As soon as I talked about Hong Xiuquan, I remembered a poem, which was written in a majestic way, and this poem was "Ding Qiankun": "The dragon dives into the cape and frightens the sky, and for the time being, it is idle and jumps in the abyss; until the wind and clouds gather together, soaring six-in-one Ding Qiankun." ”
Hong Xiuquan was born in 1814, died in 1864, his original name was Huoxiu, his family name was Renkun, he was born in the family of cultivators, he read a lot of books when he was young, but he tried many times, and finally he founded the cult of Worship, the religion developed rapidly, and finally under the rule of darkness, he led the congregation to launch the "Jintian Uprising", which was huge, created the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and called himself the Heavenly King.
It is said that the Taiping Army was extremely brave in battle, often claiming to be invincible, so it soon became the climate, took the city of Nanjing, and established the capital in Nanjing. But Hong Xiuquan's heart was too narrow, and he soon fell into corruption, it is said that he had 88 wives, and none of this seemed to be satisfied with him, and the other kings followed suit, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom finally faltered in corruption.
At first, the form was still very good, the Taiping Army broke through the Qing army Xiang Rong's Jiangnan camp, and lifted the siege of Tianjing for three years, and then the Eastern King Yang Xiuqing saw that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was good in form, and began to expand his ambitions, he forced Hong Xiuquan to seal him as "Long Live the Heavenly Father" on the grounds of "Heavenly Father Under The Mortals", and in all aspects had to catch up with Hong Xiuquan, resulting in the deepening of the contradiction between Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing, the Northern King Wei Changhui once asked the Heavenly King to kill the Eastern King, but Hong Xiuquan pretended not to allow it, but because the grievance was too deep, the Northern King Wei Changhui, the Wing King Shi Dakai, Dingtian Yan Qin Rigang was very dissatisfied with the Eastern King, and at this time, the Eastern King Yang Xiuqing was still dissatisfied, still thinking of usurping the throne, and finally the contradiction intensified.
In the end, the Heavenly King secretly ordered the Northern King, the Wing King, and the Dingtianyan Qin Rigang to eliminate the Eastern King, and Qin Rigang led an army to rush into the Eastern King's Mansion at night and kill Yang Xiuqing and his family, known in history as the "Tianjing Incident", Shi Dakai knew about it and felt that Wei Changhui killed innocents indiscriminately, and the two dispersed unhappily, as a result, Wei Changhui killed all of Shi Dakai's family members, Shi Dakai fled from the city, raised troops from Anqing, and denounced Wei Changhui, at this time the Tianping outside the Tianjing City generally supported Shi Dakai, and then the Eastern King, the Northern King, and the Yan King were successively reprimanded. After Shi Dakai was in charge of the Tianjing City for a period of time, he found that the situation was not good, so he led a large army to leave in a negative mood and broke away from the command of the Heavenly King, and from then on, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was seriously injured.
The Qing army took the opportunity to rebuild the Jiangnan camp, the Jiangbei camp, besieged Tianjing City, Li Xiucheng suggested a breakthrough, but Hong Xiuquan refused, Hong Xiuquan ordered to stick to it, the result was that the ammunition ran out of food, the soldiers were tired and hungry, ran to Hong Xiuquan for grain, Hong Xiuquan said "Heavenly Father sent sweet dew", and in fact it was a grass group, he also took the lead to eat grass, and as a result, many soldiers showed a questioning look.
Not long after, Hong Xiuquan died of illness, and there are two theories about his death:
The first theory is that he died of poison, he knew that the general situation had gone, so he committed suicide by taking poison, and it is said that Zeng Guofan found in the "Li Zicheng Self-Description": "The Heavenly King (Hong Xiuquan) was anxious and irritable every day, that is, he died of poisoning on April 27." And in Zeng Guofan's draft, it is also said that Hong Xiuquan died of poison.
The second theory is that he died of illness, because he took the lead in eating grass, so he got sick and died.
When the Qing army invaded the city of Nanjing, Zeng Guofan ordered that Hong Xiuquan's body be exhumed, chopped into meat paste, and then put into artillery to fire, that is, the bones were ashes.
It reflects the saying that "its rise is also bold, and its death is also sudden."