As far as I know, Shi Dakai came out at the age of 16, commanded a thousand troops at the age of 19, became king at the age of 20, and died at the age of 32.
He used the army to haunt him before his death, but he still made the enemy nervous after his death. Even after his death, people have been engaged in anti-Qing activities and revolutionary movements under his banner for decades.
When talking about the advantages and disadvantages of each king, Li Xiucheng was "absent-minded, only serving the stone king, and had a deep strategy". Chen Yucheng thought that the generals of Taiping Army were "not generals, only Feng Yunshan and Shi Dakai were poor". Zeng Guofan said in the Qing Dynasty that "the stone in the thief canal is the fiercest, stirring up people's voices and taking stone as the most arrogant". Zuo said that he was "treacherous and fierce, known as a thief's heart, and he was smarter than a thief." Judging from what he has done, he is eager to win people's hearts, thirsty for talents, and not very persistent in cult slang. Not only that, he also won the respect of many people who were hostile to him. For example, Zhou Xun, a landlord scholar, called him a "strange man" in "A Talk in Shu Hai", and Gong Sheng in the Qing Dynasty publicly said that he had "the dragon and phoenix are auspicious and the sun is shining high". Xu, an enemy on the Dadu River, admired his heroism and righteousness. Until nearly 40 years after his death, there was such a narrative in the book A Brief Introduction to the River Table written by the landlords and literati in the Qing Dynasty: "It is still said between Jianghuai that ... Shi Dakai's prestige is unattainable. "
The above paragraph is a quoted example, because it is useless for us to discuss it. As long as people and even opponents at that time had such a high opinion of him, you would know how powerful Shi Dakai was at that time.
And it is said that Shi Dakai was finally executed, but until his death, he was silent! ! !