Section 43 Northern Expedition

Chen Zhouquan's younger sister, Zhou Langming's wife, named Chen Shuzhen, this is recently obtained, because Chen Zhouquan launched an uprising, and now he is a character, so he thinks that his family should be decent, in the previous fourteen years, Chen Shuzhen only had one name, called Chen Sanmei.

The composition of heaven and earth will be complex, there are both Lin Shuangwen and Zhuang Datian who farm, and there are also Chen family, who are businessmen who sell sugar as their business. It's just a small businessman, although he can't get rich and rich, but he won't be unable to live. Therefore, Chen Zhouquan's uprising really cannot be regarded as a peasant who can't survive being forced by the officials to rebel against the people, and it is a bit rigid to get into the peasant uprising.

There are a lot of small businessmen like Chen Zhouquan who join the Heaven and Earth Society, because they can't compare with big businessmen, they don't have enough capital to get through the joints of the government, and they can't get the protection of officials, so they can only find another way to seek to organize with the rivers and lakes and join the Heaven and Earth Society, but it is just to be free from the oppression of various forces along the way when doing business.

Businessmen have an advantage, that is, mobility, so Chen Zhouquan can get acquainted with all kinds of people, connecting the various forces of the Heaven and Earth Society, Chen Zhouquan has launched an uprising more than once, returned to his hometown Fujian Tong'an uprising failed, and failed to revolt with Chen Guanghui in Fengshan County, this time it was finally victorious, if he was not a businessman, but a farmer, he could not have such a wide range of activities; At the same time, there is another advantage, compared with ordinary farmers, businessmen have more or less knowledge, at least they can settle accounts, and they are more knowledgeable when they go south and north, so it is easy to climb to a high position in the organization.

As a businessman's family, she has never starved or suffered, but as the family of the leader of the Heaven and Earth Society, she has been frightened many times, traveled to many places in Taiwan, and has hidden countless times.

Because she has not suffered, although Chen Xiaomei is slightly dark because of her travels to the north and south, she is not as rough as the croppers, her skin is dark but delicate, and because she has practiced martial arts, that waist is really, the old driver-

But Wei Lianli just thinks that this woman is mediocre, he is cautious, these evaluations were told to Zhou Lang before marriage, and he didn't mention it after marriage, and after a long time, he told Zhou Lang the truth after a relaxed drink. Wei Lianli thinks that Chen Xiaomei's breasts are big, her buttocks are big, and she has a pointed chin, which is not a blessed state, and she will only grow and uglier in the future.

To put it bluntly, in fact, it is the difference in aesthetics, Zhou Lang thinks that the melon seed face is very good, the ancients thought that it was not rich, round chin, it is best to have a double chin, similar to Maitreya Buddha, that is a good chin, it is a good face shape, just like the Tang Dynasty people thought that fat was beautiful, and it was difficult for future generations to understand.

But what Wei Lianli disagrees with the most is that Chen Xiaomei is a pair of big feet.

Bigfoot? Zhou Lang doesn't think it's big, it's just a pair of typical women's feet, where is it half a point big, and even Zhou Lang thinks it's a small foot, at most 35 yards, where is it? But a woman who does not have bound her feet is a big foot, which is still an aesthetic problem of the times, and it is difficult for future generations to understand.

The Chen family went south and north to hide everywhere, and the family did not have the conditions to bind their feet, and there are many Hakka people in Taiwan, and the Hakka people are not bound to their feet, so the atmosphere of Taiwanese society, in addition to the scholars, there are many women with heavenly feet. In Zhou Lang's opinion, this is not a defect, but let him hold a pair of feet folded together because of the binding of feet, and he will be scared to wake up when he sleeps.

As for big breasts, Zhou Lang still thinks that Chen Xiaomei has a flat chest, but in this era, the aesthetic is pigeon milk, second only to the pervert who binds her feet. But that's not to worry. Because Wei Lianli is not talking about the status quo, his eyes are said to be able to see old at the age of three, Wei Lianli feels big now, and it will get bigger and bigger in the future, isn't this a good thing?

The size of the buttocks, Zhou Lang doesn't have much preference, after all, he is not a real old driver. He felt that he had the strength to do it, and that was a good fit for him right now.

In short, Chen Xiaomei did not disappoint Zhou Lang, but had some unexpected surprises.

This woman is very hardworking, which is not a merit, it is the standard for women in this era. Serving and dressing during the day, and washing feet at night, and complaining that Zhou Lang doesn't have a few girls, not because he is tired, but because he feels that Zhou Lang's identity should be served by several women, and he is a good wife and mother.

But eating the marrow knows the taste and knows the taste of eating the marrow, and the unexpected surprise is the unexpected surprise, Zhou Lang sadly found that he can't live an ordinary married life with Chen Xiaomei, at least not yet, he can't open his heart to Chen Xiaomei, the reason is very simple, this woman was sent by Chen Zhouquan, even if it is his wife, although this era pays attention to marrying chickens and chickens, and does not pay attention to being a husband.

But can Zhou Lang rest assured, this is also the price of doing big things, and relatives sometimes have to be on guard, which is really tiring.

The good thing is that Chen Xiaomei never asks Zhou Lang about her official business, which makes Zhou Lang very satisfied and treats her very well.

Because although Chen Xiaomei married Zhou Lang because of a political marriage, Zhou Lang was forced to accept her, but his sense of morality could not treat women as an object.

Chen Xiaomei's brother is different, on the seventh day after Zhou Lang got married, that is, on the twentieth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, he went on a northern expedition.

