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Chapter 304 Is this a religious war? (Requesting subscription and votes)
When Zhao Fangji was assassinated, his ally, French Minister Bourboulon, was outside the North Gate Office of the Shanghai Customs, watching Hong Xiuquan and Hong Xuanjiao handing out the True Testament. He had just received a copy and opened it to read it, but found that it was all in Chinese and he couldn't understand it at all, so he put it away. He planned to give it to the priests in the Nanjing Diocese who were proficient in Chinese after returning home, and translate the True Testament into French as soon as possible, and then send it back to France together with the translations of the second volume of the Prophets and the first, second and third volumes of the Anti-Scriptures for His Majesty the Emperor to review.
These three sets of books are more explosive than the previous one!

Just now when Hong Xiuquan was debating with Medhurst and Zhao Fangji, there was a translator from the French embassy on the side who was interpreting in real time. Bourboulon was naturally extremely shocked!
The explanation of God's children and the description of heaven in the True Testament are very reasonable. If you read the True Testament and the Book of Prophets together, it will make even more sense!

After all, many of the prophecies in the first volume of the Book of Prophets have been verified!
There is at least one prophet or devil on the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom side!

With the endorsement of the prophet, the credibility of the True Testament will be greatly enhanced. If the True Testament itself is rigorous enough, in the foreseeable future, Christianity may have a powerful "True Testament sect"!

I don't know if it will be feasible to incorporate the Church of God by inviting a prophet to Rome to be the Pope?
As for the French version of the first, second and third volumes of the Anti-Scripture, Bourboulon has read it. Well, it is very familiar! It has a strong flavor of the French Revolution and the Revolution of 1848! If the third volume of the Anti-Scripture was spread to Europe, I really don’t know what those revolutionaries in Europe would think?
In short, the Book of the Prophets could strengthen the power of European Christian conservatives, the True Testament could potentially cause a major split in Christianity, and the Anti-Scripture would be used by European revolutionaries.

These three books are so true that Bulblom doesn’t even know what kind of monsters he’s encountered?
"Mr. Minister, Mr. Minister, it's bad! Bishop Zhao has been assassinated!"

When Bourboulon was thinking about how to write a report to the French Emperor, he suddenly heard an exclamation in French.

What? Zhao Fangji was assassinated? Those damn British!
The truth immediately popped up in Bulblom's mind - the Catholic Diocese of Nanjing was like transparent glass to the British. No secrets could be hidden from them.

Therefore, the British must have known about his secret meeting with Yang Xiuqing with Zhao Fangji, and they might have also known the contents of the secret agreement between him, Zhao Fangji and Yang Xiuqing.
"Mr. Minister, Bishop Zhao was murdered by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom!"

At this time, a priest from Dongjiadu Church rushed to Bulbrunn and shouted to him.

At the same time, some people were shouting in English, French and Chinese outside the North Gate Office of the Jianghai Customs.

"Murder! The assassins of the God Worshipping Society are killing people!"

"Bishop Zhao Fangji was killed by assassins from the God Worshipping Society!"

"Quickly arrest the leader of the God Worshipping Society."

Bulbulon's face immediately changed, and he hurriedly called out to his guards: "Quick, protect me and get out of here!"

He couldn't guarantee that the British would not take action against him!
"Oh, is there going to be a lesson plan?"

Hong Xiuquan also heard the shouts of people around him. At the same time, he saw a few guys who looked like important foreigners being surrounded and hurriedly left. He immediately knew what was going to happen.

Convince people with reason!
Of course, after explaining the theory, we will talk about physics. If we cannot win with the theory, we will use physics. If we cannot win with physics, we will ask for help from the backstage.
But Hong Xiuquan is not afraid of things getting out of hand now!
If things get out of hand, Luo Yaoguo and Yang Xiuqing will be there to clean up the mess!
"Your Majesty, this place is dangerous. Please take shelter inside the government office."

At this time, Hong Xiujiao had already distributed all the "True Covenant" in her hand, and then took out her "reasoning artifact" - the M1851 revolver, and moved closer to Hong Xiuquan.

Hong Xiuquan smiled and nodded, handed the last copy of "The True Covenant" in his hand to a bearded foreigner, then turned around and walked into the North Gate Yamen of the Jianghai Customs with Hong Xuanjiao.

