The Qing Dynasty is about to end

Chapter 24: Lord Yang, I knew you had ambitions! (Testing the waters, please read on, don’t keep raising it!)

Yang Xiuqing stroked his sparse beard and muttered to himself, "It's just as I thought. But now there are some disagreements among the Taiping Army about where to look for the little paradise!"

"I know," Luo Yaoguo said with a smile, "some people want to go south to manage Guangdong and Guangxi, some want to go west to Sichuan to become the emperor's uncle, and some want to go all the way north to attack Youyan!"

Yang Xiuqing nodded, then raised his hand and pointed to a row of chairs in the room, and said to Xiao Chaogui, Hong Xuanjiao, and Luo Yaoguo: "Your brother-in-law, sixth sister, and eighth brother, please sit down!"

Seeing that the three people were seated, Yang Xiuqing shouted again "Bring the tea", and immediately four female officials from the East Hall brought up four bowls of hot tea.

Yang Xiuqing picked up the hot tea that was served to him, took a sip to moisten his throat, and then spat the tea leaves on the ground before asking slowly, "Eighth brother, how do you think I can convince everyone to focus on Nanjing?"

When Luo Yaoguo heard Yang Xiuqing's question, he knew that he had "calculated" correctly again! Yang Xiuqing at the moment was not the "Yang God" who was so arrogant and proud after entering Nanjing City and thought that his words were final.

Now Yang Dongwang is just the "fourth brother who takes the lead". Although he has a lot of say, Feng Yunshan and Xiao Chaogui also have a lot of say. Wei Changhui and Shi Dakai are also "sons of God" and have a certain say. Even Hu Yihuang and Qin Rigang have some weight in their words, and they are considered "candidates". Luo Yaoguo, who has the status of "God's adopted son" and angel 4,000 years old, naturally has some say.

In the present Heaven, it is neither King Hong nor King Yang who has the final say, but God's sons, sons-in-law, daughters, and godsons, a family that are not related by blood, who are in charge together.

It's a bit like collective leadership!
Among this "family", except Luo Yaoguo who was "airdropped" and does not have his own team yet, the others have a group of younger brothers supporting them.

However, Luo Yaoguo was not afraid of these "family members" who held heavy military power. After all, with the hype of Hong Xiuquan and Feng Yunshan, his identities as God's adopted son and airborne angel had been confirmed. After all, he was a "chief adviser" sent down from heaven!

"Fourth brother," Luo Yaoguo said with a smile, "Does the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom want a small paradise, or the whole world?"

Yang Xiuqing put down the tea bowl and waved his hand: "I want them all!"

Luo Yaoguo raised his thumb and said, "Fourth brother, you are wise! You are so wise! Managing Little Paradise and conquering the world are two and one!
If our Taiping Heavenly Kingdom cannot conquer the world, the happiness of our little paradise will not last long! Therefore, to concentrate on our little paradise, we must have the determination to conquer the world. Only by making the Qing demons helpless and setting up defenses everywhere can our Taiping Heavenly Kingdom have its own little paradise on earth.

Otherwise, with only one isolated city in hand, the Qing demons can mobilize financial, material and military resources from all over the world to encircle and suppress us. Outside this small paradise is the army of the Qing demons. Is this still a small paradise?
"Brother, you can think so far ahead. I really admire you!"

Is this what I thought? This is what you said!

Yang Xiuqing was a smart man and of course he knew that Luo Yaoguo was teaching him how to do things!

However, Luo Yaoguo was a better person and gave him enough face. His analysis was also very reasonable and in the same general direction as his.

So Yang Xiuqing had no choice but to stroke his beard and pretend to be an expert, and put on the "compliment" handed to him by Luo Yaoguo.

Seeing that Yang Xiuqing didn't say anything, Hong Xuanjiao quickly gave her husband Xiao Chaogui a wink. Xiao Chaogui only seemed honest, but he was actually quite smart in his heart. Of course he knew what the "focus on Nanjing" meant.
Yang Xiuqing was reluctant to divide his troops, so he planned to unite tens of thousands of people to seize Nanjing City and make it his little paradise.

Xiao Chaogui was inspired by Luo Yaoguo to become the "Lord of the Three Towns of Wuhan" - which meant dividing the troops!

And what Luo Yaoguo said just now seemed to be in favor of establishing bases separately, but if the troops are divided too much, wouldn't the main force be too weak?

Thinking of this, Xiao Chaogui frowned and asked Luo Yaoguo: "Eighth brother, we only have tens of thousands of people, of which only 30,000 can fight. With this little force, can we focus on Nanjing while showing the posture of sweeping the world?"

Yang Xiuqing narrowed one eye and glanced at Luo Yaoguo, obviously waiting for his answer.

Luo Yaoguo had come to talk to Yang Xiuqing about this, so he counted on his fingers and said, "Brother-in-law, although we have only 30,000 or 40,000 Taiping troops, there are tens of millions of strong men in the world who cannot survive and have to rise up in rebellion. As far as I know, there are at least a million Tiandihui followers who want to rebel and poor people who cannot survive in Hunan alone. As long as we can mobilize them, we will have as many soldiers as we need."

