A word to determine life and death, raise your hand and palm clean.
For ordinary people, the emperor is the existence that controls the power of all people in the world, and the idea that has been deeply rooted in the hearts of ordinary people for thousands of years is that the monarchy is supreme and cannot be despised.
But the tide of history is mighty, and under the invasion of the wind of time, no dynasty can prosper forever. Coinciding with the birth of a new dynasty was the demise of the old dynasty.
As a result, the imperial power changed, the country changed hands, and the king also had the distinction between the founding king and the king of the subjugated country.
If it is the founding king, it must be a existence that is worshiped by future generations; but if it is the king of the subjugated country, the end is difficult to say.
Some will cut themselves off for the dignity of the emperor and be martyred; some will die at the hands of the new king; and some will lose their freedom and end up in a lifetime of seclusion...
But no matter how the dynasty changes, the new emperor will do the same thing after ascending to the throne, that is, to win the hearts and minds of the people.
The easiest way to win the hearts and minds of the people is to show mercy to the fallen monarchs of the previous dynasty, and most of the time, because of the leisurely mouth, the new emperor will mostly give the other party a decent way to die.
Let the people look at them, and see, I am so lenient with my enemies, let alone my people? So the people returned to their hearts, and the world was at peace.
However, in the history of our country, there is such an emperor, there is no such luck, he is also the only emperor in history who suffered the punishment of Ling Chi, who was cut for 1516 knives before swallowing his last breath and being liberated.
He was Hong Tianguifu, the eldest son of Hong Xiuquan, the Heavenly King of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and was only 15 years old when he died.
01 Million birds come to the dynasty, and the heavens descend auspiciously
On November 23, 1849 (the ninth day of october in the 29th year of Daoguang), a strange thing happened in Guanlubu Village, Hua County, Guangdong Province.
It is said that on this day, the heavens in Guanlubu Village descended on the clouds, and the ten thousand birds came to the court, and the villagers were amazed, and when they inquired, they learned that a family surnamed Hong in the village had just added a baby boy to their home.
This is unbelievable, because in the eyes of the common people, the ten thousand birds come to the dynasty and the heavens descend to Xiangrui, which is the treatment that only the son of heaven was born, so it is asserted that this child's future achievements will not be low.
The level of this child's achievements is not mentioned for the time being, but the achievements of his father, Hong Xiuquan, the Heavenly King, are known to everyone, and they have left a very strong mark in Chinese history.
But at this time, the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan obviously had not yet developed, and at that time, he was still busy propagating his cult of God in Guangxi and other places, fighting for the mass base, and even his wife Lai Lianying could not accompany him when she gave birth.
The male ding in the family was born, the name is imminent, Hong Xiuquan is busy with the business outside, so the name of the baby boy fell to Hong Xiuquan's cousin Hong Renjie.
And because of the unusual birth of the baby boy, Hong Renjie can be said to be extremely solemn when naming him, and finally set the name of the child in the form of a fire tongs lottery - Tiangui, which was later renamed Hong Guifu by his father Hong Xiuquan, and then renamed Hong Tianguifu.
This collection of thousands of pampered Takako thus began his short and unusual life.
02 The Young Lord of heaven is extremely rich
The young Hong Tianguifu was very lucky, because on January 11, 1851, when Hong Tianguifu was not yet two years old, his father Hong Xiuquan and a group of cultists launched a vigorous peasant uprising war against the feudal rule of the Qing government and the invasion of foreign capitalism in Jintian Village, Guangxi Province, and established the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and Hong Xiuquan proclaimed himself "Heavenly King".
Due to the broad base of the masses, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement developed rapidly, and with the assistance of Yang Xiuqing, Shi Dakai, Feng Yunshan, and other fierce generals, Hong Xiuquan led the Taiping Army to break through Yong'an, occupy Chenzhou, and capture Wuchang...
However, in just two years, 500,000 Taiping troops occupied the important town of Jiangning (present-day Nanjing) in Jiangnan with the momentum of breaking bamboo, and designated it as the capital of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, renamed Tianjing.