As he walked into the government office, Bian Sanniang had already jumped onto a square table with a Taiping sword in one hand and an M1851 revolver in the other, then fired two shots into the air and shouted loudly: "Sisters, may the Heavenly Father God bless us!"

Hearing the gunshots, the Taiping Army female sisters immediately began to set up positions outside the Customs Office.

I saw them quickly moving many tables, chairs and benches out of the customs office and piling them up at the gate outside the office yard to form a barricade. Then I saw many sisters taking out many foreign rifles from the large sedan chair carried by sixty-four people in the yard and distributing them. Soon, many female sisters in the camp were holding foreign rifles with bayonets and half-kneeling behind the "barricade"!
In addition to hundreds of female soldiers, Hong Xiuquan also brought 64 sedan bearers, all of whom were strong men. At this time, they had formed a "foreign rifle formation" in the courtyard of the Customs Office. It was just an eight-by-eight square formation, but everyone had a foreign rifle on their shoulders, and the bayonets were shining coldly in the sun. It was really scary! The "believers" who were just called from the Jardine Matheson and Butterfield & Sullivan docks by the London Missionary Society, such as Medhurst, Jia Weilin, and William Mu, were immediately shocked when they saw this scene.

What's going on?
Isn't this a teaching incident?

Why does it feel like being on a battlefield?
"Niang Xipi, how can we beat him? Where is Mr. Mai?"

Chen Ji, who had become the "number one coolie" at the Jardine Matheson Wharf and the Butterfield & Swire Wharf on the Bund, had a cross hanging around his neck and an axe in his hand. He led one or two hundred Cao Gang disciples with him. As soon as he arrived outside the Customs Office, he saw that the troops inside had already formed a battle formation for a fight.

After calling out "Mr. Mai" several times and not seeing the shadow of Medhurst, he knew something was wrong and thought about whether to retreat first. But at this moment, the sixty-four "palanquin bearers" in the Customs Office, who were arranged in a square formation, suddenly came out singing and firing their foreign rifles.

"His pride laughs at the waves, and his blood is hotter than the red sun."

"Niang Xipi, run away!"

"If you can't beat them, run away."

Before Chen Ji could react, the people behind him had already dispersed!
In addition to Boss Chen and his men, there were also one or two hundred Catholic foreigners and Chinese who heard that the God Worshipping Society had killed their bishop. They also gathered outside the Customs Office and wanted to make a scene. In any case, in Shanghai over the years, whenever there was a conflict between foreigners, foreign religions and Chinese, the Chinese were the ones who suffered!
So when they heard that some Chinese dared to kill their bishop in the street, they immediately gathered together and blocked the customs office to make some noise.

When they first arrived, they were quite impressive. In addition to them, there were several hundred "Cao Gang Christians" and many Protestants who came to watch the fun, a total of a thousand people. But they didn't expect that the other side would show up as if they were ready to fight, and a company of foreign riflemen rushed out directly, all holding foreign rifles with bayonets!
Although there are not many people, they are really murderous and well-trained!
You can tell at first glance that he has been on the battlefield!

"Run!"

"Killing!"

"Oh my God, the True Covenants are crazy."

“There’s going to be a religious war!”

"Hurry to the British and French camps!"

Among the foreigners and Chinese Christians who were frightened and running around by dozens of "True Testament" soldiers carrying foreign guns, there were still some wise people who knew that at this moment only the British and French soldiers in the British and French barracks could take action to eliminate these "blasphemous" heretics.

But when they rushed to the two military camps near the British and French embassies, they found that someone had arrived before them!
Thousands of Shanghai New Army soldiers in blue-grey uniforms were seen forming a square formation outside the two military camps, blocking the gates of the military camps! They also set up layers of barricades at the intersections!
Outside the British barracks, Captain Smith, who had suffered a great loss in the last attack on the Customs Office, was negotiating with Wang Dalong with an angry face.

"General Wang, we don't need your protection! Please leave immediately. I want to protect God's believers."

Although he was very angry, Captain Smith did not step out of the barracks, nor did he blow the assembly call to call the troops.

Wang Dalong, who was in charge of protecting the British barracks, said to Captain Smith with a smile, "Captain, don't worry. Marshal Xue has returned to Shanghai. He will definitely handle this religious war satisfactorily. He also feels helpless about the war between Christians! There must be a way to properly deal with it. After all, both of you are praying to the same God!"

(End of this chapter)