From the start, all I had was a failed exam candidate, and God wholesaled all my gear!
Hong Xiuquan, a loser in the imperial exams, flipped the table in a fit of rage. His "own son" of God was handed a KPI straight from heaven: crush the Qing demons and build a heavenly kingdom on earth!
A cannon blast rang out in Jintian Village. The peasants grabbed their hoes and dared to strike at the iron-clad empire! Fanatical God Worshippers transformed into killing machines, carving their way from the poor mountain ravines of Guangxi to the imperial heart of Nanjing, founding a blood-soaked dynasty called the "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom"!
In Tianjing, the dragon throne burned your backside!
King Hong sat on half the empire and had an overpowered harem, yet personally ground his "equality for all" flag to bits and fed it to the dogs! Eastern King Yang Xiuqing was even more brazen: God directly possessed him to lecture the Heavenly King online. The power struggle spiraled into a chaotic dance of gods and demons!
And the result? The Tianjing Incident! Brothers turned on each other, every blade drawing blood! The Northern King massacred the Eastern King's residence, while the Wing King slammed the table and walked away... The so-called heavenly kingdom instantly became the ultimate battlefield of carnage!
The Qing demons counterattacked, and foreign guns were in their faces!
Zeng Guofan's Xiang Army tore at them like hyenas, while the foreign powers' "Ever-Victorious Army" shelled the ground! Beneath Tianjing's walls, it wasn't bricks that piled up, but mountains of corpses and seas of blood!
King Hong hid in his inner palace, snacking on "immortal pills" and stewing his "romantic ideals" into a pot of spoiled, mind-numbing broth. Then the Xiang Army blew the city walls apart, and the so-called "little paradise" became a flesh-and-blood mill!
Fourteen provinces lay in ruins, and hundreds of millions suffered!
A massive social experiment in the name of "heaven," written with the holiest slogans and the hottest human blood.
The dream shattered into pieces; romance was soaked in crimson!
This book won't serve you feel-good platitudes. It lays bare the truth: see how a band of fanatics tried to change the world
