The Qing Dynasty is about to end

Chapter 596 Luo Yaoguo: What? My teacher Karl came to China?

Tongyuan Gate in Chongqing, July 15th of the seventh year in the Tianli calendar.

"Rumble"

The unique green-yellow fireball of picric acid explosion flashed, and the lead-gray Tongyuan Gate archway collapsed.

Bao Chao, the head of the 35th Regiment of the 11th Division of the 3rd Army of the Taiping Army, wiped the blood from his eyes, picked up two revolvers, shouted "Kill the Qing monsters and go to heaven", and rushed to the gap in the city wall on the broken bricks on the ground.

He was "captured" from the Qing army into the Taiping Army during the Battle of Changsha a few years ago, and has been working in Luo Yaoguo's team ever since. Over the past few years, he has been promoted to the current head of the regiment by daring to fight, fight and die. Today's siege of Chongqing was supervised by the 5,000-year-old King Wu himself, and he used picric acid explosives to blow up the city gates, which was a determination to win. Bao Chao naturally would not miss this opportunity to make merit in front of the big leader, so he joined the death squad as the head of the regiment, and rushed forward first, shouting in Sichuan dialect: "You son of a bitch Liu Rong, come out! I'm here to catch you!"

There were still a few Qing soldiers on the wall who had not been shaken off by the explosion of the picric acid explosives. When they saw Bao Chao rushing over with two revolvers, how could they dare to engage in hand-to-hand combat? They used knives, while he used two four-shot revolvers! Moreover, behind this "two-gun general" there was a large group of people holding foreign rifles with sharp bayonets. How could they fight? They could not even get one or two taels of silver a month, so why risk their lives! So these Qing soldiers simply dropped their weapons, knelt down and kowtowed to beg for mercy: "Lord Heavenly Soldier, please have mercy!"

"Have you caught Liu Rong? Your Highness the King of Wu wants this bastard's head!" Zhu Ba stepped onto the battlement with his sword on his waist, his fierce and ugly face full of murderous intent. The commander of the Third Army was already standing on the top of Chongqing City. The Taiping officers and soldiers holding the Tianli Year 3 rifled rifles flooded over the gap opened by the picric acid explosives like a flood.

"Report to the commander-in-chief, Liu Rong has gone into the cellar." After a while, a staff officer ran up to Zhu Ba with a smile, "It was one of Liu's advisors who said so!"

"Dig!" Zhu Ba laughed, "I want to see him alive or dead. Since the King of Wu's army entered Sichuan, all the people surrendered at the sight of the enemy. Only Liu Rong is resisting stubbornly in the city. We can't let him escape!"

"Yes!"

When the secret door of the cellar of the Governor's Office in the west of the city was pried open by three of Liu Rong's Geshaha who had turned from the dark to the light, Feng Zicai, the commander of the 11th Division, threw a nitre-sugar smoke bomb in without saying a word. Soon, a violent coughing sound came from inside. Master Feng glared at the Geshaha fiercely: "Why don't you go and pull out your master? Make up for your crime!"

“Chirp! Chirp!”

The three Goshahas whose braids had been cut off each picked up a wooden stick, put on a mask and rushed into the cellar. After a burst of wailing and screaming, they saw a high-ranking Qing Dynasty official with a bruised face and nose being dragged out. The guy's hat had been lost somewhere long ago, and the peacock patch on his hat was torn in half, revealing the silk lining underneath. Although his arms were twisted by two burly men on the left and right, he was holding a copy of "The Outlaws of Marshland" tightly in his right hand.

"Liu Zhitai has a very refined taste," Feng Zicai stepped forward and grabbed his braid, "What sage book was he reading when the city was broken?"

"I want to kill the enemy, but I can't save the situation." As soon as Liu Rong started to curse, Feng Zicai slapped her in the face, "Come with me to see His Royal Highness the King of Wu!"

The main street inside Tongyuan Gate.

Zhou Xiuying rode a chestnut horse with folded ears and was the first to step into the half-collapsed Tongyuan Gate. Behind her were three hundred personal soldiers of the Prince Wu's Palace, all riding large folded-ear horses shipped from India. They looked so majestic!

"coming!"

Someone suddenly shouted, and all the poor people on the street knelt down. Countless heads popped out from behind the windows of shops, then quickly retreated - but a red flag eight feet high appeared under the west city gate, with seven large characters "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Wu Wang Luo" embroidered in gold thread. When the sun shone on it, it was so bright that it blinded people!
When Luo Yaoguo rode his horse through the city gate, the prime minister of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was wearing a red robe like ordinary holy soldiers, and a sunshade hat on his head. Suddenly, a cry broke out from the street corner: "Divide the land! The poor people will have a way out!"

A dozen skinny barefoot men carrying tattered quilts squeezed into the middle of the road. They were stopped by the Taiping soldiers guarding the roadside with rifle butts, but they refused to retreat: "Please take us in, my king! We will lead the heavenly soldiers through!"

Zhou Xiuying was about to stop him, but she saw Luo Yaoguo raised his hand, took off his bamboo hat and said with a smile: "Don't worry, folks. The farmers' association of Chongqing Prefecture will be open soon. All the people with little or no land can be allocated one or two acres of thin land for a living. Those who are willing to join the army, as long as they are not afraid of death or hardship, can at least become militiamen first."

It is not easy to be a Taiping soldier now! The barefoot men in front of me may not meet the recruitment requirements, but they can still be allocated one or two acres of land and become part-time militia.

