In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, led by Hong Xiuquan, led by several people with ghost fetuses, killed all the way from Guangxi to Hunan, and from Hunan to Hubei, Anhui, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, and finally established power in Nanjing.
Map of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
His leadership ranks include Feng Yunshan, who is on the list like him, Yang Xiuqing, who burns charcoal, Xiao Chaogui, who cultivates the mountains, and Wei Changhui, who has donated to prison students and was a yamen Xu official, if there is a decent figure, it is Shi Dakai, who is indeed a local rich man.
How did such a group of leaders with no military experience, coupled with a group of believers who were a little brain-dead and incapable of distinguishing between right and wrong, fight all the way from the south to the north and successfully establish political power?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > follow me, no disaster! </h1>
Hong Xiuquan was originally a native of Huaxian County, Guangdong Province, born in 1813, originally a farmer for generations, to his father's generation, the family was slightly better, so he sent him to a private school, until the age of 16 (many children of the same age will play soy sauce)!
Hong Xiu panorama
After graduation, he began a volunteer teaching career and became a rural teacher, it is reasonable to say that a rural child, free from manual labor, should be grateful, practical work.
But Hong Xiuquan is not partial, he has a greater ideal in his heart, that is, to obtain a meritorious name, Guangzong Yaozu!
Unfortunately, his level is really not good, twice went to Guangzhou to get talent, both times failed!
Failure is failure, being a teacher is not bad (I personally like the profession of teacher), but Hong Xiu is not good at all, narrow-minded, and began to hold a grudge against the Qing Dynasty.
But he didn't run away in vain these two times in Guangzhou, because he got some propaganda materials from jesuit missionaries, and when he came back, he was hungry and thirsty!
After reading it, sit on the bed and think: There is a way to turn over!
Hong Xiuquan's method is to make himself seriously ill, and one illness is more than 40 days!
After recovering from his illness, Hong Xiuquan began to preach everywhere: I have not been sick for more than 40 days, but have seen Jesus gone, Jesus is my father, Jehovah is my brother, I am a heavenly brother, and I have come to save you in the name of Heavenly Father and Heavenly Brother!
Therefore, Hong Xiuquan founded the worship of God.
Worship of God as a ceremony of initiation
Among his early followers was Feng Yunshan, also a man with grievances due to failed examinations, and they preached together in Guangdong.
But Guangdong has long been occupied by the churches of foreigners, where is there still room for them!
Guangdong can't do it, let's go to Guangxi!
Therefore, they worked hard to come to Guiping County, Guangxi, which is relatively remote and backward, and the foreign church has not yet developed.
When they arrived here, they began to publicize the theory founded by Hong Xiuquan to the outside world, saying that Hong Xiuquan's order was the order of the Heavenly Father and Heavenly Brother, who believed in the God Society, who had no disease or disaster, who did not believe, and who "snakes and tigers hurt people."
He also said that those who believe in the Society of God can directly ascend to the immortals if they die on the battlefield.
Simply put, just follow me, no disasters!
More and more people believe in worship of God!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > you triads don't do it, follow me! </h1>
In the development process of Hong Xiuquan, a crucial step is to absorb the personnel of the triad, continuously expand his strength, and give himself a clear goal.
The triad in the last years of the Qing Dynasty
The Triad is a secret group that has been active since the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, mainly in the Guangxi area of Guangdong, and their purpose is only one, that is, to oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty.
But over time, they found that it was almost impossible to restore the Qing Dynasty, so there were fewer and fewer activities (there are still triads, Hongmen, Gu Qiuzai, etc., all of which are his branches).
Hong Xiuquan saw this, so he began to scold the Manchus, saying that they were demons, not only changing our Han people's clothing, food, housing, and living habits, but also fornicating with our women!
Three thousand pink daisy, all stained by the karmic dogs, a million red faces, even sleeping with the fox!
Seeing that the God Worship Society was also opposing the Manchu Qing, the Triad people seemed to have found a zhiyin, saw hope, and joined the God Worship Society, and Hong Xiuquan's power was greatly strengthened.
From then on, Hong Xiuquan had a clear purpose: to overthrow the rule of the Qing Dynasty!
Although this purpose was only verbal, it never entered Hong Xiuquan's heart!
At least, there is a purpose, and the flag is up!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > we are all equal, yours is mine, mine or mine! </h1>
Another magic weapon that Hong Xiuquan has attracted to the people is his "Heavenly Dynasty Tianmu System".
