1in the spring of 864, the Xiang army had heavily besieged Tianjing.
Li Xiucheng, a loyal soldier, commanded soldiers to dig wells in Tianjin. It turned out that the Xiang army outside the city was digging a tunnel. Once digging a tunnel into the city, a large number of explosives were piled in the tunnel, and then ignited and exploded, destroying a section of the wall above, in order to open the gap in Tianjing City. Li Xiucheng, a loyal gentleman, created a good way to break the tunnel. They buried an empty water tank every two or three feet along the city wall. As long as the Xiang army outside the city digs a tunnel near the water tank, the people in the city can hear the buzzing sound by sticking their ears to the wall of the water tank. Then follow the noise and dig a well in the city. As long as there is movement in the well, immediately pour out the hot water or poisonous water, and you will hear the sound of ghosts crying and wolves howling in the well. Although such a short time can alleviate the Xiang army's entry into the city, it still can't solve the siege of Tianjing by Xiang army.
In the besieged Tianjing city, there is a phenomenon of lack of food. There are more than 40 thousand people in Tianjin. These 40 thousand people have to eat every day, and Tianjing doesn't have too much food reserves. As early as 1962, Zhongjun Li Xiucheng suggested Tianjing to store grain and grass for a rainy day. Hong Xiuquan didn't listen at all. He thinks he can get help from God, so he doesn't need to store food. He let his brother and other relatives fool around and ruined the food originally stored in Tianjing City to feed pigs.
Every day, people starve to death, and Tianjing has eaten everything that can be eaten. Even the usually boring mice are extremely delicious.
Loyal Li Xiucheng decided to truthfully report the situation of Tianjing City to the heavenly king Hong Xiuquan.
Hong Xiuquan is senile, his head is bald, his beard is all white, and his voice is weak. He is no longer the majestic Hong Xiuquan.
Hong Xiuquan asked, "Brothers, what should we do?"
Hong Rengan, the dry king, said, "Let the foreign soldiers and horses be diligent."
Looking around, he said, "Grow wheat in the city. Tianjin has a vast area with fields and lakes. You can farm and fight with Clear The Demon for a long time. "
Li Xiucheng, a loyal monarch, said: Your Majesty, 30,000 soldiers of our army twisted into a rope, rushed out of the toilet door in the dark, and then managed to cross the river and join forces with women soldiers in northern Anhui. "
Hong Xiuquan was furious: "Don't talk nonsense. Throwing the capital to Clear The Demon doesn't mean that our kingdom of heaven has perished."
Before the Xiang army captured Tianjing, the last battle meeting of Taiping Army ended in discord.
Since you can't escape, you have to face hunger in Tianjing. Soldiers of the Taiping Army in Tianjing besieged the Temple of the King of Heaven and begged from the heavenly king Hong Xiuquan. There were obvious signs of mutiny.
Persuaded by the kings, Hong Xiuquan walked out of the Heavenly Palace and spoke to the soldiers. After more than ten years in Beijing, Hong Xiuquan only went to Tianwangfu once, sealing the East King Yang Xiu Qing, and regretted it afterwards.
In the face of the soldiers who were passionate and pleading, Tianwang Hong Xiuquan said confidently: "Don't panic, your's father is still alive, and everyone can eat manna to satisfy their hunger."
Hong Xiuquan said unhappily, "Saint Amethyst said,' Emperor God, great country, Israel, do your best to preserve it. If you go outdoors, you will have no food. God forbid you to panic. Dewdrops fall, and a liter of people is as sweet as honey, satisfying them. " "
People still don't understand. Hong Xiuquan explained to everyone: "Manna is grass in the wild. This is God's food for mankind. In those days, Israel relied on it to survive the famine. There are many weeds in Tianjin. From tomorrow on, men and women in the city will use them to satisfy their hunger, and the taste is as sweet as honey. "
Taiping soldiers can only smile bitterly.
There is manna in Hong Xiuquan's revised three-character scripture, which comes from Chapter 16 of Exodus. It tells the story of food shortage when Israelis who fled from Egypt arrived in Sinai Peninsula. Hungry Israelis began to complain about Moses. If they knew this, they would stay in Egypt. At this time, God released Moses, and Samaria was near the Israeli camp every morning. It is said that the Israelites survived by eating this manna.
Mana is Hebrew, and it is a godsend. What does Hong Xiuquan think? That's manna. Hong Xiuquan believes that as a people of God, God will not sit idly by the Taiping Army.
