After returning home, Li Yunzhong recalled Yang Xiuqing and Xiao Chaogui carefully. Did they know themselves and their enemies? What he learned surprised him.

Yang Xiuqing is from Xincun, Zijingshan District, Guiping County, only eight miles away from Dachong Village, where Feng Yunshan teaches. Yang Xiuqing was born in poverty. She lost her father at the age of five and her mother at the age of nine. She was lonely since she was a child. She was raised by her uncle Yang Qingshan. She usually farmed and burned charcoal.

To make a living. Although he is an illiterate person, he is very alert, resourceful and deceitful in his dealings. He is extremely talented in controlling crowds. He also likes to make friends with heroes from all over the world and has appeal among the masses. He is the leader of Zijing Mountain.

He is the invisible spiritual leader of the people. Moreover, the Lu family and the Zeng family, the first batch of people to worship God's religion, are all his relatives. Now he has descended to earth through his heavenly father. When Hong and Feng are not around, he is truly the first person to worship God's religion.

Man, even if Feng Yunshan comes back, there is nothing he can do.

Xiao Chaogui grew up with his adoptive father since he was a child. His family was poor. He went to the Zijingshan Mountain area of ​​Guiping City to make a living by growing vegetables, plowing mountains, and burning charcoal. His parents raised four boys, and Xiao Chaogui ranked third. When he was a child, his family was poor and he had no money to study.

I don’t know how many people there are. In order to make a living, Xiao Chaogui left home to work as a boy and even worked as a shop assistant. Soon, he left his hometown with his parents and traveled across mountains and rivers to settle down in a xiagu shed in Pingai Mountain, Guiping, where he opened up wasteland and burned charcoal to make ends meet.

Livelihood. At this time, Xiao Chaogui was in his early years.

At the invitation of Feng Yunshan, Xiao Chaogui and his friend Yang Xiuqing became members of the God Worshiping Association early on. They went around to promote the doctrines and benefits of the God Worshiping Association among Zhuang, Han, Yao and other ethnic groups, and actively mobilized people of all ethnic groups to participate in the God Worshiping Association.

.Especially Xiao Chaogui, because he has good martial arts and often fights against injustices for those who worship God, so Xiao Chaogui still has great prestige in the God Worshipers Association.

Li Yunzhong became more and more determined not to work with the two of them. Now it is estimated that not even Hong Xiu can do anything to them, and Feng Yunshan still has such a large number of people. After completing the matter of redeeming Feng Yunshan, it turned out that Li Yunzhong's wish was to return to Teng County.

If you can't afford to offend, you can't afford to hide?

Due to the continuous uprisings of party members in various parts of Guangxi and Hunan, Shen Huiping, Su Yixing and others in the Xuanhua area rose up and were "called Wanhuhou". This soon spread throughout the province. During the Daoguang period, Guanyang, Gongcheng and He County in northeastern Guangxi were

There were Tiandihui resistance activities in Yangshuo, Sien and Yishan in northwest Guangxi, Yulin in southern Guangxi, and Lipu, Shanglin and other counties in the hinterland. Hundreds of Shantang leaders were killed or exiled to Xinjiang Province.

Especially after the First Opium War, the society experienced drastic changes and the anti-Qing uprising became more intensified. First, Lei Zaihao and Li Shiqi came from northern Guangxi, followed by Chen Yagui from Wuxuan, Zhang Jiaxiang and Su Sanxiang from Guixian.

, Hengzhou, Zhu Hongying, and Hu Youlu started in the Hunan-Guangxi border area.

Although they all failed, there are still many stragglers who gang up in twos and occupy the mountains to become kings. With no money and no food, they can only make a living by robbing merchants.

The next day, Li Yunzhong took the 80 taels of silver he had saved by teaching thousands of people to burn charcoal for six months. He was considered to be rich. He was afraid of being robbed by ignorant thieves, so he decided to go to the county town by water. Before leaving,

Yang Xiuqing also asked Lu Xianba and Lin Fengxiang to serve as bodyguards.

Although Li Yunzhong attended high school for 4 years, he studied science. So he learned about the history of the late Qing Dynasty through novels and TV shows, such as the East King Yang Xiuqing, the South King Feng Yunshan, the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan, the North King Wei Changhui, the Wing King Shi Dakai, and the Zhongwang Li

I know some about Xiucheng and Chen Yucheng, the King of England. The remaining Yong'an kings, Lin Fengxiang, Li Kaifang, Qin Yuegang, Hu Yihuang, Lai Hanying, etc., all know their names. Lin Fengxiang, Li Yunzhong heard this name when he was in middle school.

Finally, he died as a martyr in the Northern Expedition.

As for Lu Xianba being a relative of Yang Xiuqing, Li Yunzhong suspected that they were all sent by Yang Xiuqing to monitor him.

The three of them hurried on, and soon arrived at the Xunjiang Ferry. They hired a small boat, and after informing the boatman that they were going to the county town, the small boat went down the river.

Therefore, it was midsummer, and there were dots of sails coming and going on the river. There were cargo ships transporting charcoal and salt, and there were also bamboo canopy boats used by osprey fishermen. A huge two-masted cargo ship was speeding towards the north. The strange thing was that the cargo ship had

Guards were guarded by soldiers, and a dog-tooth flag of "Dahuangjiang Inspection Workers" was hung on the mast of the ship. The boatman who saw the opportunity seemed to hide away, but from time to time some ships that could not escape were knocked over in the river, with the

The boatman also jumped into the river early, and every time he knocked over a small boat, bursts of laughter came from the big boat.

Looking at the tragedy in front of him, Li Yunzhong said angrily, "Is it possible that there is no king's law and the officers and soldiers are allowed to be tyrannical?"

