The Qing Dynasty is about to end

Chapter 383 Hong Xiuquan: Heavenly Father, Ji Du harmed me! (Happy birthday to Ji Du!)
Five presidents and six vice-presidents, two presidents and one vice-president, that's sixteen votes in total.
Feng Yunshan, Yang Xiuqing and Xiao Chaogui counted on their fingers and found that something was wrong.

"Sixteen votes." Feng Yunshan asked Luo Yaoguo, "Ninth brother, are these votes used to decide the policy when there are differences of opinion in the meeting of the kings?"

"Yes," Luo Yaoguo said with a smile, "It's the same in heaven. Heavenly Father and Heavenly Brother usually don't interfere in the affairs of the heavenly nations. The national policies of the heavenly nations are generally determined by their respective kings or councils. If they can't agree, they vote to decide."

Yang Xiuqing frowned and asked, "But what if these sixteen votes are eight to eight?"

"Then ask for permission," Luo Yaoguo said with a smile, "It's what the higher-ups say."

"Who should I ask for permission from?" asked King Xiao Chaogui of the West.

Luo Yaoguo said: "Of course I will ask Heavenly Father and Heavenly Brother for permission!"

Ask for permission from Heavenly Father and Heavenly Brother?
Feng Yunshan, Yang Xiuqing and Xiao Chaogui immediately understood what Luo Yaoguo meant.

The three of them don’t have the mirror that can contact Heavenly Father and Heavenly Brother!
Therefore, the only one who can ask for orders from the heaven is Luo Yaoguo, and therefore Luo Yaoguo will become the person who holds the "highest instructions" in the meeting of kings. Even if there is no eight-on-eight match in the meeting of kings, Luo Yaoguo, who has the power to ask for orders from heaven, will become the first person in the meeting of kings.

This is to seize the leadership of the Council of Princes with the support of Ji Du and become the regent of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom!
Feng Yunshan and Yang Xiuqing both frowned, looking dissatisfied with Luo Yaoguo's arrangement. However, before they could raise any objections, Xiao Chaogui spoke first: "I think it's OK! If there is really an eight-to-eight vote, it will definitely be a difficult matter to make a decision. We should ask Heavenly Father and Heavenly Brother for permission."

Xiao Chaogui actually agreed.

Yang Xiuqing and Feng Yunshan were both stunned, then they understood.

Xiao Chaogui's wife Hong Xuanjiao also has a vote.

He has two votes, his wife has one vote, so his family has three votes!

If there is no situation where the votes are eight to eight and there is no need to seek approval from the higher authorities, then his family has the greatest voting power.

According to the method proposed by Luo Yaoguo, he not only did not suffer any loss, but also gained an advantage, and firmly became the second person in the Council of Princes! Although he was not the first person, his real power in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had always been the second or third person, and sometimes even the fourth person. Now that he was firmly in the second position, what else could he be dissatisfied with?
"Your brother-in-law is right, let's do it!"

Feng Yunshan also chose to give in. He had never been a tough person. When he encountered Yang Xiuqing and Xiao Chaogui performing magic tricks before, he chose to compromise and gave up his original "number two" position, and fell to the position of the fourth person in the Heavenly Kingdom.

Now facing Luo Yaoguo holding the Tongtian Mirror and Xiao Chaogui who supports Luo Yaoguo, he naturally would not choose to confront him.

Seeing Feng Yunshan also gave in, Yang Xiuqing also knew that he could not defeat Luo Yaoguo for the time being, so he smiled and said: "Okay, let's do this. From now on, the major events of our Taiping Heavenly Kingdom will be decided by the meeting of the kings!"

Luo Yaoguo exhaled, and added: "The kings will make a decision at the meeting, and the people will agree to it, and it will become the national policy and decree!"

"This National People's Congress?" Feng Yunshan had heard Luo Yaoguo mention the nationals and the nationals' political discussions before. Now he heard him mention it again, so he asked him, "Is it the nationals among the nationals and the barbarians?"

"What? There are still savages?" Xiao Chaogui was stunned.

Yang Xiuqing didn't understand what the Chinese and the barbarians were, but he hid his ignorance and just looked at Luo Yaoguo, waiting for his explanation.

Luo Yaoguo nodded and explained, "It's about the same. The Qing Dynasty in the north is the Qing Dynasty of the Eight Banners, and our Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is not the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of everyone at the moment. It's not that we don't want to, but we simply can't do it! So we can only allow a small number of people to participate in national affairs and share the world with us. These people are our compatriots."

"Then who are the Chinese citizens?" Yang Xiuqing asked.

"The officers and soldiers of the Taiping Army are definitely Chinese. We rely on them to help us conquer the world! The officials who are already working for us are of course Chinese. The backbones of the God Worshipping Society in various places are naturally Chinese. Without them, our local governments cannot be maintained.

For these people, we can divide them into different levels according to their merits, the time they joined the army, and the official positions they currently hold. For example, we can set up first-class citizens, second-class citizens, and third-class citizens. Each class of citizens can be given different preferential treatments, such as allocating different sizes of land and houses, regularly issuing different amounts of money and grain, and giving their descendants the privilege of inheriting the status of citizens.

In this way, we can transfer all the hereditary positions that were previously granted to citizens of the first, second, third, fourth and fifth ranks.”

Luo Yaoguo was not expanding his privileges, but rather covering up for the abuse of official positions by Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing.

