When Zhao Kuo was in the Taiping Army for a year, he had already become General Xixian from a wise man who defected to Zhao Kuo. Zhao Kuo also became Mr. Xixian, a nickname of Ziwei. The latter group was "given" by Hong Xiuquan, who had the highest cultural level (the defeated scholar, Fan Jin's enhanced version).

There are many reasons why he climbed very fast.

Zhao Kuo, who devoted himself to the Taiping Army, was more than 100 years ahead of his ancestors, but his advantages were not only that.

When the Taiping Army first revolted, the main people in the army were poor peasants and members of the urban gang, and they were not as effective as Confucians in the elite class at that time. Therefore, compared with Zhao Kuo's "bout writing and ink" and his ability to write foreign languages, this group of people at the bottom of the society was a world of difference. If you recite the Bible and the Heavenly King's Edict and recruit believers to join the army, you have to know literacy, right?

Secondly, just to eat some "food that people eat", Zhao Kuo took the risk of using mobile phone screensaver and ringtone as evidence to fool several princes. If he succeeded, he would naturally be much taller than the soldiers who started from the bottom.

Moreover, as a modern person, Zhao Kuo is well-nourished and healthy. As a gangster, he has a basic military quality and a very good psychological quality. He could murder his opponent without blinking in his previous life. Therefore, he showed bravery during combat and was quickly reused and promoted.

Another key point is that he has the right mentality: this person definitely does not want to change any history, but just wants to live in this troubled times, hoping to have the opportunity to go back, and usually he bravely kills the enemy, prays devoutly, be a man with his tail between his words, work more and speaks less. He absolutely dares to make any accusations or disrespect to the old farmers who pretend to be a ghost. If Zhao Kuo feels that if he dares to give guidance to military development, religious beliefs, and speaks inspiring words, and has something to say, let alone Yang Xiuqing, who doesn't believe in God at all, Hong Xiuquan, who specializes in writing limericks, hugging girls in the back hall, will also kill him! Using this action of keeping a low profile, Zhao Kuo quickly gained the trust of the initial leadership circle of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Because Zhao Kuo made Jiang Zhongyuan famous for his own safety, he ruined the Qianyidu, which made Jiang Zhongyuan famous in the battle. When the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom first emerged, this was a failure that caused the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to suffer heavy losses. Zhao Kuo reminded that although this battle was still not won, the loss was only a little bit of the avant-garde army. This brazenly changed history and led to the Taiping Army stationed in Chenzhou, plus the people who came to seek refuge from all directions, including the men's and women's camps, which reached 70,000, which was too much more than 30,000 to 50,000 in history.

Today, Zhao Kuo is in a "church" in Chenzhou. This was a generous Confucius Temple. It was smashed by the Taiping Army and converted into a temporary church for new brothers and sisters to baptize.

As the "sage who flattered Jesus' brother", Zhao Kuo was specially ordered to come here to baptize hundreds of newly joined people and let them join the God worship society.

This baptism was also changed beyond recognition by Hong Xiuquan and others. The ritual of worshipping God was initially followed by the traditional Chinese way of worshipping God. Because they did not worship idols, they wrote the tablets of God on paper, and even used incense, candles, paper and silk to worship God. Later, there was a change. During the service, men and women sat together, first sang a poem praising God, and then the host preached the mercy of God and the great redemption of Jesus, and advised people to repent of sins, not worship idols, and truly worship God.

The baptism ceremony is: two bright lamps and three cups of tea on the divine platform, and a confession letter was written to ask for the name of the baptist. When performing the ceremony, everyone recited it and burned it on the fire to make God's divine video. And asked: "Will you not want to worship the evil gods? Are you not willing to do evil things? Are you willing to abide by the laws of heaven?" After everyone repents and makes a vow, they kneel down, and the host takes a cup of water from a large basin of clear water and poured it on the head of the baptized person. At the same time, he chants: "Wash away the sins of the past and get rid of the old and the new." When there is a festive date, such as marriage or funeral, animals are sacrificed as sacrifices, and then ate with the sacrificers.

The baptized people came in one by one, kowtowed and prayed for loyalty in turn, handed over the letter of confession (confession). Then Zhao Kuo took some clean water from the basin and handed it to their heads. After every ten people, firecrackers were set off outside. After Zhao Kuo "baptized" dozens of people, a pungent smell of gunpowder floated inside and out.

"How is this so similar to our gangsters?" Zhao Kuo coughed a few times, feeling helpless and depressed.

However, although he knew that worshiping God would be a nonsense cult, he did not dare to underestimate the new people who joined, because these people were either desperate to seek wealth or believe in the missionary and sincerely donated all their property to the public treasury of worshiping Gods. You must know that when the whole family enlisted in the army left, even their own houses would be burned.

