The U.S. government was more anxious than businessmen to break the channel of selling American goods to China, and after being persuaded by businessmen, it immediately took action and sent clerks to the only spinning and textile company in the United States, Brown and Slater, hoping that they could send technicians and provide complete sets of machines to help China build a spinning and textile mill.

The reason why Brown and Slater are the only textile manufacturers in the United States is because Slater imitated the British machine, which was carried out in cooperation with Brown, Slater provided the technology, Brown provided the funds, and after the imitation was made, the two partnered to build a factory, and applied for a patent, and obtained a ten-year monopoly, but this monopoly was about to expire. Brown's partner, Slater, has made it clear that when his patent expires, he will leave the partnership to start his own business.

In this situation, Brown negotiated with the government, and on the condition that the government agreed to extend their monopoly license for five years, Brown excluded the technical team and brought a complete line of spinning and textile machines.

The technical team sent by the Brown family is very strong, and the leader is William Elma, Brown's son-in-law. Irma joined Brown when he was preparing to build the factory, and was one of the builders of the factory. So the full name of Brown is Irma Brown Slater Company, and Irma is not only the manager of the factory, he is also a partner in the company.

Needless to say, Slater is the father of American industry, then he is one of the pioneers of American industry.

Irma has been involved in the creation of the U.S. textile industry and has established a number of factories, so he has a complete set of knowledge about the location of factories, the installation and maintenance of equipment, and the operation and management of factories.

With the cooperation of American skilled workers, the hard work of local workers, and Zhou Lang's dispatch of scarce government translators to them, the work progressed quickly, and it only took more than a month for China's first modern textile factory to be born outside Zhangzhou.

But this is just a seed, when it will grow into a towering tree, I don't know, and I don't know how many winds and rains it will experience in the process of growth.

At this time, the situation in China was still slowly changing, and the situation was becoming more and more unfavorable for the Manchus.

The continuous transfer of elite soldiers from all over the country to Zhejiang, so that the Manchu Qing successfully confined Chen Zhouquan to the southern region of Zhejiang, and even successfully recaptured Ningbo from Chen Zhouquan by bribing pirates. oppressed Chen Zhouquan's forces to Wenzhou and Taizhou. On both sides of the northwest, Chen Zhouquan's group was encircled.

Originally, this was a good sign, but the social contradictions in the last years of Qianlong had reached the point where a spark could ignite the prairie fire, and the officialdom atmosphere of advocating luxury and pleasure promoted by Qianlong by setting an example made greedy officials run rampant, it can be said that as soon as Jiaqing ascended the throne, he took over a mess, and he still had no say in this mess, and the power was still in Qianlong's hands. Just when they began to gradually repel the Zhejiang Chen Zhouquan group, the historical Sichuan-Shaanxi White Lotus Sect revolted.

Compared with an organization composed of characters like the Heaven and Earth Society, the White Lotus Sect, an organization that uses religion to bewitch, has swept more rapidly. Sichuan's Yidu, Zhijiang Zhang Zhengmo and other White Lotus Sect elders launched in the first month, and Lin Zhihua, Qin Jiayao and others from Changyang and Changle in Hubei rose up one after another, and Dangyang, Laifeng, Zhushan, Xiaogan and other places responded one after another, and soon occupied Dangyang and broke through the two cities of Zhushan and Baokang. Xiangyang Zhang Han Dynasty revolted in Huanglong, Yao Zhifu and Wang Cong'er revolted in Jiahe Prefecture, and Gao Junde in Dengzhou, Henan Province revolted in Gaojiawan. These three rebel armies concentrated in the Luyan and ** areas north of Xiangyang in March, and rapidly grew to tens of thousands.

In just two months, the White Lotus Rebellion broke out in Sichuan, Hubei, Henan and other places, and this momentum was not weaker than the peasant uprising of Li Zicheng and others at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and there was a great hidden danger of sweeping the world.

The Qing court was much more shocked than Chen Zhouquan and Zhou Langkou's plundering of Fujian and Zhejiang, and even panic appeared in the court, because they found that the situation was extremely unfavorable to them, in order to suppress Chen Zhouquan's rebellion, they transferred Huguang's army, and now Hubei is empty, at this time the White Lotus Sect revolted in Hubei, and the local army was simply unable to suppress it.

But the elite soldiers of Liangjiang and Huguang are in northern Zhejiang, and there are not many troops that can be mobilized nearby, and there is also a rebellion in Henan, and the soldiers of Henan dare not move, and the Qing court quickly mobilized 7,000 people from Shaanxi, Guangxi, and Shandong, but the White Lotus Sect built a fortress and defended according to the danger, so the army could not be defeated at all, of course, it was also because the Qing army was too corrupt, if it was the Eight Banners of the year, the peasant army that fought Zhang Xianzhong was not yet captured, you must know that Zhang Xianzhong had become the climate at that time, and his army had been an elite soldier for decadesAs a result, Zhang Xianzhong himself was killed by an arrow in front of the battle.

The current White Lotus Sect has just revolted, composed of a group of people at the bottom who are usually dissatisfied with the government, all of them are malnourished and skinny, and this kind of people who are easily bewitched by the White Lotus Sect often have a very low level of education, which can be called ignorant, these people are defending a simple cottage, and the Qing army can't beat it, who can blame it!

As a result, the Qing court transferred Zhili and Shanxi soldiers and horses again, and this time it was even worse, a general was completely annihilated by the White Lotus Sect in Xiaogan. At this time, the White Lotus Sect had already developed the ability to annihilate the Qing army's formed troops, which had become a great disaster.

