Chapter 415: The Way Home is Different
"Even if you learn from foreigners, the Lord is with you, and what does it mean that God will be with you forever?"
Li Xi asked as he looked at the old man Yiming, no, he should be called the chief priest of Yiming. This old man was dressed in sackcloth, covered with a hooded cloak, and if he hung a medicine pestle around his waist, he would be a brilliant warrior.
Yi Ming stroked his white beard with a smile, raised his white eyebrows, and said meaningfully: "This is only for you......"
Li Xian shook his head, anyway, he will work Catholicism in the future, and let go of this old way for now. Then he turned his head to look ahead, which was the Yingde Leprosy Shrine, which was the place that Li Xian had named "Desperate Valley" earlier. Because of the considerable experience accumulated in treatment and maintenance, thousands of leprosy patients from Liangguang and Guangzhou have gathered here, and they have gathered into a small town.
The place that Li Xian looked at was a building similar to the Hengzhou Heavenly Temple, which was also a heavenly temple, and the "roots" of Panjinling were rooted here. After seeing the root wall in Hengzhou Heavenly Temple before, Li Xi already understood why Pan Jinling insisted on staying in Catholicism. Because she is rootless, she doesn't even have a real name. Now that she is in love, she naturally wants to climb the roots and leave her ancestral position in the Heavenly Temple.
His thoughts were interrupted by the crowd of people, who swarmed in thousands of people, but all stopped in the distance. Most of them wore veils on their faces, there was no noise, and they were extremely quiet, but Li Xi felt the heat in their eyes.
At this time, Li Xi was no longer the owner of Li Zhuang or Li Banxian, even if he wanted to step into this forbidden land blocked by the fence, the people inside would consciously retreat. He didn't deliberately approach it, he just stood on the bank of the river, beckoning to the former walled fort and now the leprosy town.
Li Shi beckoned, and the crowd suddenly became shorter, just like when Li Xi walked into here, everyone knelt on the ground, their heads firmly on the ground. There was no shout of joy, only the faint sound of sobbing, which was the gratitude and joy condensed from the sorrow.
Although these thousands of leprosy patients are isolated from the world, they are always concerned about the affairs of Yinghua. For the first wave of patients, their benefactor was Li Shi, and the patients who live here now regard Li Xi not only as their benefactor, but also as Yinghua everyone. They are more concerned than anyone else about the success or failure of Li Xi and the survival of Yinghua. Knowing that Yinghua defeated the Qing army in Changsha, the most joyful people under Yinghua's rule were these people who had been abandoned by the world.
Because Pan Jinling and Yingciyuan pulled them, Tianmiao pulled them, and behind them was Yinghua and Li Shi. They weep because they feel that they have nothing to repay.
After a long time, someone finally shouted: "The King of Heaven is forever!" ”
The cries of thousands were still low: "Lord and King...... Forever! ”
Li Xi was also pressed by this heavy call of gratitude, and the corners of his eyes were hot, and he glanced at Yiming Lao Dao angrily, saying in his heart that these patients were probably all members of the church. But then again, isn't that good?
After visiting the villagers in Yingde Baicheng, Li Xi stepped on the "dragon boat" specially presented by Shaozhou Mansion, and as soon as the dragon flag of the Taiji Regiment was raised, Li Xi was caught in the scorching tide of cheers.
From Hanwei to Lianjiangkou, through Feilai Gorge to Qingyuan, all the way to the south, the Beijiang River comes and goes, and the boats are attached to the riverside. Red and yellow flags were planted spontaneously on every boat, and the shipowner, boatmen, and passengers on board all waved small red flags in their hands and shouted with joy.
"Heavenly King! King! ”
"Hooray! Banzai! ”
Along the way, they were surrounded by passionate cheers, and Long Gaoshan Gesang Dunzhu and the others were certainly stepping on the clouds all day long, proud of being able to guard Li Xian's side and receive such warm courtesy, and they couldn't even maintain their reserved faces. And Li Shi, who was a man in two lives, could no longer calm down, and frequently appeared and waved, causing continuous and dense bowing sounds to be heard on the river, and the further south, the more excited the tide of cheers became, and the voices were even more vibrant.
