Chapter 1655: You're Pretending Again

Having received another lesson, Magistrate Jiang became honest again and wrote a beautiful letter to Wang Yan again. His posture was very soft, truly able to bend and stretch, a model of thick black.

Magistrate Jiang sighed that he was involuntary, and he was not the only one who had this sigh. Many people were like this.

Even Wang Yan, an absolute strongman who could be called iron-blooded, with a mountain of corpses under his feet and a sea of blood behind him, had to compromise on many issues. Admittedly, the knife was in his hand, but the knife was to protect the bottom line, guard stability, and maintain results. He couldn't speak with a knife for everything.

Matters are divided into light, heavy, urgent, and slow. Many problems can be slowly worn away by relying on the system. Obviously, for Wang Yan, time was also on his side, so from this aspect, he was the kindest person. Because for him, many things could be slowly worn away...

Wang Yan's time here was quiet and good, the Manchu Qing continued to struggle on the verge of death, but the Heavenly Kingdom was not peaceful.

Because of Yang Xiuqing's power-grabbing, the internal struggle of the Heavenly Kingdom reached a white-hot stage, and finally fell to the simplest and most direct processing method. The Heavenly King secretly ordered the Northern King Wei Changhui to return to Tianjing, and then killed Yang Xiuqing's whole family, and continued to expand the strike against Yang Xiuqing's party feathers, engaging in large-scale implication. He even wanted to kill the Wing King Shi Dakai, and then Shi Dakai ran away to Anqing, raised troops to clear the monarch's side, and then Wei Changhui was killed.

Immediately after, Shi Dakai assisted the Heavenly King in managing military and political affairs. In less than a year, the Heavenly King suspected Shi Dakai again, and Shi Dakai led troops to leave.

This was the famous Tianjing Incident, which was the turning point of the Heavenly Kingdom from prosperity to decline...

"I remember you said before that they couldn't share wealth and honor. I didn't expect that in just a few years, such a good situation would become what it is now."

Su Zixuan sighed with regret. "Now Shi Dakai has broken through Xiang-E and went to attack Bashu. The foreigners have also increased their support for the Manchu Qing, seizing the opportunity to attack the Heavenly Kingdom. At present, the Heavenly Kingdom is in chaos, frequently losing territory. It seems that the Heavenly Kingdom can still support it, but in fact, it is already powerless, and the trend of decline is fully revealed."

Speaking of this, she shook her head and looked at Wang Yan. "The balance you have maintained has been broken. Now it seems that everyone is targeting you."

"You ran here to ask for things for the Heavenly Kingdom, why do you have to scare me?"

Su Zixuan's face still had a crimson flush, and there were fine sweat beads, which were very bright. She giggled when she heard the words.

"What I say is the truth. The Wing King is rampaging over in Bashu, and both the Manchu Qing and the foreigners are trying every possible way to provide him with arms and provisions. Meanwhile, the ones surnamed Jiang and Chen over here are fighting the Heavenly Kingdom to the death; they've already taken Wuchang and occupied Hefei. You might not know this, but the foreigners have been trying to broker a peace between the Manchu Qing and the Heavenly Kingdom, wanting both sides to temporarily cease hostilities and turn their spears together to fight you."

This chaos in Tianjing affected the Heavenly Kingdom. The Heavenly King is now scorched, and the foreigners are continuing to persuade. I really don't know how long the Heavenly King can persist. Master, you must think twice."

Wang Yan was cutting the cigar head with a knife on the side and lighting it with fire. This was brought by Su Zixuan this time. Now many foreign goods were rampant in the wealthy areas, and Su Zixuan even got Wang Yan a few pocket watches.

He took a puff and puffed out smoke leisurely: "Do you think the Heavenly King will agree?"

"You big figures are all deep in thought. Who knows what the Heavenly King thinks." Su Zixuan played with her hair indifferently, circling around her fingers.

"No."

Wang Yan gave a negative answer.

"Why?"

"Why did the Heavenly King found the God-Worshipping Society? Established the Heavenly Kingdom? Fighting all the way from Guangxi to Tianjing, what did he say to his subordinates? What are those bitter brothers fighting to the death below for? Moreover, because of Yang Xiuqing's chaos, it made people panic and the military heart unstable. At this time, if the Heavenly King is wise enough, he will definitely not merge with the Manchu Qing. Do you think the Heavenly King is a smart person?"

This is a major event of changing the fundamental route. The Heavenly King's raising of troops doomed him not to compromise with the Manchu Qing. Otherwise, there is no need for the Manchu Qing to fight them, and they will be separated from each other and disintegrated internally.

The Tianjing Incident was an internal interest struggle of the Heavenly Kingdom's top leadership group, but changing the route was a comprehensive negation from top to bottom. The raised banner fell, and the forces naturally dispersed. Even if it wasn't good, the Heavenly King would have to be beheaded by the disappointed little soldiers around him.

