The Tianjing Revolution in 1856, in three months, due to the accumulated contradictions between the upper echelons of the Taiping Rebellion, this great civil strife in the history of the Taiping Rebellion directly led to the death of more than 20,000 elites of the Taiping Rebellion under the butcher's knife of their own people. Of course, the reason for this is that the Eastern King Yang Xiuqing took the blame, but Chen Chengying, the driving force behind it, is the first planner of the entire Tianjing change. Without the ruthless, vicious, and treacherous Zuo Tianhou actively planning and actively contributing advice and active cooperation, Hong Xiuquan would not have had the opportunity to unite with Wei Changhui and Qin Rigang to get rid of the domineering Yang Xiuqing. Throughout the changes in Tianjing, although Chen Chengyao did not personally participate in the massacre, the decisive role he played was even more harmful than Wei Changhui and Qin Rigang.
Chen Chengyao is a native of Tengxian County, Guangxi. In order to have a bite to eat, when he was more than ten years old, he worked as a car rushing to make a living. Because he had to deal with all kinds of people in this life, he gradually became infected with the vice of gambling. He was a coachman's wages enough for him to gamble, so he occasionally squandered when he won, and borrowed when he lost, so he owed a large gambling debt.
In the face of all kinds of debt collection by the creditor, Chen Chengying, who was embarrassed and angry, after a month of careful planning, on a dark and windy night in one month, he alone held a sharp blade and killed all eight members of the creditor's family in the dark, even the baby who was still breastfeeding did not let go.
When Hong Xiuquan and Feng Yunshan came to Guangxi to preach, Chen Chengying, who adhered to the gambler's mentality, led the whole family of 28 people to join the worship meeting, including his nephew, the future famous Taiping King Chen Yucheng.
Chen Chengyao is short and concise, although he does not know a few big characters, but he is witty and flexible and can do things, so after he joined the club, he was successively appreciated by Hong Xiuquan, Feng Yunshan, Yang Xiuqing and others.
After Hong Xiuquan launched the Jintian Uprising, Chen Chengyao started as a Yulin guard, and went all the way down, and when he arrived in Changsha, he ascended the third command of the left of the hall, and when he was in Wuhan, he was promoted to the second inspection point of the right of the hall, and after entering Nanjing, he first served as the deputy prime minister of the prefecture, and then promoted to the first of the hundred officials, the first Tianguan Zhengcheng prime minister, and spiraled into the Marquis of Juxing (later changed to Tianhou). Since then, Chen Chengying's status in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has been second only to Hong Xiuquan, the Eastern King Yang Xiuqing, the Northern King Wei Changhui, the Wing King Shi Dakai, the Yan King Qin Rigang, and the Yu King Hu Yihuang.
Chen Chengyao is a smooth person, although the contradictions between Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing have accumulated more and more since the capital Tianjing, Chen Chengyao can still get along well between the two of them.
Because his nephew Chen Yucheng was a general of Qin Rigang, Chen Chengyao had a close relationship with Qin Rigang, the king of Yan, in the middle of the dynasty, and the relationship between the two reached the point of brotherhood.
Chen Chengyao is a heavy minister of the dynasty that Yang Xiuqing, the king of the East, pulled up by hand, and it stands to reason that he should be full of gratitude to Yang Xiuqing, but he is a gambler and a villain with a vengeance. Throughout the ages, whether in officialdom or in the people, villains are the most offended people. Whoever offends them will unknowingly pay a big price.
Yang Xiuqing is not self-scrupulous, flying and domineering, he initiated Biao Lai and even reprimanded the heavenly king Hong Xiuquan in public in the name of the heavenly father, the kings and princes of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom only the wing king Shi Dakai did not hit Yang Xiuqing's board on the butt, and the other Wei Changhui, Qin Rigang, and Hu Yihuang were all scolded by Yang Xiuqing.
Before this, although Chen Chengyao had also been reprimanded by Yang Xiuqing many times, his butt was lucky not to be beaten. But not long after this, Chen Chengyao was beaten by Yang Xiuqing for a trivial matter because he helped Qin Rigang.
The cause of this incident was Yang Xiuqing's fuss and deliberately playing prestige, but it became the fuse for the change of Tianjing in the future. This is the famous Yan King Qin Rigang Wrangler incident in the history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
One day, Yang Xiuqing went out with Uncle Geng, and when passing by the Yan King Mansion, Qin Rigang's horseman was napping at the door and did not get up to salute him.
Yang Xiuqing's uncle Tonggeng was also eventful, he first whipped Qin Rigang 200 lashes, and then sent the horseman to Huang Yukun of the Criminal Department. Huang Yukun thought that it would be convenient to give two hundred lashes for this matter, and there was no need to add more torture.
Yang Xiuqing knew about this, and he immediately ordered Shi Dakai to arrest his father-in-law Huang Yukun. Huang Yukun was not convinced and immediately resigned to Yang Xiuqing, and then Qin Rigang also asked to resign, and Chen Chengyi, who was Qin Rigang's iron brother, also proposed to resign.
Seeing this, Yang Xiuqing was furious, and he immediately ordered the rod to reprimand Qin Rigang for one hundred, Chen Chengyao for two hundred, and Huang Yukun for three hundred, and at the same time sentenced the horseman to five horses and split the corpse.
Two years after this incident, Chen Chengying, who will be rewarded, finally found an opportunity to take revenge. He saw that the relationship between Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing had reached the point of being the same, so he took advantage of the power in his hands to find an opportunity to tell Hong Xiuquan that Yang Xiuqing was going to rebel.
Hong Xiuquan, who had long been unable to bear it, immediately ordered Chen Chengyao to send people out of Beijing to report to Wei Changhui, Shi Dakai, and Qin Rigang, and ordered them to immediately lead troops into Beijing to kill Yang Xiuqing.
Wei Changhui, who received the order, immediately led 3,000 of his henchmen to rush to Tianjing day and night with Qin Rigang.
After arriving at Tianjing City, the two people smoothly entered Tianjing City with the cooperation of Chen Chengying, and then took advantage of the night to attack and wash the East King Mansion in blood.
Due to the huge power of the Eastern King in Tianjing City, the main garrison in the city were Yang Xiuqing's subordinates, in order to get rid of these people, Chen Chengyao suggested to Wei Changhui and Qin Rigang that he should falsely pass on the order of the Heavenly King, in the name of Wei and Qin indiscriminately killing innocents, to publicly rebuke Wei Changhui and Qin Rigang, and summon Yang Xiuqing's subordinates to come to observe the execution.
Due to the edict of the Heavenly King and the presence of Chen Chengying, more than 10,000 of Yang Xiuqing's subordinates collectively laid down their weapons and went to watch the execution unsuspecting. As soon as they arrived at the Criminal Department, they were detained by the heavily armed Wei Changhui and Qin Rigang. Then, Wei Changhui and Qin Rigang's subordinates spent six hours slaughtering the elites of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom who numbered more than 10,000 people.
This Tianjing Revolution lasted three months, and more than 20,000 elites of the Taiping Rebellion died in this massacre, and as a result, the Taiping Rebellion turned from prosperity to decline.
Looking at the entire change in Tianjing, without the help of Chen Chengying, a villain, and active planning, Wei Changhui and Qin Rigang's ability alone would not be able to turn over such a big wave.