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Chapter 394: Your Highness the Holy Angel, I am sent by the Pope of Rome! (Requesting subscription and votes)

"Your Majesty, is the disciple of the Holy Mother you mentioned reliable?"

Hong Rengan didn't dare to go crazy with Hong Xiuquan!
Hong Xiuquan was the second son of God and Mary, the Second Heavenly Brother born to the same parents as the Heavenly Brother. No matter how crazy he was, Luo Yaoguo would not dare to kill him - if this Second Heavenly Brother could be killed, the Great Heavenly Brother Ji Du would have killed him in heaven. Why would he banish him to the lower world?

The reason why the Great Heavenly Brother Ji Du did not kill the Second Heavenly Brother Hong Xiuquan must be because the Heavenly Father and the Holy Mother did not allow him to do so. Whether they allowed him to do so or not, Luo Tianshi would certainly not dare to kill him.

But Hong Rengan was just Hong Xiuquan's cousin on earth. In the eyes of Heavenly Father and the Virgin Mary, he could be killed at will!
How dare he rebel with Hong Xiuquan?

"Maria!"

Hong Xiuquan suddenly shouted.

Then, Maria de Clementina Doria came.

Today she was wearing a blue-grey nun's robe and a white headscarf. Her lips were as red as fire, her eyebrows and eyes were as beautiful as paintings, and her figure was particularly graceful. She perfectly combined holiness and charm.

She walked up to Hong Xiuquan, bent down and bowed: "Your Majesty, the Heavenly King."

Hong Xiuquan pointed at the kneeling Hong Rengan and said, "Junior sister, this is the King Gan, my cousin in the human world." Then he pointed at Maria and said, "Brother Gan, this is Maria, a disciple of the Virgin Mary, my junior sister."

Maria bowed to Hong Rengan and said, "Your Highness."

Hong Rengan also clasped his fist towards this "foreign junior sister" who suddenly appeared from Hong Xiuquan's palace and said, "Greetings, Lady Maria."

Maria smiled slightly: "Your Highness is too polite, just call me Maria."

Hong Xiuquan smiled and said, "Maria, I want to know whether you can send Luo Yaoguo to hell?"

Maria put away her smile and said seriously, "Your Majesty, the holy relics I brought contain the power left by Heavenly Father and Ji Du in the world, which is enough to send any devil to hell! Over the past thousand years, the Holy See has relied on these holy relics to protect the entire Europe from the harm of demons."

Hong Rengan asked in a trembling voice: "Then, can you really use those holy relics to kill King Luo Wu?"

"Not to kill him," Maria corrected, "but to banish him from the world. If he is really a demon or a fallen angel!"

"Then how do you plan to do it?" Hong Rengan asked, "King Wu is under heavy guard!"

Maria smiled and said, "I want to get close to him first, gain his trust, and then use the Holy Relic to send him to hell when he's least prepared!"

"Are you going to assassinate him?" Hong Rengan asked.

"It's not an assassination," Maria shook her head and smiled, "I don't kill people, I only exorcise demons! I'm an exorcist, not a crusader."

"How are you going to escape after you exorcise the demon?" Hong Rengan asked again, "King Luo Wu has many subordinates. They might avenge him."

Maria smiled gently: "Your Highness, don't worry about me. As long as I can drive away the devil for the world, I am willing to sacrifice my life!"

Hong Xiuquan smiled and said, "Mary's sacrifice of her life means she is returning to heaven and to the Virgin Mary. It's no big deal."

Maria also nodded and chuckled, "Yes, it's no big deal. If I ascend to heaven, please don't be sad for me, Your Highness."

He really is ready to face death!

Hong Rengan now believed Maria a little, but he was still a little worried: "Maria, can I see the holy relic?"

"Of course." Maria reached into the collar of her nun's robe and pulled out a small glass bottle hanging on a silver necklace. The bottle was sealed with wax and was half filled with a transparent liquid.

Is this poison? Hong Rengan thought to himself, "So he wanted to poison me. No wonder he approached Luo Yaoguo secretly."

Maria smiled and explained, "This is just one of the holy relics. The others are not convenient to display in the Sun Palace. But I can guarantee that any one of the relics can drive away the most powerful devil from the world!"

Hong Xiuquan clearly believed what Maria said, and said to Hong Rengan in a deep voice: "My fellow Gan, you are going to Suzhou in a few days, right? Take Maria with you and send her to Luo Yaoguo!"

"King, what is the reason for giving her this?" Hong Rengan glanced at Maria and thought, "Maria is indeed a rare beauty. But the King of Heaven suddenly gave King Luo Wu a stunning Western beauty. Isn't this too suspicious?"

