In August of the year of Yiyou, after King Lu surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang Province, was occupied by the Northern Captives, and many prefectures and counties surrendered to the Qing court.

Dolgon thought that the overall situation had been decided, so he let Azig take the troops of the northern captives to the north to take refuge in the summer, and only let Belebolo and Hong Chengchou go south to take over Jiangnan.

The Qing court miscalculated the situation, thinking that the general trend of Jiangnan had been decided, and on the one hand, it sent personnel to appease all parts of the country, and on the other hand, it forcibly implemented the reform of shaving the head, but did not want to make the north and south of the river boil instantly.

The people of Jiangnan were disappointed in the Hongguang court, so at the beginning of the Qing army's southern invasion, the resistance was not fierce, but as soon as the shaving order came out, it ignited the raging anger of the people, and the pain of losing the country was completely stimulated.

When Jiangyin descended to the Qing court, Lin Zhiji of the county was relieved of his post and resigned, and after Fang Heng, the county magistrate appointed by the Qing court, took office, he followed the decree of the Qing court and posted a notice to order the people of the city to shave their hair.

On August 16 of the year of Yichou, Xu Yong and others gathered in the Minglun Hall of the Confucian Temple and unanimously decided: "The head can be broken, and the hair must not be shaved." ”

At this time, the state government once again sent a document ordering the shaving of hair, which had the words "keep the head without leaving the hair, keep the hair without leaving the head", Fang Heng of Qingzhi County asked the scribe to write the document into a notice and post it, when the clerk wrote this sentence, he couldn't help but be indignant, put his pen on the ground, and said angrily: "Just die!" ”

When the people learned the news, the whole city immediately boiled, Fang Heng of Qingzhi County saw that the people did not obey, and the situation was about to get out of control, so he hurriedly secretly reported to the Changzhou government, and asked the city to send troops to suppress it, but the secret letter written by Fang Heng was found by the righteous people, and the people were indignant, and locked it up.

When Jiangyin resisted the Qing Dynasty, the people of Jiading County were also forced to shave their hair by the Qing court, and the rebels rebelled against the Ming Dynasty and restored the Ming Dynasty.

After Zhang Weixi, the magistrate appointed by the Qing court, took office, he issued a shaving order on August 17 of the year of Yiyou, and the people of Jiading were indignant and refused to obey his orders.

The people have no leader, and when they consulted the Hongguang Dynasty, the squire who had served as the political envoy of the General Administration Department Hou Tong Zeng Yi. Gong resolutely replied: "Hearing that Xu Shiwang protects the law and adjudicates himself, why not fight for righteousness?" That is, it is not too late to do it, but to live with the city. ”

On the same day, Hou Yuzeng took his two sons, Hou Xuanyan and Hou Xuanjie, together with Jinshi Huang Chunyao and his younger brother Huang Yuanyao into the city to resist the Qing Dynasty.

In Kunshan County, Suzhou Prefecture, after the fall of the Hongguang Dynasty, the people discussed and refused, and then King Lu negotiated peace with the Qing Dynasty before giving up. At that time, Yan Maocai, the county magistrate, had already sent an envoy to surrender, and was used by the Qing court as the magistrate of the county, and there were many evils in the city. In August of the year of Yiyou, the order to shave his hair arrived, and the soldiers rebelled to kill Maocai, and pushed Wang Zuocai, the chief soldier of Wolf Mountain, as the master of the soldiers, and ordered Yang Yongyan to enter the city and refuse to defend it.

Wang Yongzuo, the former Xunyang Fuyuan, the garrison Wu Yishan led thousands of volunteers into the city to help the war, Zhu Tianlin was revised by the Hanlin Academy, and the patriots Gu Yanwu and Guizhuang all went to participate in the righteous act.

On the big lake, after Chen Zilong and Wu Yi failed to rescue Hangzhou, they led one hundred and eight remnants of the army to retreat to Taihu Lake, and soon the original Jinshan Wei Thousand Households Yu Shizhong led three hundred elite soldiers to serve, so that the soldiers of Taihu Lake had reached 1,000 people.

On August 20 of the year of Yiyou, Chen Zilong and Wu Yi took Yu Shizhong as the vanguard, attacked Wujiang County, and killed Zhu Tingzuo, the magistrate of the Qing court.

In eastern Zhejiang, the shaving order made the provinces that had already surrendered greatly vibrate, just when Wang Yan was in Lishui to protect the Tang King to the south, a large number of people with lofty ideals, angry at the shaving of the head and reforming, have risen up, regardless of the disaster of killing, the rebels resisted the Qing.

"There is still something to be done in the world, I want to raise a righteous brigade, what is it?" Zheng Zunqian, the prince of Shaoxing Mansion, generously declared that he would set up a banner with his old friends and swear to recruit troops, and there were thousands of people to behead the Qing officials Zhang Su and Peng Wanli, who proclaimed themselves Marshal Yixing and raised troops to resist the Qing Dynasty.

