Although after the middle and late Qianlong period, the Qing Empire began to decline, and the country's strength was worse than a year, but it was not almost powerless in the face of these God worshippers, and the Eight Banners and the Green Battalion soldiers were beaten to the ground and held their heads, which was really incomprehensible. When the Jintian Rebellion broke out, the Qing government also sent troops to Guangxi to suppress the local Tiandihui uprising, and the worship of God was not the focus of the Qing government at that time. Hong Xiu's full title of king and the establishment of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom quickly turned the Qing government's attention to worship of God and sent heavy troops to suppress it. Who knew that the regular army of the Qing court had almost no combat effectiveness, and often collapsed at a touch; coupled with the inability to coordinate between the senior generals of the Qing army who suppressed the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in Guangxi at that time, they often dismantled each other, and the worship of God was getting stronger and stronger, and eventually went out of Guangxi and swept through the southeast.
In fact, the Taiping Army was able to fight from Jintian Village in Guiping County, Guangxi Province, to Nanjing in just over two years, and establish a regime that confronted the Qing Dynasty, in addition to the internal contradictions of the Qing army and the corruption of the army, but also benefited from luck. To a certain extent, it can be said that the reason why the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was able to grow rapidly was "luck", just like in the two battles of Yong'an and Yidu, if Jiang Zhongyuan's plan was adopted, the national fortunes of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom would be fixed in these two places.
When it comes to Lin Zexu, the easiest thing that people think of is that he went to Guangzhou on the orders of the Daoguang Emperor to ban smoking and carried out a tobacco sales campaign in Humen. The sale of cigarettes in Humen is a glorious portrayal of the Chinese nation's resistance to foreign aggression and the preservation of national dignity, and Lin Zexu's non-smoking has made meritorious contributions and is a well-deserved national hero. After the Jintian Uprising, the Qing government's first thought was to let Lin Zexu serve as a minister of Chincha to go to Guangxi to appease and worship the Cult of God, but unfortunately, Lin Wenzhonggong was already seriously ill at that time, and died of illness on the road before he took office in Guangxi. Lin Wenzhonggong was a man of great talent and great talent, and he was deeply supported by the people, if it were not for the death of an illness in the middle of the way, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom would not have been able to go out of Guangxi, of course, it would not have been able to sweep Jiangnan, the four famous ministers of the late Qing Dynasty may not have appeared on the stage of history, and China's modern history may be a different look. Here, Xiaobian will talk about why Lin Wenzhonggong did not die of illness in the middle of the way, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom would die in Guangxi.
Lin Zexu won the hearts and minds of the people, and could appease the people of Guangxi and calm the root causes of the turmoil.
Lin Zexu is a model for officials in ancient China, adhering to the Confucian concept of the Qi family ruling the country and the world, thinking of the people everywhere, and is a typical people's parent official. During the Jiaqing period, Lin Zexu served as the inspector of the imperial history of Jiangnan Province, the gap in the river embankment on the south bank of Henan, the poor handling of the work of QiShan in Henan, causing a major flood, Lin Zexu was not afraid of the background of qishan Manchurian nobles, and directly played Qishan's incompetence to the Jiaqing Emperor. In the seventeenth year of Daoguang, he was the governor of Shenghuguang. In the face of the situation in Hubei where large rivers often flood and become disasters every summer, Lin Zexu took effective measures and proposed "repairing and defending at the same time", so that "the Jianghan thousands of miles long embankment, Anlan Puqing, and the branch river embankment, there is no flood mouth," has made an indelible contribution to the protection of the lives and properties of the prefectures and counties along the Jianghan coast. It can be seen from this that Lin Zexu is relatively good at governing the localities and enjoys a high prestige among the people, and if he can go to Guangxi to take up a post, then the people's livelihood problems in Guangxi will be improved, and the people will not defect to the Taiping Army in large numbers for the sake of survival.
Lin Zexu Xiong was a man of great talent and high prestige, and was able to coordinate the Qing army in Guangxi.
After Lin Zexu died of illness in the middle of his post in Guangxi, the Qing government successively appointed Li Xingyuan and Sai Shang'a as ministers of Chincha to control Guangxi's military affairs. However, the ability of these two Chincha was really limited, and it was impossible to reconcile the contradictions between the senior generals of the Qing Army, and Xiang Rong, Zhou Tianjue, Ulantai, Zhang Guoliang and other major generals often fought separately, often dismantling each other, resulting in several missed opportunities to suppress the Taiping Army. Among these generals, the contradiction between Ulantai and Xiang Rong was the sharpest, and the firearms expert Ulantai was not accustomed to Xiang Rong, who came from Sichuan and had a fierce face, and Xiang Rong was even more unaccustomed to Wu Lantai, a person who claimed to be a western firearms expert. Zhou Tianjue was simply a master of feudal superstition, and often made some suggestions from the Thunder People, which was naturally not welcomed by other generals. Zhang Guoliang was born in the Heaven and Earth Society, and later defected to the Qing government, and the senior generals of the Qing Army were naturally unaccustomed to such generals who came from the wrong way. If Lin Zexu served as the minister of Chincha to control the military affairs of Guangxi, with the talents and strategies he showed in selling cigarettes in Humen, it was natural to coordinate the contradictions between Xiang Rong and Ulantai. As long as Xiang Rong and Ulantai cooperate tacitly, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom issue can be solved on the spot in the Battle of Yong'an.
Jiang Zhongyuan's brilliant plan was adopted, and the Taiping Army could not go out of Guangxi.
If you have to say that the famous general of the Qing Army that the Guangxi Taiping Army feared the most at that time, except for Zhang Guoliang, was Jiang Zhongyuan. At that time, the Taiping Army was afraid of Jiang Zhongyuan, just as Li Xiucheng was afraid of the Xiang army's generals Li Xubin and Bao Chao later. Jiang Zhongyuan fought bravely and strategically, and the hundreds of Chu Yong led by him were the most effective troops of the Qing army in Guangxi at that time, and repeatedly defeated the Taiping army commanded by the famous generals Wei Changhui, Hu Yihuang, zeng Tianyang, etc., and achieved great success in battle. However, Jiang Zhongyuan's words were light, and his operational suggestions, which were only in Qipinzhi County, were not adopted, resulting in the Qing army missing the opportunity to annihilate the Taiping army at Yong'an and Yidu. If Lin Zexu controlled Guangxi's military affairs, then Jiang Zhongyuan's proposal would inevitably be adopted, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom would face bad luck.