It is conceivable that if a person devotes everything to a thing, he will become so loyal. At this time, you cannot help but believe it because you have already made everything cost. This is human psychology.

Just like if a gambler loses all his savings, he usually gambles the house. Isn’t this stupid? He can still have a house when he stops in time, but the gambler cannot take it because he has already invested too much!

As a big man, after baptizing some people, Zhao Kuo smiled and nodded and left the church. In the afternoon, he was going to attend a senior meeting.

Discuss the issue of advancement.

While listening respectfully to Hong Xiuquan and several princes below, Zhao Kuo suppressed his urge to curl his lips to express his contempt.

It's been a year of fucking uprising, and it's almost 100,000 people under his command. This cult doesn't even have a strategy at all!

It turned out to be like a group of bandits, wherever they fight.

Now, because Chenzhou's geographical location is extremely subtle, this discussion has caused.

Chenzhou is located on the border of Hunan, Guangdong and Jiangxi provinces, and is an important town in the southeast of Hunan. "The beauty of Hengyue in the north and the junction of the five ridges in the south, controls the connection, broadens, blocks the lake, Hunan, north of the five ridges, within thousands of mountains, is the upper reaches of Hunan and Chu. It is the gateway of Shaolian."

The land is also fertile, and the city is gathered, which is the key entrance to Guangdong and Hunan. The water can easily approach Changsha, and the land can reach Changsha, the capital of Hunan.

In addition, this area is an important center of the activities of the Xiangnan Tiandihui Association. Liu Daiwei and Hong Daquan's remaining troops have been insisting on fighting. When the Taiping Army arrived here, there were believers and guides from the Tiandihui Association everywhere. The Taiping Army seemed to have eyes and crutches, and was able to take advantage of the opportunity to march to Dieke Prefecture and County.

So Chenzhou is like a post station at a crossroads. The Taiping Army occupied this place and its strength has increased greatly, but another question that followed is in which direction to go?

You can enter Changsha in the north, attack Jiangxi in the east, and you can also go south to Guangdong with the momentum.

In fact, it is also a good idea to go east to Jiangxi, because Jiangxi has no soldiers at all and is completely empty.

But at this meeting where all the senior officials from Xiao Chaogui who went to fight Changsha were all present, no one wanted to fight Jiangxi. The focus of the debate was to attack Changsha or go south to Guangdong.

The one who wanted to take over Guangdong was Yang Xiuqing. Zhao Kuo thought that his intention was not only smiled, but mainly because Yang Xiuqing was from Guangdong. Who wouldn't want to take over his hometown and return home in glory? Moreover, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom started in Guangdong and Guangxi. These two areas were the large bases of the Tiandihui, and they have been active in these areas for two or three hundred years! The Tiandihui, which was anti-Qing and restoring Ming, was of course enthusiastic advancement of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but if they went north, they did not have such a good mass base.

But Hong Xiuquan wanted to go north, and the reason was even simpler: he was the son of God and was destined to unify China and become the emperor. How would the mud-legged buns think that he would become the emperor? Of course, he would go to Beijing to sit on the dragon throne!

There is no Beijing, no palace, and no dragon throne in Guangdong, and Hong Xiuquan is going to find the dragon throne, so of course he will continue to go north.

Yang Xiuqing was not determined to go south to Guangdong. Zhao Kuojue meant that either of them could be chosen. This is easy to understand. Going south to Guangdong is just a king, and going north to become the emperor.

Guangdong is known as the private wallet of the Qing emperor, so tariffs are profitable.

(From 1760 to 1834, the Guangzhou system followed by China's trade with Europe was essentially hierarchical obedience: first, foreign businessmen obeyed Chinese monopolists with licenses, which were collectively called "public business"; secondly, public business members obeyed the Guangzhou customs supervision appointed by the Qing court. In terms of politics and law, power was exercised downward at this level. The Guangzhou officials of the Qing Empire not only supervised customs, but also the governor of Guangdong Province and the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi issued orders to the members of the public business, and those who disobeyed could be imprisoned or punished; they usually did not have any direct contact with the Supervision Committee of the East India Company in the UK, but would rather convey orders to the committee through the merchants.

However, in terms of economy, the distribution of power is relatively even, because the orthodox Confucian theory on which the Guangzhou trade system is based is contrary to the actual interests of all parties involved in the system. China has traditionally sought stability in foreign relations, allowing foreigners who only pay tribute or foreign merchants who were restricted to the distribution center of goods in the border - such as the Russians in Chikto (Zheshang City) and Europeans in Guangzhou after 1760 - to conduct limited trade. The Guangzhou system was born as a reflection of this measure. According to the public statement of the Qing Dynasty's policies, commercial interests obey the political interests of the country.

