Chapter 56 Chapter 1 Hong Huoxiu, who was driven "crazy" by scientific research

Hong Huoxiu was originally a very smart and wise scholar, and a scholar.Since ancient times, there has been one road to Huashan. If you want to get ahead in China, there is only one road: the imperial examination.If you don't take the imperial examination, don't take the exam, and don't become an official, you can't realize your political ambitions.So Hong Huoxiu started his long career in scientific examinations. He failed the examination for a year, and failed in another year. In the blink of an eye, he failed in the examination for ten years.He was not discouraged, and continued to take the exam, and he still failed in the seventeenth year of the exam.When he went to Guangdong to take the exam this year, he met a missionary named Liang Afa, who gave him a booklet. Hong Huoxiu didn't even look at the contents of the booklet, so he took it with him.

After failing the exam for the seventeenth time, Hong Huoxiu fell ill when he returned home, full of grief, indignation and despair.He has a great talent, but he still can't pass the exam and reach his goal. His life can only be declared a failure.He was very sad and couldn't accept this reality, so his condition became worse day by day.Finally one day, he called his father and two elder brothers to his side, crying and said: Father, elder brother, I can never repay your kindness to me. I'll be a cow and a horse for you again, I have no hope in this life.After saying this, Hong Huoxiu died.

While the family was grieving, they started a vigil for him and planned to bury him seven days later.On the seventh day, when he was about to be buried, Hong Huoxiu sat up suddenly, which shocked the whole family.After Hong Huoxiu sat up, his demeanor was completely different, and he spoke to his family with great energy.He said: Father, I really died just now. When I closed my eyes, a ray of my soul overflowed my body. At this time, a dragon, a tiger and a big rooster came in front of me. The animals came together and led me to heaven.There was an old lady in the heavenly court. After seeing me, she shed tears and told you not to play with the world and dirty yourself.Then I continued to walk forward. At this time, a magnificent golden palace appeared in front of me. Many people gathered there and were scolding an old man in a black Taoist robe.The old man was weeping all over his face, and looked at these people with tears in his eyes, but didn't speak.After I passed by, the old man took me aside and said with tears, look at these people outside, they were born and raised by me, they eat my food and wear my clothes, but they don’t respect me, You must not learn from them and keep your body clean.After saying this, the Taoist robed old man took out a sword, cut open my stomach, took out my heart, replaced it for me, and then told me: You must protect yourself, don't play with the world, play with me. dirty yourself.So I came back (see Shi Jingqian: "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom", Guangxi Normal University Press, September 2011, p. 67).

After Hong Huoxiu finished talking about the process, his father and his two older brothers figured it out: this kid had failed the imperial examinations for more than ten years in a row, and he was so stimulated that he went crazy. The news that Hong Huoxiu was crazy quickly spread, and the villagers flocked to see the madman. After they came, they deliberately teased Hong Huoxiu to tell this story, and Hong Huoxiu told it verbatim from beginning to end. The villagers laughed.At this time, Hong Huoxiu's father felt very embarrassed, because there was a lunatic in the family, of course he didn't want to be humiliated like this, so he locked him in the room and let his two elder brothers take turns to guard him.Suddenly one day, one of his elder brothers came back from the outside and found the door was pried open. When he entered the room, the crazy brother ran away.Just run away, post a missing person notice and it's over.

Eight years passed in a blink of an eye, and they finally got the news of the crazy brother who had run away.At this time, Hong Huoxiu was no longer called Hong Huoxiu, but Hong Xiuquan. He had ascended the throne in Tianjing and claimed to be the king of heaven, and he wanted to take his father and brothers to enjoy the blessings. At this time, his father couldn't help but ask: Is my son crazy or is the whole world crazy?If my son is crazy, how come so many people follow him?But if he is not crazy, what he said is not what a normal person said! Pay attention to this sentence - those words he said are not what normal people would say - it implies the secret of Hong Huoxiu's eight years of success.