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Chapter 632: Xian Yaotou: I want to stir up the storm, I am a hero of the Kingdom of Heaven! (Please subscribe, please vote)

As the gas lamps on Broadway in New York lit up one after another in the twilight, a brand new four-wheeled carriage rolled over the newly paved granite road in Chinatown. Xianfeng lifted the velvet curtain and saw a four-story Western-style building with Chinese-style flying eaves and brackets - the cross and the Tai Chi diagram blended in the stained glass windows, and the stone unicorn squatting on the eaves stepped on a cross-stitched ball under its claws. The great cathedral of the True Covenant East Coast Diocese has arrived!

"Fourth brother, this is Lei Lao Hu's Hongmen Banquet." Su Shun reached out and touched the revolver hidden under the black robe. Zeng Jia Linshu's right hand tightly grasped the handle of a Shundao, while Chiyoko held a ninja sword.

Xianfeng, however, was nonchalant and did not take the theft of the Book of the Lesser Prophets seriously at all. Seeing the three people's nervous expressions, he said with a smile, "Don't worry, it's just a book. King Luo Wu gave out the Book of the Lesser Prophets as if it were candy beans. It's clear that he is not afraid of people stealing it to read. What he is afraid of is that there are a bunch of wooden fish heads below who will not be able to use the secret in their hands!"

When he spoke, the carriage had already stopped. After hearing what Xianfeng said, Sushun and Zeng Jia. Linshu felt a little relieved - it seemed that the Book of the Minor Prophets was not sent down from heaven by Xianfeng. As long as it had nothing to do with Xianfeng's escape from heaven, then there would be no big problem.

"Okay, we're here!" Xianfeng smiled and pushed open the door. "Let's go. Let's go meet Lei Lao Hu! Oh, leave all the stuff in the carriage. We won't need it!"

Seeing Xianfeng's confident look, Sushun, Linshu, and Chiyoko all left their weapons behind and walked into the East Coast Cathedral of the True Covenant sect with bare hands. Then, they regretted it! The muzzles of thirty 1841 Mississippi flintlock rifles were waiting for them behind the church's cast iron door.

Lei Laohu's eyes gleamed coldly under the gas lamp. Behind him, Huang Shiren, who was wearing a red bishop's robe, was playing with a mahogany abacus. The clattering of the abacus beads made people feel uneasy.

"Zhao Si, do you admit your guilt?" Lei Lao Hu's voice echoed under the dome.

Xianfeng sat down on the bench calmly, tapping his fingers on the teak armrests: "Are you guilty? I want to ask, what have you done with the Book of the Minor Prophets over the past year? Have you ever recruited a decent person in the past year? If I hadn't used the location of the oil field in the Book of the Minor Prophets to fool Mississippi Senator Davis, you wouldn't even have a single result to report to your superiors!"

Sushun and Zeng Jia Linshu looked at each other, both feeling a little guilty - is this Senator Davis really that important?

"You!" Lei Lao Hu slammed his fist on the pulpit, "That is a holy object given by an angel, how dare you..."

"The angel gave us the holy object so that we can do something!" Xianfeng stood up suddenly and walked around with his hands behind his back, "not for you to place it in the shrine as a decoration!"

He turned around and looked at the thirty True Yorkist "crusaders" with guns, then walked up to Lei Lao Hu and Huang Shiren and said in a low voice: "It is already April 1858. In three years, the American Civil War will begin! If we can't seize these three years, how can we stir up the situation? If we can't hold on and stir up trouble, once the white people are done fighting, they will start to discriminate against us."

Huang Shiren waved his hand fiercely, and ordered the thirty gunmen in the hall, Sushun, and Linshu to retreat. Then he whispered, "It's easy for you to say that. Just relying on Davis..."

"Just relying on one Davis?" Xianfeng sneered, "He is the most influential senator in the South, the future presidential candidate of the Southern Confederacy, and currently a big shot in the Democratic Party. The current President Buchanan is also a Democrat, and is from the same party as Davis! In addition, Davis can lead a large number of southern states in the United States to rebel together in the future. How can he have few followers? One person like him is worth a hundred or a thousand useless second-rate and third-rate people!"

He pulled out a parchment booklet from his bosom. "This is a copy of the Book of the Minor Prophets. It clearly states: In April 1861, the South will bombard Fort Sumter. There are only three years left! If you have time to talk to me about stealing books, you should think about how to support Davis!"

The church suddenly became quiet. Lei Lao Hu loosened his fist, and Huang Shiren gently moved the abacus beads.

"Then how do you plan to support Davis?" Huang Shiren finally asked.

A gleam of light flashed in Xianfeng's eyes: "Money and arms!"

He said categorically: "The South's weakness is its lack of money and weapons, but its strength is its elite soldiers. The United States is generally strong in the north and weak in the south. The northern states have a population of more than 2000 million, while the southern slave states have only about 900 million people, of which 350 million are black slaves. This situation is a bit like the Three Feudatories Rebellion. Do you know how Wu Sangui could have won the Three Feudatories Rebellion?"

