There are many people in history who have broken a good hand, and today we want to talk about Hong Xiuquan, who established the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and even Dr. Sun Yat-sen voluntarily called himself "Hong Xiuquan Second", and how did such a person get spurned by posterity?
At first, in order to make his own team grow, Hong Xiuquan conveyed the idea of equality to the peasants, and the people at that time were in the depths of the water, and Hong Xiuquan's thinking was exactly what the people needed at that time, so Hong Xiuquan had a large number of followers at that time and voluntarily established the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom with Hong Xiuquan.
At that time, Hong Xiuquan chose the capital of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in Nanjing, and when Hong Xiuquan lived in Nanjing and became the ruler, Hong Xiuquan's thinking began to gradually change, from the original socialist idea of equality for all to feudalism, and the reason for the change of Hong Xiuquan's thinking was precisely the right. So that's why everybody wants to be emperor, and when you become emperor, that's what you want.
In order to consolidate his position of power, Hong Xiuquan began to replace all the important official positions around him with his own cronies, and those who were talented could not be reused, which was the opposite of what Hong Xiuquan did at the beginning. It was precisely because of Hong Xiuquan's move that led to political corruption in the late Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
In his later years, Hong Xiuquan was even more excessive, that is, Hong Xiuquan was completely trapped in the feudal kingdom he had established, and according to the "Notes on Spring Dreams in Jiangnan", there were more than a thousand women in Hong Xiuquan's harem that year, and Hong Xiuquan did not give them titles, but used numbers to name them. And there was no eunuch in Hong Xiuquan's Heavenly King's Palace, and the people who served Hong Xiuquan in the Heavenly King's Mansion were all "female officials", and the number of female officials was also more than a thousand, that is to say, in Hong Xiuquan's Heavenly King's Palace, there were more than two thousand women.
And Hong Xiuquan in the selection of concubines and female officials are required to be virgins, but also must be young and beautiful, in the previous palace to check the women's body will have a special grandmother, and the Heavenly Palace is Hong Xiuquan personally examined, it can be seen that Hong Xiuquan is extremely fond of lust, but it is a pity that those women who were in the Heavenly Palace at that time.