In fact, compared with Hong Xiuquan, Ceng Yinglong is really dwarfed.
Hong Xiuquan was born in the 19th year of Jiaqing (A.D. 1 814 65438+10/). At that time, the Hong family had a certain amount of land and real estate, which was a petty bourgeoisie and the economic conditions were relatively loose. Therefore, Hong Xiuquan's father sent him to a local private school when he was seven years old.
It is worth noting that Hong Xiuquan is not an only child, and there are two older brothers above him, but these two older brothers have not embarked on the road of learning and becoming famous. Therefore, Hong Xiuquan became the only person in the family who studied for fame, and was loved by his family and detached.
Hong Xiuquan was admitted to Tong Sheng at the age of 14, but he was only lucky this time in the first half of his life. After 17, he didn't even get a scholar in four exams.
In fact, after failing in the third exam, Hong Xiuquan had mental problems and began to go crazy. At that time, Hong Xiuquan returned home and had a serious illness. When I wake up, I talk nonsense and say that I am an angel sent by God to exorcise evil spirits.
Fortunately, the family around Hong Xiuquan still had a trace of reason and hope, which persuaded Hong Xiuquan. But after failing in the fourth exam, he completely lost hope, and it was useless to persuade anyone.
1843, Hong Xiuquan founded the worship shrine and began to preach. At this time, Hong Xiuquan began to rebel.
Since he decided to rebel, he must have a certain theoretical basis. To this end, Hong Xiuquan went to a church in Guangzhou to study Christian teachings for several months. However, Hong Xiuquan found that there was nothing confusing and rebellious in Christian teachings, so he was not interested in learning.
A few months later, Hong Xiuquan, who thought he had learned the doctrine, asked the church priest for baptism. The priest knew that Hong Xiuquan knew nothing and refused.
Out of the church, the fun began.
185 1 At the beginning of the year, jintian uprising was successful, and more than ten thousand believers gathered to occupy a village. As the spiritual leader of a society that worships God, Hong Xiuquan often plays the role of heavenly father and heavenly brother with Yang and Xiao Chaogui to confuse people.
Of course, this kind of thing was not serious at first.
The most serious thing is that Hong Xiuquan began to choose concubines as soon as he laid down a village! This operation is exactly the same as that of Ceng Yinglong mentioned earlier. In Jintian village, Hong Xiuquan chose about 15 beautiful women to accompany him. I instantly felt whether Hong Xiuquan was hungry. Later, when Yong 'an was established, Hong Xiuquan's concubines quickly increased to 36.
It's very bad to have a concubine in the primary election of the uprising, but it's even worse with it.
Hong Xiuquan controlled the people who participated in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom from spirit to body. This way can be described as omni-directional, three-dimensional, multi-angle and no dead angle. Every participant suffers from it.
At the beginning of the army, Hong Xiuquan ordered all believers to sell their property as cash and then hand it over to the "holy treasury", and all the property that could not be sold was burned. In this way, as long as one person of the whole family enters the Taiping Army, the whole family and even the whole family will lose their property and become Hong Xiuquan's "burning down the bridge", and there is no way out. Not only that, every time Hong Xiuquan's Taiping Army conquered a place, it would forcibly incorporate (surround) the local people.
When the whole family, old and young, entered the Taiping Army, they actually held each other hostage, leaving everyone with no way out.
Having said that, I would also like to say that there is a male camp and a female camp system in the Taiping Army system, with all men and women divided. This system is good to a certain extent, which avoids the problem of promiscuity in military camps, but in fact, its greater role is to avoid the problem of family escape, because both men and women will have worries.
In addition, when dealing with the "demon people" in the Qing Dynasty, Hong Xiuquan was also crazy. He stipulated that all honest officials, Manchu people, Confucian scholars, monks and nuns, and even charlatans, barefoot doctors and entertainers were regarded as witches, and these people must be slaughtered.
In the early days of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, all the elders, including Hong Xiuquan, advocated egalitarianism and the idea of equality between men and women.
But after capturing Nanjing, Hong Xiuquan began to release all the unbearable humanity. In Nanjing, Hong Xiuquan soon had 88 concubines, and other governors began to use their power to build palaces and occupy women.
In Nan city, Hong Xiuquan established a strict hierarchy than that rulers of the Qing dynasty, and often tied sticks to these empress dowager and maids, asking them to kneel on the ground and wait for their anger to subside. What needs to be said is that there are no eunuchs in the Heavenly Palace of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but there are more than 2,300 maids who only serve Hong Xiuquan. Therefore, after Hong Xiuquan entered the Heavenly Palace, he never took a step in eleven years.
In Tianwangfu, in order to enjoy himself, Hong Xiuquan even ignored the lives of the people and the army. 1854, when the Northern Expedition of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was the most difficult, Hong Xiuquan was still squandering the savings of the people in Sanku and expanding the Tianwang Palace on a large scale.
When Tianwangfu was completed, Hong Xiuquan also wrote a poem. Pull the car across the street and look back if there is resistance. The parade in the garden was really fun, with birds playing and cars.
This kind of feeling, is it very like the patrol of the sheep car of Emperor Wu of Jin Dynasty? Hey, drive!
On the way to death, running all the way, therefore, no one can stop the collapse of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
1864, Zeng Guofan and Ceng Guoquan brothers had surrounded the city of Nanjing. Seeing that there was no food in the city, Hong Xiuquan began to play the trick of jumping out of god and let the soldiers and civilians under his rule eat "nectar". As for what manna is, some people say it's weeds, while others say it's weeds mixed with Guanyin soil. Whatever it is, these things must not be eaten.
Facts have also proved that after the madness, Hong Xiuquan was defeated by Zeng Guofan as he wished.
However, in the whole process, the most distressing thing is the bewitched person. They should have been role models who dared to resist the tyranny of the Qing Dynasty, but unfortunately they were trapped in cults by Hong Xiuquan and became victims. Moreover, after Nanjing was broken, it was brutally slaughtered by two brothers who shaved their heads!