"Red girl~ Thinking about your Li Gongzi again?" Just as the red lady was thinking about it, a thick voice pulled her back to reality

The red lady turned her head to look, only to see three people before and after, led by the big boss of the Songshan Righteous Army, Dengfeng Wuju Li Jiyu. Behind him are the second master, Chen Wangting, and the third master, Jiang Fa

originally lived in Lijiayao Village, Luzhuang Town, Gongyi, and Li Jiyu moved to his grandmother's house in Dengfeng due to conflicts with the surname Liang. Li Jiyu was the third oldest among the brothers. His father's name was Li Ao, and he was a farmer with a little knowledge of literature and ink. The eldest brother Li Jiying and the second brother Li Jiyao also follow their father to farm. Li Jiyu has been studying since he was a child, but he is reluctant to participate in the imperial examination, he only likes to dance with guns and sticks, so as to learn the formation strategy.

In the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, there was a great drought in Dengfeng, and people cannibalized.

In the face of such a tragic situation, the government not only did not give relief, but instead increased the "three salaries" and deprived them harshly. Some landlords should bear the burden of servitude, because "there are many preferential exemptions, and only four or five out of ten people are enlisted." The larger landlords are "free of wealth, no money, and no taxes". The burden of the landlords was placed on the peasants in general. As a result, "there are more private factions than decent ones, and the people are unbearable, and complaints are everywhere." The peasants have no choice but to borrow money from large households. Large households "add three to the light, add five to the heavy, start to harvest the grain, deduct it on the spot, work diligently for a year, and still freeze and discourage." This has already forced the poor to a dead end.

But those who were in charge did not care whether the people lived or died, but still collected grain and sent errands. On this day, those officials and dogs went to the village to urge food, scolded when they opened their mouths, and beat them when they raised their hands, and they were as vicious as Yama. Li Jiyu couldn't bear it anymore, so he beat those dogs, and led the villagers to the county government to ask for exemption from money and food, and Yan Tingzhi, the official of dog county, not only did not avoid it, but also falsely accused Li Jiyu of "beating the officials and leading the crowd to surround the court", and locked Li Jiyu in shackles on the legs of the stone lion in front of the county government to show the public. In the middle of the night, Li Jiyu broke the leg of the stone lion and fled.

After Li Jiyu fled back from the county government, he immediately formed a village to resist the government, and those servants who were fake and mighty no longer dared to go to Mogou to urge for taxes. The government thought that this was a great rebellion, so they sent troops to encircle and suppress it. In order to avoid the pursuit of the government, Li Jiyu hid in Tibet. During this period, Li Jiyu met an astrology warlock named Chen Wandou, who himself said that he had obtained the Book of Heaven and could occupy the hope qi, saying that Li Jiyu would be blessed and noble. Li Jiyu believed in him very much and decided to revolt. As soon as the secret series was connected, the news leaked out. When the government got the news, they immediately sent troops to exterminate it, and Chen Wandou and Li Jiyu's wife were arrested and killed. Only Li Jiyu escaped on horseback. Under such circumstances, Li Jiyu had only one way to rebel. In July of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen (1640), Li Jiyu used the red quilt as a banner and the slogan of "prohibiting violence and compassion for the people", and chiseled a stone as a hole on the top of the Jianshan Mountain in the north of Dengfeng Tangzhuang, and unveiled the pole. Within a day, hundreds of people responded to the hunger, and soon grew to tens of thousands, and then they were active between Dengfeng, Gongxian, Mixian, Xingyang, and Bishui.

After Li Jiyu's uprising, the first thing to solve was the problem of eating for the soldiers of the righteous army. You need food to eat. Therefore, forcing the rich and wealthy to donate food was a major event for the rebels. Therefore, when the Red Lady went up the mountain and said that Li Xin was arrested in order to open a warehouse and release grain to help the people, Li Jiyu immediately took the case, and reorganized the soldiers and horses to go down the mountain with the Red Lady to attack Qi County, and Li Xin was released.

"It turned out to be a big boss! Is it ready for soldiers and horses? The red lady asked excitedly, "Is this going to save Li Gongzi?" ”

Li Jiyu shook his head, "No need to save it~"

"What?" The red lady's head buzzed, "Could it be ~~~ Could it be that Li Gongzi has been killed?" The red lady bit her lip tightly, and her hands trembled

Li Jiyu hurriedly raised his thick palms and swayed back and forth, "No, no, Li Gongzi came to our cottage and is now drinking tea in the Juyi Hall!" ”

"Really?" The red lady happily jumped three feet high, took a big stride, and disappeared from Li Jiyu's sight after a few ups and downs

"This girl~~ If you have a lover, don't marry a righteous big brother." Li Jiyu smiled helplessly: "It's really a big woman!" ”

In October of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Xin took the red lady and led Li Jiyu, Chen Wangting and Jiang Fa to Dengzhou to join Song Youliang. On October 13, Song Youliang held a grand wedding for Li Xin and the red lady in Dengzhou. Li Jiyu worshiped as a battalion officer, while Chen Wangting and Jiang Fa worshipped as the head of the sect.

