In the first year of Xianfeng, Hong Xiuquan launched a peasant uprising, established the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, claimed to be the Heavenly King, although he was suppressed by the Qing court at the beginning, but the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom attacked the city all the way and won the hearts of the people, but the Tianjing Incident in 1856 made the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom turn from prosperity to decline, and Hong Xiuquan's sanity became more and more unconscious, before his death he had been crazy for a long time, and his words were unbelievable.
Since the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was established as the capital of Nanjing, Hong Xiuquan has never been out of the Heavenly King's Palace, he ordered people to build a huge bed, lying on the bed every day, either indulging in wine or sleeping, not caring about the government at all, which also led to the taiping heavenly kingdom internal disputes, it is precisely because of the mutual struggle of several heavenly kings that the Qing soldiers can take advantage of it, and eventually lead to the fragmentation of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
Although the situation in the Later Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was already precarious, Hong Xiuquan still indulged in vocal music and enjoyed himself with many concubines, regardless of how auspicious the situation was, although others were persuading Hong Xiuquan to evacuate Nanjing immediately, but Hong Xiuquan was already completely crazy at this time, he was not willing to fight hard anymore, but indulged in a solipsistic, extravagant and depraved life, and in order to stabilize the situation, he even sealed thousands of people as kings, including the chef and coachman who became the prince.
Hong Xiuquan was already insane in his later years, he claimed to others that he had a million heavenly soldiers and heavenly generals, so he did not have to fear the Qing army, even if the city of Nanjing had been surrounded by Qing soldiers, and there was no food, Hong Xiuquan was still fooling everyone, but once he woke up, he would collapse incomparably, and eventually Hong Xiuquan committed suicide in despair in madness, and after Nanjing was captured by the Qing army, Zeng Guofan was frustrated with Hong Xiuquan.