In Guiping County in the first year of Xianfeng, the smell of rotting rice leaves floated in the air. Lin Sanlang was holding half a piece of moldy glutinous rice cake, and the whip marks on the back of his hand were still bleeding. Three days ago, the county government officials snatched away the last bag of grain seeds from his family. My father rushed to stop him and was stabbed through by the official knife.
"You are all God's children!" Hong Xiuquan's silk robe glowed with a strange red light in the dusk. The pages of "Good Words to Encourage the World" in his hand were rustling in the river wind. "The clear demons steal your food rations and rape your wives and daughters. These Yama demons will surely descend into the lake of fire and sulfur!"
Concept: The Rise and Fall of the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom