Yang Xiuqing and Shi Dakai were both among the top generals in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and Yang Xiuqing made great contributions in the process of establishing the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and after the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom set the capital nanjing, as Hong Xiuquan gradually began to enjoy life, Yang Xiuqing became the real real power holder of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but was finally eradicated by Hong Xiuquan and Wei Changhui and others.
After Yang Xiuqing was destroyed, Wei Changhui and Qin Rigang and others were also killed because of the Tianjing Incident, and within the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, only the five kings who participated in the entrepreneurship in the early days were only The Wing King Shi Dakai, Shi Dakai first forced Hong Xiuquan to manage the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom well, and later found that there was no practical effect and left Hong Xiuquan and sought to develop on his own, but in the end he was killed after the defeat of Daduhe, ending his legendary life.
Regarding Yang Xiuqing and Hong Xiuquan, posterity has always had a completely different evaluation, because Yang Xiuqing died in the process of infighting, so the posterity's understanding of Yang Xiuqing may not be as good as Shi Dakai, and even many people think that Shi Dakai is the most powerful general in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, so is this really the case, Yang Xiuqing and Shi Dakai, who is more powerful in the end?
From the point of view of military talent
In fact, Shi Dakai and Yang Xiuqing have their own advantages in terms of talent, but both of them have very fatal shortcomings, why do they say so? Listen to my detailed analysis, I will analyze them from the military talents of the two men and their ability to deal with interpersonal relations, and perhaps after the analysis, the answer will be obvious.
In terms of military ability, the difference between Yang Xiuqing and Shi Dakai is very large, When Yang Xiuqing was in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom with average strength and was still in danger, he had already led 5,000 soldiers to kill a bloody road in the case of Xiao Chaogui's death, and finally relied on these soldiers in the early stage of entrepreneurship to fight from Hunan to Nanjing, and played their own piece of the country.
Although yang Xiuqing lost himself a little in the later period and exaggerated his influence and status in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the role he played in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the early stage and the contribution he made were indeed obvious to all, and it can be said that if yang Xiuqing's military ability was not supported in the early stage, relying on Hong Xiuquan's military talent, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom would absolutely not develop, because Hong Xiuquan was far inferior to Yang Xiuqing in terms of military talent.
Hong Xiuquan is more adept at buying people's hearts and controlling people's hearts, and also uses some messy ideas to achieve the purpose of demagogy, prompting those people to be willing to follow the development of the Taiping Army, in other words, Hong Xiuquan provides a spiritual pillar for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, although the guiding ideology of this spirit is wrong, but we have to admire Hong Xiuquan's ability in this regard.
Hong Xiuquan can only buy people's hearts and win some people to follow him, but there is no way to use these people well, and there is no forward-looking strategic thinking and layout, these things were completed by Xiao Chaogui in the early stage, and Yang Xiuqing in the later period, and the division of labor between the two was still relatively clear, Yang Xiuqing was in charge of the military, and Hong Xiuquan was in charge of politics.
Later, after the capital was set in Nanjing, Hong Xiuquan began to covet pleasure, so he handed over the military and political power to Yang Xiuqing, which led to problems in the division of labor within the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, a great general who was not good at engaging in political activities, to engage in some political activities, the final result was that the ambition continued to grow, the strength remained unchanged, which was the reason for the Tianjing Incident and the reason for the demise of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
Yang Xiuqing himself surpassed Hong Xiuquan in terms of military ability, and of course surpassed Shi Dakai, because judging from the many strategic layouts on the battlefield and the victories achieved, we are clear. Yang Xiuqing led a small number of Taiping army armies to many victories, prompting the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to become stronger and then set the capital at Nanjing.
After Yang Xiuqing was eradicated, Shi Dakai led hundreds of thousands of troops, but almost all the way down the rout, rarely achieved any substantial battle victories, if it is said that Shi Dakai's defeat at this time is completely caused by the internal problems of the Taiping Army, I think it is still difficult to convince the public, after all, one or two failures can be said to be problems within the Taiping Army, and always failing can only show that the leadership has problems with itself, and the lack of a forward-looking strategic layout will lead to the army always losing the battle.
It can be said that the shortcomings of Shi Dakai's military talent are obvious, he prefers personal heroism, for example, when he was trapped in the Dadu River, Shi Dakai thought not that everyone worked together to break out, but took the initiative to find the Qing army and proposed the stupid practice of exchanging his life for the lives of soldiers, resulting in not only his own life in vain, but also the soldiers who followed him were annihilated by the Qing army.
We can imagine how, as a great general, could negotiate with the enemy like this. The key was to negotiate under the circumstances that he was obviously at a disadvantage, and it was even more foolish, although many people felt that Shi Dakai was brave and righteous enough, but his approach was absolutely ignorant and had no military talent for his status as a great general at that time.
