Because of the corruption in the late Qing Dynasty, there were many anti-Qing teams, and the Qing government suppressed the domestic uprising teams while dealing with the foreign invading teams, which also made the Qing government tired. Among the ranks of the domestic uprisings, the most powerful one was the uprising of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and it did not take long for them to quickly occupy many cities, which also caused headaches for the Qing government.
This rebel team headed by Hong Xiuquan established his own political power, hong xiuquan also became the emperor as he wished, and after Hong Xiuquan became emperor, he did not go out of the Heavenly Palace for eleven years until his death, what did he do in it, some people said that he was a big draft, which was full of beautiful women, and some people said that he built a lot of civil engineering in the palace and established an incomparably luxurious, what is the reason?
1. Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement
In the late Qing Dynasty, because the government was too corrupt and the people did not have a good life, the Qing government headed by Empress Dowager Cixi only cared about its own interests and did not put the interests of the people and the country in mind at all, so it also endured again and again in foreign negotiations and signed countless treaties of loss of power and humiliation of the country. Internally, fearing that someone would overthrow his own government, he vigorously suppressed it, causing many tragic cases.
Under such circumstances, Hong Xiuquan led the peasants to rise up and follow the example of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang in carrying out the peasant uprising, not expecting that Hong Xiuquan's team was the most successful peasant uprising in China's thousands of years of history. In fact, Hong Xiuquan is very ordinary, when he was young, he wanted to be admitted to xiu to become an official in the imperial court, but because he failed to win several times, he finally became discouraged.
Although Hong Xiuquan was not admitted to Xiucai, he learned about some foreign missionaries' books about the church when he was reading books, which brought him great inspiration, and he felt that the church could control people's hearts and have supreme rights. Hong Xiuquan, who had originally fantasized about his own rights, created a cult of worship on his own and respected himself.
Later, Hong Xiuquan once had a dream that he had become the Son of God, and this dream was even more convinced that he could create a religion to make people respect. The cult of God that Hong Xiuquan created had no other purpose, but to control people's hearts through missionary work and make people willingly revolt with him.
Although Hong Xiuquan did not pass the entrance examination for many years, he was very good at encouraging people's hearts. He preached his ideas and the teachings of the church everywhere, and found many displaced peasants, these lowest-level people were often unconcerned and able to follow him to the death, so he built a team of his own and began to compete with the Qing government.
Second, Hong Xiu's full name is Emperor
Hong Xiuquan worked very hard and gathered many people into his team, and it was not enough to have a team, but also to have weapons. At that time, the long guns and cannons of the foreigners had entered China, only the Qing government was still stuck in its own hands, and Hong Xiuquan and others had long seen the power of guns and guns, and had purchased a lot of Western-style weapons very early, although there were not many, but they could make their own weapons as they were.
When the Qing government still used spears and spears as weapons, Hong Xiuquan already had a relatively long-term vision. Hong Xiuquan also has very strict requirements for his subordinates, must practice martial arts every day, strengthen his body, and prepare for the battlefield, so Hong Xiuquan's team is particularly mentally good, on the one hand, the peasants want to find a way out for themselves, on the other hand, Hong Xiuquan's requirements are high.
In the early days, Hong Xiuquan's team basically won many battles and defeated the Qing army one after another, which made the Qing government very afraid. Empress Dowager Cixi was afraid that her rights would not be protected, so she tried her best to suppress the Taiping Rebellion. Hong Xiuquan rose from Guangxi, and it didn't take long to reach Nanjing, and established his own capital and his own Tianwang Palace in Nanjing.
After Hong Xiu made the capital nanjing, he did not attack further north, on the one hand, he encountered the stubborn resistance of the Qing government, which did not hesitate to join hands with foreigners to fight the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement in order to suppress the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. On the other hand, Hong Xiuquan also believed that he had established the capital and become an emperor, and that the overthrow of the Qing government could be slowed down first, so Hong Xiuquan temporarily abandoned the attack.
Hong Xiuquan established the capital city in Nanjing as emperor for a total of thirteen years as an emperor, in these more than ten years he has never been out of his own Heavenly King's Palace, so what is he doing in the Heavenly King's Palace every day, more than ten years of time to say more, more to say less, if he is trapped in the palace every day, it shows that Hong Xiuquan does have a lot of things to deal with.
Third, until death can not go out of the Heavenly King's Palace
Hong Xiuquan originally had a heart for power, did not expect to achieve so quickly through the uprising, he implemented the feudal monarchy system after he became emperor in Nanjing, originally at the time of the uprising, he told the people who followed him in the uprising that when he got the regime, he must divide the land equally for everyone, but after he became emperor, such a promise was not fulfilled.
Hong Xiuquan was no exception, after becoming emperor, he left his previous promises behind, only for his own pleasure, he had not been out of his own Heavenly Palace for more than ten years, and the most important thing was to enjoy life with his concubines in the palace. Hong Xiuquan had just been emperor for a few years, and there were nearly 1,000 concubines in his harem, which was the main reason why he did not leave the house.
Hong Xiuquan has just ascended to the throne and there are thousands of beautiful women in the harem, which will naturally make Hong Xiuquan unable to open his legs. In addition, he also built a lot of construction in the palace, which could be matched with the residence of the previous emperor, which must be luxurious and luxurious, so after he ascended the throne, he had to renovate his mansion, and in order to repair his own Heavenly Palace, he exhausted all kinds of manpower and material resources.
In order to make his Heavenly King's Mansion bigger, he also demolished all the surrounding houses and served only himself. The Later Heavenly King's Palace was burned down by accident, and he used more manpower and material resources than before to build the Heavenly King's Palace, which was also the direct cause of the rapid decline of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
summary
After Hong Xiuquan became emperor, he took full care of his own pleasures, and did not fulfill his promise at all, resulting in his fainting, and not long after Hong Xiuquan's death, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was suppressed in time by the Qing government. Hong Xiuquan did not leave the Heavenly Palace for more than ten years after the emperor, in which he sang and danced every day and ignored political affairs, such an emperor was indeed not much different from the Qing government.
Hong Xiuquan was able to claim the title of emperor also because of the worship of God, and after he became emperor, people's trust in god worship has exceeded that of Hong Xiuquan itself, so hong Xiuquan must rely closely on god worship in order to consolidate his rule, and he does not have to deal with political affairs, as long as he controls people through god worship in the palace.