After that, Sun Jiaji, the former governor of Jiujiang Province in the Ming Dynasty, killed Wang Xuanru, the magistrate of the Qing court, and raised troops in Yuyao. Yin County students Dong Zhining, Wang Jiaqin, Zhang Mengxi, Hua Xia, Lu Yuding, Mao Jukui, and Qian Sule, a former member of the Criminal Department, raised troops in Ningbo.

The land of eastern Zhejiang was suddenly in flames, but the eastern part of Zhejiang resisted the Qing Dynasty, and Yu Wang Yan supported the Tang Dynasty was a little different, the Longwu regime was established by Wang Yan and a group of ministers who were unwilling to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, and there were soldiers and money in their hands, but the land of eastern Zhejiang was led by a group of high-ranking officials like Wang Yan to the south, and after some surrendered to the Qing court, a group of court members and middle and lower-level officials led the anti-Qing activities.

Because of the shaving order, the righteous teachers in the south of the Yangtze River have embraced each other, and they have almost become a prairie fire, but the various rebel armies are not subordinate to each other, and people with lofty ideals are also aware of this, and they urgently need to elect a person to think that they are the leader of the anti-Qing alliance.

At that time, the people of eastern Zhejiang did not know that the king of Tang had been appointed as the superintendent of the country, and the former Shangshu Zhang Guowei and the registered officials Chen Hanhui, Song Zhipu and others discussed, believing that the top priority was to welcome a vassal to serve as the superintendent of the state to resist the Qing soldiers, and at that time, the kings of eastern Zhejiang, only the king of Lu, who fled to Taizhou, did not surrender to the Qing Dynasty, and then became the only candidate for the establishment of the power of Zhejiang to restore the Ming Dynasty.

Soon after Wang Yan established the Tang Dynasty in Wenzhou, Zhang Guowei and others welcomed Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, into Shaoxing, and took office on August 23 of the year of Yichou.

Zhang Mingzhen, the general of Shipu, Shen Chenquan and Feng Yuanliu of Cixi County, Zhu Maohua of Zuhai Zhi County, Gu Zhijun of Fenghua Zhi County, etc., supported one after another, or gathered volunteers, or provided grain and grass, so that the power of King Lu was gradually stabilized.

After the surrender of the Lu Domain, the Ministry of State Security retreated from Hangzhou to the east of the Qiantang River, with more than 10,000 elite soldiers under his command, and also served King Lu, becoming one of the two main forces under King Lu.

Another major force is Wang Zhiren, the general soldier of Zhejiang's anti-Japanese army, which has been surrendered to the Qing Dynasty after the fall of Hangzhou in Azig, but the shaving order made the south of the Yangtze River boil, after the Ningbo Mansion rebelled against the Qing Dynasty, the Qing court officials sent envoys into Wang Zhiren's army, so that he could send troops to suppress it, and Qian Sule, the power of Ningbo Restoration of Vision, was derived from Ni Maoxi as the envoy to rebel against Wang Zhiren.

Two messengers with completely opposite missions arrived in Wang Zhiren's army almost at the same time, and after Ni Maoxi arrived, he heard that there was a Xiucai surnamed Chen who wrote to Wang Zhiren the day before, angrily reprimanding him for surrendering to the Qing Dynasty and being killed by Wang, but Ren resolutely entered the meeting.

As soon as they met, Wang Zhiren said: "You are here, you are bold!" ”

Ni Maoxi said: "The general is favored by the country, and the virtuous brother Chang Shi (the heart of the eunuch king of the Chongzhen Dynasty) climbs the beard and dies in the country. Fang Jinren thinks about Han, the key to the East China Sea is in the general, followed by General Huang of Chuzhou, General Shipu Zhang, left and right, there must be the leader of the alliance, and the general is also responsible. ”

Wang Zhiren hurriedly stopped him from going on, and advised: "It's good to do it, and don't leak." "Then let his son take Ni Maoxi down to rest, and then meet with Qing Shi and give him a reply," but it is said that it will be discussed on the 21st day. ”

The Qing envoy thought that he had achieved his mission and returned to Yinxian County.

Wang Zhiren, after the Qing envoy left, said to Ni Maoxi: "Yuqian Gong, you should have the gift of a teacher." ”

On the 21st, Wang Zhiren really went to Yin County, and the Qing envoy thought that he had a plan, but he was unexpectedly taken down by Wang Zhiren and ordered the soldiers, so that he lost 10,000 gold to make up his salary, which was released.

Shortly thereafter, Wang Zhiren supported the king of Lu and named the Marquis of Wu Ning, with more than 20,000 elites under his command, and the soldiers of the same party became the main force of the Lu king's regime to resist the Qing Dynasty, and the power of the king of Lu in eastern Zhejiang stood side by side with the Longwu regime.

(A lot of information in this chapter comes from Mr. Gu Cheng's History of the Southern Ming Dynasty, thanks to shyion, Danshui Ranger for the reward, thank you for your support, I hope book friends will comment more, if nothing else, the author will change more every day in May.) ）