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Chapter 370 Luo Yaoguo: I don’t know anything! (Please subscribe and vote)
"Attack the King of the East? How do you want to attack him?"

"Of course he'll be spanked after his pants are taken off!" Hong Daquan laughed, "King Yang Dong loves spanking people the most, so it's time for him to have a taste of being spanked in public!"

The point is not to spank Yang Xiuqing, the point is to destroy Yang Xiuqing’s divine authority to “speak for God the Father”!

If Yang Xiuqing's theocracy was not destroyed, Yang Xiuqing's righteousness would be above that of Hong Xiuquan, and Hong Xiuquan would have no way to control him.

Hong Xiuquan was a lazy person, completely different from the workaholic Zhu Yuanzhang. He was actually willing to delegate power.

Hong Xiuquan looked at Hong Daquan and said with a half-smile: "Daquan, if I remember correctly, you have some grievances with the Qing people, right?"

Hong Daquan said calmly: "It's just a small holiday, nothing big."

"Is it just a little holiday?" Hong Xiuquan sighed, "If he hadn't tied you up and left you in the Heavenly King's Palace in Yong'an Prefecture, your current status would be similar to that of a fellow countryman. Although he is a man sent from heaven, the backbones under his command, except for Su Sanniang's people, are almost all from Hunan. Your wife, brother, sister-in-law and master are all capable generals under his command now!"

Hong Daquan was one of the leaders of the Hunan Tiandihui, and many of the Hunan "new brothers" who joined the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in Daozhou, Guiyangzhou, and Chenzhou were his disciples. So he also brought money to join Hong Xiuquan, and was highly valued by Hong Xiuquan, so much so that Yang Xiuqing felt threatened - if he could bring in tens of thousands of Hunan brothers to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he might be able to catch up.

Yang Xiuqing did not dare to offend the Tiandihui in Hunan too much, so he used another person to kill someone else. He tied him up and left him in the Tianwang Palace in Yong'an Prefecture for the Qing army to capture.

If it weren't for the incident when Luo Yaoguo descended from the sky, Hong Daquan would have been shattered into pieces by now!
Although he has escaped the disaster and assigned Luo Yaoguo the post of "Japanese Bishop", when he looks at the status of people like Xu Yuegui, Jiao Hong, Xu Xianggui and Zhang Sanxiang, can he feel happy?
While he was in prison in Beijing awaiting death, his wife, brother, sister-in-law, and younger brother all followed Luo Yaoguo to success.

Among them, Xu Yuegui is the chief steward of the Shanghai Military Governor's Office and the left leader of the God Worshipping Society's secret hall, the eldest sister of the Shanghai Five! Jiao Hong is now the leader of the God Worshipping Society's Hunan-Jiangxi Border General Hall, Xu Xianggui is the general manager of Yuanzhou, and Zhang Sanxiang is the right leader of the God Worshipping Society's secret hall.

The above mentioned people are all people in Luo Yaoguo's core power circle, and they are all higher than him, the "Japanese Bishop". And he, the "Japanese Bishop", seems to be good, but in fact, it is almost like exile.

Because the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Heaven and Earth Society, and Hunanese hardly existed in Japan, Luo Yaoguo did not send any capable people to help him. He just gave him a batch of "True Covenant" that could not be distributed in Shanghai, and let him do it himself. Later, because Hong Daquan hooked up with Shimazu Qibin, he was given tens of thousands of taels of gold as funding.
However, how could an ambitious man like Hong Daquan be willing to be a charlatan in Japan forever?
"My brother, sister-in-law, wife, and Master Zhang are no longer my friends." Hong Daquan said with some regret, "They are all Luo Wu Wang's men, and I parted ways with them when I reported Luo Wu Wang's collusion with the demon to the Heavenly King."

The letter that Hong Daquan asked Daozi to pass to Hong Xiuquan, accusing Luo Yaoguo of colluding with the evil spirit, was actually a letter of allegiance!

If this letter fell into Luo Yaoguo's hands, Hong Daquan's fate would be unimaginable!
The reason why Hong Xiuquan was willing to meet Hong Daquan was also because of this letter!
"Can he really beat Qingbo's ass? He is..."

Hong Xiuquan also knew that Hong Daquan was a man who could deceive people, so he didn't dare to believe everything he said.

"Yes!" Hong Daquan gritted his teeth and said, "The words of the King of the East are not true at all. He is just an ordinary man. As long as he is beaten by the King of Heaven in public, everyone's superstition about King Yang will be broken. Without the power to speak for the Father in Heaven, the King of the East is just a subject of yours.

Therefore, as long as he is beaten with a stick in public, he will lose to you, the king! If the king trusts me, I am willing to bring two reliable people to do it, and I will beat him with the stick myself! Others are afraid of him, but I am not! "

A big difficulty for Hong Xiuquan in dealing with his three living fathers, Yang Xiuqing, Xiao Chaogui and Luo Yaoguo, was that all three of them had "divinity"!
Therefore, Hong Xiuquan was very worried that his confidants would not dare to take action against Yang Xiuqing because of their religious beliefs.

If Hong Xiuquan had his men take down Yang Xiuqing and spank him in public, but his men did not dare to do it, then it would be Hong Xiuquan who would be severely slapped in the face. Yang Xiuqing might even act like a god and hit Hong Xiuquan back.

In addition, there is another problem with spanking Yang Xiuqing, that is, Yang Xiuqing will not be beaten to death.

Although his divinity was destroyed, he still had worldly power and could take revenge on those who beat him.

In fact, it was actually easier to kill Yang Xiuqing.

Therefore, it is extremely risky for Hong Daquan to be a "thug", which is like "fighting God" with his head on his belt.

Hong Xiuquan nodded slightly, then suddenly his eyes became stern, and he asked sternly: "Daquan, you came to Tianjing from Japan secretly, do the Chinese people really know nothing about it?" Hong Daquan said without hesitation: "Don't worry, the king knows nothing!"

"Really?" Hong Xiuquan stared at Hong Daquan and said word by word, "I also have ears and eyes around my compatriots!"

Hong Da remained calm: "Heavenly King, he knows nothing!"

Yu Garden, Shanghai.

Luo Xueyan really knew nothing because he had more important things to do!

He has been troubled by the negotiations with the British on Sino-foreign cooperation in building a navy.

In later generations, there were Sino-foreign joint ventures in schools and enterprises, but as for the Sino-foreign joint venture in the navy, well, "British running dog Luo Xueyan" was now determined to make it happen.

However, just when he was about to reach an agreement with Asben and Wenxian, Zuo Zongtang ran from Ningbo to Shanghai and expressed his opposition to Luo Xueyan's "joint establishment" of a navy with Britain.

"General Xue, no! The navy is the most important weapon of the country. It is related to the foundation of the vast sea. How can we cooperate with others? If the navy is controlled by the British, then China's sea borders will be controlled by other countries, right?"

Of course, what Zuo Zongtang said makes sense.

"Co-founding" a navy with the British is a bit like making a deal with the devil!
If Luo Xueyan had not known in advance that the British Empire was bound to decline, and also knew that the Japanese in history learned their real skills from the British Royal Navy, he would not have been willing to "co-found" a navy with Britain.

Of course, although it is called "co-organization", it is actually still taking the route of "it is better to rent than to buy".

Luo Xueyan originally wanted to rent warships from the United States, France, and the United Kingdom, but neither France nor the United States responded to Luo Xueyan - France had already sought cooperation with Li Hongzhang, and it was a very "in-depth" cooperation! The United States' ambitions were not that big at the moment, and it did not want to steal the British business.

Therefore, the only partner left for Luo Xueyan to run his navy was Britain!
The British took the opportunity to propose a plan to deepen cooperation. Not only did they want to lease a few more gunboats to the Nanyang Fleet, they also wanted to co-found the Jiangnan Shipyard and help Luo Xueyan's Nanyang Fleet manufacture gunboats. They also wanted to contract the Shanghai Naval Port and Wusongkou Fort projects, and help Luo Xueyan run a naval school.

In addition, the British also wanted to establish a naval base in Shanghai, Busan and Vladivostok.

Although Luo Xueyan disagreed with the British establishing a base in Shanghai, he said that the port of Ryukyu could be leased to Britain.

As for the other points, he agreed to all of them!

He also agreed to hire Asben as the first commander of the Nanyang Navy, and was prepared to sign a five-year personnel training and ship leasing contract with Asben and Bonham.

After hearing Zuo Zongtang's objection, Luo Xueyan smiled helplessly and said, "Ji Gao, I know the risks of cooperating with the British, but now the British Empire is the overlord of the ocean! If we don't cooperate with them, it will be impossible to run a good navy.

Moreover, our navy can only develop within the scope permitted by the British in the coming years. This is the reality, we have to endure it! Believe me, if we endure it, the benefits will be huge. Apart from other things, Britain and France should have gone to war with Russia by now, so we can just take the British and French ships to fight the Russians.

The benefits we can get from this vote are far greater than our efforts. As for the navy being controlled by the British, you don't have to worry at all. They won't be able to control it for long. The British Empire has expanded to its limit and will soon enter a stage of stagnation and contraction.

When our people are able to take on the responsibility, the navy will still be ours."

(End of this chapter)