Chapter 56 The first section of the strange book "Taiping Ritual System"

At the beginning of the Taiping Rebellion, the first city captured was Yong'an (in today's Fujian Province).Outside, the Qing army was besieged heavily, but Hong Xiuquan ignored the enemy's situation and happily established a hierarchical order. He divided the officers of the Taiping Army (less than 10,000 people at this time) into sixteen grades, such as king, emperor, marquis, prime minister, checkpoint, commander, general, general system, military commander, division commander, etc. Thirty-nine kinds. Between all levels, the dignity and inferiority are strictly defined, and no offense can be committed, and the offender will be killed immediately.Hong Xiuquan also specially issued an edict stipulating that the king of heaven can eat ten catties of meat a day, and the following ones will be reduced by half a catty step by step, and there will be no meat below the general system.

After dividing 10,000 people into 16 classes, Hong Xiuquan forgot to eat and sleep again, put the tens of thousands of enemy troops out of the way, exhausted his painstaking efforts to formulate the cumbersome and detailed "Taiping Ritual System", which stipulated the names of the sixteen classes when they met each other. What etiquette should be performed, how to address their relatives and how to salute.He stipulated that the people should call the prince's son "Long live the young master", his third son as His Royal Highness Qiantui, the fourth son as His Royal Highness Qiantui, and so on.He called his eldest daughter Tianchangjin, his second daughter Tianerjin, and so on.If any reader has the opportunity and interest to read this wonderful book in Chinese history carefully, he will definitely benefit a lot.

In fact, hundreds of years before Hong Xiuquan, Zhu Yuanzhang did almost the same thing.