In August 1856, Yang Xiuqing, the Eastern King of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, was proud of his merits and forced the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan to make him "Long Live", and Hong Xiuquan secretly ordered Wei Changhui and Shi Da to return to Beijing to save him. In early September, Yang Xiuqing and tens of thousands of his subordinates were brutally killed by Wei Changhui.
Soon after, Wei Changhui was executed by Hong Xiuquan. He Dynasty Wenwu welcomed Shi Dakai to Jingfu Zheng. Shi Dakai was suspected by Hong Xiuquan and fled in May 1857, leading tens of thousands of soldiers to break away from the Heavenly Dynasty and fight independently. Although it continued to oppose the Qing Dynasty, it was far from the base area and collapsed in June 1863 on the banks of the Dadu River in Sichuan.
After this "infighting," the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom suffered great damage, the military situation continued to deteriorate, Wuhan and Jiujiang were lost one after another, most of the base areas in Hubei and Jiangxi were lost, and only the area controlled by the Anhui battlefield was slightly expanded. Since then, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has begun to decline!
Why is there infighting? In the past, textbooks explained it this way, saying that the leading clique of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, especially this Hong Xiuquan himself, had become morally corrupt and degenerate since they entered tianjing city, and their revolutionary will was not very firm.
Since there was a moral problem, he could do anything, so the Tianjing Incident was very normal. Do you sound very pale about this explanation? Because saying that it has been corrupt and degenerate for half a day is actually one thing, and it is also a fact that Hong Xiuquan loves to play with women.
But the problem is that he did not start to get better after entering Tianjing City, he was like this in his hometown, before the Guangxi army, his old man had 36 wives, and then after he conquered Wuchang in 1853, he was busy finding 60 wives; until the fall of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, his son was Xiao Tianwang, called Hong Tianguifu, and when he wrote a confession, he said that his father Hong Xiuquan found 87 wang wives for him.
We have to explain for Hong Xiuquan that these women not only serve as his sexual tools, but also because all the affairs in his palace need these women, from secretaries to nannies to hourly workers, all the way to doing some very heavy work, such as digging ditches, building walls, rubbing hemp rope, and even burying dead bodies.
Later, when Hong Xiuquan fell out with Wei Changhui, the women also raised weapons to fight.
This is a style of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, such as Yang Xiuqing, the Eastern King, who also has 36 Eastern Princesses in his palace. And in order to manage these women, Dong Wang na is also racking his brains, because these women can't let her idle, he feels that I will continue to enslave you, usually to give you a very heavy job.
If you really don't live, Yang Xiuqing also ordered them, for example, today you must hand me a few fleas and a few rats to come up, and you will go around catching fleas and rats for me, and you can't let you cause trouble with each other. Therefore, this is a characteristic of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom group, and it does not take women as people.
So this matter does not seem to have much to do with corruption and degeneration, why is that?
Then some people said that this was a power struggle, a power struggle between Yang Xiuqing, the Eastern King, and Hong Xiuquan, the Heavenly King.
But you know that after Hong Xiuquan entered the Tianjing City, he went to the deep palace, and it didn't matter whether he was playing with women or what he did, he didn't care about government affairs, and he never took power.
The administrative power was in the hands of Yang Xiuqing, the Eastern King, and the pattern of cooperation between the two of them had lasted for many years, so why did they suddenly have to fight for power? So for the sake of power, it doesn't seem like that. So why?
Yang Xiuqing is actually a member of the charcoal burners, who has been mixing in this circle since he was a child, although he does not know one of the big characters, but he is very shrewd.
We can use the modern startup company as an analogy, Hong Xiuquan is the chairman, the founder, is the proposer of the theory, this position is not in doubt.
Yang Xiuqing is equivalent to the chairman of his father, although he does not often come to the company, but once he comes back, he still has to listen, usually he does the role of vice chairman and CEO. Xiao Chaogui is equivalent to a managing director, but he is older than the chairman, and according to the generations, he is the chairman and his brother, which also has certain constraints.
Feng Yunshan was an early co-founder and now has little power. Beiwang Wei Changhui is a venture capitalist, also has a certain stake in the company, and also sits on the board of directors. And Shi Dakai is a technical team, with the whole team into the partnership, so it also occupies a certain share, or how to call it Yi Wang? It is to assist the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has become a great trend.
This is the basic situation before the Jintian Uprising in 1851, you will find this structure is very interesting, he divided into two groups of people, the first group is Guangdong Yan, that is, Hong Xiuquan and Feng Yunshan, this gang of people know in their hearts, I do not have this gang of Guangxi Yankees, I am absolutely not enough to achieve things, and this gang of Guangxi people also know, no matter how much power they actually have, how many soldiers and horses, and money, but without the brand image of Hong Xiuquan, without him putting forward this theory, we can't achieve anything, so Guangdong Yan, The two sides of the Guangxi Yan are cooperating seamlessly.
Many history books write that after the Eastern King entered the city, his ambitions also became greater, because of his great merits, so he wanted to usurp the position of the Heavenly King, and Hong Xiuquan had to fight back for self-defense and self-preservation. This analysis must be nonsense, why? If you are Yang Xiuqing, you will also feel that the status quo is the best, and you have no motivation to change the status quo. First of all, all the military power belongs to you, as if there is a person above who can still manage you, but in fact he has neither a team nor confidence, how can he exercise power? This is one.
Second, the king of heaven is an authority, and authority is not free, he can only stay in the deep palace, in fact, he does not have any freedom of action. And I, I'm under authority anyway, how I do it, even if I do it wrong, it doesn't matter, because the number one person is not me.
Third, don't forget, Yang Xiuqing can still spit white foam, the Heavenly Father is down, once the Heavenly King has something that can hinder him, he can use this trick to restrain the Heavenly King. If you are Yang Xiuqing, will you change? Will you usurp his throne? Find out another population foaming at you to restrain you?
So in Yang Xiuqing's position, what a perfect structure, he will definitely not move first.
But let's switch to Hong Xiuquan's side to think about it. Little by little he is now being cut into sausages, and all his religious ideals will dim little by little and eventually become a secular regime.
What can he do? He could only do two things: First, he sat still, and finally became something like the Emperor of Japan, and he could never see the common people in the deep palace, except to play with the women around him, and there was nothing left to play, which was a result.
The second result is to use his religious authority to kill Yang Xiuqing when he still has influence, and he has no middle way. Standing in Hong Xiuquan's situation and thinking about it, the ability was not big, and the religious fantasies in his mind were more and more obsessed with this fantasy in the deep palace, but he knew in his heart that this fantasy would gradually melt away in the sun like a popsicle.
And the Yang Xiuqing who caused all this, he couldn't do anything with him, unless he was destroyed in the flesh last time, so that the Heavenly Father could no longer lay down mortals, and his own problems could be temporarily alleviated, so he must have such a motive. When a religious madman is faced with the choice between zero and one, it is easy for him to slip to one when he is emotionally unstable. So why did the Tianjing Incident happen? That's why he suddenly got into trouble.
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