Chapter 719: Chaos is chaos
Yuan Chonghuan took part of his entourage and rushed back to Lanzhou Wei from Hezhou City, realizing that something was wrong, and soon on the morning of the next day, he ordered Yang Qi, the chief military officer who followed him to garrison Lanzhou, and quickly led a group of men and horses to Taozhou, where the deputy chief soldier of Taomin was stationed.
Yang Qi is a veteran, when he and his brother Yang Lin fought in Liaodong, and now his brother Yang Lin has been killed in Liaodong for many years, and he has been promoted all the way to become the chief soldier of the northwest border town.
Yuan Chonghuan asked Yang Qi to take the proclamations and orders of the Trilateral Governor's Mansion and lead some people to dare to go to Taozhou, Minzhou and other places, on the one hand, to announce the crime of Zhao Dayin, the deputy chief soldier of Taomin, and on the other hand, to take over and reorganize the more than 6,000 Taomin local troops under Zhao Dayin's command as the chief military officer of the imperial court to guard Guyuan and other places.
However, Yuan Chonghuan, Cheng Benzhi and others, after all, still underestimated the huge impact of the death of Zhao Dayin, the deputy commander-in-chief of Taomin, and Ma Wanshou, the commander of Hezhou Wei, in Hezhou, Taozhou and other places.
The generals brought out by Zhao Dayin who have been guarding the border for decades have long been with him.
Needless to say, the same Mu Suman's background, just talking about the marriage and symbiotic relationship between the local clans of Taomin for generations, has already made these people form a circle of both losses and prosperity.
Zhao Dayin is not a simple person, nor is he a representative of a certain Taoshang family born in Musuman, but a common representative of the local Musuman family in Taomin.
Ma Wanshou, the hereditary commander of the Hezhou Guard, is the same.
As the so-called ten Hui Hui Nine Horses, this horse is the Chinese transliteration of Mahathir, Mahdi or Muhammad.
During the Yuan Dynasty, before conquering the Central Plains, especially the Southern Song Dynasty, the Mongols first conquered the regions and peoples in Central Asia and West Asia, and recruited a large number of Central Asian, West Asian and Persian Musubarians from there, many of whom came to China with their armies.
These people were the second-rank Semu people in the later Mengyuan Empire.
After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, many of them changed their original names and gave themselves a Han surname.
Among them, the original surname Mahathir, Mahdi or Muhammad was changed to the surname Ma, such as the Ma family of Datong Youwei.
But more have been changed to Ma surnames.
There are also many people among the Semu who came to China, either out of religious worship or to prove their noble birth by climbing the dragon and the phoenix, and many of them consider themselves to be descendants of the Musuban Prophet Muhammad.
Therefore, when these people changed their surnames one after another in the early Ming Dynasty, they all changed their surnames to Ma, and the surname Ma immediately became the big surname in Huimusuman.
And the saying that ten returns to nine horses has slowly spread.
Hezhou Wei commanded Ma Wanshou, and this is the kind of horse surnamed Hui Mu Suman.
However, in addition to the killed Ma Wanshou, among Zhao Dayin's subordinate generals, Ma Jinzhong, Ma Guangyu and other generals surnamed Ma are all this kind of Ma surnames who are related to each other.
After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, they submitted to the Ming army of the Western Expedition, and from generation to generation, they were all border generals guarding Taomin.
At the same time, Semumu's speedy background also gave them a natural keen sense of smell for merchants.
As a result, these families have relied on border trade for almost all generations to make their fortunes or support their families.
And Yuan Chonghuan's various measures after he became the governor of the three sides, whether it was the abolition of the salt introduction that these Taoshang families had worked hard to accumulate before, or the right of foreign trade of the merchants of the three sides to be unified into the monopoly of the trilateral tea and horse division, all touched the bottom line of these families.
What is even more sensitive is that Yuan Chonghuan, in the name of the Trilateral Governor's Office, openly supported a group of Yijiao missionaries who suddenly appeared out of nowhere to come and build a Catholic church near the Musuman Temple to spread other evangelical doctrines.
