However, the world is unpredictable, at the beginning of the fourth year of Xianfeng, Yang Yuanbao of Dushan, Guizhou Province first led the Buyi peasants to revolt in Fengning, Dushan Prefecture, and put forward the call of "Shun Tian to become a Taoist, fight the rich and help the poor", and raised troops to rebel. The revolt of the www.biquge.info revolt grew rapidly and surrounded the city of Dushanzhou. At the same time, a Buyi leader named He Desheng also began to lead thousands of people, all wearing yellow uniforms, to raise troops to revolt.

At this time, Hengchun, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, was in a hurry, and the city of Kunming, where he was located, was besieged by the captive army, where did he still have the heart to transfer troops to quell the rebellion. As a result, Hengchun ignored Guizhou's request for help, and instead asked Guizhou to send 5,000 troops to support Kunming to relieve the siege.

At this time, Yunnan was also full of all kinds of ethnic groups, especially the Hui people, and the Han people, as well as the local regimental squires and the government's views, were getting bigger and bigger, and they were on the verge of gunpowder explosion at any time.

Wu Zhenyan, the governor of Yunan, knew it well, so he guessed in his heart that the attack and defense of Kunming City might be a long-term process, and the soldiers were not so simple. Therefore, Wu Zhenqi and Hengchun, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, led a cadre of soldiers and civilians to continue to donate to various squires and large households in the city of Kunming, and organized regimental exercises to prepare for Kunming's long-term defense.

The captive army that arrived outside Kunming did not care at all. Li Kaifang and Luo Qiongshu, on the orders of the Holy King, left nearly 20,000 people behind the captive army to lay fortifications outside Kunming and set up camp, but they didn't seem to be ready to leave.

The rest of the people, led by the two of them, searched for mining craftsmen everywhere, recruited mining experts, and said that they were preparing to take over all the copper mines in Yunan and mine them themselves.

Yes, attacking Yunan, according to Feng Yunshan's intentions, was entirely for the copper mines of Yunan. The copper mines in Yunnan, since the Qing Dynasty Kangqian, have been mined more and more, with an annual output of more than 10 million catties, and even accounting for more than ninety percent of the country's copper output. Based on this alone, Feng Yunshan would completely occupy all the copper mines in Yunnan.

On this day, nearly 10 deacons of the Public Works Department who came with the Second Division of the First Division divided their labor, and each two of them, accompanied by the officers and men of the battalion of the captured army, went to the copper mines in Yunnan Prefecture, Chuxiong Prefecture, Wuding Prefecture and other places to clean up the copper mines seized by the captive army.

A total of dozens of copper, tin and silver mines were seized, mainly copper mines. In some large copper mines, there are more than one or two thousand miners, and there are hundreds of miners in small ones, and there are tens of millions of catties of copper in storage, and once it is refined, it is at least three or four million catties of copper. What a gain! No wonder the Holy King only stared at the copper mines, not caring about the cities.

However, the only headache is how to transport it.

For this reason, these deacons had to personally visit each mine, count the output and specific location, and report it to the Holy King.

They found that most of the copper mines in Yunan were deep in the mountains. The main use of inclined roadway into the mountain, as deep as several miles away, in the mine step by step mining. The mine is supported by a wooden frame, and a large bellows is arranged to be pulled by a special person to blow the air every few sections. Oil lamps are used for lighting.

Among them, a large mine next to Yunanfu City more than 50 miles, has adopted a rather advanced pump principle for drainage, several miners who surrendered to the Holy Country after being captured by the soldiers of the captive army introduced, this kind of drainage equipment, they call it "dragon", this kind of "dragon" made of bamboo and wood pulled by manpower, has been able to discharge water from the low place along the mine to the high place, but it requires a large number of manpower.

And these mines are all hammered and chiseled by hand, and then carried out in sacks and hanging baskets.

Half of the miners who mine can only mine about 30 catties per day, which can be described as hard.

The deacon of the Ministry of Public Works believed that if a steam engine was installed in the copper mine to drive the chiseling, the production efficiency could be improved, and the key was to move it out. They are ready to bring these questions back to Guangzhou and find someone to study them.

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The Imperial Palace of the capital, in the Palace of Nourishing the Heart.

Xianfeng sat quietly in front of the hall with a sad face.

A few days ago, Xianfeng, who was in the palace, smelled bad news one after another.

First of all, Wu Wenrong, the governor of Huguang, personally led 7,000 Qing soldiers to attack Huangzhou, which was occupied by the long-haired thieves, but he did not expect to be ambushed and killed by the long-haired thieves, and the 7,000 Qing soldiers were almost wiped out, with heavy losses, and the situation in Huguang changed.

Immediately afterwards, the long-haired thieves attacked Hanyang and Hankou and besieged Wuchang. Although Xianfeng has urgently dispatched the Qing army from Jingzhou General's Mansion and Shaanxi to rescue, the troops in Wuchang City are weak and the thieves are strong.

Xianfeng knew very well in his heart that this time the long-haired thieves occupied Wuchang, not like the occupation of Wuchang a year ago, and they would withdraw after snatching it.

That's not all, next, another series of bad news came: the Cantonese thieves in the south also colluded with the long-haired thieves to send troops together, taking advantage of the fire to rob, and sending troops in the east, middle and west.

On the east road, troops were suddenly dispatched from the Fujian Sea, captured Wenzhou and Taizhou, and threatened Ningbo; Fortunately, in Quzhou, the Quzhou prefect named Jiang Yunkang not only held Quzhou, but also successfully defeated the main force of the invading Cantonese thieves, and recruited Qiu Changdao, the main general of the Cantonese thieves. This made Xianfeng feel a little comforted in his heart.

However, the Cantonese thieves in the central part of the Qing Dynasty were like bamboos, which made his heart sink to the bottom. The Cantonese thieves captured Yuezhou Mansion and Lizhou along the way, and then conquered Songzi, Zhijiang, Yidu, Changyang, Yichang Fucheng, Guizhou, Badong and Wushan and other places.

Originally, Xianfeng had just ordered to transfer troops from Jingzhou to aid Wuchang, but he didn't expect that now even Jingzhou City itself was in a hurry, and in this Qing Dynasty, where else could there be enough troops to be deployed?

Xianfeng, who had been captured by the long-haired thieves and the Cantonese thieves all the way to the Qing Dynasty, was so angry that he wanted to cry without tears, and suddenly found that this was not over. In the southwest corner of the Qing Dynasty, the Cantonese thieves actually plundered in Yunnan, first the thief named Li Kaifang, led tens of thousands of thieves to conquer Kaihua Mansion and Lin'an Mansion, and then occupied Yunnan Mansion and Chuxiong Mansion except Kunming City.

And another Guangdong thief soldiers, as many as more than 20,000 people, also set out from Guangxi, all the way to capture Guangxi Prefecture, and Qujing Mansion was dedicated to the Guangdong thieves by the guards, and then, to Xianfeng's heartache is that Yunnan's Dongchuan Mansion and Wuding Prefecture, Chuxiong Mansion and other places have been occupied, and almost half of Yunnan Province has been occupied by Guangdong thieves.

After learning these news, Xianfeng was shocked and angry, and in a hurry, he fainted to the ground.

For a while, the chickens and dogs in the palace jumped, and after two days of busy work, Xianfeng woke up leisurely.

In this way, the loss of the country and the foundation left by the ancestors, and the loss of territory, in addition to the edict of the guilty ministers of the land to exterminate the nine tribes, Xianfeng had no choice but to wake up on the day he woke up, he announced that he would condemn his own edict, in order to calm the criticism of the people of the world and the tongue of the court officials, and at the same time, it was also an explanation to the Manchu clan Mongolia.