It is said that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement dealt a heavy blow to the rule of the Qing Dynasty, so what is the manifestation? Look at which feudal officials in the Qing Dynasty died at the hands of the Taiping Army. First of all, it is necessary to clarify what kind of official positions in the Qing Dynasty can be called "feudal officials"? The answer is the highest civilian officials at the provincial level, such as governors and governors, who have great power and prominent positions. Finally, what is the death at the hands of the Taiping Army? Being killed by anger, being killed, being forced to commit suicide, being killed by the emperor for ineffective combat, etc., all belong to this category. Here, the author will take you to see which feudal officials of the Qing Dynasty died at the hands of the Taiping Army, and how they died. Comments are welcome.
01. Li Xingyuan (1797-1851), the governor of Liangjiang, was a native of Xiangyin, Hunan, and Zuo Zongtang was a fellow villager. Hong and Yang made a revolution, and Lin Zexu was ordered to come to the Liangguang Governor to suppress it, but he died of illness in the middle of the way, and Li Xingyuan temporarily replaced him. At this time, the two regular armies of the Eight Banners and the Green Battalion were vulnerable and collapsed at the first touch; Xiang Rong, Zhou Tianjue, and other front-line generals did not listen to commands, and there were many contradictions with each other. In this way, the Taiping Army repeatedly easily broke through the Qing army's defense line, and Li Xingyuan was very annoyed. In April 1851, only 3 months after the Jintian Uprising, Li Xingyuan was ashamed of his defeat, his old illness recurred, and he died in the army, the first feudal governor to be killed.
02. Hubei Governor Chang Dachun (1792-1853), a native of Hengyang, Hunan, the head of the four major bibliophiles in Hunan at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and a descendant of Chang Yuchun, a famous general of the founding of the Ming Dynasty. In December 1852, Luo Gang, Lin Fengxiang, Li Kaifang, Tang Zhengcai and others led an army to attack Wuchang, and Chang Dachun led more than a thousand green battalion soldiers to resist desperately. In January of the following year, Wuchang was breached, and Chang Dachun committed suicide with his wife Liu Shi, son Chang Jisong, daughter-in-law Ma Shi, and granddaughter Chang Shuying.
03. Lu Jianying (1792-1853), governor of Liangjiang, a native of Qiuyang, Hubei Province, was a jinshi during the Daoguang years. In February 1853, the Taiping Army attacked from Wuchang to Nanjing, and Lu Jianying led 2,000 soldiers and horses to intercept it, but did not dare to fight at all, and would only retreat all the way to the east until it entered Nanjing. In March, the Taiping Army captured Nanjing, and Lu Jianying missed the opportunity to run away because of the transportation of "silver" and was hacked to death on the spot.
04. Wu Wenrong (1792-1854), governor of Huguang, Was a native of Yizheng, Jiangsu, and a famous minister of Zhongxing, Zeng Guofan (the honorific title of the chief examiner of the Ming and Qing dynasties). In January 1854, Wei Jun and others led the Western Expeditionary Army into Hubei, and the troops rushed straight to Huangzhou, preparing to take Wuchang directly and sweep across the two lakes. At this time, the Governor of Hubei, Chonglun (Manchu), was not accustomed to Wu Wenrong, saying that he was afraid of the enemy army and did not dare to engage him, and also played the impeachment of the Xianfeng Emperor. There was no way, the governor Wu Wenrong could only take 2,000 newly recruited soldiers to Huangzhou to intercept, and as a result, the soldiers collapsed at a touch, and Wu Wenrong could only throw himself into the water and commit suicide. (Incidentally, when the Qing Dynasty supervised tongcheng, the contradictions were generally very large; Chonglun was a Manchu, and Wu Wenrong could only endure)
05. Anhui Inspector Jiang Zhongyuan (1812-1854), a native of Xinning, Hunan, the originator of the Xiang Army, took the lead in training and took "Xiang Yong" out of the province to fight, if it were not for the death of the will, it is estimated that there would be no Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang, Li Hongzhang and other famous ministers of Zhongxing. In June 1852, Jiang Zhongyuan set up an ambush at Jeonju Andidu and killed Feng Yunshan, the 7,000-year-old king of the Southern Kingdom, changing the power structure of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. In January 1854, he was appointed as the Inspector of Anhui (the first person in the Xiang Army to receive the post of Governor) and went to Luzhou (the temporary capital of Anhui Province) to defend the town to resist the Western Expedition of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Unfortunately, Luzhou's troops were too small, and Jiang Zhongyuan was unwilling to retreat; after Luzhou was breached, Jiang Zhongyuan committed suicide by throwing himself into the water.
