Even in ancient my country, there was a long phenomenon of "imperial power not falling into counties": that is, due to the constraints of administrative level and administrative costs, the governance of ancient dynasties at the county level was completely relied on the countrysid

clan forces played a huge role in ancient my country. Even in ancient my country, there was a long phenomenon of "imperial power not falling into counties": that is, due to the constraints of administrative level and administrative costs, the governance of ancient dynasties at the county level was completely relied on the countryside clans to govern. Clans often become an important factor in the stability of the dynasty. After all, the court safeguards the interests of clans in various places, and clans in various places must also support the court to form mutual benefit. For feudal dynasties, clans are often their own basic foundation.

. During the late Qing period, the power distribution of the high-level power of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was also based on clan issues, forming the major hills of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and a power structure coexisting among major hills at one time appeared.

Among them, Yang Xiuqing hill is quite special.

1. The importance of human beings

Whether it is "doing great things" in ancient times or running a business in the contemporary world, people who are trustworthy and able to do things are indispensable elements to achieve success. Many important things and key positions often hold more important power, which often requires absolutely reliable people to control. Therefore, there are many entrepreneurs who choose to support their families to do things.

For example, of the Western Han Dynasty , Liu Bang , was enthroned by the children of the Liu family as princes to ensure the stability of the Liu family. Liu Bang's second brother Liu Zhong is a ignorant farmer. Because he was Liu Bang's second brother, he was canonized as the King of Dai by Liu Bang. In fact, Liu Bang may not be unaware that Liu Zhong is only suitable for farming and not as a prince. However, for Liu Bang, such a huge country, he cannot ask outsiders to help guard him, right?

This idea has been going on in my country for thousands of years. Even in Ming Dynasty , in order to prevent the Zhu family from losing their country, Zhu Yuanzhang also announced that all descendants of the Zhu family were granted kings and would never be given titles.

2, Yang Family Group

Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement , although Yang Xiuqing nominally has the second only to the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan , Yang Xiuqing is very clear that his foundation in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is not solid: whether it is Wei Changhui or Shi Dakai , there are powerful clan forces behind it. This means that Wei Changhui and Shi Dakai can install their own children to control important positions in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. On the contrary, Yang Xiuqing, because he was alone and alone, although he was the King of the East, his power was very weak and he was even at risk of being undermined - after all, someone also needed to execute it. If the executors do not obey the power, then the power of the power of the power is actually just formalism. For example, during the Eastern Jin period, the major key positions of the Eastern Jin Dynasty were in the hands of the aristocratic families. This led to the implementation of the will of the Emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty often depends on the mood and attitude of the aristocratic families.

Faced with this embarrassment, Yang Xiuqing came up with a trick: that is, it doesn’t matter if he has no clan brothers, but as long as he meets these three conditions, he can be won over by himself and form his own de facto power group. And these three conditions are:

first, and the surname is Yang. Yang Xiuqing wants to set up a Yang family group, so she can’t accept everyone, otherwise it will easily cause positioning chaos;

second, it requires certain talents. After all, Yang Xiuqing needs to distribute the power he has obtained to these people. If you don’t have any skills, wouldn’t you give the power to others? Therefore, talent is very important.

3, loyalty. Guang’s surname is Yang and has talent, but if he is not loyal to himself, he cannot win him over to join the Yang Family Mountain. After all, if you are not loyal to yourself, then if you misappropriate the power you gain to such a person, isn’t it equivalent to digging a hole for yourself?

In fact, the first two are easy to measure, but the third condition is somewhat plausible: after all, it is difficult to understand whether a person is loyal through external observations in the short term.

After Yang Xiuqing's search, Yang Xiuqing found seven people who met the criteria.In order to declare sovereignty to other hilltops, Yang Xiuqing also changed the names of these seven brothers: for example, Yang Fuqing , Yang Runqing, and Yang Xiongqing, all of which changed their names under this background and became a backbone member of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom East King Group and occupied the ecological niche of the Yang Xiuqing clan relatives.

3. Ending

After the Tianjing Incident, the Dongwang Group was crushed, and these pseudo-brothers of Yang Xiuqing also had completely different life paths:

Some people continued to persist in the anti-Qing movement, such as Yang Fuqing;

Some people died in the Tianjing Incident, or their whereabouts were unknown;

Some people surrendered to Qing Dynasty , such as Yang Xiongqing.