Hong Xiuquan said to loyal Li Xiucheng, "The whole city eats manna for health and goes to heaven." Later, Hong Xiuquan decided to set an example and ordered the whole city to collect manna. He wanted to take the lead in tasting it.
Let's collect grass dumplings. King Hong Xiuquan personally demonstrated it to everyone. He squeezed the grass dumplings together and chewed them hard in his mouth, and the green juice flowed out of his mouth. The heavenly king Hong Xiuquan showed a painful expression on his face, but he soon suppressed it and changed into joy.
Manna is a gift from the heavenly father, please enjoy it.
Hong Xiuquan had diarrhea more than five times that night, which induced Hong Xiuquan's old stomach trouble. In less than ten days, Hong Xiuquan was seriously ill. He refused to receive treatment, and he believed that the Father would save him. This dragged on for more than ten days, and finally I couldn't stand it anymore. I entrusted my son Tianguifu Hong to Zhong Jun, Gan Wang, Chu Wang and Zhang Wang. Before I died, the heavenly king Hong Xiuquan said that he was called to heaven to beat my heavenly father and brothers and asked them to send heavenly soldiers to solve the siege of Tianjing. As long as your brothers are United, the kingdom of heaven will be revived. Tian Tian, a brother of Tianshi, told him that his descendants would sit firmly in the mountains and rivers, and everyone must support the prince wholeheartedly. Hong Xiuquan died.
It can be seen that Hong Xiuquan died not of poisoning or starvation in the draft of Qing history, but of diarrhea caused by indigestion caused by eating manna wild vegetables. Why did Hong Xiuquan die of poison in the Draft of Qing History? For the sake of official history, because Hong Xiuquan rebelled against the orthodoxy of the Qing Dynasty, he must be made to commit suicide by taking poison, which is in line with history and shows the light of the Qing Dynasty.
Actually, it doesn't matter how Hong Xiuquan died. What's the difference between eating wild vegetables poisoning and committing suicide by taking poison? Why does he eat wild vegetables? It's not just because of hunger. Even if he survived healthily, Tianjing City should die worse than this after being breached.
Since Nanjing was captured by 1853, the heavenly king Hong Xiuquan has been committed to the reconstruction of the governor's office in Liangjiang. He has a grand plan in mind to build the Governor's Mansion into his own heavenly palace, a good palace on the ground and a good palace in the sky. All men are never allowed to enter the harem of the king of heaven, so only he works with many lovers. Since then, the king has lived in his own world. Until the death of 1864 Children's Day, I only went out of the palace twice in ten years. What a standard otaku.
Tianwang is in his own world, and he wants to manage his huge harem team. He regrets that the team is not easy to take care of. Because of the serious lack of male regulation and jealousy, the harem has seriously restricted the quality of life of Tianwang. He decided to learn from the previous dynasty and started the cold palace system in order to suppress the harem.
At this time, he can formulate his own policy towards the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and come whenever he wants. Ordinary people are not allowed to live a normal husband and wife life, and men and women should be separated. There are many women themselves. At first, I said that East Wang Yang was so powerful that he killed the East Palace in a blink of an eye. After the killing, he had to celebrate the "Ascension of the East King to Heaven". Many generals in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom have lost sight of the heavenly king.
Although worshipping God is superstitious, Hong Xiuquan should also be superstitious about others and keep himself awake at all times. As a result, he got lost in his own fantasy. Including Li Xiucheng, a loyal monarch, said that Hong Xiuquan, the heavenly king, said some immortal words and could hardly communicate normally.
He wants to confuse all beings and rely on western religious beliefs to make people believe his incitement. I know little about the teachings of western religions. After a small success, he immediately restored the feudal dynasty and became a ruler. As a result, he inherited all the backward feudal ideas of the Qing Dynasty that he opposed. He was so ambivalent that he couldn't figure out what was in the envelope and where he was going, just as he believed that eating manna could save his kingdom of heaven. That kind of bitterness can only be tasted by yourself, and then swallowed with a smile.
In fact, Hong Xiuquan's tragedy is mainly the decadent and unrestrained exploitation of people all over the world by the Qing Dynasty, which made people all over the world lose hope. They blindly believed in Hong Xiuquan and chose to rebel and uprising, which is also the tragedy of all the people in China.
Bibliography "Draft of Qing History" and "History of National People's Literature"