Huang Chao and Li Zicheng, on the other hand, are basically bandit-style mobile operations. Without a consolidated base area, a benign political structure and a disciplined army, they are bound to fail.
However, Hong Xiuquan is more perfect than Huang Chao and Li Zicheng. He not only has a base area and occupies half of China, but also has a good political structure, guiding ideology and a well-organized and disciplined army. But why did it finally fail?
In fact, it can be seen from Hong Xiuquan's personal actions that he is doomed to failure. What about that move? It is greed and corruption to the East.
Hong Xiuquan was born in a farming and reading family. At the age of seven, I went to school in the village bookstore and was familiar with the four books and five classics. The elders in the village are optimistic that Hong Xiuquan can win fame and honor, and Hong Xiuquan himself wants to go this way.
In A.D. 1828, Hong Xiuquan went to Guangzhou to take the exam and failed for the first time.
In A.D. 1836, Hong Xiuquan failed the list for the second time. A windfall of this failure was that he got a pamphlet "Advice to the World" to promote Christianity.
In A.D. 1837, Hong Xiuquan failed the list for the third time. Hong Xiuquan, who failed three times in the Guangzhou Fu test, was angry. After this blow, she was seriously ill and was once in a coma. He is not satisfied with failing the exam. Six years later, in the spring of 1843, Hong Xiuquan took the entrance examination in Guangzhou again, but he still failed.
As a result, Hong Xiuquan, who failed the exam six times, said angrily. I'm not taking the exam! ? He wrote a poem: Long Qian's Cape may be amazing, let's take a break and jump deep. When the clouds gather, Liuhe will definitely be Kun. ?
So Hong Xiuquan, who failed in the imperial examination, joined a group of frustrated literati and started his own way.
185 1, 1, Hong Xiuquan starts? Jintian uprising? . 1March 853, the Taiping Army captured Nanjing and changed its name. Tianjing? Hong Xiuquan built his capital here. What is the name of this country? Taiping Heavenly Kingdom? , he claimed to be? King of heaven? . Oppose the Qing dynasty. Emperor Xianfeng resolutely suppressed it, but it was a pity that the Eight Banners green camp, a unit directly under the Qing Dynasty, was abolished.
However, from the day when the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom made Tianjing its capital, the leaders headed by the heavenly king Hong Xiuquan lost their initiative, began to covet enjoyment and finally failed.
It is said that Hong Xiuquan, who was full of ambition that day, entered Nanjing. Hong Xiuquan wore a dragon robe and sat in a big yellow sedan chair. Five cranes were hung on the top of the sedan chair, and sixteen people carried them. The bearers are all wearing yellow jackets and hats. There are hundreds of pairs of flag bearers, several pairs of gongs and drums players and eight trumpeters in front of the team, all wearing uniforms. After the palanquin of the King of Heaven, there were thirty-six women riding horses and holding umbrellas, and countless people finally supported the soldiers and guards. Gai urged the people, clamoring for dozens of miles, like a thousand riders.
Yang, the king of the East, led hundreds of officials to meet him on the dragon boat, with hundreds of thousands of troops, kneeling around and covering the sun with flags. All the officials rode horses and bravely led the army. Every king sits in a yellow sedan chair with a crane at the top, followed by dozens of people, including Wang Niang and Bigfoot.
It can be seen how extravagant it is.
Moreover, Hong Xiuquan entered Tianjing from March 1853 to June 1864 and committed suicide at the age of 52. During this 1 1 year, he never took a step to the gate of Tianjing. Only once did he leave the palace in a sedan chair with 64 people to visit the sick East Wang Yang. He spent the rest of his life sitting in the golden dragon hall of Sun City, enjoying the splendor and wealth, and his imperial life was very ostentatious.
In order to adapt to the extravagant wind, there are 1000 people in the palace, 100 people in the palace, and there are some heavenly palaces and some fun.
It is also said that there are queens, mother-in-law, young girls, beautiful girls, and concubines and young girls under the jurisdiction of the princess. Female teacher? , a total of more than 2300 people served. This shows the degree of corruption.
So judging from this move alone, it is doomed to fail.