In the city of Arequipa, Liu Pu stood alone in the courtyard and paced back and forth.
Seven or eight days have passed, and no news has come back from Li Mingyuan, so the chance of getting the treasure is getting smaller and smaller.
In the days since Li Mingyuan left, the Chinese troops sent out to carry out the occupation mission left behind some defenders, and the main force gradually returned to Arequipa. With the return of the Chinese troops, not only a large amount of supplies, but also tens of thousands of rescued people came back.
Chinese workers.
All of southern Peru was occupied by the Chinese Independence Army, and all the Chinese workers in the occupied areas were rescued. The total number of Chinese workers reached 120,000. With so many Chinese workers gathered together, the daily consumption of materials was unimaginable to ordinary people.
These days, Liu Pu is busy arranging the distribution and management of the newly rescued Chinese workers while also arranging the distribution and management of materials. Even with the help of Zhao Yan and Sun Bin, Liu Pu can't stop being busy.
Among the Chinese laborers in South America, except for some in the Taiping Army who were literate, the vast majority were illiterate.
Liu Pu recruited all the Chinese Independence Army members who could write, but he only managed to gather a hundred people.
With one hundred men, Liu Pugu could ensure that the Chinese troops would not cause trouble.
However, Li Mingyuan was absent from the camp for seven or eight days, and Liu Pu gradually couldn't hold his position. In the past two days, more than a dozen officers had come to ask about Li Mingyuan's movements. Liu Pu blocked him by saying that Li Mingyuan was leading the cavalry regiment for training, but this excuse was not enough.
It won't be long before other people will notice the abnormality sooner or later.
There was a rapid knock on the door, and Liu Pu temporarily put aside these troubles.
"Chief of Staff, the treasure has been found. The Crown Prince ordered someone to move the gold." The soldier who sent the order gasped and said happily.
"Great, I ordered Brigadier Wang to lead the First Mixed Brigade to set off immediately." After seven or eight days of waiting, Liu Pu finally came to fruition. The troubles in Liu Pu's mind immediately disappeared and he said excitedly.
Near Lake Titicaca, Chinese soldiers continued to move the gold out of the cave and put it on the grass. Then another group of soldiers moved the gold onto the carriage, preparing to transport it away after all the gold was moved out.
"Ergou, you have done a great job by discovering the cave. When you get rich in the future, don't forget your old brother." said the Chinese soldier who was moving the gold with Li Ergou.
"I don't dare to think of great achievements. It was the crown prince who really found the gold."
"Don't be humble, Ergou. If you hadn't discovered the cave, the prince wouldn't have found the gold."
Moving the box of gold in front to the open space, the Chinese soldier stopped and said.
"Have you heard of something?" Li Ergou and the soldiers carrying the gold were sitting under a tree to rest, and a soldier next to him said mysteriously.
"Tiedan, what's going on?" Seeing Yang Tiedan's solemn look, the soldiers who had taken a break gathered around him curiously.
"Do you know why hundreds of people in the cave did not discover the secret of the cave wall, and only the prince did?"
"Why?"
"Because the prince has received guidance from the Father."
"Impossible. If the prince was reminded by Heavenly Father, why didn't the prince discover the cave?"
"Idiot, have you forgotten that the other soldiers had to go back yesterday, but the prince insisted on waiting one more day?" Yang Tiedan said with disdain.
There were more and more people surrounding Yang Tiedan, and most of them listened to him attentively.
"Let me tell you, it is said that the prince saw the Heavenly Father again in his dream the night before yesterday. The heavenly father comforted the prince to wait one more day and gold would appear, so the prince did not listen to other people's opinions and go back."
"Also, did you see the prince discovering gold in the cave?"
"I was next to the Crown Prince at that time,"
"Me too," more than a dozen people raised their hands.
"Since everyone is here, they should have seen the prince's appearance when he knocked on the cave wall, right?"
Yang Tiedan prompted little by little.
"The prince was still standing in the middle of the cave. Later, as if he had been guided, he walked towards the wall numbly." A soldier recalled Li Mingyuan's performance at that time.
"From what you said, I also remembered that the Crown Prince was like a puppet on strings, being manipulated by others towards the cave wall."
"Everyone has clearly seen the prince's behavior at that time. Do you know who has behaved like this before?"
"Who is it?" The soldier next to him was attracted by Yang Tiedan's questions one after another.
"When Heavenly Father came to King Dong in the past, he had an expression similar to that of the Crown Prince." Yang Tiedan revealed the answer to the mystery.
"Are you saying that Heavenly Father has descended to earth again?" the soldiers around said in disbelief.
"Of course, if Heavenly Father hadn't come down to earth to guide the prince, how could the prince have discovered the secret of the cave wall."
"Heavenly Father has descended to earth again, and Heavenly Father has not abandoned us." An old Taiping soldier sobbed and cried because of excitement.
The cries of the veterans of the Taiping Army alerted the soldiers who were carrying the gold, and they all looked this way.
