How extravagant is Hong Xiuquan?
It depends on who compares it to?
If he were to be put together with the refugees at that time, Hong Xiuquan would certainly be extravagant to the point where it was difficult to describe the number of bamboo, and it was not enough to kill the civilians. However, if measured by the standard of a king of five thousand years, Hong Xiuquan could not even take the extravagant side.
At this point, Xiaobian has already felt that someone is ready to throw watermelon peels.
Indeed, today's network, denying Hong Xiuquan, and even demonizing Hong Xiuquan has become the norm. What a palace bigger than the Forbidden City, and gorgeous! What wives are too many to recognize themselves, can only be numbered with numbers! What a bed eight feet wide, let Zeng Guofan marvel at its yd!
In fact, as long as a person thinks with his head instead of his ass in the most basic logic, he will come to the conclusion that Hong Xiuquan cannot be extravagant at all.
Hong Xiuquan cannot be extravagant, there are internal and external causes.
First, Hong Xiuquan is not extravagant external causes.
Obviously, before the capital Tianjing was set, Hong Xiuquan could not be extravagant. In this regard, even the "Compilation of Thieves' Feelings" written by Zeng Guofan admitted: "Thieves are in the land of Yong'an projectiles, heavily besieged for several months, fleeing in poverty, crossing the mountains and dangers, running between hazelnut valleys, carrying their own arms, wrapping grain to travel, without boats and cars, can An find sedans and horses?" Hong and Yang zhu also rebelled against each other and followed each other on foot. ”
So, what about after the capital Tianjing?
Below, the editor lists a table:
The capital of a country has existed in the world for 11 years and 4 months, and as a result, 68% of the time it is blocked by the enemy. At this point, the editor's body and body have a sense of sense of powerlessness.
So, the enemy is outside the city, how is the little life in the city?
The "Yue Reverse Chronicle" records: "In the may of may (three years of Xianfeng), thieves posted false instructions, so that the women's houses in the north and south of Hunan ate porridge, but the Guangxi women's houses were allowed to eat rice." ”
In the fourth year of Xianfeng, the food crisis in Tianjing City was even more serious.
The "Compilation of Thieves' Feelings" records: "During the fourth and fifth months of Jiayin, JiangNing ran out of grain, so he ordered that except for the false king, he would eat surimi (thin porridge, not minced meat), and those who dared to eat would be beheaded." ”
The most interesting thing was one of the events of Xianfeng's six years.
At that time, there was a severe drought in jiangnan, and even the wells were dried. Only Jinling, because it is the capital of the Six Dynasties, is a treasure land, and the water source is continuous. The Taiping Army could be regarded as having the capital to be able to squirm in front of the Qing army. They took the water scoop, stood at the head of the city, and while drinking water, they shouted at the Qing army whose throat was smoking under the city with a drunken face: "Good water, good water!" ”
That said, when you drink porridge, why don't you take a bowl of braised pork and stand at the head of the city and snort at people's houses?
In the later period of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, due to the change of Tianjing and the separation of Shi Dakai, the food crisis became more serious, and the Tianjing City even reached the point of killing horses for food. During the Xianfeng period, horses were an important strategic material, not exhausted, how could they eat horses?
Therefore, because the capital of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was besieged by the Qing army for a long time, resulting in a sharp decline in living standards in the city, Hong Xiuquan could not have enough financial resources to engage in luxury.
Many people will not be convinced when they see this. They would say, "Because of this, Hong Xiuquan is doubly hateful!" You see, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is in such a crisis, but no matter how terrible the flood is, Hong Xiuquan will still use his power to corrupt and maintain a corrupt life. ”
So, can Hong Xiuquan really do this? Let's look at the internal causes that he can't possibly be extravagant:
Second, the internal causes of Hong Xiuquan's extravagance:
Hong Xiuquan is a puppet from beginning to end. As a puppet with no power in his hands, how could he mobilize the few resources of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to the greatest extent possible to serve the arrogance and lavishness of his private life?
Below, Xiaobian will talk about it in stages:
1. Before the capital Tianjing
As we all know, the Religion of God was founded by Hong Xiuquan. However, the greatest contributor to the spread of the Cult of God in Guangxi, the widespread gathering of the congregation, and the development and growth of a force was Feng Yunshan.
Hong Xiuquan waited until Feng Yunshan had done almost everything and parachuted into this organization. Therefore, from the very beginning, Hong Xiuquan had no power of his own in the Cult of God.
Soon, Feng Yunshan was imprisoned, and the power of the God Sect fell into the hands of Yang Xiuqing and Xiao Chaogui. After Feng Yunshan was released from prison, after many open and secret struggles, the forces belonging to Feng Yunshan were excluded, and Feng Yunshan's own seat was finally ranked behind Yang Xiao and the two.
Later, the landlord Wei Changhui and the rich peasant Shi Dakai and others joined, and they even had their own hills.
