Anyone who has experienced something knows that the most difficult thing about a thing is not to do it, but to decide how to do it, that is, to make a decision. This is true for investing in stocks, and it is also true for engaging in politics.

Zhu Pingjin has never been willing to engage in class struggle, but the cruel social reality tells him that classes exist objectively, and the transformation of "class" into a diluted "class" or a more ambiguous "ethnic group" does not affect his original essence: because of the amount of wealth he has, the community of interests formed by different people.

Where there are classes, there must be class contradictions, and there must be class struggles. Once the contradictions intensify and get out of control, they will inevitably be accompanied by bloodshed and death.

The civil war in the Ming Dynasty was essentially a class struggle on an unprecedented scale. The gentry landlords and the poor peasants, as two opposing classes, both sides did their best to defend their right to exist.

This is very different from the nature of the national war outside the Kansai.

However, Zhu Pingjin, as the son of Shu, could not let this life-and-death class struggle ruin Sichuan.

If he wants to build Sichuan into a military and food source and munitions base for future conquests in all directions, he must control the class struggle in Shu within a tolerable range.

However, a handful of gentry stubbornly clinged to vested interests and did not let go, and also tried to attract the political forces of the Jingshi to suppress or even eliminate Zhu Pingjin, thus breaking the red line he delineated.

So Zhu Pingjin was forced by the real environment to start a counterattack.

He openly called for "thunderbolt means" to "bring down the local tyrants and inferior gentry," which meant the official beginning of the anti-rebellion campaign that lasted for several months throughout Sichuan.

With the development of the anti-rebellion movement, countless heads are about to land, the wealth of the society is about to be redistributed, and the political and economic ecology formed in Shu for three hundred years has been reshuffled almost overnight in a pool of blood.

On the evening of April 7, the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, on the day when the Qiongzhou Rebellion was pacified, the Pengshan garrison, which had been gathering momentum for a long time, began to advance towards Meizhou.

The army was directly led by Song Zhensi, including the second battalion of the second regiment of the Protector Army, the Dong Bu Independent Battalion, the Pengshan Garrison Battalion and the Shuangliu Garrison Battalion, as well as the student team of Songlin Mountain Martial Arts and the first and second battalions of the supplementary army, with a total strength of about 3,000 troops.

However, the actions of the Protector Army could not hide the training of the Meizhou Regiment that stared at the direction of Pengshan day and night.

At Sandunba, twenty miles north of Meizhou, the sudden outbreak of fighting dashed the hope of the Protector Army peacefully stationed in Meizhou.

There was a small fort in Sandunba, where there were less than 200 Meizhou regimental trainees, and the principal was a local gentry surnamed Lou, whose son had died in front of the governor's yamen last year.

Knowing the arrival of the Protector Army, Lou Moumou's hatred suddenly turned into a burst of fire.

Seeing this scene, Liu Lianpeng, the deputy regiment commander and commander of the second battalion, did not bypass it, but instead commanded the second battalion of the avant-garde to deploy and began to besiege Loujiazhai on all sides. By the time this group of enemies has been completely annihilated, it is already dawn.

The rumbling cannon body of Loujiazhai completely woke up the regimental training in Meizhou. The defenders on the outskirts of Meizhou took advantage of this opportunity and all retreated back to the state city before dawn. With the strong walls of Meizhou City and dozens of privately cast iron cannons, they formed a confrontation with the vanguard of the Second Regiment of the Protector Army.

In order to protect their property in the city, the landlords and wealthy sacrificed their traditional tactic: turtle Dafa.

The tall and thick walls give them a false sense of psychological security, making it difficult for them to correctly assess the situation.

For the Protectorate, a costly battle for the city seemed inevitable. However, this is exactly what the Protectors wanted.

Not only because many factors such as time and space are completely on the side of the Protector Army, but also because there is nothing in Meizhou City that can make Zhu Pingjian, the son of Shu, particularly worried, except for food, population and the Sansu Temple. As for the gold and silver, they can neither be eaten nor burned down, and even if the city is reduced to ashes, there will be no loss of gold and silver in the city.

