1864, 19 July (June 16th, Tongzhi three years), Ceng Guoquan supervised the Xiang army from Taipingmen.

After the invasion of Nanjing, Tianjing, the capital of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, fell. The next morning, Zhongjun Li Xiucheng brought a thousand.

Many people rushed out of the emergency exit to protect the young king. This move is really a wonderful idea. A hundred years later, Mao Zedong.

Dong boarded the emergency exit and praised Li Xiucheng's courage and wisdom.

After leaving the city, Li Xiucheng let Xiao Tianwang and others go first so that they could patrol themselves. Because in Li Xiucheng's absence,

I gave the horse I used to ride to the young king, but the horse I was looking for was too weak to keep up.

Team, followed by enemy soldiers, as a last resort, had to hide in farmers' homes in Fangshan, a suburb of Nanjing, no

It is expected that two traitors recognized him and reported it to the enemy. On July 22nd, Li Xiucheng was captured.

On July 23rd, Li Xiucheng was sent to Fu Xiao Swimming Camp in Ceng Guoquan. According to Zeng Guofan's staff, Zhao Liewen Day

Record: Ceng Guoquan "heard that the fake loyal gentleman arrived, and Zhong Cheng (Ceng Guoquan) personally heard the news and set a knife cone to enter."

Before, I want to cut it carefully. Or sue, give this person (referring to the Qing court) and rush to the middle city.

Location. Keep your voice down. Zhong Cheng jumped up in his seat in anger and said sharply, "This local thief has ears. You stay here.

Do you want to provide it to the prisoner? Blaming Yong for cutting off his arm, he was bleeding all over, and the loyal Emirates did not move. "Ceng Guoquan dragon attack.

Nanjing, angry with Li Xiucheng, went on the rampage. While Li Xiucheng acted righteously.

However.

That night, Zhao Liewen came to visit. Li Xiucheng had a long talk with him. Finally, Zhao Liewen asked

What does Li Xiucheng think of life and death? Li Xiucheng replied, "Only death". But it also left a sentence.

Words: "Gu Zhijiang's right-hand men are all old subordinates, and they can be scattered by the rulers to avoid killing each other, so they are abolished."

No regrets! "

At this time, Zeng Guofan, who was in Anqing, heard that Li Xiucheng was captured and played the court: Li Xiu.

Whether to achieve the goal of "sending the capital to the capital" or to teach Jinling immediately, please decide. While rushing to Nanjing.

On July 28th, Zeng Guofan rushed to Nanking and arraigned Li Xiucheng that night. After the trial, Zeng Guofan

Determined to kill Li Xiucheng in Nanking. The next day, Zeng Guofan wrote to his son Ceng Jize in Anqing.

He said: "The pseudo-loyal gentleman has personally inquired about it, and he intends to correct it here." Why did Zeng Guofan decide to go south?

Beijing killed Li Xiucheng mainly because it was afraid that the Qing court would get something bad from Li Xiucheng.

Capture Li Xiucheng alive, stir in one's hand, have a hand over to treat to the world, zeng guofan "take false loyal.

Detailed confession (once a diary), let Li Xiucheng write a "confession". Thus, Li Xiucheng was born in his life.

In the last 17 days of my life, I left a "self-report" of tens of thousands of words regardless of the pain and heat.

After Li Xiucheng was killed, Zeng Guofan deleted Li Xiucheng's readme and sent a copy to the Qing court.

Ten days later, a print edited by Zeng Guofan was published in Anqing.

Ben, named after Li Xiucheng. All kinds of prints circulated in the future are based on this.

An Anqing book evolved. The original of this self-report has been kept in Zeng's home. until

1962, Zeng Guofan's descendants in Taiwan Province Province photocopied and published this manuscript which had been kept secret for 98 years.

The topic is Li Xiucheng's handwriting. The following year, Zhonghua Book Company wrote the title according to this photocopy.

It's the readme of loyal Li Xiucheng, and it's printed every word. In this readme, it not only describes

Li Xiucheng's life experience, but also almost involved the entire history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, at the same time, flow

Kneel and beg for surrender. For more than a hundred years, historians (in fact, not only historians) have been surrounded.

There are endless arguments about this document. According to some statistics, it accounts for almost the whole Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

One tenth of the national history research papers.

Hong Rengan

Hong Rengan (1822-1864) is the younger brother of Hong Xiuquan, king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. He has lived in Hong Kong for many years. After the Tianjing Incident, he went to Tianjing (Nanjing), where he became a strategist, a king and a prime minister. Hong Rengan is one of the leaders of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and he has a wide understanding of the West. Senior Minister's New Chapter is a political program with the development of capitalism as its main theme, which was considered as a quite advanced thought in China at that time.

Hong Rengan was one of the first followers of the cult of God founded by Hong Xiuquan in 1843 (the other was Feng Yunshan). 185 1 During the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom jintian uprising, Hong Rengan did not participate in Guangdong. 1852, Hong arrived in Hong Kong and met the Swedish missionary Han Shanwen. The following year, he was baptized in Guangdong. 1854, he went to Shanghai, but failed to go to Tianjin. Later, he returned to Hong Kong and became a missionary in London, studying western things.

1859 In March, Hong Rengan finally arrived in Tianjing with the help of the British. After seeing Hong Xiuquan, I learned that Hong Rengan had studied western things. He was overjoyed and made him a strategist and king, making him the prime minister of heaven. However, other domestic cadres were dissatisfied with Hong Rengan and made him king, so Hong Xiuquan also made others king.

Based on what he saw and heard in Hongkong and Shanghai for many years, Hong Rengan put forward "Senior Minister's New Chapter" as the long-term development program of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. In addition to the idea of political unity and leadership, the new chapter of senior minister also proposes to learn from the west economically: starting a business, running a bank, building a railway, opening a hotel and running a postal service; But also put forward to have a judicial system to protect the person, run a newspaper to transmit information, supervise the government and so on. Diplomatically, the new article proposes to give up the illusion that thousands of people will come to the DPRK and open to the west, and both sides will treat each other equally. The content of "Senior Minister's New Chapter" basically contains various elements of developing capitalist society, which is more comprehensive and thorough than the Westernization Movement and Reform Movement in the Qing Dynasty. Zhao Liewen, Zeng Guofan's aide, also said that "Yu Yi's feelings are the most proficient ... If you read this book, there will be no thieves".

But Hong Rengan began to lose power at the beginning of 186 1, and his strength was weakened. The objective environment of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom at that time did not allow him to seriously implement the ideas in the new article. After all, "Senior Minister New Chapter" is still an armchair strategist.

1July, 864, Tianjing fell, and Hong Rengan was in Huzhou. Hong Rengan was captured in Jiangxi on August 27th and killed in Nanchang on June 65438+1October1.