As we all know, the title of a dynasty is extremely noble. Even the title of a dynasty in the uprising army can be obtained by a very few people. For example, as the leader of the Chuang King, only a king, and most of the other ones are just the title of a general. Even in a unified dynasty, the title of a king is only granted to members of the royal family. The title of a king is usually just a glory that is posthumously granted after death, such as Xu Da , etc., and a very small number of people who are alive and are given a king of a different surname, which must be of great contribution.
Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement
However, during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period, many kings were actually enfeoffed, especially at the end of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the enfeoffment of kings was spreading to an incredible level. According to various records and statements, there were one or two thousand kings who were granted, and even the real power of the loyal king Li Xiucheng believed that this kind of abusive seal was simply crazy. It can be said that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom regarded itself as the second, and no one dared to recognize the first.
Yong'an established , first the Five Kings
, but at the beginning the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was still very restrained. After the Jintian Uprising , the Taiping Army attacked cities and villages, and more and more people were. In order to motivate and attract the people below, in 1851, Hong Xiuquan began to enthrone the title of king after proclaiming himself the king, namely East, respectively Wang Yang Xiuqing, Western King Xiao Chaogui , Southern King Feng Yunshan , Northern King Wei Changhui , Wing King Shi Dakai , these five kings are Taiping Army and core figures. Although they are enfeoffed at the same time, they are also divided into levels. Among them, East King and Western King are first-class kings, Southern King and Northern King are second-class kings, and Wing King is only third-class kings.
Yong'an establishment
The reason why Yang Xiuqing and Xiao Chaogui ranked first-class kings is mainly because they followed Hong Xiuquan from the beginning and made great contributions in the early days of the establishment of the "God Worshiping Church", especially Yang Xiuqing attracted many believers and naturally ranked first-class kings.
Jintian Uprising
Yan King and Yu King joining
Taiping Army continued to move in the south, which attracted the attention of the Qing Dynasty and continued to encircle and suppress. The Taiping Army went north and east to attack the city, but there were always casualties in the war. The Southern King Feng Yunshan was shelled by the Qing army in Quanzhou, Guangxi, and the Western King Xiao Chaogui also died in battle when attacking Changsha. He lost two heavyweight core figures. In order to boost morale, Hong Xiuquan also named Qin Rigang as the King of Yan, Hu Yihuang as the King of Yu, and the fourth-class king .
Yang Xiuqing's ability is much greater than that of Hong Xiuquan
At this time, in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the total number of seven kings was granted to Tianjing Incident , and the value of the king was still very high. Later, the king of Yan Qin Rigang and the king of Yu Hu Yihuang were also quickly deprived of the king's title by Dong Wang Yang Xiuqing for the responsibility of defeat, and the title was reduced to the two strange titles of Dingtianyan and Hu Tianyu. These two titles were lower than the king's title but higher than the marquis .
In addition to the seven kings, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom also has a marquis called the Heavenly Marquis. The marquis' rewards are relatively small and have a high value, including Lin Fengxiang (Jinghu Hou), Li Kaifang (Dinghu Hou) (Dinghu Hou) , and Chen Chengying (Xingguo Hou) , Yang Xiuqing's plan to lead the ruler Lu Xianba (Zhenguo Hou) , etc., are all figures with extremely high status and great contributions to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
These are all people with high power in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and their status is quite high. You should know that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom adopts the military advisor system, and these five kings also hold the position of military advisor. Therefore, the five kings and Hong Xiuquan share the highest ruling power of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom together. Even the two fourth-class kings, King Yan and King Yu, are all generals at the command level.
1851-1856 Taiping Heavenly Kingdom official position
At this time, the title of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was still very strict, the requirements for titles were high, and the official title system was quite complete. For example, there were strict systems such as the ranks of the ranks and the rewards, which exceeded the official title system of the Qing Dynasty .
The beginning of the flooding of the official title system in the early stage of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, all military and political affairs were the responsibility of military advisors. Hong Xiuquan retreated behind the scenes and rarely dealt with the government affairs. After Feng Yunshan and Xiao Chaogui's deaths, the power fell into the hands of the East King Yang Xiuqing. The conflict with Hong Xiuquan became increasingly greater and greater, and he continued to undermine Hong Xiuquan and became the actual ruler of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
Later, he planned to go one step closer and forced Hong Xiuquan to call him "Long Live". Hong Xiuquan could no longer bear it. In addition, Chen Chengying reported that Yang Xiuqing planned to kill Hong Xiuquan. In the end, Hong Xiuquan secretly summoned Wei Changhui, Qin Rigang and others who were fighting abroad to return to Tianjing to kill Yang Xiuqing. After Yang Xiuqing was killed, Wei Changhui and Qin Rigang were liquidated by Hong Xiuquan again, causing the "Tianjing Incident."
