[Chapter Word Count:3523 Latest Update Time:2014-09-1614:34:33.0]

"You kneel down for me......" Graybeard kicked hard behind him, and Xiao Lotian knelt directly on the ground with great strength.

"Stinky boy, you have killed so many of our brothers, and just cutting off your head is already our king...... Our leader Bodhisattva is heartfelt, you kid remember, you have to avoid Lao Tzu in the next life. After saying that, the steel knife that killed countless people was raised high, and the next second was the end of Xiao Letian.

Xiao Letian also opened up at this time, his eyes were round and staring at Shi Dakai "You will regret killing me, because I am the only one who knows the reason for the failure of your heavenly kingdom, and Lao Tzu is also the only one who knows how to overthrow the Manchu Qing Dynasty......" Xiao Letian was completely out of his mind at this time, because he knew that if he didn't sacrifice this killer weapon, his fate would be undoubted, Xiao Letian almost roared with all his strength.

"Kill me, and there will be no one to answer your doubts, and the confusion in your heart will never be answered......"

"Slow!" Shi Dakai was already overwhelmed by Xiao Letian's momentum, he never expected this young man's tone to be so arrogant. Millions of capable people in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom can't find the reason for their failure, and you can figure it out with a second devil? Wait, two devils? The stone of the mountain can attack jade, maybe he really has dry goods in his stomach.

After the news of the capture of the capital that day, Shi Dakai also fell into a deep confusion. He didn't know what was wrong with the Kingdom of Heaven? Was it wrong to overthrow the Manchu Tartar regime? Was it wrong to overthrow the slave owners who rode on the necks of the Han people all over the world? Is it still unpopular to abolish the unequal treaties with foreigners?

Yes, Shi Dakai also knew that there was an open and secret struggle within the Heavenly Kingdom, and the internal friction was extremely strict. But all the blame for the failure of his career was blamed on the infighting? Shi Dakai felt that this reason was a bit insufficient, but what was missing? He couldn't think clearly.

For countless nights, Shi Dakai sat with a withered lamp all night, racking his brains to recall the 11-year history from the rise of the kingdom of heaven to its collapse, trying to find the key to the problem but unable to find the answer. Sometimes he rummaged through the history books and the classics left by the saints, trying to find the crux of the matter from the small words, but the saints thousands of years ago seemed to be helpless against the current confusing world.

Seeking, failing, searching, failing...... Shi Dakai's love has reached the verge of collapse. Until just now, this young man who claimed to be an overseas lonely guest actually said that he knew the answer to the question?

Shi Dakai grabbed Xiao Letian's collar, "Young man, I advise you not to play with fire, if you can't say anything, you just want to delay time, then what awaits you is not beheading, a thousand knives are light......"

Xiao Letian took a few deep breaths fiercely, he knew that now that he had mastered the rhythm of the negotiation, he had cut a wound in Shi Dakai's closed heart. Xiao Le genius didn't care if the wound was bloody or not, he just needed to save the lives of the little 100 people in the mountain temple.

Xiao Lotian said fiercely, "Let go of the people in the mountain temple, they are not your enemies, otherwise I won't reveal half a word to you......"

"Hehe, if you want those people's lives, it depends on whether the answers you give me are worthwhile. Don't worry, I'm a big man with Shi Da opening the sky, and the title of the righteous king is not called in vain, and I can't deceive you......"

Xiao Letian rubbed his wrist that was tied up, and said coldly: "I will believe you once, I don't have the time to go around in circles with you, with the knowledge of the prince, you also know that overthrowing the Manchu Qing is an extremely difficult task, if I casually say two strategies to tell you that you can overthrow the Manchu Qing in this way, I guess you will not believe ......"

"Well, I'll only discuss this from an area that you are not familiar with, although it is only the tip of the iceberg, but it can also allow you to open up new ideas......

Xiao Lotian pondered for a long time, carefully organized the language, picked up a branch and began to draw a map on the sand. "This is England, France, this is the European continent, and Africa, India, and even our ...... in China."

Xiao Lotian began to talk about the Second Opium War, from the Yarrow Incident, the Ma Shenfu Incident to the Battle of Bali Bridge and the burning of the Old Summer Palace. Here, Xiao Letian does not simply review the whole incident, but analyzes the interests of Western countries behind this war.

"In the first Opium War, that is, after the war in which Lin Zexu sold cigarettes, the British ceded Hong Kong Island, and forced the Qing Dynasty to open up, Guangzhou, Xiamen, Fuzhou, Ningbo, Shanghai, five treaty ports, the power of foreigners officially began to infiltrate, but this is far from enough What they want is the entire Qing country to open its door......"

Originally, when the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was at its most violent, the foreigners hoped to get more trade rights from Tianjing City, but they never expected that Hong Xiuquan's group of people had a stricter xenophobic thinking, and they unilaterally declared that the treaty between the Qing Dynasty and the foreigners was invalid. It also provoked the rebellion of the Shanghai Little Knife Society.

It was from that moment that the foreigners completely abandoned the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and began to try to support the Manchus. However, it is a pity that although the Manchus lost the first Opium War, they do not seem to have been hurt, and they still stubbornly believe that they are the upper kingdom of the Celestial Empire.

Since the Manchus were not enlightened, they could only use military force, so war seemed a bit fortuitous, but it was full of inevitability.

