Why did Zeng Guofan execute Li Xiucheng so quickly?

Zeng Guofan still understands people's standards very well, he Li Xiucheng betrayed the former lord and waged his tail and begged for mercy, of course, it was a villain's behavior, which was despised by a gentleman, so he quickly killed him.

Afraid that he would surrender by fraud, Li Xiucheng had a lot of eyes, and Lao Zeng had to guard against it.

The Qing Dynasty has always brutally suppressed the Taiping army.

If you don't write a book of 10,000 words, you will die the same!

First, because Li Xiucheng once killed Zeng Guofan's brother in the battle with the Qing army, and second, because Zeng Guofan once exaggerated the facts to the Qing ** to invite credit. Based on these two reasons, Zeng Guofan quickly executed Li Xiucheng. Li Xiucheng came from a humble background, and it was this background that made him suffer from loneliness and lack of food, which led him to join the Worship of God in 1849.

The Society was founded in 1844 by Hong Xiuquan and others to use religious beliefs to recruit members of the uprising, and then use it to overthrow the corrupt rule of the Qing Dynasty. <>

In January 1851, many poor peasants gathered by the Worship of God officially revolted under the leadership of Hong Xiuquan. Later, the uprising regime under the name of "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom" was established in February of that year, and Li Xiucheng, who was a member of the Worship of God Society, joined the Taiping army in August of that year. After about two years of fighting, the Taiping army successfully captured Nanjing from the Qing army in March 1853.

Subsequently, Hong Xiuquan renamed Nanjing "Tianjing" and set the capital here. During this period, Li Xiucheng originally served as a director under Hu Yihuang, and a few months later was promoted to the commander of the Fourth Army and the Fourth Supervisor of the Right Army due to Yang Xiuqing's promotion. <>

Li Xiucheng was appreciated for his seriousness, and his status in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom became higher and higher. Among them, after the Tianjing Incident, Li Xiucheng was promoted to the position of local official and prime minister. After Shi Dakai left Tianjing, Li Xiucheng's power further increased and he began to take charge of some military and political powers.

In the following time, Li Xiucheng successively led the Taiping army to win victories such as a breakthrough in Jiangbei, Jiangnan, and Sanhe, which can be said to be the mainstay of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the middle and late periods. <>

In the first month of 1864, Tianjing was besieged by the Hunan army, and Hong Xiuquan died in April of the same year. Under this situation, although Li Xiucheng, who was the general of Tianjing, tried his best to stabilize the army's morale to defend Tianjing, Tianjing was still broken by the Hunan army, so Li Xiucheng could only escape outside the city. During the escape, Li Xiucheng accidentally got separated from the brigade, and was captured during his exile in Fangshan due to a report.

The captured Li Xiucheng was then sent to the Zeng Guoquan military camp, and Zeng Guoquan hated Li Xiucheng for the death of his brother. For this reason, he inflicted various punishments on Li Xiucheng as a sign of revenge. Not only that, Zeng Guoquan later executed Li Xiucheng without receiving instructions from the Qing court.

According to research, Zeng Guoquan was so eager to put Li Xiucheng to death, on the one hand, because he had exaggerated and fabricated many elements of Li Xiucheng's affairs before, in order to take credit from the Qing court. After Li Xiucheng was arrested and captured, he was worried that the Qing court would send another person to interrogate Li Xiucheng and expose what he had done, so he killed Li Xiucheng without waiting for instructions.

Because Li Xiucheng summarized the reasons for his failure to Zeng Guofan in his self-confession, and told him what to do not be defeated, but Zeng Guofan was unwilling to rebel, for fear that Li Xiucheng would say something unfavorable to him, so he quickly executed him.

He wrote a desperate book of tens of thousands of words in just a few days, and wrote thousands of words a day, so he was quickly executed.

Li Xiucheng was an important general of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom at that time, and he must have known where the treasure house of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was, and Li Xiucheng probably said in his confession that Zeng Guofan might become emperor in the future, and in order to avoid extraneous branches, he also had to kill Li Xiucheng.

Why did Zeng Guofan have to do Li Xiucheng On this day in 1984, the Hunan army broke through Tianjing, the capital of the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom, after the city was broken, the loyal king Li Xiucheng was captured, why did Zeng Guofan not escort Li Xiucheng to the capital for about a month, and hurriedly executed Xiucheng, who had surrendered to Li?

Cause. 1. Li Xiucheng is an important general of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and it can be said that he is the most proficient general in war, when the entire Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is degenerate, only the loyal king Li Xiucheng sticks to his heart, and what Li Xiucheng does is indeed worthy of this loyal word has always been respected, Li Xiucheng's influence is also very great, and Zeng Guofan's younger brother Zeng Guohua died in the battle with Liu Xiucheng.

Cause. Second, the reason why Zeng Guofan executed Li Xiucheng was related to the so-called confession written by Li Xiucheng in the Qing army camp, and its true content was to record the history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and many victories in the history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom written by Li Xiucheng were Zeng Guofan's lying about the military situation at that time, and in many battles between the Hunan army and the Taiping army, Zeng Guofan could say that he lied about the military situation, and said that many of the Hunan army's defeats were victories.

Li Xiucheng once persuaded Zeng Guofan to oppose the Qing Dynasty and proclaim himself emperor, Li Xiucheng asked where the money in the Hunan army went after the capture of Nanjing, and how did Zeng Guofan report the spoils of war and gold and silver property, we are so at least, in fact, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is really poor, but the imperial court does not necessarily believe it. Although Zeng Guofan did not agree, if this was spread out, the imperial court naturally thought that Zeng Guofan had the intention of seeking power and usurping the throne. I was afraid that the East Window incident would kill Li Xiucheng.

Li Xiucheng wrote the history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and many of the contents recorded in it may cause Zeng Guofan to be beheaded, which is also the most important reason why he was stopped from killing Li Xiucheng, although this so-called confession was finally handed over to the imperial court, but the content in it was deleted by Zeng Guofan, and it is not a complete history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.