Lin Fengxiang said, "Those are the people from the inspection department Wang Ji. They are used to running rampant on the river. Those who make a living on the river are poor people. They just want to have enough to eat, and they have to swallow their anger when they are bullied!"

The boatman carefully rowed the boat towards the river, avoiding the big ship. When he saw the big ship going away, the boatman wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "They must have gone to traffic in opium, that harmful thing again. Every day

After a while, a large ship will be shipped over from Guangzhou."

"With such officers and soldiers, how can we people survive?" Lu Xianba sighed.

Li Yunzhong thought to himself, no wonder Hong Xiuquan was able to dominate China with only a few thousand men and tens of thousands of women and children, and once occupied South China. If the senior leaders hadn't been unwilling to make progress and lived a corrupt life, wouldn't they have succeeded? I should go too.

If you rebel, if you succeed, you will become a high official. If you fail, you will grab enough money and go abroad to enjoy happiness. Isn't it faster than making money through hard work?

After the scene just now, the atmosphere on the boat became more and more dull. Fortunately, it didn't take long to reach the ferry in Guiping County. The three of them paid the boat fare and went ashore.

After having lunch at the inn, Li Yunzhong found a banker and exchanged the copper coins and broken silver for one ingot or ten taels of small ingots. He exchanged six in total and wrapped them in cloth with the remaining broken silver.

Put it in your arms.

After getting ready, the three of them walked to the county government office together.

On the way, Li Yunzhong finally figured out that it was that month of AD. He remembered that the first Opium War occurred in 1840, and he had just asked Lu Xianba about the end of the Sino-British War in the 20th year of Daoguang. Eight years have passed. So now

That was June 11, 1848.

Li Yunzhong visited the ancient county town for the first time. After the initial freshness, he saw the simple and poor streets, with short and ugly houses and shops on both sides. The numb shopkeepers yelling from time to time beside the shops, and a few beggars sitting listlessly by the wall.

I was waiting for charity from passers-by. I was really disappointed with the scene in front of me.

The three of them arrived at the gate of the county government office. There were two stone lions placed on each side of the gate. The stone lions had become bumpy after exposure to wind and rain.

There were two government officials standing next to them. One of them stepped forward and shouted, "It is forbidden to watch faces in this important place of the county government."

Li Yunzhong prepared dozens of large sums of money and stepped forward and said, "The people of Zijing Town have come here to express their grievances to the magistrate. I bother you to report this to you. It's just a small thing, but it's not respectful."

The yamen servant took the big money, weighed it in his hand and said, "The county magistrate is busy with official duties, so he has no time to meet you and other untouchables. I see you and you are interested, so I will wait here, and I will report to the master."

Not long after, I saw him leading a middle-aged man from the county government office. The government official said to the middle-aged man and pointed at Li Yunzhong and the others.

Li Yunzhong secretly thought that he was the master. In order not to be called a pariah, he prepared a few taels of silver and went forward and said, "Student Li Yunzhong is here to express his grievances to the magistrate on behalf of his mentor Feng Yunshan."

The master took the silver and put it in his sleeve, and looked at Li Yunzhong for a few times. He thought to himself that he had made a small fortune today. In a happy mood, he said to Li Yunzhong with a pleasant look, "Since I have a grievance to redress, come with me to see the county magistrate."

Then he said to Lin Fengxiang and Lu Xianba, "You two wait here."

Li Yunzhong followed the master around the lobby and walked to the backyard. They saw that the backyard was a small courtyard, and the two entered a room on the left.

An old man in his sixties, with a sallow complexion and dull eyes, leaned against the table and smoked a cigarette. There was a young man waiting beside him, who helped him light the cannon from time to time and took over the cigarette rod. The old man every time

Take a puff and enjoy with your eyes closed.

Li Yunzhong saw an opium smoker for the first time in his life. Unexpectedly, he turned out to be a county magistrate. He sighed to himself: No wonder the Qing Dynasty perished sixty years later.

The master coughed heavily, and the magistrate raised his head to look, and weakly said, "Master is here."

The master said to Li Yunzhong, "I haven't met the magistrate yet."

Li Yun learned the Qing opera on TV, stepped forward, took out the silver in his arms and put it on the table, knelt on the ground and bowed to the magistrate, "The student came here to redress his grievances to the magistrate. Feng Yunshan, a native of Huaxian County, Guangdong, was in Zijing Town and Jintian Town.

We teach people how to read, and we founded the God Worship Association to encourage people to do good. Unexpectedly, we were arrested by Tuanlian Wang Zuoxin for no reason. We ask the county magistrate to make the decision for us."

Jia Zhu, the county magistrate, was dazzled by the money in front of him. He had not been a county magistrate for a long time, and he was still an agent. He had never seen so much money. He had spent all the money on opium. Guiping was a remote and remote place and there was not much money.

I thought about how to make money every day, but I didn't expect that someone would send me such a large sum of money.

"Who is Feng Yunshan? What crime did he commit and was he arrested for?" The county magistrate asked the master in a low voice.

"Master, Feng Yunshan was arrested at the beginning of the year by Wang Zuoxin, who was running the team training. I heard that Feng Yunshan would be charged with treason, but he didn't dare to confront Feng Yunshan in court. What's more important is that Lord Zhizhou didn't agree with the crime of treason. My predecessor

The county magistrate just wanted to collect some money and let him go. Unexpectedly, no one came to send him any money, so he has been detained in prison." The master hurriedly reported the situation in detail.

After the county magistrate learned about the situation, he was overjoyed to see that it was not a big case and someone had given him so much money. He immediately said to the master, "Yunshan teaches people to respect heaven. It is to encourage people to do good and not to do anything illegal. I ordered Yunshan to be arrested immediately."

Release, um, wait, or send him back to his place of origin and hand him over to the control of local officials."
Chapter completed!