"If the Heavenly King is not smart, then no one is smart." Su Zixuan curled her lips. "When I came, the Heavenly King said that you would definitely not watch the Heavenly Kingdom be destroyed by the Manchu Qing and foreigners, and also said that according to his understanding of your style of doing things, maybe you have already prepared weapons and ammunition, waiting to send them to the Heavenly Kingdom."

"The Heavenly King is a first-class smart person." Wang Yan smiled and nodded. "I have already asked people to mobilize materials. Not only that, I also asked people to negotiate with Shi Dakai. But the distance is too far, and no results have been passed back."

"What about you? Still the same as before, watching the world in chaos but taking no action?"

Wang Yan puffed out a mouthful of smoke: "My actions are not few at all. Otherwise, how were Bashu and Guanzhong taken? Even recently, I have been infiltrating Gansu. It's not that it's called action only when it's fighting openly. I have told you this more than once, and you are always tireless in inciting me to start a full-scale war."

"Then I can help you behead." Su Zixuan said it as a matter of course.

"The Heavenly Kingdom's decline is already apparent. Even if I help, I can't help too much. The Heavenly King no longer has the ability to fight for the world, and defending is not bad."

"Why?"

"The Heavenly King cannot tolerate people! He has also lost control of his subordinates."

Wang Yan waved his hand to interrupt Su Zixuan's excuse for the Heavenly King. "Do you know what you know, do the brothers fighting to the death below know? Do those unranked officers below know? There was a Yang Xiuqing who grabbed power, Wei Changhui killed people, and then Shi Dakai united the kings to clear the monarch's side. Wei Changhui wanted to kill the Heavenly King, the Heavenly King killed Wei Changhui, and let Shi Dakai assist in military and political affairs.

But at the same time, the Heavenly King rehabilitated Wei Changhui, held an Eastern King Ascension Festival, and sealed his own people as kings, restraining Shi Dakai. This series of things is a major blow to the Heavenly King's prestige."

The Heavenly Kingdom is the unity of politics and religion, engaging in religious control. The son of the Heavenly Father who can do everything, the brother of Jesus, has become what he is now. The soldiers and civilians below can see it.

History has told us many times that it is these people who decide the rise and fall of the dynasty. The so-called powerful families are just guiding. They have mastered knowledge, they have accumulated for generations, and they fool the soldiers and civilians below. But this can never erase the great power of the people to fight against heaven and earth.

"It's just a centipede that is dead but not stiff."

"There are also foreigners! You are my master, I didn't lie to you, foreigners are really mediating! Even if the mediation fails, they will definitely not watch the Heavenly Kingdom fight the Manchu Qing with you. Don't forget, although the Heavenly Kingdom cannot join the Manchu Qing to fight you, the Heavenly Kingdom can not move troops! Let the Manchu Qing fight you, and the Heavenly Kingdom can sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight like you did before, recuperating!"

Wang Yan smiled and nodded: "You are right this time. Then tell me, what will the Heavenly King do?"

"...... Sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight?" Su Zixuan was also uncertain.

"I give him weapons and ammunition, and he will also sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight."

"Then why do you still give?"

"Even if it's watching the fight, he has to station troops to guard against the Manchu Qing, so the Manchu Qing has to station troops to deal with it. Half of the fertile land has been occupied by the Heavenly Kingdom. Even if the Heavenly Kingdom hasn't managed it well, the Manchu Qing has truly lost. Plus Bashu and Shangan, my beloved Great Qing court is having a hard time now."

"So you are finally going to take action?"

"At this point, I can't do it without moving. And now it's not the Manchu Qing that is fighting, but the foreigners. You should also be clear that the foreigners' support for the Manchu Qing is much more than the Heavenly Kingdom. They don't even want the compensation, and they send things here ship after ship.

I am quiet, which is a greater threat than the Heavenly Kingdom, and even more hateful, especially since I ban opium, engage in industry, and have no need for foreign goods. I do everything myself, and I do it very quickly. Foreigners don't want to see me grow bigger. They have been accumulating strength to fight me. Assassination is just a small dessert for them, and the main course hasn't been served yet."

"Yo, do you even know about the foreigners' dessert?" Su Zixuan teased and laughed.

"I also have foreigners doing business here. Since they are opponents, of course, I have to know myself and the enemy."

"Then when will you start the war?"

Wang Yan glanced at her and shook his head: "The war has never stopped."

Relying on language alone, one cannot walk the path of world safety, cannot figure out the situation in various places, and the security firm cannot grow big. Relying on language, there is never a way to convince those who are not convinced, and there is never a way to explain the truth.

Especially reasoning, it is truly the most difficult thing in the world.

