Hong Xiuquan was born in HuaXian County, Guangzhou, repeatedly failed in scientific expeditions, discouraged and seriously ill, in the midst of illness flipped through the Christian propaganda book "Persuasion to the World", in fact, he had already received this brochure, but at that time he still hoped for scientific research, so he casually put it on the shelf, hong Xiuquan, who was hopeless in scientific research, got inspiration from it, combined Christianity with the Confucian classics he had studied for many years, and created a new "worship of God religion", calling himself the younger brother of Jesus and being ordained by heaven to exorcise all demons.
At first, Hong Xiuquan was in Guangdong to propagate his cult of worshiping God, Guangzhou is a place where the humanities of south China gather, and it is also a treaty port for the outside world, the people's customs are civilized, the thinking is progressive, and his cult of God is a high imitation of Christianity, so no one listens to his nonsense, and his great cause has not been carried out smoothly in Guangdong.
Later, Hong Xiuquan shifted the focus of his work to Guangxi, and the administrative division of Guangxi today is the "Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region", in addition to the Zhuang people, there are Miao, Yi, Yao brothers and sisters living here, and in the late Qing Dynasty, Guangxi Province is definitely a melting pot of ethnic groups, Han ethnic minorities are mixed, ethnic minorities have Sinicized and unhythicalized, and Han Chinese people are also divided into native Han and Hakka.
The so-called Tuju Han people are the Han people who migrated south earlier, similar to the local indigenous people, while the Hakka people later immigrated to the north. In Guangxi, people living in the Xijiang River basin speak Cantonese, while those living on both sides of the Guijiang River speak Guilin dialect.
Chinese has liked to "hug groups and exclude people" since ancient times, so the indigenous Han people and the Hakka people have constant friction, the Han and ethnic minorities have endless conflicts, and the struggle between various ethnic minorities is not stopped, and the Hakka people in Guangxi are the most discriminated and oppressed groups.
Hong Xiuquan, a hopeless Hakka who can speak Cantonese, is a discriminated Hakka in his hometown of HuaXian in neighboring Guangdong, but has become a sage in Guangxi, coupled with the poor land in Guangxi and the difficulties of the people's livelihood, so when Hong Xiuquan rose up, the followers responded to it, so there was the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom Uprising in Jintian Village, Guangxi, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom continued to grow by uniting the Hakka family, and the main force of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the early stage of development was the Hakka.
After the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom went out of Guangxi, it took in scattered soldiers and soldiers along the road, wrapped up the people, and the troops continued to grow, but the nomads had no combat effectiveness, and when the capital was Nanjing, although the proportion of Hakka people declined, they were still the main force of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
The change in the situation began with the Taiping Army's Northern Expedition, when Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang led more than 20,000 people north, the backbone of this team was basically Hakka, although the Northern Expeditionary Army had already attacked near Tianjin, but because the lone army was deep, there was no backup, it was besieged by the Qing army, and after two years of stubborn resistance, the entire army was destroyed, and the Hakka also disappeared.
While the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom sang all the way and opened up its territory and expanded its territory, internal contradictions also gradually deepened, several major heavenly kings were not in harmony, infighting broke out, and finally the Tianjing Incident broke out, the Northern King Wei Changhui slaughtered the Eastern King Yang Xiuqing and his family and relatives of more than 20,000 people, and also killed the family and subordinates of the Wing King Shi Dakai, Hong Xiuquan, in order to calm the people's anger, killed the Northern King Wei Changhui and his cronies, and then Shi Dakai presided over the overall situation, temporarily stabilizing the passive situation caused by infighting, but the number of Hakka people after this disaster was sharply reduced, and their influence in the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom became smaller and smaller.
The Hakka themselves were the foundation of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom destroyed its foundation after it developed and grew, so how could such a thing not be destroyed?