But in private, even the Emperors of the Qing Dynasty regarded Guangzhou trade as an important source of personal interests. Customs supervision was mistakenly considered by foreigners as representatives of the Ministry of Revenue. In fact, he was authorized by the Ministry of Internal Affairs to import the cash bank with annual customs tax of up to 855,000 taels of goods in Guangzhou to the ruler's private pockets.)

Therefore, Guangdong's defense force is relatively strong. Compared with the empty Jiangxi and Hunan, the land admiral of the Qing Dynasty, Kunshou, 3,000 soldiers were stationed in Lianzhou. Xu Guangjin also ordered the 3,000 soldiers guarding the border between the Qing Dynasty and Annan to be mobilized to the border of Shaoguan and blocked the road south.

The Qing court in Guangdong was prepared, but Zhao Kuojue's reason for not going south. The Qing soldiers had extremely low combat effectiveness and their morale was 0 when they saw all the collectives except the common people. Why not let more than 5 people gather if they were not in the Qing Dynasty?

And there were so many soldiers. Several Guangdong and Qing ministers ordered Xianfeng to enter Hunan, Guangxi to assist in the suppression of bandits. They were rolling to death. They were either saying that they had no money and shouted for money. They were tired and were not allowed to use various excuses. Anyway, I was just guarding me in Guangdong. As for what happened to Hunan: "For the sake of the Qing Dynasty, I would like to invite the soldiers to death," and pretended not to be able to see them.

In a word: You can’t blame the court for your unlucky luck, don’t hold your brothers!!!!!!!

Moreover, because there was no Fengyidu, the main force of the Taiping Army suffered no losses, had strong combat effectiveness and large personnel, and there were no excuses to worry about Guangdong soldiers in terms of number, morale, and logistics. The Qing army in Guangxi and Hunan were not less powerful than Guangdong now.

More importantly, Zhao Kuo knew a historical fact: the Guangdong Tiandihui Uprising in 1854 was two years later.

This uprising occupied almost the entire entire territory of Guangdong. Guangzhou was not defeated, but it was surrounded and beaten to death. Ye Mingchen barely defended it by relying on British and French warships to cover gunpowder with rice and sent it into the city.

Guangdong was the earliest area to trade with the great powers. The people were enlightened and the people were strong. Secret associations such as the Tiandihui were blooming everywhere. Moreover, 80.6% of the military expenditure and huge indemnities in the Opium War were plundered from the people of Guangdong. The Qing Dynasty was extremely cruel. The authorities made a clever name and the plunder of the people caused a large number of civilians to lose their fortunes, flee their families, and become homeless people. The people also hoped to be liberated. The whole of Guangdong had long been a huge pot of boiling water, so it was not surprising that Sun Yat-sen came out of Guangdong later!

Zhao Kuo planned: If the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom could go south, it would be very likely to provoke the explosion of the boiling water pot in advance. That might lead to the capture of Guangdong and be related to the great powers. Although we worship God's religion, we are also believers in God, right? And our leader is still Jesus' brother! You foreigners must give you face.

"I'm going to run away!" In fact, all the things Zhao Kuo considered above were for one thing: in order to escape from this continent and immigrate to America or Europe, it was too easy to immigrate these days. It was different from the era when he came. In this era, you have to beg you to immigrate to Europe and the United States. You may not agree. It's not that you can't survive. Who can run so far for the Chinese who are prevalent in rural culture and ancestral culture?

"Whether the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is unified or the successful suppression of bandits in Manchu, it is up to me! As long as I live a good life, you can fight for other people's affairs by yourself!" Zhao Kuo murmured in his heart.

Seeing the debate come to an end, Hong Xiuquan, who was wearing a new dragon robe, glanced at the generals below and said, "Dear brothers, what else do you have to say?"

Zhao Kuo glanced at his colleagues around him. This time the matter involved his own big interests, so he could no longer pretend to be mute. He gritted his teeth, clasped his fists and bowed, saying, "Report to the Heavenly King, the young general believes that the Guangdong Qing soldiers are just a false appearance, and it is difficult to be the Heavenly King's soldiers. Moreover, there are many benefits to winning Guangdong..."

"There are so many benefits? Oh, Ziwei, tell me?" Yang Xiuqing, who was thin, was very interested in seeing someone calling him back to his hometown.