Prior to this, Zhou Lang had already negotiated with Colin, and Colin agreed to send troops to cooperate. From the north of Banping Mountain, it will detour to the back of the Qing army on Guanyin Mountain, and attack the Qing army on both sides with Chen Zhouquan.

The reason why Colin agreed was not complicated, it was in the interests of the East India Company, and if the East India Company wanted to gain a firm foothold in Taiwan and turn Zuoying and Tagu Port into commercial bases, it was necessary to expel the Qing army, or at least let the Qing army be evenly matched with heaven and earth, and engage in balancing tactics, which was the British's specialty.

With the improvement of the training level of Colin's soldiers, the combat effectiveness is getting stronger and stronger, although the subordinates have basically completed the transformation of the Heaven and Earth Society, but this does not constitute a command problem, because this is to cooperate with the actions of the Heaven and Earth Society, and it is impossible for those leaders of the Heaven and Earth Society in his hands not to cooperate, in addition, Zhou Lang has sent instructions to let those leaders of the Heaven and Earth Society fight with their hearts, and afterwards Zhou Lang will reward them according to the results of the battle.

In addition, Chen Zhouquan has not wasted it these days, he has been able to organize uprisings in Fujian and Taiwan many times, it is by no means in vain, he has a strong organizational ability and the ability to plan secret activities, at least stronger than the gang during the Xinhai Revolution, so that it will not be exposed before the uprising.

The forces of the Heaven and Earth Society have also spread throughout Taiwan, Chen Zhouquan took advantage of the rare month of peacetime, not only to restore the troops, but also to find out all the terrain around Guanyin Mountain, this is a well-organized military operation, there is a sneak attack by Colin behind the back, and the Qing army is disheartened under the continuous defeat of the army, so this time Chen Zhouquan succeeded.

He sacrificed hundreds of people to finally take the crucial Guanyin Mountain Flood Land, and together with Colin, he wiped out more than 1,000 Qing troops, which can be said to be a heavy blow to the Qing army.

But this is only a small test, and the Northern Expedition is the goal.

After defeating the Qing army, they pursued all the way, and the army fought more and more, because of the continuous cooperation of the local Tiandihui rebels, the strength became stronger and stronger, and in just one month, it pursued to the territory of Taiwan.

Taiwan Prefecture is the later Tainan, which is the ruling center of Taiwan in this era, and Anping Port near Fucheng is the port with the closest connection between Taiwan and the mainland.

It was here, in the center of Manchu rule, that Chen Zhouquan was able to attract a large number of supporters, because it was the most economically developed and the people's grievances deeper.

Merchants from the mainland continued to purchase grain in Anping Port, and only a few years after Lin Shuangwen's uprising, production had not fully recovered, resulting in high local grain prices, although they could not catch up with the prices in the mainland, but it was already unbearable for the people.

High grain prices are not necessarily good for farmers, because many of the poorest peasants, they are not able to keep enough grain for a year at a time, in order to pay rent or land endowment, after the grain harvest, they will sell most of it, and before the next grain harvest, they often run out of grain, which is commonly known as the green and yellow shortage, this phenomenon has existed in all dynasties, especially at the end of the dynasty.

The biggest victims are the poor, and at this time they often owe usury to the landlords, and some people will not be able to pay it off for several generations, and they will fall into a situation similar to that of serfs, and they have to work as cattle for the landlords' families.

According to the revolutionary concept, this is the irreconcilable class contradiction, as long as there is a Mars, there will be a spark in the prairies, and Chen Zhouquan's Heaven and Earth Association will be this Mars.

Therefore, when Chen Zhouquan's 10,000 Northern Expeditionary Army arrived in Taiwan, it grew to more than 20,000 people, and the Qing army retreated into Taiwan's capital.

The reason why the Qing army resisted so resolutely was that the Qing army was not a local, and if it was a local, it would be easy to be infiltrated by the Heaven and Earth Society, and then the inside and outside should be combined, or even open the city gate. However, the Manchu Qing Dynasty adopted a shift system in Taiwan, and the main army was all squad troops, mainly drawn from Fujian, and none of them were soldiers composed of locals, and they would be rotated once every two or three years, so that the soldiers would not have close social relations with the locality.

Unlike the officials in the yamen, many of them are the hidden stakes of the Heaven and Earth Society.

Chen Zhouquan attacked for a month and failed to capture the Taiwan Prefecture, so he had to send troops to surround it, and then go north, because at this time, there was an uprising of the Heaven and Earth Society in Changhua and Tamsui in the north, and Chen Zhouquan wanted to join these Heaven and Earth Society rebels.

Chen Zhouquan's arrival soon set off another round of uprisings in the north of Fucheng, especially in Changhua, where the price of rice even caused a grain robbery, and Chen Zhouquan was born in Changhua, where he has a very close social network, and there are the largest number of members of the Heaven and Earth Society, and it has always been the center of the Heaven and Earth Society's activities. As a result, before Chen Zhouquan arrived in Changhua, the local hidden Tiandihui people launched an uprising, and by the time Chen Zhouquan arrived, they had already surrounded the county seat.

Chen Zhouquan's army easily captured Changhua County and nearby Lukang, and then marched north to attack Douliu, hoping to join the Tiandihui rebels in the Tamsui Hall.

For a time, the Heaven and Earth Society uprising burned all over Taiwan, except for Taiwan's capital city, there was beacon smoke almost everywhere, and Chen Zhouquan's uprising was already comparable to Lin Shuangwen's scale a few years ago.

In this case, if the Qing court did not pay attention to it, it would be impossible.

In fact, the elite soldiers are already on the way!

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