Damn Frenchman, damn Napoleon III, a hillbilly who was willing to hug the thigh of the Holy See for the throne, Xiao Yungui cursed a few words in his heart, but he still said with a slight smile on his face: "Minister Blomble, when it comes to the origin of Christianity and our China, it will be a long time, in fact, as early as the Song Dynasty, Christianity crossed the ocean to Middle Earth, and during the Ming and Qing dynasties, countless missionaries came to Middle Earth to preach, but do you know that Weishenme Christianity and Catholicism have never been widely spread in Middle Earth?" ”

Blombull was not a missionary and did not think about this question, and after a moment of hesitation, asked, "Is this weishenme?" ”

Xiao Yungui said slowly: "This is because there are many things in the teachings from the Holy See that are inconsistent with our Chinese traditions and culture for thousands of years, so most people can't accept them. ”

On how to solve the doctrinal problem, Hong Yuner and Xiao Yungui have done in-depth discussions, and always feel that if the doctrine of worshipping God is removed, the belief that has long supported the Taiping Army in battle will collapse, and the Taiping Army in the West Temple has begun a quiet reshaping of the layout of faith, from collecting Confucian classics before the Ming Dynasty to publishing books such as "Yangzhou Ten Days", from Xiao Yungui's continuous mention of the great cause of restoring the Han Dynasty on large and small occasions to protecting the essence of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. Xiao Yungui and Hong Yun'er planned to shift the belief in God worship to the general righteousness of national rejuvenation, and slowly weaken God worship into a fifth school doctrine other than Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Islam.

In this subtle process, Xiao Yungui has deliberately reduced his attendance at worship, pre-war prayers and other activities, and even rarely participated in post-war sacrifices, which is one of the reasons why Weishenme did not enter the city after the capture of Shanghai this time. He wanted to slowly separate politics and religion in the Taiping Army of the West Temple, and gradually formed an atmosphere of freedom of belief in the Taiping Army of the West Temple, although most of the Taiping Army in the West Temple still believed in the worship of God at this time, but the West Hall protected the acquiescence of the three schools of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. It makes people feel that the West Temple does not exclude other doctrines, and the soldiers also subtly began to respect their personal beliefs in the process of protecting other teachings such as Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism.

In the Taiping Army in the West Temple, people like Zuo Zongtang, Li Shourong, Wang Minyun, Zhu Changlin, Wei Helin and others did not believe in God worship, and the new Zhao Shunping, Zhou Lichun and others did not believe in God worship, but these people were fighting for the Kingdom of Heaven and killing demons side by side. Therefore, Xiao Yungui and Hong Yun'er felt that they could not control the whole army with faith and doctrine, and the belief in military and political affairs must be the great cause of restoring the Han Dynasty.

Just like in later history, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has always regarded the powers with similar beliefs as foreign brothers, but the great powers did not regard the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom as their own people at all. In turn, he helped the Manchu Qing Dynasty, who had different beliefs and barbarism, to encircle and suppress the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Historically, it is believed that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was rejected by the great powers because its teachings were too absurd, nonsense and superstitious, and it was encircled and suppressed by the great powers. In fact, in the eyes of Xiao Yungui and Hong Yuner, Christianity, Catholicism, and Protestantism have many branches, and even Judaism is actually a branch. Although the doctrine of God worship has many sinicized things in it. Moreover, Hong Xiuquan's anti-Trinity doctrine was not the first to be pioneered by Sect Leader Hong, and the foreigners themselves had this kind of statement a long time ago. Several denominations certainly have deep grievances. There have also been wars in history. But after the Renaissance, and into the nineteenth century, the great powers rarely waged wars over doctrines, and the root cause of wars was actually national interests.

Xiao Yungui didn't want such a confused perception in the army in the future, thinking that those who believed in the same doctrine would not be enemies, which was very dangerous and confusing. Therefore, the Taiping Army of the West Temple began to silently replace the role of doctrine in military and political affairs with the great cause of restoring the Han Dynasty early on.

At the same time, Xiao Yungui and Hong Yuner also considered using the God Worship Religion to establish a good relationship with foreigners. As long as the Holy See recognized the worship of God as a Protestant religion, the two men felt that the great powers would not dwell too much on doctrinal issues.

Hong Yun'er was already preparing to make some doctrinal adjustments, removing some of the things that Sect Leader Hong had added to the Worship of God to his own personality cult to form the Taiping Army's own doctrine in the West Temple. Hong Yuner called this doctrine Taiping Christianity. Many things in this doctrine inherit traditional Chinese culture and habits, such as allowing the congregation to worship ancestors, respect Confucianism, worship heaven and earth, etc., but the two also have disputes over some of these issues, such as Christianity advocates monogamy, Xiao Yungui has fiercely opposed it, Zuihou Hong Yuner can't resist him, this article is still not mentioned according to the old Chinese customs, etc.

Regarding the opposition to monogamy, Xiao Yungui, a brazen person, has many high-sounding reasons, one of which is that there is still a civil war in the land of China, and I don't know how many men will die, if monogamy is advocated, there will be many women who cannot find their husbands. Just like France after World War I, after many men were killed in the war, many young women in the country had to be nuns alone for a lifetime, because their doctrines and laws stipulated monogamy. Since Xiao Yungui said so, Hong Yun'er is not easy to object.

There is also the elimination of the huge influence of the Hong sect leader in the teachings, which is very beneficial for Xiao Yungui to control the whole army by himself, although this has to take a certain risk, but Xiao Yungui feels that it is worth it, after defeating southern Jiangsu, Xiao Yungui has planned to reorganize the army, and one of the important items in the reorganization of the army is the transformation of the doctrine of God worship in the army, but this will wait for him and Hong Yun'er to return from Tianjing, he does not want to overstimulate the two bigwigs in Tianjing. Therefore, at such a time, Xiao Yungui did not want more Western missionaries to come to the mainland to influence his own reform.