The Qing government lost, and from that day on, the gates of China were completely opened, and the Western powers began to invade the interior in full force, and their goods would penetrate inward along the long coastline and countless inland rivers. Their country's cheap industrial products can be sold at a sky-high price in China, and in the long run China will become weaker and weaker, while the West will become stronger and stronger.

"That's what they want, and that's what they've done. To put it mildly, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom stimulated Westerners' business adventures in a sense...... If China used to be a fat person, then China, which has experienced 11 years of civil war, is a dead fat man who has been bleeding more than vitality......"

"I understand the mood of the prince, the Qing demon is bad, and the foreigners who bully China are also bad, and everyone wants to make China rich and strong, but your mistake is that you don't know anything about the outside world. Maybe there's a possibility, I mean a hypothesis, that if you had been willing to open your eyes to the world, maybe none of this would have happened right now......"

Yes, opening one's eyes to the world is a state of mind, and this is also the state of mind that a weak nation must have if they want to become rich and strong. In this regard, Japan, an island nation on the sea, did much better than the Qing Dynasty.

In the eyes of the Qing government and the head of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Westerners are all a kind of demons, and those from Britain, France, and Italy are all the same kind of raccoon dogs, and there is no difference between the Rakshasa ghosts from the north and the Yingyi ghosts from the sea.

They don't know that Britain and France fought the Hundred Years' War, that Prussia and Germany are now ambitious to build a new empire, that there is the Crimean War fought by Russia, Britain and France, and that the Russians in the north are looking to the East because they were defeated in the Crimea.

Xiao Lotian is now like a teacher who enlightens elementary school students, and he almost teaches them by hand. From the general appearance of the earth, the composition of the Western powers, including what grievances and entanglements they have, Shi Dakai and Graybeard are instilled little by little.

In the end, even Graybeard, a rude man, slapped his thighs: "Oh, it turns out that there are so many twists and turns among foreigners?

At that time, the old capitalist countries, such as Britain and France, had not yet completed their plans for global colonization, and the new capitalist countries were desperately scrambling for the remaining leftovers, and the contradictions between them were accumulating more and more.

According to Xiao Letian's explanation, the time of industrialization in Western countries is different from that of Cheng Dù, and there are actually only a few countries that can cross half the world and put troops into it. Britain, France, and the United States, as for other countries to send merchant ships to do some small business at most, it is simply impossible to count on a war with the Qing State.

The Netherlands, Spain, and Portugal, the star nations of the Age of Discovery, had fallen by that era, and they were only surviving on a limited number of colonies.

"Now you understand, if you had taken the initiative to establish contact with outside countries, especially the United States and the Kingdom of Prussia, including the declining Spain, Portugal, and the Netherlands...... Establish trade relations with them first, and then establish diplomatic relations with each other if possible, and it is the king to destroy them......"

Shi Dakai looked at Xiao Letian, who was gushing and pointing at the country, and he suddenly had an illusion, as if the young man in front of him was an omniscient god.

Xiao Letian is very confident in himself, because at this time, in addition to a batch of translators with two knives in the Qing Kingdom, there are simply zero talents who can comprehensively study Western politics, economy, culture, etc. To put it mildly, the Qing people at that time looked at the Western powers just like the people of the earth today looked at imaginary aliens.

Talent, this is the real talent! Shi Dakai could already hear from Xiao Letian's confident tone, this young man was not lying, he was really a great talent who was proficient in Western knowledge. The identity of the overseas lonely guest is actually real, and with his profound knowledge, he is definitely a scholar overseas.

Shi Dakai is not an ordinary bandit mountain king, he is a senior intellectual, the traditional Chinese Confucianism is very proficient, and he has carefully studied the Western world during the years of rebellion, but no one can speak as thoroughly as Xiao Letian, and no book can talk about the same system as Xiao Letian.

Shi Dakai suddenly laughed, the smile was extremely sinister, Xiao Letian couldn't imagine that this revolutionary who was very respected in history could laugh so insidiously, he suddenly interrupted Xiao Letian's speech.

"Mr. is really talented, and now I admire the five-body body. Release people, there is no second word, I can let the people in the mountain temple live, and I can also say that we will not repay the revenge of the brothers who died in the battle last night, and the 110,000 silver is even the pension of our dead brothers......"

Xiao Letian licked his dry lips and bowed to Shi Dakai, "Thank you Wing King, on behalf of all the people in the Mountain Temple, thank you to the prince, I will tell them the good news, go ......" Xiao Letian turned around and wanted to go back.

"Slow!" Shi Dakai suddenly spoke, he stared at Xiao Letian with a wicked smile, "I haven't finished my words yet, I can release people, but I have conditions...... I still lack a military advisor under my command, and I think the talent of the gentleman must be well deserved. Come on, take Mr. and let's go back to the cottage......"

Xiao Lotian was dumbfounded at that time, how could anyone in the world be a messenger to put himself in? No, I still want to enjoy the beautiful scenery of the motherland that has not been industrially developed, I still have to go to old Beijing for a spin, I have to marry several beautiful wives, what is the matter with this locking me in a big ravine?

"Lord Wang, you can't, you can't be strong, the twisted melon is not sweet...... Wang Ye, Wang Ye ...... "It's a pity that it is futile to let Xiao Lotian shout and cut his throat."