Taking advantage of the enemy's abandonment of the outskirts of the city, the 3,000 soldiers of the Protectorate Army quickly surrounded the city of Meizhou, and then waved large hoes and small shovels to begin their standard earthwork: digging trenches, constructing breastwork, nailing deer barricades, and repairing artillery forts.

Thousands of former soldiers from Pengshan and Renshou counties have greatly accelerated the progress of the project. Three days later, the system of fortification around the city has begun to show its scale.

The earth city rising from the ground is like an iron hoop, wrapping the lonely Meizhou City in the south of Sichuan, making it a thing in the pocket of the Protector Army, waiting for the day when the melon is ripe and falling.

The 2nd Regiment of the Protector Army was dispatched, and the local troops of the Protector Army stationed in various places also opened the sealed bags at the same time and pounced on their respective predetermined targets according to the order.

The most lively is the capture of Jingyan County by the Renshou County garrison battalion.

The Renshou garrison battalion dispatched dozens of capable warriors, under the personal command of He Tingda, pretending to be a sedan chair driver and foot force, carrying a sedan chair and a bride price to welcome relatives, and drove into Jingyan County in the crackling sound of gongs and drums and firecrackers, followed by a large team of 800 people.

The county magistrate, who knew nothing at the time, had just gotten up and was combing his beautiful long hair, when he suddenly heard the news that Chen Xiangguo (Chen Yan, a scholar of the dynasty) was married to a daughter in the Shu clan, and he was immediately surprised.

He was not only shocked by the marriage between the second assistant Chen Yan and the Shu Domain, but also felt that his opportunity to curry favor with both sides had come, so he hurriedly wrung out his hair, and added a crown and belt to go out of the Yadao Congratulations, and by the way, he was familiar with the truth.

It can be seen that the county's movements are still half a beat slower: when he left the office, he found that the outside of the county government and even on the city wall were full of soldiers of the Protector Army. The Chen Yan family's mansion in the city was surrounded by the heavily armed Protector Army, with three floors inside and three floors outside. If it weren't for the festive appearance of the welcoming procession parked outside the gate of the Chen family, it would have been mistaken for the Chen family being raided and wiped out.

The most refreshing thing is to capture the Hanzhou Zhizhou Cheng Dadian.

Hanzhou, north of Chengdu, originally had a national protector army.

Cheng Dadian, the former magistrate of Jintang and later the governor of Hanzhou, originally welcomed the royal army to enter Hanzhou City. At the end of last year and the beginning of last year, Cheng Dadian was frightened by Zhang Xianzhong once when he was in Jintang County, and there were soldiers in the city, so of course the chance to save his life was greater.

However, when the Shu Wangfu began to implement the new policy, Cheng Dadian's own interests and the interests of the Hanzhou gentry were greatly impacted.

Soon, this competing interests developed into an emotional confrontation. Tao Xiansheng's brutal forced purchase of surplus grain in Hanzhou pushed this emotional antagonism to the level of political opposition.

When the contact letter of Xu Kongtu and Li Chuandi of Qiongmei was delivered to Hanzhou, Cheng Dadian hit it off with Xu and Li.

But Cheng Dadian is timid after all. These days, the only thing he thinks about is how to keep his various incomes without risking his life.

However, while Cheng Dadian was still gathering the gentry to promote democracy and brainstorming, the garrison battalions of the Protector Army had already begun to act in unison. At the same time, they closed the gates of Hanzhou and its counties, and then caught turtles in the urn according to the blacklist that had been drawn up for a long time.

When Cheng Dadian was arrested, he was talking at the banquet, the official and the old man were funny, the gentry were responsible for supporting people, and the banquet was full of laughter, as if it was the scene of the Spring Festival Gala.

Because of the excessive amount of yellow soup, Cheng Dadian resisted with the strength of wine. So a squad leader from the local countryside of Hanzhou strode forward, and with his calloused big hands, he shot dozens of bows left and right at Cheng Dadian's fat face spraying wine, and the crisp slap shook the audience.

It is said that when Cheng Dadian was guillotined a month later, his entire face and mouth were still bruised and swollen, coupled with a crooked nose and a pair of small eyes that were almost invisible, which was particularly in line with the image of a traitor in the eyes of the people.

