He married both the first and only female champion in Chinese history, and the daughter of Li Xiucheng, the loyal king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and was finally killed by rebels. What's going on?Who is he?
He is Tan Shaoguang, the king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
Tan Shaoguang is a native of Xiangzhou, Guangxi, after the Taiping Army Jintian Uprising, passing by their hometown, Tan Shaoguang went to defect, because he was still young at the time, and was incorporated into the Boy Scouts. The leader of the Boy Scouts was Chen Yucheng, the later king of England and who supported the situation in the late Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
The Tianjing Incident broke out, tens of thousands of people died in this internal fighting, and Shi Dakai also fled with more than 100,000 troops, and the vitality of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was greatly damaged, and the people's hearts were scattered. In order to save the situation, Hong Xiuquan appointed generals such as Chen Yucheng and Li Xiucheng to support the situation. At this time, Tan Shaoguang was subordinate to Li Xiucheng's department, and he had the opportunity to show meritorious service. He followed Li Xiucheng to destroy the Jiangnan camp of the Qing army, and when he fought in Jiangsu, Shanghai, Zhejiang and other places, he performed very well and was named King Mu.
Later, Hong Xiuquan formulated a battle plan of "attacking the south and advancing into the north" and asked Li Xiucheng to go to Tianjing to carry it out, but Li Xiucheng saw that this plan was very inappropriate and had no hope of victory, so he was very reluctant. But the king's order could not be violated, and he still went. Before leaving, he arranged for Tan Shaoguang to guard Suzhou. Suzhou is the most important food base of the Taiping Army, and it is also the base camp of Li Xiucheng, so there is no room for half a point.
Why don't you arrange someone else to guard such an important place, but arrange Tan Shaoguang to guard it?Because Tan Shaoguang has outstanding ability and is both wise and brave. This is one aspect. Another important aspect is that Tan Shaoguang is Li Xiucheng's son-in-law, and he needs to rest assured.
Previously, Tan Shaoguang also married Fu Shanxiang. Fu Shanxiang is the first and only female champion in Chinese history. After Yang Xiuqing was killed in the Tianjing Incident, Hong Xiuquan married Fu Shanxiang to Tan Shaoguang in order to win over the generals from Guangxi.
Tan Shaoguang married Fu Shanxiang, why did he marry Li Xiucheng's daughter?Isn't this polygamy?Yes, it is polygamy, there is a rule in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom that those who are crowned kings can "polygamy", Hong Xiuquan has 88 wives, and the other five kings are also quite few. So polygamy was a very normal phenomenon at the time.
At this time, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was already in crisis. Tianjing's side has been surrounded by the Hunan army, and it is difficult to protect itself, let alone send troops to support Suzhou. On the Suzhou side, Tan Shaoguang faced Li Hongzhang's Huai Army and the foreigner Gordon's foreign gun team, and the situation was quite grim.
What's even more dangerous is that there are traitors within the Taiping army in Suzhou, and Gao Yongkuan and other 8 generals secretly collude with Li Hongzhang and prepare to sacrifice Suzhou City to defect to the enemy. Li Xiucheng and Tan Shaoguang both knew about this situation. After Li Xiucheng returned to Suzhou from Tianjing, he analyzed the current situation for Tan Shaoguang, put forward the plan of "let the city not leave", and persuaded Tan Shaoguang to leave Suzhou as soon as possible. But Tan Shaoguang refused to leave Suzhou, he said that he must not give up Suzhou, and he wanted to live and die with it.
Li Xiucheng persuaded again, saying that Liantian Kyoto could give up, why couldn't Suzhou give up?After giving up, you can go to Guanzhong to develop again. But Tan Shaoguang's intention to defend the city has been decided, and he is determined to fight to the end with the Huai army and the foreign gun team.
In order to persuade the eight generals to change their minds, he specially held a banquet to entertain them in the mansion. At the banquet, he painstakingly persuaded them, and hoped that they would put the overall situation of the kingdom of heaven first, work together, overcome difficulties, and eliminate the demons and foreign devils. But the 8th general was already determined to rebel, so he didn't listen to him at all. One of the rebel generals, taking advantage of his inattention, pulled out a short knife and stabbed him in the neck, and then they rushed up, cut off Tan Shaoguang's head, gave it to the enemy, and opened the city gate to surrender to the enemy.
At that time, Tan Shaoguang was only 28 years old.