When Li Xiucheng proposed to "leave the city alone", why did Hong Xiuquan refuse?
In March 1853, Hong Xiuquan led the Taiping Army to occupy Nanjing City, renamed it Tianjing, and made it the capital of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and built a large-scale Tianwang Palace in the city.
Seeing that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom occupied half of the country, the Qing court became anxious. In order to besiege Tianjing, the capital of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, they set up two corps, the Jiangnan Camp and the Jiangbei Camp. As a result, they were successively attacked by the Taiping Army. Later, with the Tianjing Incident within the Taiping Rebellion, Wu Qi was seriously injured, and the situation quickly reversed. In 1862, after Zeng Guofan occupied Anqing, he ordered his younger brother Zeng Guoquan to lead the main force of the Hunan Army down the river, and captured Anqing with overwhelming force along the way. The battle to defend Nanjing City and Tianjing also began.
In order to defend the capital, Hong Xiuquan urgently ordered the loyal king Li Xiucheng to return to aid. Li Xiucheng quickly withdrew from the Suzhou front line and led the main force to rescue Tianjing.
However, Li Xiucheng led more than 100,000 troops to fight the Qing army at Yuhuatai. The two sides competed for more than a month, but the Taiping army failed to defeat the Qing army.
Li Xiucheng had no choice but to lead his army into Tianjing City. As a result, he found that the situation in the city was more serious than he imagined. Under the long-term siege of the Qing army, he had fallen into a situation of "no food and grass inside and no reinforcements outside". . Li Xiucheng then made a suggestion to Hong Xiuquan, four words: Don't leave the city.
As a result, Hong Xiuquan became furious and not only rejected his suggestion, but also severely reprimanded Li Xiucheng.
A few months later, the situation in Tianjing City had become extremely bad. Li Xiucheng reported truthfully: "There is no food in the whole city, and many men and women have died. I beg for an edict. What should we plan?" Hong Xiuquan immediately reported The decree was issued: "The whole city should eat sweet dew, which can maintain health." The "sweet dew" mentioned by Hong Xiuquan was weeds.
On May 30, 1864, Hong Xiuquan, who was terminally ill, issued his last decree: "Everyone may rest assured, I will go to heaven immediately, receive heavenly soldiers from Heavenly Father and Heavenly Brother, and protect Tianjing."
Three days later, Hong Xiuquan died, and the young king Hong Tianguifu succeeded to the throne. A month and a half later, the heavenly troops did not come, but the Qing army came. They broke through Nanjing City, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was destroyed.
According to legend, Hong Xiuquan’s rise to decline was not due to anything else but to his ancestral tomb.
It is said that Hong Xiuquan’s prosperity was due to the good burial of his ancestral tomb - he was buried on a geomantic treasure land. The place where his ancestral tomb was buried was called "Furongzhang" and it belonged to the Dayu Mountains. There are three small hills protruding at the southern foot of the mountain. The one on the right is called "Shichuangang", the one on the left is called "Yingfengdou", and the one in the middle is called "Tututan". It is reported that Lai Wenjun, a Feng Shui master in the Song Dynasty, once visited this place and left a poem: "The hibiscus peak above your head, the earth altar under your feet. There is a shipwreck post on the right, and a warbler and bee sinus on the left. The turtle controls the water mouth, and the lion and elephant guard the gate tower. "Whoever gets buried will be a prince and a prince from generation to generation."
Because Hong Xiuquan's ancestral grave happened to be buried on the earth altar, Hong Xiuquan, a "disgraced scholar", launched the Jintian Village Uprising, which shook the Qing Dynasty. After the Taiping Rebellion, which was the foundation of the Taiping Rebellion, it quickly became popular and its power grew rapidly, occupying half of the country. It once made the Qing court panic all day long.
Seeing that the country was in danger of subjugation if this continued, the Qing government ordered Mou Chongling, the magistrate of Hua County, to cut off the back veins of Hong Xiuquan's ancestral tomb to cut off its feng shui, which was called "breaking the dragon's veins."
The result was a magical scene. After the dragon vein in the Hong family's ancestral tomb was cut off, Hong Xiuquan was immediately defeated and eventually perished.
Of course, some people believe that Hong Xiuquan's ancestral tomb was not buried in the main cave, but was only stained with "dragon energy", so it did not last long. When Tianjing City was in danger, the reason why Hong Xiuquan was reluctant to leave was probably not because he expected his "Heavenly Father" to descend to earth, but because of the blessings of his ancestors. If this is the reason, it is really sad.
The Qing army invaded Tianjing and entered the Tianwang Mansion, but could not find Hong Xiuquan. In this regard, Zeng Guofan ordered that no matter whether he was dead or alive, he must dig three feet into the ground to find Hong Xiuquan.
Twenty days later, Hong Xiuquan’s body was found. It was not found by the Qing army, but reported by a palace maid named Huang. The palace maid named Huang claimed to have seen Hong Xiuquan buried under the main hall of Tianwang Mansion.
The Qing army took her to identify the scene. Sure enough, a large pit was dug under an osmanthus tree near the rockery of Yulinyuan in Tianwang Mansion. No coffin was seen, but Hong Xiuquan’s body was embroidered with dragon and yellow. The satin wrap was buried inside.
The Qing soldiers dug out Hong Xiuquan's body. At this moment, an unusual scene occurred. Dark clouds suddenly appeared in the sky, there was lightning and thunder, and then it rained heavily. Some people superstitiously believe that this is the appearance of the King of Heaven.
Despite the "Heavenly Sent", Zeng Guofan still ordered "the corpses to be destroyed and all traces to be destroyed" despite all these. After ordering the Qing army to drag out Hong Xiuquan's body, he whipped it viciously. After the whipping, the body was burned to ashes, and finally loaded into a cannon. After being blasted out with a cannon, it was completely destroyed.
More than 60 years after Hong Xiuquan’s death, the Cantonese warlord Chen Jitang heard that the Hong family’s ancestral graveyard was a treasured Feng Shui site. He paid a large sum of money to hire a famous Feng Shui master to spot the “Dragon’s Cave” and move his mother to the foot of Furong Peak. Hong family cemetery. Later, the Chen family really became prosperous. Chen Jitang later lamented: This is really a geomantic treasure.