Yue Xiang knew a relatively limited amount about the White Lotus Sect, but he only knew that the peasant uprising at the end of the Yuan Dynasty was classified as the White Lotus Sect uprising in the wild history, and later Tang Sai'er and Xu Hongru were all classified into the White Lotus Sect. The only thing that clearly mentions the White Lotus Sect in the official history is the Sichuan-Shaanxi White Lotus Rebellion, one of the three major disasters in the Jiaqing period in the late Qing Dynasty.

In fact, he just felt incredible about what Ma and Li said, regardless of whether the official history and wild history had not mentioned it at all. So I don't even have the slightest intention of believing it. How could such a thing exist in this world?

But when it comes to the great uprising at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, there are some things he can't figure out. The Mongolian iron cavalry, which once swept the world, declined so quickly. In the history of China, whenever from division to unification, it was basically the north that conquered the south, but at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, it was just the opposite, the rebel army dominated by the Jiangnan infantry crossed the Yangtze River and went north, and actually defeated the Yuan army group dominated by the northern cavalry, and drove the Mongols out of the Central Plains.

Sometimes he wonders, is it that the Han army at that time was so capable of fighting? When Liu Futong and Han Shantong instigated the Yellow River workers to gather to revolt, the Yuan army mobilized the Asu army to suppress it. The Asu Army was a field cavalry group that was powerful at that time, completely composed of Mongolian elite soldiers, and in the Yuan Army, like the Tanma Red Army, it specialized in particularly difficult combat tasks such as attacking fortifications and rushing forwards, and was an elite attack force with extremely strong combat effectiveness.

As a result, the battle became the end of the Asu army, and the well-equipped and brave Mongol iron cavalry faced a group of hungry people with poor clothes and rudimentary weapons, and ended in the annihilation of the entire army. Yue Xiang wanted to know how the battle was fought at that time. Of course, history textbooks attribute all this to the corruption of the Yuan Dynasty, the corruption of the Yuan army, the righteous army's great help, the use of strategy, and the inevitable victory of justice over evil. But in the case of Yue Xiang, of course, he would not believe this kind of superficial cliché.

If justice will prevail, then why will Song be destroyed? There has never been a tyrant in the history of the Song Dynasty, but he was wiped out by the cruel and bloodthirsty nomadic regime in the north. The truth of history has always been that the winner is king, and whoever wins is the righteous party.

When it comes to the corruption of the Yuan army, there is no clear evidence. How corrupt is it that even a group of hungry people, almost unarmed and completely untrained, cannot win? Moreover, later the Yuan government appointed Wang Baobao and other fierce generals to lead the army, and the quality of the Yuan army rebounded rapidly, almost returning to the level of its heyday, but it still could not prevent the defeat and retreat, which seems to be unable to be explained by corruption.

What strategy is more layman's words, Yue Xiang has also had experience in the army before, knowing that the use of strategy is based on material support, the so-called "layman talks about strategy, insider talks about logistics" is this truth, the real war is not the same as in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, relying on a trick bag without wasting a knife and a gun can disintegrate the enemy's army of 100,000. In the final analysis, the victory of the war still depends on real swords and guns.

Besides, when it comes to strategy, after all, the generals and commanders of the Yuan army are all professional officers, and most of the leaders of the rebel army are halfway monks, and I believe that the military quality will not be much worse in comparison. Although there are also natural handsome talents such as Xu Da and Chang Yuchun in the rebel army, there are also fierce generals like Wang Baobao in the Yuan army, and the two sides should be at least half a catty and eight taels. Moreover, the government of the Yuan Dynasty still controlled most of the resources at that time, but it was defeated in successive battles, which is really puzzling.

Of course, Yue Xiang didn't have the opportunity to go back to the era of the late Yuan Dynasty to see what the real situation was at that time, and he had to believe that the combat effectiveness of the Jiangnan Righteous Army at that time was really unimaginably strong. He had previously fantasized that perhaps the rebel army group, with the White Lotus Cultists as the backbone, had some unknown secret means to improve the combat effectiveness of the army. But come to think of it, he knows that this kind of thing is really a mythological plot.

