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The vigorous Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement lasted for fourteen years. As the leader of the largest peasant uprising in Chinese history, Hong Xiuquan was given more than 2,700 princes, ten of whom were at the heart of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom regime, witnessing the ups and downs of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement. Today, Xiaobian will talk to you about the final outcome of the core ten kings of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
1. Yang Xiuqing, the Eastern King
Yang Xiuqing was the second in command of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom regime, one of the Eight Masters of the First Righteousness (the Eight Masters of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were Hong Xiuquan, Yang Xiuqing, Xiao Chaogui, Feng Yunshan, Wei Changhui, Shi Dakai, Qin Rigang, and Hu Yixuan), and was knighted as the Eastern King, known as the Nine Thousand Years Old. When Hong Xiuquan first became king, he clearly announced that all the kings were under the control of the Eastern King, laying the position of Yang Xiuqing's second in command. Who knew that it was this arrangement that led to the taiping civil strife. In 1856, Yang Xiuqing used the power in his hands to elevate Hong Xiuquan in an attempt to seize the throne of the Heavenly King, Hong Xiuquan took the lead as a strong man, secretly ordered the Northern King Wei Changhui and the Yan King Qin Rigang to eliminate the adultery, and the Tianjing Incident broke out. As a result, Yang Xiuqing, the Eastern King, together with more than 20,000 subordinates, all became the ghosts under the sword of their own people, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom turned from prosperity to decline!
2. Xiao Chaogui, The King of the West
Xiao Chaogui was one of the Eight Masters of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and was given the title of King of the West, known as The Eight Thousand Years Old, and was the third most important person in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom regime after Hong Xiuquan, the Heavenly King, and Yang Xiuqing, the Eastern King. Unfortunately, Xiao Chaogui, who was open-minded and not good at playing with power, attacked Changsha, the capital of Hunan, in 1852, he personally went to the front line to direct the battle, unfortunately he was hit by Qing artillery and seriously injured and killed, only 32 years old. The two young sons were left behind, who were deeply trusted by Hong Xiuquan and were killed by the Qing army after the fall of Tianjing in 1864.
3. Southern King Feng Yunshan
Feng Yunshan, one of the founders of the Cult of Worship, the fourth figure of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, was knighted as the King of nan, and was called 7,000 years old. Feng Yunshan was one of the most knowledgeable leaders in the early days of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom regime, and after the establishment of the peasant uprising regime, the official system and ceremonial system were all handled by him, and he was a rare all-rounder. Unfortunately, in 1852, when he led his troops through Quanzhou, Guangxi, he was killed by a stray bullet from the Xiang Army's general Jiang Zhongyuan, at the age of 37.
4. Northern King Wei Changhui
Wei Changhui ranked fifth in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's Shouyi Eight Jie, and was knighted as the Northern King, called 5,000 years old, also known as the fifth son of the Heavenly Father. Wei Changhui was the fifth figure in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and his actual power and status were higher than that of The Wing King Shi Dakai. During the Tianjing Incident in 1856, Wei Changhui and Qin Rigang, who were wrapped in personal hatred and old hatred, killed more than 20,000 subordinates of Yang Xiuqing of the Eastern King and the family members of The Wing King Shi Dakai, resulting in an increase in infighting. After Shi Dakai escaped from Tianjing City, he gathered his army to prepare to attack Wei and Qin, and Hong Xiuquan abandoned che to protect the marshal and hunted down Wei Changhui to appease the public.
Fifth, the wing king Shi Dakai
As the best military commander of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Shi Dakai was also one of the Eight Masters of shouyi, knighted as the Wing King, and ranked sixth in power, that is, below the Heavenly King and the five kings of the East, West, South and North. During the Tianjing Incident, Shi Dakai blamed Wei Changhui for killing innocents indiscriminately, his family was killed, and he escaped from Tianjing City by climbing over the city wall alone. After a conflict with Hong Xiuquan, he left the team and went it alone. In 1863, he surrendered in an army in Anshun, Guizhou, and was executed by Ling Chi.
6. Qin Rigang, King of Yan
As the famous poor egg of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's first righteous Eight Jieli, Qin Rigang did not initially have the title of king, but was given the title of "Top Heavenly Yan", and the official of the Heavenly Official was zheng xiang, below the five kings and above the hundred officials. Later, after winning the battle with Zeng Guofan, he was knighted as the King of Yan.
