Since the establishment of the imperial examination, reading and participating in the imperial examination has become the main way for people to become officials, which is really a thousand armies and horses crossing the single wooden bridge. Some people have repeatedly failed to succeed, so there is the ugliness of Fan Jinzhongju, but after being able to pass the examination, he can become an official, and he can honor his ancestors, which is the supreme glory, but there are also those who have done a great cause after falling behind.
For example, Huang Chao of the Tang Dynasty, he repeatedly failed to succeed, and finally launched an uprising, almost destroying the Tang Dynasty, in fact, there was another candidate in the Qing Dynasty, called Hong Huoxiu, who participated in the three Qing Dynasty examinations, but all fell behind. He was the hope of the whole village, and he was deeply devastated by the fall, so after the third time he fell off the list, he fell seriously ill.
This Hong Huoxiu was confused in his illness and dreamed of an old man, claiming to be God, he ordered Hong Huoxiu to kill all the demons in the world, after waking up, Hong Huoxiu seemed to have changed into a person, behaved strangely, no longer blocked the book of the sages, and converted to Christianity, and he combined with the actual situation in China, founded a new sect, worship God, and he also changed a name for himself, called Hong Xiuquan.
What is this cult of God for? Probably it is said that God is my father, Jesus is my eldest brother, our brothers have different divisions of labor, I am mainly responsible for our east of this big thing, the Father ordered me to slay the demons of this world.
He also wrote that basically, it was all propaganda of Christianity and his worship of God, and he soon developed a lot of believers, and he and his followers developed a lot of believers in that part of Guangxi, they called the Qing Dynasty a Qing demon, and instilled in them to oppose the rule of the Qing Dynasty, in fact, the Qing Dynasty had begun to pay attention to them and was ready to eliminate them.
In this case, Hong Xiuquan launched his cult followers and launched an uprising against Qing rule in Jintian Village, Guangxi, which is the famous Jintian Uprising, or the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, they defeated the Qing Dynasty's army, and hong Xiuquan was officially called the Heavenly King in Xuanwu Dongxiang, and then he named several backbones of the Cult of God as kings, namely the four kings of the southeast, southwest, and northwest, and a wing king, which was both the five princes of the original core of the original Tianping Heavenly Kingdom.
Subsequently, the taiping army became more and more powerful, the Qing army was defeated and retreated, in March 1953, the Tianping army captured the city of Nanjing, on March 28, Hong Xiuquan entered the city from the Shuixi Gate in a yellow palanquin carried by eighteen people, and directly came to the residence of the governor of Liangjiang Road in Nanjing City, using this place as his palace. He stayed at the Liangjiang Governor's Palace for one night, and early the next morning, King Hong Xiuquan issued a decree: Change Nanjing to Tianjing, as the capital of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
The capital has been fixed, so where does Hong Xiuquan, who is the Heavenly King of the Heavenly Kingdom of Tianping, live, of course, the best place, but at this time, the Governor's Palace of Liangjiang is obviously not worthy of Hong Xiuquan's identity, Hong Xiuquan said, this mansion is so dilapidated, how can the Heavenly King live?
In order to build the TianwangFu, Hong Xiuquan demolished countless houses and shops around the Liangjiang Governor's Palace, hired countless people's husbands, recruited hundreds of skilled craftsmen, and rushed to work day and night to build his Tianwang Palace.
The Heavenly King's Mansion is also sitting north and facing south, very grand, the scale is very large, more than ten miles around, two heavy walls, each wall is as high as two zhang high. The building is divided into two parts: the outer city and the inner city, and the two cities are named "Sun City" and "Golden Dragon City" respectively. The main gate of Sun City is the Heavenly Dynasty Gate, and there is a royal ditch in front of the door, the ditch is wide and deep, there is a bridge on the ditch, and in front of the bridge there is a stone square engraved with "Heavenly Dynasty".
The main gate of the Golden Dragon City is the Holy Heavenly Gate, and there are three-storey "chaofang" on the east and west sides of the door, the front is the Golden Dragon Hall, and behind the Golden Dragon Hall there are two halls, three halls, and the harem forest garden. The Golden Dragon Hall is very grand and tall, with heavy eaves on tile roofs, carved beams and painted buildings, and painted dragon, tiger and lion statues on the four walls of the hall, which is very magnificent.
When Hong Xiuquan first built the Heavenly King's Mansion, he was thinking of competing with Beijing City, and now this degree of luxury is no less than that of the Forbidden City, since the completion of the Heavenly King's Mansion, until Hong Xiuquan's death, he lived in this luxurious Heavenly King's Mansion for eleven years, and even rarely stepped out of the mansion, what did he do in the mansion?
After Hong Xiuquan stayed in the Heavenly King's Mansion, he did not directly start his hedonistic life, but first ensured that the material basis for his future enjoyment was to promulgate the "Heavenly Dynasty Tianmu System", which included one of them, all the wealth in the world belonged to the emperor, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had no emperor, only the heavenly king, that is to say, all the wealth here belonged to the heavenly king.
"The grain and rice of the peasants in the world are all owned by the Father, and all should be dissolved and returned to the Holy Treasury."
The peasants' income from farming is all owned by the Heavenly Father, and should be put into the Holy Treasury, that is to say, the peasants' public grain is handed over to the Holy Treasury, which is the Heavenly Father's thing, who the Heavenly Father is, they do not know, but to the Holy Treasury, that is, to Hong Xiuquan, so these are the basis for Hong Xiuquan to enjoy a corrupt life.
Then Hong Xiuquan opened the Linchao unresolved government, handed over the government affairs to Yang Xiuqing and others, and he was greedy for pleasure in the harem, and he would give orders on major events, in eleven years, Hong Xiuquan only issued twenty-five holy wills, and he was usually busy with his own pleasure.
The entire Heavenly Palace is his harem, here he is the master, his harem does not have eunuchs, all have female officials and palace women instead, Hong Xiuquan almost all the beautiful women of Nanjing are snared into the palace.
According to the book "Notes on Spring Dreams in Jiangnan" written by Shen Maoliang at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the situation of the female relatives of the Heavenly King's Mansion is recorded:
There are sixteen titles in the Heavenly King's Mansion, including queen, love mother, hip lady, wonderful daughter, and lady concubine, totaling 208 people; twenty-four princesses with higher status have jurisdiction over seven lower-level names such as concubines and yuan daughters, totaling 960 people.
In addition to those palace women, Hong Xiuquan's harem women have a small two thousand people, and these women are all serving Hong Xiuquan alone, which is the private property of Hong Tianwang, so many women are provided for Hong Xiuquan all day.
According to the confession of his son Hong Tiangui when he was arrested: In the harem of King Hong Tiangui, there was a lady of the Zhengyue Palace, commonly known as the empress. The remaining 87 concubines with titles and titles. In addition, there are more than 2,000 unknown harem women for their enjoyment. This scale is the largest of all the emperors in history.
They can be said to be Hong Xiuquan's women, but so many people Hong Xiuquan also has no way to remember them all, in order to facilitate the management of him he will give these women a number, according to the number of the bed, I have to say that Hong Xiuquan is also a talent.
Before Hong Xiuquan entered the city, there was still a population of 2.6 million in Nanjing, and after only half a year, there were only 150,000 people left in the city, only 110,000 women, and the rest were old, weak, sick and disabled. You should be able to guess.
Therefore, from the time Hong Xiuquan entered the city of Nanjing, he had hardly left the Heavenly Palace for 11 years, and every day he was busy with those women in the palace, enjoying himself.