The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was founded by a hypothetical and most of the poor children who did not have enough to eat. When the organization is just established, it is best to join as soon as possible, there are a lot of opportunities to be the elders of the organization, when the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was just established, who knows that it can spark a spark and can burn the plains? Hong Xiuquan took the lead, which is only a political symbol, and can also be said to be a sign flag. The ones who really carried it forward were Yang Xiuqing, Feng Yunshan, Xiao Chaogui and others.
Xiao Chaogui, one of the elders, is indeed the epitome of the bitter peasants of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. He is a native of Guangxi, and his surname is not Xiao, but Jiang. Because the Jiang family really could not feed him, they could only send him to Xiao Yusheng of Wulan Village in Wuxuandong Township as a son. Since childhood, he grew up with his adoptive father and brothers Xiao Chaofu, Xiao Chaoxing, Xiao Chaolong and others. The family expenses were very large, and Xiao Chaogui had to follow them, doing all kinds of business, first doing miscellaneous work in the shops, and then acting as a bodyguard to escort the goods, and went to Sha Tin, Hualei, Liupan and other places to engage in farming. The money did not make much, and the bitter head was eaten thoroughly.
In the end, the Xiao family all moved to the ancient shed village under peng'ai Mountain, southwest of Guiping Zijing Mountain, and settled down, while cultivating, burning charcoal to survive.
In the 23rd year of Daoguang, a whimsical and down-and-out intellectual, Hong Xiuquan, because of the hopelessness of the exam, could only imitate the West to establish a very weak organization- the Society of God, only two people, Hong Xiuquan and his friend Feng Yunshan, his team was opened, there were only seven or eight people in total, not even weapons, only a rotten tongue. Hong Xiuquan urgently needs people to join the religion and earn a little membership fee. He sent Feng Yunshan to go deep into the Guiping area to see if anyone was willing to join the religion.
It must be difficult at the beginning, Feng Yunshan broke his shoes, said that he broke his throat, the effect was not great, 3 years later, Xiao Chaogui heard that there was such an organization, he thought, burning charcoal and farming hard for a year, the hard money earned In addition to supplementing the family, it will also be exploited by corrupt officials layer by layer, and there is very little left in his hands. Year after year, he's going crazy. What will God be, the main thing to do, Xiao Chaogui does not care, anyway, the blind cat touching the dead rat may be able to develop it? Decided to go to Liangshan to join the Society of God, and by the way, he brought his friend and in-law Yang Xiuqing with him.
After Xiao Chaogui had an organization, he came to work hard, what charcoal burners, farmers, all go aside, wholeheartedly pull people everywhere to join the company, Xiao Chaogui memorized all the words of the God Society, understood that behind the chest, actively mobilized the local people to join the God Society, the same are the bitter masses, Xiao Chaogui so flickered, feel that as long as they join the God Society, they can get rid of the fiery life. Not only did he encourage the tongue to lobby everywhere, Xiao Chaogui simply set fire to the broken house of his own disciples, smashing all the rags, cutting off all the retreat paths for himself and the Xiao family, so that the Xiao family brothers could only follow him with a dead heart. After the locals were all pulled into the meeting, it was not enough, Xiao Chaogui went to Wuxuan, Xiangzhou and other places, found old acquaintances who had worked with him, and then met other people through old acquaintances, and all of them were pulled in.
Xiao Chaogui trained out superb organizational skills, most of them were pulled by him, there were signs of occupying the God Society, and there was quite a prestige among many people, people came to his name, and the original Sect Leader Hong Xiuquan became a cold dish.
In January 1848, Feng Yunshan was arrested and imprisoned in Guiping County, Feng Yunshan was one of the core leaders of the God Society, even he was arrested, the God Society still had a head, everyone waited and watched, and the number of people who withdrew from the church was increasing. Hong Xiuquan couldn't help but watch the God Society take shape, and he couldn't give up because of Feng Yunshan. He returned to Guangdong to rescue, the gods would be leaderless, at this time, the two people's keen sense of smell was stimulated. Yang Xiuqing jumped out first.
