Why did so many people die in the Taiping Rebellion? I haven't

THE TREE OF SINO XTIANITY GOTTA BE LITTERED WITH THE BLOOD OF HEATHENS

>>3220828
Because most of China isn't that naturally fertile outside of areas along the rivers. Chinese population is able to swell because you have an extensive centralized state that provides enormous agricultural infrastructure enabling things like irrigation and fertilizer to reach the farther corners of the country.

Every time you get a major war, rampaging armies destroy most of that infrastructure, and if it isn't quickly repaired, you get endemic starvation. That's usually how you get these absurdly high death tolls in major Chinese civil wars.

>>3220828
Chinks could send 2 quadrillion men in and replace them with 3 year old conscripts within 3 minutes

>>3220828
They all look the same and couldn't tell friend from foe.

>>3220828
1) Southern China is the most populous bit of China. Even today.
2) Whenever China gets into a civil war, its akin to a major war among European states. The country is simply that big. Loads of people die in fighting and the massacres.
3) The fact that many people took the opportunity of the Taiping rebellion to strike a blow towards the declining Qing government
4) Chinese provinces ultimately benefit from each other. Most particularly in food production. A civil war means that shit is disrupted, leading to famine and subsequent deaths.
5) last and most importantly: there were no reliable census at the time during the Chaos. Just like it was in the An Lushan Rebellion, some officials assumed that when X village was wiped off the map by the war, they'd put it down to EVERYONE HERE DED :(. It didn't occur to these people that the villagers may have migrated elsewhere.

>>3220870
source on your bullshit 5) claim