Chapter 511: Red Mountain Society
Not to mention Han Qian's personal prestige in the old soldiers of the Guangde Army, not to mention the material support such as money and food that Xuzhou can provide, Han Donghu, Su Lie and the leaders of the uprising were only secretly engaged in collusion in the early stage, hiding outside the eyes and ears of the government and secretly preparing everything, also considering that it was too difficult and dangerous to start an incident directly in Guangde Mansion.
Han Qian proposed a new plan, even if Su Lie still had some ideas in his heart, but looking at the excited looks of the others, he also knew that it was a wise choice to accept Han Qian's suggestion.
And from the perspective of him personally, as well as as as the escape from the Shang family, and the arrest of dozens of elite soldiers and hundreds of families by the government as a big murderer against the party, is there a better way out than to join Xuzhou?
Besides, Su Lie was not familiar with the form of gang organization that gradually emerged in later generations and had only some rudimentary forms in the world, but just like the Taiping Dao in the late Han Dynasty and the Wudoumi Sect in the Southern Dynasties, historical figures such as Zhang Jiao and Sun En used Shamen and Daomen organizations to carry out preliminary preparations and mobilization, and when the time was relatively ripe, they would set off large-scale riots, and he was still familiar with them.
Even if they eventually want to take the road of rioting, using gangs to prepare and mobilize in the early stage is the best and most secure choice in front of them.
Even if there is still an incident in the end, it is self-evident to choose the hinterland of Jiangnan, where the Chu army is the strongest, or to the marginal areas where the Chu court has weak control.
Characters like Zhou Yi and Chen Jingzhou were not the leaders of the cottages at the junction of the three kingdoms of Liang, Chu and Shu in the early days?
After this was confirmed, Han Qian also felt that he could organize and gather people in the name of the Chishan Society, and there was no need to shy away from the inheritance relationship with the Chishan Army.
Even hinting to the outside world that there is an unclear connection with Xuzhou, it is not unavoidable.
Anyway, if Xuzhou does not admit this kind of thing, and without real evidence, the imperial court has no way to "plant" Xuzhou.
When determining the internal structure of the Chishan Society, Han Qian suggested that Su Lie should be the head of the meeting, but Su Lie was still clear about his own catties and resolutely refused to do it; Han Donghu thought that the matter was so big, he was guilty of a lot of sin, and it was difficult for him to take on a heavy responsibility.
In the end, everyone discussed and decided that several of them respected Han Qian as the head of the meeting, but internally and externally said that the head of the meeting was absent or not the head of the meeting.
In order to facilitate concealment and keep secrets, under the head of the meeting, under the name of Maoshan Jiufeng, three nunnery and six rooms were set up to be responsible for specific affairs, which were respectively responsible for Han Donghu, Su Lie, Lin Jiang, Lin Sheng, Guo Xiao, Guo Quan, Zhou Zhu and others.
San'an, Damao'an, was in charge of congregational recruitment, drilling, and commanding the armed forces of the Chishan Army.
Whether it was Han Donghu's introduction or Feng Yi's previous contact, Su Lie, as the leader of a small and medium-sized military organization, was still qualified.
Su Lie has been by Shang Wensheng's side for many years, and his knowledge and insight are extremely extraordinary, if it weren't for Shang Wensheng's resentment and murderous intentions towards them, he has always been Shang Wensheng's most relied on assistant, and his ability is even much stronger than Shang Wensheng's eldest son.
In order to avoid Su Lie's disagreement and gather everyone's forces together as much as possible, Han Qian decided that Su Lie would be in charge of commanding the armed forces of the Red Mountain Society.
Of course, the armed forces of the Chishan Society, the real backbone, are all military attaches of the old department of the Chishan Army.
Even if Han Qian, the leader of the guild, is nominally, a major military action still has to be decided by the three nunnery and the six rooms.
Xiao Mao'an is in charge of the economic livelihood of the congregation, and is better at managing complicated affairs, and Guo Quan, who served as an official in Guangde Mansion and was persecuted and imprisoned a few years ago, and finally survived his life.
Lei Chen'an was in charge of the gang rules and regulations and intelligence spying and collection, led by Han Donghu.
There are six rooms under the three nunnery, and two rooms are directly under the jurisdiction of the big mao hermitage, which is the direct department that secretly organizes and trains and takes charge of the armed forces of the Chishan Society, and is responsible for the brothers Lin Jiang and Lin Sheng respectively.
Lin Jiang, Lin Sheng, and his brother Lin Xiong are all elite military attaches of the old Chishan Army.
After capturing Langxi, the three brothers were injured and withdrew from the front line and were assigned to the county soldiers as military attachés.
In particular, Lin Xiong, when he withdrew from the Zuoguang German Army, was already a middle and high-level military attache at the battalion command level.
It was only because there were many uncles and uncles in the Lin family that there was a great controversy over the issue of going and staying at that time, and the mother of the three brothers of the Lin family was resolutely unwilling to stay in their homeland, so they did not follow them to Xuzhou - when Han Qian returned to Xuzhou, Lin Xiong had been promoted to the lieutenant of Guangde County.
It's a pity that under the counterattack of the clan lords, the three brothers of the Lin family were all purged.
Lin Xiong died in prison, Lin Jiang and Lin Sheng were released from prison only after Chen Jingzhou left Guangde Mansion, but after being released from prison, what they saw was that the old mother died of fright, the sister-in-law committed suicide by hanging the beam, and two children in the younger nephew also died due to illness and inability to heal during this time.