"what?"

"How did it get to Wu Sangui?" This question really stumped Lei Lao Hu and Huang Shiren. Although they had read some books, they didn't know much about the Three Feudatories Rebellion - Luo Yaoguo's lecture class didn't teach this, and the original private schools in the Qing Dynasty didn't teach it either.

"Wu Sangui must fight and decide the outcome quickly," Xianfeng "understood Wu Sangui best," he waved his hand and said, "He must concentrate all his strength and rush into the Central Plains in one go before the Qing Dynasty recovers. The same goes for Davis, he must fight and decide the outcome quickly after the Civil War begins, and it would be best if he could rush into Washington and New York City in one go."

Lei Lao Hu and Huang Shiren were both a little confused after hearing this.

No matter how incompetent Xianfeng was, he was still a king who had lost his country in practice! However, the level of these two was too low, they had neither advanced practical experience nor theoretical knowledge.

Xianfeng then said to the two of them, "In order to help Davis win the war quickly, we must hurry up in the next two or three years to help Davis get money. With money, we can buy guns and ammunition. This way, when the Civil War breaks out, we can strike at once when the North is not prepared!"

"it is good!"

A cheer came from behind an open side door. Xianfeng turned around and saw Rinko, whom he hadn't seen for many days, walking out with a middle-aged man wearing a dragon robe and a yellow scarf on his head. The middle-aged man had a white face and a long beard, a jeweled Colt revolver on his waist, and an emerald cross on his chest.

“Greetings to the King of the South!” Lei Lao Hu and Huang Shiren turned around at the same time and bowed deeply to that man—this man turned out to be the King of the South, Feng Yunshan!
Feng Yunshan actually came to New York!
Xianfeng was stunned. Could it be that Feng Yunshan came here for the American Civil War which would take place three years later? It seemed that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had a big plot against the United States!

"Zhao Si, you said it very well!" Feng Yunshan looked at Zhao Si with appreciation. Although this man was not good-looking, he was indeed a talented person. He nodded and said, "But you have to remember that we are not here to help the South win this war."

King Feng Nan walked to the altar, put his hands behind his back and said, "What we want is to make this war last as long as possible. Only by letting the United States fall into the quagmire of civil war can we gain a firm foothold in this new continent. And if our people can gain a firm foothold on the west coast of the United States, then there will be no Americans in the Pacific in the future."

Xianfeng's eyes flashed with surprise - the reason why the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom expanded to America was to control the Pacific Ocean. What's so good about the Pacific Ocean? Is it because the word "Taiping" is in the name?
"The King of the South is wise." Xianfeng bowed. "In addition to Senator Davis, I have several friends in the New York banking and securities circles. They should be able to help Davis sell the Pennsylvania oil company before the outbreak of the Civil War. It should be able to sell for 20 million US dollars. If we can exchange this money for arms before the war breaks out, maybe we can catch the North off guard."

"Wait a minute," Feng Yunshan's eyes lit up, "You have friends in the banking and securities circles? Who are they?"

"There are three brothers named Lehman and one named Morgan." Xianfeng said, "Senator Davis introduced them to me. I told them about the stock and bond crash in the United States in 1857, and helped them, Davis and O'Connor make another fortune!"

"Okay, okay, okay!" Feng Yunshan shouted "Okay" three times in a row. In fact, he did not come to the United States for the American Civil War three years later, but for the ongoing financial game between the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and Western financial groups.

Although the main battlefield of this financial game is in East Asia and Shanghai, there are many places that can decide the outcome of the struggle, and the United States is one of them. The United States is rich in gold and is also a major grain producer. Although the cost of transporting grain from the East Coast of the United States to China is too high, when the financial war is fierce, it is necessary to spend a lot of money!

So Luo Yaoguo sent a telegram to Feng Yunshan, who had just signed the Treaty of Berlin and was about to return to the East, asking him to go to the United States and try to contact the financiers in New York.

Feng Yunshan didn't know what to do, so he brought Rinzi here, hoping to use her beauty trap. Unexpectedly, Zhao Si showed up and tricked Davis, a big shot in the US Senate, into becoming a true contract supporter, and he also made friends in the financial community in New York, USA.

"Zhao Si, you are truly a hero of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom!" Feng Yunshan smiled and took out an enamel tobacco box from his sleeve pocket and handed it to Emperor Xianfeng. "There is a volume of the Book of the Minor Prophets in it, which is exactly the same as the one in Lei Lao Hu's hand. I'm giving it to you. From now on, the True Covenant Sect on the East Coast will be jointly managed by you and Lei Lao Hu!"

"Thank you, Your Highness Prince Nan, for your cultivation!" Xianfeng immediately lifted up his robe and knelt down to Feng Yunshan.

Feng Yunshan patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Get up and work hard with the Kingdom of Heaven. There will be many benefits in the future." He encouraged him a few times and then said, "Make arrangements for me. I want to meet the three Lehmans, Morgans and the two senators!"

(End of this chapter)