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Chapter 263 The Prophet of Mass Destruction! (Please subscribe and vote)

"The Book of the Prophets. Thirty-six books? Prophecies from 1853 to 1888? This, this, this."

After hearing what Wade said, Wenxian's face was full of shock and suspicion, his eyeballs almost bulged out, his mouth was wide open, and he couldn't utter a word for a long time.

Predicting major events in the next thirty years or so. This is the divine power or magic that is enough to change history and the rise and fall and survival of one or even several world empires!

Imagine if Emperor Napoleon could have foreseen the disastrous defeat he would suffer in Russia, and anticipated that his invincible French army would be defeated in Spain, his empire would have probably survived until today. The British Empire would have always faced a nearly unified Western and Central Europe, although Britain could have organized anti-French alliances and fought against Napoleon time and time again. But if Napoleon could have foreseen the future, even the invincible British Royal Navy would probably not have been able to guarantee victory, right?

Although the British Empire is prosperous today, it is far from being able to sit back and relax!

Western and Central Europe are full of crises and ghosts. Across the Atlantic, a giant country is quietly rising. Although the Russian Empire in the East is strong on the outside but weak on the inside, its vast territory and large population should not be underestimated. Even India, which was ruled by the British Empire, has not been stable in recent years.
However, the British Empire's homeland is small and sparsely populated, with limited room for growth. It is unable to crush all potential enemies and threats. If it could predict in advance who the biggest threat is and suppress it with all its strength, the empire's hegemony could be maintained for as long as possible.

But who is the biggest threat to the British Empire? And who should the British Empire target with all its might?

If the British Empire could predict the future, wouldn't the glory of the empire last forever?

Of course, if this terrifying power to predict the future is mastered by the enemies or even friends of the British Empire, the consequences will be very serious!

If the Tsar, Napoleon III, and the rednecks in North America had mastered the power of the Book of the Prophet, the Russian Empire, the French Empire, and the United States of America would surely have risen rapidly.
Therefore, if the British Empire cannot completely grasp the power of the Book of Prophets, it would be better to destroy it completely!
And when it is impossible to destroy it, the British Empire can only cooperate with the "devil" reluctantly. When the "devil" becomes a "devil of mass destruction", the British Empire can only regard it as a "good devil" that maintains world peace.

Of course, whether to control, destroy or cooperate is not something that he, a small British ambassador to China, can decide.

His task was only to find out the details of the "Book of Prophets" and then find out the price offered by Hong Xiuquan and Luo Yaoguo.

Thinking of this, Wenxian quickly asked Wade to ask Lord Wang to take them to read the thirty-six books of the Prophets.

The library where the Book of Prophets was stored was a heavily guarded hall. Wooden bars as thick as a child's arm were installed outside the windows. There were four armed guards at the door. Inside the hall were thirty-five coffee tables covered with wooden cages and one uncovered coffee table.

There was a copy of the Book of the Prophets on each coffee table, from the first to the thirty-sixth volume.

The first volume has no cover, while the remaining thirty-five volumes are covered with wood and cannot be flipped through at will.

"Mr. Wang, can we take a look?" Wade asked Wang Yan.

Wang Yan pointed to the coffee table without a cover and said, "Please."

Wade immediately walked to the coffee table, picked up the first volume of "The Book of Prophets" and began to read it. The content was similar to the first volume of "The Great Book of Prophecies", but it was not expressed in the form of doggerel, but a series of records with concise language and clear meaning.

After finishing the first volume of the Prophets, Wade wanted to read the second volume, but Wang Yan shook his head and said, "Mr. Wade, those cannot be shown to you and Minister Wen now. You and Minister Wen just need to know that they exist."

In fact, among the thirty-six books of the Prophets, only the first one has content, and the remaining thirty-five are "wordless books" just for show to Bonham and Wade.

The purpose was to clearly tell Bonham and Wade that the angel Luo Yaoguo could not only predict major events in 1853, but also major events in the next thirty years or so.

This is a force that is powerful enough to subvert the British Empire's world hegemony, and it is also a tool that is powerful enough to help the British Empire prolong its world hegemony.