06. Inspector of Jiangsu Gilhang'a (unknown - 1856), one of the three banners of Manchuria with a yellow flag, Xianfeng's favorite courtier, served as the governor of Jiangsu in 1854. After serving as an inspector, he first joined forces with European powers to bloodily suppress the Shanghai Knife Society uprising, and tried to understand the situation in Europe and the United States in order to "resist foreign yi" in the future. At the beginning of 1856, he was in charge of the military affairs of the "Jiangnan Battalion", and he led tens of thousands of green battalion soldiers to camp in Jiuhua Mountain, and engaged in many battles with Qin Rigang, Chen Yucheng, Li Xiucheng and so on. In May, Qin Rigang and others attacked the Jiuhuashan camp, and Gilhang'a was deeply ashamed and shot himself.
07. Zhejiang Governor Wang Youling (1810-1861), a Fujian Marquis, and a fellow national hero Lin Zexu. In October 1861, Li Xiucheng, the king of Zhong, sent a large army to attack Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang Province, and Inspector Wang Youling led 2,000 soldiers and horses to fight hard, and the pressure was very high. To this end, he wrote to Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang and other leaders of the Xiang Army, hoping that they would send reinforcements to rescue Hangzhou. At this time, Zeng Guofan was the governor of Liangjiang, controlling the military affairs of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Anhui and other four provinces, and was responsible for rescuing Hangzhou. However, Zeng Guofan wanted to establish a "Xiang Kingdom" and install Xiang clan cronies in Jiangnan, so he delayed sending troops and saw death and could not be saved. After the fall of Hangzhou, Wang Youling was martyred; Li Xiucheng admired his courage and temperament, buried him and sent five hundred Qing soldiers (who had surrendered) to escort the coffin back to his hometown. In this way, Wang Youling died at the hands of his teammates, and it was Zeng Guofan who borrowed a knife to kill people.
08. He Guiqing (1816-1862), the governor of Liangjiang, a native of Kunming, Yunnan, became the governor of Liangjiang in 1857, restrained the "Jiangnan camp", and continued to besiege Tianjing. In the spring of 1860, Li Xiucheng, Chen Yucheng, Yang Fuqing, Li Shixian, and others adopted the strategy of "encircling Wei and saving Zhao" to break through the "Jiangnan Camp", and then marched east all the way to attack Changzhou. At this time, He Guiqing was in Changzhou, but he could not effectively resist, so he fled directly to Shanghai for refuge. In 1862, He Guiqing was arrested and taken to Beijing for interrogation. He Guiqing's connections in the imperial court were still very good, 17 high-ranking officials interceded for him to avoid death, and the emperor also planned to let him go. However, Zeng Guofan, the leader of the Xiang Army, expressed his dissatisfaction and directly played: "The officials of the frontier take the city guard as a big festival, and it is not appropriate to stop with the words of the subordinates. The chancellor convicts by the traces of his heart, and does not have to weigh the merits of public courtesy. This means that the feudal governor should be martyred (learning from Zeng Guofan and pretending to dive), how can he abandon the city and escape alone? Under the pressure of the Xiang clique, the imperial court executed He Guiqing.
From the above, it can be seen that Li Xingyuan, Chang Dachun, Lu Jianying, Jiang Zhongyuan, Wu Wenrong, Jir Hang'a, Wang Youling, He Guiqing, and other eight feudal officials of the governorial level all died directly or indirectly at the hands of the Taiping Army, which was a big blow to the Qing Dynasty. In addition to these eight, which other feudal officials died at the hands of the Taiping Army? Welcome to leave a message to share.
References: Military History of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Complete History of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom War