The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom did not have the Eastern King Yang Xiuqing, why did it persist for nearly ten years later? There is a key factor

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Uprising was an important peasant armed uprising in the modern history of our country. It severely hit the Qing Dynasty’s rule and once controlled the southeast half of the wall. In the camp of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Eastern King Yang Xiuqing is indeed regarded as a handsome talent. Under his leadership, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has made many remarkable achievements. Because of Yang Xiuqing's command, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom also reached its peak. Just as the situation of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom improved, its capital, Tianjing, broke out in a mutiny that affected it for a while. Due to the suspicion of the heavenly king Hong Xiuquan, Yang Xiuqing was eventually killed, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was also greatly injured.

The death of Yang Xiuqing was a major event in the history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. With Yang Xiuqing's death, there were also errors in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom command system. Later, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom gradually fell into decline. So, since Yang Xiuqing is dead, why didn't the Qing Dynasty take this opportunity to destroy the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but chose to continue to fight against it for eight years? What is the reason for this?

Actually, the reason why the Qing Dynasty did not take advantage of the outbreak of the Tianjing Incident to quickly destroy the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was not because the Taiping Army itself was strong in combat power, but because the Qing court was unable to attack Tianjing.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners Army in the Qing court has taken a turn for the worse. In this case, the Qing government can only rely on local regiment training horses to resist the Taiping Army. At that time, although the Qing government established the so-called Jiangnan and Jiangbei camps in Jiangnan, they were quickly defeated by the Taiping Army due to the low combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners. Since the local regiments have just been formed during this period, the combat effectiveness of the so-called Hunan Army is still in a hazy stage. The Eight Banner Army’s combat effectiveness was low, and the Hunan Army was just formed. The Qing government was unable to launch a fierce attack on the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. In order to deal with the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom, the Qing army could only develop its own armed forces. Therefore, when the Beijing Incident broke out that day, the Qing government chose A situation of temporary confrontation.

When the Tianjing Incident happened, the Qing government was also cheated by the great powers. At that time, the interior of the Qing Dynasty was already rotten, and the powers took this opportunity to blackmail the Qing government again. The invading army led by Britain and France opened the southern gate of the Qing government, Guangzhou, in the same year that the Tianjing Incident broke out. They not only captured the local governor of the Qing Dynasty alive, but also threatened to attack Beijing and Tianjin. In this case, the Qing government had to adopt a compromise strategy. For external reasons, the Qing government could only temporarily relax its encirclement of Tianjing, and instead concentrated on dealing with foreign enemies.

The outcome of the Second Opium War was also disappointing. The Qing government not only defeated completely, but also signed another unequal treaty with Western powers. While Britain and France watched the southwest, Tsarist Russia invaded my country's northeast. Faced with this situation, the Qing government could only temporarily abandon its conquest of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

In addition, although the Tianjing Incident caused great damage to the vitality of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, it did not shake the foundation of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. On the contrary, in the years after the Tianjing Incident, the Taiping Army became more frustrated and brave. After Yang Xiuqing's death, Hong Xiuquan hired rookie stars Li Xiucheng and Chen Yucheng, both of whom were among the best in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Relying on the support of these two generals, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom once again restored the defeat.

When the Tianjing Incident occurred, the overall strength of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was not weak. In the southwest, Shi Dakai’s 200,000 Taiping Army insisted on resisting the Qing Dynasty, and in Huxiang, Li Xiucheng and others stuck to it, and to the southeast, famous generals such as Yang Fuqing and Chen Yucheng also tried to protect Tianjing. With these armed forces in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Qing army dared not easily invade Tianjing.

When the Tianjing Incident occurred, the internal armed forces of the Qing Dynasty were not yet ready, coupled with the invasion of the great powers, the Qing army naturally could not take into account the conquest of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The reason for this objectivity also led to the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom being able to stick to it for eight years. However, the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom is limited in strength after all. When the Qing government and the great powers repaired the treaty and eased from the decline, it still could not escape its destiny.