In Qingpu, Guangzhou, the entire wharf is full, and I don't know how many thousands of people gather here. Chen Ju, the canonical historian of Guangzhou County, commanded the crowd with sweat, and behind him, there was a layer of black-clothed guards, and a layer of red and black guards separated the dock from an open space. The August sun was shining, but all the guards, the guards and the guards were all dressed in neat uniforms, and even though they were sweating all over their bodies, they didn't feel a trace of fatigue.
The crowd that wanted to get closer to the wall was even more stinking and sweating, and everyone was waiting for the big flag to appear on the river.
The King of Heaven has won! It is said that the emperor who had sat on the dragon chair for more than 50 years was injured by the Heavenly King himself, and now he fled north in a hurry, and he still knows whether he is alive or dead. The hundreds of thousands of troops under his command collapsed, and the country of Yinghua is no longer as shaky in the wind and rain as before, making it difficult to imagine the future country. Although it is not yet possible to say that the Central Plains of Dingding, Taqing is no longer able to rise up and overturn the huge waves. The clouds are gone, the sun is shining, the sky is clear, and the future is so bright. "It's coming!" Here it comes! ”
The wharf where hundreds of thousands of people gathered suddenly sounded like thunderous cheers, and I saw a large number of fast boats escorting a dragon boat on the river in the north, and the flaming red flag was hanging on the mast of the ship, which was waving in the wind.
When Li Xi, who was wearing a red and black military uniform and a bright yellow cloak, stepped out of the cabin surrounded by his personal guards and stepped on the dock, cheers rose to the sky, covering all sounds, as if he could no longer accommodate the space, and was inflated by this cheer, and his vision became blurred.
Li Xian stepped on the red carpet and looked around, and at first glance, he saw Yan Sanniang, who was dressed in palace clothes, hugging Xixi and staring at him with tears in his eyes. Guan Xuan, who was also dressed in the palace, also became quiet, and seemed to be much more mature, so he looked at it with a slight smile. An Jiuxiu was nodding at him while stroking his big belly.
Turning his head to look at the other side again, Duan Hongshi stroked his long beard and smiled at himself, his eyes narrowed so much that he couldn't open them. Guan Fengsheng and his wife, Tian Dayou, Lin Dashu, He Gui, Wu Yaluo, Luo Heng, Peng Xianzhong, Liu Xingchun, Su Wencai and other old men and old subordinates, as well as An Jinzhi, the old man, were waving their hands with a red face.
Li Zhushou, who was dressed in a purple robe and court uniform, held the jade wat and led a group of purple or red officials out of the ranks, raised his throat, and shouted in a trilling voice: "Greetings...... Heavenly King, return to the dynasty with victory! ”
Then they knelt down, bowed three times and bowed nine times, in a neat formation, with the same movements, apparently rehearsed extremely skillfully beforehand.
"Hooray, hooray...... Hooray! ”
This shouting is not in line with the system, Li Shi has not yet been called the emperor, but at this moment, who cares about this.
As the civil officials bowed and shouted, tens of thousands of people knelt down and shouted in unison.
In the crowd, a pale yellow shadow looked at Li Shi in military uniform, and felt that the qi of heaven and earth seemed to be converging towards him, making his figure so impressive, as if the sun was covered by him. She sighed softly and bowed down. Although the crowd of people gathered in Confucian shirts also knelt down, many of them still stood upright, as if they were not willing to worship to the end like the people, but everyone's faces were full of relief, this country is no longer a country in danger after all.
Li Shi beckoned, signaling everyone to flatten, his eyes were fluttering, and he felt that what he saw in front of him was extremely unreal.
Seeing tens of thousands of people present, Li Xi felt an itchy throat, and only then did he realize that he should say something, say something?
Then speak the truthful words from your heart......
Li Shi looked around at everyone and said in a loud voice: "Everyone...... Brothers and sisters, uncles and uncles......"
Everyone was shocked and hot when they heard it, the king of heaven is really from the grassroots, and he is called a small people.
"Fellow citizens!"
Li Xian said loudly, this word was originally only used to refer to blood brothers and sisters, but now the meaning is no longer unfamiliar to everyone. Whether it is in the newspapers, in the Temple of Heaven, or in the customary names of the British and Chinese Army and the official writings, the people of China are collectively referred to as compatriots.
"I won!"
Li Xi did not make a long speech, just a short declaration.
"We won!"
He clenched his fists and raised his arms straight to the sky, causing tens of thousands of people to raise their arms and cheer.
"We won!"
