The Qing Dynasty is about to end

Chapter 436: Colonizing on your knees, expanding on your tears, and begging on your feet (Requesting subscription and tickets)

Hong Xiuquan waved his hand with such force that it seemed as if he could poke a hole in the sky. The group of female officials and generals below, as well as Hong Rengan, the chief bishop of the "True Contract Sect", were so frightened that they almost lost their souls.

This Hong Tianwang, he should be reflecting on his mistakes behind closed doors at this moment! Without the nod from Prime Minister Luo Yaoguo, he can't even step out of the three acres of land of Jinlong City and Zijin Mountain. This Jinlong City occupies almost the area of ​​the Ming Dynasty Imperial City. It is separated from Zijin Mountain by the wall on the east side of the inner city of Tianjing. After leaving Chaoyang Gate, you can go up the mountain for a stroll not far away. At present, Hong Xiuquan can come and go freely in this palm-sized area. If he wants to run farther, it depends on whether Luo Yaoguo is willing to help him "ask" God.

Seeing the female officials and Hong Rengan standing there like wooden stakes, Hong Xiuquan's temper flared up. He stamped his feet fiercely and shouted at the top of his voice: "What time has it come? There is drought in Huguang. As the saying goes, 'If Huguang is fertile, the Heavenly Kingdom will be well-fed'. Now Huguang is not fertile, and our Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's rice bowl is about to be smashed to pieces. His Prime Minister, the Holy Angel, is standing there staring blankly and doing nothing. Can't I, the King of Heaven, say a word for the people? Quick, prepare a sedan chair for me. On behalf of the millions of disaster victims in Huguang, I have to ask him when it will rain, so that we won't starve together!"

"Yes!" Bian Sanniang, Daozi and other female officials immediately became superstitious when they heard this. They shouted loudly and ran to prepare the sedan chair carried by 64 people. Hong Rengan stood aside with a worried look on his face. Seeing Hong Xiuquan's high-spirited appearance, he had no choice but to pray silently to the Heavenly Father and Heavenly Brother in his heart, asking God for protection.

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Prime Minister's Office, conference room.

The Zongli Yamen working meeting on how to deal with the drought in Huguang was in full swing. The ministers attending the meeting argued with each other until their faces turned red and their necks became thick.

After they determined that Luo Yaoguo could not ask Heavenly Father and Heavenly Brother for rain, they split into two groups. One group, led by Wu Ruxiao, Minister of Finance, Ji Wenyuan, Minister of Agriculture, and Zeng Lichang, Minister of Armaments, all thought about suspending the plan to sweep Jiangnan and concentrate on dealing with the drought in Huguang. Why? Food is the first necessity of the people. If they can't even get enough food, what's the point of fighting? Won't they faint from hunger on the way?

As for the other group, the leaders, including the Minister of Army Qin Rigang, the Minister of Punishment Hu Yihuang, and the Minister of Personnel Zeng Tianyang, advocated fighting to support the war and wanted to quickly conquer Guangdong, Zhejiang, and Fujian and use the food there to save Huguang from its emergency.

But in Luo Yaoguo's opinion, both sides have some truth, but they are too idealistic, like a dream. Nowadays, China is facing internal and external troubles, natural disasters and man-made disasters one after another. If disaster relief comes first and then civil war, can the war be stopped? The root cause of this disaster is that there are too many people and too little land to eat! If the population is reduced by one third, the drought in Huguang this year will not be a big deal.

Furthermore, it is even more unreliable to use food from Guangdong, Fujian, and Zhejiang to relieve the disaster! These three provinces are not big grain producers. Moreover, this year, Huguang suffered a drought, and Guangdong suffered as well. The year after next, Jiangnan will have a severe drought, and Zhejiang will also suffer from drought. Not to mention Fujian, "eight mountains, one river, and one piece of land", it is a daydream to expect it to produce grain to help Huguang and Jiangnan!

In addition, the population of Guangdong, Fujian, and Zhejiang is as dense as ants. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom claims to rule 200 million people, but in fact it only has 100 million or so. If they take over Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, and Guangxi, then the population of 200 million or so will be gathered together. The contradiction between people and land and the problem of food will definitely cause a big mess!

So Luo Yaoguo was too lazy to listen to the nonsense of these ministers, and slowly took out his "Tongtian Mirror" and flipped through it. Hey, this is a meeting of the Prime Minister's Yamen, but he is openly "playing with his mobile phone". Looking at the world, there is probably no one else like him!
However, when the people below saw him "playing with his mobile phone", they dared not even breathe and the arguing stopped immediately. They dared not disturb the Prime Minister from "asking God for instructions". If they angered God and blamed him, who would be able to take the responsibility?
Luo Yaoguo had sharp ears. Hearing the sudden silence around him, he could hear a pin drop. He asked casually, "What's the matter? Don't want to discuss it anymore?"

Qin Rigang quickly replied respectfully: "Your Highness, King Wu, we really can't come to a conclusion after discussing this. The key is to see what the Heavenly Father means... What does the Heavenly Father mean?"

Luo Yaoguo glanced at him and complained in his heart: "You are so superstitious that you are almost as superstitious as my 'National Prophecy Assistant' Maria!"