If the rulers of the British Empire realized the true power of the Book of the Prophets, then Luo Yaoguo would have bargaining chips with them. Aren't "weapons of mass destruction" used for deterrence and transactions?
Moreover, compared to destroying the British Empire, Luo Yaoguo prefers to maintain the British Empire. After all, the British Empire is inherently deficient, so its world hegemony can only be established on the basis of compromise with regional powers. And today's China is too backward, and there is no possibility of replacing it. Therefore, compromising with Britain to "realize" the power of the "Book of Prophets" is the best choice for Luo Yaoguo, the prophet.

"Mr. Wei," Wang Yan picked up the first volume of the Book of Prophets and handed it to Wade, "I'll give this book to you. If most of what's written in it comes true, we can discuss the other thirty or so books of the Book of Prophets. This is also what His Majesty the Holy Angel King Wu meant!"

Wade translated Wang Yan's words into English and passed them on to Wenxian.

Wen Xian frowned, part of the content in this "Book of Prophets" has been fulfilled! If the content of the entire book is fulfilled, then the remaining thirty-five "Books of Prophets" will be fulfilled.
After understanding what the other party meant, Wen Xian said to Wade, "Tell Mr. Wang that I want to meet the Holy Angel, His Royal Highness, King Wu!"

Wade immediately translated this passage into Chinese.

Wang Yan smiled and said, "His Royal Highness the Holy Angel King Wu was sent by Heavenly Father to help Heavenly King fight the demons. If Lord Wen wants to see him, he should see Heavenly King first!"

Wade understood what Wang Yan meant. If he wanted to see Luo Yaoguo, he had to see the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan first, and to see Hong Xiuquan he had to kowtow. When Macartney met Emperor Qianlong, he only knelt on one knee. Later, during the Jiaqing period, Amherst also came, but because he refused to kowtow, he went to the Old Summer Palace, but in the end he did not meet Jiaqing.

If Wenxian kowtowed to Hong Xiuquan, and the news got back to Britain, Wenxian's career as an ambassador would probably be over.

"Mr. Ambassador, the king means that you should see the king first," said Wade. "If you want to see the king, I'm afraid you have to kowtow!"

"Thomas," Bonham suddenly said to Wade in a rare friendly tone, "I am the plenipotentiary minister representing the Queen. I cannot kneel before the Heavenly King of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. But you are not the plenipotentiary minister. You are only a vice consul and cannot represent Her Majesty the Queen."

When Wade heard this, he understood that he was asked to kowtow to Hong Xiuquan!

He was about to refuse when Wenxian continued, "Thomas, since the thirty-six books of the Prophets are of great significance, we must have first-hand information. If you can meet the highest level of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom face to face, I think you should be able to accompany Sushun, Li Hongzhang and others to Europe.

When we arrive in England, I believe Lord Palmerston will be very satisfied with your work. After all, you brought a high-level delegation representing the Qing Dynasty to England, and also obtained important information about the 'devil' and the book of prophecy.

If you can make such a great contribution to the empire, what does it matter if you kowtow a few times?"

It seems to make sense!

Wade nodded slightly. He was an ambitious patriot, a top student at Cambridge University, and a self-taught China expert. Being a deputy consul in Shanghai really could not reflect his value. He had to improve himself!

After Wade agreed to kowtow, the time for his meeting with the second, fourth, fifth, and seventh sons of God's family was quickly set - meeting four sons of God at once, it was truly a blessing for Wade to have earned in several lifetimes!

There are so many people in the West who read the Bible, but they have never seen God’s Son, let alone God’s grandson!

However, Wade, who followed Chen Chengrong in the Heavenly King's Palace, did not feel that he was very blessed. As an expert on China, he knew too well how arrogant the rulers of this country could be. Now he could only hope that the Heavenly King of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom would be more clear-headed, face the reality, and know the power of the British Empire.

But then again, what is this Book of the Prophets all about?

What about the Holy Angel or the Bull Demon King?

Could it be that the person he is going to meet today is the true son of God?

(End of this chapter)