In the crowd, even literati like Lei Xiang raised their fists and shouted, but Zheng Xie didn't move. Looking at the passionate expressions of the people around him, he smiled to himself, put aside his reserve, raised his fist, and shouted at the top of his throat.
As Li Xian and his entourage traveled from west to east, crossing the entire city of Guangzhou, and then to the Huangpu Boundless Palace, Guangzhou was immersed in a sea of jubilation all day long.
"We ...... Lost, defeated, lost. ”
Thousands of miles away, Jiangning Mansion, boarded the dragon boat, heard Zhao Hongcan personally confirm the bad news of the defeat, Zhang Boxing, the governor of Liangjiang and Li Xu, the weaver of Suzhou, who came to meet him, turned pale and his heart fell like lead.
"Fortunately, the thief army did not chase after it, and now the army is stopped in Yuezhou, Bahun Dai has been martyred, Nersu is in Wuchang Mansion to rectify the remnants of the army, and Mu Tingyan's Jiangnan Navy Division has gathered?"
Zhao Hongcan asked, hearing that the thief army stopped, Zhang Boxing let out a sigh of relief and quickly nodded. When Kangxi Luan stayed in Yuezhou, he urgently sent him an order to gather the Jiangnan Navy Division to prevent the thief army from taking advantage of the victory to go down the river and go straight to the south of the Yangtze River. He immediately asked Mu Tingyu, who had just been transferred from the Fujian Admiral to the Jiangnan Water and Land Admiral, to send a sailor to the west to pick up Ying Luan, and at the same time gather a large fleet of sailors to deal with the thief army.
"What's wrong with the emperor!?" , Li Xu only cared about Kangxi, and was about to open the curtain and go to the cabin, when two light coughs sounded at the same time, and the guards hurriedly stopped him. The person who coughed lightly was Zhao Hongcan, but the other person was Fang Bao, and Li Xu was suddenly furious.
"Fang Bao! Zhao Hongcan! Do you want to learn from Zhao Gao!? ”
These two people are foreign ministers, but they can't stand this, Li Xu is a slave of the Kangxi family, and they don't dare to stop it. Li Xu raised his head and snorted coldly, and was about to take a step again, when the other two came out again. One is Wei Zhu, the chief eunuch next to Kangxi, and the other is Marseille, the minister of the guard, the two have gloomy faces, and Marseille is even more on crutches, and his complexion is fascinated.
"What are you talking about, the emperor is fine, where did Zhao Gao come from?"
Marseille reprimanded, in the face of these two people, Li Xu had no confidence, and it was difficult to go straight again, but Zhang Boxing spoke.
"Since the emperor is well, let me wait to see the holy face to calm people's hearts. Now rumors are spreading, and I am afraid that it is not only Jiangnan. ”
Wei Zhu and Marseille glanced at each other, and nodded helplessly, Zhang Boxing's words represent the place, if he is not at ease, the hearts of the people of the Qing Dynasty are afraid that they will really collapse.
Mar Circuit: "The emperor has indeed had a stroke, and now there is no major problem." It's just that I've been asleep and can't speak, so you can ask for peace from afar, and you can't disturb the emperor. ”
The two were led into the cabin by Wei Zhu, and when they came out after a while, Zhang Boxing's face was slightly fixed, and he said to Mar Circuit: "I will go to Guangzhao to summon the famous doctor in the Jiangnan realm, although the emperor's condition is stable, but he needs more consultations to avoid accidents." ”
Marseille shook his head: "The saint has to return to Beijing as soon as possible......"
Li Xu interjected: "Returning to Beijing like this, is it stable or chaotic?" ”
Fang Bao couldn't help but speak: "Our courtiers, we have to expect the unexpected. If...... Yu Xing, this Great Qing Dynasty is about to become a Great Qin! ”
He has said it bluntly, if Kangxi dies on the road, the throne will be in trouble. Even if you want to die, you have to die in the Forbidden City.
Zhao Hongcan hurriedly wiped the mud: "The emperor's situation is not so bad, I think it is better to compromise, stay here for a few days, and then make a decision after being diagnosed by a famous doctor in Jiangnan." ”
This plan is safe, and everyone has nothing to say. Zhang Boxing and Li Xu got off the boat, the former was in a hurry to arrange to find a doctor, but Li Xu went straight to Jiangning Weaving Mansion. (To be continued) [This text is provided by the Ghost of Sailing]