Thinking of this, he said to Qin Rigang: "Father told me to wait, and said that someone who can help us solve the problem will be here soon!"

"Someone who can help us solve the problem?" Qin Rigang subconsciously raised his head and glanced at the roof. "Come down from above?"

Hu Yihuang's eyes widened as well, and he asked in surprise, "What? Are they sending someone down again?"

As soon as they asked this question, Xu Yuegui, the chief steward of the Prime Minister's Office, came in in a hurry and saluted Luo Yaoguo: "Your Highness, King Wu, the King of Heaven has left Jinlong City and is on his way to the Prime Minister's Office."

Luo Yaoguo put away the "Tongtian Mirror", glanced at everyone in the conference room, curled his lips, and said with a smile: "Look, here they come!"

"That person is the king of heaven?" Qin Rigang was stunned. "What can the king of heaven do?"

Hu Yihuang also echoed: "Yes, what can he do?" "He can make up for his crime with meritorious service!" Luo Yaoguo raised his eyebrows, "The drought in Huguang this time is actually a punishment from God...so no matter who prays for rain, it will be useless!"

"What?"

“It turned out to be a punishment from Heavenly Father?”

"This is how to do ah?"

The meeting in the Zongli Yamen instantly turned into a "myth storytelling session". A group of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's ministers believed it as if they were listening to a foreign book. They were as anxious as ants on a hot pan and began to worry about Hong Xiuquan.

Luo Yaoguo was not worried about Hong Tianwang at all... because he had already arranged a "bright road" for Hong Xiuquan, waiting for Hong Tianwang to walk up on his own!
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"Ninth brother, as a holy angel, how come you can't even pray for a rain to save the millions of people in Huguang... Hey, why did you take out the 'Sky Mirror' again? Put it away quickly, I don't want to contact the Heavenly Father, Heavenly Brother, and the Holy Mother at this moment..."

Inside the main gate of the Zongli Yamen, Hong Xiuquan, who had just emerged from a sedan chair carried by sixty-four people, was about to give Luo Yaoguo a severe scolding for not being able to pray for rain, but the latter suddenly took out his cell phone.

Hong Xiuquan is now most afraid that Luo Yaoguo will take out the "Tongtian Mirror". In his eyes, this thing is much scarier than the Spear of Langnuski. The Spear of Langnuski is a "fatal killer" to Hong Xiuquan. If it stabs him, his life will be over immediately. However, the "Tongtian Mirror", although not fatal, is an absolute "trouble maker" that can issue the "highest instructions from the Heavenly Court" at any time. Although it will not kill him, it can make him suffer.

To be honest, being a superstar is... quite boring. It's just that he has a bigger house, a mountain at home, and three-digit wives. Apart from that, what else is there!

"Heavenly King, the Father in Heaven has issued a decree that you can help solve the long-standing problem of too many people and too little land, and not enough food!" Luo Yaoguo smiled and put away his phone, made a "please" gesture, and said to Hong Xiuquan: "Heavenly King, this is not the place to talk, let's go to the small hall and sit down and discuss slowly."

Hong Xiuquan's heart skipped a beat: Oh no, I was too impulsive! I've walked into a trap!
He saw Luo Yaoguo's evil smile and knew that he shouldn't have come this time. But now that he was here, he couldn't just turn around and run away, wouldn't that make him look afraid of Luo Yaoguo? Thinking of this, he gritted his teeth and got off the sedan chair, called Hong Rengan and Daozi, and the three of them followed Luo Yaoguo to the small hall of the Zongli Yamen.

As soon as Hong Xiuquan entered the small hall of the Zongli Yamen, he could not help but frowning, and he kept muttering in his heart: What kind of arrangement is this? It's too "equal"! A long table, surrounded by a circle of chairs... Where should the king sit? Where should the people kneel? Kneeling on the table is not appropriate, and kneeling under the table will make you unable to see anything...

"Heavenly King, please take your seat!"

Luo Yaoguo pointed to the seat at the top of the conference table and asked Hong Xiuquan to sit down with a big smile on his face. He then pulled a chair to Hong Xiuquan's left and sat down steadily at the conference table. He then called out to the others: "Everyone, please sit down. Only by sitting down can you take notes while attending the meeting... There is no place for everyone to kneel here. What do you think, Heavenly King?"

Hong Xiuquan nodded reluctantly with a dark face: "Then sit down!"

As he spoke, he sat down without hesitation, and after seeing Luo Yaoguo, Hong Rengan, Qin Rigang, Hu Yihuang, the other four kings, and several other ministers sitting down, he asked in a deep voice, "Ninth brother, tell me quickly, what exactly does the decree of the Heavenly Father say?"

Luo Yaoguo took out his cell phone with a smile, fiddled with it for a few times, and handed it to Hong Xiuquan with both hands: "Heavenly King, please take a look for yourself."

Hong Xiuquan squinted his eyes and saw a patch of white on the Tongtian mirror, with twelve black characters in Song Dynasty style. He whispered, "Kneeling to colonize, crying to expand, standing to beg... What does this mean?"

(End of this chapter)