There is a stereotype for the peasant revolt, in which birds are hidden with bows and rabbits are cooked by dead dogs.
Each time it was a vigorous beginning, and just a little achievement began to fight for turf and engage in infighting, and finally the founding heroes were killed. Just like Liu Bang, he couldn't tolerate Zang Di Hanxin.
There has been no shortage of peasant uprisings and infighting in Chinese history, but the horrific killings were of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
At that time, Hong Xiuquan, together with Wei Changhui and Qin Rigang, secretly killed Yang Xiuqing, and the scene could be described as extremely cruel. Unfortunately, Wei Changhui did not expect that the praying mantis was catching cicadas, the yellow bird was behind, and a mid-game was about to be staged.
At midnight on September 1, 1856, Wei Changhui, the King of the North, led about 3,000 Guangxi veterans to nanjing secretly from the Jiangxi battlefield, at this time Qin Rigang had already ambushed in the Tianwang Mansion with his elite troops, preparing to join Wei Changhui and kill Yang Xiuqing.
Originally, the two agreed to wait for Shi Dakai to act together, but after meeting Hong Xiuquan's brother-in-law Lai Hanying and Hu Yihuang, the two decided not to wait for him and directly ambushed more than 6,000 of their elite soldiers in the Eastern Palace.
This was not an ordinary army, they had all been humiliated by Yang Xiuqing, and morale was not generally high. When the Northern King Wei Changhui gave an order, they swarmed, and Yang Xiuqing was killed with a knife before he could escape from the emergency passage.
Then came a massacre.
Hong Xiuquan had ordered that only Yang Xiuqing be killed. But they've killed Red Eye.
These soldiers only think about the daily humiliation, kill people when they see them, regardless of gender, official position, young or old, or profession. The army plundered Yang Mansion and "looted it" in less than a few hours. Yang Xiuqing's head was cut off and hung on a wooden pole in the center of the street.
Yang Xiuqing was dead, but this caused Hong Xiuquan an even bigger problem - how to deal with more than 6,000 Eastern Wang Yu Dang?
Most of these people had been in the religion since the time of the Zijing Mountains in Guangxi, and they were not only elder-level figures, but more importantly, they had all over the official positions of nanjing. It is better to say that they are the Followers of Dongwang Yu Dang, because they have always been faithful worshippers of God.
However, Hong Xiuquan decided that he would rather kill ten thousand by mistake than spare one person.
Hong Xiuquan consulted with Wei Changhui and others and decided on the most vicious plan of cannibalism ever. The first plan was the bitter meat plan, and Hong Xiuquan issued an edict, angrily denouncing Wei Changhui and others for the bloody act of exterminating the Yang Mansion and immediately locking up the Northern King Wei Changhui and Qin Rigang and making them kneel in front of the gate of the Heavenly King's Palace, each with five hundred staffs.
The five hundred rods are considered top torture and have been used to punish traitors. The palace maid of the Heavenly King's Mansion posted a yellow silk edict more than 2 meters long and read out the will of the Heavenly King, which attracted many Eastern King Yu Dang to watch it.
This was followed by the second plan, Hong Xiuquan's urn to catch turtles.
The Eastern King Yu Dang was all invited to watch the Northern King's execution at the Heavenly King's Mansion. It is not allowed to wear a blade when entering and leaving the area on weekdays, so people have no suspicion when they are disarmed. When Wei Qin and the two knelt in the Heavenly King's Mansion and began to execute, the Eastern King Yu Dang flocked to watch. When the people were about to close, the doors of the courtyard were closed at the same time, and the staff strikes stopped. This was followed by a century of killings.
They were locked up all night until the next morning, when many doors and windows were opened, not to release people, but to throw explosives inside!
All the exits were kept untouched, and the soldiers slaughtered almost all the people inside. Some people resisted desperately, they used the stones of the courtyard wall to resist for more than 6 hours before being annihilated, and many people were not killed, but died of exhaustion.
In the end, Wei Qin and the two also rushed in to kill the last living person, and the corpses piled up five or six people high and allowed to be exposed.
After this, every household in the city had to report to the family members, each of them received a wooden sign, and if it was found that it was the Eastern King Yu Dang, they were escorted to the execution ground to be beheaded, even women and children were not spared.
This kind of drag-net investigation and killing lasted for several weeks, and as long as anyone who had eaten tea and dinner in the Eastern Palace suffered.
Wei Changhui and Qin Rigang killed people to this point, but they were not satisfied, and the killing lasted for three months, killing thousands of people, including all five hundred former palace maids and maids of the Eastern Palace.
Why did Wei Changhui achieve such a cruel situation? In fact, he and Yang Xiuqing have always had a grudge for a long time.
Yang Xiuqing, who had real power in his hands, often put small shoes on Wei Changhui, but Wei Changhui still had to smile and greet him: "Public opinion will be supported to welcome, and if things are not discussed three or four times, they will kneel and thank you: 'Not the fourth brother teaches, the younger brother has a tender belly, and he almost doesn't know this.'" ’”
Wei Changhui's brother and Yang Xiuqing's concubine's brother competed for real estate, and in order to satisfy Yang Xiuqing, he actually divided his brother's five horses into corpses, and said that he was "not enough to police the public." But the lower the surface, the more the anger in the heart is burning.
He was waiting for an opportunity to erupt.
Unfortunately, Wei Changhui killed Yang Xiuqing, and his own death date also came, because he no longer had the value to use, not to mention that he still wanted to get rid of the big boss Hong Xiuquan without self-control.
In the dictionaries of some kings, there is no grace and morality, only to unload and kill donkeys, and repay virtue with resentment, Hong Xiuquan has long learned how to be a cold-blooded king. Therefore, Hong Xiuquan became the final winner, and Wei Changhui's head was also sent to Shi Dakai's hands.