The Taiping Rebellion was an important peasant armed uprising in China's modern history, which dealt a heavy blow to the rule of the Qing Dynasty and once controlled the southeastern half of the wall. In the camp of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Yang Xiuqing, the Eastern King, was indeed counted as a handsome man, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had made many remarkable achievements under his leadership. Because of Yang Xiuqing's command, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom also reached its peak. Just when the situation in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom improved, its capital city of Tianjing erupted into a mutiny that had a temporary impact. Due to the suspicion of the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan, Yang Xiuqing was eventually killed, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was also seriously injured.
The death of Yang Xiuqing was a major event in the history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and with the death of Yang Xiuqing, there were also flaws in the command system of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and later, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom gradually fell. So, since Yang Xiuqing was already dead, why did the Qing Dynasty not take this opportunity to destroy the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but chose to continue to confront it for eight years? What are the reasons for this?
In fact, the reason why the Qing Dynasty did not take advantage of the outbreak of the Tianjing Incident and quickly destroy the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was not because the Taiping Army itself had strong combat effectiveness, but because the Qing court was not capable of attacking Tianjing.
In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banner Army of the Qing Court had taken a sharp turn for the worse, and in this case, the Qing government could only rely on local regimental training to resist the Taiping Army. At that time, although the Qing government formed the so-called Jiangnan and Jiangbei battalions in Jiangnan, due to the low combat effectiveness of the Eight Banner Army, they were quickly defeated by the Taiping Army. Since the local regiments and horses had just been formed during this period, the combat effectiveness of the so-called Xiang Army was still in a hazy stage. The Eight Banner Army's combat effectiveness is low, the Xiang Army has just been formed, the Qing government is simply unable to launch a fierce attack on the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, in order to deal with the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom, the Qing Army can only develop its own armed forces first, so when the Beijing Incident broke out, the Qing government chose a temporary confrontation.
At the time of the Tianjing Incident, the Qing government was also deceived by the great powers. At that time, the Qing Dynasty was already decaying internally, and the great powers took this opportunity to blackmail the Qing government again. The invading army led by Britain and France opened the southern gate of the Qing government, Guangzhou, in the same year that the Tianjing Incident broke out, and they not only captured the local inspectors of the Qing Dynasty alive, but also threatened to attack Beijing and Tianjin. Under these circumstances, the Qing government had no choice but to adopt a compromise strategy. Due to external reasons, the Qing government could only temporarily relax the siege of Tianjing and concentrate on dealing with foreign enemies.
The outcome of the Second Opium War was equally disappointing, as the Qing government was not only defeated, but also signed unequal treaties with the Western powers again. While Britain and France were peering into the southwest, Tsarist Russia invaded china's northeast, and in the face of this situation, the Qing government could only temporarily abandon the conquest and suppression of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
In addition, although the Tianjing Incident caused great damage to the Vitality of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, it did not shake the foundation of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom because of it, on the contrary, in the years after the Tianjing Incident, the Taiping Army was more and more frustrated and courageous. After Yang Xiuqing's death, Hong Xiuquan used the rookie generals Li Xiucheng and Chen Yucheng, both of whom were among the best fierce generals in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and relying on the support of these two generals, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom once again saved the situation of defeat.
At the time of the Tianjing Incident, the overall strength of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was not weak, in the southwest, there were 200,000 Taiping troops of Shi Dakai who insisted on resisting the Qing, in Huxiang, there were Li Xiucheng and others who insisted, and in the southeast, Yang Fuqing, Chen Yucheng and other famous generals also tried to protect Tianjing. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had these armed forces, and the Qing army easily did not dare to invade Tianjing.
At the time of the Tianjing Incident, the internal armed forces of the Qing Dynasty were not yet fully prepared, and coupled with the invasion of the great powers, the Qing army naturally could not take into account the conquest of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The reason for this objectivity also led to the continued adherence of the Balance Heavenly Kingdom for eight years. However, after all, the tianping heavenly kingdom has limited strength, and when the Qing government repaired the treaty with the great powers and eased up from the decline, it still could not escape the fate of being destroyed.