But now when he first heard about the existence of the so-called "Seven Treasures of the Ming King", he felt that this was nonsense. The White Lotus Sect Army used the power of these treasures to overthrow the Mongols, how could this be possible? As a soldier, he believed that any war, no matter what method was used, would ultimately be fought by people, and instinctively opposed anything mystical. To admit these things is to erase the role of man, which is to put the cart before the horse.

Besides, if this Ming King Qibao was really so awesome, how could Xiao Wan and his father fail in the Qinghe uprising back then. It can be seen that these things do not exist or not, and even if they really exist, they are unreliable. In addition, these seven treasures were originally owned by the Baiyang Sect, how could they fall into Gao Huai's hands, Xiao Wan should have the most say in this.

However, Yue Xiang didn't want to ask her now, and said to Ma and Li: "Since this thing is so precious, aren't you afraid that I will temporarily change my mind and rob it?" ”

"Your Excellency is a person who is true of his word, and since he promised me to wait just now, I don't think I will regret it. We still have this point of looking at people. In addition, this Ming King Seven Treasures is neither gold nor silver, but a sacred relic of the White Lotus Sect. In addition to the believers in it, these things will not be used for a few pennies when they are taken to the pawnshop, so what is the use of them with adults? ”

"Didn't you say that the power of these seven treasures is boundless and can withstand thousands of armies? I used it just to deal with the Jurchen Tartars. ”

"This treasure is just a legend with this mana, is there really anyone who knows? In addition, the use of magic instruments pays attention to sincerity and spirituality, and adults themselves do not believe in ghosts and gods, and it is useless to think about it. It's just that this is a sacred weapon of the sect, if I find it in the red seal, it is enough to prove that my red seal sect is the true scripture of the will of the ancestor of the mixed ancestors, and I can expose the rest of the deceptive and false nonsense. ”

You yourself are no better, Yue Xiang secretly scoffed. But I wondered, if this Ming King Qibao is really just a symbolic religious instrument similar to the emperor's jade seal, how can it be as affordable as real money and silver? Maybe these people who have been in the cult for a long time think differently from themselves.

"How can you be sure that this Ming King Seven Treasures is in this Gaohuai Hidden Gold?"

"Back then, the main soldiers of the Golden Sect were defeated and died, and the Baiyang Sect was almost wiped out, and legend has it that these seven treasures fell into the hands of Gao Huai. In fact, as far as we know, the seven treasures that Kim Deshi gathered back then were not the real seven treasures, and one or two of them may be true; And Gao Huai was born in the Hongyang Sect, so he naturally knew the origin of the Seven Treasures of the Ming King. He saved the lady's wife, and at the same time kept the things in his pocket. ”

"No, since these seven treasures are so famous, how can they not tell the truth from the false. How can Gao Huai judge whether what he has obtained is true or false? ”

"No one has really seen Shippo in any hundred years, and there are different opinions about what it is. I guess the Jin Sect Leader also knew that there were true and false in it back then, but he just used a name to gather believers. As for how Gao Huai can judge the truth or falsehood, we don't know. It's just that according to our intelligence, Gao Huai did find the clues of the Ming King Qibao, and buried them together with the money he scavenged. ”

If you ask again, Ma and Li can't say it very clearly. However, Yue Xiang himself was not very interested in this, so he didn't care too much. The two sides reached a consensus, and the rest was easy to do.

Six hands grabbed the iron chain, pulled it upwards hard, the iron chain was alive at the bottom, and after pulling it out, it felt like it was stuck with a bang after five or six meters. Yue Xiang shouted: "Hard! The iron chain suddenly straightened, and then the iron plate on the ground was gradually pulled open a crack, Wang Yining quickly found a stone to jam the crack, and then found a branch so thick as an arm to pry the prying, and tossed back and forth for almost twenty minutes, the heavy rusty iron plate was finally lifted open, revealing a dark hole about two meters square below.

