How miserable was Hong Xiuquan after his death? His body was chopped up, mixed with gunpowder and packed into shell casings.

July 1864, 19, inside and outside Tianjing, dark clouds enveloped the city, flames were blazing, and the thick smoke was filled with the strong smell of human flesh burning.

At noon, with Ceng Guoquan's command, the wall of the fire escape was blown down by more than 20 feet, and the loud noise shook the whole day. Tens of thousands of Xiang troops with bloodshot eyes, like wolves and beasts, shouted in unison and waved swords, and swept away like a tornado toward the collapsed wall. Taiping rebels guarding the city came from all over the city to seal the gap. They threw a burst of explosives from the city wall and rushed to more than 400 death squads with a scream, all of whom were burned to death. However, tens of thousands of Xiang troops stepped on the bodies of their companions in despair and flocked in. Taiping army can no longer resist the enemy's flood. By the evening of the war, nine doors were broken and Tianjing fell. Xiang Army "killed and set fire". The rest of the Taiping Army fought fiercely with them, and many people shouted: "Don't leave any rags for Clear The Demon to enjoy!" The family set themselves on fire and died.

Everyone is crazy! Without exception, they all want to kill one of the most important people, the king of Hong Xiuquan.

But Xiang turned the whole city upside down, but there was no sign of Hong Xiuquan. On July 30th, Xiong Dengwu, the company commander of Xiang Army, found a report from a Taiping maid named Huang. Only then did he know that Hong Xiuquan had been dead for more than ten days. Under her guidance, Ceng Guoquan sent someone to dig up Hong Xiuquan's body from the main hall of Tianwangfu.

Until his death, Hong Xiuquan remained an innate mystery. Before he died, he ordered people to wrap themselves in more than a dozen layers of thick cloth. Dig the grave, tear off all the thick cloth of Hong Xiuquan's body and carry it to the Yuhuatai in the south of the city to see Zeng Guofan.

Zeng Guofan and Hong Xiuquan, two opponents who struggled for 1 1 year, have never heard of it, let alone met. I didn't expect to meet in such a strange way today. In Zeng Guofan's diary, he described the old enemy like this: "The beard is gray, the head is bald, the left arm is still fleshy, and he is wearing a yellow satin embroidered robe."

God's will is never difficult to ask. Hong Xiuquan's body has just been examined. It turned out to be a clear sky in Wan Li. Suddenly, a strong wind blew and it rained heavily. I rested for about half an hour.

1 in August, Zeng Guofan issued the most severe punishment: "Slay a corpse and burn it with fire!" Hong Xiuquan's body was dragged out again and chopped into pieces by a knife and axe. Even so, if he doesn't give up, Zeng Guofan ordered people to mix the meat sauce into gunpowder, put on shells, and then launch one by one, that is, he died, Hong Xiuquan was wiped out, and the ghost was gone.

However, if "burning corpses and raising ashes" is just a meaningless revenge after Hong Xiuquan's death, then before his death, his mysterious and absurd behavior was possessed, indicating that Hong Xiuquan's ideals and beliefs had been shattered and his spiritual world had collapsed long before the cannon blew down the wall of Tianjing.

On that day, the capital was besieged for several months and faced with great danger of breaking the city. Tianjing experienced unprecedented panic, and everyone's psychological bottom line was on the verge of collapse. The whole city is full of hellish terror. At that time, everyone was so nervous that "transvestites and ghosts work together and never sleep." Inside the door, demons go to hell and always make trouble; Outside the door, they catch thieves, put out fires and exorcise ghosts. "

At this time, Hong Xiuquan is close to a trance and crazy state.

Long-term enjoyment has seriously weakened Hong Xiuquan's will and damaged his intelligence. As soon as he entered Tianjing, Hong Xiuquan sent people to tear down the Forbidden City in the Ming Dynasty and ordered people to transport those huge columns and stones to Xuanwu Lake to build a new palace. After the palace was built, Hong Xiuquan shut himself in the magnificent Tianwangfu all day, and no one saw him. On the one hand, he pondered over some philosophical and theological issues and fantasized about how to combine kingship and religion more closely to establish a super slave dynasty, and at the same time let his subjects become their parishioners and give everything selflessly; On the other hand, like all emperors in history, he practiced the art of sexual intercourse, trying to get extreme happiness in mysterious sexual intercourse and trying to find a way out. All his efforts failed. Finally, seclusion turned him into dust, and eating, drinking and dancing became the only comfort.