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Chapter 72: Heavenly King, do you really remember what happened in your dream? (The third update, please subscribe!)

"Your Majesty, the Southern King requests an audience!"

Just when Hong Xuanjiao didn't know how to fool Hong Xiuquan, suddenly a report came from outside that the Southern King Feng Yunshan was coming!

Feng Yunshan came from Daozhou in a dusty carriage with a small entourage. No one knew about it except a few of his close confidants, not even Luo Yaoguo and Su Sanniang.

He rushed here with only one purpose, which was to draw a red line for the "fight for his father's name" that was about to break out!
This time the "fight for father's name" is inevitable, because this "father's name" is equivalent to "foundation of the country" - it does not mean "crown prince", but literally means the foundation of the country!
What is involved is the fundamental line of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom!

If "the father's name is Ye Huohua", then the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is a heresy of foreign religions - this positioning is very bad, because to the three religions of Tianqi, heresy is more hateful than paganism!

How could those foreign devils admit that Hong Xiuquan was the second son of "Ye Huohua"? If they did, when the King of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom went to England, France, and the United States for state visits, their heads of state would have to kneel down and kowtow.

How can we deal with this?
At the same time, the name "Ye Huohua" would not be recognized by domestic scholars - scholars are not only scholars, juren, and jinshi, but there are always poor students! If the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom cannot win over the top students, it will be fine to win over the poor students.

A top student isn't necessarily more ruthless in a fight than a poor student, right?
But when a foreign god Huohua came out, he rejected both the top students and the poor students. Traditional Chinese ethics, clan system, and even the secret societies in the underworld all conflicted with the God Worshipping Society. The God Worshipping Society not only smashed the Confucius Temple, but also the Guandi Temple! If you really want to dig deeper, the Tiandihui also had to break up with the God Worshipping Society.

So Feng Yunshan actually did not object to changing "Ye Huohua" into "Haotian God", but he also knew that the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan was a little "crazy". That is, "insane"!
He's half crazy.
"Heavenly King," Feng Yunshan greeted him, then asked in a low voice, "Did you see our father in heaven in your dream?"

"Yes!" Hong Xiuquan nodded with a proud look on his face, "That is our Heavenly Father! Luo Yaoguo is only the Heavenly Father's adopted son, and we are his biological sons!"

"Then what language did our Heavenly Father speak to you?" Feng Yunshan asked again, "What dialect?"

"Of course it's Hakka!" said Hong Xiuquan.

The foreign God speaks Hakka. Feng Yunshan thought to himself: "The foreign God should speak the language of foreigners! Speak Hakka. Hakka God? The God worshipped by Hakka people is Haotian God! It turns out that you, a lunatic, remembered it wrong!"

"Heavenly King, how about," Feng Yunshan suggested, "how about having another dream tonight?"

Hong Xiuquan glared at Feng Yunshan and said, "My fellow countryman, what do you mean? The Heavenly Father came into my dream because He wanted to come, not because I wanted Him to come!"

Then you can't lie? Feng Yunshan really didn't know what to say.

"Heavenly King," he thought for a moment and reminded, "Did Heavenly Father say that the angels have a magical tool in their hands that can connect to heaven?"

"No!" Hong Xiuquan shook his head, then froze for a moment, looking at Feng Yunshan, "Mountain fellow, are you hiding something from me?"

Feng Yunshan was just thinking about whether to tell Hong Xiuquan about the "Tongtian Mirror" when Hong Xuanjiao suddenly said, "Heavenly King, Xuanjiao knows that my eighth brother has a purple gold bowl in his hand, which seems to be a bit mysterious."

"Purple gold bowl?"

"Is that a tool for worshipping God?"

Hong Xiuquan and Feng Yunshan were both stunned. Then Hong Xiuquan snorted coldly, "What purple gold bowl? Even if the Heavenly Father wants to give a treasure, he won't give a bowl. The Heavenly Father is not the Buddha!"

He looked at Feng Yunshan and said coldly: "Mountain fellow, you and I are the sons of God, he is just an adopted son!"

At this moment, Luo Yaoguo had temporarily entrusted the government affairs of Daozhou City to Zeng Tianyang, He Damei and Zhang Sanxiang. He led Su Sanniang, Jiao Hong, Xu Yuegui and others and dozens of female soldiers, boarded a large wooden boat, and returned to the starting point of the Hunan-Jiangxi-Guangdong base area - Etang Town.

He planned to first inspect the situation of "dividing land and floating wealth" in the villages around Etang Town, and then go to Etang Town to meet Feng Yunshan to discuss the next step. Feng Yunshan has been staying in Etang Town these days, mainly to monitor the pilot project of "dividing land and floating wealth" and building a base in Etang for Luo Yaoguo.

