I plan to lock the modification after the upper part is completed.
When Gordon opened fire with cannons and then attacked the heavily fortified parapet, he was not facing King Mu, but the loyal King himself who could not be trusted! He led three thousand elite soldiers, all wearing yellow robes. The battle was at the outpost, defended by King Zhong personally supervising the army. For the only time in his life, Gordon faced the great Taiping commander on the battlefield. Afterwards, he had to admit: King Zhong Duan took the lead when he charged, and he was unstoppable.
--"Gordon in China" [English] Bernard. M. Allen
King Chung is currently writing his autobiography. In the meantime, he awaits Beijing's ruling. As for what the verdict will be, there is no need to ask more. Indeed, the Qing government would have been crazy to let a rebel leader as well-known as King Zhong go. His name itself is synonymous with resistance. As long as he raises a flag, countless people from all over the country will gather around him.
--The New York Times ("Qing troops breached Tianwang Mansion, loyal king Li Xiucheng was captured without help", December 18, 1864)
"I didn't want to disturb him, so I went in quietly, but when someone called him, he turned around, stood up, and congratulated me by my name. I had to say a few words, so I just asked him if he wanted anything from me. He answered that his only hope was in heaven. He seemed to say this in an almost happy tone, which made me unconsciously sympathize with him."
——British Foreign Office Archives 1864 (Memoirs of Ala Pasteur, British Government Translator)
Arabist (i. E. Alabastide) was the last foreigner to see Li (Xiucheng). He met Li in Nanjing. Li told him that the man he (referring to Arabster) saw (referring to Li himself) was a dead man, and Li was happy that he could still use the little time left to write some history about the uprising, because all the archives in Nanjing had been lost. Despite the brutal abuse he suffered, he still appeared calm and collected, maintaining his dignity.
——The Letters of Rewi Alley
I once saw mention of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in a post. Someone compared the loyal king Li Xiucheng to Wei Qing of the Western Han Dynasty, and the British king Chen Yucheng to Huo Qubing. But immediately someone below said contemptuously that they were just two peasant bandits. But I thought otherwise. The two of them were born in commoners and carried three-foot swords. They started as small soldiers and rose to the position of extremely popular ministers and became heroes of the world. How elegant they were. Moreover, unlike the prosperous status of the Western Han Dynasty, they were in the troubled times of the late Qing Dynasty, and the camp they relied on was gradually declining. Knowing that something cannot be done but doing it is a man with the ancient style.
The little girl's clumsy pen describes a period of history from the side, which is so white and rotten that it cannot be added.
Portrait of the loyal king Li Xiucheng in court dress (painting)
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