kvmb Chapter 466: Wealth is a Disaster
Chapter 466: Wealth is a Disaster
The shopkeeper said,
"After returning, Master Hong still lives in your main temple, but it doesn't seem to be as prosperous as before.
On the contrary, Xiao Chaogui's wife and brother Xiao Chaofu went to your brother every day, saying that they wanted to find a way to rescue Xiao Chaogui, Yang Xiuqing and others."
Hong Yujiao asked,
"Is there anyone else?"
The innkeeper said,
"And Chen Picheng, Li Yiwen and others often go there!"
Hong Yujiao asked,
"I heard that a few outsiders came to see my brother and said they were from the White Lotus Sect. Did you know?"
The shopkeeper waved his hands hurriedly.
"I don't know anything about the White Lotus Sect!"
Hong Yujiao saw that he was hiding his eyes and knew that he must know something.
One is that he was afraid of being implicated for knowing the truth but not reporting it, another is that he was afraid of retaliation from the White Lotus Sect, and the third is that he wanted more money!
She grabbed a few more golden pumpkin seeds,
"Brother, let's just chat. I don't know if the person who came is from the White Lotus Sect, right? It's just idle talk!"
The shopkeeper was delighted when he heard this. This beautiful lady is really smart.
"Yes, yes, you are right, I will just chat with you!
There were a few people who came to look for your brother, and it was like they were living in my shop.
But I really don’t know if they are from the White Lotus Sect!”
Hong Yujiao asked,
"What kind of people are they?"
The innkeeper said,
"The leader was a man named Kong, and there were four or five of them in total.
After staying there for seven or eight days, three more people came, a Taoist priest, a monk, and a young man!
They seem to be in cahoots with the Kong guy!"
Hong Yujiao asked,
"Old Taoist monk, how many days did they stay?"
The shopkeeper said,
"They stayed for two days and then left!"
Hong Yujiao asked,
"All gone?"
The shopkeeper said,
"I was also a little puzzled, because they went out the night before and didn't come back all night.
It was not until the next day that two people came to check out, pick up their luggage and leave! ”
Hong Yujiao suddenly became alert.
"Didn't come back all night?"
After Hong Xiuquan returned to Jintian, he took back the millions of gold and silver left by his sister from Zeng Li. He went to the county town and asked someone to customize an iron box to put the silver bills in it.
Then, he quietly came to a cave.
Only he knew about this cave, and the more than one million gold and silver treasures accumulated by the sect were also buried here.
This money was used as military pay when he started the rebellion, and he couldn't let anyone else get it.
When he came back this time, Hong Xiuquan was somewhat disappointed. In just a few months, people found that he no longer had the same enthusiasm as before, and many of his former followers ignored him.
After learning that he had returned, Yang Xiuqing and several of Xiao Chaogui's brothers came to him and asked him why he had returned on his own.
Hong Xiuquan could not explain it. It was impossible for him to tell them everything the emperor said to him.
He had no choice but to lie, saying that he had no news of anyone since arriving in the capital and that he escaped with the help of others.
The others didn't know that their relatives had been sent to the construction site as laborers, so they could only choose to believe Hong Xiuquan.
However, they asked Hong Xiuquan to find a way to rescue them.
Hong Xiuquan had no way to refuse, so he could only let them choose someone themselves to go and find out the news with some money.
Anyway, I won’t be able to come back for two or three months, so I’ll see how the situation develops.
After settling them down temporarily, Hong Xiuquan began to contact the believers again.
Only when you really start working do you realize how difficult it is.
Not to mention the new believers, even too many of the original believers were unwilling to pay attention to him.
One reason is, as the emperor said, the court’s policies are good now, and the people have hope. Who would be willing to risk their lives in rebellion?
Secondly, the membership composition of the Church of God is very complex.
In the last two years, Hong Xiuquan was mainly engaged in organizational and leadership work, and had little contact with the grassroots believers, so he had very few real supporters.
A large part of the followers were Feng Yunshan's people. The rest, including Yang Xiuqing, Xiao Chaogui, Wei Changhui, and Shi Dakai, all had their own followers. They would not follow Hong Xiuquan sincerely!
This gave Hong Xiuquan a headache!
Fortunately, Li Yiwen and Chen Picheng were loyal to him, so he didn't become a lonely man.
Just when they were desperately encouraging the people to rejoin the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, a few outsiders arrived.
Among them were people from Shaanxi and Sichuan. They were all members of the White Lotus Sect, but their leader was a Shandong native named Kong Xiangguo.
You read that right, it’s Kong Xiangguo from the Kong family in Qufu, Shandong.
He was not killed in the explosion at Liu Heita's place, and he escaped by luck.
Fortunately, he was a cunning man with many burrows and had hidden some silver in the county town. When he saw that the stronghold could not be defended, he took the gold and silver and fled.
After wandering around for a while, he met members of the White Lotus Sect in Anhui.
After some discussion, he joined the White Lotus Sect.
As soon as he joined, he offered five thousand taels of silver, and since he really had some ability, the headquarters appointed him as the head of the hall.
This time, the White Lotus Sect's headquarters received news that Hong Xiuquan had a large amount of gold and silver, so they sent Kong Xiangguo to contact Hong Xiuquan.
Their apparent intention was to join forces with Hong Xiuquan to rebel against the imperial court, but their ultimate goal was to get his money.
Hong Xiuquan looked down on the White Lotus Sect from the bottom of his heart, because the imperial court had long considered the White Lotus Sect a cult, and if he joined forces with them, wouldn't he also become a cult?
Hong Xiuquan still regarded himself as the son of God, so how could he be associated with such a cult?
These people haunted him every day. What Hong Xiuquan didn't know was that the White Lotus Sect's purpose was not to really unite with them to start a rebellion, but to set their sights on the huge amount of gold and silver in his hands.
This is how things are in the world. If you don't want others to know, then don't do it. As long as you do it, the news will definitely leak out slowly.
These two million were Hong Xiuquan's lifeblood. How could he possibly share them with the White Lotus Sect? Therefore, he was even more unwilling to pay attention to them.
The members of the White Lotus Sect were determined to get his money. They saw that Hong Xiuquan was like a stone in a toilet, smelly and hard. Kong Xiangguo had no choice but to ask for help from the headquarters.
The headquarters also sent the left protector, the Taoist Piaoyang, and the right protector, the monk Liangran, with Gui Liansheng to capture Hong Xiuquan.
After Gui Liansheng escaped from Dezhou, he found the Taoist priest Piaoyang according to the contact information in the sect.
He didn't tell Taoist Piaoyang that he had given Jintang the Yin-Yang Hehe Powder, but he said that Jintang ran away because he didn't want to do it anymore, and he didn't know where he went.
When the old Taoist heard that Yun Jintang had run away, he didn't care too much. In his eyes, she was just a girl, and there was nothing special about her except that she was pretty.
When Taoist Piaoyang met Hong Xiuquan, the two talked twice and the conversation became more and more off-topic.
Taoist Piaoyang got angry and said, "No need to waste time, just take him down."
He didn't believe that Hong Xiuquan was more stubborn than others, and he was not afraid that he would not hand over the gold and silver after his careful and considerate "earnest teachings".
The last conversation did not go well, so Taoist Piaoyang knocked Hong Xiuquan unconscious with a palm and abducted him into the mountains.