Saying goes:
"The dogs bark, each for its own master!"
The position decision evaluation is an eternal truth, but Wei Changhui is not, he is regarded as a thief by the Qing court, and he is regarded as a traitor and rebel by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. That is to say, Wei Changhui was the only leader of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom who was denied by both the enemy and us, what kind of person was he, and why did he end up like this?
Life of Wei Changhui.
Wei Changhui (1823-1856), Hakka, formerly known as Wei Zhizheng, whose ancestral home was Nanhai, Guangdong, and later moved to Jintian Village, Guangping, Guangxi, was one of the core figures in the early Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
Fierce personality, feminine and sinister
”。
Before devoting himself to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Wei Changhui often "
Go in and out of the gate and take care of the lawsuits
", to get rid of the style of a litigator, it can be seen that he has a certain cultural foundation, if there is no other change, I am afraid that he is Kanedamura"
Fang Tang Mirror
Yet one thing completely changed his life.
Twenty-nine years of Daoguang (
1849
In February of that year, Wei Changhui celebrated the birthday of his eighty-one-year-old father and let people carve a piece."
Cheng Junjinshi
The four-word plaque, that is, the beautiful name of the prisoner, could have been tolerated by the old lady. Who knew that there was a Lan Xiu in the neighboring village who had always been wrong with Wei Changhui's father, so he quietly put the plaque on the plaque"
Chengjun
"The word was dug up, so the plaque became"
Scholars
"Two words, so that the Wei family exceeded the system, and was fined three hundred and two silver by the local government." The old lady gave all her family wealth to the Worship of God Society in one breath, and by the way, she pulled the entire Wei family together with Wei Changhui into the Worship of God Sect.
During the Taiping Rebellion, the Wei family provided a lot of financial support to the Worship of God Sect, and Wei Changhui also made countless military achievements in the Eastern Expedition and the Western War, so when Yong'an was crowned king, he led the right army to be the main general and the king of the north. Wei Changhui was criticized because on September 2, 1856, ""
The Tianjing Incident
"The Central Command killed Yang Xiuqing, the Eastern King, and then killed more than 20,000 essences of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in two months, which directly led to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom turning from prosperity to decline and toward failure. Shortly thereafter, Wei Changhui, the Northern King, Qin Rigang, the King of Yan, and more than 200 of his men were also executed.
What kind of person is Wei Changhui?
On November 2, 1856, after Wei Changhui was executed by Hong Xiuquan, his title was also stripped away, and his name was also demoted to Hong Xiuquan"
Northern adultery
", later derogatory"
Back soil
”（
That is, the north word plus a few strokes, the king word to go to a stroke of meaning
), circulating in the territory of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom"
Taiping Tianguo Song
"Also deleted the content of the Northern King, only one sentence remains"
The Northern King's heart is not right
", since then it has been included in another book as"
careerist
Even after his death, Hong Xiuquan did not let him go, in addition to sending the first rank to Shi Dakai, his body was cut into countless pieces and hung in various places in tianjing city for public display, and a wooden sign next to it read:
"The flesh of the north is only allowed to be seen, not taken."
Is Wei Changhui really so guilty? I'm afraid not! First, let's take a look at what kind of person Wei Changhui really is.
Wei Changhui can be said to be the early days of worshiping God."
Fortuna
Wei Changhui before participating in the worship of God"
The family is rich, the people are few and have no merit, and the money is rich and powerful
"At the time of the Kaneda uprising"
Give your family money
"and in his home"
Fire your knives and guns and get rid of the demons
", participated in almost all the organizational logistics work in the early days, was quite prestigious in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and was even once considered by the Qing court to be the real one"
Thief head
”。 After the Jintian Uprising, he "destroyed."
Home relief
Hundreds of members of the Wei family all participated in the Taiping Army, and Wei Jun and other brothers were even more successful, so Wei Changhui would only be crowned king of the North among the Yong'an kings, which was much higher than Shi Dakai's status.
Wei Changhui belonged to the Western King Xiao Chaogui clan within the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom political clique. Originally, the status of the eastern and western kings was the same, with Xiao Chaogui's restraint, and the political ecology in the Taiping Heavens maintained a balanced state, but with Xiao Chaogui's sacrifice in the Battle of Changsha, although Wei Changhui had reached the third place in actual power, his status was far inferior to that of Yang Xiuqing, the eastern king.
