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In the early morning of June 16 in the third year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1864), Tianjing Tianwangfu.
The fifteen-year-old young king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Hong Tianguifu, woke up from a nightmare.
He dreamed that the Qing army had blown down the walls of Tianjing City, and then swarmed in, and he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.
It's hard to say whether the young king has the ability to "sense heaven and man" like his father, but this dream is very effective.
In the afternoon of the same day, the Qing army really blew up the Taipingmen city wall, and then started a bloody white-knuckle battle with the Taiping army.
All this, Hong Tianguifu, who was on the top of the high-rise building of the Heavenly King's Mansion, could see it clearly, he could still sit still, and he was about to run downstairs. Seeing that Hong Tianguifu was going to run, his four young ladies would not do it, what should we do if you ran away, so he grabbed Hong Tianguifu and refused to let go.
Hong Tianguifu was dragged by these four women, and he couldn't run away for a while, so he could only persuade him with good words: "I'll go down and take a look and come back." Then he took advantage of everyone's hesitation and ran away. The young king wanted to leave the palace, but at this time, the city was in chaos, and the female officials in the palace blocked the way of the young king, saying that they would not let the young king get into danger.
It wasn't until Li Xiucheng, the king of loyalty, Liu Qinghan, and others came to escort him, that Hong Tianguifu could be regarded as grasping the life-saving straw. He didn't know how to ride a horse, so he followed Li Xiucheng to the east and west, but the Qing army was like a tide at the city gates, and it was difficult to find a way out for a while.
In the evening, Li Xiucheng was in a hurry, ordered thousands of his men to change into Qing army clothes, and took advantage of the night to escort Hong Tianguifu out of the city through the gap in Taipingmen.
The Qing army is not a fool, how can such a large group of people flee without being discovered, and quickly send a large army to intercept it. Seeing this, Li Xiucheng entrusted Hong Tianguifu to Liu Qinghan, and led his troops to turn around and drag the pursuing soldiers, and finally the army was defeated and captured.
And the venerable king Liu Qinghan tied a white ribbon on his spear, which was used as a mark, and led Hong Tianguifu all the way to escape from Tianjing City.
Portrait of the young king Hong Tianguifu.
In October of the twenty-ninth year of Daoguang of the Qing Dynasty (1849), it was still an old drama since ancient times: a flock of birds flew on the roof of Lao Hong's house in Huaxian County, Guangdong Province for several days, and on the ninth day of the new year, a baby boy fell to the ground.
At this time, his father Hong Xiuquan was serving as a sect leader in the mountains of Guangxi, and he was planning to rebel against the Qing court. So, the clan uncle Hong Renji called the shots and named him "Hong Tiangui".
Ganwang Hong Renji.
When he knew that he liked to be a revolutionary ** person, Hong Xiuquan was overjoyed, but he only felt that the level of his clan brother was really not good, how could a three-word mortal name be worthy of the precious son of the gods, so he added the word "Fu" and officially named it "Hong Tianguifu".
The four-character younger brother is lucky, he was canonized as the young master by his father before he was one year old, and then swept half of China with his father in infancy, becoming the only ** person in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
And he was unlucky.
Since entering the Tianjing Tianwang Mansion at the age of five, Hong Tianguifu has lived in the deep palace, growing up in the hands of women, and has never stepped out of the palace gate for half a step.
On weekdays, Hong Xiuquan, a landed talent, strictly forbade his son to study Confucian classics, treating them as "demon books". When he was young, Hong Tianguifu didn't understand, but as he grew older, he found that his father was also a master who only allowed state officials to set fires and did not allow the people to light lamps. The child was curious, so he began to steal books to satisfy his hunger, but in general, Hong Tianguifu could only concentrate on studying the theological books written by his father in order to inherit Hong Xiuquan's mantle.
In such an environment, Hong Tianguifu's life was boring and boring, and he did not read and reason, and gradually developed a rebellious and stubborn character, while Hong Xiuquan was resigned.
Hong Tianguifu's bad deeds even alarmed Yang Xiuqing, the king of the East, Yang Xiuqing loves to take care of the affairs of the Tianwang family the most, and does not hesitate to use "Heavenly Father descends to earth" to remind Hong Xiuquan to take care of this leather child.
One day, Yang Xiuqing was "crazy again"** and then a carp stood up and announced: "Xiuquan, today's young master is born from his father, although he is kind in nature, he also needs to be taught in time, if there is something unreasonable, you, the father, must also discipline him, and you must not let him act recklessly." ”
Hong Xiuquan couldn't help but feel embarrassed after hearing this, Lao Yang, you are too lenient.
In any case, under the protection of his father Hong Xiuquan, the young lord Hong Tianguifu, who is above 10,000 people under one person, has been living a carefree and happy life.
However, with the death of Hong Xiuquan and the arrival of the Qing army in the city, all this came to an abrupt end.
The Qing court's "Map for the Extermination of Cantonese Bandits".
After leaving Tianjing, Hong Tianguifu fled all the way to Guangde, Anhui, and then joined up with the clan uncle King Hong Renji and the king Huang Wenjin, who guarded Huzhou. Everyone saw that the young king was still there, and they had no less than 120,000 soldiers and horses on hand (the core was the Huzhou soldiers of Huang Wenjin), so they had the confidence to make a comeback.