As he spoke, he raised his whip and pointed outside the Tongyuan Gate: "There's a porridge factory over there. Go and have some hot food first. When you're refreshed, go to the recruiting office. Don't worry, there's always a way for you to survive in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom!"

"King Wu is kind and righteous!"

"The benevolence of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom."

The cheers of the people on both sides of Tongyuanmen Main Street merged into one.

Luo Yaoguo's mouth curled up slightly, and with a tap of the whip, the team had already turned around the drum tower. The Third Army Supervisor Xiang Xun rode his horse and caught up with him, sweating profusely: "Teacher, we caught Liu Rong!"

The lobby of the governor's office had been tidied up. Luo Yaoguo took off his sword and placed it on the desk, then sat down there in a dignified manner.

"Why don't you kneel down to the King of Wu!" Feng Zicai kicked Liu Rong in the knee, and the former Qing governor fell to his knees on the blue bricks. "This old villain just tried to curse the Celestial Empire. I have ordered someone to remove his jaw." Luo Yaoguo glanced at the newly appointed Sichuan Governor, "Replace his jaw. I have something to ask him."

"Understood." Feng Zicai waved his hand, and immediately two medical officers who were supposed to fix the jaw came up. One grabbed the head, and the other twisted the dislocated jaw and pushed it up hard. Then Liu Rong screamed: "It hurts, it hurts!"

"Bang!" Luo Yaoguo slammed the gavel. "Liu Rong, tell me, what happened in Xi'an? Why did they call themselves the Qing Dynasty again? Whose idea was that?"

Luo Yaoguo had been keeping in touch with Naralan through Wanzhen for the past two years, and of course he also informed Naralan that he was going to lead an expedition to Sichuan. But then his contact with Xi'an was cut off, and Ronglu, who ran errands for both sides, never returned! Then there was news that Zaichun ascended the throne again and re-opened the Tongzhi Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty.

Liu Rong snorted coldly: "You don't give the Qing Dynasty a chance to survive, and you want to take away Sichuan, the only source of wealth. Do you really think there are no loyal ministers in the Qing Dynasty?"

"Loyal minister?" Luo Yaoguo understood. "So, someone held Nara and Zaichun hostage? It must be Zeng Guofan, right?" He sneered, "He is quite capable, but it's too late!"

Luo Yaoguo pointed at Liu Rong and said, "Take her to the riverside and build a wooden platform so that the people of Chongqing can see what happened to the previous governor."

Feng Zicai received the order and just led his men to escort the crying Liu Rong out. Suddenly, horses neighed outside the hall. Then Luo Yaoguo saw his Maria rushing in with a dusty face. Before the great prince Luo could react, she rushed to Luo Yaoguo and said in a low voice: "Prince! The Heavenly Master Karl has come to China!"

Luo Yaoguo was stunned by his incoherent words: "Which Karl Tianshi?"

"Your teacher in heaven?" Maria said.

"My teacher?" Luo Yaoguo thought to himself, "I have many teachers. Could it be that someone has traveled through time? How did this become 'double travel'?"

"What does he look like?" Luo Yaoguo asked quickly.

This matter is quite serious!
"Your Highness, I drew his appearance." Maria took out a pencil drawing and handed it to Luo Yaoguo.

This foreign girl is a versatile person, she is good at painting, singing and dancing, but she is a little too superstitious, so Luo Yaoguo got the upper hand.
Luo Yaoguo took Maria's pencil drawing and looked at it, then stood up suddenly: "Karl Marx."

The pencil drawing Maria gave him was of the great thinker with a high forehead, thick beard and a slightly plump figure!
Luo Yaoguo doesn't dare to regard himself as his disciple in "heaven", otherwise he would have to have a larger organization!

The hall was completely silent. Zhu Ba, Xiang Xun, Zhou Xiuying and others were all looking at Luo Yaoguo and Maria in amazement. They were both members of the "Gods of Heaven". They would not panic even if the sky fell, so what was going on today?

Maria looked dusty and dirty, as if she hadn't washed properly for several days. She even smelled a bit bad.

Luo Yaoguo was a prince who held great power in the Heavenly Kingdom and he also had the Tongtian Mirror which could connect him to the upper world. Unless Hong Xiuquan came down to earth in the flesh, who could make him change his color like that?

"Your Highness, is he your teacher in heaven?" Maria asked again when she saw Luo Yaoguo's expression.

"He" Luo Yaoguo then discovered that Zhu Ba, Xiang Xun, Zhou Xiuying and the others were all watching with their ears perked up and eyes wide open!
"All of you step back!" Luo Yaoguo waved his hand.

"Yes."

They all bowed to Luo Yaoguo and left the hall together. Although they left, they all knew in their hearts that the Kingdom of Heaven was going to expand again.

Seeing that these people had left, Luo Yaoguo took out the Tongtian Mirror, fiddled with it for a while, and then pointed the screen at Maria: "Maria, is he here too?"

"Oh, this is Friedrich," Maria immediately recognized the person on the screen, "Your Highness, he is with Angel Karl, did he also come down from heaven?"

Luo Yaoguo put away the "Tongtian Mirror" and thought for a while: "They themselves probably don't know, Maria, you hurry back to Tianjing to receive them. After I conquer Chengdu, I will hand over the rest of the military affairs to Zhu Ba and Xiang Xun, and then return to Tianjing." He showed an expectant expression on his face, "I have a lot of things to ask them!"

Ask for advice? Maria thought to herself, "It seems that these two are the angel's teachers in heaven!"

(End of this chapter)