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Chapter 301 It’s broken, foreigners started to believe in the God Worshipping Society! (Please subscribe, please vote)
"Work together?"

Yang Xiuqing narrowed one eye and looked at the French envoy Bourboulon: "Minister Bourboulon, does your French emperor welcome my prophet ninth brother to go to Rome to serve as a patriarch?"

As soon as Zhao Fangji translated this, Bourboulon nodded immediately: "Of course, if it can be proved that he is a prophet, the French emperor will definitely support him to become the Patriarch of Rome!"

The Pope is nothing more than a tool for the French Emperor!

If a true prophet became the Pope of Rome, wouldn't it be like the French emperor had a prophet who could predict the future? Wouldn't Napoleon III be invincible?

So without asking for instructions, Bulbrunn knew that his Emperor would do everything he could to get the prophet.

When Yang Xiuqing saw Bulbulon nod, he could no longer hide the smile on his face and said with a smile: "In that case, of course I support him to go to Rome to be the Patriarch. By the way, how do you want to prove that he is a prophet? Can the second volume of the Book of Prophets prove it? As long as 10,000 foreign guns are shipped to Guazhou Port, I can give you the second volume of the Book of Prophets."

Zhao Fangji added: "Your Highness, in addition to the Book of Prophets, the heretics of the Roman Catholic Church and the French government will also send commissioners to Shanghai to conduct a secret investigation. I hope you can provide convenience."

He did not tell Yang Xiuqing that the investigators sent by the heretics of the Roman Catholic Church and the French government were here to investigate whether Luo Yaoguo was a devil. If the contents of the second volume of "The Book of Prophets" are still accurate, then he is either a devil or a prophet!
After confirming that Luo Yaoguo was a prophet, the plan to "invite" Prophet Luo to become the Pope of Rome could begin.

"Okay, okay!" Yang Xiuqing nodded heavily and took the responsibility, "I'll take care of it!"

Shanghai County, Yangshupu Wharf.

With the sound of "Hey Yo, Hey Yo", a sedan chair with three bedrooms and one living room was carefully lifted to the shore from a huge dragon-headed wooden boat by dozens of bearers.

Wang Kuiyi, Wang Dalong, and Xu Yuegui on the shore all had gloomy faces, and watched with embarrassment as the iconic sedan chair carried by 64 people slowly moved from the ship to the shore. Behind this dragon-headed ship were ten large sand ships, all filled with female Taiping Army soldiers wearing yellow clothes and red scarves, carrying foreign rifles.

Didn’t this King Hong say that he wanted to go on a “secret visit”?

Isn’t this a bit too grand?
Shanghai was still under the Qing dynasty, and how could Luo Xueyan step down when he came so brazenly? Besides, Prince Gong Yixin was still in Shanghai, living next door to Yang Xiuqing!
How can this be concealed?
Will the three of them fight each other in Shanghai?

Just when Wang Kuiyi, Wang Dalong and Xu Yuegui were at a loss, Bian Sanniang, the female camp commander and imperial guard beside Hong Xiuquan, had already stepped down from the dragon boat with her hand on the hilt of her sword. She was holding a scroll in her hand and glanced at Wang Kuiyi, Wang Dalong and Xu Yuegui: "Where is His Royal Highness the King of Wu?"

Xu Yuegui bowed and said, "Reporting to Guard Bian, His Royal Highness the King of Wu is leading his troops to attack Huzhou and Jiaxing. I have sent someone to invite him, and he should return to Shanghai soon. I just didn't expect the King of Heaven to come so soon!"

As she spoke, she glanced at the large sedan chair carried by sixty-four people that had been laid flat on the shore and asked, "Should we kowtow to the Heavenly King now?"

Bian Sanniang smiled and said, "The Heavenly King is not in the sedan chair now!"

Xu Yuegui raised her hand and pointed at the sedan chair and asked, "Isn't he here? Who is on the sedan chair?"

Bian Sanniang said: "It is the tablet of Heavenly Father Haotian Emperor God!"

"The tablet of Heavenly Father Haotian Emperor God?" Xu Yuegui was stunned. "This is..."

Bian Sanniang raised her eyebrows: "Now that Luo Xueyan has also worshipped God, shouldn't there be a tablet of the Heavenly Father Haotian Emperor on Shanghai Beach?"

As she spoke, she raised the scroll in her hand and said, "This is the true decree of the Heavenly King, which is to build a temple to worship God in Shanghai, so that brothers and sisters from China and abroad can come together to worship God!
The King of Heaven originally wanted the King of Wu to make the arrangements. Now that the King of Wu is not here, you should arrange a place with good feng shui to place the tablet of the Heavenly Father, Hao Tian Huang Shen. Speaking of which, it was you, the King of Wu, who set up this tablet!"

After hearing what Bian Sanniang said, Xu Yuegui also thought that this was the case.

