<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="1" > is the most hasty temple day</h1>
In the eighth year of the Northern Song Dynasty (975 AD), the famous general Cao Bin led a large army of 100,000 troops on land and water to Jinling, the capital of the Southern Tang Dynasty.
In a low and gentle and mournful music, the hou lord Li Yu slowly walked out of his carved jade palace, and for the last time he stared at the once splendid rivers and mountains with tearful eyes, and murmured with great affection and deep pain: "The most is the day of the emperor's resignation temple, and the church still plays a parting song and weeps at the palace." ”
More than eight hundred years later, within the familiar Jinling Palace, when the country was destroyed and the family was destroyed, the tearful and speechless Lord Li Hou was undoubtedly much luckier than the ignorant Young Heavenly King.
There were no mournful songs like weeping in their ears, only the deafening cannon fire of the Xiang Army, and the monarchs of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom did not have the poetry and calmness of Li Yu, they could not write sad parting poems, let alone say goodbye to the capital of the country, and they did not even have time to look back at the city of Jinling when they fled for their lives.
On July 19, 1864, after a 27-month siege, the Xiang army of Zeng Guoquan finally captured tianjing, the capital of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the day after the city was destroyed, Li Xiucheng, the king of Zhong, took advantage of the chaos to escort the young king Hong Tianguifu, who had just ascended the throne for a month, out of the Taiping Gate and fled south in the direction of Xiaolingwei.
The mountains and rivers are still the same, but the country has been destroyed and the family has died, and in the dark night outside the Tianjing City, the 16-year-old heir of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has begun the truly "most hasty" years of escape...
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="10" > "Prince" was originally Tian Shelang</h1>
In November 1849, in the cold wind of early winter, an ordinary family surnamed Hong in Huaxian County, Guangdong Province, a baby boy fell to the ground, according to later records, when the son was born, "ten thousand birds came to the direction, and the flying song hovered for several days" or "the roof gathered red light, and the distant view seemed like a flame rising, and it did not go out for a long time".
All these auspicious signs show that the newborn is unspeakably precious, in fact, in the past dynasties, there are countless similar routines, but they use the vision of heaven and earth to put a footnote on the feudal emperor's divine right.
Later, in the official documents of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the events of the day were also conclusive, because this baby boy who had just come to the world was the founder of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement that later swept most of China- Hong Xiuquan.
However, in 1849, when the eldest son was born, Hong Xiuquan was running around for the great cause of "worshiping God", so the affairs of the family were only entrusted to the younger brother, the later Ganwang Hong Renjie.
Therefore, the heavy responsibility of naming the newborn naturally fell on the head of the King of Gan, and Hong Rengui prepared several pieces of paper with names written on them, placed them in a bamboo tube, and drew lots with fire tongs to get the word "Tiangui", so Hong Tiangui became the name of the baby boy.
Now it seems how fortunate and unfortunate this young child named Hong Tiangui, who was later given the name Hong Tianguifu, will soon become the king of heaven, his mother will be the lady of the palace, and as the eldest son, he will justifiably become the heir of the vast empire.
Unfortunately, he was originally Yamano Tada Shelang, who was supposed to marry and have children and spend an ordinary person's life in the field, precisely because he was the "prince" of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and was destined to be imprisoned and coerced by this religious regime for a short life.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="22" > the most honored "prisoner" in Tianjing</h1> City
According to the time calculation, when the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Jintian Regiment camped, Hong Tiangui was in his infancy, and when the Yong'an system was established, he was no more than a child who learned to speak.
Even in 1853, when the Taiping Army won the Jinling, Hong Tiangui was only a three- or four-year-old child, and his life and all his memories should have begun in this huge, prosperous, strict and indifferent capital.
Driven by a fanatical fascination with "worship of God", Hong Xiuquan's personality became paranoid and neurotic, and he began to formulate a series of bizarre and outrageous religious dogmas for his successor.
Hong Tiangui can't meet his mother, brothers, and sisters, and young children are the most difficult to leave their mothers, so they often cry all day long.
At the age of 6, Hong Tianguifu reached the age of learning, because Hong Xiuquan's harem did not allow men to appear, so his enlightenment teacher was not erudite Hongru, but his half-sister Hong Tianjiao, who was 10 years older than him.
And the content of what "Chu Jun" learned is not a subset of traditional scriptures and histories, but are all falsified three-character scriptures, thousand-character edicts, or the Ten Perfections of the Heavenly Dynasty with the characteristics of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Awakening Texts, and the Salvation Edicts.
Because of the religious exclusivity of the cult of God and his own painful experience of repeated trials and tribulations in his early years, Hong Xiuquan scorned the way of Confucius and Mencius, and especially hated traditional texts such as the Four Books and Five Classics. Therefore, he did not allow his son to touch and read these "demon books".
In addition, Hong Tiangui also had to fold to his father several times a day in the morning and evening to ask for peace.
It is really hard to imagine that in such a way of life that cuts off family affection, goes against the normal principles of heaven, and is rigid to the point of almost rigidity of the educational mechanism, such a childhood growth and external environment, even if the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is long, how can Hong Tiangui become a generation of kings with sound minds and normal personalities.
