Soon after Cui Jishi left, Zeng Guofan returned, and he reported that the army outside the city had been fully deployed under the leadership of Zuo Zongtang, and as long as Huang Xu gave an order, the army could enter the city immediately.

After Huang Xu heard this, he nodded, and told Zeng Guofan about Cui Jishi's secret decree, Zeng Guofan heard that Hong Xiuquan had a secret decree to Huang Xu, and he was also a little surprised, and then he was overjoyed, because, as long as the secret decree is in hand, there will be no more obstacles to Shun Lì taking over the supreme power of the Heavenly Kingdom.

While the two were discussing, Zhao Xiaofeng also came back.

According to the news that Zhao Xiaofeng inquired, Hong Xiuquan is indeed in a coma now, and his life is very worried, however, due to the proper handling of Li Xiucheng and others, the news of Hong Xiuquan's critical illness was blocked in a timely manner and was not dispersed.

In addition, after Li Xiucheng learned about Hong Xiuquan's situation, he immediately strengthened the defense of the Forbidden Palace and the Beijing Division, so everything was under control.

The only thing Zhao Xiaofeng felt a little regret in his heart was that Hong Xiuquan did not explicitly say that Huang Xu would inherit the throne, even if Huang Xu was expected to sit on the throne in the end, it seemed that there was something wrong with it.

Zhao Xiaofeng hesitated for a moment, but still said what he thought in front of the two of them.

When Huang Xu and Zeng Guofan heard this, they couldn't help but glance at each other and smile at each other, the smile was so meaningful, and the laughing Zhao Xiaofeng was a little confused.

Huang Xu then laughed, and said the secret purpose, Zhao Xiaofeng listened to it, overjoyed, and thought. That being the case, that qiē is easy to do.

In the end, the three of them discussed it again and decided that Huang Xu would immediately enter the palace to visit Hong Xiuquan's condition, so as to stabilize the situation first, and then make further arrangements according to the specific situation, while Zeng Guofan and Zhao Xiaofeng made some necessary preparations according to the plan drawn up in advance.

And Hong Xiuquan is critically ill, Huang Xu did not tell the two sisters, Hong Zhengyan and Hong Ruoyan, he felt that it was not time, he needed to find a suitable time to tell his two wives about it, and now the most important thing is that he has to go to the palace to understand Hong Xiuquan's condition clearly.

When Huang Xu rushed to the palace, Li Xiucheng was waiting for him at the palace gate.

Huang Xu was slightly surprised, but when he turned his head and thought about it, he understood that at this moment, if there was Li Xiucheng's guidance, he could save a lot of time, and the most precious thing now is time.

Huang Xu and Li Xiucheng said hello, and they were all silent, so Huang Xu entered the palace under the leadership of Li Xiucheng.

At this time, Hong Xiuquan was sick and lay in the Dongnuan Pavilion separated from the south study only by a wall, which was the resting place of Hong Xiuquan's royal family, he was usually tired or went to bed, if he didn't go to the dormitory of the harem concubines to stay, it was in this Dongnuan Pavilion, and the reason why Li Xiucheng and others placed Hong Xiuquan in this Dongnuan Pavilion was because they were afraid that the target would be too big in other places, and there would be many people, so they would prematurely leak the news that Hong Xiuquan was seriously ill.

In the Dongnuan Pavilion, Huang Xu met Hong Xiuquan.

However, the moment he saw Hong Xiuquan, Huang Xu was taken aback.

Hong Xiuquan lay quietly on the bed, his face was withered, his eyes were deeply sunken, and his cheeks on both sides were like deflated balls, without rich connotation, only skin and bones remained.

Huang Xu asked the imperial doctor who was waiting on the side about the situation again, and the imperial doctor squeaked for a long time, but did not say a reason, Huang Xu understood in his heart, maybe as Lao Cui said, the situation is not good.

Huang Xu waved his hand and waved away the imperial doctor, he walked to Hong Xiuquan's couch, stretched out his hand to hold Hong Xiuquan's hand, only to feel that his hand was cold, there was no temperature at all, and when he put his head close to Hong Xiuquan's head, he could feel that Hong Xiuquan was already less inlet and less out.

In this way, Hong Xiuquan is really running out of oil, and he is not far from going to the immortals.

Huang Xudun felt sad from his heart.

Huang Xu knew in his heart that they needed to prepare for the future.

Such days were passed day after day, until one day, Huang Xu was told that Hong Xiuquan had left and died.

Huang Xu once again experienced the pain of losing a loved one.

When he left his familiar world and was transported to such a place that was extremely strange to him, separated from his parents and relatives, he was in pain, but he didn't think that the pain of the previous time was still in the labor pain, and the pain of the next time came again.

Huang Xu is destined to suffer such pain again.

The news of Hong Xiuquan's death was soon announced to the world, and then some necessary memorial procedures were followed until Hong Xiuquan was finally buried in peace.

After Hong Xiuquan entered the ground. We have to consider the question of the new emperor of the kingdom of heaven ascending the throne. With the secret decree left by Hong Xiuquan as the foundation, and Huang Xu's own previous efforts as a foreshadowing, Huang Xu was of course the right to take over the scepter of the supreme ruler of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and become the new first person in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

After Huang Xu ascended the throne, he changed his name to emperor, and changed the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to the Chinese Empire (referred to as China), so far, the era of Huang Xu's domination of China has come.

After Huang Xu ascended the throne, on the one hand, he continued to make great efforts to promote the reform of internal and external affairs, and verified and implemented many of the ideas of industry, agriculture and trade that had been put forward before, and on the other hand, let the dream business empire take the lead, and vigorously develop domestic and foreign economic and trade in accordance with the path he and Lu Wen drew out.

And Lu Wen, who dreams of a business empire, really went back and thought about it for a long time after listening to Huang Xu's expositions last time, and discussed some of his ideas with his backbones, and finally found that Huang Xu's ideas are indeed feasible, not only feasible, but also likely to be popular.

Thereupon. Lu Wen said he would do it, and soon deepened these ideas step by step.

After several years of development, the Chinese Empire has taken on a new look, with a warehouse full of rice and grain, abundant money, and the people living and working in peace and contentment, and Huang Xu really has the confidence to implement his future plans.

The road to a strong country that Huang Xu understands in his heart is not only to make the country rich and the people strong, but also to open up territory, just think about it. The kings who can really leave their names in history are often not because they have great cultural governance, but because of their strong martial arts, Qin Emperor, Han Wu, Tang Dynasty, Song Zu, Genghis Khan, these peerless emperors in Chinese history are recited and remembered by their descendants, not that they left a small amount of unclear wealth for the country, but how much land they incorporated into the territory of China.

Huang Xu also wants to be such an emperor, or even surpass them.

Now, that's where the opportunity comes.

Huang Xu, the new emperor of the Chinese Empire, is about to begin implementing his new plan.

One order after another was sent out from the center of the empire, and Huang Xu decided to make the army the focus of the development of the Chinese empire for some time to come. The first military and political zhì, all the people are soldiers.

If you want to make the empire strong, stand among the world's great powers. Then, a strong army is a road that cannot be avoided. (To be continued......)