However, she couldn't make up her mind on her own, so she had to look back at Wang Kuiyi and Wang Dalong.

Wang Kuiyi said, "Sister Yuegui, the North Gate Office of Jianghai Customs has just been renovated and is still empty. The place has good feng shui and a good location, right between the county town and the new district."

Wang Dalong also said, "Sister Yuegui, I will immediately order people to put the Bund Avenue on alert so that the tablet of Heavenly Father Haotian Emperor God can pass through."

"Okay!" Xu Yuegui nodded, then turned around and asked Bian Sanniang, "Third sister, do you think this arrangement is good?"

"Okay, that's it." "Ding ding dong, ding ding dong"

The sound of gongs and drums suddenly came into the British Legation on the Bund. Minister Bonham, who was discussing with the bosses of Jardine Matheson and Butterfield & Sullivan & Co. about arranging a paddle steamer to go north to Tianjin, felt something was wrong and turned to look at his secretary Li Taiguo: "Let's go and have a look."

The latter was a young man in his early twenties. He had lived in China with his father, who was a consul, and could speak fluent Chinese, so he became Wenxian's secretary. After receiving Wenxian's order, he immediately walked to the window and exclaimed in surprise: "Oh my God, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom seems to have entered the city!"

"What? The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom entered Shanghai? This..." Wenxian was shocked.

"Isn't this too fast?"

"They won't burn our opium?"

The two bosses of the foreign company were also horrified.

Wen Xian stood up suddenly, walked quickly to the window and looked out. He saw many Taiping soldiers in red scarves and yellow clothes holding flags, beating gongs and drums, surrounding a particularly large sedan chair, and marching along the Bund's main road.

On the roadside, soldiers of the Shanghai New Army had set up guards every five steps and every ten steps, keeping watch along the way.
"Go down and see!"

Wenxian said this, then strode out of the office, and flew out of the gate of the British Embassy and arrived at the Bund road outside.

Many people, both Chinese and foreigners, had gathered on the Bund's roadside to watch the fun. Some of the Chinese were wearing Qing Dynasty costumes, some were similar to those of the Taiping Army, and there was even a young Chinese woman wearing a Western-style corset and a puffy skirt, who looked very hot, standing next to a middle-aged Chinese man in a yellow shirt and yellow hat.
At this time, the extra-large sedan chair was approaching surrounded by many Taiping soldiers. Wenxian then discovered that the Taiping soldiers were all female soldiers. They were moving forward while hammering and banging, and distributing books to the onlookers.

“Read The True Testament, Worship God, and Go to Heaven”

A 17 or 18-year-old, pretty female warrior from the Kingdom of Heaven walked up to Wenxian and the others, spoke a few words in Hakka Mandarin that he couldn't understand at all, and then stuffed a thread-bound book into his hand. Wenxian picked up the book and took a look. There was Chinese printed on the cover, which he didn't recognize.

"Sir, this is The True Testament of the Bible." Li Taiguo also had a copy of the same book in his hand, so of course he recognized the words on the cover.

"The True Testament of the Bible?" Wenxian was surprised: "Are they here in Shanghai to preach?"

"I think so." Li Taiguo said, "In fact, there are already quite a few True Testament believers in Shanghai."

"True Yue faction?" It was the first time that Wenxian heard of this "faction". He picked up the thread-bound book in his hand and asked, "You mean they believe this?"

"Yes, you see, there are already people kneeling down before that big sedan chair!"

Li Taiguo raised his hand and pointed across the Bund Road. Wen Xian looked in the direction of his finger and saw several blond, blue-eyed, pale-skinned Westerners kneeling on one knee in front of the sedan chair, making the sign of the cross on their chests, looking particularly pious.

"How is this possible?" Wenxian murmured, "How can anyone believe in such a ridiculous religion?"

Li Taiguo whispered, "Sir, have you forgotten the Great Book of Prophecy?"

Wen Xian stood there in a daze.

He had remembered that he seemed to have signed an agreement to allow the spread of the Church of God in the British Empire.
"Hahahaha, there are really many foreign brothers who believe that I am God's second son!"

Not far from Wenxian, Hong Xiuquan, who was visiting incognito, was grinning from ear to ear.

Hong Xuanjiao and Meng De'en, who were following him, had the same thought in their minds - how much silver did Luo Yaoguo's people spend to hire those foreigners to kowtow to the sedan chair?

It is not surprising that they have such thoughts. After all, the God Worshipping Church has few followers outside Guangxi, and even in Hong Xiuquan’s hometown of Guangdong, there are few believers. How can it deceive foreigners? As for the "Book of Prophets" and "The Great Book of Prophecies", they are all about foreign things and have nothing to do with China, so it is impossible to use them to deceive Chinese people.
Before Hong Xuanjiao and Meng De'en could figure out what was going on, Hong Xiuquan spoke again: "Let's go and see how the incense of my church is doing."

(End of this chapter)