The Qing Dynasty is about to end

Chapter 418 The king is guilty and must be beaten (please subscribe and vote)
Luo Yaoguo had just recovered when Yang Xiuqing, who was standing beside him, stood up like a curious baby and approached Maria, asking her a lot of questions: "Maria, who sent you to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom? And who gave you the Holy Cross, the Tears of the Virgin Mary, and the Spear of Langnusky?"

Archangel Luo's heart, which had just calmed down, suddenly jumped up to his throat again. He narrowed his eyes and stared at Maria, fearing that she would tell the truth without paying attention.

But before Maria could open her mouth, Hong Xiuquan, who was leaning against the throne and sulking, interrupted her: "Humph, it was I who prayed hard to the Holy Mother in heaven, and the Holy Mother showed her mercy and sent her disciple Maria on earth to come all the way to our Tianjing City with those holy objects to exorcise the demons. But who could have thought..."

As he spoke, Hong Xiuquan pointed at Maria, his tone like a parent scolding his child: "Look at you, as a disciple of the Virgin Mary, how can you be so soft-hearted? Things have come to this point, and you are still hoping that the fallen angel will forgive you? You are dreaming!"

Maria was not fooled by Hong Xiuquan. She straightened her neck and said firmly, "Your Majesty, since His Highness the Holy Angel has passed the double test of the Holy Cross and the Tears of the Virgin Mary, he is 100% a genuine Holy Angel and the messenger of Brother Ji Du! If anyone dares to doubt the Holy Angel, then they are doubting the Father and Brother Ji Du, and they will go to hell! As for how His Highness the Holy Angel wants to deal with me, I deserve it!"

After saying this, she bowed deeply to the ground again, showing an attitude of admitting her guilt and accepting punishment.

Luo Yaoguo secretly breathed a sigh of relief, thinking: These two "charlatans" who engage in feudal superstition are quite eloquent! On the surface, Hong Xiuquan's words were to criticize Maria for being soft-hearted and unwilling to use the spear of Langnuski to pierce her heart, but in fact, he was using the banner of the Virgin Mary to support himself.

It was clearly a message to everyone: I am not a mortal, I am a god! Even if Heavenly Father and Heavenly Brother do not like me, I still have the protection of the Virgin Mary! If anyone dares to touch me, be careful that the Virgin Mary will get angry and burn you to ashes!

Maria, this feudal and superstitious beauty, was not really stupid. On the one hand, she followed Hong Xiuquan's wishes and clung to the Virgin Mary's thigh; on the other hand, she desperately showed her loyalty to Luo Yaoguo.

Luo Yaoguo nodded approvingly at Maria, then turned to look at Yang Xiuqing. He had a smile on his face, but his eyes were cold. He asked with a hint of meaning: "Fourth brother, is there anything else you want to ask?" His eyes seemed to be saying: "What do you mean by asking so many questions? Why don't you give up and want to turn the tables?"

Yang Xiuqing was such a smart man. Seeing that Maria and Hong Xiuquan had answered perfectly, he was not stupid enough to continue asking questions. He immediately put on a smile and said, "So that's how it is! Since Maria is a messenger sent by the Virgin Mary, she is also one of our family members! Ninth brother, how are you going to punish her?"

"How should we punish her?" Luo Yaoguo raised his lips and said with a smile, "First convict her. After that, we can discuss the punishment later!"

Yang Xiuqing was startled, and walked back to his seat and sat down: "She has already admitted her guilt, and we need to convict her again? Isn't this unnecessary?"

"Fourth brother, you don't understand this!" Luo Yaoguo explained seriously, "Her confession is one thing, but our National Assembly convicting her is another matter! Didn't you just say that she is one of our family members... Then who should judge right and wrong when one of our family members makes a mistake? Just now, the Heavenly Father sent me a message through the Tongtian Mirror, saying that the National Assembly should try the Heavenly King and Junior Sister Maria. He just wanted to set a rule! With this rule, the Heavenly King can completely stop such troublesome things as stabbing Brother Tian in the future!"

Speaking of "the king of heaven stabbing his brother of heaven", Luo Yaoguo deliberately turned his head to glance at Hong Xiuquan, whose face was ashen, and added: "Second brother, this is the iron rule of heaven, we mortals dare not change it!"

"Hmph!" Hong Xiuquan was so angry that smoke was almost coming out of his nostrils, and he let out a cold snort.

"So that's how it is..." Yang Xiuqing narrowed his eye, his eyeballs rolled around, and after thinking for a while, he nodded slightly, "Then how do you determine this crime?"

"Easy, vote by raising your hands!" Luo Yaoguo waved his hand, signaling Zeng Jiumei to hand over the microphone. He took the microphone and shouted to the national representatives in the audience: "Dear national representatives, let's use a show of hands to convict Maria today! Those who think Maria is guilty, raise your hands!"

After shouting, he was the first to raise his right hand high.

Yang Xiuqing had understood Luo Yaoguo's idea and immediately raised his hand. Feng Yunshan, who was sitting on the other side of Luo Yaoguo and was like a mute person in the meeting today, was as steady as a rock and did not move at all, with no intention of raising his hand at all.

The deputy chief judges on both sides, Wei Changhui, Shi Dakai, Hu Yihuang, and Qin Rigang, all raised their hands in unison as if they had agreed to do so; however, Hong Rengan crossed his arms over his chest, contradicting them and not raising his hands.

After the kings on the stage expressed their opinions, the representatives of the people below followed suit. Luo Yaoguo took a quick look and found that about three-quarters of the representatives of the people had raised their hands. However, there were still many representatives of the people under Hong Xiuquan or Feng Yunshan who did not move and did not raise their hands.