As an "angel" who studies history, Luo Yaoguo understands that no matter what kind of good policy it is, it must first be piloted, then summarized, and finally promoted.

You can't just do it on a whim!

Even if these policies have been tested by history, it does not mean that they can be easily replicated.

Not to mention whether these policies will not be suitable for the local conditions due to "different times", the capabilities of Luo Yaoguo's makeshift team are also very limited.

Shouldn't we give them some time to slowly explore and grow? We should also give them the opportunity to make mistakes and pay their due fees.

Therefore, although Luo Yaoguo shouted the slogan of "divide the land and the wealth" loudly and even had people compose a ballad called "Welcome Peace" to sing everywhere, the only places where the land was actually divided were Etang Town and several surrounding townships.

What was divided up were mainly the floating wealth and land properties of the unfortunate Mr. Huang's family.

"Division" is not the goal, "management" is the goal!
Just "dividing" without "managing" would not make much sense for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. It would only be meaningful if "dividing" was used to gain the support of the poor people, quickly establish the grassroots of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, firmly grasp the population and land, and draw strength from them to overthrow the Qing demons and promote industrialization!
But to "manage" it well is much more difficult than to "divide" it.

Good "division" is the beginning of good "management", and it is also a process of discovering and testing cadres.
Huangjia Village, located in the south of Etang Town and close to Xiaoshui River, is also a key village for "dividing land and wealth".

The person in charge of this matter is Wang Yan, the class leader of the "lecturer class" run by Luo Yaoguo in Etang Town. He was still begging less than a month ago and almost starved to death, but now he is the acting lecturer of the Etang Town branch of the God Worshipping Society.

It can be considered as joining the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom!
According to Luo Yaoguo's arrangement, the provincial branches, prefecture (zhili prefecture) branches, county (sanzhou) halls, and township branches of the God Worshipping Society all implemented the "joint responsibility system of the leader and the teacher", that is, the president, the hall master and the hall lecturer were in charge together, with the "leader" as the chief and the "teacher" as the auxiliary, and important decisions had to be made by the two together.

However, the head of the God Worshipping Society branch in Etang Town is now concurrently held by Feng Yunshan's confidant Wu Ruxiao, who is also watching over him by the "demigod" Southern King Feng Yunshan. Therefore, Wang Yan, Zhang Bao and other local "acting lecturers" and "acting preachers" in Etang have been sent to the countryside to manage the distribution of land and wealth.

The "Huang" in the Huangjia Village that was now assigned to Wang Yan is the same as the "Huang" in the Huangshijie who was chased away by Luo Yaoguo! The whole village is from the same clan, the "Lingling Huang" of the "Jiangxia Huang". The ancestor in the clan tree is the famous Huang Gai, who moved from Lingling to Huangjia Village outside Etang Town in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.

In the early years, this clan was also known as the "Yi Men", which means that the entire clan lived together without splitting up, and the clan was equal. However, this was no longer possible during the Qianlong period - the population was too large, and the land was so small. So they had to split up and live separately, but they still retained a part of the land as clan land and school land.

Later, Huang Shijie's family went to Guangdong to do business and became rich, becoming one of the richest people in Daozhou. Most of the other families in Huangjia Village became increasingly poor, and when they encountered disasters or weddings and funerals, they had to mortgage their land to Huang Shijie's family to borrow money to deal with them.

However, Huang Shijie and his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather were all "good men", so they couldn't force their relatives to death, right?
Therefore, Huang Shijie's family gave some preferential treatment to their relatives and "divided" their land into "field skins" and "field bones".

The part mortgaged to Huang Shijie's family was called "field skin", which was similar to the right of use, while the part left to each family was called "field bone", which was similar to the ownership.

The Huang family members who mortgaged the "field skin" to Huang Shijie's family do not need to pay a deposit, and can rent the "field skin" at a preferential price to continue farming, and they can also redeem the "field skin" at any time - although few families have been able to redeem the "field skin" in the past few decades, they still have a dream and can still consider themselves to be "middle-level farmers"!

In addition, Huang Shijie's family would not force these poor relatives to pay rent or debts for the sake of Huang Gai's face. If there were any good things, such as recruiting shop assistants, servants, or militia, they would give priority to the poor relatives.

Precisely because of these preferential treatments, Huangjia Village naturally became the last bastion of "Master Huang" in Etang.

Everyone in Huangjia Village was extremely disgusted with Wang Yan and the "land-dividing team" he brought. They all had the surname Huang and were family members of Mr. Huang!
If most of the able-bodied men in the village had not followed Huang Shijie to serve as militiamen, Wang Yan and his men might have been driven out long ago.

Just when the "land distribution" in Huangjia Village was at a stalemate, a large ship coming from the direction of Daozhou City quietly approached the Huangjia Village wharf where many villagers gathered.

(End of this chapter)