July 15 of the thirteenth year of the Great Zhou Jianxing

Fang La, a native of Chun'an County, Lin'an Prefecture, gathered hundreds of people from the rivers and lakes, green-skinned hooligans and hired workers in his lacquer garden to launch an uprising.

At the beginning, only a few people participated in the Fangla uprising, but after their successful sneak attack on Chun'an County with the support of Lin'an Fighting Trip, the strength of the rebel army began to expand rapidly.

Fang La opened a warehouse in the occupied area to release grain, attracting Jiangbei refugees to join, and the local civilians in Jiangnan, who had been involved in the imperial court to sell their wives and beards, also rose up on a large scale and responded to Fang La.

At the end of the month, Fang La's army snowballed to tens of thousands, 5,000 elites were transferred to Jiangbei, and the forbidden army escorting and pro-ship fleet was actually defeated by Fang La's army in continuous field battles, and in early August, Fang La formed a siege of Lin'an.

However, although the temporary formation of the Fang La army was large, the organization was very loose, and all the people of Jiangnan wanted was to kill a few corrupt officials and take a good breath.

And what the Jiangbei refugees want is indeed to open a warehouse and release grain, find a bite to eat, and find a way to live.

Of course, such a chaotic organization is impossible to capture the largest city in the world like Lin'an, and the forbidden army in the city still has some troops, and the big families also know that it will never be good to be broken by the city, so they contribute money and efforts to organize tenant servants to help defend the city.

In August, Fang La reluctantly organized a large-scale offensive on the grounds of entering the city to eat big households, and the forbidden army defending the city could not resist, and was killed into the city by Fang La's army with absolute superiority in strength, and even coerced the forbidden city, but the defenders fought back desperately, so that he never touched the wall of the forbidden city.

On August 18, Xu Shiliu, a close disciple of Wen Xianggong, formed a team of about 3,000 people in the north of Lin'an City, based on the Jiangbei refugees pacified in the shelter, and attacked the flank of Fang La's army.

After this battle, Fang La thought that there was no hope of conquering Lin'an, and was unwilling to continue to waste time, so he led the rebel army to start the surrounding area of Dasuo, and everywhere he went, he broke the county of Zhou, killed large households, opened warehouses and released grain, and at the same time coerced more participants.

In just a few months, Fang La's army has reached hundreds of thousands, and it has truly become a prairie fire, turning to ...... towards Jinling.

This is Xu Shiliu's urgent letter to his family in his busy schedule of dealing with the chaos in Jiangnan.

In addition to describing the current battle situation, Xu Shiliu also clearly stated his next action plan:

He thinks that the official army has an advantage over the righteous army, not to mention the support of the people's army from all walks of life, Fang La now looks really powerful, but the vast majority of the participants are just seeking a way to survive, if the imperial court adopts the strategy of division and disintegration, there will definitely be very few people who are willing to follow Fang La to the end.

But there are also problems on the side of the imperial court, the first one, like Fang La, is not united!

At the time of Xu Shiliu's letter, the main battle faction such as Wen Xianggong had already begun to launch a political counteroffensive, and they demanded severe punishment of dozens of major leaders of the main peace faction on the grounds that the main peace faction was harassing the people and stirring up popular revolt.

In conjunction with the political offensive, there are also military actions.

Without the permission of the imperial court, Wen Xianggong organized the people's army organized by Xu Shiliu into the "Shunyi Army" and mastered the first armed force belonging to the main battle faction.

Subsequently, Wen Zhong went to the Lin'an garrison barracks with the prince's secret order to win over some of the officers.

The Lin'an forbidden army was generally dissatisfied with the imperial court's forcible dispatch of 5,000 colleagues to the dangerous Liaodong, and after receiving the prince's secret promise, many generals of the forbidden army swore loyalty to the prince on the spot, and when necessary, armed the Qing monarch's side!

Now, the situation in Jiangnan is probably like this:

Fang La is marching to Jinling, recruiting rebels along the way, absorbing Jiangbei refugees and civilians who are dissatisfied with the imperial court, the number is swelling day by day, and now no one knows how many people are following him.

The Lord and faction control most of the Lin'an Forbidden Army and local military power in the imperial court, and currently has 50,000 troops near Lin'an Mansion, in addition to about 30,000 people in the civilian army organized by the Lord and faction.

There are more than 20,000 people in the Lin'an Forbidden Army who have promised to support the prince and the main battle faction, in addition to more than 10,000 people's army, which is the weakest on the surface, but they now control the hearts of the people, and most of the people who still support the imperial court also support the main battle faction.

Hundreds of thousands of people near Lin'an who have not followed the thieves are in a state of turmoil, and they are unanimous: they demand that the court kill the traitors, refuse to increase the annual coins, refuse to make peace, refuse to encompass the roots, and ask the minister to go out of the mountain to reorganize the dynasty.

Jiangnan, completely in chaos!

……

When reading this letter, Xu Shiyang was somewhat weak-hearted.

In fact, it was because he killed all the Tartar envoys, and in order to appease the Tartars, the imperial court would resort to such a stupid trick as suddenly using the root craftsmen.

It was also because of the fact that the craftsmen were included in the foundation that corrupt officials were given the opportunity to spread rumors such as women today and gold and silver tomorrow, thus forcing the originally wealthy people in Jiangnan to really stand on the same front as the Jiangbei refugees for the first time in ten years, and finally detonated this big uprising that disrupted everything.

If it weren't for the corrupt officials who added fuel to the fire in advance, almost causing the collapse of social order, even if Fang La revolted, his momentum would definitely not be so huge.

Of course, Xu Shiyang's heart is empty, and it will be over.

The greatest responsibility lies with the Jianxing Emperor and the Lords and factions who constantly compromise with the Tartars.

It was they who agreed to the incredibly huge appetite of the Tartars, and they also gave the order of the craftsman, who do they not carry this big black cauldron?

Moreover, this also brought a lot of trouble to Xu Shiyang.

"Shiyang, the situation in Jiangnan is not good." After Xu Shiyang finished reading the letter, Xu Muhe frowned and said: "What Shiliu means, in recent years this year, the support promised to us may decrease a lot!" ”

That's almost certain.

The shelter responsible for absorbing displaced people from Jiangnan was taken by Xu Shiliu to form the Shunyi Army.

In the war in the south of the Yangtze River, there will definitely not be much to squeeze out of this strategic material, not to mention the current situation, how many people can farm in peace and stability is a problem.

Also affected are the mines and iron production, even if the main battle faction comes to power again and cleans up the main peace faction, their next strategic direction will definitely be to deal with the Fang La army, and then gradually resume production.

Looking at it now, the material support originally promised to Xu Shiyang can be transported to one-tenth of it, which is worth celebrating.

"In my opinion, it's not that it's been reduced a lot, but the material support in Jiangnan may not be counted on at all in recent years."

Xu Shiyang smiled bitterly and said:

"The only good thing is that we have really stopped the Heqin fleet, and the income of more than two million yuan and two horses can be supported for a period of time even if we buy it with money."

In fact, there is another point, Xu Shiyang got the news of the failure of the Li Group's attack on Fusang before, lost the Fusang market, and now lost the source of goods in Jiangnan because of the war, the current situation of the Li Group is probably not very good, and whether the loan amount promised by Li Feilong to Xu Shiyang can be completed is also unknown at present.