On July 19, 1864, with a loud noise in the city of Nanjing, the prosperity of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom collapsed along with the collapsed earthen walls. After hearing a loud noise, the young king Hong Tianguifu stood in the Heavenly King's Hall, and after a while he returned to his senses, pulled out his feet and ran outside, but was tripped by four young wives...
Later, Hong Tianguifu and his two younger brothers ran to the Zhongwang Mansion for help, and with the help of Li Xiucheng, the King of Zhong, he wanted to take advantage of the soldiers and horses to escape from the city of Nanjing, and tried several city gates in a row. There was no way, they could only go to a ruined temple on the hill of Nanjing, hide for a while, and want to wait for the limelight to pass before leaving the city.
When the storm passed, they changed into the clothes of the Xiang army and planned to leave the city, but in the chaos, Hong Tianguifu's two younger brothers (Hong Tianguang and Hong Tianming) were killed, and the 200,000 Taiping Army became ghosts under the sword.
Li Xiucheng took Hong Tianguifu to take the road and ran wildly, in the process of escaping, Hong Tianguifu's horse broke its leg, Li gave him his horse, let him escape first, he first went to a broken temple in the countryside to hide, did not expect to be reported by local farmers, the result was arrested, and finally lingchi.
Hong Tianguifu, on the other hand, fled all the way to the Taiping army of Hong Renxuan, the king of Huzhou, and finally succeeded in joining the king of Gan, but Huzhou was not a safe area, and the Xiang army was besieged by water, and later Hong Renxuan planned to take the little master to the city of Guangzhou, in the process of breaking through, Hong Tianguifu was captured and later executed by Ling Chi.
Poor Young King, who was not yet 15 years old when he was arrested, told the interrogators, "The fight against the country was done by Lao Tzu and has nothing to do with me," and he said that if he could be released, he wanted to study, be a lifter, and fulfill his unfulfilled wishes of Lao Tzu. Unfortunately, he was too young and naïve, how could Cixi leave Hong Xiu's whole family with a tail?
On November 18, 1864, the young king was executed by Ling Chi, just seven days before his fifteenth birthday.
What makes posterity quite criticized is that Hong Tianfu was named "Young King" at the age of 3, and at the age of 9, he was forcibly married and had 4 wives.
On this point, Hong Tianguifu has an explanation later --
I have four wives, all of whom are about the same age as me, one of the Hou clan, one of the Zhang clan, and two of the Huang clan, all of whom have not had children. I went to Nanjing with my father when I was five years old, and when I was six years old, I was ten years older than my sister, Tianjiao, who taught me to read, and there was no husband. --- "Hong Tianguifu Self-Description"
Hong Xiuquan's own wives and concubines were numerous, insatiable, and let the young king only smell women like him, and had no intention of reading, and as a result, he was punished by heaven, not only destroying the country, but also making the Hong clan slaughtered, thinking that the young king was so young to bear such a big sin for his father, it was really painful.
So does Hong Xiuquan still have any descendants? Except for the young king, what happened to the other sons?
First of all, he said that his harem, which can be described as beautiful women, is very fulfilling, it is said that there are more than 2,000 people, so how many sons are there? It is said to have 5 sons.
The young king Hong Tianguifu was born to Hong Xiuquan's original wife Lian Ying, the eldest son of Hong Xiuquan, although he had a glimmer of life, he was still arrested, and after being caught, he once made some poems praising the Qing Dynasty, hoping to be pardoned, but he was brutally executed.
The second son, Hong Tian, died at the age of two. The death of Hong Xiuquan was the first to expand on the way to Nanjing. When Hong Tianguang and Hong Tianming first broke through the city of Nanjing, their whereabouts were unknown, and they were estimated to have been killed. Hong Xiuquan's youngest son, Hong Tianyou, the Prince of Youdong, "disappeared" after the fall of Tianjing and has not been heard from since.
So does Hong Xiuquan still have descendants? The Qing government hated the entire Hongxiu clan and ordered them to be slaughtered, and almost all the people of the Hong clan were slaughtered, but it is said that there are still "fish that slip through the net".
It is said that Hong Xiuquan also had a princess who took advantage of the chaos when the Xiang army attacked Tianjing with his bloodline, and they mixed with the fleeing crowd dressed in the clothes of the people, but fortunately they successfully escaped.
When they came to Antai Village, Gaohuang Town, Huainan City, the princess fell ill, and an old couple in the village took in their mother and son when they saw them pitiful, and the couple's surname was Cheng.
Under the mediation of the villagers, in order to be grateful, the princess "married" to the old man's fourth son, Cheng Fengcai. Lai Xi inherited to the old three families, changed his name to Cheng Wenqi, Cheng Wen started to prosper, and this line was passed down.
In order to avoid the Pursuit and Killing of the Qing Court, they have been tight-lipped, and only in the 80s of the last century did this matter be publicized, which was written as "The Princess's Fall" to be publicized, and later, this descendant of Hong Xiuquan was finally confirmed by the Hong clan of Hong Xiuquan's hometown of Meizhou, Guangdong, and the whole branch was included in the Hong's family tree.