In 1856, when Yang Xiuqing, the Eastern King, rebelled, Qin Rigang, who was already in a vendetta against Yang Xiuqing, together with the Northern King Wei Changhui, went on a killing spree, slaughtering more than 20,000 people in the Eastern Palace. This was not enough, when the wing king Shi Dakai accused the two of killing innocents indiscriminately, Qin Rigang killed Shi Dakai's family members and led his troops to hunt down and kill Shi Dakai, who escaped over the wall. Later, Shi Dakai gathered an army to counterattack Wei and Qin, and Hong Xiuquan, fearing implicated, arrested and executed Qin Rigang and deprived him of the title of King of Yan.
7. King Hong Rengui
As a cousin of The Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan, Hong Renjie was knighted as the King of Gan, and once led the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Unlike Hong Xiuquan's other brothers, Hong Renjie was a political man with real talents who almost single-handedly reversed the fate of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but unfortunately still lost to Hong Xiuquan's suspicions.
After the fall of Tianjing in 1864, the young king Hong Tianfu went through many difficulties and finally found his uncle Hong Renjie, who had retreated to Guangde, Anhui. In September of the same year, Hong Renjie was defeated and captured in Shicheng, Jiangxi, and made a confession to defend himself and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, and asked for a quick death. In November 1864, he was executed by Ling Chi in Nanchang, Jiangxi.
VIII. Li Xiucheng, King of Loyalty
As the first general of the Middle and Late Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Li Xiucheng, the King of Zhong, was once pinned high hopes on Hong Xiuquan. However, the heroic and warlike Li Xiucheng's jerky political skills restricted the development direction of him and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Even if they wanted to occupy the rich land in the southeast and did not dare to disobey Hong Xiuquan's order to return to Tianjing, the result of the two ends of the first rat was that there was no mature strategic policy, which wiped out the 200,000 troops at the bottom of the pressure box, and also ruined the last hope of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
When Tianjing fell in 1864, Li Xiucheng was captured by Zeng Guoquan because he gave up a good horse to the young king Hong Tianfu, and the horse could not be carried. The naïve Li Xiucheng thought that he could persuade the Zeng Guofan brothers to rebel in order to touch the fish in muddy waters, but he was killed halfway and died an unknown death.
IX. King Chen Yucheng
Chen Yucheng was an excellent military general who was promoted from an ordinary soldier to a senior military commander through military merit, and was only 23 years old when he was knighted king in 1859. Don't look at Chen Yucheng's youth, among the military generals of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom at that time, second only to Li Xiucheng, the King of Zhong, he was Hong Xiuquan's right and left arm. After Shi Dakai left in 1856, it was precisely because of excellent military generals such as Li Xiucheng and Chen Yucheng that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was able to compete with the Manchu Qing court without falling behind.
In 1861, at the Battle of Jixianguan, Chen Yucheng was defeated by the Xiang Army, lost Anqing, and was dismissed from his post. Chen Yucheng, who was anxious to make meritorious deeds, fell into the treacherous scheme of the shameless villain Miao Fulin and threw himself into the net. After Chen Yucheng was arrested, Yang Tian sighed, I die, the kingdom of heaven is dead! On June 4, 1862, Chen Yucheng was killed by the Qing general Shengbao at the age of 26.
10. Li Shixian, the Attendant King
Li Shixian was a cousin of Li Xiucheng, the King of Zhong, and was only a hairy boy when he participated in the Jintian Uprising. After the Tianjing Incident in 1856, Yang Xiuqing, Wei Changhui, and Qin Rigang were killed, Shi Da drove away, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had no one to use. So Hong Xiuquan became a live horse doctor, and the line of fire promoted a number of young military generals, and it was under such circumstances that Li Shixian gradually stepped onto the position of military commander.
In 1858, Li Shixian cooperated with Li Xiucheng to break through the Jiangnan camp that the Qing army had painstakingly managed for many years, which caused the Manchu Qing court to defeat the strategic plan of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. For his merits, he was awarded the title of "King of the Nine Gates of the Heavenly Dynasty".
After the fall of Tianjing in 1864, the leadership of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was almost completely destroyed, and Li Shixian, the attendant king, became the last banner of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and moved to Zhejiang, Fujian, and Jiangxi, dealing a heavy blow to the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
In August 1865, Li Shixian's forces mutinied Wang Haiyang, killing the commander Li Shixian and annexing his army. The following year, Wang Haiyang was killed in battle in Meizhou, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement was completely destroyed.