Chapter 407 Whose Taiping Heavenly Kingdom? (Please order and vote)
These two brothers with hanging eyebrows, triangular eyes, high cheekbones and big beards are Zeng Jia, Guofan and Zeng Guohua!
One of them is a disciple of the Eight Banners and a slave of the Qing Emperor's family, while the other is a third-class citizen of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Among them, Zeng Guohua came to Tianjing for a meeting as a Chinese representative elected by the Shanghai Consultative Assembly.
In the name of inspecting the canal and the defense of the Huaihe River, Zeng Guofan left his Kadu Yamen station in Jiningzhou, Shandong Province, secretly ran to Haizhou, where he boarded a British ship from the British company, first to Shanghai, and then to Qichang.
A foreign ship went to Tianjing to find out whether the National People's Congress was real or not.
Nowadays, Tianjing City has abolished the male-female separation system, and the northern part of the inner city that was originally closed is now open. Since the people living in this area are male and female holy soldiers with Chinese status, many of them also have official positions and can press
I received a monthly salary and a good income, so I naturally had money for consumption. The market in the northern part of the inner city of Tianjing soon became prosperous.
It is not surprising that Zeng Guofan and his party, who disguised themselves as businessmen and brought many Shandong specialties, came to Tianjing to make a fortune. So they did not encounter any trouble. They just paid the tax at Longjiang Customs and entered smoothly.
to Tianjing City.
Moreover, the tax supervision office at Longjiang Customs is extremely efficient!
After confirming that there was no opium in the goods carried by Zeng Guofan and his party, a weight-based tax was imposed based on the standards of "high-priced groceries".
The tax rate is not high, and the process of weighing and paying the tax is very transparent. If a merchant is dissatisfied with the results of the weighing, he can also complain to the Longjiang Customs Supervision.
In addition, the tax is not paid directly to the tax collector. Instead, the businessman takes the receipt issued by the tax collector and goes to the Shanghai HSBC Bank outside Yifeng Gate to pay the money. After getting the receipt from HSBC, the businessman has completed the tax payment and can take it with him.
The documents have been passed through customs and entered the city.
This time Zeng Guofan brought a total of two thousand taels worth of traditional Chinese medicine and leather goods, and entered Tianjing City after paying less than twenty taels of silver in taxes, without even giving a penny in bribes.
The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's clean and efficient customs really opened Zeng Guofan's horizons and made him worried!
Isn't this the legendary founding scene?
"Chinese brothers, Chinese sisters"
Zeng Guofan heard a somewhat friendly Hunan accent in Mandarin suddenly coming from the Yifengmen Street outside the restaurant. Zeng Guofan followed the sound and saw a huge signboard with a red scarf and yellow robe erected on the street.
, a young Taiping soldier who was not very old, at most 17 or 18 years old, stood beside the notice board, shouting at the top of his lungs.
"This is a notice board! If you, the brothers and sisters who did not get the lottery to attend the National People's Congress on Capitol Hill and want to know how the meeting went? You can wait for the news in front of the notice board. Whatever was discussed on Capitol Hill will be written on the notice board.
It's posted. It doesn't matter if you don't know the alphabet. Someone will read it to everyone.
Please don't crowd, there are more than one signboard. His Royal Highness, King Bei, ordered people to put up a hundred signboards in Yifeng Gate today! Our Chinese brothers and sisters can all know in time what politics are being discussed on the Capitol Hill?
If anyone wants to petition the representatives of the nation and the kings on Parliament Hill, just go to the notice board and let me know."
When Zeng Guofan heard the word "lecturer", he turned around and asked Zeng Guohua in a low voice: "Wen Fu, I often hear people say that there is an official in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom named 'lecturer', who is very important. I wonder what is so important about this lecturer?"
In addition, why do these lecturers tell the people below the mountain about the policies discussed on the Capitol Hill in a timely manner? What does it matter to these people?"
Zeng Guohua said: "Brother, you don't know. The lecturer's office was founded by His Highness King Wu after he came to heaven. King Wu's first official position in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was the chief lecturer. Today he is still the chief lecturer of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. All of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
The lecturers and lecturers are all his disciples and disciples. Among them, the lecturers and lecturers from the Sixth Division of the Shanghai Army, the six southeastern prefectures, Changsha in Hunan, and the second prefecture of Yuanzhou in Jiangxi are directly or directly controlled by the lecturer group controlled by King Luo Wu.
governed indirectly.
The lecturer has three main responsibilities. One is to educate people and promote the principles of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom; the other is to manage the Taiping Army and the internal laws and regulations of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom officials; and the third is to participate in personnel appointments and removals and distinguish between loyal and traitors!"
Zeng Guofan frowned: "It turns out that lecturers do these things. I originally thought they were responsible for preaching."
