Taiping Heavenly Kingdom: In-depth interpretation of the Tianjing Incident
Interior view of the Tianwang Mansion in Nanjing (replica).
September 1, 1856 AD.
Midnight. Wei Changhui, the king of the Northern Wei Dynasty, quietly arrived in Nanjing with about 3,000 soldiers.
The King of Heaven received a secret order from Hong Xiuquan and asked him to send a swift army to meet the King of Heaven, because Yang Xiuqing, the king of the East, forced Hong Xiuquan to seal him"Hooray"！
Wei Changhui had just been defeated by the Qing army before receiving this secret order, and he remembered Yang Xiuqing's insults to him in the past:
Yang Xiuqing excused Wei Changhui to be"Heavenly Father"possessed, repeatedly humiliated Wei Changhui. Whenever"Heavenly Father"When he came to the world, Yang Xiuqing's servants would call Wei Changhui with gongs and drums, and when Wei Changhui was late, these servants would hand over the sacred commandments of God to him.
When Yang Xiuqing spoke in the name of God, Wei Changhui had to bow to Yang Xiuqing and kneel down to listen to him. When Yang Xiuqing was in a trance in the sedan chair, Wei Changhui could only stand next to the sedan chair and could not enter the sedan chair. Even Yang Xiuqing's servants could harass Wei Changhui, not allowing Yang Xiuqing to explain the divine will for Wei Changhui, nor allowing Wei Changhui to check if Yang Xiuqing's Heavenly God Possession was completed, because they didn't want to disturb their master.
Qin Rigang, one of the founders of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, endured similar humiliation and even helped Yang Xiuqing carry the sedan chair into the temple.
In the most serious case, Wei Changhui's younger brother and Yang Xiuqing's brother-in-law had a dispute over land. Yang Xiuqing personally went to Wei Changhui's house and asked him how to solve the matter.
Wei Changhui said respectfully"Please remove it, otherwise it will be difficult to convince the public. Yang Xiuqing nodded and left happily.
Wei Changhui, who was in the military tent of the Taiping Army in Jiangxi of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, was worried that Yang Xiuqing would take advantage of this defeat to humiliate him even more, and he was worried, but he didn't expect to suddenly receive a secret order from the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan: Wei Changhui, Qin Rigang, and Shi Da came to the rescue quickly!
This was a rare opportunity for Wei Changhui, so he immediately went to help, and arrived outside Nanjing on September 1, 1856.
Chen Chengluo, the general guarding the Nanjing city gate, was ordered by Hong Xiuquan to open the city gate and welcome Wei Changhui into the city.
Qin Rigang has been in Nanjing for a long time, but the total number of soldiers under him and Wei Changhui is only more than 3,000, while there are more than 6,000 soldiers loyal to Yang Xiuqing in the city.
Siege of the East Palace. 
After Wei Changhui entered the city, he immediately led his troops to attack Yang Xiuqing's mansion. It was late at night, and the guards of the East Prince's Mansion were caught off guard, and after a brief resistance, the entire army was annihilated.
When the gate of the East Palace's Mansion opened, the image of Yang Xiuqing's humiliation appeared in Wei Changhui's mind, he had been waiting for this day for a long time, and when he thought of the revenge and hatred in front of him, his whole body trembled, and the rake that had been oppressed for many years and turned into a monster finally broke out completely tonight.
Wei Changhui and Qin Rigang led their troops into the Dongwang Mansion, and killed people when they saw them, regardless of men and women.
Yang Xiuqing, his wife and children, officers and soldiers, slaves, and dozens of musicians were killed. The East Palace's Mansion is magnificent, and there are countless gold and silver treasures. Wei Changhui and Qin Rigang's soldiers killed and plundered at the same time, and the sound of killing continued throughout the night.
In the early morning, the streets were full of Wei Changhui and Qin Rigang's people, the corpses were scattered all over the ground, and Yang Xiuqing's severed head was hung on a wooden pole.