At a time when several forces were competing and competing, Hong Xiuquan, who had no foundation and no real power, eventually became a leading figure acceptable to all parties and sat on the throne of the Heavenly King.
2. After the capital tianjing
(1) Early period (before the change of Tianjing)
We know that after the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom established the capital of Tianjing, Yang Xiuqing monopolized power, and without a word, he could declare that the Heavenly Father was down and then beat Hong Xiuquan's ass.
I would like to ask how Hong Xiuquan could have engaged in specialization of life under Yang Xiuqing's "obscene authority." At that time, Tianjing was besieged by the Jiangnan camp, and the city was eating porridge, and even if Hong Xiuquan was extravagant, I was afraid that he would only be limited to dry food. Of course, you want to say that he eats the big cake baked by the Hand of the East Palace Niangniang every day, and the green onion cut by the West Palace Lady by hand is also recognized by the editor. But if you have to say that Hong Xiuquan is extravagant, I am afraid that even Hong Xiuquan himself will weakly defend: "Concubines can't do it!" ”
(2) Late period (after Shi Dakai left)
Many people believe that Hong Xiuquan first launched the Tianjing Rebellion, designed Yang Xiuqing, Wei Changhui and Shi Dakai to kill each other, and then forced Shi Dakai away, and finally regained the power of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
Indeed, if Hong Xiuquan really had great power in the later stages, he was indeed capable of engaging in extravagance.
However, don't forget that the later Taiping Heavenly Kingdom existed with a land division system.
The land division system is the system in which Hong Xiuquan issued a holy decree and divided the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom into local powerful factions such as the King of England and the King of Zhong. Under this system, the local powers had financial and military power within their turf.
I would like to ask, what powerful monarch in history has played like this?
In fact, due to the change of Tianjing and the departure of the Wing King, the central power of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom declined sharply, and many generals who fought outside took the opportunity to seize huge power and became a new military aristocracy. Hong Xiuquan was powerless to change this situation, and in the end, he could only recognize its legitimacy in the name of the Holy Will.
In fact, after the change of Tianjing, Hong Xiuquan was not as good as begging for food under Yang Tianfu.
In June 1861, the British translator and acting consul of Ningbo, Fu Lici, visited Tianjing and had the privilege of visiting the outskirts of the TianwangFu at close range.
At this time, the Hechun version of the Jiangnan camp no longer existed, and Zeng Guoquan's Xiang army had not yet come to the Tianjing Yuhuatai, which was a good time for Hong Xiuquan to be extravagant!
So, in Fu Li's pen, what is the appearance of Hong Xiuquan's palace?
Below, a small excerpt from the editor, "Everything is quite dirty, and the gilded area is soon covered with a brown layer of sweat, dust, and rain." Red, blue, white, and green were also badly painted, as if they were about to be mixed together. Unless the dragon painted on the ceiling is redecorated, it won't be long before it's hard to see. The ground was full of phlegm and dirt. The wandering soldiers were disheveled and ragged. Although it is in the Heavenly King's Palace, you can still see the ruins of the broken walls around you, which looks desolate. ”
If this is called luxury, Xiaobian is about to not recognize the two words of luxury.
Obviously, it is precisely because Hong Xiuquan is a puppet that he has no power and no power, and there is a lack of sufficient service personnel around him, so let alone a luxurious life, even basic hygiene cannot be guaranteed.
So, why does Hong Xiuquan's extravagant and lavish black material flood the Internet, so that many people are brainwashed to disregard the internal and external causes that he cannot be extravagant, and believe that Hong Xiuquan lives a life of drunkenness and extreme luxury?
Because Hong Xiuquan is a loser.
In this world, there is only icing on the cake, and there is no charcoal in the snow. In history, a loser is doomed to have no right to speak, but to be blackened.
Although, Hong Xiuquan is an otaku, living in a simple routine, doomed to black material is not so easy to find. Therefore, if you want to blacken him until your mother doesn't know him, you can only blacken him from the lower part of his body.
At the end of the article, put an Easter egg.
After the fall of Tianjing, the Xiang army entered the city, looted and burned Hong Xiuquan's Tianwang Palace.
However, on February 6, 1865, the general building of the Tianwangfu was still in place, and the internal facilities were basically preserved. Zhao Liewen, who was an aide to Zeng Guofan, traveled to the Heavenly King's Mansion on this day. Instead of swimming around the perimeter like Fu Lizhi, he went into the room and even visited Hong Xiuquan's bedroom.
That day, he wrote down this sentence in his diary:
Introduction to the key sentence: "Since the passage of the hall, to the last floor is still seven or eight, and finally the three-story building, the beams and columns have been exhausted, the shape on the wall is still there, the scale is narrow, more demolition and residential buildings, full of wall paintings, especially cold and ugly." ”