If Han Qian hadn't come forward in person, it would have been difficult to persuade them to choose to forbear and not directly riot.
The first room is directly under the jurisdiction of Lei Chen'an, and Guo Xiao is in charge of it, specializing in intelligence spying and collection; In this way, there is no need for Xuzhou to establish a special intelligence network in Jinling, and it can be merged into this room to be responsible.
The largest, and in the future, the largest number of people in the third room, will be under the direct jurisdiction of Xiao Mao'an, mainly dedicated to the economic livelihood of the congregation, after all, the Chishan Army is a semi-military armed gang organization, and the livelihood of the large-scale congregation is really the core and the most urgent problem to be solved.
At present, everyone stays in Dingjiagou and temporarily sets Dingjiagou as the main hall.
Dingjiagou is close to the shore of Taihu Lake, but it is located in the deep mountains and old forests, and the road in and out is narrow and hidden.
Although it is close to Changxing County in Huzhou, it is the area with the best foundation of the old headquarters of the Chishan Army and the Zuoguang German Army, and it is difficult for the eyes and ears of the government and Jinyun Division to penetrate it.
Even if Han Donghu and Su Lie are openly active in the lakes and mountains, they don't have to worry much about leaking their whereabouts.
In addition, in Dingjiagou and other five villages, Han Qian placed thousands of people to come over, and it was clear that these five villages were engaged in fishing for fish and shrimp in Taihu Lake and shipping.
The five villages are grouped with each other, and they are already quite weak in the waters of Taihu Lake.
This provides the necessary foundation for the large-scale development of the Chishan Society from land to waterways in a short period of time.
They temporarily set up the main hall of the Chishan Society in Dingjiagou, in addition to gathering the surrounding fishing village forces, they can directly transfer the part of the people and horses and their families who have gathered in the depths of the northern foot of Fuyu Mountain, and they can also add large and small ships in the name of Dingjiagou and other fishing villages to expand their livelihood.
As a paramilitary armed gang, the Chishan Society must avoid conflicts with the imperial court and local governments, not to talk about future development and growth, and in the short term, it will accept as a congregation the 14,500 old and weak women and children who have been seized of their fields and houses in Guangde Mansion and are struggling on the edge of survival, and the pressure to make a living is still extremely great.
In a short period of time, the scale of the Taihu Lake fishing fleet will be expanded to the greatest extent, and the transportation and sales of grain and commercial goods from surrounding states and counties will be undertaken, and some people will be directly arranged from the land to the boat to make a living.
In this, the most important thing is to infiltrate the towns and ports along the waterway connecting the Yangtze River to Taihu Lake at the fastest speed.
This is the key to the subsequent transfer of the main force of the Chishan Society from Guangde Mansion and Taihu Lake to the Yangtze River and then to the east of Chuzhou.
Without the response and cover along the way, thousands of people have to move from the waters of Taihu Lake to the Yangtze River through the waterway, and the probability of not being discovered by the government is too small and too much to be lucky.
Of course, although at present, Xuzhou's merchant ships and people and goods will be strictly monitored and inspected when they pass through Yuanshui and enter Dongting Lake and the Yangtze River, but before the checkpoints are tightened, Xuzhou still has some people lurking in the territory of Hunan Prefectures, and some ships are secretly left.
Not to mention that the Xuzhou Boat Gang had a close relationship with Jingxiang's Shuizhai forces in the early years.
With the support of Xuzhou and the military attache of the old department of the Chishan Army as the backbone, it is not difficult for the Chishan Society to develop a certain strength in secret in a short period of time.
At this time, it is necessary to immediately organize a group of people to cross the river first to establish a foothold in the Hudang area in the eastern part of Chuzhou in the name of escaping famine.
At present, Li Zhihe and Gao Chengyuan are leading the Ma Bu army and the sailors to enter the city of Chaozhou, and have not yet launched a real offensive to seize the city, and the imperial court has just sent Wei Zhen and other officials to take over the area along the Chuhe River west of Chaozhou, and the eastern border of Chuzhou is in chaos, and there are a large number of refugees who have escaped from the war zone in the west of Chaozhou and Chuzhou.
The landless peasants of Guangde Province crossed the river to flee the famine to the north, which can be said to be fishing in troubled waters.
Even the imperial court hoped that more refugees from all parts of the Yangtze River could move to the north bank at this time, so that they could better manage Chuzhou in the future, as a bridgehead for the subsequent recovery of Shouzhou, Haozhou, Huozhou and other places, and even the reduction of Huaidong.
Han Qian stayed in Dingjiagou for half a month, and during this half month, various things were carried out rapidly, and more than 300 people gathered directly in Dingjiagou to expand the people of the main hall.
Han Qian also secretly met with some backbone elements who could really be trusted.
Considering that Han Donghu, Su Lie and others lacked experience, before Han Qian left Dingjiagou, he ordered Dou Rong to stay, in addition to being responsible for the central liaison, he also assisted them in handling some matters related to the preliminary preparations and the evacuation of the landless population.
As a former senior general of the Chishan Army and the Zuoguang German Army, Dou Rong also had enough prestige among the leaders of the uprising, such as Lin Jiang, Lin Sheng, Guo Xiao, and Guo Quan, to coordinate them to make some potentially controversial decisions.
Even the first batch of ships from Ezhou and Huangzhou had docked at the beach outside Dingjiagou, while Han Qian took Guo Rong, Xi Yi, Feng Yi and others to cross the Taihu Lake in a flat boat and sail to Yangzhou in the north......