A handwritten version of the Tianchao Tianmu system
He declared in the field and acre system: There is land and farming, there is food and food, there is clothing and clothing, and money is the same!
Look at how loud people's slogans are, isn't this what we want to pursue!
Shit!
In addition to Hong Xiuquan's religious revolution and racial revolution, the social revolution is nonsense!
He said that everyone is equal, let everyone donate everything in the family, he came empty-handed, not a single hair was donated!
He said that everyone was equal, and when the Jintian Uprising was over, everyone else was charging into the battlefield, and he took Feng Yunshan to hide in the countryside hu Yihuang's house, and said something like "don't use the hidden dragon"!
He said that everyone was equal, and he also set up a men's camp and a women's camp, even husband and wife could not live together, his own court was full of concubines, and the women of other leadership levels could not be counted.
But the ordinary people don't know it, especially those peasants who have no land, when they see that they have land and farming, they have food and food, what a good thing, as soon as they throw away their tools, they join the worship of God!
The power of the Church of God is growing!
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the Taiping Army is coming? Pay money and pay for food, you will get it! </h1>
From 1850 to 1853, it was the smoothest 4 years of the development of the Taiping Army, and it can be said that it did not experience any setbacks or encounter any decent resistance.
From the Jintian Rebellion in 1850, Hong Xiuquan quickly occupied Mengshan County, fixed the name taiping heavenly kingdom, proclaimed himself the Heavenly King, and also created Yang Xiuqing the Eastern King (Yang Xiuqing later proclaimed himself Heavenly Father, so that Hong Xiuquan obeyed his orders), the Xiao Dynasty Guixi King, the Wei Changhui Northern King, the Shi DaKaiyi King, and several brothers with a group of people, began a life of exile.
Roadmap for the development of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
Especially after Yuezhou received the ordnance left by Wu Sangui, the strength of the Taiping Army was greatly strengthened, and it took Hanyang, Wuchang, Jiujiang, Anqing, and Wuhu all the way, and finally occupied Nanjing in 1853, where it was fixed and renamed Tianjing.
The reason why the road has been so smooth is mainly due to the attitude of the people, because everyone is a wall grass, and whoever comes will listen to whom!
Our people have always been peaceful and self-guarding, the Taiping Army has arrived, everyone obeys the Taiping Army and contributes money, and when the officers and soldiers arrive, everyone obeys the officers and soldiers and contributes money.
In fact, are you willing? I don't want to!
They had no good feelings for the Manchu Qing government and officials, and the discipline of the officers and soldiers was quite poor, which seriously affected their production and life.
The discipline of the Taiping Army was a little better, but they destroyed temples everywhere and destroyed idols, and the Taiping Army did not leave soldiers to defend, nor did they set up official rule, as soon as they left, the bandits followed!
The realm of the Celestial Kingdom
Another point that makes the people dissatisfied, the Taiping Army absorbs the underworld! What Hunan Brotherhood and what Shanghai Knife Society, are all linked to the Taiping Army!
What can the people do?
Pay for the grain!
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the Taiping Army called? Run! </h1>
This is the first reaction of most officers and soldiers!
In terms of organizational training, the Taiping Army had no training at all!
On weapons, that is still what Wu Sangui left behind, and the rust is not the same!
Thesis Tao Wu Strategy, excellent people are promoted to get rich!
But the Taiping Army just won!
It's not that he can fight, but mainly because the officers and soldiers can't fight!
At that time, there were two main types of officers and soldiers, one was the Eight Banners and the other was the Green Battalion.
With the long period of time, the Eight Banners disciples who were able to fight a good war have long ceased to exist, and they have all become small sheep, without the strength of chickens, let alone on the battlefield.
The Green Camp, which arose during the Qianlong period, is the main combat force of the current Qing court, but everyone regards being a soldier as a side business, and they have to make a living for themselves in peacetime.
The Taiping Army fought
Why, the salary is too low, and often buy tea for the chief, buy cigarettes and smoke, and do not go out to make money?
Therefore, at this time, the officers and soldiers had no discipline at all, no discipline, and they usually bullied and bullied the common people, even if they really let them go to the battlefield, and they were guaranteed to run faster than anyone else!
Therefore, the Taiping Army can march all the way, because as long as the sound is loud enough, the officers and soldiers can run far enough!
In this way, relying on Hong Xiuquan's foolishness and the incompetence of the Qing army, the incompetent Taiping Army ran to Nanjing and established political power.
The country is a country, the country is tens of millions, and there is a country to have a home!