The history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is actually quite tortuous, especially the power struggle between them, which is full of ups and downs, in the eyes of most people, the demise of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Tianjing Incident initiated by Hong Xiuquan and Wei Changhui and others cannot be ignored.
The Tianjing Incident is definitely the most important thing in the history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, when Hong Xiuquan ordered Wei Changhui to carry out a eradication operation against the Eastern King Yang Xiuqing, Wei Changhui acted very quickly, immediately responded to Hong Xiuquan, and eradicated Yang Xiuqing, who had no defenses, in one fell swoop.
Serious personal grudges
On September 3, 1856, Hong Xiuquan ordered the Northern King Wei Changhui to lead a large army back to Nanjing to kill the Eastern King Yang Xiuqing, this surprise attack, Yang Xiuqing did not have time to defend, so Wei Changhui's action was unusually smooth, and soon the indispensable Eastern King Yang Xiuqing was eliminated by Wei Changhui.
Of course, in fact, Yang Xiuqing's demise had a lot to do with his arrogance, at that time he had already mastered the real power and military power within the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, almost without fear, and never thought about what the rest of the people dared to do to themselves, which gave Hong Xiuquan and Wei Changhui and others the opportunity.
After Wei Changhui quickly eliminated Yang Xiuqing, he did not stop the pace of killing, but all of Yang Xiuqing's subordinates were exterminated as "remnants of the Eastern King", and after Yang Xiuqing's family was killed, many of those subordinates did not want to be killed, so they offered to surrender.
Hong Xiuquan and Wei Changhui continued to perform a play, and Hong Xiuquan told Yang Xiuqing's subordinates that they were told to gather in one place to watch them collect Wei Changhui, and those soldiers all believed it and came according to the agreed time, but when the soldiers gathered, they did not see Hong Xiuquan collectIng Wei Changhui, but saw Wei Changhui leading a large army to eliminate all of them.
Throughout the Tianjing Incident, Yang Xiuqing's family and the soldiers who had followed Yang Xiuqing in the past were killed by Wei Changhui in total, and Hong Xiuquan did not seem to care about this, nor did he come forward to stop it, so Wei Changhui seemed to have killed the red eye, and after killing Wei Changhui's cronies, he also pointed a large knife at Shi Dakai, thus causing Shi Dakai's family to suffer as well.
Shi Dakai was not at home at the time, so he escaped a disaster, after learning that his family was killed, Shi Dakai raised an army to attack Wei Changhui, Hong Xiuquan saw that the situation was not good for him, and only then ordered the elimination of Wei Changhui, in order to quell a bad infighting, with Wei Changhui killed, Yang Xiuqing was rehabilitated, the Tianjing Incident was officially declared over, but the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was severely frustrated, and from then on it began to collapse.
When many people see this history, they will always be particularly curious, Wei Changhui obviously killed Yang Xiuqing, it is already a complete task to eradicate the Eastern King, why did he still want to kill the Eastern King's family and Yu Dang? In fact, the first reason for this problem is that there is a personal grudge between Wei Changhui and Yang Xiuqing.
The personal feud between the two has to start from the time when Yang Xiuqing was in the sky, when Yang Xiuqing could be said to be blind, and even hong Xiuquan, the heavenly king, was often called by Yang Xiuqing under the guise of the name of the Heavenly Father, not to mention the rest of the people.
Once Yang Xiuqing traveled, met Wei Changhui's father, when the old man moved too slowly, resulting in not avoiding Yang Xiuqing in time, so he was caught by Yang Xiuqing and wanted to punish him, Wei Changhui learned that his father was arrested by Yang Xiuqing, and then went to find Yang Xiuqing to intercede.
As a result, Yang Xiuqing not only did not give Wei Changhui any face, but also said that he wanted to ask Wei Changhui to suffer for his father, and he was beaten by fifty big plates, for a Northern King, Wei Changhui was treated like this by Yang Xiuqing, it was simply a great shame, since this incident, Wei Changhui can be said to hate Yang Xiuqing to the bone, and he is waiting for the opportunity to clean him up.
Just many years later, Yang Xiuqing completely offended Hong Xiuquan, so that Hong Xiuquan could not bear it, and wanted to use Wei Changhui's hands to eradicate Yang Xiuqing, and the reason why Hong Xiuquan asked Wei Changhui to eradicate Yang Xiuqing was because Hong Xiuquan understood that there was a personal grudge between Yang Xiuqing and Wei Changhui, and Wei Changhui of course hit it off and accidentally entered the trap set by Hong Xiuquan.
