Widths of light morning mist floated in the blue sky like a ribbon, and the "ribbon" were tied to the distant gates and tents nearby. In the rising smoke of the cooker like pillars, the stream that was silent and never stopped, and the old cows walking in the sunset were all like candied haws on the slender silver chain of memory, which tasted very fragrant and sweet.

Li Yunzhong, Hu Yihuang and Ling Shiba, four people ascended to the ascension simply used breakfast and prepared the baptism. They prepared incense tables in the yard. The incense tables were used as gods, and two bright lamps and three cups of tea were placed on the gods. Li Yunzhong recited the confession of the three of them, which contained the names of the baptized people. He read them and Hu Yihuang and other baptized people repeated them. Then he burned the confession to symbolize it to God... Then Li Yunzhong asked the converts.

Did he promise to "not worship false gods, not do bad things, but abide by the laws of heaven?" Hu Yihuang and Meng ascended. Ling Shiba knelt down in turn and replied. Li Yunzhong poured a glass of water on each person's head and said in his mouth: "Wash away the sins of the past, and get rid of the old and the new." The converts stood up, drank tea, and cleaned their chests with water to indicate that they were cleansing their hearts. While confessing their sins and praying for forgiveness. After being baptized, Hu Yihuang and the other three received various forms of prayer, which were used for praying in the morning, evening and before meals.

Next, Li Yunzhong told the three of them about the precepts of worshiping God: 1. Worship the supreme God 2. Forbidden worshiping false gods. 3. You are not allowed to speak the name of God at will. 4. In the seventh day, you are worshiping and singing the mercy of the supreme God. 5. Filial piety to parents. 6. Avoid killing. 7. **. 8. Avoid stealing. 9. Avoid lies. 10. Avoid greed. Let them remember it.

Li Yunzhong worked hard all morning and finally baptized the three of them and successfully joined the Church of God.

After that, Li Yunzhong saw that they were happy and seemed to want to do something big immediately. So he suggested, "It's better to be sworn brothers, so as not to be sworn brothers, and how about brothers Li and brothers Hu?" The three of them applauded and suggested using the incense table used for baptism just now to settle the sworn brothers.

At this time, a sound of calling Hu Yihuang came from outside. The four of them went out to greet him. It turned out that Hu Yihuang's friends were: Zhang Weikun, Lin Daji, and Zhang Suimu.

The three of them met Hu Yihuang since childhood and had like-mindedness. When they heard that Hu Yihuang had friends from home, they came for a while and knew that Hu Yihuang had joined the God worship and after listening to Li Yunzhong's introduction to the God worship, they would also participate together. Li Yunzhong baptized the three of them again, and remembered the fact that they wanted to become sworn brothers. He naturally invited the later Zhang Weikun, Lin Daji and Zhang Suimue to participate together.

Li Yunzhong thought: They can't be pulled over by Yang Xiuqing, just tie the few people together by swornship.

Seeing that everyone kneeled in two rows, Li Yunzhong lit a few incense sticks into the incense burner on the press. The seven of them raised their fingers and swore to the sky: Now there are Li Yunzhong... and everyone reported their names in turn. Li Yunzhong continued to say, "A total of seven people became sworn brothers, and they will be blessed and difficult to share in the future. If someone said that the descendant betrayed his brother for glory and wealth, or plotted against his brothers with others, then let him thunder, five horses dismembered his corpse, and his sons and grandchildren were cut off. The ancestors were not at peace for the 18th generation, and they would die without a place to die...." Li Yunzhong said more than a dozen poisonous oaths in one breath, and saw the six people staring at him with wide eyes, as if saying: Do you want to be so poisonous? Li Yunzhong quickly ended and said, "If there is a betrayal brother, it is as Brother Li said." Then he killed the chicken and drank the bloody wine.

