The Qing Dynasty is about to end

Chapter 391: Your Majesty, only the monarch can save the Qing Dynasty now! (Please subscribe and vote)
After hearing Hong Xiuquan's question, Maria immediately made the sign of the cross on her chest and said to Hong Xiuquan in an extremely pious tone: "The Virgin Mary is our mentor. No one is more pious to the Heavenly Father than her. Her way of praying is the best. She is a model for all believers. We should all open our hearts to the Heavenly Father like the Virgin Mary."

Her words are actually part of the theoretical basis of the Catholic Church's "worship of the Virgin Mary". Many Protestant denominations disagree with the Catholic Church on whether the Virgin Mary should be worshipped. In the eyes of those Protestant denominations, Mary is only the mother of Jesus on earth, not the sinless birth and mediator, so she is not a Virgin Mary, but at most a saint.

Although Maria was just an ungodly Catholic, an exorcist of the Vatican, a female spy of the Pope, and a socialite active in Italy, Austria, France and other places, she had received a solid education in Catholic theology after all, and could certainly answer any question related to the Virgin Mary.

But Hong Xiuquan still misunderstood her meaning.

In Hong Xiuquan's opinion, the Virgin Mary was the master of the nun and exorcist Maria!

Now there is help, the Virgin Mary has sent her disciples to earth to deal with the fallen angel Luo Yaoguo!

"You are the disciple of the Virgin Mary, so you are my junior sister!" Hong Xiuquan said with a smile, "Quickly bring a chair to my junior sister Maria!"

Junior sister? Disciple of the Virgin Mary?
Maria was stunned for a moment, thinking: "Did I say something wrong just now? How did I become Hong Tianwang's junior sister? And what kind of 'sister' is a junior sister?"

Before she could figure it out, a chair had been brought to her, and Hong Xiuquan sat down on his throne. He politely asked his "little sister" to sit down as well, but he did not give a seat to the cardinal next to him.

Maria looked at her uncle, and Archbishop Doria smiled and said to her: "Take a seat, ladies first!"

Maria had no choice but to sit down on the chair, and then looked at Hong Xiuquan with a smile: "Your Majesty, my uncle, Cardinal Paul de Doria, is the former Minister of Heresy and Chief Exorcist of the Roman Church, and I am his assistant, a female exorcist of the Roman Church, Countess Maria de Clementina Doria of Austria. We came to China on the orders of His Holiness the Pope to investigate the angel, prophet or devil in the Book of Prophets and legends!"

"He is a fallen angel!" Hong Xiuquan immediately gave an extremely affirmative answer.

"Fallen angel?" Maria blinked. "Really? Are you sure?"

Like her "distant uncle" and biological father, she was an atheist who had been lurking in the Catholic Church! Although she often dressed herself up as a nun, she was not a real nun, but a female spy of the heresy. She also got the title of Austrian Countess under the arrangement of the Pope to facilitate her activities in the top circles in Europe. Her main job was to gather intelligence on the various revolutionary parties in Italy for the Pope and to take on some high-end paid exorcism tasks for her uncle. Of course, there were no "real demons" in those paid exorcism tasks, and what was exorcised were "heart demons".

In fact, it is just that the nobles, wealthy people, and colonists who have done too many bad things spend some money to invite an authentic cardinal and chief exorcist of the Holy See to chant some sutras to make them feel at ease. It is similar to inviting a monk or a Taoist priest to rescue the wronged souls and catch evil spirits in China.

"Of course!" Hong Xiuquan said, "He fell from the sky on a battlefield where tens of thousands of people were fighting. At least thousands of people witnessed it with their own eyes! He also carried some magical instruments with him, one of which was a treasure that could contact Ji Du, called Tongtian Mirror!"

"Contact Ji Du?"

"If such a thing really exists, then he is undoubtedly an angel!"

Maria and Paul were both extremely shocked.

"Of course it's true!" Hong Xiuquan said, "I have evidence!"

"What kind of evidence?" Maria looked at Hong Xiuquan with her big watery eyes, "Can you show it to me?"

"Sure!" Hong Xiuquan turned to Bian Sanniang and said, "Sanniang, go get the mooncakes, mooncake boxes, and mooncake bags for my junior sister to see."

"Yes."

