At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the rulers were dazed, the officials were ignorant and corrupt, the imperialist powers exploited and squeezed, and the low-level laborers lived in the water. At that time, the people's demand was actually very low, and it was good to be able to eat enough and wear warm clothes, and it was not extravagant to seek great wealth and wealth, but such a simple issue of food and clothing could not be given by the Qing government. Thus, as soon as someone raised his arms and shouted the slogan of dividing the land and grain, the peasant revolt against oppression was born, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement was a typical representative of the rebel army.
Nanjing Heavenly King's Mansion
In fact, at that time, the peasant rebel army in the land of China was not only the Taiping Army, but also the More famous in the north, as well as several other scattered and less powerful rebel armies. But why has the Balance OfText Movement received so much attention in history? The main reason was that Hong Xiuquan, the leader of the Tianping Army, established a political power, which had a substantial impact on the rule of the Qing Dynasty, just like Li Zicheng, the leader of the peasant revolt in the late Ming Dynasty.
The establishment of the peasant uprising regime and the victory of military operations are inseparable; during the period when the Taiping Army fought in Jiangshan, the military was still relatively smooth, and everywhere it went, the officers and soldiers either did not resist much or they stubbornly nibbled down, and the people were also relatively supportive because of the slogans of the Taiping Army, so they successively went from Guangxi to Hubei to Zhejiang and Jiangsu, until after the capture of Nanjing, they established political power, changed the name of the country, and built the capital. Subsequently, Hong Xiuquan, the leader of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the various kings he had divided into, began the period of guarding the Jiangshan.
Statue of Hong Xiuquan
In fact, the military success was not due to how strong the combat effectiveness of the Taiping Army was: on the quality of individual soldiers, that is, the ordinary peasant class conducted a little military training; on weapons, it was not as good as the Eight Banners and green battalions at that time; on military leadership, I did not hear that there were outstanding marshals in the Taiping Army.
In the final analysis, it was still too watery for the officers and troops at that time, the Eight Banners Iron Riding Paper drunken gold for a hundred years had been lost for too long, and the wind of pleasure and extravagance prevailed, completely forgetting that it was not easy for the ancestors to suffer on horseback and freeze to lay down the country; the Green Camp itself was established as a military supplementary force, and was not valued by the rulers, especially at the end of the Qing Dynasty, ordinary soldiers were treated poorly, trained less, and their combat effectiveness naturally did not go anywhere.
The Taiping Army, on the other hand, dared to sacrifice, could fight hard, and had good treatment, moreover, it was a new force, and the fighting routine was not clearly figured out by others, and it was invincible militarily.
The Taiping Army defeated the Yankees
However, this momentum of the Taiping Army was curbed after the formation and growth of the local regimental training, the Xiang Army. At first, tuanjian was a kind of civilian military force produced by the local peasants who were engaged in a proper business, organized to resist the bandits of displaced people who did not do the right thing, who were brave and honest, and were closely related to their own interests, and this kind of power was available in all places, but Zeng Guofan only organized, regularized, and armyized them.
Statue of Zeng Guofan, leader of the Xiang Army
It can be seen from this that the Taiping Army was composed of a group of toiling masses who resisted exploitation, resisted oppression, and were eager to gain more benefits and live a better life; and the local regimental training represented by the Xiang Army to suppress the Taiping Army was reorganized from the civilian armed forces that protected their own interests. Both traced back to their roots, in fact, they were both peasants, so this movement was actually a struggle between peasants and peasants, and the final result of the movement was the victory of the officialized local regiment training.
It is conceivable that the toiling masses in modern society are the class that has sacrificed the most and suffered the most.
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