But this is exactly what Luo Yaoguo wanted - if there are conflicts or disagreements, just hold a meeting and vote, don't resort to violence!
"Maria is guilty!" Luo Yaoguo shouted loudly.

Then, his face darkened and his eyes were like torches as he looked at Hong Xiuquan: "Heavenly King, you used the Spear of Langnuski to seriously injure the Western King and Heavenly Brother, causing them to be unable to descend to the mortal world... Just tell me, do you admit this crime?"

"Humph!" Hong Xiuquan was so angry that he jumped up from his seat, his face flushed and his neck thick, and shouted: "What crime have I committed? I am the second son of God. I am doing this on the orders of the Virgin Mary to eliminate you, a fake fallen angel! I only hurt Brother Tian and the King of the West by mistake. It was purely an accident!"

As he spoke, he glared at Maria who was lying on the ground, and shouted at the top of his voice: "Junior Sister Maria, why are you still standing there! Please ask the Holy Mother to come down to earth! Luo Yaoguo is about to convict you. If the Holy Mother doesn't come down, he will torture you to death!" Maria was unmoved, and just shouted: "Maria is willing to plead guilty!"

Hong Xiuquan stamped his feet in anger and said, "You have caused me so much trouble!"

Luo Yaoguo said with a smile, "Second brother, Heavenly King, don't scare Junior Sister Maria. What do you mean by slow slicing and execution? She was just following the orders of the Holy Mother. Her crime was that she went too far and accidentally injured the Western King and Heavenly Brother. She doesn't deserve slow slicing and her crime doesn't deserve death."

He looked around and said, "Everyone, tell me, how should we punish Maria?"

Still punishing like this?

You said it yourself, the crime does not deserve the death penalty!
That was certainly a light punishment.

The princes present were not stupid, and they didn't understand Luo Yaoguo's intentions. He had no intention of killing Maria. Maria just slapped him with hot water, but she pushed him to the position of the first person in heaven, no, the first god.

The merits far outweigh the faults!

Moreover, Yang Xiuqing just said, "Maria is one of our own family." What does "one of our own family" mean? It means one of the "gods" in heaven!
Judging from Maria's submissive attitude towards Luo Yaoguo, she will definitely be Luo Yaoguo's person in the future, so isn't it just a light punishment?
"How about a beating with a stick?" Wei Changhui smiled and looked very honest. "How about fifty strokes?"

Feng Yunshan, who had been silent just now, suddenly spoke up: "Isn't fifty strokes a little too little? She is the main culprit! In the final analysis, it was she who gave the Spear of Langnuski to the Heavenly King to use against my ninth brother!"

Feng Yunshan was helping Hong Xiuquan! It didn't matter how many times Maria was beaten, the problem was that she had to be the principal offender, so Hong Xiuquan was an accomplice. And the punishment for an accomplice must be lower than that for the principal offender.
"Then give her ten more strokes!" Hong Rengan quickly took over Feng Yunshan's words and gave Maria ten more strokes with the board.

Sixty hits!

The principal offender will receive 60 strokes of the cane, and the accomplice will receive fewer strokes.
Luo Yaoguo knew what they were up to, but he didn't take it to heart. As long as he could accuse Hong Xiuquan of a crime today, he could beat him as many times as he wanted, even if it was just a gesture, it would further destroy Hong Xiuquan's "divine power" and raise the status of the National People's Congress to a higher level than the divine power of the Heavenly King.

"Okay, then give her sixty strokes of the cane!" Luo Yaoguo glanced at Maria's raised buttocks, picked up the microphone, and shouted at the top of his voice: "Dear national representatives, now it is the turn to convict the accomplice Tian Wang who accidentally injured Tian Xiong and King Xiao Xi. Please raise your hands if you think Tian Wang is guilty!"

As he said that, he took the lead in raising his right hand high!
Now the reaction of the people in the synagogue was completely different from when Maria was convicted just now.

Although Maria is also a "relative of God", she is not as good as the King of Heaven.

Hong Xiuquan was the founding boss of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom! Convicting him... this is no joke, it's too difficult!

Yang Xiuqing and Feng Yunshan, two "stabilizing force" level princes, sat very still, as if they were acupunctured, and no one raised their hands. They did not move, and the other princes also squinted their eyes and pretended to be deep, as motionless as wooden sculptures. Looking at the Chinese people below, only Luo Yaoguo's group of younger brothers raised their hands following the boss, and they were sparsely present, and it was obvious that they were in the minority.

Hong Xiuquan had just breathed a sigh of relief and was feeling very happy when suddenly, someone shouted at the back door of the hall: "His Royal Highness the King of the West and His Majesty the Queen of the West have arrived!"

Oh no, Xiao Chaogui and Hong Xuanjiao are back!
Hong Xiuquan's face turned pale and he turned his head hastily, only to see Xiao Chaogui slumped on a slide, his face as white as paper, being carried in. Hong Xuanjiao, with a face full of anger, strode beside him. The two of them raised one hand in unison, as if they had discussed it beforehand!

They are here to vote!
Seeing that King Xi and Hong Xuanjiao both raised their hands, Xiao Chaogui's little brothers also followed suit and raised their hands. Suddenly, there were quite a few arms raised in the meeting room, and it seemed that almost half of the arms were raised.

"It doesn't count!" Hong Xiuquan panicked and shouted at the top of his voice, "It doesn't count... I'm not guilty!"

But at this critical moment, Yang Xiuqing, who had been like a sculpture just now, suddenly raised his right hand slowly.

As soon as Yang Xiuqing raised his hand, the representatives from Jiangbei all raised their hands as if they had received a signal. This was great. The number of representatives who supported Hong Xiuquan's guilt must have exceeded half!
(End of this chapter)