The news of the White Lotus Sect, although the Qing court suppressed it in many ways, but this kind of chaos that spread to several provinces, where was it blocked, but because of the Qing court's intentional blockade, the gossip spread widely, and in the summer, the whole Fujian spread, saying extremely exaggerated, some said that the entire Northwest and the Central Plains were in trouble with the White Lotus Sect, some said that the north of the Yellow River was in chaos, and some said that the whole world was in chaos.

These news seriously affected the hearts of the people, and at this time, those landlords who only sought self-protection flashed a thought in their hearts.

The Qing Dynasty is dying!

There are really few dynasties that are in chaos all over the world, and then they can still flourish, and there are really few in Chinese history.

After the Anshi Rebellion was suppressed, the Tang Dynasty lasted for many years. In the eyes of the previous example of the formal Anshi Rebellion compared with the landlords and gentry in Fujian, the prosperous era of Kangqian was really a prosperous era, because of the serious disadvantages of land annexation and so on, they were the one who benefited. So for them, it's really a boom. In history, only the Anshi Rebellion suddenly broke out in the prosperous era, and the Tianbao prosperous era of Emperor Li Longji of the Tang Ming Dynasty was at the right time, and the festival made An Lushan rebel and swept most of the Tang Dynasty, but in the end it was not suppressed.

No matter how you look at it, Li Longji and Qianlong are really quite imaginative, they are more shrewd in the early stage of the government, and in the later period of the government, they began to be dim, and they also like pleasure, Li Longji likes singing and dancing, Qianlong likes to listen to operas, Li Longji's Tang Dynasty's neon clothes and feather dances were famous, and the Anhui opera troupe in the Qianlong era entered Beijing to develop the quintessential Peking Opera.

There are too many similarities between these two people, and the era they live in is also extremely similar, both are in the late heyday, and both have rebellions, and the rebels are fierce in the early days, but they are a single force.

Therefore, when the Qing army blocked Chen Zhouquan in Zhejiang, the Fujian landlords and heroes thought that the counterattack was coming, and they even planned how and how they would cooperate once the officers and soldiers counterattacked Fujian. But suddenly, the White Lotus Sect uprising broke out, and at this time, everyone's mentality was hit, and they suddenly felt that their previous judgment seemed to be wrong, very wrong.

This is not the Anshi Rebellion, this is the Huangchao Uprising.

Datang can withstand the rebellion of a military group like the Anshi Rebellion, but it can't stop the impact of the Huangchao Uprising from the people.

The landlords immediately began to compare the current situation with the peasant uprisings in history, and found that the solution was not very good, and the dynasty that failed to suppress the peasant army was of course overthrown, such as the Qin Dynasty was buried by the national rebellion promoted by the Daze Township Uprising, and Liu Bang Xiang Yu replaced Qin Shi Huang.

Even those dynasties that succeeded in suppressing the peasant army did not last long. For example, the Han Dynasty successfully suppressed the Yellow Turban Army, which was soon divided into Three Kingdoms. The Tang Dynasty suppressed the Huangchao Uprising, and soon fell into a warlord melee and entered the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. The recent Ming Dynasty was overthrown by the peasant army, and as a result, the Manchu Qing entered the customs and took over the world.

All the scholars found that any such chaos that swept the world would always cause the dynasty to collapse, and it was no exception.

This situation gave them a strong sense of crisis, and everyone felt that the Manchus were afraid of dying. They have to plan for themselves.

Those who are more serious begin to look for their optimistic characters among the heroes from all walks of life to prepare for the future. Some of them were out of the question, and even began to think about whether they had a chance to compete in the Central Plains.

In short, under the combined effect of this sense of crisis or ambition, all capable landlords have begun to strengthen their own strength, either for self-preservation, or for other purposes.

Not only Fujian, Guangdong, Jiangxi, and wherever there is no chaos, there has been an upsurge of local group training.

The law does not hold the people accountable, and the government no longer has the prestige and ability to suppress the militarization of the landed class.

Not only the landlords, but also some wealthy and scheming figures also began to arm themselves.

At this time, a landlord surnamed Zhao in Jiaying Changle County stood out.

At the beginning, he responded when Zhu Jue asked Chaoshan and other places to host group exercises, recruited more than 50 young people, practiced day and night, and soon had combat effectiveness far beyond that of other landlords, and successively exterminated many bandits near his hometown, with 300 men.

And when the Fujian Zhoulang army advanced from the Yunxiao area to Chaoshan, a large number of landlord forces were vulnerable in front of the Fujian army, and they were either crushed at the touch of a button, or the whole army was annihilated. For the regiment led by the landlord surnamed Zhao, he was able to practice with ease, and killed many Fujian thieves by sneak attacks and other methods.

After the Fujian thieves retreated from the Chaoshan area, Zhu Jue ordered the regiments of various counties to train and return to their hometowns, and the other landlords' armed forces were somewhat damaged, many of which were not caused by the battle, but unnecessary casualties caused on the road without experience in leading troops.

Only the group training of the landlord surnamed Zhao not only did not have many casualties, but also received a reward from the government. As a result, he won the respect of the surrounding landlords and clans. When "the world is about to be in turmoil" became the consensus of everyone, the squires of Changle County unanimously elected him as the general regiment and led the two thousand landlords to defend the township.

The name of this landlord surnamed Zhao is called Zhao Wen.