"Yes. Listen to the young general's report." He pinched his throat disgustedly as if he was performing an opera. Zhao Kuo expressed his opinions: "First, Guangdong is prosperous, and it is one of the treasures of the Emperor of Qing. After taking Guangdong, I am strong and Qing demons weak; second, Guangdong is full of brothers such as the Heaven and Earth Association, and I will definitely respond to the orders, and various cities will report the orders. Third, Guangdong has always been in trade with foreigners. Both of them believe in God, so I can buy Cialis Western firearms. Wouldn't it be more convenient to kill Qing demons?"

"Brothers?" Yang Xiuqing asked strangely.

"Is it a reason for foreign brothers?" Hong Xiuquan was puzzled. He said: "The Father of Heaven gave me the world. It is good for foreign brothers to believe in God. If they can appreciate the majesty of my heaven and bring soldiers to help, of course it is good, but it depends on our heavenly brothers to destroy the Qing demons."

In a word: Foreigners are nothing!

When Zhao Kuo heard what Hong Xiuquan said, he was impressed by the majesty of the Kingdom of Heaven, his heart skipped a beat. The most unlucky scene he was most worried about happened. Hong Xiuquan was a rustic bun, he knew nothing, he never missed the West.

He has always regarded himself as an emperor, and his level of ignorance is simply a point-to-face with the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty.

During the First Opium War, the Qing Emperor and Lin Zexu and other "famous ministers" agreed to the following two facts: First, foreigners could not defecate without eating Chinese tea; second, foreigners would not bend their legs in the land, so even if the naval battle is more powerful, the land battle will definitely be killed by the "heroic" Eight Banners and the Green Camp after landing.

After Hong Xiuquan established his capital in Nanjing, the British, American and French ministers came to observe. After all, he heard that these people were Christian brothers. Hong Xiuquan made others wait for a long time, and then sent a small official to issue an edict in the tone of the charity of the Supreme Kingdom of the Heavenly Kingdom. It seemed that the Qing Dynasty's attitude towards Ryukyu and also said that they were allowed to swear allegiance to the son of God who was the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The French minister, who was a real-minded French minister, was puzzled. What are you doing? The British minister was very nervous and said that I only loyal to my family Queen Elizabeth in the secular world and would not be loyal to you anymore.

From Hong Xiuquan's jade seal, it can be seen that the character "四" in him is not "四", but a new character he created himself, but a "四" plus "四", without that "四," which is the symbol of his claim that he is the king of the world.

"Grandbug! I'll fuck you!" Zhao Kuo wanted to jump up and kick Hong Xiuquan in the face. He suddenly felt like he was dying, thinking to himself if I wanted to go to Nanjing with you, then escape from previous massacres, and then safely surrender to the Qing Dynasty? There are so many wars along the way, who can guarantee that he will live until he exchanges the blood of idiots for his top wear?

At this time, Yang Xiuqing spoke: "It's good to attack Guangdong."

"You are wise, King Dong! You are worthy of being a famous revolutionary strategist and military strategist in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom!" Zhao Kuo uncontrollably destroyed the strict hierarchical etiquette of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. He looked up slightly and peeked at the Dongwang with his tears.

"Tell me?" Hong Xiuquan asked curiously.

"The King of the West has gone to attack Changsha, but he has always been competitive and has only brought 3,000 people. I am afraid that it will not go smoothly." Yang Xiuqing said: "Now we occupy Chenzhou and attack Changsha in the north. The Qing Yao court is shocked and will definitely dispatch troops to encircle the Heavenly Kingdom. If we divide our troops to attack Guangdong, if we successfully take Guangdong directly; and even if the Qing Yao is prepared, we will fail to retreat in the southern expedition, and the Qing Yao will definitely find it difficult to distinguish the intention of our heavenly soldiers. We will definitely lose control and be at a loss in our position."

"You mean to advance north and go south in parallel? Is there enough troops?" Hong Xiuquan asked.

"Now the troops are sufficient, and General Xixian just said that the people of Guangdong are waiting for children to come to us, and the source of troops is not a problem," Yang Xiuqing explained.

The meeting was discussed for a long time, but it had no result and had to part.

"Xiao Chaogui is afraid he will be finished." This is another hint that Zhao Kuo got from this meeting. After discussing the direction of the meeting, Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing actually talked about how to fight Changsha again.

That means that Xiao Chaogui's raid may not be successful to a large extent. This incident was strange. Xiao Chaogui, who had disappeared in front of everyone for a long time due to injury, was suddenly sent to the expedition. When he went to the expedition, Xiao Chaogui was sitting in a closed luxury sedan chair, and no one was told to see him off. This time the soldiers were old subordinates of the Western King, commanders, and the people carrying the sedan chairs were all subordinates of the Eastern King.