Hong Xiuquan, Wei Changhui and others were studying how to get rid of the remains of more than 6,000 Dongwang in the city at this time. Most of these 6,000 people joined the Taiping Army after the Jingnan Uprising, and they fought for the Taiping Army for at least five years and were very loyal to the Taiping Army.
However, Hong Xiuquan is not clear whether they are loyal to Hong Xiuquan or Yang Xiuqing, who has already been killed.
Now Hong Xiuquan has two choices: one is to risk the lives of these people and strive for a later review or parole.
The other option is to do nothing and kill them all.
In the first way, the risk of a rebellion by 6,000 soldiers is too great, but the lives of 6,000 soldiers can be saved; In the second way, although the hidden danger of soldiers' rebellion was directly eliminated, the Taiping Heavenly Congress lost many elite soldiers.
After a brief discussion, Hong Xiuquan, Wei Changhui and other generals unanimously decided to take the first route.
But this is a very insidious method - a bitter ploy.
On the same day, the King of Heaven issued an edict strongly condemning the bloody deeds of Yang Xiuqing's family. The Holy Decree ordered Wei Changhui and Qin Rigang to be imprisoned, and ordered them to kneel in front of the Heavenly King's Mansion. On a two-meter-long piece of purple and yellow silk cloth, the concubines of the Heavenly King's Mansion wrote down the punishment for the two: each beat 500 boards and executed them in the Tianwang's Mansion; Other henchmen of the East King's Mansion are invited to come**, but they are not allowed to bring weapons into the Tianwang's Mansion.
Wei Changhui and Qin Rigang knelt in the outer courtyard of the Heavenly King's Manor and began to hold their sticks. Many ordinary people also came**.
When the courtyard was filled with more than 6,000 people, the large and small doors of the Heavenly King's Hall were closed, and the flying boat was over.
Western mercenaries who witnessed the incident recalled:
Early in the morning, the doors and windows of the chamber where the remains of the Eastern King were stored were opened, and several packets of explosives were thrown at a group of prisoners, while the exit was heavily guarded. The soldiers entered one of the halls and killed all the prisoners without much resistance. However, in another hall, the prisoners put up more than six hours of desperate resistance, smashing bricks at the walls and partitions of the hall before being driven away.
In addition to the guns, the ** also threw two kilograms of grape bullets - the poor people were stripped naked, and many died of human death. In the end, Lao Wu and Lao Qi (Wei Changhui and Qin Rigang) were ordered to raise their right hands to distinguish their husbands from those of the other party (Yang Xiuqing), and then rushed in to kill those who were still alive.
After a while, we walked down the hall and oh my! In some places, the bodies were piled up five or six stories high, some were hanged, and some were set on fire with discarded explosives packets. All the bodies were transported outside and left to dry in the sun.
Each head of household in the town must then report how many men, women, and children live in his home, each with a small tag (engraved with a seal) on his chest, and if other numbers are found, he is arrested. Men are taken to killing zones and beheaded in groups of five, ten, hundred, or thousand, while women and children are not, and the whole process takes several weeks. Everyone who eats tea and other people's food suffers from it.
Fear for fear, cruelty for fear.
Wei Changhui and Qin Rigang were not satisfied with their killing, and carried out another three months of killing, killing thousands of people. Among them were 500 former court ladies and slaves of the Eastern Dynasty.
At that moment, Wei Changhui completely degenerated and became a devil who was not even as good as a monster. He was worried that if he used his generals to carry out **, many generals would not be able to do it because of their friendship with their comrades.
Because of this, according to historical records, Wei Changhui decided to use the boy soldiers as a firing squad:"The executioners were all children, and they took pleasure in killing people, and they never tired of it"。
At the beginning of October, Shi Dakai hurried back to Nanjing, and heard the rumor of ** on the way: the thieves in Jiangxi were killing the thieves, and the king of Nanjing was killing the king. Shi Dakai immediately went to complain to Wei Changhui, the king of the north, saying that he had killed too many people. The red-eyed Wei Changhui was furious and killed Shi Dakai.