Everyone reported their age, and the highest was 42 years old, and became the eldest brother. Hu Yihuang was 32 years old and the second brother. Ling 18 and 27 years old and the third brother. Zhang Suimu was two months younger than Ling 18 and the fourth brother, Zhang Weikun was 26 and the fifth brother, Lin Daji was 26 and the sixth brother, and Li Yunzhong was 22 years old and the seventh brother.

After the swornship, several people greeted each other, chatted and laughed.

Suddenly, Li Yunzhong sighed in a difficult mood.

Sure enough, Hu Yihuang asked, "Why did Brother Eight and Seven sigh? If you have any worries, tell me, and I will share your worries with you."

Li Yunzhong added fire and said, "Oh, I'm going to hide it from my brothers. Now that we worship God, we will grow and grow, there is a fight for power and profit. At the beginning of this year, the government took advantage of our neglect to prevent Feng Yunshan and Lu Liu to capture Feng Yunshan. Master Hong went to Guangdong again. Yang Xiuqing, Xiao Chaogui and others took the opportunity to seize power. Yang Xiuqing used the "Heavenly Father to the Earth" to control the church. When I rescued Mr. Feng, Yang Xiuqing actually violated the crime and openly provoked Feng Yunshan and returned to Guangdong overnight. I couldn't stand it, so I wanted to stop Yang Xiuqing. Unexpectedly, he was crazy and wanted to harm me. Fortunately, I got the news, so I escaped by chance."

Meng Shangsheng muttered, "I have heard of worshiping God for a long time. I always thought it was created by Feng Yunshan. I didn't expect that the leader was Hong Xiuquan. I know Yang Xiuqing, so he knows him. He knows some... well... a crooked way, specializing in asking ghosts for poor families. He has great prestige near Zijing Town. I didn't expect that he is such a person. I will definitely be more careful when I go back."

Hu Yihuang comforted him, "Don't worry, Seventh brother, Yang Xiu settled something. It was his unrighteousness first. Of course, we obeyed the instructions of seventh brother, and we could not do anything to our brothers."

It seems that they are all sensible people, and their future is unlimited. Li Yunzhong and Hu Yihuang looked at the rising eyes full of praise.

Because before Zhang Weikun, Lin Daji, and Zhang Suimou joined the God worship meeting, they were all children of wealthy families. Like Hu Yihuang, they were often extorted by the group training officials on the pretext of donating silver for training and suppressing bandits. They had long been dissatisfied with the status quo. Several people often gathered together to discuss how to resist. Now the three and Hu Yihuang both joined the God worship meeting. In addition, Li Yunzhong became sworn brothers and made a sworn oath. They all accepted Li Yunzhong's rebellious thoughts and expressed their willingness to give all their money to support them.

The seven people spent a few days together at Hu Yihuang's house. During this period, Li Yunzhong's advantages finally fully utilized, constantly fiddling with his experience in later generations, and winning the admiration of Hu Yihuang, Zhang Suimu and others. Later, they became Li Yunzhong's separate speeches. They listened to them and couldn't even keep up with the words, which made several people feel ashamed. Li Yunzhong's reputation in their hearts reached its peak, just like being brainwashed by Li Yunzhong.

Meng Shangsheng couldn't wait to take the 300 taels of silver from Hu Yihuang to Huazhou, and Ling Shiba also brought 500 taels back to Xinyi, Guangdong. Because Hu Yihuang tried his best to keep him, in order to further investigate the characteristics of four wealthy families: Hu Yihuang, Zhang Suimu, Zhang Weikun, and Lin Daji, Li Yunzhong decided to stay in Pingnan County for the time being to preach.

The relationship between the Hakka people in Guangxi, Yao people, Zhuang people and local big and small landlords became increasingly tense, and the double-fats often had armed battles, so there was a tradition of gathering together to practice martial arts during the slack farming period. After witnessing these things, Li Yunzhong planned to encourage the villagers in the whole village to join in worshiping God and resist the oppression of local officials and gentry.