At this point, the Taiping Army had occupied half of the Qing Dynasty, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had reached its peak.
Then, as the eldest son of the Heavenly King, Hong Tianguifu's status is naturally self-evident.
And for his eldest son, who was born with a vision, the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan obviously had high hopes.
The books that Hong Tianguifu read since he was a child are the basic theories of the official reading material "Worship god Society" introduced by his father, such as "Taiping Salvation Commandment", "Awakening World Text", "Thousand Character Commandment" and so on.
As for the traditional Historical Materials of China, Hong Tianguifu has never been in contact with them, on the grounds that his father Hong Xiuquan feels that these are "demon books", and his son is free and blessed by God and Jesus, so why bother to learn these useless knowledge?
As a result, Hong Tianguifu's childhood can be described as very happy, and even when he was nine years old, he had 4 wives given by his father.
There is no economic constraint; there is no pressure on school; there are countless beautiful women around, how to see, Hong Tianguifu is the most leisurely "emperor second generation" in history.
But the good times did not last long, and the Tianjing Incident in 1856 began, and the greed and ugliness in human nature were infinitely magnified in this event.
How to say it, when starting a business, they are all good brothers, blessed and shared, and difficult to share; but when the entrepreneurship has initial success, this theory is no longer applicable.
They are all fighting for their lives together, so why can you Hong Xiuquan be above everyone?
As a result, the brothers and sisters who could be entrusted to the back of the past turned against each other and opened the copy mode of the nest fight. For a while, there was constant fighting in Tianjing City, and the blood flowed like a river.
In the end, the matter ended with Shi Dakai's negative departure.
But this was not a good thing for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, because Shi Dakai took most of the elite Taiping Army with him when he left, and in the face of the Qing court and foreign capitalism, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom after the infighting was inevitably tired of coping and unable to cope, and the situation in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom took a sharp turn for the worse.
But this did not affect Hong Tianguifu, who was still addicted to enjoying life, after all, as long as his father was still sitting on the first chair, No one could shake Hong Tianguifu's status.
03 The capital city is broken, tired like a dog that has lost its family
On June 1, 1864, The Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan died of illness, and the once-famous Taiping Heavenly Kingdom seemed to be coming to an end with the death of the Heavenly King.
At this time, Hong Tianguifu, who was only 14 years old, successfully succeeded to the throne and was known as the "Young Heavenly King".
Unfortunately, his succession was also accompanied by the Encirclement and Suppression of Tianjin by the Qing Army, and the disparity in strength between the two sides was so great that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was soon defeated and the Tianjing City was about to be destroyed.
Such a critical situation is beyond the control of Hong Tianguifu, a Xiaobai who has never even dabbled in the most basic governing outline, not to mention, before that, he has been like a flower in a greenhouse, enjoying his father's care and God's "protection".
Fortunately, Dad's die-hard fans are still there. Therefore, with the assistance of Hong Renfa, Hong Renda, Xiao Youhe, Shen Gui and others, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom could be maintained for a period of time. At that time, Hong Tianguifu even issued an edict that the auxiliary ministers had prepared in advance.
However, no matter how hard Hong Renjie and others tried, they could not save the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom from falling.
When Zeng Guofan and the Xiang army broke through the fortified city of Tianjing in one fell swoop, Hong Tianguifu, who was far above the tall building, instantly panicked, and in order to save his own life, Hong Tianguifu could not even take his wife with him, until he was admitted to the Zhongwang Palace by Li Xiucheng.
After that, Li Xiucheng, Liu Qinghan and others led the remnants of the army to break out from Tianjing, and Hong Tianguifu also began his own career of escape.
At the cost of Li Xiucheng's capture, Hong Tianguifu finally escaped from Tianjing City, a place he once regarded as heaven.