In March, Yang Xiuqing's gods nagged, convulsed for a while, slowly stood up, posed a majestic appearance, and in a low voice, pretended to be a heavenly father, so that people could not question that God would be chaotic in people's hearts and settle down. Half a year later, Xiao Chaogui found that although Yang Xiuqing's set looked ridiculous and low-level, but it worked, he secretly beat his chest and feet, how did he not expect this good method to come, although it was a step late, Xiao Chaogui also made up his mind to engage in the set of false providence, and ranked among the highest decision-making circles of the God Society. The Heavenly Father already exists, it doesn't matter, just make a Heavenly Brother.
How to do it, Xiao Chaogui's acting skills are not under Yang Xiuqing, the gods are even more excessive, Yang Xiuqing convulses for a while, he convulses three times, Yang Xiuqing is majestic and inviolable, he is fierce and evil, his eyes are round. When Brother Tian's descent, for the first time, he criticized his adoptive brother Xiao Chaolong for talking nonsense, and when everyone looked at it, they didn't even talk about their own brotherly feelings, and Brother Tian's authority was established.
In October, Xiao Chaogui challenged Hong Xiuquan for the first time, and he grinned at Hong Xiuquan and said, "You little brother, do you recognize me?" Hong Xiuquan's face was blue for a while, and under Xiao Chaogui's stern gaze, Hong Xiuquan was instigated, and he could only honestly say that the younger brother recognized it. Even the head of the God Society, his heavenly brother's status is even more unquestionable.
Xiao Chaogui took advantage of the identity of the Heavenly Brother and quickly installed an important position for himself, Feng Yunshan, Yang Xiuqing and himself became military masters, and the prototype of the early three giants had been set.
Before the Jintian Uprising, Xiao Chaogui greedily absorbed all the nutrients of the power of the God Society, and frequently pretended to be a Heavenly Brother, and all the steps in his heart were completed instead of the illusory Heavenly Brother. First work with Heavenly Father Yang Xiuqing, God will not only cover the sky with their hands, but also bring the original shares to join the association. The Shigu Wang (Huang) family and the Da Chong Zeng family were both rich and powerful, and Xiao Chaogui had always been jealous of them, frantically cutting off their wings in the name of Brother Tian, and suppressing and dividing them. After Feng Yunshan was rescued, Xiao Chaogui immediately picked out his various faults, grabbed the black dots of his imprisonment and attacked continuously, Feng Yunshan could not resist his repeated attacks, only to say that he was not as talented as Xiao Chaogui, preferring to retreat behind, Xiao Chaogui swung and jumped to become the third person below Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing.
From August to September 1850, Yang Xiuqing's body fell off the chain at a critical moment, and he fell seriously ill, unable to move, and could only rest at home. As soon as Xiao Chaogui saw that the opportunity had come, he generously took the power that belonged to Yang Xiuqing and began xiao's rule over the gang. Wei Changhui got up in his hands, Wei Changhui was not a bitter peasant, but a local tycoon, Xiao Chaogui saw his strong strength and tried his best to win him over. For the sake of Wei Changhui, he also set the base camp in Wei Changhui's hometown of Jintian Village.
Usually, he also runs around in the mountain villages of Guiping, Guixian, Pingnan, and other places, pulling people everywhere to strengthen the power of the God Society, Xiao Chaogui does not know the big characters, but he has thoroughly eaten the truth that he has made the enemy less and made more friends, and many people only recognize General Xiao, do not recognize anything else, and the personnel power is given to him to control death. In addition to pulling people, he also taught the congregation to strictly implement the canons of the Society of God, and used his powerful prestige to resolve the contradictions between large and small in the meeting, and whoever was not convinced stood up and Played with Xiao Chaogui, and everyone let him have three points, and he would not continue to make trouble. According to the instructions of the government, the landlord Tuan lian often sent troops to harass them, but they were all beaten back by Xiao Chaogui. People have nothing to say about Xiao Chaogui's five-body throwing.