When war was in full swing or when sneaking into Changsha City, it was easy for a killer to enter the sedan chair and shoot the unknown guy inside in the chest.

It seems that this guy may not come back this time.

However, the Taiping Army's entire refrigeration of Xiao Chaogui was not greatly affected. On the contrary, generals such as Wei Changhui and Shi Dakai were somewhat happy about the disappearance of this person.

Because this kid is so annoying. Zhao Kuo also disgusted with that guy.

Theoretically speaking, God Yang Xiuqing possessed the great dance god, and he Xiao Chaogui also possessed Jesus and danced with him, half a pound and eight taels, but when Yang Xiuqing danced, at least it was a serious or big thing. For example, when the spy he placed in the team discovered that the Qing Dynasty spies were either traitors who wanted to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, or when the war failed and his morale was low, he jumped out and pointed out the spies or boosted morale, and everyone followed him happily to do serious business.

When Xiao Chaogui was possessed, he was still a farmer. He either asked for increased treatment or the great Jesus asked the king to come forward to threaten Lao Xiao and his elder brother (his elder brother did not bird Jesus, but he often regarded Lao Xiao as Xiao Xiao and beat him around). What a fucking trivial matter, do you want to ask Jesus to tell you about it?

You should know that when they were playing the great god, the generals below, including Hong Xiuquan, were uncomfortable. Everyone had to kneel honestly, and the nervousness on their foreheads was full of cold sweat. After all, these two people said that whoever was in trouble would be finished. It was a divine metaphor, and there was no need for any evidence and could not be argued. But we are waiting for a lot of serious matters. It would be fine to hear Yang Xiuqing's "God" talking about serious matters, but how could you feel if you think Xiao Chaogui's "Jesus" is just your housework? Otherwise, after kneeling for a long time, he would hear Lao Xiao complain that his sedan chair was not luxurious enough, unable to catch up with the king of heaven, or the maid was a little ugly, and he wanted to change to the girl from the female camp to serve him...

"Fuck you uncle!" Every time Xiao Chaogui started to turn his eyes and started balabala, Zhao Kuo, who was kneeling on the ground, said this, and he was quite sure that none of his other colleagues were cursing this stupid person in his stomach.

As this peasant-tongued Jesus disappeared, Xiao Chaogui's closest confidant disappeared, and the secondary confidant was incorporated into the hands of other kings. Secondly, those with some little relationship with the Western King, such as Zhao Kuo, who baptized him and introduced him to the door. It felt a bit unpopular during this period.

"Why didn't I wait until I saw Yang Xiuqing and then show my loyalty? It was me who was sponsored by Xiao Chaogui!" Zhao Kuo was riding a horse on the street full of Taiping soldiers in Chenzhou, feeling confused: "Family determines your camp! The underworld and the officialdom are all in this way, and these scammers who worship God's religion also play this way! This political unspoken rule has not changed for a hundred years! It's so fucking unlucky!"

Listening to Xiao Ding Zi in front of him, "Do away, make way for the general!"

Zhao Kuo sighed: "Where is my way? I really don't want to hang out with this group of peasant revolutionaries who play politics and dance gods anymore. Maybe one day they will be killed. If you have the opportunity, you will attack Guangdong, establish contact with foreigners, and escape from the Far East. No matter how bad I can take a gamble, surrender to the Qing Dynasty and become an executioner to suppress the Taiping Army! Anyway, the Qing Dynasty's lifespan is more than ten or twenty years longer than the cult of this physical god."

Just then, someone shouted: "General Xixian, you are here!"

Zhao Kuo looked up and saw that it was a military commander named Zhong Han under his command. At this moment, he was jumping out of the shadow of a teahouse and hurried towards him, as if he had been waiting for him.

"What's up?"

"Please be sentenced!"

"Oh, this matter is too long, I forgot to lead the way." Zhao Kuo nodded. Yesterday, four people who violated military discipline appeared among the 2,000 people he led, and were caught and beheaded according to military laws. He was also required to sign and imprison.

Looking at the front row of the barber stalls on the street full of new soldiers and families who were about to shave their braids, and everyone on the street was happy, after all, the military discipline of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has always been very good and has almost no harassment of civilians, Zhao Kuo sneered and said to several subordinates around him: "Listen, the king of heaven keeps winning, and they all come to join the army to kill Qing Yao and enter Beijing. The thousands of people who surrender to us every day are inevitably of different quality. This section must be serious about military discipline. This is the imperial edict of the Eastern King. You all give me some tips! It doesn't matter how many bastards who treat God's precepts as wind in their ears!"

"Yes, my subordinates obey the order!"
Chapter completed!