In 1851, there was a huge civil war in China, called the Taiping rebellion.
Although not well known outside of China, it killed about 40 million , and was the second most destructive war in history after World War 2.
Long story short, Hong Xiuquan, a ne'er do well in the backwater province of Kwangsi, suddenly declared he was the younger brother of Jesus, and founded a new religion mixing Christianity and Chinese traditional beliefs. People were poor and resentful of the Manchu rulers and so Hong's rebellion gained traction.
Hong had five important lieutenants , but two of them died fighting the governmental forces. In 1853, Hong's forces took Nanking and Hong crowned himself as the Heavenly King, equivalent to Emperor.
But the Manchus were still going strong in Peking, and although some suggested to go to Peking to get rid of the Manchu Emperor, Hong and Yang, his chief lieutenant, got enamored by the riches of Nanking and decided to stay there.
While the Manchus were regaining strength, the lieutenants began fighting for power in Nanking. Hong, the leader, became dependent upon Yang, and Wei, another lieutenant , got jealous of it and one day slaughtered Yang and all of his followers.
Then wei began to act like Yang, controlling Hong. Hong got suspicious and asked Shi, the last remaining lieutenant, to go and kill Wei, which Shi did.
However, knowing that Shi would be next, Shi decided to leave Hong . Shi's crack forces left Hong, weakening the rebellion decisively . (Shi fought the Manchus on his own until captured and killed in 1863)
This inter-civil war, a civil war within a civil war, is called the Tianjing incident (Tianjing was the nane the taipings gave to Nanking) of 1856.
That decisively discredited the Taipings by the elites; although it began with a messianic zeal, they showed that they were no more than power hungry vultures by killing each other with a vigor not seen fighting the Manchus.
After that , having lost all his lieutenants, Hong became irrelevant and the rebellion was taken over by a chap named Li Xiucheng, who continued it until 1864 when Li was killed (Hong died before), but by that time any chance for the rebels to overthrow the Manchus had passed.
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Min Heejin's rebellion against Bang began on 2024, when Hybe, for reasons which will only be known to Bang himself and maybe Kim Namjun, decided to abandon BTS' world conquest and began to send them to the military, a decision which will be taught in business schools for years to come.
The correct decision was to abandon Korea , leave everything in there to Min Heejin, and move BTS to outside of Korean jurisdiction.
Failing that, enlisting the older members and continuing the tour with a few less members would have been the correct choice.
The last option was to destroy domestic opposition, like the Owner of Edam Entertainment and aespa (which Bang did order MHJ to step over, which MHJ did to some degree) and kill any other opinion.
Bang did none of them and enjoyed being a tycoon in Korea.
As a result Hybe stagnated and MHJ's rebellion occurred.
Thanks to MHJ, BTS' world domination is gone, and Suga and JK have been decisively damaged. Suga is still scolded for the scooter incident, and JK has descended to the level of a Kim Minjeong, unknown in the west.
Hybe will never have the chance to conquer the world again and Bang himself has been discredited, while Danielle Marsh, now no longer bound by Hybe, will find some way to strike her own destiny.
MHJ might lose the lawsuits but she decisively hurt Hybe so she got what she aimed for. Bang lost way more than what he would have lost by accomodating MHJ's demands.