As soon as the entrance of the cave was opened, an unpleasant musty smell suddenly rushed up from below. Everyone covered their noses and scattered, and they all ran out of the courtyard, fearing that it was a poison gas trap or something. Ma and Li were reluctant to go far, standing at the gate and stretching their necks to watch, while Yue Xiang took the opportunity to pull Xiaowan to the side.

"What's going on with this Ming King Qibao, and what was your father's situation when he had an incident?"

Judging from Xiaowan's expression, she didn't know much about it, after all, she was only a six or seven-year-old girl when the incident happened, and she shouldn't have had a chance to know much about the inside stories of his father and his brother back then.

However, she still said something, which was probably what the loyal subordinates of the White Yang Sect told her on the way to be escorted away after the failure of the rebellion, after all, she had become the only descendant of the White Yang Sect at that time, and there were some things that she had to know.

After listening to her story, Yue Xiang was really taken aback. Feeling that his husband, he was determined to rewrite history and prepare to fight to the death with the Jurchens, but he didn't know that his wife, who was Xiaowan, had the blood of the Jurchens on her body. And the old man Jin Deshi, the leader of the Baiyang Sect, whom he had never met, turned out to be an authentic Jurchen.

During the period of more than 20 years of Wanli, the Jurchen tribes on the ground of Liaodong at that time were still full of mountains, and the Jurchens were mainly focused on internal fighting, and the contradictions with the Ming Dynasty government were far less acute than they are now.

Although Nurhachi's Jianzhou Jurchen leveled the nine coalition armies in a few years, eliminated the Haixi Hada tribe, and became the strongest among the Jurchen tribes, its momentum was not strong enough to unify the entire Jurchen nation, and there were many people who did not obey him, let alone exert influence on the Jurchen tribes living in the Ming Dynasty.

And this period is probably the period of the main activities of the White Yang Sect in the Golden Moment.

At that time, the Qinghe area was the area where the Jurchen tribe lived in the Ming Dynasty. Since the Ming Dynasty regarded these border vassals as inferior barbarian tribes more than a hundred years ago and implemented an unequal ethnic policy of not treating them as human beings, these Jurchen tribes living in the Ming Dynasty have also accumulated dissatisfaction in their hearts for many years. It's just that the strength of the Ming army in Liaodong at that time was not as weak as it is now, and the Jurchens were not as strong as they are at the moment.

And later the one who took the lead appeared, it was Xiao Wan and her father, Bai Yang Sect Leader Jin Deshi.

At first glance, the name Kim Deshi sounds a bit like a Goryeo stick, but it is actually a serious Jurchen. At that time, the Jurchen tribe in the Ming Dynasty was also symbolically canonized by the Ming court and was regarded as the people of the Ming Dynasty. The local frontier army also recruited soldiers from these tribes to enrich the army, and Jin Deshi was one of them.

As for whether Jin Deshi was a member of the Baiyang Sect before joining the Ming Army, or whether he believed in the Baiyang Sect later, Xiao Wan couldn't say this clearly. Anyway, she heard that her father was preaching and preaching among the various Jurchen tribes in Liaodong at that time, and there was quite a market for it, and even the remote areas of the four parts of Haixi had Jindeshi's footprints.

Probably because they are also Jurchens, or these people are easier to deceive, I heard that many Jurchen tribal leaders take her father as a guest. Not to mention the Jurchen tribe near Qinghe, even the Qinghe garrison was completely infiltrated by him, and the number of believers in the secret was probably as many as twenty or thirty thousand. With such a huge strength, what awaits is an opportunity.

Then in the twenty-seventh year of Wanli, the opportunity came.

