Hong Xiuquan and Feng Yunshan secretly returned to Guangdong. Although the limelight is not as tight as it was at the beginning, my hometown still can't stay. After some discussion, the two decided to go to Guangxi! In recent years, Guangxi has been plagued by disasters and famines, the people are not happy, and many people have revolted. Although such a place is dangerous, it is more conducive to the spread of god worship. So the two of them preached to Guiping, Guangxi. Guiping is a good place for Hong Xiuquan and Feng Yunshan. In Guiping, they not only achieved success in their missionary work, but also had many congregations, but more importantly, they also met many like-minded good friends.
Yang Xiuqing, Xiao Chaogui, and Wei Changhui in Guiping, as well as Shi Dakai in Guixian County, all of them were like-minded, cared for each other, and all of them had great ambitions, and they all became the backbone of the God Worship Society: Yang Xiuqing was quite prestigious in Guiping; Xiao Chaogui later became the husband of Hong Xiuquan's righteous sister and completely became a family; Feng Yunshan was resourceful; Wei Changhui was rich in family assets, took out his family property to join the association, and helped the God Society develop its organization; Hong Xiuquan, Yang Xiuqing, Xiao Chaogui, Feng Yunshan, Wei Changhui, and Shi Dakai. This is the founding six kings of the Later Taiping Heavenly Kingdom! As the Cult of God grew, Hong Xiuquan's personal prestige continued to rise.
Of course, he still used the old method of China's peasant uprisings: the fish belly hiding the veil, the bonfire fox singing technique. In the last year of the Qin Dynasty, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang planned an uprising in Daze Township, and in order to enable nine hundred pawns to work together, the two discussed a set of strategies: first stuffed a piece of cloth with written characters into the stomach of a fish, and then pretended not to know and took the fish to everyone to eat, and as a result, when the fish was opened, people found this piece of cloth, which was written with cinnabar in three big characters: "Chen Sheng Wang". That night, the adults camped in the wilderness bonfire, and when it was late at night, Wu Guang secretly left the camp, ran to the small forest next to him to learn the fox barking, shouted a few times, and then said in a pinched tone: "Great Chu Xing, King Chen Sheng!" The guards were stunned, and from then on they decided that Chen Sheng was the one who had returned to the Destiny.
Chen Sheng and Wu Guang did not expect that this trick they had come up with on the spur of the time to confuse people's minds had become a tradition of peasant revolts in China for thousands of years, and that hong Xiuquan still used this trick until Hong Xiuquan was here, but only took advantage of the new form of God's religion: Hong Xiuquan occasionally had a small misfortune, hid in the house for seven days without seeing anyone, and after seven days he saw the light of day, saying that during this time he had come back from the dead, accepted God's teachings, and could predict the future; later, he closed the door every once in a while, and when he came out, he said that he would communicate with God. He accepted his will; later he simply claimed to be the second son of God Jehovah and Jesus as his eldest brother.
Subsequently, he continued to preach the theory of the destruction of the world that the world was about to suffer a catastrophe, saying that only by believing in god worship could it be saved, and his brothers also contributed to the situation, so that god worship sect was carried forward in Guangxi and became a powerful force with spiritual control over the congregation. The development and growth of the cult of God naturally caused great concern to the local government. Therefore, just when Hong Xiuquan and others were planning an uprising, GuipingZhi County took the lead in attacking and designed to trap Hong Xiuquan and arrest him in prison! In addition, seventeen copies of the roster of cultists who worship God were also found and sent to Zheng Zuchen, the inspector of Guangxi, together with Hong Xiuquan himself. This group of dragons is leaderless, and the cult of God is in crisis! At a critical juncture, someone needs to come out and take charge of the overall situation.
At that time, Feng Yunshan, who had been following Hong Xiuquan around to preach, was second only to Hong Xiuquan in prestige in the religion, but Feng Yunshan was preaching in other places at this time, and he did not know about this matter. At the critical moment, Yang Xiuqing was anxious and wise, imitating Hong Xiuquan's example, hiding in the house to pretend to be a ghost, tossing and turning for half a day, and then claiming that the Heavenly Father borrowed Yang Xiuqing's body to save the disaster of Hong Xiuquan, the second son of Heaven. Xiao Chaogui also imitated Yang Xiuqing, claiming to be the heavenly brother Jesus, so under the leadership of the two, the worshippers gathered together and prepared to go to rescue Hong Xiuquan. Hong Xiuquan had already been released by Zheng Zuchen. As a result, the congregations were amazed by Hong Xiuquan's fierceness, and their admiration for Hong Xiuquan was deepened.
However, although this incident was not dangerous, it buried a hidden danger for the future rebel army, that is, Yang Xiuqing and Xiao Chaogui obtained the right to speak on behalf of The Heavenly Father and the right to speak on behalf of the Heavenly Brother. That is to say, these two people gained a higher status than Hong Xiuquan in the spiritual realm. Xiao Chaogui was killed early in the subsequent uprising battles, and Yang Xiuqing was the main army division of the Heavenly Kingdom all the way to Nanjing, in charge of the imperial government. This chaotic reversal of the personal authority of Hong Yang and Yang laid the groundwork for the two to turn against each other in the future and cause the Tianjing Rebellion. After this storm, Hong Xiuquan, Yang Xiuqing and others greatly increased their sense of crisis, so they decided to revolt as soon as possible. On February 21 of the following year, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was established. The Taiping Army cheered and embraced their true son of heaven and savior, Hong Xiuquan, to ascend to the throne of heaven. Thus broke out the last large-scale peasant uprising in the history of China's feudal society.