A * * * more than twenty thousand people were implicated by Hong Xiuquan, killed by Hong Xiuquan, and began to slash.
After this incident, the Taiping Army was greatly weakened and turned from prosperity to decline. Why did Hong Xiuquan kill his right-hand general when the world was still not peaceful, causing civil strife?
Why is he in such a hurry to get rid of Yang?
Many people think that the "Tianjing incident" is a power struggle between high-level officials, which is of course only a superficial phenomenon. This feud has to start with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. ......
Hong Xiuquan was originally from Hua County, Guangdong Province, and his family was well-off. He took part in the imperial examinations many times, but his ambition could not be displayed. /kloc-in 0/840, He, his cousin Feng Yunshan and his younger brother Hong Shizhen got inspiration from the Christian book "Persuade the World" and founded "Worship God".
In the same year, Hong Xiuquan and Feng Yunshan went to Guixian to preach. After several years, the number of believers has greatly increased.
/kloc-at the beginning of 0/848, Feng Yunshan was arrested by local officials and gentry on the charge of "gathering people to revolt". Hong Xiuquan immediately left Guangxi and returned to Guangzhou on the grounds of looking for the "Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi". In fact, he is afraid of being arrested by others. Children of rich families are always not as strong as those of poor families when they encounter setbacks, because they have a way out.
Just when the "worship of God" was leaderless, Christians Yang and Xiao Chaogui stood up and shouldered the banner of "worship of God" and continued to attract the development of various ministries.
Yang and others bribed local officials and gentry to rescue Feng Yunshan from prison. Even local strongmen Wei Changhui, Shi Dakai and others led their men and their belongings to mutiny, and the "worship of God" forces became more powerful.
In AD 1850, Hong Xiuquan came to Guangxi for the second time after two years' absence. Seeing that the time was ripe, he launched an uprising. 1 85 1 year, Hong Xiuquan became king in Wuxuan, Guangxi.
After the foundation of Yong 'an City, Yong 'an (now mengshan county, Guangxi) was taken as the temporary capital, and its five heavenly kings were officially enfeoffed: East King Yang, West King Xiao Chaogui, South King Feng Yunshan, North King Wei Changhui and Wing King Shi Dakai.
All heavenly kings are long-lived people, sharing the same life with heaven. Under the Heavenly King, a young Heavenly King was born. For example, Yang Tianyou, a young king in the East, is called "nine thousand years old" and Xiao Youhe, a young king in the West, is called "eight thousand years old". Fu You Jr., the young king of the South, is known as "7,000 years old".
The seal of East King is so cool: "Tell Father, Lord, Emperor, God, True God, True Purpose, Holy Spirit, Wind and Thunder of God, Comfort Teacher, Saint, Zuo Fuzheng, Strategist, Helping Yang, Chaogang East King". The seals of others are the same, and they are all headlines.
At this time, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, before its success, had deviated from the track and used the banner of peasant uprising army, but at this time, they had no backbone of peasant uprising army.
During their stay in Yong 'an City, the Taiping Army has begun to establish a county government to handle local daily affairs. By issuing imperial edicts and enfeoffling officials, a small court has taken shape.
With more and more believers worshiping God, the army is getting bigger and bigger. After the capture of Nanjing, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom changed Nanjing to Tianjin as its capital. After several years' efforts, the southern part of China was almost under the control of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but the internal contradictions of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom began to emerge slowly.
Fu Shanxiang is the only female champion in the history of China. She is beautiful and is the right-hand man around East Wang Yang.
Hong Xiuquan liked it after seeing it, and often borrowed Fu Shanxiang to help him do something.
After Yang saw it, he and Fu Shanxiang had a normal superior-subordinate relationship. Because of Hong Xiuquan, he took Fu Shanxiang as his own and settled in East Wang Fu. That's what men do. They don't care that there are too many wives wandering around every day because of Yang Dong, but when others want to take it away, they are reluctant to let go.
Assistant and wife are two different things. Fu Shanxiang, who marries Dong, will be whipped by Yang if he is not careful.
There are more than 2,000 people in Hong Xiuquan's harem at this time. They are all miserable. Hong Xiuquan is a little unhappy. Maybe someone in the harem will be executed.
In order to compete for women, Hong Xiuquan and Yang alienated.
Once a country is established, it must be governed.
We often say that it is easier to fight the mountains than to defend them.
Starting from a brand image created by "worshiping God", the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom carried out the marketing of religious brainwashing mode, relying on an illusory theoretical support for a long time, but it is obviously not feasible to use this method as national management.
1853, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom put forward the "celestial system", proposing that all fields in the world should be cultivated by the whole people, which was called * * * capitalism of that era.
The ideal is full and the reality is skinny. In that wartime, this theory was simply impossible to implement. No matter what system or reason you are, you must make way for the war unconditionally.
In addition, the exclusiveness of religion also became an obstacle to governing the country during this period. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom demanded that people should not believe in Buddhism, Taoism and other religions, even Confucius, thus forming a huge gap between the believers of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the intellectuals at that time.
Yang, who is in charge of military and political affairs, knows the necessity of local Confucian scholars to govern local government affairs. In order to win the hearts of local scholars, he personally put on the clothes of Confucian scholars and worshipped Confucius as a teacher. Although this is just a show, it also leads to the drifting away between the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's concept of handling local government affairs and the concept of "worshipping God".
After the capital Tianjing was established, Hong Xiuquan demanded that all Confucian classics be revised and destroyed on the spot in order to consolidate the influence of "worshipping God". This move was resolutely opposed by Yang.
Yang is an out-and-out poor peasant, while Hong Xiuquan goes to school at the age of seven and is familiar with the four books and five classics. He is an intellectual.
However, when dealing with state affairs, how do I feel that Yang is like a scholar, while Hong Xiuquan is like a farmer?
After these things, Hong Xiuquan realized that if the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom develops further, it will be transformed into a completely secular regime by administrators like Yang who handle specific administrative affairs. They gradually turn "worship of God" and "lofty ideals" into secular laws, and finally even give up religious ideals.
As the supreme leader, what should Hong Xiuquan do at this time?
There are only two ways in front of him:
First: sit back and wait, watch your influence decline bit by bit, and finally become a nominal leader with no real power like the Japanese emperor.
Second, use your religious authority to kill Yang and seize power while you still have leadership.
As a result, Hong Xiuquan chose the latter. Everyone is selfish. At this critical moment, Hong Xiuquan stepped on the brakes. His foot not only killed Yang, but also killed the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
After Yang's death, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom still followed the management rules formulated by him, which Hong Xiuquan could not tolerate. He changed people in charge of military and political affairs over and over again, from Shi Dakai to Hong Rengan, Li Xiucheng, Chen Yucheng and others, all according to the rules set by Yang. Hong Xiuquan himself can't think of a better solution.
Because of Yang's murder, managers and the public gradually alienated Germany, and many people no longer believe in "worshipping God". As a result, the fighting capacity of "worshipping God" has dropped sharply.
A few years later, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which could not be distributed by itself in contradictions, was completely defeated by the Xiang army led by Zeng Guofan, ending the history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and Zeng Guofan also gave the weak Qing court a breathing space.
In fact, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom failed because they did not make changes according to the changes in the situation. It is obviously impossible to rule the world with the idea of teaching. At the beginning, you used the brainwashing marketing of ideals and feelings to make people follow, but one day, people will eventually cross the gap between ideals and reality, and all ideals and feelings will eventually return to reality.
You laid out a vast landscape and wanted to draw cakes for your men. Even your loyal followers will resent it for a long time.
Ideals and feelings can help us expand the pattern and attract the attention of the outside world, but to a certain extent, we must distinguish the difference between ideals and reality. If we don't lay a solid foundation, how can we turn the ideal of empiricism into reality?
If Zeng Guofan had not led the Xiang army to repel the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom would have failed. what do you think?
References:
History of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Records of Zhou Xun Prefecture and the Ritual System of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
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