"Just send me there," Maria chuckled. "I have a personal letter from the Pope of Rome. In the letter, the Pope describes me as a pious senior nun who is dedicated to spreading knowledge and truth to women. He hopes to open a church school for girls in China."

Suzhou, Ziyang Academy.

This place used to be the Suzhou Prefecture School during the Song Dynasty, and later became the Ziyang Academy. It has been quite deserted in recent years. Not long ago, it was also the government office of Shengbao in Suzhou. Now it has turned back into a school.

A signboard with the words "Zi Yang Academy" was hung on the double-eaved and bracketed gate of the academy. On both sides of the gate were vertical long wooden signs with black characters on a white background. The sign on the left read "Jiangsu Province Suzhou No. 1 Primary School" and the sign on the right read "Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education".

Obviously, this is a provincial key primary school!
It is located in the same compound as the Provincial Department of Education, so it is impossible for it not to be a key point!
Moreover, the first batch of alumni of this primary school were also not simple people. They included Weng Tonghe, Weng Zengyuan, Zhao Liewen, Xue Fucheng, Qian Zhenlun, Qian Zhenchang, Xi Zhengfu, Sheng Xuanhuai, Chen Yucheng, Zhang Bao, Wang Xier, Zhou Xiuying, Fu Shanxiang, and Wanzhen. There were both men and women, old and young. Some were Luo Yaoguo's aides, and some were invited to attend the primary school by Luo Yaoguo after he found the names in the historical materials in the "Tongtian Mirror" and sent people to find them.

Oh, and there’s also Zhou Xiuying, a new mother who’s a little silly.

Zhou Xiuying had to go to primary school with three "historical champions" and a group of Jinshi, Juren, and big compradors. She was under a lot of pressure. I guess she would be the last one in this class. Maybe she would be the last one to graduate from primary school!

Maybe her classmates have graduated from college, but she is still in the sixth grade of elementary school.
But at this moment, Zhou Xiuying didn't know how difficult her school life would be. She was still happily visiting the school with Luo Yaoguo. She was holding the hand of a 10-year-old boy, who was chubby and looked very smart. His name was Sheng Xuanhuai - the number one comprador under Li Hongzhang! He was from Changzhou Prefecture. His father Sheng Kang was originally the governor of Hezhou, who was a Jinshi. After the Taiping Rebellion, he abandoned his official position and fled, and "run" all the way to Shanghai.

Not long ago, he signed a petition written by Shanghai gentry urging Luo Xueshuai to support the republic. Luo Yaoguo discovered this and invited him to be his aide. He also took his son to Suzhou to attend elementary school.

Luo Yaoguo certainly attaches great importance to Sheng Xuanhuai - such talents must be trained!

In the future there can’t be only engineers but no professional managers, right?
"Xiuying, if you have any questions in the future, just ask Xuanhuai for advice, okay?"

Luo Yaoguo had some free time today, so he took Zhou Xiuying and Sheng Xuanhuai to visit the primary school. He also did not forget to win over Sheng Xuanhuai and asked Zhou Xiuying to ask him if she had any questions.

Zhou Xiuying was still a little unhappy, and pouted: "What does a kid like him know? If I don't understand something, I should ask Weng Shengfu."

Weng Tonghe was the "Emperor's Teacher", so of course he was better at teaching.

Luo Yaoguo smiled and said, "You can't ask him for long, because by the time you finish elementary school, he will have finished college. Xuan Huai is still young, so his progress may not be that fast."

Sheng Xuanhuai was definitely a top student, but he was just an average top student. If he were in the future, he would just be able to get into a 985 university. However, many of Zhou Xiuying's classmates were academicians.
Zhou Xiuying opened her mouth, not knowing what to say.

She had actually secretly studied the elementary school math textbook by herself, and it was really difficult! She was not very good at it until the third grade.
At this time, Luo Yaoguo had already finished visiting Ziyang Academy with Zhou Xiuying and Sheng Xuanhuai. They had just reached the door and were about to return to the Prince of Wu's Mansion diagonally opposite when they suddenly saw a large sedan chair carried by sixteen people parked on the street. Beside the sedan chair stood a group of Taiping soldiers in red turbans and yellow robes. Judging from the style of their uniforms, they were not from the upper army.

"Ninth sister, who are they?"

Luo Yaoguo quickly called over his female guard Zeng Jiumei. Today, she brought a team of "pistol team" soldiers to protect Luo Yaoguo.

"Reporting to Lord Wu, it is Lord Gan who has come."

Luo Yaoguo was stunned: "King Gan, oh, he came to discuss the National People's Congress with me."

Just as he remembered why Hong Rengan came, he saw Hong Rengan and a tall and graceful Western nun walking towards him quickly.

(End of this chapter)