Ten days later, Zeng Guofan arrived at Tianjing from the Anqing base camp on a small steamer. He walked into the bedroom of Hong Xiuquan in the Tianwang Mansion and saw a carved bed, inlaid with gold and jade, extremely luxurious, about eight feet long and wide, which could accommodate more than a dozen people at the same time. Zeng Guofan pointed to the bed and said, "How can you not die if you are so lascivious?"”
In fact, Hong Xiuquan still had great ideals and ambitions in the early stage, otherwise he would not be able to gather so many people to fight the world with him. But after the Jintian Uprising and the establishment of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, especially the Dingdu Tianjing, he made a 180-degree turn, forgot his original intention, and began to live a luxurious and corrupt life. Although Hong Xiuquan founded the God Worship Religion, believed in God, and claimed to be the son of the Heavenly Father, he was full of feudal hedonism in his bones. He was a polygamous man who had a lot of privileges in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and he had an unwritten rule that the king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and other high-ranking ** could have multiple wives, while ordinary members could only be monogamous. It was also stipulated that he and other kings could live with their wives and concubines, while ordinary people were to live separately from their wives. Hong Xiuquan's extravagance and corruption began as early as the Jintian Uprising, when he chose 15 beauties as his concubines. When Yong'an City in Guangxi was besieged and the situation was very critical, he did not delay his addiction to women, and he had a total of 36 women. After the defeat of Lingyidu, Hunan Daozhou recruited 4 more beauties. After occupying Wuchang, Hubei, 60 young women with outstanding looks were selected. After arriving in Tianjing, the selection of beauties is innumerable. After settling in the Tianwang Mansion, in addition to the original ones, he selected some beautiful ones among the female soldiers, and the kings also offered him tributes, such as Li Xiucheng selected 180 beauties from Suzhou to send him to the Tianwang Mansion. At its peak, the number of women in the Heavenly King's Mansion reached 2,300. In the entire palace, except for Hong Xiu's masters, they are all women. 
How can such a large team of women be managed?It is vertically managed in series. The queen Niangniang series has 16 titles and 208 people, including love mother, hip girl, wonderful girl, and beautiful girl;The princess series has a total of 960 people in 7 titles, including maidens and yuannu;The female officer series serving is 60 people in the second rank, and 20 women are under the jurisdiction of each department, for a total of 1,200 people. Combined, there are more than 2,300 women serving Hong Xiuquan alone. said that the emperor had seventy-two concubines in three palaces, six courtyards, and he was even better. There are so many women, Hong Xiuquan can't recognize them, what if you want to pamper anyone?Number, today 1st, tomorrow 2nd, the day after tomorrow 3rd, and so on. Hong Xiuquan entered Tianjing at the age of 41 and died at the age of 52, for a full 11 years, only once was he sat in a sedan chair carried by 64 people to the Dongwang Mansion once, and the rest of the time was all in the mansion. Killing enemies, managing political affairs, and so on are all other people's business, and he almost doesn't ask about them. In the past 11 years, he has issued a total of 25 edicts, of which 5 have not been issued for 5 years. Later, he didn't even issue this pitiful edict, but pushed it to his son, who was only a teenager, the young lord Hong Tianfugui. But in the past 11 years, he has written more than 500 poems, of course, these poems are not to express pride and ambition, to describe the grand blueprint, but to women or how to discipline women. For example, "ten should be beaten": the service is not pious, one should be beaten. The hard neck does not listen to the teaching, and the second should be beaten. Looking at the husband, he should be beaten. Ask the king if he is not pious and should be beaten. The irritability is not pure, and the five should be beaten. Speak loudly and loudly. There is a call to not be able to call seven. The face does not like to play. The eyes are left and right, and the nine should be hit. Speech is not leisurely, ten should be played. He asked the women of the house to recite these poems, and if they could not recite them, or if they violated the rules of the poems, they would be severely punished, and even put to death. 
After being captured, Hong Tianguifu said: "I am 16 years old, and the king of heaven is my father. I had 88 queens, and I was born to the second Lai, who gave me four wives when I was nine years old. Hong Xiuquan's absurd life of "loving beauty but not loving the country" has also infected other kings and ** at all levels. They're also doing things that work up and down. Just imagine, Hong Xiuquan and these people spend almost all their time and energy in the women's nest, dreaming of a gentle hometown all day long, which will inevitably lead to the ruins of national affairs, the disintegration of people's hearts, and the final extinction is inevitable and irreversible. This is one of the most important reasons why the seemingly mighty Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement fell apart and died down in just a dozen years.