Xiao Chaogui, born in a poor peasant family, has experienced the hardships of life and the ups and downs of the world since he was a child. Not surprisingly, Xiao Chaogui has been a farmer facing the loess and facing the sky all his life. However, life is always full of unknowns. You don't know what will happen in the next second. The next second, you may die, and the next second, it may lead to a turning point in life.
At the age of 23, Xiao Chaogui painted a turning point in his life. In the twenty-third year of Daoguang, Hong Xiuquan founded the God Society and sent Feng Yunshan to Guiping to publicize the teachings. Xiao Chaogui came into contact with the teaching of the church of God, and soon joined the church of God with young Yang, becoming one of the early members of the church of worship of God.
It can be said that Xiao Chaogui's highest achievement in his life was to join God and lead the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, and made many significant contributions to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, whether in military, political or propaganda.
Xiao Chaogui is a very smart and sexually alert person. Although because of his poor family, there is no money for him to study at home, and Xiao Chaogui has not received a good education and doesn't know a few words, this can't hide his cleverness at all.
God continued to join the congregation and became more and more powerful, which eventually attracted the attention of the Qing court and sent people to arrest the members of God. Feng Yunshan, who was preaching in Guiping at that time, was arrested by the Qing court, and Hong Xiuquan went to Guangdong to try to rescue him. The congregation of God shook for a moment. Just when the situation was critical, Xiao Chaogui used his quick wits, and together with Yang, he pretended to be a heavenly father and brother, appeasing the shaken people and letting God tide over the crisis smoothly.
Xiao Chaogui is a very talented general. After jintian uprising, Xiao Chaogui led the Taiping Army to win many battles. Xiao Chaogui's military talents have been unanimously recognized by the leadership of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom document "Awakening the World" wrote: "The heavenly king is really brave and good at fighting, and the skill of breaking enemy weapons is also." Li Xiucheng praised him: "Brave and strong, charge ahead."
At that time, many people of the landlord class, although opposed to Xiao Chaogui, were enemies on both sides, but they did not hesitate to praise Xiao Chaogui's ability to lead troops. They said that Xiao Chaogui was "extremely brave"; "Brave and good at fighting"; Every time you face the enemy, "take the lead in fighting"; Often, "meeting in person, flying." Facing the war, he was fearless and personally commanded the battle on the battlefield. He is a brave, invincible and invincible peasant military general.
Not only in the military field, but also in the political field, Xiao Chaogui is also quite talented. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's document "Heavenly Book, Sincerity and Sincerity" records: "At the beginning of jintian uprising, the heavenly father silently put out a shortage of food and grass to test the hearts of our siblings. The kings of the East and the West told all their brothers and sisters to eat porridge to show their economy. Sometimes a monster with a big head is at the mouth of the river. He has no sincerity at all. In the name of worshipping God, he abused power in the areas along the Yangtze River, seeking quick success and instant benefit, regardless of his later happiness. Some of our brothers, who don't know the evidence of the father's strength, changed their minds because of temporary difficulties. They want to change their original intention, collude with the big-headed demon, profit from his goods and wealth, and be tempted by it for a while. Brother Meng Tian came down to wake up his younger brothers and sisters, pointing out that the big-headed demon was a thief and a bandit, but he was not a real god worshipper. If we follow his disciples, we will be trapped, deceived, poisoned and trapped by him. What will we regret then? So the brothers listened to the imperial edict of Brother Tian and suddenly realized that they were afraid to go. A few days later, the big-headed demon really rebelled. Fortunately, the brothers have turned to enlightenment and have not suffered from it, and they have completely wiped out the demon party. " Xiao Chaogui fully understood the great importance of popular support in the uprising. He called for a boycott of the "big demon" and stood up in the face of the rampant destruction of Zhang Zhao and his "demon people" gang to turn the tide. These similar events attracted many people for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and laid a broad mass foundation, which is the basic material for the sustainable development of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
Xiao Chaogui is also good at propaganda and attracting people's hearts. After the establishment of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Xiao Chaogui led the Northern Expedition. During the March, he and Yang published three essays: Killing Demons in Fengtian to Save the World and Protect the People, Seeking Hu in Fengtian and Saving the People of China Born and Raised by Heaven. The establishment of the society of "one family in the world, sharing peace" advocated in the three articles has absorbed a large number of people for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has also developed and grown.
At the same time, Xiao Chaogui is also a very tragic figure. He came to the fore and died halfway, just like a flash in the pan, and soon faded away. At the age of 37, he had been killed in battle, which was a pity. ?