Tianjing City is Hong Xiuquan's little paradise on earth, and for Hong Tianguifu, the palace with carved beams and paintings is just a gorgeous and lifeless prison. And Hong Tianguifu is just a "prisoner" in this huge cage, whose status is incomparably noble but who has completely lost his freedom.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="35" > poorly born in the imperial family</h1>
In May 1862, the Xiang army Zeng Guoquan led 20,000 horses from the Jizi battalion into Yuhuatai, a suburb of Tianjing City, and thus began a two-year siege of the capital of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
On June 1, 1864, when Tianjing City saw that the situation was precarious, Hong Xiuquan, who was worried and sick, finally went to heaven to reunite with his heavenly father "Grandpa Huohua" with his infinite attachment to the empire.
It's just that this big mess must be cleaned up.
Five days later, the 16-year-old "crown prince" Hong Tianguifu ascended the throne with the support of his courtiers.
However, at this time, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was already at dusk, the building was about to fall, and a "new monarch" who had been isolated from the world for many years, had no military common sense and political experience, and did not even know what the Xiang Army was, how could he shoulder the heavy responsibility of the rise and fall of the empire.
What's more, in the Tianjing City at that time, there was a military command of Li Xiucheng, the loyal king, and the imperial court was controlled by two wang uncles, Hong Renfa the King of Xin and Hong Renda the Yong King, and the government decrees were all from the hands of Hong Rengui, the king of Gan, and the young king Hong Tianfugui was nothing, just a nominal monarch.
On July 19, the final moment finally came, the wall on the east side of the Taiping Gate was blown open by dozens of gaps, the Xiang army swarmed in, the tired and hungry Taiping Army generals were no longer able to stop the enemy's invasion, and for a while, the killing in Tianjing City was everywhere, and the sound of guns, guns and knives was endless.
Hong Tianfugui, the "Young Heavenly King" in the palace, witnessed the Xiang army entering the city on the palace platform, knowing that the general trend had gone, and the instinct to survive made him disregard the dissuasion of his concubines and leave the palace and go straight to the residence of Li Xiucheng, the king of Zhong.
However, the Xiang army besieged the city for a long time, and it was also rumored that the Tianjing City contained a huge wealth obtained by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom for more than ten years, and when the city was destroyed, the whole army was busy scavenging and plundering in the city, and relaxed the pursuit and suppression of the remaining Taiping Heavenly Kingdom personnel.
The greed of the Xiang army gave Hong Tianfugui and others one last chance, and in the early morning of the next day, Li Xiucheng, the king of Zhong, collected more than a thousand remnants and placed the young lord Hong Tianfugui in the shelter, and in the darkness of the night, disguised himself as the Xiang army and escaped from the Taiping Gate.
After leaving the city, Li Xiucheng handed over the warhorse to Hong Tianfugui to ride, and he led hundreds of soldiers to cover the young lord's breakthrough, and soon after, King Zhong was captured by the Xiang army.
And Hong Tianfugui, escorted by The Gan King Hong Rengui and others, continued to flee south. He intends to flee to Zhejiang to join the forces of Li Shixian, the Prince of Shihon.
It was only when Hong Tianfugui and his party came to Huzhou after exhausting hardships and hardships, Li Shixian had already gone south to Fujian -- the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had already existed in name only, and taking the young Heavenly King would only become the key target of encirclement and suppression of the Qing army, and the king of service to Hong Xiuquan, but without the loyalty of Li Xiucheng, the loyal king, there was no feeling for Hong Tianfugui, let alone a monarch.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="55" > under the nest, there are eggs</h1>
Panic is like a dog that has lost its family, anxious like a fish that has slipped through the net, and although the young heavenly king Hong Tianguifu still has hundreds of thousands of troops, under the siege and interception of the Qing army, the injuries along the way have been heavy, and the defections of army generals to the enemy have also occurred one after another.
On the night of October 9, the remnants of the Taiping Army, which had less than 10,000 people and were exhausted, marched to the territory of Shicheng, not wanting to encounter a surprise attack by the Qing army, and in a panic, Hong Tianguifu and Hong Renjie, the king of Gan, scattered, fell into a deep pit in panic, and temporarily escaped the disaster.
After escaping the Qing army's search, the terrified Hong Tianguifu wandered aimlessly in the wilderness, and it is said that there were white-clothed immortals who gave him cakes to fill his hunger, but I don't know if this "adventure" was an illusion caused by the double stimulation of fright and hunger.
Four days later, Hong Tianfugui came down the mountain to a family surnamed Tang to help workers cut grass in his home, but the young king was well-respected from an early age, where he was used to farming, and he was swept out of the house after a few days.
Hong Tianfugui, who was alone on the road again, had no one to rely on, did not know where to go, and did not have the minimum survival skills, so he wandered around like a headless fly, and finally, the good fortune of the young king was exhausted, and on October 25, he was captured by the Qing soldiers, and his identity was exposed, ending his nearly 100-day escape.
As the king of a country, the young heavenly king who was captured showed cowardice, ignorance and condescension that were extremely inconsistent with his identity, not only shirking the affairs of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom completely, but also singing praises to the Qing government with great flattery.
In fact, it is normal to think about it, a 16-year-old child who grew up in the deep palace and did not understand the world, neither understood the people's speculation nor lacked social experience, wagging his tail and begging for pity just to survive, but no one had taught him at all, and there was a reason for the end of the egg under the nest.
On November 18, 1864, the last heavenly king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Hong Tianfugui, who was still dreaming of returning to his hometown in Hunan to study and study Xiucai, was kidnapped to the city of Cao Cun and died.