Taiping Army In Changshu

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement is the largest peasant uprising in Chinese history,which has a profound impact on Modern China.In May 1860,the Taiping army defeated the Jiangnan camp.Hong Xiuquan,the king of heaven,ordered Li Xiucheng,the loyal king,to lead the army to conquer the East and explore the south of Jiangsu.In this operation,Changshu,affiliated to Suzhou,became the attack target of the Taiping army.Along the way,the Taiping army conquered Danyang,Changzhou,Wuxi and Suzhou,and then determined the south of Jiangsu,and established the Suzhou centered base of Sufu province.Changshu was the last city that Taiping army conquered in Suzhou.When the neighboring counties and prefectures had been occupied,the landlord tuanlian of Changshu was still fighting.Until the middle of September 1860,Huang Wenjin and Li Yuanji,the generals of the Taiping army,led the army to capture Changshu.Soon,Changshu entered the reign of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom led by Qian Guiren after 20 days of management by Huang and Li.In the following period of time,the Taiping army took a series of political,military,economic,cultural and other measures in Changshu,not only trying to effectively control Changshu,but also hoping to obtain sufficient food and salaries from this place to support the front Taiping Army’s operations.However,there are many problems in the rule of the Taiping Army in Changshu.In the aspect of social governance,the government ignored the social contradictions in Changshu due to the problems of corruption of canal transportation,ignored the actual demands of the local people,and in the process of governance,all services and obedience to the military,resulting in the old disadvantages of the traditional society,frequent changes in the rural society,and people’s good for the Taiping government The feeling is gone.In terms of military politics,Qian Guiren and other military generals who had the power of Changshu were rebelled by the Qing Dynasty in the later period,which directly led to the fall of Changshu in the early 1863.Changshu became the first city that Taiping army lost in Suzhou,and its fall became the starting point for Taiping army to lose the whole southern Jiangsu.Based on the clue of time,this paper discusses the whole historical process of Taiping army from occupying Changshu to losing Changshu.The article is divided into five parts the first part,as the background of the Taiping Army’s attack on Changshu,mainly discusses the social problems of the Changshu area in the Daoguang and Xianfeng period,such as the corruption of canal transportation,the high price of silver and the low price of money,the resistance to rent and taxes,as well as the response of Changshu after the Taiping Army’s capture of Nanjing;the second part mainly describes the process of the Taiping Army’s march into Changshu,including breaking the Jiangnan camp,sweeping the south of Jiangsu and conquering Changshu;The third part mainly summarizes the political,military,economic and cultural systems and measures of the Taiping Army in Changshu;the fourth part mainly introduces the ruling crisis faced by the Taiping Army in Changshu and the process of losing Changshu;the fifth part is the conclusion part,which briefly summarizes the whole process of Taiping Army in Changshu,analyzes the reasons for Taiping Army’s capture and loss of Changshu,and makes an objective and fair evaluation of Taiping Army’s performance in Changshu from the macro level.