The author of "I laughed at the sky from the horizontal sword" is Miao Peilin. Speaking of Miao Peilin, many people may not know it, but another person related to him is a household name, that is, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom King Chen Yucheng. Chen Yucheng was betrayed by Miao Peilin to the Qing army, and was later executed by the Qing court. Miao Peilin's life was a life of speculation and rebellion. He was devoted to rebellion for decades, even more so than Lu Fengxian.
Miao Peilin (Miao Yusan) was a member of the Miao family in Fengtai. He was born in poverty and worked as a private school teacher. The Qing Dynasty said that he was a "Fengtai student", but there were also It is said that this title of scholar was donated later. In the sixth year of Xianfeng (1856), he started a local regiment with the call of "protecting the environment and the people" because he was more educated than the local tyrants around him and more courageous than the scholars. , and won many battles with the Nian Party. Within a year, "there were dozens of people in the village, thousands of supporters, and Peilin's reputation spread throughout the Huaihe River"
Miao Peilin, courtesy name Yusan, Fenghui, Anhui. Born in the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, Miao Peilin was born in a poor family and had been working as a farmer for generations. In order to change his destiny, he had been studying hard, studying hard and making progress every day. Finally, at the age of thirty, Miao Peilin passed the scholar examination. He became a student. But Tang Xianzu once said: The world's scholars are poor to the end, so Miao Peilin is still very poor, and his poverty makes him desperate.
Miao Peilin developed into a stronghold within three or four years. He was a local force with thousands of strongholds and hundreds of thousands of people. He also got acquainted with Shengbao, the powerful official who was in charge of the governorship in Anhui and the imperial envoy. With the recommendation of Shengbao, his official career went smoothly until he became a second-rank official. This also shows that this person is a capable and talented person. Even his contemporary Zeng Guofan is inferior to him.
Miao became more and more aggressive when he got his ambition, and wanted to take advantage of the chaos. Miao Peilin, a traitor to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, ensnared the British king Chen Yucheng. It is not surprising that Huang Chao failed to write a few earth-shattering poems: When autumn comes, on the eighth day of the ninth lunar month, hundreds of flowers will bloom, and the fragrance will spread to Chang'an, and the city will be filled with golden armor. This is a laborious poem written by Huang Chao when he came to Beijing and failed the exam. It is very heroic. In the city, he calmly served as a prisoner of Chu, used the sword to achieve success, and lived up to his youth. This is Wang Jingwei's last poem after he was arrested for assassinating the regent Zaifeng when he was young.