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In today's flood of Internet culture, there is a particularly popular word, called not to do not die. This sentence is not only particularly popular today, but also applicable in ancient times, and Yang Xiuqing, who is going to tell you today, is a typical example of not being immortal. Using the performance art of jumping the god, he not only let himself jump into the fire pit, but also made a vigorous Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement jump into the abyss of eternal disaster...
Friends who are familiar with the history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom know that the origins of Yang Xiuqing, the Eastern King, are inseparable from his wonderful performance of "Heavenly Father Under Heaven". In Guangxi, the birthplace of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, a kind of "possession" was particularly popular at that time. Some dead person or a certain immortal will be attached to someone. At this time, the person who is possessed is no longer himself.
Therefore, Yang Xiuqing and Hong Xiuquan took advantage of this rumor to say that Yang Xiuqing was possessed by the Heavenly Father Jehovah, and used the method of passing on God's will to unite and mobilize the believers who participated in the worship of God. The implementation process of this method has been unverifiable, but Xiaobian boldly speculates that it should be very similar to the jumping gods in some areas today.
Through this method, Yang Xiuqing and Hong Xiuquan successfully achieved the purpose of gathering a crowd to revolt, and Yang Xiuqing himself became the second person in the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom, second only to Hong Xiuquan in power and prestige. However, there are disadvantages to all things, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages are feasible solutions, and the disadvantages outweigh the advantages are poisons, and how to weigh the advantages and disadvantages depends on the position held by the parties concerned.
In 1853, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement reached its peak, after the capital Tianjing, Hong Xiuquan was the supreme ruler on the surface, but the real power was in the hands of Yang Xiuqing, Hong Xiuquan already had a grudge against Yang Xiuqing, and at this time Yang Xiuqing did not know it, still arrogant, immersed in the performance art of the heavenly father's upper body.
East King Yang Xiuqing
According to historical records, once Hong Xiuquan punished the palace maid who had made a mistake in his own palace, and after Yang Xiuqing knew about it, he accused Hong Xiuquan fiercely under the pretext of heavenly father, and also ordered Hong Xiuquan to be reprimanded on the spot for forty boards. Hong Xiuquan had no choice but to lie on the ground in front of everyone and show his ass to prepare to be beaten.
At this time, Yang Xiuqing saw that the purpose of humiliating Hong Xiuquan had been achieved, and said that since you were ready to accept these forty boards, it meant that you had realized your mistake and that these forty boards did not need to be fought again. Hong Xiuquan stood up with an embarrassed face, but in his heart he killed Yang Xiuqing.
Northern King Wei Changhui
The formal break between Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing was when Yang Xiuqing took advantage of the privilege of "Heavenly Father" to pass on his will and demanded that he be crowned from "Nine Thousand Years Old" to "Long Live" in a performance of "Heavenly Father's Lower Mortals", which was basically equivalent to a naked seizure of power to Hong Xiuquan. Hong Xiuquan felt that the situation was serious, so he ordered Wei Changhui and Shi Dakai and others to return to Beijing as soon as possible to discuss the killing of Yang Xiuqing.
After receiving the order, Wei Changhui, who was one step ahead, led 3,000 elite soldiers to surround the Eastern Palace overnight, slaughtering Yang Xiuqing and thousands of men and women in the Eastern Palace. Later, Wei Changhui killed dissidents in the name of searching for and arresting the "Eastern Party". Many of the eastern king's subordinates were killed after abandoning their weapons, and civilians were not spared, and then the city of Nanjing was bloodied, and about 20,000 people were slaughtered.
Schematic diagram of the Tianjing Incident
Ten days later, the wing king Shi Dakai rushed back to Tianjing, was shocked to hear that Wei Changhui had killed innocents, and rebuked him in person for killing innocents indiscriminately, Wei Changhui had a grudge in his heart, and launched a killing machine against Shi Da, in order to avoid further infighting, and also in order to save his own life, Shi Dakai led his troops to escape out of the city overnight. Wei Changhui, who had killed the red-eyed, did not find Shi Dakai, so he killed the whole family of the Wing King.
The elite Wing King, who had taken away the Taiping Army of the Manchu Dynasty, raised an army from Anqing and begged the Heavenly King to kill the Northern King to thank the world. At this time, most of the Taiping army outside Tianjing supported Yi Wang, and the Northern King attacked the Tianwang Palace in a hurry, but was eventually defeated by the soldiers loyal to the Heavenly King and the Eastern King Yuzhong, and finally the Northern King Wei Changhui was killed on November 2, and the Yan kings Qin Rigang and Chen Chengyao, who participated in the massacre, were also executed soon after, and the Tianjing Incident came to an end.
The kingdom of heaven turned from prosperity to decline
The change of Tianjing, the infighting between kings and subjects, the fratricide of brothers, and a vigorous Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement turned from prosperity to decline. The general Li Xiucheng once wrote in his self-description: After the taiping heavenly kingdom changed in tianjing, people's hearts changed, political affairs were different, and people had their own hearts and minds. And the people said it more popularly in private: the Heavenly Father killed the Eastern King, the Jiangshan could not be beaten, the long hair was not the right lord, and xianfeng was still let Xianfeng ...