Zeng Guohua said: "They were originally supposed to be responsible for preaching, but for some reason, the lecturers of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom mainly talked about "Anti-Jing" and "The Land System of the Celestial Empire", and not much about the "True Covenant". And starting from last year, worshiping God
The church separated from the God Worshiping Society and began to send bishops to Shanghai, Japan, and Southeast Asia."
He paused and then continued: "As for those Chinese people, that's very important! According to King Luo Wu, this Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is not the kingdom of the heavenly king, but the country of the Chinese people!"
"I see, I understand!" Zeng Guofan squinted his triangular eyes, with a sneer on his lips, and whispered, "It seems that King Luo Wu regards the lecturers as his confidants, and wants to rely on these disciples and disciples to form a party
Seize power! I think this National People's Congress will inevitably cause some trouble! Wen Fu, you have to be careful. If something goes wrong, come up with the Thirty-six Strategies!"
Zeng Guohua was stunned and nodded: "Brother, you have to be careful. Now the five kings of Wu in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom have troops in Tianjing, east, west and south. There is also a steam gunboat of King Wu on the Yangtze River. This
If the National People's Congress really breaks down, it might be a firefight!"
Zeng Guofan smiled coldly: "If there is a real conflict, God bless the Qing Dynasty!"
"Dong dong dong, dong dong dong"
Suddenly, a burst of gongs and drums came from the east.
Zeng Guofan wanted to turn his head to look, but Zeng Guohua smiled and said to Zeng Guofan: "Some king must be here! Among the kings of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, only King Wu is the most plain and simple. The others like to show off, and they are everywhere.
A large sedan chair carried by ten people, with gongs, drums and dragon dancing to clear the way, is like a temple fair in the countryside."
Zeng Guofan sneered again, and then became serious again: "But there is still a King Luo Wu in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom!"
"The Eastern King is nine thousand years old!"
"Meet the Eastern King."
Along Beizushi'an Street to Yifengmen Inner Street, the team of Dong Wang Yang Xiuqing came beating gongs and drums. This formerly aloof and 9,000-year-old Eastern King of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is rare and approachable today.
He came all the way knocking and was still being cheered and cheered, but instead of riding in his big sedan carried by thirty-two people, he was riding a tall horse. He was welcomed by Chinese people and common people on both sides of the street.
Come slowly.
I saw Yang Xiuqing riding forward with a fake smile on his face as he greeted the Chinese people who knelt down and knelt down to him. The people stood up and said, "Get up, all of you. You are all citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven and are my brothers and sisters, Yang Xiuqing.
I’m not on duty now, so there’s no need to pay such a big gift!”
He suddenly saw an old man in his fifties, with wrinkles on his face and a slight lame leg, trying to get up from the ground. He quickly got off his horse, strode forward, and helped the man up in front of everyone: "Old man
,What’s your surname? What’s your name? Are you from China?”
Check out the correct version one by one!
"His Royal Highness the King of the East, exempt from noble title, surnamed Wang, Xing Liu, is a Chinese. I am from Zijing Mountain. I was in the army during the Jintian Uprising!"
Yang Xiuqing took the calloused hand of the old Taiping soldier and nodded repeatedly: "Okay, you are the founder of my kingdom of heaven! Today's National People's Congress is held for heroes like you, Old Wang, are you not the representative of the country?"
"No, no, I can't read!" Old Man Wang shook his head, looking flattered.
Yang Xiuqing continued to perform, pulling Old Wang along and saying, "Come on, I'll take you to Capitol Hill to discuss national issues together!"
As he spoke, he did not allow the old man to refuse, so he took Old Man Wang and walked to the Capitol Hill high up in the cheers of the crowd. As he walked, he asked the old man Wang: "Who else is at home?
Is your mother-in-law still here?"
The old man Wang Liuwang smiled bitterly and said: "Your Highness Dong Wang, my family is poor, how can I marry a mother-in-law. I originally had a younger brother in the family who joined the Taiping Army with me, but unfortunately he died in the battle at Coiyidu."
Yang Xiuqing patted the old man on the back kindly: "Don't be sad, you are a Chinese now, you can be assigned a house in Tianjing, and you can receive a fixed amount of money and food. Are you afraid that you won't be able to marry a wife? Don't forget, you are
Meritorious citizen, your status is worthy of
To be passed down to future generations. Oh, your brother died in the war, and his contribution cannot be forgotten. It is up to you to claim it! Today I will propose to the National People's Congress together with you that a monument be built to commemorate the martyrs who died, and a monument should be given to them.
Relative pensions and preferential treatment for heroes and martyrs!”
After receiving such concern from Dong Wang, Old Man Wang couldn't help but burst into tears: "Dong Wang, you still have the veterans who came out of Guangxi like me in your heart!"
Yang Xiuqing smiled and said: "That's right, you are all my colleagues from Guangxi!"
Chapter completed!