Combined with these realities, we can easily conclude that Shi Dakai is brave and unscrupulous, and he is obviously inferior to Yang Xiuqing in terms of military ability, and the gap is still very large, which is basically beyond doubt. So is it that Shi Dakai has no advantages? Otherwise, why would future generations sing his praises?
From the analysis of the ability of two people to handle interpersonal relationships
After analyzing the gap between Shi Dakai and Yang Xiuqing in terms of military ability, we have concluded that Shi Dakai's military ability is inferior to Yang Xiuqing's, and he belongs to the leading figures who are brave and unscrupulous and do not have an overall outlook and forward-looking vision, while Yang Xiuqing belongs to the military leaders with an overall outlook and outstanding military ability.
Since there is such a clear gap in military ability, why do future generations still worship Shi Dakai? In fact, this requires continuing to analyze the ability of the two people to deal with interpersonal relationships. Yang Xiuqing's way of handling interpersonal relationships is simple and crude, that is, relying on power and status to constantly suppress others, hoping to control the people around him.
History has finally proved that Yang Xiuqing's way of handling interpersonal relations is wrong, because even if Yang Xiuqing is the real power holder of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, everyone still needs respect, because the reason why the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement broke out in the first place was because everyone was fed up with the oppression of the Qing rulers and would rise up to resist.
To some extent, those early leaders in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were eager to be treated fairly and justly, rather than those who were ruthlessly squeezed like in those years, in such a big historical background, Yang Xiuqing also had to drive back in history, and after fixing the capital nanjing, he became an exploiting oppressor similar to the rulers of the Qing government, and undoubtedly digging his own grave.
It was because of Yang Xiuqing's barbaric way of handling interpersonal relations that Yang Xiuqing had already offended the rest of the high-level leaders at that time unconsciously, whether it was Hong Xiuquan, Wei Changhui, or Qin Rigang and others, they were all offended by Yang Xiuqing again and again, and finally the Tianjing Incident broke out, Wei Changhui, Qin Rigang and Hong Xiuquan jointly eradicated Yang Xiuqing, only Shi Dakai was in a wait-and-see state at that time.
Shi Dakai's ability to deal with interpersonal relations is generally Mingzhe to protect himself and Huairou policy, he basically will not easily offend any leader, for example, when Hong Xiuquan gained power, Shi Dakai obeyed Hong Xiuquan and never offended Hong Xiuquan in the face, so Hong Xiuquan did not want to eradicate Shi Dakai's meaning, in the Tianjing Incident, Hong Xiuquan took the opportunity to eliminate Yang Xiuqing, Wei Changhui and Qin Rigang, that is, did not eradicate Shi Dakai, It can also be seen that this is the result of the positive influence of Shi Da's enlightened mind to protect himself.
Later, Yang Xiuqing gained power, Shi Dakai did not offend Yang Xiuqing, even after Yang Xiuqing cleaned up his father-in-law and brother-in-law, Shi Dakai was also calm and did not dare to offend Yang Xiuqing, so we will find that after the senior leaders were all blamed by Yang Xiuqing, only Shi Dakai was exempt from being cleaned up, which is where Shi Dakai's art of handling interpersonal relationships lies.
It can be said that Shi Dakai is just like Yan, smooth enough in the handling of interpersonal relations, although this kind of person is not welcome in the eyes of many people, feels just like the grass on the wall, falling with the wind, but in the face of cruel history, many times it is often this kind of talent that can survive, such as Yang Xiuqing, who loves and hates too much, and the ending is generally more bleak.
Shi Dakai relied on his good interpersonal skills to become the only candidate among the five kings who had not been eliminated by Hong Xiuquan, and he also had the opportunity to lead hundreds of thousands of troops to create his own career after the Tianjing Incident.
Of course, the things that happened later had nothing to do with Shi Dakai's ability to handle interpersonal relations, because those were real wars and were related to Shi Dakai's shortcomings in military ability. After such an analysis, it is not difficult to find that Shi Dakai is better than Yang Xiuqing in his ability to handle interpersonal relationships.
epilogue
Looking at the lives of Yang Xiuqing and Shi Dakai, we can draw the final conclusion that Yang Xiuqing relied on his military ability to gain a foothold in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and became a real power holder, but in the end he was killed because of his ability defect in handling interpersonal relations; Shi Dakai and Yang Xiuqing were diametrically opposed, Shi Dakai relied on his good ability to handle interpersonal relations to survive the bloody storms of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but in the end he was executed by the Qing government because of his defects in military ability The two have their own strengths in terms of talent, but both have fatal flaws!
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