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Chapter 438 Hong Xiuquan: In the future, I must stand and take power! (Please subscribe, please vote)
"Ninth brother, is the method you just mentioned really what Heavenly Father meant?"

Hong Xiuquan still couldn't believe it. This Heavenly Father was too evil, wasn't he? As Heavenly Father, shouldn't he be aboveboard? He knelt down first, then started crying and making a scene, and then stood up straight to beg for food. How could this be something Heavenly Father would do?

"Of course!" Luo Yaoguo said firmly, "Our Heavenly Father has always been like this! Heavenly King, isn't it written in the Old Testament of the Bible? How did Heavenly Father help the Jews deal with Egypt? How did those disasters come down? He doesn't care much about the means to achieve his goals. Brother Heaven suffered for others that time, it was just..." He was halfway through his words, as if he realized that he had let it slip, so he quickly stopped and changed the subject: "By the way, how did the foreign brothers of the Catholic Church enter Rome later? Didn't they enter on their knees? The Roman Empire was so powerful back then, how could they not kneel? Later, during the rise of Catholicism, how many times were they massacred by the Romans who did not believe in Heavenly Father? The early popes were all martyred, and they shed a lot of tears, right? And later, did Catholicism stand and beg for food in the West?"

It seems to be true! "Hong Xiuquan and Hong Rengan looked at each other. They both knew a little about the "dark history" of Catholicism. After Luo Yaoguo's explanation, the more they thought about it, the more they felt it made sense. It was like kneeling in Rome, crying and making a fuss, and finally making a name for themselves in the West. In the final analysis, they were still destined to beg for food.

Seeing that Hong Xiuquan looked thoughtful, Luo Yaoguo continued to deceive him while the iron was hot: "Heavenly King, please think carefully about your experiences since you came to the world. Isn't it a routine? Heavenly Father didn't let you be born into the Governor-General's family of Guangdong and Guangxi to enjoy a carefree life. In the past years, you have suffered hardships and hardships. When you failed the exam, you shed a lot of tears, right? Look at you now..." He deliberately kept the subject in suspense, changed the subject, and stopped.

Hong Xiuquan shuddered in his heart. That's right. I am like a beggar now. Two million taels of silver a year may seem like a lot, but in fact, I am constrained everywhere! My journey seems to be just like this... Now I am really a beggar. It's so aggrieved!
Hong Xiuquan secretly thought: "It seems that Luo Yaoguo's method may really be the true teaching of God! God's skill in rebellion is very advanced, I must learn from God. Now I can't defeat Luo Yaoguo, so I will bow my head first! When I have accumulated enough strength in the future, I will also rise up crying and making a fuss. At that time, I will not only beg for food, but also hold power!"

Having made up his mind, Hong Xiuquan immediately became humble towards Luo Yaoguo: "Ninth brother, tell me the bottom line, what is the first step of 'kneeling out'?"

Luo Yaoguo had been waiting for this until the flowers withered. He immediately sat up straight with a serious face: "Heavenly King, we have to work together on this matter. One of us plays the good guy and the other plays the bad guy!" He knew that he couldn't play all the bad guys and the good guys by himself. If he forced people to leave their homes first and then let them trust him, that would be nonsense! Besides, the good guy and the bad guy had to switch back and forth.

He is the villain now, but when the Chinese workers in Taiwan start to cry and make trouble overseas, it will be the turn of Hong Xiuquan, the religious leader, to play the villain. Luo Yaoguo and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom or the Taiping United States government cannot intervene, otherwise the matter will become a big deal, and it will become the Taiping United States declaring war on the powers instead of the Chinese workers uprising to split the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Therefore, the role of the "ultimate villain" must belong to Hong Xiuquan, because he is the second son of God!
When Hong Xiuquan heard this, his heart skipped a beat and he asked cautiously, "Who is the bad guy?" But in his heart he was shouting, "Don't let it be me!"

Luo Yaoguo shook his head like a rattle: "Who will be the bad guy first!" He patted his chest and said, "I'll go first, you be the good guy first."

Hong Xiuquan nodded slightly: "Well, I have always been kind-hearted and suitable to be a good person... Tell me in detail."

Luo Yaoguo cleared his throat and said, "I have to be a bad guy like this. In a year of great disaster, I ordered my second brother and my brother-in-law to continue collecting grain and recruiting laborers, and act as if I am determined to fight the Qing monster to the death!"

"Humph, this is your true face!" Hong Xiuquan snorted inwardly, stroking his beard, narrowing his eyes and asking: "Aren't you afraid of the government forcing the people to rebel?"

"What are you afraid of!" Luo Yaoguo stiffened his neck and said firmly, "First, we are strong in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. If anyone dares to rebel, we can suppress them in minutes! Second, we are in trouble, and the Qing demons are even more difficult! We collect grain and recruit laborers, and the Qing demons have to follow us. Our people are more honest and incorruptible than the Qing demons, and we are more reliable in doing things. If there is a rebellion, it will be the Qing demons who will be in chaos first; third, don't we have you, a great philanthropist, to back us up!"