Gao Huai, the eunuch of Liaodong Mining Tax, and others took the "eight-person sedan chair" to show off their might, mobilize the army, and lead a large number of people to Liaodong. He expropriated violently, knocked on the bones and sucked the marrow, wantonly defrauded, and did all kinds of evil, which made the chickens and dogs in Liaodong restless, and the people of Liaodong suddenly fell into the abyss of bitterness.

And Gao Gonggong turned a blind eye to this, and even put his hand into the army, passed on money, deducted military salaries, arrogant and domineering, whipped and abused lower-level soldiers, and even executed at will, making Liaodong soldiers desperate and unable to survive, so it provoked many mutinies in Liaodong.

At that time, Qinghe City was also affected, ordinary people and lower-level battalion soldiers gritted their teeth in bitterness, and Jin Deshi seized the opportunity to skillfully instigate, and the anger continued to swell like a balloon, which could explode at any time.

Yue Xiang only now knew that the feelings of this Jin Deshi were using Gao Huai's evil deeds to incite rebellion, and he really didn't know if this was planned by these two cult demons together. Because people with a little intelligence know that the army is the basis of the rule of the regime, although those corrupt officials and corrupt officials are not soft on weekdays to loot the people, it is rare to see such a blatant snatching of food from the mouth of the army, which is obviously deliberately to provoke the soldiers to the opposite road.

At that time, the civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty in Liaodong, such as Li Chengliang, the general soldier of Liaodong, and Zhao Yi, the governor of Liaodong, were never equal to the Jurchens, and even plundered Jurchen mink, ginseng and other things openly by force; Li Chengliang also colluded with Gao Huai, acted in embarrassment, implemented a cruel national high-pressure policy, destroyed the horse market, forced the Jurchens to hand over first-class horses, or forcibly bought them at half price, and those who refused to accept them were suppressed by force. It also aroused the dissatisfaction of the Jurchen tribes, and no one from the foreign ministries came to Kaima City. The various ministries in the territory are ready to move, and there are hundreds or thousands of people who want to defect from abroad.

In this way, the time is ripe. The three forces of the people, the soldiers, and the clan in Qinghe had accumulated their dissatisfaction to the limit, and in the twenty-eighth year of Wanli, Jin Deshi finally jumped out and supported his twelve-year-old son, adorned with seven treasures, and came into the world for "Allah of the East". As a result, one stone stirred up a thousand waves, and the discontent of all strata finally broke out, and there was the Qinghe Mutiny, which was a sensation at that time.

In this mutiny, the Jurchens from various ministries came to participate in the mutiny, so that the mutinous contingent was connected within a few days to 20,000 or 30,000 people, and later reached the scale of 40,000 or 50,000 people.

But this team is complex and lacks experience in struggle. Jin Deshi has a set of demagoguery, but it doesn't mean that he is very good at leading the army to fight. Xing Jue, the governor of the Ming Dynasty who was in charge of suppression at that time, adopted a policy of division and disintegration in addition to the military attack, and issued a large number of "death free posts", as long as he put down the "big stump" in his hand, he would be saved from death.

At that time, the conditions of the uprising were harsh, there were no weapons, and there was a shortage of food and grass. Due to the successive defeats on the battlefield, some people accepted the death exemption post and dispersed automatically. Seeing that the situation was not right, Jin Deshi wanted to cross the border and flee outside the Great Wall to join the Jurchen tribe, but was blocked by the Ming army at the border, and after a fierce battle, he was wounded and captured, and was executed on the spot. The ranks were left ownerless, and the uprising failed.

As for Qibao's whereabouts, Xiao Wan didn't know anything at that time. It's just that I heard some people talk about it piecemeal later, but it is not much different from what Wang Yining knows. But as far as she could vaguely remember, when his brother faced the thousands of believers burning incense and offering sacrifices to the heavens in the posture of wearing the Seven Treasures, he seemed to be holding a strange thing in his hand, which seemed to be one of the Seven Treasures.

She was too young to understand what it was.

But now she knew, if memory serves, it was a red horsewhip.