Xiao Chaogui saw that the power of the God Society had swelled to the point of alarming the Qing court, and if it was not reversed, it would be too late to wait for the Qing court to send troops to kill them, and Xiao Chaogui secretly sent a letter to members from all over the world to prepare for an uprising in Jintian Village on November 4. On the same day, Yang Xiuqing also recovered well, ran to Jintian Village and Xiao Chaogui, Wei Changhui, Shi Dakai and others to preside, Yang Xiuqing did not want to see Xiao Chaogui sitting on the big seat, preferring to endure the sick body to participate, he knew that once he was one step late, he would not be able to keep up with the next step.
In 1851, the Qing army realized that this god would really swell, and if it was not extinguished in time, it would be a big problem for the imperial court in the future, and xiao Chaogui formally came out of the highest decision-making circle, changed to a general, personally led the army to meet the enemy, not to mention that this person still had a certain military talent, and fought a victorious battle at the beginning of the fledgling, and personally cut off the head of the Qingjiang vice general Yiktanbu, to open the door, and at the same time let Xiao Chaogui gradually alienate the upper echelons, and was caught by Yang Xiuqing during this short window period. The influence of Xiao Chao's noble brother was downplayed.
Hong Xiuquan established the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and 2 days later, the Taiping Army entered the mouth of the Dahuang River, and Xiao Chaogui and the Guangxi Admiral Xiang Rong exchanged several rounds, winning more and losing less.
There were too many battles, almost a small battle a day, a big battle in three days, the Taiping Army was surrounded by the Qing army, the experience was not as rich as the Qing army, many people had not seen such a big momentum, they were pessimistic and afraid, running, rebellious rebellion, Xiao Chaogui had no choice, he could only regain his old clichés, in Wuxuan, Xiangzhou 15 times the heavenly brothers went down, facing the Taiping Army brothers, one scare two frightened three pacification, give carrots and sticks, and work hard to stabilize the hearts of the army.
In June, Xiao Chaogui led his army to fierce battles with the Qing army at Hammerhead Mountain and Fengmen Pass, and won many battles.
In August, Xiao Chaogui and Feng Yunshan personally led the elite, flexible guerrilla penetration, annihilated the Xiang Rong army, and then took Wei Chang Pyroxe to Cairo and others to march into Yong'an and take the first city since the Jintian Uprising.
In October, Xiao Chaogui fought fiercely with the Qing army, unfortunately seriously injured, on the 18th, 20th he endured the pain of illness, twice borrowed the Heavenly Brother Xia Fan to tell everyone that he was not bad in the body of King Kong, could not be killed, and then almost did not need the Heavenly Brother to go down to the mortal. He didn't expect the two performances in October to be his last curtain call. In the future, I will never have the opportunity to continue to play happily through the shell of Brother Tian.
Politically, it is gradually marginalized, but militarily, it has become a big man. Xiao Chaogui concentrated on military affairs and no longer thought about the east and the west.
After recuperating from his wounds for a few months, after the Taiping Army captured Chenzhou, Xiao Chaogui was basically cured, and he told Hong Xiuquan that he planned to sneak into Changsha with elite troops, and Hong Xiuquan wanted him to be as far away as possible, and immediately approved it.
In July 1852, Xiao Chaogui took Zeng Shuiyuan, Lin Fengxiang, Li Kaifang and 2,000 soldiers to attack Changsha. On the 9th, Yongxing was taken, On the 18th was Anren, on the 19th took Youxian, on the 20th took Chaling, on the 25th took Liling, on the 28th in the Battle of Shimapu, the Qing army was destroyed, and fucheng, the general of Xi'an Town, Yin Peili, the deputy general of the Tongguan Association, and the staff general of the Ningshan battalion, Sabao, attacked Jinpenling, the deputy general of the Qingyuan Prefecture Association, Zhu Han, escaped, and the Taiping Army received countless guns and artillery.
Xiao Chaogui broke all the way to the south of Changsha City, did not expect that Changsha was the place where he ended him, he commanded on the Miao Peak, because the dress was too eye-catching, but was blindly shot by the Qing army, Xiao Chaogui's breasts were hit, and he groaned until he died in August.