This practice violated the authority of the major Mu Su Man Sutra Halls and worship temples and imams behind these border generals.
From Ningxia, Guyuan to the land of Taomin, Mu Suman, who was already burning with anger, was already burning everywhere, but Yuan Chonghuan was punished without teaching, and killed Zhao Dayin and Ma Wanshou on the grounds of disobedience and disobedience.
This is undoubtedly tantamount to adding fuel to the fire.
Ma Jinzhong, Ma Guangyu, Ding Guodong, and Mi Layin, these Taomin generals, were already in the same breath as Zhao Dayin and Ma Wanshou, and Zhao Dayin and Ma Wanshou were convicted and killed, and they were naturally very afraid in their hearts.
These people don't care if you have any Shang Fang sword or not, just you are indiscriminate, you don't even go through the procedures of detaining and sending them for trial, and asking the court for instructions, you will be killed directly, how can they, as Zhao Dayin's generals, not be afraid?
Therefore, when Yang Qi led his Chinese army, with the proclamations and orders of the Trilateral Governor's Palace, and swore to Taozhou to sit in the town, as soon as he said that he would take over and reorganize the more than 6,000 troops under the command of the deputy general of Taomin, Ma Jinzhong, Ma Guangyu and others immediately blew up the battalion.
The anger that had been pent up for a long time immediately exploded.
Thousands of Musu barbarian border troops in Taozhou City, under the leadership of Ma Jinzhong and others, surrounded the Yamen of Taomin, the deputy chief soldier of Taomin, who was stationed in Yang Qi to take over, and asked Yang Lin to report the trilateral governor Yuan Chonghuan's killing of border generals to the imperial court, and everything was left to the imperial court.
But Yang Lin unceremoniously rejected it.
Yang Qi, who rushed to Taozhou from Lanzhou to take over the local military affairs, thought that as the chief military officer of the nine important towns of the imperial court, it should be natural and easy for him to come to take over the defense of Taozhou.
But what he didn't expect was that after Yang Lin refused to defend Zhao Dayin, Ma Jinzhong and Ma Guangyu immediately waved their troops to attack the Taomin General Military Mansion, and wanted to arrest and detain Yang Qi for military advice.
As a result, in this way, the situation in Taozhou City soon got completely out of control.
Many Musubarian believers in the city soon joined the mutiny under the call and instigation of the local prayer halls, worship monasts, and Moluo imams, such as "All things are not the Lord, Allah alone" and "Kill the red hairs and expel the Yi religion".
Ma Jinzhong and others, who had not yet figured out how far they were going to make trouble, were also inspired by these fanatical slogans and emotions, and were coerced by Mu Suman, who rioted in the whole city, and rushed into the general military mansion in Taozhou City, killing Yang Qi, a veteran general of the general army who had not yet established himself, on the spot.
Immediately afterwards, Taozhou City was in chaos, and the Mu Su barbarian mob and soldiers who were instigated by Mo Luo in the city's worship temples and scripture halls not only killed Yang Qi and his entourage guards, but also killed a small number of Han officials, Han soldiers and Han people in the Taozhou Acropolis.
The Jesuit missionary Long Huamin, who was working hard to build a Catholic church in Taozhou, and the priests Wang Fengsu, Luo Yage, and Zeng Dezhao, who followed Long Huamin to Taozhou to preach and preach, as well as the Han Catholics who followed these people from Beijing to the northwest to serve God, were all captured alive.
Long Huamin and four other Western missionaries who were called "cultists" by Mu Suman were tied up in the open space in front of the Great Worship Temple in Taozhou City, wrapped in felt blankets, smeared with grease, and burned alive.
Facing west, the dozens of Han Chinese believers who followed them were also pushed down in the square in front of the Great Mosque, and the believers, facing west, chanted and prayed under the leadership of the local imam (the imam of the mosque), Zhao Xihe, and then beheaded all of the "Kavils" they called "Kafl" who had embarked on the wrong path.
The turmoil in the city of Taozhou soon spread like an epidemic to the nearby Minzhou, Lintao, Hezhou, Dingxi and other places, and continued to spread all the way north, to Guyuan, Ningxia and other places.