When the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was first established, it had no territory and could not afford to pay its soldiers. In order to encourage its subordinates to fight, it had no choice but to perform shaman rituals and grant official positions indiscriminately.

Moreover, the official positions handed out by Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing were hereditary!

Those old brothers and sisters who joined the group before Suoyidu all had such hereditary official positions. The total number of people was about 30,000, and there were about 20,000 people still alive.

The hereditary rights of these people must be resolved as soon as possible and cannot be delayed. Now these people have just started to live a better life and are not too ambitious. If they are given a good house and a monthly salary, they will probably be satisfied and willing to exchange their hereditary rights for hereditary citizens of different levels. If they become ambitious in a few years, it will be difficult to deal with.

After hearing what Luo Yaoguo said, Feng Yunshan, Yang Xiuqing and Xiao Chaogui all nodded repeatedly.

Luo Yaoguo went on to say: "We can also ask the big merchants, big farmers, and big workers who pay more taxes to become citizens of the country. We have to coax them a little bit!
In addition, we must also start the imperial examinations as soon as possible. This is the path for ordinary people to ascend to heaven. It has been reserved for people in every dynasty, and we cannot change this rule. Anyone who passes the examination, even if he is a scholar, will be given the status of a national.

However, these two types of Chinese people cannot inherit the title, and can only be Chinese people in their own generation."

Feng Yunshan nodded again: "The arrangements are thorough, but what are the benefits of being a Chinese?"

"Of course there are benefits," Luo Yaoguo said, "First, our countrymen are of noble status and can meet officials without kneeling, just like the famous scholars in the Qing Dynasty.

The second is the people’s participation in politics. The people’s participation in politics can be done not only at the National People’s Congress in Tianjing, but also at the local level.

In the future, every prefecture, state, and county will have a people's council. In this way, the holy soldiers who support us, the backbone of the God Worshipping Society, the big merchants, big farmers, and big workers who pay more taxes to us, and the officials of the local farmers' associations that we support through the distribution of land, can all enter the local council.

The second is to become an official. From now on, only Chinese people can be officials of our Taiping Heavenly Kingdom!
The third is that the children of the people can have priority to enter the government-run primary schools. Of course, in the future we will definitely make sure that everyone has access to education, but we cannot do that at the moment, so we can only allow the children of the people to enter the government-run primary schools first. "

Luo Yaoguo paused for a moment, taking in the expressions of Yang Xiuqing, Xiao Chaogui, and Feng Yunshan. He found that they all seemed to agree, so he smiled and said to them, "Third brother, fourth brother, and brother-in-law, if you have no objection, then tomorrow we will discuss the other princes and report to the king together on the fifteenth of this month."

"Okay, let's do it!"

"Okay, you decide!"

"Okay, that's it."

"Old Dou, my elder brother Ji Du has caused me so much trouble! He has sent me down to the mortal world, but he still won't let me go. He even sent a black angel down to the mortal world to undermine me, the king of the mortal world! This black angel named Luo is simply a devil! Old Dou, you must stand up to me. Please send a good angel down to help me deal with the black angel named Luo! Old Dou, woo woo woo."

In the Golden Dragon City, Sun Palace, deep in the palace, in a side hall housing a tablet of "Heavenly Father Haotian Emperor", Hong Xiuquan, the Heavenly King who had failed in his rebellion, was almost fainting from tears in front of the tablet.

The only two women guarding him were Bian Sanniang and Daozi. Bian Sanniang was holding the handle of the knife and gritting her teeth.

Daozi was crawling beside Hong Xiuquan, with a sword for committing seppuku beside her - she had just asked Hong Xiuquan to commit seppuku to apologize, but he slapped her twice and scolded her, forbidding her to commit suicide. However, she felt warm in her heart and became more loyal to Hong Tianwang.

Now, hearing Hong Tianwang crying in front of the Heavenly Father's tablet, he felt extremely sad. He suddenly opened his throat and shouted loudly: "Your Majesty, please allow Daozi to return to Japan to bribe the assassin and punish the Black Angel Luo Yaoguo for Your Majesty!"

As a result, her proposal was met with another eye roll from Hong Xiuquan: "Assassin? What kind of assassin can assassinate a black angel? Is he really a black angel that fell from the sky? He has magical powers! Does the assassin you found have magical powers?"

"It's difficult. Can we just watch him do evil?" Daozi said angrily.

Hong Xiuquan said confidently: "He won't be so arrogant for long, because Heavenly Father will definitely stand up to me and will definitely send someone to help me!"

"woo"

With the sound of a whistle, a "giant ship" with a displacement of 3,000 tons, spewing black smoke, slowly sailed into the Wusongkou, and entered the golden Huangpu River where ships were coming and going under the sunset.

On the deck of the ship, there stood a Western nun with picturesque features, beautiful appearance and graceful figure. She was Maria de Clementina Doria.

"We're here, we're finally here!"

A loud voice speaking English came from behind Maria. She turned her head and looked back, and saw Li Hongzhang, with an excited face, holding Mathilde's wrist and walking out of the luxurious cabin where they lived.

Maria smiled and asked him, "Master Li, have you arrived in Shanghai?"

Li Hongzhang smiled and nodded: "Yes, Maria, your Chinese is getting better and better."

Maria smiled sweetly: "Isn't it because you are a good teacher? By the way, I heard you say before that you have a good relationship with Luo Xueyan, the warlord of Shanghai?"

(End of this chapter)