In the last three years of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, there were the most kings, and there was no quality in this period. Even in Guangxi, as long as a fellow villager keeps a king, the name of the king is varied. According to Zhao Wang's confession (he was Huang's younger brother who arrested the young king after Tianjing was broken), at first the great man was crowned king, and then there was chaos. All the people who followed him from Guangdong were crowned kings, and so was his family.
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After jintian uprising, the Taiping Army captured Yong 'an in Guangxi in the autumn of 185 1, and began to enfeoffment the kings of Yong 'an in February of 65438, which was called "Yong 'an organizational system" in history. In addition to Hong Xiuquan claiming to be the King of Heaven, five others were named as Kings, namely Yang, Xiao Chaogui, Feng Yunshan, Wei Changhui and. 1852 In April and August, Feng Yunshan, king of the south, and Xiao Chaogui, king of the west, were killed one after another. In the early days of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, only four kings had real power.
1853, the Taiping Army captured Nanjing, an important town in southern Qing Dynasty, and changed Nanjing to Tianjing, which was designated as the capital of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Later, the Taiping Army successively explored the North and the West, and its strength and territory continued to expand, but the real crisis was gradually approaching. 1856, Taiping army broke through the Jiangnan camp of the Qing army. Seeing the good situation, East Wang Yang began to have other designs, pretending to be a heavenly father and challenging Hong Xiuquan frequently, and the infighting among the leading groups of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom became more and more out of control. In the end, Wang Yang of the East and Wei Changhui of the North were killed, but Shi Dakai, the king of the Wing, had no choice but to go with his troops and was killed by the Qing army in Dadu River. This is the Tianjin incident.
After the Tianjing Incident, Hong Xiuquan declared that he would never be crowned king, but he broke his word many times. His younger brother, Hong Ren, was made a dry queen, and a number of meritorious generals, such as Chen Yucheng and Li Xiucheng, were also made kings one by one. In order to balance the internal and external forces, Hong Xiuquan successively added a number of his own relatives as kings.
186 1 In the spring of last year, there were more than a dozen princesses in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and later more and more. Before the fall of Tianjing, the number of Wang Da in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom reached an astonishing 2,700. Too many knighthood in Taiping Heavenly Kingdom destroyed the principle of meritocracy, which eventually led to internal chaos in Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the decline of military combat effectiveness, thus accelerating the demise of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
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