In the early morning of July 19, 1864, a scream suddenly sounded in the palace of the Heavenly King's Mansion, and the young Heavenly King Hong Tianguifu suddenly woke up from the nightmare, soaked but had no time to take care of it, and hurriedly got up to find his brother Tianming and Tianguang. Seeing that the two were sleeping, he was impatient to wake them up, which disturbed the sleeping young ladies and ladies beside the couch, and their coquettish voices came and went, and the dormitory was panicked for a while.
The young king trembled and told the dream: in the dream, the strong walls of the Tianjing City collapsed, the Qing army poured in like a tide, the fire in the city was soaring, burning, killing and looting were all evil, the smoke was mixed with desperate cries, corpses everywhere, and rivers of blood flowed, like purgatory on earth. This dream may be a reflection of the tension in the past few days, or a warning from the spirit of the old king in heaven to his son-in-law. In any case, Hong Tianguifu's terrifying dream seemed to foreshadow the impending disaster.
Hong Tianguifu (1849-1864), a native of Huaxian County, Guangdong, was the son of Hong Xiuquan, the leader of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. King Li Xiucheng once commented on his "lack of decisiveness in government affairs". His life, legend and mediocrity coexisted. Before he was one year old, he was sent to Guiping, moved to Nanjing with his father at the age of four, married four wives at the age of nine, and ascended the throne as emperor at the age of fifteen.
On June 1, 1864, Hong Xiuquan died of illness, his body was wrapped in yellow satin, and he was buried under the Golden Dragon Palace. Five days later, Hong Tianguifu hastily succeeded to the throne. At this time, Tianjing had been under siege for nearly two years, and there was no good plan for the whole city. At noon on July 19 of the same year, the Hunan army broke through the city, and the fate of the young king took a sharp turn.
According to Zeng's staff member Zhao Liewen's "Diary of Being Able to Live Quietly", "When the city was broken, the whole army looted, and the overall situation was out of control. Only Li Xiucheng led his own soldiers to escort the Young Heavenly King to escape under the cover of night, but at the cost of sacrificing his closest relatives. Hong Tianguifu and his entourage met Wang Shu Hong Renji in Guangde, and after a short stay in Huzhou, they urgently went to Jiangxi to seek assistance from Li Shixian, Wang Haiyang and other generals. However, in October of the same year, the uncle and nephew were unfortunately captured one after another, and the so-called "destiny of heaven" finally became empty talk.
When Tianjing was lost, the two younger brothers of the young king were killed in the rebellion, the eldest uncle Hong Renfa committed suicide by throwing himself into the water, and the second uncle Hong Renda was arrested. The young Hong Tianguifu, under the coaxing of the Qing dynasty Tang Jiatong, wrote flattering words in an attempt to get a glimmer of life. Jiangxi Governor Shen Baozhen bluntly said in "Xi Junsheng's Capture of the First Fold", saying that Hong Tianguifu was just a child, and he was not afraid, but he was worried that his name would be used to cause more incidents.
On November 18 of the following year, Hong Tianguifu was tortured by Ling Chi in Nanchang, and his tragic fate made people sigh. The year before, the leader of the Twist Army, Zhang Lexing, had witnessed his son being similarly tortured, and the late Hong Xiuquan might have found some comfort in comparison.
On the fifth day of Hong Tianguifu's murder, the godlord Hong Renji was also executed in Nanchang, and before his death, he still did not know the trace of the young king and his son Hong Kuiyuan. Back in the fall of Tianjing, a missionary rescued three of the Heavenly King's nephews in the chaos: Hong Kuiyuan, the king of Lang, Hong Shaoyuan, the king of Ying, and Hong Chunkui, the king of Ying. Since the internal strife in Tianjing in 1856, the imperial court was empty, and the king of heaven trusted the sons and nephews of the Hong family from Huaxian County, and a large number of princes were canonized, forming a situation where the "second generation of Hong" was prominent for a while. At that time, they were extremely majestic when they traveled, and it was stipulated that if the officials and soldiers of the DPRK and the army did not evade or collide with the guard of honor, they would be executed. This contrasts sharply with the bleak conditions of exile that followed.
