Rong Hong took the scholar and walked out of the crowded Shanglu Port quickly.

He went to a newsstand that was being sold on the street, bought a copy of the "Ta Kung Pao" of the concession, and read it carefully.

As a member of the Western-style faction in this country who opened his eyes to the world, and as a Chinese official who was discriminated against by the braided people of the Daqing nation, he had a strong curiosity in his heart when he heard the words "Chinese power" and "Taiping Society" in the mouth of the scholar.

"What?"

When he saw the opening part just now, his heart was full of shock.

"The leader of this Taiping Society is actually called Hong Tiangui!"

"This, isn't this the name of the Young Heavenly King?"

"But wasn't this young king killed by the governor of southern Jiangsu?"

At the beginning of the extraneous information, although the detailed origin of the Yinzhou Taiping Society was not clearly stated, it was still mentioned that the current leader of the Taiping Society was named "Hong Tiangui".

Perhaps most people in Daqing don't know the meaning of this name, but they must know the father of this name, Hong Xiuquan, the leader of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Uprising who once caused cholera in the southeast of Daqing.

And Rong Hong, who had an indissoluble bond with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom back then, naturally knew the connotation of the name "Hong Tiangui" better than ordinary people.

Although he can't be 100% sure because he has no evidence.

But since it is called this name, and the name of the created force is also installed with the word "Taiping", Rong Hong feels that his guess is likely to be inseparable.

Thinking back then, a trace of remembrance flashed in Rong Hong's eyes.

At that time, it was still the time when the Taiping Rebellion had not yet fallen, and Rong Hong was far less mature than it is now.

He even wrote to Hong Xiuquan, who had not yet fallen into the poison of faith at that time, and wrote seven suggestions to "organize a good army, set up a military school and a naval school, establish an effective government, and promulgate an education system", but they were not all adopted because of the fierce war situation of that year.

Later, he found that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was not in a good situation, and when he left, Hong Xiuquan, who had initially fallen into the poison of faith, did not embarrass him, but took the initiative to eliminate the traces of his activities in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, otherwise he would not have been able to return to Daqing as an official.

Therefore, no matter what other people in this era think, Rong Hong himself is full of affection for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

"It's just that the greedy Kingdom of St. George, how could it be possible to send such a huge piece of land to the Taiping Society."

He had traveled to the United States of America to study at university, and it was there that he met his current Gallic wife, which gave him a completely different view of the world than most Eastern bureaucrats.

The greed and arrogance of the people of St. George, which had been mentioned many times by America's classmates and teachers, how could it be possible to give a gift with a huge territory?

"Could it be that the Taiping Society forcibly ······?"

Rong Hong, who suddenly had this thought in his mind, was stunned and stood in place in a daze.

On the crowded street, Rong Hong only felt goosebumps from head to toe, and he looked at the three big words "Hong Tiangui" in the newspaper again in disbelief, and couldn't help but think.

"Perhaps, I should go to Naga where the Taiping Society is located!"

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"The colony of Naga was given to the Chinese power by King St. Joe VII!"

On the day of the departure of the "young children in Gaul", the news from the old continent of Obaro shook the sky over the entire Daqing Dynasty like thunder.

There was a lot of discussion in the cities with the 19-nation concessions, and then it soon spread to the upper echelons of the entire dynasty.

Beiping, the capital of the Daqing Dynasty, is in the glorious and majestic Forbidden Imperial City.

"Everybody, get up!"

In the curtain woven of jade and pearls, a middle-aged woman with a lonely temperament and a pair of eagle eyes, holding a young emperor in a dragon robe, whispered to the prostrate braided princes and Chinese ministers under the throne.

After the abolition of Emperor Guangxu of the previous dynasty, the woman on the throne in front of her has become the most powerful person in this eastern country, and her words made everyone in the court dare not slack off, and quickly stood up, according to the distinction between the braided hair clan and the Chinese clan, stood in two rows, and bowed down to answer.

"Yes, Galeries Lafayette."

Seeing that the princes and ministers were so obedient, the majestic eagle-eyed woman on the throne nodded with satisfaction.

She ordered the eunuchs beside her to move out of the side hall a very large "Exploration Map of All Nations" standing upright on a wooden frame, and placed it in the center of the main hall, where everyone could see it.

"In recent days, the news of the Yinzhou Taiping Society has been spreading in Beijing."

With his ivory finger guff, Lafayette pointed to an elderly minister with a gloomy face at the top of the list of Chinese ministers.

"Liu Qing's family!"

"You come forward and point out to the mourning family and the clan ministers."

"Where is this Naga colony of St. George's foreigners, where is the 'Peace Society'?"

The minister surnamed Liu, named by the lonely woman, named Liu Hongzhang, is the current leader of the Western-style faction of the court, and he strongly promoted the introduction of the government-run factory policy, which greatly enhanced the industrial strength of the decadent dynasty of Daqing.

"Galeries Lafayette, colleagues."

Liu Hongzhang first walked to the center of the map, saluted the woman on the throne and the surrounding princes and ministers, and then came to the "Exploration Map of All Nations", and his finger crossed the Daqing and the central Taipingyang in the map, pointing to the huge land at the upper end.

"This land given by King St. George, Naga, is here!"

The eyes of all the princes and ministers in the main hall moved with the place where his finger pointed, and after finding that the end point he pointed to was already thousands of miles away from Daqing, his slightly nervous gaze suddenly relaxed a little.

"Lafayette, this Taiping Society is tens of thousands of miles away from my Daqing, just like the former Nalanfang United States."

On behalf of the **** of the braided people's clansmen, Prince Qing stepped forward, hung a large string of white jade beads around his neck, and said respectfully to the eagle-eyed woman behind the jade pearl curtain.

"The land is big but the things are thin, it is not worthy of my Daqing Shangguo's attention!"

"No, no!"

The Chinese minister Liu Hongzhang refuted Prince Qing's words at this time and said loudly.

"Fellow clansmen and old princes, do you know who the leader of this Taiping Society, 'Hong Tiangui', is?"

"That's the son-in-law of the traitor Hong Xiuquan back then!"

After he finished speaking, he threw himself to the ground on the female throne behind him.

"Your Majesty Liu Hongzhang, enlighten Lafayette!"

"The traitor is lurking on the other side of the ocean, and the formation of the Beiyang Naval Division fleet is imperative!"

His words successfully shocked the princes and ministers in the hall, and even the woman on the throne opened her mouth slightly to express her shock.

Wow! Wow!······

At this time, the little emperor in the woman's arms suddenly began to howl and cry, making the atmosphere in the court hall of the whole discussion even more lonely and weird······

Ten days later, the Empress Dowager Cixi of the Daqing Jingshi issued an edict and appointed Liu Hongzhang, the prime minister of Taipingyang, to create the Beiyang Naval Division, which opened a short-lived wave of construction of modern sailors at the end of the Daqing Dynasty······