Old people rely on their age to resist high pressure, and they can not reason. Children rely on their young age, and their resistance is not weak. Parents spoil them by saying the child is still young, and they can not reason. Normal adults rely on playing hooligans, lowering the bottom line, pretending to be stupid, and can also not reason. People with power and money can not reason. People who take stupidity, ignorance, laziness, and vulgarity as capital can also not reason.

As a person with a certain cultural knowledge and moral quality, it is impossible to reason with others, because no one listens to the truth spoken.

Over the past few years, in addition to the Huoshan Battle, there have been various other small-scale battles. Battles of one or two thousand people, hundreds of people, are too many to count...

At the same time, various material reserves, he has always been preparing. Even in some preset battlefields, he found places to hide materials in advance. When his subordinates were starving, he squeezed out a lot of reserve food for fighting.

The problem of food has always been relatively prominent, mainly because people ran to his territory. At the same time, he couldn't watch the common people in other places starve or eat people, so he had to take out some food to stabilize the high grain prices. Plus the foreign devils constantly transporting grain from other places with sea ships, it was considered to guarantee a certain food supply.

Speaking of which, Wang Yan's rise also saved the Great Qing. Otherwise, the foreign devils would have started the Second Opium War at this time. Now they cannot weaken the power of the Manchu Qing and let the Heavenly Kingdom and Wang Yan succeed. Instead, the Manchu Qing actively betrayed the country. They not only couldn't get money from the Manchu Qing court, but also had to smash money into it.

Otherwise, whether it is the Heavenly King or Wang Yan, no matter who dominates the Divine Land, the foreign devils will not get any good here. After all, one is a person who blasphemes God, and the other is a person who openly beheads foreigners to provoke. They can only rely on the Manchu Qing...

It is already winter, with drizzle, thin snow, and bone-chilling cold.

Wang Yan provided weapons to the Heavenly Kingdom. It sounds good to call it supporting the Heavenly Kingdom, but it sounds bad to call it a good friend fee. It's like before, both the Heavenly Kingdom and the Manchu Qing had to do business with him and had to tolerate him, not letting him favor either side. Now it's the Heavenly Kingdom's turn to watch the fire from the other side, and he can fight or not. This is naturally disgusting.

However, the Heavenly King has no enterprising spirit, staying in one corner, and the Heavenly Kingdom is also hurt, needing to recuperate. He can move, but he is absolutely unwilling to move easily. At this time, no one needs peace more than the Heavenly Kingdom.

Fortunately, Wang Yan attracts firepower, and the Heavenly Kingdom has a choice. Otherwise, it would be slowly eroded by the Manchu Qing in the coming time...

The Heavenly Kingdom, which received the good friend fee, did things very well. Li Cheng led troops to retreat to Anqing, giving up Hefei, Liu'an, Shucheng, and other places that could never be fought out.

Almost at the same time, several troops of thousands of people set out from Bashu, Guanzhong, and Huoshan. The team marched at full speed. Wherever they went, the people sincerely welcomed them. The realm of vitality and all things competing for development was truly before their eyes.

In just five days, they took down the entire Yangtze River line from the north bank of Wuchang to the Anqing area. At the same time, they opened up a supply line from Wuchang up the river to Bashu. In addition, there were several supply lines pulled out from Bashu and Guanzhong, connected to Huoshan. And with this supply line as the center, they expanded their territory, changing from a line to a surface.

And after Wang Yan completely blocked the Yangtze River, the most affected were not others, but Magistrate Di, Magistrate Jiang, and Magistrate Chen, the three Manchu Qing military council ministers responsible for the Xiang-E-Wan war. Magistrate Chen was fine, but Magistrate Di and Magistrate Jiang were directly locked in Jiang Nan by Wang Yan.

Wang Yan's decisiveness and crispness in action exceeded everyone's expectations.

They knew that for so many years, Wang Yan couldn't really hang alone in Huoshan County and put his own safety in danger. There must be other arrangements hidden in nearby places.

However, when this day really came, Wang Yan began to show his strength. No one expected it to be so fierce and so fast. In a short period of time, he turned Huoshan into a bridgehead, directly cutting off the retreat of Magistrate Di and Magistrate Jiang, as well as more than 100,000 troops...

"It's really hard for Magistrate Chen to condescend to come and see us two embarrassed turtles in a jar." Seeing Magistrate Chen, Magistrate Jiang was yin and yang. "Why, you came to be a lobbyist for Wang Yan? I have to remind you, Magistrate Chen, don't forget, our whole family is in the capital."

"My whole family is gone..." Magistrate Chen carried his hands on his back, his tone desolate. "The old man has done dirty and tiring work for the Great Qing for a lifetime. At such an age... it's really a big dream in the world..."

Magistrate Di, Magistrate Jiang...

You motherfucker are pretending again...

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