The reality is always cruel, once the old kings are defeated, how can they succeed by relying on the young kings and a group of remnants of the army.
As the Qing army pressed forward step by step, the kings had to abandon Huzhou and decided to move to Jiangxi.
However, not long after the expedition, Huang Wenjin unfortunately died in battle (some say that he died of illness). As soon as the commander died, the Huzhou soldiers immediately became in turmoil, and then the Taiping army was surrounded and intercepted by the Qing army many times along the way.
On the ninth day of September in the third year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1864), the remnants of the Taiping Army arrived in Yangjiapai Village, Shicheng, and they couldn't walk anymore, so they camped in the village. In the middle of the night, the Qing army quietly touched up, caught the Taiping army off guard, and finally wiped out the whole army.
In the melee, everyone only cares about running for their lives, so they don't care about the young king. Hong Tianguifu was then scattered by the rebels and hid alone in the deep mountains of Jiangxi.
But there is no food or drink in this mountain, and Hong Tianguifu, who has been pampered since childhood, is not Bei Ye, how can he have the ability to survive in the wilderness.
Going around the mountain, Hong Tianguifu was hungry for four days, and finally let him meet an old man, gave him a piece of bread, and carried it for two days.
Hong Tianguifu** knew that this time the officers and soldiers received a death order: "If you don't capture the young rebels, you can't collect the troops!" ”
Sure enough, within a few days of descending the mountain, Hong Tianguifu was captured by the Qing army.
After confirming the news of the Young Heavenly King Hong Tianguifu**, Jiangxi Governor Shen Baozhen breathed a sigh of relief and said excitedly to the staff: "The overall situation in the southeast will be settled from now on!" ”
The seal of the jade seal of the young king.
Although Hong Tianguifu is ignorant of the world, he also wants to live, and his strong desire to survive drives him to grasp all life-saving straws.
Therefore, when a scholar named Tang Jiatong in the Qing army deceived him hypocritically, the naïve Hong Tianguifu thought that he had met a savior, so he revealed his identity and everything he knew.
The confession of the young king Hong Tianguifu.
Hong Tianguifu said earnestly to Tang Jiatong: "I was the Young Heavenly King first, and now I am the person who follows the master. I'm the younger brother of Master Tang, I'm young, I don't know the truth here, I hope the adults pity me for being young, don't blame me. Now that Master Mengtang treats me very well, I am relieved. ”
Then he continued to beg Tang Jiatong: "I came to the lord here today, I hope that the lord will take me to old age, and I feel that the lord is kind to the world." ”
It's almost not enough, the young king is estimated to be used to seeing the set of whiskers and horses on weekdays, so he racked his brains and changed his way to pat Tang Jiatong's fart, and specially composed a limerick poem for him:
Right ode to Master Tang Jiatong".
The master has high knowledge, and the world is auxiliary to the Qing Dynasty.
Wenchen and military general, hero Gai Shihao.
Tang Jiatong looked up and down at this cash cow that helped him get promoted and make a fortune, showed a satisfied smile, and then personally escorted Hong Tianguifu to the Jiangxi Governor's Yamen.
Shen Baozhen was also very satisfied, and promoted Tang Jiatong, who had made meritorious contributions, to be the alternate magistrate of Jiangxi.
And Hong Tianguifu is still thinking about this cheap brother in his heart, fantasizing that he can follow Tang Jiatong to take the Xiucai exam in the future. In the governor's prison, the panicked young king made three more limerick poems, ** Tang Jiatong, who had sold himself at a good price:
Send three poems of Tang Jiatong's brother to the right
It is difficult to follow the long hair, and it is dangerous to run around.
Now on the day I return home with my brother, I will go back to study and take the exam.
Now I don't do long hair, I am dedicated to the Qing Dynasty.
Long live the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, it is always difficult for the chaotic ministers and thieves to escape.
Now with Brother Tang, the only way to do his best is to be respectful and peaceful.
I feel my brother's kindness, and I thank my brother for being so much.
In addition, in the face of Shen Baozhen's personal interrogation, Hong Tianguifu also tried his best to exonerate himself: "The things that hit the country were all done by the King of Heaven, and it has nothing to do with me." Even after I ascended the throne, it was all done by the king and the king. ”
Hong Tianguifu even planned his future life, and he confessed his life plan to Shen Baozhen: "Guangdong is not a good place, and I don't want to go back." I just want to follow Master Tang back to Hunan to study, and I want to be a talent. ”
In this regard, Shen Baozhen couldn't help laughing. In his memo to the imperial court, he wrote: "Hong Fuzhen (i.e., Hong Tianguifu, the Qing court's erroneous name for him) is just a yellow-mouthed child, so there is nothing to worry about, but Hong Xiuquan has established a separate imperial court for more than ten years and poisoned more than ten provinces. ”
But if Hong Xiuquan let his son learn a little knowledge, even if he reads "Zizhi Tongjian", Hong Tianguifu will not be naïve enough to grovel to the Qing court, thinking that he can get rid of it.
On the sixth day of October in the third year of Tongzhi of the Qing Dynasty (1864), on the third day after Hong Tianguifu composed a poem, the Qing court inflicted the most cruel and bloody fish scales on the young king who was bent on survival.
A giant baby-like teenager, at the most ignorant age, ended his short and bizarre life.