At the last moment of his life, Cheng Dadian still vividly turned a thriller drama into a light comedy.

However, Cheng Dadian is not yet the most miserable of state and county officials.

When the soldiers of the Yajia garrison rushed into the Zhizhou Yamen, they found that Zhou Yi, the Zhizhou of Jiading, had disappeared without a trace along with his concubine, his concubine, his male concubine, and the Great Seal of Zhizhou.

Tang Mo, who was in charge of suppressing the rebellion in Jiading Prefecture, was of course anxious, catching Lord Zhou was not his main goal, but the envoy from Jingshi was his goal.

Just when Tang Mo was anxious to arrange for people to intercept and search, there was good news from the water tariff card set up at the confluence of the Min River and the Dadu River.

A civilian boat took advantage of the darkness of the night to row downstream. After being spotted, the ship accelerated to escape and rammed the intercepted inspection ship during the escape.

The so-called inspection boat is the earliest rowing boat used by the Protector Army, and there is a fixed old-fashioned tiger squat cannon in the bow.

The inspection boat was hit, and he turned around and took advantage of the situation to make a shot, knocking the boat boss at the stern helm into the rapids. Without the person at the helm, the civilian boat swirled in the turbulent flow of the river beach at the confluence of the two rivers, and it was about to capsize on its side.

The inspection boat quickly pulled in and brought the danger under control. Upon inspection on board, a corpse and several large living people in horror were found inside the canopy.

Lord Zhou of Jiading Zhizhou is the corpse. And those big living people, after some interrogation, quickly confessed:

Huang Song, the foreman of Dongchang, who was ordered by the second prince to cooperate with Ma Wenke, the eunuch of the Qianqing Palace, to visit Sichuan on the order of the second prince, quietly left Jiazhou last night. As for his whereabouts, no one knows.

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Because several roads into the provincial capital were blocked, the news of the Qiongmei accident did not reach Chengdu for a long time.

The ignorant are fearless. Some people in Chengdu are still in a state of madness. In their lives, they have never experienced such a happy moment:

It can highlight the true character of the elite and point out the country heartily;

can sarcastically spread rumors, insult and abuse the superior as he likes;

You can vent all your dissatisfaction, whether it is dissatisfaction with the country, society, life, or physiology, in any way.

Hundreds of supposedly well-informed students led an even larger number of followers, and suddenly became a group of hooligans and thugs roaming the city and beyond.

They burned textbooks and beat reprimands;

They hung plaques on the palace walls of the Shu Palace, and gave public speeches in the square of the Imperial City Dam.

But this group of hooligan thugs is different from the local thugs in the mountains of northern Sichuan.

They are literate and know the law;

They jump left and right on both sides of the red line between breaking the law and committing crime;

They hold the right to speak in society, carry the large spiritual plaque of Sage Kong, and sing the glorious hymn of defending the Holy Religion;

They are well-dressed, rich and house-rich, leading today's fashion, and are the Prince Charming of many civilian girls' dreams.

They confidently believe that there is, and only they, are the universal values of human justice.

For this gang of aristocratic thugs, to catch or not to catch, to kill or not to kill; How to arrest and how to kill is a big political issue.

You know, under the Chinese patriarchal system, they are not just them. Behind them, there was a large group of family, friends, teachers, students, and fellow villagers, as well as a large group of ordinary people who were bewitched by their aura.

Once you can't kill the point, the knife flashes and the head falls to the ground, it will give birth to a large group of opposition factions who are not at odds with the Shu Wangfu overnight. When Zhu Pingjin goes out of Sichuan to resist the war in the future, he will face the strategic dilemma of "fighting the tiger in the front and rejecting the wolf in the rear".

How to solve this difficult problem is in front of Zhu Pingjin.

At this time, an eternal and stubborn disease in any mass movement helped Zhu Pingjian, allowing him to easily find the thread in the chaos:

In a loose organization, you will never know that the person around you who is struggling with you is a pathetic pig teammate, or a hateful and hateful mole pretending to be a pig teammate!