That night, Shi Dakai learned from a friend that Wei Changhui, the king of the North, had decided to kill him that night. Shi Dakai was shocked when he heard the news and immediately left Nanjing. At that time, the city gate was closed, and Shi Dakai climbed down from the city gate with a rope and fled Nanjing overnight.
Of course, Wei Changhui and Qin Rigang surrounded the Winged King's Mansion in the middle of the night, attacked the Winged King's Mansion, and found that the Winged King had escaped, so they angrily informed the Winged King and expelled everyone in the Winged King's Mansion.
Shi Dakai marched west along the river, gathered troops and horses along the way, and led about 100,000 troops to return to Nanjing via the Yangtze River. Shi Dakai made it clear that the Heavenly King had to kill Qin Rigang and Wei Changhui to secure a retreat, otherwise he would use force"Qingjun side"。
Wei Changhui immediately sent Qin Rigang to intercept Shi Dakai's army and blow up the Baoguo Temple to prevent Shi Dakai from bombing Nanjing.
Called by foreign missionaries"The Leaning Tower of Pisa in the East"The ancient Bao'en Temple in Nanjing, which was built by Ming Chengzu to commemorate his mother, was blown up by the Taiping Army.
Wei Changhui was afraid that Hong Xiuquan would betray him, so he decided to execute Hong Xiuquan and personally led his army to attack Tianwangfu. There are many women in Tianwang's mansion and few guards. At the critical juncture, Hong Xiuquan was witty. During the fierce battle between the guards of Tianwangfu and Wei Changhui, she forced all the women of Tianwangfu to put on the clothes of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom soldiers and run out of Tianwangfu with Shi Dakai's military flag. When Wei Changhui's soldiers saw this, they thought that Shi Dakai's army had arrived, so they were so frightened that they fled, leaving Wei Changhui alone. Hong Xiuquan's head was killed by his own soldiers and sent to Shi Dakai. Soon, Qin Rigang also retreated and returned to the city and was executed.
In December 1856, Shi Dakai entered Tianjing, where he was greeted by a heroic triumph on the platform. Shi Dakai looked blankly at the crowd that welcomed him back, without the slightest commotion; It's like before the victory over the Qing army, in the cheering crowd, the faces of relatives and friends were still very familiar, but now the people who greet him no longer have those faces.
Hong Xiuquan sealed Shi Dakaiwei"The Righteous King", Shi Dakai didn't follow. Hong Xiuquan named him as him"Holy Kamikaze"。Hong Xiuquan didn't understand what Shi Dakai wanted.
Shi Dakai lost all his relatives in **. He returned to the Yiwang Mansion, and Hong Xiuquan ordered the mansion to be rebuilt and decorated magnificently, but none of the relatives he knew were left. The call of the faithful guard, the considerate steward, the kind and virtuous wife who always saw his happiness, and the call of the father who ran over the child, all disappeared and never returned.
The ideals of earlier days are now obscure. Why is the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom rebel army so in flames? Why is it so in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom"Everywhere there is unity, everywhere there is warmth"In a society where parents, spouses, children, relatives and friends will die? He was full of emotion, but he still couldn't find an answer.
At the beginning of the establishment of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the people in the streets and alleys demanded peace.
After returning to Nanjing, Shi Dakai lived alone in the Tianwang Pavilion, did not accept any information, and asked for instructions through documents. He gave instructions at night, and in the early morning he was posted on the outer wall of the palace by his attendants.
The makers of the Tenkyo incident are still intervening in the world of words day and night. Countless families paid for the fire with endless blood and tears.
Chu Ge is empty, and the sky is stained with blood. What does beanstalk mean? Don't judge heroes by success or failure.
In the winter of 1856, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was founded.