Bian Sanniang turned around and went to get the "holy mooncake", "holy mooncake box" and "holy mooncake bag" stored in the Sun Palace.

Hong Xiuquan said to Maria again, "Junior sister, what Luo Yaoguo left with me are just snacks from heaven, not worth mentioning. The real good things are in his hands and the Southern King. In addition to the Tongtian Mirror, he also has a two-wheeled flying car and a speaker, which are all treasures brought down from heaven and are not available in this world. The Southern King has a magic medicine made for him by Brother Tian, ​​called Amoxicillin, which has the effect of bringing the dead back to life!" "Really?" Maria asked, "Can I see those treasures with my own eyes?"

Hong Xiuquan thought for a moment and said, "Since you are Maria's disciple, you are also his junior sister. It should be possible for you to see the treasure in heaven. However, what can you do to deal with this fallen angel?"

Maria said solemnly: "First, I have to make sure that he is really a fallen angel! A fallen angel is equivalent to a devil. If he is really a fallen angel, then he should not stay in the world. I will send him to hell!
But, Your Majesty, can you prove that he has fallen?"

Hong Xiuquan stared at Maria: "Of course I can prove that he has fallen. But, what method do you have to send him to hell?"

Maria's eyes sparkled with a holy light: "My uncle and I brought some holy relics from the Vatican!"

"What is the holy relic?" asked Hong Xiuquan.

Maria said confidently: "They are the relics that Jesus left behind in the world, including the Spear of Longinus, the Shroud of Turin, the Holy Cross, etc. Each of them contains extremely powerful power that can defeat all demons!"

There seems to be something wrong!
Hong Xiuquan put away his smile. These holy relics were all related to Ji Du, and Luo Yaoguo was a member of Ji Du's party.
He thought for a moment and asked again: "Is that the Spear of Destiny the spear that killed Ji Du?"

"Yes!" Maria nodded.

Hong Xiuquan frowned: "I'm afraid this is the only way to deal with that fallen angel!"

Maria nodded slightly: "That's perfect, we have brought part of the Spear of Longinus to China!"

Hong Xiuquan was overjoyed, but then he frowned again: "But who can use this magic weapon to deal with Luo Yaoguo? Luo Yaoguo is now the powerful King of Wu, and it is difficult for ordinary people to get close to him!"

"I'll go!" Maria puffed out her chest and said firmly, "I'll approach him with a part of the Spear of Longinus and send him to hell if he is really a fallen angel!"

Tianjin, French Concession.

Although the concession in Shanghai no longer exists, the concession in Tianjin has appeared. And there are not just one, but two, namely the French Concession and the British Concession, which were built outside the city of Tianjin, on the banks of the Haihe River.

But this place can't be compared with Xujiahui in Shanghai. After all, Tianjin has only been open for a short time! There are only a few Western-style buildings and a few roads built in the French Concession. There are also very few foreigners living in the concession, and there are not many foreign companies.

Prince Gong Yixin's Beiyang Minister of Commerce's Office and the Tianjin Customs Supervision Office under the Beiyang Office both set up branches in the concessions. Yixin himself also occupied a piece of land in the French Concession and built a Western-style mansion.

When Li Hongzhang arrived in Tianjin exhausted, Yi Xin was in the mansion in the French Concession negotiating a tariff agreement with the foreigners together with Wen Xiang, the supervisor of Tianjin Customs. He hoped to add a special tariff on foreign cigarettes to ease the increasingly severe financial crisis of the court.

So when he heard that Li Hongzhang, who was very familiar with the British Queen and the French Princess in Europe, had arrived in Tianjin, he immediately asked someone to invite him to his official residence in the concession, hoping that he would discuss with his French friend to have the Qing Dynasty impose more taxes on foreign cigarettes.

But unexpectedly, Li Hongzhang brought him a very shocking news.

"What? The Taiping rebels are clamoring for a republic?" Yi Xin asked, "What is a republic?"

Li Hongzhang said quickly and hastily: "Your Highness, a republic is a rebellious prince who has no father and no king. He does not want the emperor or the king of heaven. Once this long-haired republic is completed, the long-haired people will burst out with a force several times stronger than it is now! My Qing Dynasty is in danger. To save my Qing Dynasty, the only way is to implement a constitutional monarchy!"

(End of this chapter)