Hu Yihuang brought Li Yunzhong and several brothers to pass by the mountain people to Siwang Town to the south. There was a marriage temple on the west side of Siwang Town. I heard that Li Yunzhong had not married yet, so he insisted on bringing him over to see him.

It is said that the temple is actually just a house made of soil and stone. There is a big tree outside the yard with red ribbons hanging on it. From time to time, a pair of men and women come to make wishes and fulfill their wishes.

After entering the temple, everyone was stunned by the scene inside. The gods worshipped in the temple were actually half naked men and women, snuggling intimately with each other.

Li Yunzhong asked the temple where he sent incense and candles and decorated them to ask about the origin of the temple.

It turned out that it was the early years of Daoguang. Guangxi had a severe drought. There were countless people who starved to death. One of them was a young man and a woman who met unexpectedly under the tree in the courtyard when she died. She died at night. After the villagers discovered it in the morning, they wanted to throw them away their bodies in the wilderness, but they knew that it was raining heavily and thunder and lightning. In addition, the news that the money and food for the court to provide disaster relief came immediately. The people were shocked and frightened. They thought that the gods appeared, so they set up temples for them. Who knew that many lovers came to the temple to make wishes and finally got married. The incense in this temple became more and more prosperous.

After hearing the origin of this temple, Li Yunzhong turned his eyes and remembered Hong Xiuquan. Feng Yunshan was promoting the experience of worshiping God among the people. He quickly pulled several brothers out of the temple gate. Seeing them all looked at him in surprise, Li Yun took this "killing weapon" as his idea: "The main task of worshiping God in Pingnan County is to recruit more believers, and recruiting believers must expand its influence. After all, more people know, the more people will join. Now we destroy this temple in the name of worshiping God. The reputation of worshiping God has spread in this place. Then, we destroy all kinds of temples in Pingnan County, and not only Pingnan County, but the entire Xunzhou Prefecture is worthy of being famous."

"Then we destroy all the temples in Guangxi, so how can we immediately build Guangxi, the temples in the whole country..." Zhang Weikun was interrupted by Zhang Suimue before he finished Bai Yuemeng.

"That's impossible. Since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, the civil society parties have been constantly uprising, including the Tiandihui, Tianlihui, and White Lotushui, which are even more scattered in several provinces. The court has mobilized the national strength to pacify it. Therefore, the government has strictly controlled the civil society parties and marched to wipe out the name of rebellion. However, since Jiaqing, policies have gradually been relaxed, but they can only be spread on a small scale.

Zhang Suimu has extensive knowledge and resourcefulness. He is brave and brave in the three armies. Hu Yihuang is mature and steady, which attracts people's hearts. Zhang Weikun is mediocre and has no ambitions, and Lin Daji is careful and bold. They can all be useful. Li Yun sighed in the center: These people can achieve a career.

"I'm afraid that the people will not only not join the God-worshiping Church, but will instead hate us. After all, we will destroy the temple for no reason." Lin Daji said with concern.

"Haha, my goodness is too worried. Those Hakka people are already poor in life and rarely worship temples. We just need to induce them to call these temples evil temples. This method is likely to be successful." Hu Yihuang agreed very much.

Seeing that everyone had no objection, Li Yunzhong took it for granted, so he ordered, "Second brother, you go and hire some idle men, and the beggars are strong in their power."

"Okay, I'll go now." Hu Yihuang was very familiar with Siwang Town and decided to walk to where the beggar was.

"Fourth brother, fifth brother, sixth brother, you have a heavy task. Use cheating, use rushing, use whatever you want. In short, you have to gather the people in this small temple. By the way, I will also bribe a few people to mix in the crowd to act as internal support. I will act according to my expression." As he spoke, Li Yunzhong pointed at the open space around the small temple with his hand.

"Then we'll go and prepare first," Zhang Suimu, Lin Daji, and Lin Daji answered in unison.

After everyone left, Li Yunzhong looked at the little temple in front of him with confidence, and had a sense of intuition: his career began here.
Chapter completed!