Li Mingyuan also heard the veteran's cry, stopped what he was doing, and stepped forward.
After listening to Tiedan's explanation, Li Mingyuan waved all the soldiers to stop what they were doing and gather around him.
"Brothers, some brothers said they saw Heavenly Father possessing me. I can tell you that this is true."
Li Mingyuan glanced majestically at the soldiers around him and continued, "Heavenly Father used to possess Dong Wang, so Dong Wang was able to command the Taiping Army to win the battle.
Later, the King of Heaven killed the King of the East without authorization, causing dissatisfaction with Heavenly Father. Since then, Heavenly Father has never descended to earth again, and the Taiping Army failed on the mainland without Heavenly Father's guidance." After Li Mingyuan finished speaking, he paused.
, leaving time for the soldiers to react.
Yang Xiuqing, the Eastern King of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, had unique military abilities, and most of the early victories of the Taiping Army were achieved under his command.
Yang Xiuqing took the power of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom under the guise of Heavenly Father, but was later killed by the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan.
Yang Xiuqing had a high prestige among the Taiping Army. Because Heavenly Father possessed him, in the hearts of most Taiping Army, Yang Xiuqing's status was higher than that of Hong Xiuquan.
After Yang Xiuqing's death, the Taiping Army retreated steadily and was finally suppressed by the Qing army, and the remaining Taiping Army fled to South America.
"If the Heavenly King hadn't killed the Eastern King, we would have defeated the Qing army long ago and established the Kingdom of Heaven on earth." A soldier below said angrily.
"Both the Heavenly King and the Eastern King are the sons of the Heavenly Father. The Heavenly King must have killed the Eastern King and angered the Heavenly Father, so the Heavenly Father did not descend to earth later."
The soldiers below were talking a lot, and most of them expressed dissatisfaction with the King of Heaven's killing of King Dong.
The Taiping Army in South America was different from the previous Taiping Army. After experiencing the Tianjing Incident and the destruction of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the remaining Taiping Army no longer had blind superstition towards the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan. Instead, they blamed him for the destruction of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom because he killed the Eastern King.
Most of the soldiers were dissatisfied and even filled with hatred for Hong Xiuquan.
"Brothers, stop and listen to me." Li Mingyuan stopped the following discussion.
"Heavenly Father told me in my dream that this gold is the last gift that Heavenly Father gives us.
Moreover, Heavenly Father also told me that the southern part of Brazil has fertile land and a suitable climate, making it an ideal place for the founding of the country.
Heavenly Father calls us to abandon the desert areas of southern Peru and move into southern Brazil to rebuild the Kingdom of Heaven.
Brothers, are you still willing to obey Heavenly Father’s instructions?” After speaking, Li Mingyuan said loudly.
"Swear to the death to believe in Heavenly Father." Li Mingyuan's answer was a roar that resounded throughout the valley.
The power of faith is infinite. The remnants of the Taiping Army lost faith and stayed in the mines in despair, waiting to die.
The arrival of Li Mingyuan rescued them from despair and death, giving them a renewed sense of faith.
With the support of a trace of faith in their hearts and the desire for life, the Chinese Independence Army, led by Li Mingyuan, fought continuously for more than a month, finally annihilating the southern Peruvian army and gaining a breathing space.
Li Mingyuan gave them faith again, so in the hearts of the Chinese workers in South America, Li Mingyuan was the leader chosen by Heavenly Father to lead them in rebuilding the kingdom of heaven.
"Heavenly Father finally told me in the dream that the way has been pointed out to us. From now on, Heavenly Father will not come down to earth again, and we will have to work hard for the next thing."
It was impossible to hide nearly four hundred tons of gold from the Chinese soldiers, so Li Mingyuan used the fact that Heavenly Father had descended to earth and proposed that the gold was given by Heavenly Father to calm the soldiers below.
Religious beliefs can strengthen soldiers' beliefs during war, but establishing a country based on religion is very detrimental to the country's future development.
Therefore, Li Mingyuan used the excuse of the last visit of Heavenly Father to point out the strategic intention of moving to southern Brazil. On the other hand, he blocked the possible negative influence of religion after the founding of the country.
The existence of faith is necessary. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Li Mingyuan will reform the God-worshiping religion, retaining its core ideas of equality for all and equality between men and women, and adding some ideas of patriotism, self-esteem and self-confidence, and eliminating bad content such as fanatical beliefs.
The transformed God-worshiping religion will be conducive to uniting the Chinese workers in South America and accelerating the country's development.
Li Mingyuan's speech was very successful. The seven thousand soldiers present once again strengthened their admiration for him and had confidence in moving into southern Brazil.
Although Li Mingyuan said that Heavenly Father would no longer descend to earth, the soldiers felt disappointed, but thinking of Li Mingyuan, the leader chosen by Heavenly Father, the soldiers were full of confidence in the future of the Chinese Independence Army.