Moreover, his current position is very delicate, and he is often suppressed by Yang Xiuqing as the Western King's Party, and in the case of last resort, he has to defect to the Eastern King while wandering around the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan and surviving in the cracks. However, the contradictions of the Eastern King and the Northern King had inevitably become prominent, and in order to avoid its sharp edge, Wei Changhui had to go to Jiangxi to oversee the army.
Wei Changhui, who endured humiliation and burden, was the one who was most loyal to the Heavenly King.
This is not only manifested in the participation of the clan in the revolution, but also in the fact that the King of Heaven can escort the King at the most critical moment. The contradictions of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom existed from the beginning of the uprising, but it was not until 1856 that they became public and white-hot. The contradiction between the "Dongfu clique" headed by Yang Xiuqing and the supreme leader of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Hong Xiuquan, became the most important of the many contradictions, and in August 1856, the Qing army's Jiangnan camp was crushed, and Yang Xiuqing was crushed."
Force the Heavenly King to go to the Eastern King's Mansion and make him a long live
"Become the trigger for contradictions."
On September 2, 1856, Wei Changhui was ordered by the Heavenly King to lead an army back to Beijing."
King Qin
The Tianjing Incident, which caused the decline of the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom, further demonstrated Wei Changhui's loyalty to the Heavenly King.
At the same time, Wei Changhui was also a general who could fight a good battle, but his military talent was covered up by Yang Xiuqing's exclusion. As early as the early days, Hong Daquan, a member of the Hong Xiu clan, said that Wei Changhui:
"The Overseer fights wars, is good at fighting together, and often brings a thousand enemies and ten thousand demon soldiers."
Other Taiping generals commented on him:
"When he turned to fight in the north and south of the great river, although he was ill, he ordered the emperor to support him on his horse and personally supervise the battle."
As for the aftermath, there are few records of its battles, which can be seen that in the later period, it has been suppressed by the Eastern King, and it has been squeezed out.
It can be said that the gentleman obeyed the order, Wei Changhui obeyed Hong Xiuquan's dispatches, and only three thousand people and horses subordinate to himself were able to be mobilized to come to Tianjing."
But because of the long-term oppression of Yang Xiuqing, after the overthrow of this mountain, the suppressed Wei Changhui inspired a crazy sense of revenge and ambition, and he not only borrowed "
Cut out the East Party
"Wantonly excluding dissidents, and even more wanting to take Yang Xiuqing's place, was finally eliminated by Hong Xiuquan using Shi Dakai's hand, all of which was manipulated by a black hand behind the scenes, that is, Hong Xiuquan, who self-destructed the Great Wall!"
Wei Changhui was somewhat wronged
History put "
The culprit attributed to Wei Changhui, which was really a bit unjust. Although Hong Xiuquan later denied that he had given Wei Changhui an order, in fact, if Wei Changhui had acted to kill Yang Xiuqing without authorization with only three thousand soldiers and horses, if he had failed, he would have fled south and died, and even if he succeeded, it would still be difficult to escape Hong Xiuquan's punishment, or it would be difficult to escape death, and both left and right would be dead, so why would Wei Changhui do such a stupid thing?
In addition, Tianjing City was heavily guarded, the generals who defended the city were all hong xiuquan or Yang Xiuqing's concubines, Wei Changhui's troops easily entered the city, without Hong Xiuquan's instructions, how could it be possible to let him enter the city? Moreover, Wei Changhui rushed thousands of miles from Jiangxi to Tianjing to attack with the weak, and if there was no edict from the Heavenly King, I did not believe that Wei Changhui dared to have such a risky military action.
According to the "Cantonese Bandits Rise up to the Root Cause", after Yang Xiuqing forced the sealing of long live, "
When the Heavenly King returned to his home, he wrote a ciphertext and paid the Northern King Wei Zijing... Summoning hundreds of leaders, discussing the Eastern King, ordering the Northern King to lead the troops, besieging the Eastern King's Mansion at night, and killing them all
Therefore, we can see that the fundamental cause lies in the contradiction between the Heavenly King and the Eastern King, and "
Long live the forced seal
"It was the fuse, and the King of the North was only acting according to orders."
epilogue
Regardless"
"Is it not directly caused by Wei Changhui, but Wei Changhui's indiscriminate killing caused heavy losses to the middle and high-ranking leading elites of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and even more directly destroyed the existing leadership core, and greatly reduced the image of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's spiritual pillar worship god cult, this chaos even surprised the Qing government, and took advantage of this opportunity to quickly organize forces to counterattack, and the Taiping Army was also forced to change from a strategic offensive to a strategic defense, and slowly moved towards extinction.