Tianjing Incident
Hong Xiuquan, who learned his lesson, began to use various means to restrain and weaken to avoid the emergence of another Yang Xiuqing. First, it was against Shi Dakai, the wing king who led his army back to the North Korea to clean up the mess. At this time, Shi Dakai had been changed to the King of Yi, the only remaining real power king among the five kings. Hong Xiuquan first named his two brothers Hong Renfa as King An, Hong Renda as King Fu Wang , so that King An, King Fu and Shi Dakai formed a balanced situation.
Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Golden Palace
However, Hong Xiuquan's two brothers' abilities and qualifications are completely incomparable to the early Five Kings. They neither have the support of the soldiers of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom nor have the strength to restrain Shi Dakai. In the end, Shi Dakai led his army to leave Tianjing. He thought he could establish a new mountain, but after leaving the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Shi Dakai quickly collapsed.
Li Xiucheng's rise
After Shi Dakai left Tianjing, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was in danger of collapse. So Hong Xiuquan launched the new generation of Li Xiucheng and Chen Yucheng and others to establish a system of palm-leading meetings. The Mengdeen , who had average arrangement skills but was loyal to himself, was the head of the party-leading meeting system. The other party appointed Li Xiucheng and Chen Yucheng and other people with super-capable abilities to be responsible for actual work, completely reversed the crisis of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and allowed the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to continue to prolong its life. At this time, Hong Xiuquan sealed several more people who led the meeting as the leader of the party, forming the new Five Kings.
Taiping Heavenly Kingdom territory
However, Li Xiucheng was too capable, first supported his cousin Li Shixian to control the military power in the north of Tianjin, while he himself controlled the military power in the south of Tianjin. He also recommended Lin Shaozhang, a figure who was marginalized due to the defeat of Xiangtan , took charge of the central government power in the Tianjing, and recommended Wei Changhui's clan brother Wei Jun to lead the meeting. At this point, Li Xiucheng completely replaced Shi Dakai's original position and became the leader of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
Zhongwang Li Xiucheng
Faced with Li Xiucheng's behavior of power, Hong Xiuquan once supported his tribe members Hong Renyan to replace Li Xiucheng's status and named him Ganwang , but Hong Renyan was used by Li Xiucheng to help Li Xiucheng seize southern Jiangsu, which led to the loss of Anqing and the failure of Chen Yucheng. Li Xiucheng made the last step and completely became the only real-powerful figure in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
Rotten King's Legitimacy Decentralization
Although Li Xiucheng monopolized the power, he was loyal to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but Hong Xiuquan was relieved. Therefore, at this moment, in order to decentralize power from Li Xiucheng, the only way was to grant more kings like Li Xiucheng. Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has entered the stage of badly winning the title of kings . First, it invented the title of Tianyan and Tianyu between the King and the Marquis. The origin was Qin Rigang and Hu Yihuang's Dingtian Yan and Tianyu. Later, it invented the title of Yi Wang Jue, An Wang Jue and Fu Wang Jue who were one level higher than that of Tianyan and Tianyu, that is, the title of Tianfu, Tianan, and Tianyi.
Taiping Heavenly Kingdom portrait
But even so, it can only stimulate the middle and lower backbone of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Therefore, the killing weapon king was also taken out. First, the deputy generals and subordinates of Li Xiucheng and Chen Yucheng were named Yiziwang Jue, but with the king, the government had to be established, which led to great power. Therefore, in order to decentralize power from these people, Hong Xiuquan had the aides and logistics personnel of the king Jue who guarded a city or even a county, such as those who managed the vegetable garden, chef, etc., and often there were more than a dozen marquises in the team of more than one hundred people, and a team leader of five or six people was also a marquis.