"Bah, too depraved! You are a fallen angel!" Hong Xiuquan cursed in his heart, "You are like this, but Brother Tian is still protecting you. Could it be that Brother Tian has also fallen? This must be the case..."

"Then how should I cover it?" Hong Xiuquan suppressed his dissatisfaction and asked.

Luo Yaoguo said slowly, "A tree that is moved will die, but a person who is moved will live. The people who cannot pay the grain should be allowed to move and given some help. This job will be handed over to the Taoists of the Zhenyue Sect, who are your trusted followers. At the same time, let the Southern and Western Kings open up the sale of land, and let the farmers who are short of money sell their land to those with more money, so that they can at least collect some money for the journey and follow the Zhenyue people to Shanghai to find a way to make a living."

Although the God Worshipping Society distributed land and wealth in Huguang, which benefited millions of landless and small-scale farmers, it was indeed a great merit. But how could the inequality between the rich and the poor in rural areas be eliminated all at once? The ones who were punished were the big landlords and gentry, while a large number of rich and middle peasants were not only safe, but also had more opportunities to climb up because the landlords above them were unlucky. In addition, some rural second-rate people who followed the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom also took advantage of this reshuffle to turn over a new leaf and became small leaders at the grassroots level, and naturally had more money on hand.

In addition, there have been wars in Huguang for two or three years in a row, and there were natural disasters this year. The gap between the rich and the poor is getting bigger and bigger. It is only a matter of time before small farmers go bankrupt and land is concentrated.

To put it bluntly, Luo Yaoguo's land distribution gave the lower-class peasants a break, opened a path for the middle-class rural people to advance, and cultivated grassroots forces loyal to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. But for those poor people who didn't seize the opportunity to turn over, and those unlucky people who fell from the landlords to the lower class... life was still hard.

After all...the root of private land ownership has not been changed.

"Can you survive if you go to Shanghai?" Hong Xiuquan asked with a frown.

Luo Yaoguo nodded his head vigorously: "Of course not! Once we get to Shanghai, there will be companies that specialize in labor export recruiting people. On the way to Shanghai, the Taoists of the Zhenyue Sect should be able to develop these people into believers."

"Someone wants me as soon as I arrive in Shanghai?" Hong Xiuquan's eyes widened, thinking to himself, "Wow, you two are really good at working together!"

Luo Yaoguo chuckled, "To be honest, my Lord, the businessmen in Shanghai have been tinkering with this business for a long time. In the past two years, a large tin mine has been discovered in Southeast Asia, and gold mines have been discovered in America and British Australia. They are in need of manpower! Many foreign mining companies see that our people are honest and hardworking, and they think it is more cost-effective to employ us Chinese than to employ natives or black slaves, so they are willing to pay for the travel expenses to hire people to mine. These poor people can earn much more money by working outside than at home."

Luo Yaoguo did not just act on a whim and decide to send the starving people in Huguang overseas. In fact, he had started planning this as soon as he entered Shanghai. Who made him a prophetic "angel"? He knew that China would be trapped in the contradiction between population and land for many years to come, and it would even be uglier than in history. After all, the Taiping Rebellion in history killed 1877 million people, and then the Northwest Rebellion killed tens of millions more. Even so, in the Dingshu famine in 1878 and 1870, more than million people starved to death! If there had not been the consumption of the Taiping Rebellion and the Northwest Rebellion, by the s, China's population might have been over million.

How could we possibly feed the people without any exports with the agricultural level of the 19s?

"Throwing away your mother is more profitable than slavery?" Hong Xiuquan was so shocked that his jaw dropped when he heard this. "Why are the wages of Chinese workers so low? And... they earn much more abroad than in China?"

Luo Yaoguo glanced at Hong Xiuquan and sighed softly, "That's right! So the Taoists of the True Covenant Sect must encourage these poor people who have left their homes to go out to sea to make a living. Some Taoists can even lead a team out... and even arrange for some white believers to follow them, using them as a cover to build True Covenant Churches overseas, so that the churches can protect these poor people who go out to find a way to make a living."

Being able to fool white believers is a trump card for the True Yue sect! Especially when the conflicting parties are Chinese and indigenous people, whoever the white master supports will be in the right! Therefore, he and Hong Xiuquan's white believers must make full use of it.

As he spoke, Luo Yaoguo took out a thread-bound booklet from his bosom and handed it to Hong Xiuquan with both hands: "Heavenly King, these are some ideas that I have thought of. Take them and have a look at them for reference. When you understand them, we will call a meeting of the kings and make this a secret national policy of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom!"

(End of this chapter)