From Tianjing to Guangde in southern Anhui, from Guangde in southern Anhui to Hufang in Jiangxi, hundreds of thousands of Taiping troops were demoralized under the unremitting pursuit of the Qing army, and their numbers were rapidly depleted.
By the time of the Yang Family Pai in Shicheng, the number of the Taiping Army was less than 10,000 people, but before the people who had traveled a long distance could take a breath, they were chased up by the Qing army's Xi Baotian department, and the Taiping Army rushed to deal with it, but they were hungry and cold, how could they be the opponents of the Qing army whose morale was soaring?
The Taiping army suddenly scattered and fled, and in the panic, Hong Tianguifu and Hong Rengui scattered, and he did not pay attention to the fact that he fell into the pit, which allowed him to temporarily avoid a disaster.
Yes, temporarily.
In order to avoid the Qing army, Hong Tianguifu had to hide in the mountains, according to Hong Tianguifu himself, after 4 days of hunger in the mountains, an old man dressed in white suddenly appeared and gave him a piece of bread, and then disappeared.
But there is always a time when the bread is eaten, and Hong Tianguifu, who has no experience in survival in the wild, can only go down the mountain to forage. He found a family surnamed Tang and lied that he was from Hubei, so Hong Tianguifu stayed in the Tang family for 4 days.
But in the Tang family, Hong Tianguifu also stayed for only four days, as a wanted criminal, he could only start his fugitive career again, and the inexperienced Hong Tianguifu could only rely on intuition to hide in Tibet, but on October 25 of this year, he still exposed his identity and fell into the hands of the Qing army.
In front of the Qing army, in order to survive, Hong Tianguifu completely forgot his identity as a "young heavenly king" and bowed to the Qing army to the extreme.
Even when he was on trial in Jiangxi Province, he cowardly pushed all the blame on his father and uncle in order to save his life.
"The things that fight the country are all done by the old heavenly king, what does it have to do with me?" The things I did after I succeeded to the throne were also done by Li Xiucheng. ”
And took the opportunity to make his position clear: "Guangdong is not good, I do not plan to go back again, in the future, I just want to follow Tang Laoye to study." ”
This Tang Dynasty lord is Tang Jiatong, who was ordered to escort Hong Tianguifu from Hunan to Nanchang, for this Tang lord, Hong Tianguifu can be said to have done everything in his power to please, and repeatedly stated that he only wants to single-mindedly examine Xiucai in the future, and never thinks much about the things next to him.
But how could the Qing government let him go because of These Words of Hong Tianguifu? What if this kid is pretending?
Therefore, the Qing government, in line with the principle of cutting the grass and removing the roots, vowed to exterminate the remnants of the Taiping Army, not to mention that Hong Tianguifu was still Hong Xiuquan's son.
Therefore, Empress Dowager Cixi, who hated the Taiping Army to the bone, immediately ordered that Hong Tianguifu be punished with Ling Chi.
On the day of the execution, Hong Tianguifu, who was only 15 years old, was nailed to the ox cart on all fours, unable to move, and the pain in his cone made him howl incessantly, but he did not know that the biggest nightmare of his life was still behind.
If he was punished in time, how could the executioner let him die so easily? One knife, two knives... At this time, Hong Tianguifu could not survive, could not die, and the screams were incessant, until the executioner's 1516th knife fell, and Hong Tianguifu swallowed his last breath...
epilogue:
Ten thousand birds come to the dynasty, and the heavens descend auspiciously, but they do not want to end up in such a miserable end, which is really regrettable.
Hong Tianguifu's life before the age of 15 originated from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the pain that caused him to suffer more than 1,500 knives and lingchi was still from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and he reigned for only 44 days, thus becoming a victim of the power struggle.
And Hong Tianguifu has also become the only emperor in Chinese history who was executed by Ling Chi and had no dignity, if he really wants to investigate the root cause, he can only blame him for being born in the imperial family!
Source:
"The Exile Life of the Second Generation of Hong"——Hai Na Bai Chuan, The End of the Road
"Cruel Dreams" - Dou Ding Net
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