However, even if there was a personal grudge between Wei Changhui and Yang Xiuqing, it would not be necessary to exterminate Yang Xiuqing's family and cronies, after all, Yang Xiuqing's sins were worse than others, why did Wei Changhui want to be so desperate?
Wei Changhui fell into Hong Xiuquan's trap
In fact, from the historical background at that time, it was not Wei Changhui himself who really wanted to eradicate the power of the Eastern King, because for Wei Changhui, he and Yang Xiuqing had a personal grudge, and if they wanted to take revenge, it was enough to eliminate Yang Xiuqing and his family, and there was no need to kill his cronies and troops.
However, sometimes once a thing starts, it is difficult to decide the next direction of development, especially Wei Changhui, who was originally under the control of Hong Xiuquan, the ending is naturally more sad. After Hong Xiuquan lured Yang Xiuqing's thousands of soldiers to Wei Changhui, Wei Changhui had no way to retreat at all.
To say that before Wei Changhui eradicated Yang Xiuqing's family, for those soldiers, they felt that as long as they surrendered, they could still avoid death, but judging from Wei Changhui's cruel behavior towards those surrendered soldiers, the soldiers were no longer willing to believe Wei Changhui, everyone would rather fight to the death than resolutely surrender, for Wei Changhui at this time, the only thing he could do was to cut the grass and remove the roots, because if he ignored any force, he would sow disasters for himself.
It was precisely because of this trap of Hong Xiuquan that the later Wei Changhui could only consider his own interests and cut all the grass and roots of Yang Xiuqing's subordinates, that is, in the process of cutting the grass and removing the roots, Wei Changhui's thinking changed again, which laid the groundwork for what happened later.
Wei Changhui's ambitions were stimulated
If it is said that wei Changhui was to eradicate Yang Xiuqing's subordinates in order to cut the grass and remove the roots, then later Wei Changhui killed Shi Dakai's family, it is really impossible to say, why? In my opinion, the main reason for what happened after that was that Wei Changhui's ambitions had been stimulated.
At first, Wei Changhui only obeyed Hong Xiuquan's orders to eliminate Yang Xiuqing, on the one hand, he could take revenge, on the other hand, he could make meritorious achievements, but no one thought that he was used by Hong Xiuquan, so that Wei Changhui went on a killing spree and there was no way back, it can be said that at this time, if Wei Changhui was killed by Yang Xiuqing's subordinates, it just achieved Hong Xiuquan's purpose, but Wei Changhui still had some ability, not only was he not eradicated by Yang Xiuqing's subordinates, but he successfully eliminated these people.
In the process of eradication, Wei Changhui must have gradually understood Hong Xiuquan's deception of himself and the trap he had set, so Wei Changhui was no longer willing to believe Hong Xiuquan, and even after he eradicated Yang Xiuqing's forces, his own forces were the biggest, so why not replace Yang Xiuqing?
At this time, Wei Changhui had ambitions, and if he wanted to replace Yang Xiuqing's previous position, he had to eliminate forces such as Shi Dakai, so Wei Changhui would begin to kill Shi Dakai's family, but the problem that Wei Changhui did not consider was that his own warriors, in the process of eradicating Yang Xiuqing, had already suffered heavy losses, and now they had offended Shi Dakai, and they had lost the hearts of the people, and everyone shouted at wei Changhui, who was cruel and unscrupulous, and when Shi Dakai forced Hong Xiuquan, Hong Xiuquan could only order the killing of Wei Changhui, and Wei Changhui had no strength to fight back.
All in all, Wei Changhui's subsequent actions are already actions blinded by ambition, that is, because of these serious behaviors, which led to Wei Changhui's eventual demise, from the perspective of the whole process, we will find that the most means and the ultimate beneficiary is Still Hong Xiuquan, I have to say that in the plot strategy, Hong Xiuquan's ability absolutely crushes Yang Xiuqing and Wei Changhui.
However, Hong Xiuquan's military talent was very general, so when Yang Xiuqing and Wei Changhui and other great generals were eliminated, the strength of the Taiping Army quickly declined, coupled with the inhumane behaviors shown in the whole process of the Tianjing Incident, which completely made the soldiers lose confidence in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and Hong Xiuquan, and the failure of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was already doomed in the underworld.
epilogue
Wei Changhui exterminated Yang Xiuqing's family and Yu Dang, on the surface, it is that Wei Changhui has a personal grudge against Yang Xiuqing and wants to take revenge, but after our in-depth analysis and understanding, it is actually not difficult to find the essential reason behind all this, and the reason why Wei Changhui did this is also the trap of Hong Xiuquan!
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