By the end of October, the reorganization of soldiers and horses in Dengzhou Town was completed, including Pan Yuzhu, Xu Erduo, Gan Hui, Li Xin, Zhang Yuliu, Li Jiyu, Deng Youyang, Su Zixing, Li Yue, Liu Wenming, Wu Tingbin, and Zhang Guang's 12 battalions, with 36,000 soldiers and 6,000 workers.

In the autumn of this year, Dengzhou received an unprecedented bumper harvest. Haiyangwei's 600,000 acres of land produced a total of 1.4 million stone of wheat, and the rest of the land received Song Youliang's high-yield wheat seeds, and the harvest also exceeded 100,000 stones. That is to say, the five Davids of Dengzhou harvested nearly 2 million stone of wheat. And that's not even counting the harvest from pastures, orchards, and fisheries. Prince Lin, who was in charge of Tuntian, grain and food, wrote in his notes with trembling hands: "In the autumn of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, Dengzhou has a great year. Doumai Shiwen. ”

However, the sun rises in the east and rains in the west, and the locust plague in Yizhou, Shandong Province in the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, the locusts are all over the field, the trees have no leaves, the red land is thousands of miles, and the wheat is 2,000. People dig grass roots and peel bark, father and son cannibalism, bones are vertical and horizontal, babies donate all over the road, many people erect grass bids for sale, and those who toss and turn ravines are not counted. Song Youliang immediately allocated 300,000 stone of grain and handed it over to Song Xuezhu, the governor of Shandong, for disaster relief. The price of grain in Yizhou fell from 2,000 copper dollars per bucket of wheat to 10 yuan per bucket of wheat in three days.

In order to prevent the officials from doing anything else, Song Xuezhu personally went to the scene of the relief to supervise, and the disaster relief porridge in the porridge shed must be cooked thick, so thick that the chopsticks do not fall, and if the porridge in the shed is not thick enough, the supervising officials will be immediately dismissed from their posts and imprisoned. It is said that "chopsticks are poured, and the black yarn is floating". As a result, the people survived, and a few hoarders of grain broke their lives. The people in the Yizhou area, every household has erected the immortal tablets of Song Youliang and Song Xuezhu.

In Henan, due to the untimely disaster relief, it still triggered a hungry uprising, and Yuan Shizhong, a native of Huaxian County, Henan, gathered tens of thousands of people and led the hungry people to revolt. In November, he led more than 10,000 people to attack Kaizhou (now Puyang County). Kill the state with the knowledge of Xi Zhi. In the following year, together with Liu Yuqi and Zhu Chengju, he entered the Kaifeng and Shangqiu areas, and was active in the southeast of Henan and northern Anhui, known as the small Yuan camp.

Song Youliang didn't care about the disaster relief after he sent out the food, and his current target was Gu Sanmazi, a pirate entrenched in Chongming Nansha Island

The cause of the incident was that the cargo ships of the merchants of Ningbo and Wenzhou who were serving Song Youliang were hijacked by Gu San Mazi. Song Youliang felt that if he wanted to harass the Manchus from the sea, he needed excellent naval talents, and at the moment the best naval talents in the Ming Dynasty, almost all of the official ones were captured by Zheng Zhilong, and the rest were pirates and bandits. If he can use both grace and power to subdue Gu Sanmazi, then he will have to be a general of the water army

So, in January of the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, Song Youliang took advantage of the northwest wind to sail south. At this time, the Dengzhou Naval Division consisted of fifteen battleships and thirty-six one-deck fast sailing ships.

Chongming Island, located in the shallow sea outside the mouth of the Yangtze River, the Yangtze River rushes eastward, flows into the estuary and the flow rate slows down, and a large amount of sediment is gradually deposited here, gradually forming an estuary sand island, from the outcropping surface to the final formation of a large island, which has experienced more than 1,000 years of slump changes. It resembles a spring silkworm, with its head in the west and its tail in the east, lying on the golden waves of the Yangtze River estuary. The whole island is flat, the soil is fertile, the forests are lush, the coastline is long, and the products are abundant. Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang once called it "Yingzhou in the East China Sea". Chongming has always been a military stronghold, known as "the gateway of the great river, the ten counties of the Ping Domain". In the Ming Dynasty's counterattack against the invasion of the Japanese invaders, as an important town of river defense, there was a naval division, and the Chongming sand soldiers were known for their bravery and good fighting, which should also be a heroic island.