185 1 A cry of jintian uprising and Hong Xiuquan opened the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement that swept the country. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement was called the peasant movement, which was at the beginning of the uprising. Unfortunately, in the end, they were greedy for pleasure and arrogant, which led to the disintegration of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom with beautiful illusions, and Zeng Guofan led the troops to break the capital.
There are many reasons for the failure of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. First, they misjudged the victory of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement. Because the Taiping Rebellion swept the whole Yangtze River basin quickly, their territory expanded rapidly and developed by spurt, which made Hong Xiuquan carried away by victory at that time.
Hong Xiuquan thought that national reunification was just around the corner. As everyone knows, the rapid development of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was entirely due to the lack of defense of the Qing army at that time, and the fact that the Qing army had no war for a long time made the army's strength slack.
When they regrouped, it was still unknown whether the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom could resist. It is for this reason that the millipede is dead but not stiff.
In addition, Hong Xiuquan relies too much on the God he believes in. Hong Xiuquan believes that such a quick victory is entirely God's blessing. Now that God is on his side, it is only a matter of time before the country is unified. Therefore, at the beginning of their victory, they slowed down the pace of attack at that time and began to indulge themselves in capital, and the smell of corruption became stronger and stronger. Among them, the dispute between the East King and the Heavenly King is the fiercest.
At that time, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had hundreds of thousands of female troops. These women are as brave as men, but when the city was broken, no one chose to surrender. Why?
The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom took the lead in putting forward the slogan of equality between men and women, claiming that all women in the world are sisters, creating a perfect utopia for women. In the patriarchal atmosphere at that time, having a place where women can be independent and have equal status in seven lonely days is a paradise that every woman yearns for. So at that time, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom assembled many women and formed a female army, which became a very important female military force at that time.
Jinling city was broken, and Zeng Guofan ordered the army to rob for three days. Soldiers who have been fighting for a long time have no pay and enjoy themselves. Seeing the magnificent Jinling City, they liberated their animal nature and insulted female soldiers again and again. In the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, men and women were equal, but the city was broken and it was unbearable. These women had to resist.
In addition, Zeng Guofan ordered the massacre. If you don't resist, you're dead. It is better to fight vigorously, so there is no surrender between women. In addition, after the surrender, the Qing dynasty will not let them go, and the will of the Qing dynasty is to be quick after the surrender. Therefore, even if these female soldiers surrender, they will not be pardoned. On the contrary, they will be treated as corvees or even bought and sold, and their future life will be even more unbearable. Women who have experienced the utopia of equality between men and women are even less willing to suffer such humiliation. So, even if Zeng Guofan asked them to surrender, they wouldn't.
Women hope to please themselves, and scholars die for their bosom friends. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has created a very beautiful picture and a very beautiful fantasy for women, so they are willing to fight for it. As female soldiers in the Kingdom of Tian Ping, they can no longer be treated simply. To some extent, they developed the concepts of freedom and equality. Although they ended in failure, they defended their yearning for freedom with their own lives.