?" If you want to go to war with the richest king in the world, you must also become a wealthy monarch. (To be continued......)