Where the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom revolted, most of the soldiers came from Liangguang, and it was also the strongest stage of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's combat strength, the leader of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Hong Xiu, was all Cantonese, and Guangdong at that time was also a rich land, so why did the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom not take Guangdong as its rear?
Of course, this is not to say that the Taiping Army did not enter Guangdong, strictly speaking, the Taiping Army entered Guangdong, the Kang Wang Hai sample department was destroyed in Guangdong, and the attendant King Li Shixian was also killed by Wang Haiyang in Guangdong, but these can only be said to be passing by, Lao Wang is passing through a certain county, a large number of people and horses fell into the deep ditch dug by the county order and the villagers overnight, and the soldiers suffered heavy losses and led to their demise. There were many factions within the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the struggle was very fierce, so the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom did not have a targeted strategy to occupy Guangdong.
At the beginning of the Taiping Rebellion, the Taiping Army had ideals at the beginning, that is, to overthrow the Qing Dynasty's rule, so it was necessary to march to the central area of the Qing court's rule, including after entering Nanjing, and also organizing the Northern Expedition, and laying down the two Guangzhous would not shake the Qing Dynasty's rule. After all, Guangdong is a cash cow, if you hit Guangdong, even if you lay down, it is equivalent to the cash cow was sawn off, and if you enter the lord in the future, you will not get benefits in the economy. So perhaps the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom wants to put Guangdong last, and when the situation is stabilized, an edict will solve the problem.
However, I personally feel that it does not make sense, no one will cherish the other party's fiscal and tax base as a treasure before the rebellion is successful, especially the fierce struggle of the low-level rebellion. On the contrary, if there is an opportunity to occupy these places, they will definitely occupy them. They are all a hammer deal in the early stage, they can't operate for a long time, and if they occupy it, they will definitely grab it all at once, if they can't stand, they will pat their butts and throw them to their opponents. Only by repeating this can it be possible to win the Qing court.
In fact, the most crucial thing is a major social problem in Guangdong, the "dispute between natives and guests", Hong is a guest, the main force of the Qing army against the Taiping Army seems to be Zeng Guofan's Xiang Army, but it is Luo Bingzhang, who pays for zeng Guofan to form the Xiang army, and Hong Xiuquan is also a native of Huaxian County, Guangdong. Luo Bingzhang, a native of Guangdong Province, is the governor of Hunan. This also reflects from the side that the contradictions and struggles between the two groups of Turks and tourists in the two Guangdong regions were too fierce during the same period, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Peasant Movement may be understood as an extension of the dispute between the two Guangdong Turks.
Moreover, because most of the Taiping Army was defeated from Guangdong to Guangxi by the Turks, its strength could not defeat Guangdong itself, not to mention the Qing government. Therefore, they can only go north and east into the Jiangnan area, where people are easy to submit, because they have money and many weak scholars. Occupying Jiangnan is equivalent to having economic income and having a talent reserve. The failure of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was sooner or later, because the small peasants had a strong sense of consciousness and deep feudal thinking, and the first did not go north to take the Central Plains for the land when it was most powerful, disrupting the deployment of the Qing government. Second, I did not make good use of the able people in jiangnan, but just built a lot of civil engineering and enjoyed life. The third rear had no backup, the two Cantons and their troops were limited, and the two lakes of troops were not controlled within the sphere of influence and lost their guarantees.
Moreover, relatively speaking, the coastal port of Guangdong was opened early, the people had already come into contact with Western religions (God, Christ), And Hong Xiuquan's self-created set of three-way religious concepts was not easy to "flicker", if the people did not recognize the religious foundation of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, they would naturally not support the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Guangdong has always been rich, there is no soil for rebellion, the Qing army in Guangdong is a long-term fighting with Britain and France, with the imperial court to provide, the equipment is no longer a spear and crossbow, good guns. The Taiping Army could only find the township to fight bravely, and did not dare to forcibly capture Guangdong.