Taiping Heavenly Kingdom  After succeeding in taking control of Nanjing (Nanking), Hong built Taiping's capital there  Killing all Qing bureaucrats and Confucian scholars and burnt all Confucian texts, which Hong regarded as evil  He proclaimed himself Heavenly King and five of his closest comrades Eastern, Western, Southern, Northern, and Wing Kings  The fratricide among the Taipings resulted in the gradual collapse of the kingdom, even though it might have promise to overthrow the Qing regime  A 100,000 Taipings died in Nanjing rather than surrender to the Qing.
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