Yang Xiuqing said "Oh" and still did not comment.

Luo Yaoguo had long known that Yang Xiuqing was always concerned about mobilizing the Tiandihui followers to join the Taiping Army.

This may be because the Tiandihui was a loose organization, with a mixed group of members, many factions within it, and many of its followers were not firm in their anti-Qing stance. When the Taiping Rebellion just rose up, some Tiandihui members who had already joined the Taiping Rebellion defected to the Qing Dynasty.

However, the Hunan Tiandihui is extremely powerful and has been fighting against the Qing demons. Many of its followers have certain military experience. Recruiting them to join the group will definitely help quickly strengthen the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Historically, the Taiping Army suffered heavy casualties in the Battle of Suoyifur, and had to relax the "entry threshold" after conquering Daozhou, attracting a large number of Tiandihui members to join. Later, the Taiping Army grew rapidly in a short period of time, mostly because of the addition of this group of fresh blood.

Seeing that Yang Xiuqing did not immediately reject his proposal, Luo Yaoguo felt that there was hope, so he continued to persuade him: "Although the followers of the Tiandihui are of mixed quality, they can be used. When Fourth Brother was in Jintian Village, he won over many members of the Tiandihui. For example, Su Sanniang, Luo Dagang, Wu Ruxiao, Bian Sanniang and others all came from the Tiandihui. Aren't they all capable generals of our Taiping Heavenly Kingdom now?
In addition to the heroes who joined the Tiandihui in Hunan, there were also many poor people who did not join the Tiandihui. Like the children of the Heavenly Kingdom who came from Zijing Mountain, they were looking forward to someone leading them to rebel, to kill all the man-eating Qing monsters, and to become heroes of the founding of the country!
Back then, didn't my third brother recruit the poor people in Zijing Mountain and the heroes of the Tiandihui to become the pillars of my Heavenly Kingdom by holding a large-scale meeting to worship God? Now why don't my Heavenly Kingdom follow the same method and apply it to Huguang? Hold a large-scale meeting to worship God, and turn the Tiandihui members and poor people in Huguang into capable generals and pillars of the Heavenly Kingdom? "

Yang Xiuqing said "Oh" without commenting, and rolled his one intact eyeball and asked: "Eighth brother, do you mean to hold a large-scale God Worshipping Society in the southern part of Hunan, at the junction of Hunan, Guangdong and Guangxi provinces, to gather disciples of the Tiandihui and poor farmers, and take them to open up a base?"

"Fourth brother is wise!" Luo Yaoguo nodded with a smile and gave a sincere compliment.

Yang Xiuqing laughed, seeming to be very pleased, but then frowned again and said to himself: "But who can be worthy of the great responsibility of leading the God Worshipping Society to open up a base in Hunan?"

He asked a question of his own, and then answered it himself while stroking his beard: "Looking at the entire Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, it seems that only my third brother has such great talent!"

Yang Xiuqing raised his eyes and looked at Luo Yaoguo: "Eighth brother, what do you think?"

You are so good, Eastern King Yang Xiuqing! You are going to use the opportunity of opening up the Hunan base to drive Southern King Feng Yunshan out of the power center of the Heavenly Kingdom!

In the future, Xiao Chaogui will guard Hubei, Feng Yunshan will guard Hunan, and then find an opportunity to drive me out as well. In this way, you, Yang Xiuqing, will be the only one left in the center of Tianjing who will hold power. Then you can force him to be crowned as the emperor, and even usurp the throne. Okay! Let's do this for now!
Thinking of this, Luo Yaoguo smiled and nodded, saying, "Fourth brother is right! It is true that only third brother can take on this important task!"

Yang Xiuqing looked at Xiao Chaogui again.

Xiao Chaogui smiled and said, "That's great. From now on, my third brother and I will guard Hunan and Hubei respectively, while my fourth brother and eighth brother will serve as the king's left and right arms!"

Yang Xiuqing laughed: "Since your brother-in-law also means this, then let's do it!"

He suddenly stretched out his hand and grabbed Luo Yaoguo's wrist, and said to Xiao Chaogui and Hong Xuanjiao: "Brother-in-law, Sixth Sister, you guys go ahead and do your work. I still have something to ask Eighth Brother!"

After hearing what Yang Xiuqing said, Xiao Chaogui and Hong Xuanjiao hurriedly said goodbye and left the room.

Luo Yaoguo didn't understand what Yang Xiuqing wanted to ask, so he just looked at him with a smile.

Yang Xiuqing asked with a smile: "Eighth brother, how do you open the two mooncake boxes you brought from heaven? Do I need to chant some kind of spell?"

What do you mean?
Luo Yaoguo thought: Could it be that this Lord Yang is greedy and wants to eat the mooncakes of Lin Heung House? No, you must have ambitions!
(End of this chapter)