In the late Qing Dynasty, the country's political situation was turbulent, its strength was weak, and the prosperous era of Kangqian in that year had withered away, and now the Qing Dynasty was facing a situation of internal and external troubles, with Western powers looking at the tiger on the outside and a fierce civil uprising inside, especially the Taiping Rebellion led by Hong Xiuquan, anti-Qing and anti-Foreign, which was a large-scale movement of peasants to fight for their rights and interests. The failure of this uprising was not only due to the limitations of the times, but also because of the corruption and absurdity of the rulers after they came to power.
Hong Xiuquan claimed to be the King of Heaven, and then set the capital to establish the country, enjoying the glory and wealth, countless harem women, relying on the army to grasp the power of life and death, it can also be regarded as an emperor, but he did not achieve a great cause, under the suppression of the government army, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom did not have the peak it once had, Hong Xiuquan died of illness, and his eldest son Hong Tianguifu inherited the throne. The eldest son was born in October 1849, by his wife Lai Lianying in his hometown of Hua County, and it is said that when the son was born, there was a red round light on the roof, and this suspenseful matter was spread by Hong Ren from Guangdong to Tianjing, and even if he was captured, he kept telling people about this strange thing.
Hong Tianguifu was taken to Guangxi in the second year after his birth, and later his father called himself "Heavenly King", and he was made the young lord, at this time he was only four years old, perhaps younger than four years old. In fact, his name also has a mystery, according to the record, the name of the young lord was mentioned internally, "Hong Fu" was given by the imperial court to the second "first rebellion" according to the inscription on the jade seal, until after being destroyed, after Hong Ren was captured, he explained the reason for the name of the young lord. At first, he helped a "Tiangui" name by casting lots, and then the Heavenly King removed "Tian" and changed it to "Guifu", and when his son cheng was established as the heir, he changed it to "Tianguifu". The jade seal discovered by the world is engraved with "True King Guifu", which is carved horizontally from right to left, and posterity reads it, which causes misunderstanding.
Hong Ren saw the spectacle of the young lord's birth and thought that he was a "destiny teenager", but Hong Xiuquan did not pay too much attention to these, and Yang Xiuqing only thought that he was just a naughty teenager, who only knew how to have fun and did not love to learn, which was very bad for a newborn country, so Yang Xiuqing and several leaders asked the heavenly king to strengthen the education of the young lord. Hong Xiuquan was not a Ming Jun, thinking that this advice had damaged his majesty, but he was furious but still accepted the opinion, thinking that it was reasonable, and began to attach importance to his son's learning, but he had some resentment towards Yang Xiuqing.
In the process of education, Hong Xiuquan founded the Catholic Church, but also self-proclaimed as the king of heaven, such a rigid and self-employed person will not allow his son to read ancient books, forced his son to read the "Heavenly Father's Poems", a series of Catholic books together there are about forty books, the quality is not high, all of which are Hong Xiuquan's own subjective ideas, "a dog with an intestine, is the real niangniang." If it is a lot of tricks, how can it match the sun", but looking at such poems is enough to see that the content is bad and vulgar. Without learning orthodox literature, emperors throughout the ages would ask the best teachers to teach the prince, while Hong Xiuquan only asked his sister to teach his children to learn, and according to records, such teachings were only recorded before the age of nine, and then were not recorded.
In fact, after he had "reached adulthood" and married his wife, even though he was only eight years old and had taken four wives, and by this time he had been forbidden to meet with the female relatives of the family, he would still secretly go to see his mother and sister. When he became an adult, his father slowly took him to approve the recital and also asked him to reward the officials, and every time Hong Xiuquan wrote the title of the edict, he would be transcribed by the young lord and stamped and issued, so that the officials could be grateful and respectful to the young lord. He gave his son the opportunity to practice his skills, and at this time, the internal entered the era of "official wholesale", and promotions were frequent in this period.
Hong Xiuquan, a Catholic, believed that Jesus was incomparably holy and called Jesus the "prince" of the country, but he passed on his son to Jesus, so that the son became Jesus' younger brother, contradictory, and the younger brother sat on the throne. Not only that, he also preached that Jesus had 3 sons and 2 daughters, but the other children were not here and could not inherit the throne, so he passed on his son, so that the young lord was not only the day of the heavenly brother, but also the son of the king. In order to commemorate his "wise" decision, he engraved the golden seal with "Heavenly Father and Heavenly Brother", which is the name of their father and son.
Hong Xiuquan only cares about realizing his own personal ideas, his son is only driven, although he is a young lord, his daily life is extremely boring, three times a day to ask his father for peace, but also to write a "please Ann chapter", even this article is also prepared, he only needs to copy it. The books read every day can only be textbooks, with no content, and the four little wives do not know anything, but can only be entertainment. The only interesting memory is that a green parrot given to Hong Xiuquan by a surrender official Xiong Wanquan was named "Rui Bird", and Hong Tianguifu often teased the birds, and in later confessions, he heard the parrot many times and was able to recite its "bird language".
In 1864, after the death of Hong Xiuquan, the young lord succeeded to the throne, but he was not prepared at all, nor did he have the ability to govern the country, he gave power to his uncles Hong Renfa and Hong Renda, Li Xiucheng, and a Taoist priest Shen Gui, he did not do anything practical, even the entrusted heavy responsibilities were also handled by others, and the edicts issued were also written by others, he only needed to transcribe. Without his father's discipline, he could eat pork and drink wine as much as he wanted, read ancient books at will, but also had a period of freedom and happiness, at this time the kingdom of heaven had lost power, and after more than fifty days, the Xiang army attacked the capital.
Hong Tianguifu was arranged by Li Xiucheng to escape, after meeting with Hong Ren, he was blocked by the Qing army on the way, and later the army escorting him was sneaked in the middle of the night, the army was torn apart, he fled to the mountains alone, hungry for six days, and an old man dressed in white gave him a big cake, let him suffer for two more days, and then after he went down the mountain, he was adopted by a family surnamed Tang, and after four days he left, and was captured by the Qing army on the road. After being captured, he entertained everything, and also made it clear that he wanted to live, writing flattering poems to his custodians, mocking the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, just to survive.
In the end, he was still executed, or Such a cruel punishment as Ling Chi, who was only sixteen years old, was shaved 1003 times, his flesh was sold, and his bones were thrown into the wilderness, and the former ruler fell to such a point that people were lamented.
But are Hong Xiuquan's descendants really dead? According to historical records, no one was spared, but how did so many women in the Heavenly King know that there was no fish that had slipped through the net?
By chance, a reporter discovered Hong Xiuquan's descendant, Cheng Dongrang. At that time, Cheng Dongrang was a member of the adjudication committee of the Anhui Provincial High People's Court and the president of the Appeal Division. He told the ancestors about their lives, hoping that someone would write it down.
When Tianjing was attacked, there was chaos, and one of Hong Xiuquan's princesses and a boy took advantage of the chaos to run out of the fleeing crowd, he was Hong Xiuquan's youngest son Laixi, as lucky as his name, even in the family encountered such a major change, he was still able to survive, and fled with his mother to Dingyuan, Anhui, begging for a living along the way, and did not starve to death.
Later, this princess remarried, married to an honest man named Cheng Fengcai in Cheng Jiawan, this peasant was loyal and dutiful, and the child naturally followed his surname, also surnamed Cheng, so he escaped the disaster of killing.
Cheng Wenqi later became a family, gave birth to several children, and slowly the Village of Anhui Cheng became a big surname, and because many people knew the story behind the Cheng family, Cheng also became a famous local surname. Today, there are more than two hundred descendants of The Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan.