In 1856, Wei Changhui, the King of the North, led an army to besiege the palace of Yang Xiuqing, the Eastern King, and then launched a massacre, killing more than 20,000 people.
This was a serious infighting in the middle and senior leadership of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, among the six kings, only the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan and the Wing King Shi Dakai were left, and later the Wing King led the elite troops to flee, and there was only one person in the Tianjing City, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was already sunset.
In fact, this infighting is inevitable, and it has already laid the groundwork during the "Yong'an establishment".
In 1851, the Taiping Army conquered Yong'an City, and made Yang Xiuqing the King of the East and Xiao Chaogui the King of the West, with the first rank; Feng Yunshan as the King of the South and Wei Changhui as the King of the North, the second rank; and Shi Dakai as the King of the Wing, the third rank.
Except for the Western King, the other kings were all under the control of Yang Xiuqing, the Eastern King, but later, the Western King Xiao Chaogui was seriously injured, and Xiao and Yang, who were originally on an equal footing, gradually formed a situation in which Yang Xiuqing was alone.
Not only that, Yang Xiuqing also served as a task under the Heavenly Father, which could upset Hong Xiuquan, and after a while, Yang Xiuqing was possessed once, so that Hong Xiuqing did not listen to it, nor did he listen to it.
When the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was founded, Yang Xiuqing learned that Zhou Xineng had surrendered to the Qing court, so he used the lies of the Heavenly Father to point out the identity of Zhou Xineng as a traitor and was executed, which made the rebel army believe more in the existence of the Heavenly Father, and the only person who could convey the orders of the Heavenly Father was Yang Xiuqing, which also allowed Yang Xiuqing to accumulate political capital within the rebel army.
Later, Yang Xiuqing repeatedly used the Heavenly Father's subordinates to convey the concept of Heavenly Father to the rebels, controlling people's thinking, and at that time, it did improve the fighting ability of the rebels to a certain extent.
Standing on top of that lofty power, Yang Xiuqing gradually became accustomed to such a life, and Hong Xiuquan, the Heavenly King, obviously became the second person in the Heavenly Kingdom.
In 1583, the Taiping army conquered Jiangning and set the capital here, renamed Tianjing (present-day Nanjing), during which the kings stepped up the construction of the royal palace, the palace of the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan was golden and brilliant, and the Eastern Wangfu was also more than enough, which shocked the people of Tianjing City, and to a certain extent, the construction of large-scale construction also increased the burden on the people in Tianjing City.
Yang Xiuqing's comparison eventually led him to the abyss of destruction, in daily life, Yang Xiuqing every time he went out, there were fifty-six sedans to carry the sedan specially, and all people had to avoid, if it was too late to avoid, they had to kneel down to greet him, otherwise they would be beheaded.
With the expansion of power, Yang Xiuqing less and less took Hong Xiuquan in his eyes, and often humiliated Hong Xiuquan under the guise of the name of Heavenly Father, forcing Hong Xiuquan and his wife Lai Shi to kneel down to listen to the edict in front of everyone, and beat all his political enemies into prison, everyone knew that this was a deceptive trick, but no one pierced him, which made Hong Xiuquan hate Yang Xiuqing to the bone.
In 1856, Yang Xiuqing was again on the verge of death, this year, the Taiping Army attacked the Jiangnan and Jiangbei camps, in order to further enhance his power, Yang Xiuqing created the "Forced Seal Long Live" incident, which was a naked usurpation of power.
Roughly speaking, on the ninth day of July of that year, Yang Xiuqing once again pretended to be possessed by the Heavenly Father, summoned Hong Xiuquan and others to enter the Eastern Palace, and everyone just entered the door, Yang Xiuqing began to convey the Heavenly Father's orders with his eyes closed, and asked the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan, "Er, who has been fighting the Jiangshan for several years, thanks to whom?" The Heavenly King replied, "Fourth Brother (Yang Xiuqing)," "Then since it is the merit of the Fourth Brother, why only call nine thousand years old!" Yang Xiuqing asked. Hong Xiuquan reluctantly replied: "The fourth brother should fight the Jiangshan, it should be long live." Yang Xiuqing asked again, "Dong Shizi is not only a thousand years old," and Hong Xiu's whole face turned green and he was forced to say, "Since the fourth brother is long live, then Dong Shizi is also long live, and the generations are long lived." After hearing this, Yang Xiuqing secretly said happily, "I have returned to heaven."
In this way, Hong Xiuquan called Yang Xiuqing long live in a dramatic Heavenly Father's Lower Fan, Dong Shizi also called Long Live, and Yang Xiuqing completely killed himself.
Do? Lao Tzu said that his son actually said that Hong Xiuquan had completely suppressed the anger in his heart, and soon after, Chen Chengyao secretly told the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan that the King of Guandong had attempted to usurp the throne and requested that he be killed immediately.
Hong Xiuquan secretly ordered the Northern King Wei Changhui and the Yan King Qin Rigang to return to Beijing to kill the Eastern King Yang Xiuqing, and on the night of July 26, the Northern King and the Yan King exchanged diplomatic exchanges in the city, and Chen Chengyao opened the city gate to meet him. In the early morning of that night, the army raided the Eastern Palace, men, women and children were slaughtered at the door, and Yang Xiuqing did not use the heavenly father's mortal skills to protect himself (the key was useless).
In order to arrest the so-called Eastern King Party, Wei Changhui, who killed the red-eyed, actually washed the city of Nanjing in blood, and the common people did not let go, killing more than 20,000 people before and after.
At this time, in order to block this infighting, Shi Dakai, the wing king, quickly rushed back to Tianjing City, but it was too late, and the Eastern King had been ambushed for more than ten days, so he scolded Wei Changhui for killing innocents indiscriminately. Wei Changhui, on the other hand, believed that Shi Dakai was deliberately biased in favor of Yang Xiuqing and others, so he went on a killing spree, slaughtering Shi Dakai and opening the door, and the Yi King himself escaped from Tianjing City overnight.
After escaping, Shi Dakai raised an army in Anhui and demanded that the Heavenly King kill Wei Changhui, the King of the North, to thank the world, and most of the voices in tianjin at this time supported the King of Yi.
On September 27, the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan ordered the killing of Wei Changhui, and for a time, the whole city began to arrest Wei Changhui, because Wei Changhui's approach was unpopular, so the forces around him instantly disintegrated, and he was forced to hide. Soon after, he was captured by the military and the people, and Hong Xiuquan then ordered his men to dismember him and send him to Shidakai in Anhui Province, at the same time, Chen Chengyao, Qin Rigang and more than 200 "Wei Dang" were ambushed, and the Tianjing Incident came to an end.
We look at the whole Tianjing Incident, the founding father of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was basically killed, leaving only the Wing King alone, and later Shi Dakai led the elite troops to flee in a negative mood, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had reached the point of sunset.
Although Hong Xiuquan strengthened his rights, he greatly weakened the power of the kingdom of heaven in the violence, causing the religious system within the rebel army to completely collapse and suffer a serious blow to the ideological aspect.
In order to maintain the normal operation of the kingdom of heaven, Hong Xiuquan did not hesitate to seal the kings, no matter who it was, as long as there were two people in his hand, they were kings, and later, so that there was no word to seal, but even so, the dictionary had to be sealed. According to statistics, in the late Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the number of kings reached more than 2,700.
Finally, on July 19, 1864, the Xiang army attacked Tianjing, and the vigorous Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement ended in failure.