The point of doing this is that the words used to be named kings are not enough, and new titles must be invented, such as the kings. The so-called kings are the fifth-class kings. There is no title, and they are called kings. They are exempted from the previous method of adding characters in the kings, but it is still not enough. A small king was invented, adding three points to the kings, pronounced as "Xiao Wang" and so on (but there is no information to prove it at present, and it may not be implemented yet). Due to the proliferation of kings, the gold content of the kings before the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has dropped sharply. In order to ensure the status of the kings and others, Hong Xiuquan added new titles such as Tianjiang, the court general, and the chief general between the titles of Kings and Tianyan Tianhou, which was completely out of control.
Qing army encircled Tianjing
The evolution of the Taiping Heavenly King's Lord
851: Established the King's Lord
853: King's Lord - Marquis
856: King's Lord - Yan's Lord - Yu's Lord - Marquis
859: King's Lord - Yi Jue - Fu Jue - Yan's Lord - Yu's Lord - Marquis
859: King's Lord - Yi Jue - Fu Jue - Yan's Lord - Yu's Lord - Marquis
859 years later: King Jue - Heavenly General - Chao Gang General - God General - Yi Jue - An Jue - Fu Jue - Yan Jue - Yu Jue - Marquis
part King Jue name
Love King Huang Chongfa : The Ministry of Justice in front of the palace is also deputy Qiu Liao Dingtian to support the court gang and love Wang Ji Qiansui
Shirt Wang Hong Renzheng : The Ministry of Works in front of the palace is also the winter of the palace is also the winter of the palace is also the winter of the palace is also the winter of the palace is also the sun Wang Xing Qiansui
report Wang Qin Riyuan : Deputy Dong Lie of the Ministry of Works in front of the Palace and Dingtian support the Chaogang report Wang Long Qiansui
leads Wang Xiao Chaofu : Deputy Dong Lie of the Ministry of Works in front of the Palace and Deputy Dong Lie of the Palace and Dingtian support the Chaogang Wang Kang Qiansui
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In the early years, the king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had great power, but the king of the king was flooded, and the king of the later king was basically equal to the commanders of all classes. This was just a title of prince. Among these kings, the main "welfare" is that they can be eaten with meat every day, and there is no much power at all. Most kings do not have a royal palace, and there is no king of the king. Only Yang Xiuqing, Hong Renyi, Chen Yucheng, Li Xiucheng, and Li Shixian are qualified to build the palace, so they are just good in name, and they are better than the big head soldiers.
Shi Dakai 28 Dragon Boat
Corresponding to it was the Qing Dynasty. During the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom War, the Qing Dynasty also granted a large number of official positions, including more than 2,000 admiral alone, and more than 20,000 generals of general and deputy generals. 99% of the people were just one title and had no power at all. After all, in order to fight against the Taiping Army, the Qing Dynasty almost hollowed out the national treasury. When there was no money to give people the officers and soldiers, they could only give some good titles, so they granted a large number of official positions.
Taiping Heavenly Kingdom yellow jacket
How many kings did Taiping Heavenly Kingdom seal
Currently, some people say that Taiping Heavenly Kingdom sealed more than 2,700 kings, but in fact, it needs to be verified. After all, the source of more than 2,700 kings comes from Huang Wenying's confession in the Jiangxi Governor's Office, but in another confession, he said that only more than 1,000 were sealed. Later, according to later research, in "Talk about Taiping Heavenly Kingdom", it was clear that the number of kings was about 300, and even included Nian Army and posthumously named meritorious officials, etc.
Huang Wenying's confession in the Jiangxi Governor's Office
, and the last king Hong Tianguifu said in the confession that there were more than a thousand kings who failed to break through in Tianjing, so it can be concluded that more than a thousand kings in Huang Wenying's confession were still relatively reliable. After all, when the Qing Dynasty interrogated, it was liked to tamper with confessions privately, so more than 2,700 kings should be exaggerated, but there should be more than a thousand kings.
Hong Tianguifu's confession
Overall, although Hong Xiuquan was the founder of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, his ability was very different from that of the East King Yang Xiuqing, otherwise he would not have made the East King bigger and seized almost all the power of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. However, Hong Xiuquan had a big killing weapon that he was the highest controller of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in name and had the power to vote for titles. Therefore, he used the power of titles to maintain internal stability, instigate internal strife, and ultimately maintained his own status. Therefore, after facing Li Xiucheng, who was excellent in ability and loyal to Hong Xiuquan, he could only rely on the bad titles to restrain him, which is also the fundamental reason for the proliferation of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