After listening to Xiao Yungui's words, Blombur and several ministers and consuls in the big tent began to discuss, Xiao Yungui continued: "Actually, you should pay attention to the advantages of the spread of Protestant Christian denominations near Shanghai, in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Holy See had ordered the Tu Christians to convert according to the orthodox doctrine because the Protestant doctrine was too tolerant, and the prohibition of worshipping ancestors and respecting Confucianism actually touched the traditional Chinese culture, so the Manchu emperor at that time ordered the ban on religion for this reason. When our Taiping Army arose, many people believed in this doctrine because our Heavenly King made some changes to the doctrine, so that the doctrine could be more integrated with traditional Chinese culture and accepted by the general public. For example, God, in our Middle Earth, is said to be the Emperor of Heaven, as early as ancient times, our people began to worship, and the Emperor of Heaven is the creator of everything. This is the same as God, we have made the Chinese people understand that God is not a Western god, but this shijie common creator, only in this way will we believe in this doctrine, so we believe in a kind of Christianity suitable for China. ”

Blombull seemed to understand: "Your Excellency the King of the West means that your army believes in a new sect similar to Christianity? ”

Xiao Yungui smiled and said: "Quanzhong, we believe that since we are born with human rights, everyone has the freedom to believe and retain their own traditional culture, and I believe that this is recognized in the constitutions of various countries." ”

Blombble was speechless. Although most people in France believe in God, there are also Christian, Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant and other tribes, as well as citizens who believe in Judaism and Islam. The same is true of Britain and the United States, a country that claims to be an empire on which the sun never sets. The doctrines under his rule are even more varied, and the United States itself is a nation of immigrants. More inclusive.

After a moment's pause. Blomble said, "In that case, Your Excellency the King of the West should also allow missionaries from other sects to enter the interior to preach." ”

Xiao Yungui smiled slightly and said: "The time is not yet ripe for other sects to preach, and our Taiping Christianity is already sorting out the complete doctrinal theory, and at the same time, we will sort out the voices of the congregation, and wait until the appropriate time to go to the Western Holy See to meet His Excellency the Archbishop for a doctrinal exchange and discussion between China and the West." I hope that the Holy See will recognize us as a Protestant Church, and that it would be more appropriate for the Holy See to send missionaries after the other denominations have been decided. ”

The ministers of several countries understood Xiao Yungui's intentions, and what exchanges and discussions he said were pure nonsense. Xiao Yungui's purpose was to control the missionary rights in this area and bargain with the Holy See, as long as the Holy See recognized the legitimacy of Protestantism, then Xiao Yungui would agree to other sects to preach in the area under his control, and once he obtained the permission of the Holy See, the great powers could no longer use doctrine as an excuse to make any petty moves.

Xiao Yungui and Hong Yun'er really planned to do so, after completing the transformation of Taiping Christianity, they would send a clergy group composed of officials to the Western Holy See to meet the archbishop and the pope, and by donating some money and exchanging the right to preach in exchange for the approval of the Western Holy See, Taiping Christianity would become a legitimate branch of Christianity in the future, and would not be attacked as a Weishenme cult. At that time, Xiao Yungui believed that most Chinese people would only choose Taiping Christianity created by the Chinese people themselves, and would not choose other sects.

Blombur couldn't turn around, and said hesitantly, "This—this doesn't seem appropriate. ”

Xiao Yungui said with a smile: "The treaties signed by various countries with the Manchu Qing Dynasty before, this king has already said that our Taiping Heavenly Congress acquiesced in these treaties, and also agreed to maintain the original vested interests of each country, and the missionary right is also very clear in the treaty, the missionary scope of the missionaries of various countries is only in the treaty port, and the French minister wants to expand the missionary power, and the king only said that the time is not right, and he did not refuse." Mr. Blomble, in this time of war, the king does not want the missionaries of various countries to go deep into the interior and encounter any accidents caused by war, so we should all maintain the status quo. ”

Blombull had nothing to say, but he was still reluctant to say, "Then we hope to be able to build a new church in Shanghai." ”

Xiao Yungui said without thinking: "Yes, this is no problem, this king still wants to build a few more church schools and church hospitals." ”

Wen Han was not reconciled, and also brought up the issue of restoring order and subsequent customs tariffs and said, "Your Excellency King Xi, we in Britain hope that your army will contact the blockade of Wusongkou as soon as possible, and clean up the sunken ships in the Huangpu River and other rivers, and send people to take over the customs as soon as possible, so as to end the anarchy in Shanghai, which is the key to restoring order and trade." ”

Xiao Yungui huffed back: "Lord Wenhan, this king just captured Shanghai in the morning, and there are still many remnants of the enemy that have not been destroyed, are you an immortal when this king is a god?" But rest assured, there will be new government agencies operating in Shanghai in the next five days, the opening of Wusongkou will take time, this king's sailors have already sailed to Chongming Island, as long as the Qing army on Chongming Island is wiped out, the blockade of Wusongkou can be lifted. ”

The two sides put forward the problems they faced one by one in the form of quarrels, and solved them in repeated quarrels, although the quarrel did not stop, but both sides controlled the bottom limit to restore the original state to discuss and solve, but there was not much hindrance, but Zuihou Marshali asked a word, but the British and American ministers almost turned their faces with Xiao Yungui.

Speaking of Zuihou, Ma Shali suddenly asked: "May I ask Your Excellency the King of the West, after the city of Shanghai was breached, where is Wu Jianzhang of Shanghai Dao?" (To be continued......)