In 1859, the young talent Hong Kuiyuan followed in the footsteps of his father Hong Renji and arrived in Tianjing, showing his talent as a military leader from an early age. The United Kingdom translator Fu Lici described him as a "fair-faced, intelligent and pleasant young man" who treated his servants with great majesty. Hong Kui Yuan was crowned King of Lang and took charge of the Holy Treasury, and later fled with the missionaries from the war in Tianjing. When crossing the bridge with Hong Shaoyuan, the king of Ji, he accidentally fell into the water, and the two of them drifted with the tide for dozens of miles, and finally went ashore secretly. King Lang used eighteen pairs of gold bracelets as assets and hid in large households. Subsequently, they disguised themselves as Jianghu artists and fled all the way south to Guangdong.
Hong Kuiyuan, who is over 20 years old, was forced to make a living and became a duck farmer. Facing the disobedient duck, he angrily reprimanded: "In the past, I commanded 100,000 male soldiers, and all of them obeyed orders, how dare you and other juniors disobey? This careless remark brought trouble to him, but fortunately, the German priest Li Liji helped him, falsely claiming to be a servant, and arranged for him to study at Li Lang College. After that, Hong Kuiyuan went incognito, married a wife and had children, but was hunted down by the Qing court, so he went to the Americas with his wife to teach for a living. After his wife's death, he remarried a black woman, the most famous of whom was George · University in United States Professor Hong Weiling.
King Hong Shaoyuan fled from Guangdong to Hong Kong under the pseudonym Hong Ming. At first, he made a living selling salted fish, but because of his strong physique and excellent martial arts, he was able to join the British Police Station in Hong Kong. Later, he opened a pharmacy called "Guangji Bureau". One day, witnessing the cook accidentally dropping rice on the ground, the former King Ji was furious and scolded the chef sharply: "In the past, I led a large army in the barren mountains and mountains, there was no water to drink, and the soldiers only cooked with urine. Even if they are not ripe, they compete to eat them all. This remark deeply shocked the chef: every grain is hard-won, and it should be cherished in the prosperous world, and it should not be wasted.
Hong Chunkui, the king of Ying, who was separated when he escaped from Tianjing, had the ambition to restore the country, and after arriving in Hong Kong, he changed his name to Hong He, and did not hesitate to sell himself as a "piglet" and went to Cuba to become a guano worker. A few years later, Hong He returned to Guangdong and worked as a cook on a ship, during which time he taught himself seven Chinese languages. Eventually, he practiced medicine in Hong Kong and joined the Hongmen organization. In 1901, Hong He changed his name to Hong Quanfu, which coincided with the Xingzhong Association Li Jitang raising military salaries and setting up secret strongholds. Hung Quanfu was elected head of the Hong Kong General Authority. It was originally scheduled to start on the night of January 28, 1903, and the country name was scheduled to be "Daming Shun Heavenly Kingdom", but it failed due to intelligence leakage. Hong Quanfu once again embarked on the road of exile, moving to Kowloon, Singapore and other places until his later years.
At the beginning of the last century, when the tide of the anti-Qing revolution was surging, Hong Xiuquan, as a symbol of anti-Manchuism, was unfortunately used by many forces. However, the real "Hong second generation" is hiding everywhere and hiding their traces. Some of them have fled to other lands and died in foreign countries; Some people have been displaced and reduced to coolies; There are also people who have gone through hardships, but in the end, they raised their eyebrows and glorified their ancestors. For the young descendants of the surname Hong, most of them have heard the legendary story of the king, and the glorious history of the family that once owned half of the country is often mentioned, but all this is like a dream bubble, dissipating in the long river of history.
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